DanOwens

I actually like the naming. Very tech/geek!

I love tele headstocks and LPB so this is quite a treat. I don't know much of Weezer's work, but this bass looks sweet!

Wow that P looks great. Is it in a burst? It looks like a subtle antigua! Dan

Manchester and Liverpool, Ste. South Manc (Fuel, Hedge etc) and in Liverpool at the galleries I used to help run. TBH (and this is going to sound a little arrogant), once I started doing it a load of bassists went out, bought DL4s and got on the scene too. It was at this point that I realised what I was doing and turned the solo project into a band. Check it [url="http://www.myspace.com/thebrokendoor"]www.myspace.com/thebrokendoor[/url]. Dan

I use Richie Tomson in Wigan ([url="http://www.tomsonguitars.co.uk/"]http://www.tomsonguitars.co.uk/[/url]) He sets up my stuff and i've seen some great builds by him. Dan

My Mammoth isn't mine. A guitarist left it with me and emigrated, does that mean I have to buy a Mastotron as well? Help me Basschat. I can't justify spending money I don't have until some strangers tell me to!! Dan

Along similar lines, I recently bought a Diago board but the carpet had frayed so badly it was unusable. I stripped the carpet off and have replaced it with 50mm wide velcro but I'm unhappy with the ununiform coverage. What carpet do you guys use to recover your boards? Dan

[url="http://www.bass.se/2007/microbass.htm"]EBS MicroBass II[/url]

Ta Mike, I used to gig as a solo bassist and got my punching in and out pretty tight, but if a drummer joined in or a tempo-synced rhythm (drum machine etc) you would eventually notice that it was slightly out, and 'slightly' is as good as a mile with timing. I also used it as a tool to internalise timing. That and the metronome 'challenges' shown to me by some jazz guys up here in Manc. Difficult, but so beneficial! Dan

Surely it depends on what the music demands and the taste of the player? Sometimes my music calls for an aggressive, driving sound, sometimes a wobbly rich sound. And with the electro/breaks/DnB band, sometimes something very strange. Sometimes, however, it demands a P bass with flats and nothing else. Are you (OP) assuming that all music needs the same sound in the bass register? Dan

This is mainly for iampirate, but I thought i'd say that the mods I'm having done by Umph are replacing the first round of mods I did myself, namely replacing the footswitch with a TRS jack socket and made a box with a TRS jack and footswitch. I used a stereo jack cable to connect the two, thereby making the footswitch 'remote' so I could put the pedal on a stand but turn it on and off with my foot. Handy indeed! Dan

No, it doesn't include the price of the expression pedal but today I dismantled my mono volume pedal, replaced the jack with a stereo socket and and replaced the pot with a 1MOhm linear taper. I know its simple but its my best soldering job to date! Dan

Thanks Mike, So you're punching in and out with millisecond-accuracy, otherwise surely it would eventually become out of sync with the tempo-locked BFD? Or do you tap-tempo and it punches in and out in time with the bpm you've tapped (which would be marginally better)? I know you can hack a jamman to be tempo synced, just wondering if this was the case as my drummer (in my odd darkjazz band) is on click and we're talking about doing some onstage looping (too many instruments, not enough players). Dan

I use a Henry uncoiled. Why am I doing wrong oh wise sage? That's not meant to sound sarcastic. I genuinely don't want to fry myself and would like to know the science. Dan

He's building me a parallel router for my DnB band. It's going to be amazing! Dan

Aww man I was hoping you wouldn't ask. I guess we want to find tonal uniqueness but by robbing other people's ideas (this mod being one) you've got to give back to the community so: Our very own Umph is doing the TB, LED and exp mods for a very small amount (I can't say how much as he's also doing a bunch of other work and has quoted me a single price). I reckon less than £30 though. Dan