Woodinblack

The image is good and works, and I think over the years he has got a lot better at it. In 1990 in Portsmouth the atmosphere was good but the interaction wasn't great (mind you other stuff was going on for me at that gig). I saw them with my wife in a joined build with the Mission and FOTN in 2016 in london, and beforehand I said to my wife how Fotn weren't great with a crowd and the mission (who I had seen loads of times) were brilliant and it was exactly the opposite, so know knows, I am sure it will be great!

I am sure that if you are a power user the Live 3 is going to be great, but I am not there yet, for me the built in battery, and the fact I can sit and work at stuff without plugging in is great.

Looks great if you have the money for it. I got the Live 2 knowing that the live 3 was going to come out, I thought it was worth the risk, and it is, its great but no way would i have paid that!

Yeh, can work but then you get groups like Fields of the Nephilim, great stage asthetic, kind of boring live because a lack of interaction. I mean you don't have to get to the Steven 'shut up steve and get on with the song' Wilsons in depth discussions about things, but some sort of acknowledgement there are other people in the room can go well!

I would love to be in a group where we could do this

I have an MPX16 which I take live. i use it for the keyboard parts of 'in the end' by linkin park, its small and fits on my stand. i also used it at christmas to fill out 'stop the cavalry' and for a few other single shots. i have a single shot on my dwarf as a sound in 'baker street', and I have an organ sound that I play with my 12 step for 'brick in the wall'. The MPX and Dwarf/12 step are not connected. So I thought it would be nice to get the things together and bought an MPC-One. Loved that, played around with it but thought if I am gigging it was a bit more of a faff, so I upgraded to an MPC Live II, which were luckily cheaper as the Live III was rumoured. I haven't had a chance to get round to getting together what I want to get, but I do want to be able to trigger sequences, as well as playing the synth stuff through that - first goal is to get 'Power of love' on the footpedals through it, which I can't do on the MPX, as that is a pure sampler, and some of the synth parts on the power of love are the same chords but held longer. I am aware I could do that with a soundfont on the dwarf, but havent' got that far yet!

I consifdered the MPC keys, but then realised the stuff I needed was preprogrammed so got an MPC Live!

Maybe - my 4003 and 4004 are exactly the same size in both body and neck!

I have tried several warwicks, and none of them ever felt like a 4004 to me!

The 4004 is a great bass but I guess Rick trade on the iconic looks of the 4003. However, like everything ric, I am sure if they made more 4004s people would buy them, their business model seems to be (not unreasonably), make a set of small batches of a thing so there is always slightly less than people want of any product to keep the demand high. And it works well.

that's just his face, not a specific bass face!

You will always have signal loss in your leads on a passive bass, however good the leads are, but if you go to an amp or a preamp box makes no difference to the loss in the cable - the signal is the same whichever it hits, so as you say, if you can get better EQ on this thing, then change your amp for one that gives you the same thing. Unless you want a choice of EQ on a footpedal, or you want to change the EQ before a load of effects pedals. But I assume the point of this pedal is to give a boost or eq change on a switch.

The magnetic Gauss level and the direction of the magnetic field to the polorisation of the film. Although I didn't notice turning the paper to have any noticable effect. So effectively it just shows the shape of the magnetic field, there are some charts on the net that seem to say what the field strength is but they don't seem reliable and it seems very much that yellow and red are the opposite of dark green and blue.

Our singer announces lots of things, who we are, near the beginning and near the end, and where we are from, which as most of our gigs are within 5 minutes is sometimes unnecessay 'we have travelled all the way down the A37 to be here!' (yes, its about 1.5 miles of the a37), he announces songs, but normally by the wrong person, and sometimes the wrong song. He does quite a lot of chatting when something comes up. Sometimes announces the drummer as everyone locally knows him

Not refering to the Jean Michelle Jarre album! At the bass bash I brought some magnetic field paper to see what was under the pickups of various devices. Most are pretty obvious what you are going to see, but here are some notable ones. I found it interesting anyway As a reference, this is a standard bart soapbar, twin coil humbucker, looks like you would expect This is a high gain rickenbacker 4004 pickup, obviously originally designed to go over 4 strings, but covers 5 nicely A dingwall twin pickup - goes with the line of the pickups, with the high notes further out Here is a normal single coil and what I assume is a GK3B (although obviously could be a GK2-b This is a mudbucker on a homemade Gibson Les Paul bass clone - huge area covered and probably explains the name! This is a sandberg pickup in a soapbar case - looks similar to the dingwall pickups mostly - this pickup was lined horizontally, so the pattern is just how it is in the case A fender (actually squier) metal covered split bass pickup - I looked at two of these, and the pattern is the same, the D string has most of the magnets! On the same table - two single coils and a P pickup - no surprises but very well balanced Finally a G&L MDF pickup in a L2000 - as you can see the magnetic field is so high its bending reality around it. And maybe even gravity. Interestingly I wanted to put the Rickenbacker 4003 pickup here, but pressing hard against the pickup I can just make out the dots on the pole pieces, but it is so weak it is very hard to see.

She used to follow a band in the 70s? Shes looking good on it for her late 60s/70s!

Well, not so much the dwarf, as mentioned I do have one of those, but I have a tonex one, and am wondering if a ToneX would be something I could use - seems quite a flexible device, still not sure. There was so much to look at there! As to the etch-a-sketch, that was magnetic paper, shows the magnetic fields on various pickups, so I was looking at what was under the plastic / metal of the pickups. Was going to put them here, but will post under a different thread for that!

I have been looking at the magnetic field of the pickups in my rickenbacker 4003, and they are the weakest magnetic field of any pickup in any instrument in the house, which probably also says why they are quite low output, compared to the 'hi gain' pickups in my 4004, which are about normal for most pickups. Not sure how that affects the tone, but it must do somehow!

And because people had asked, and my wife promised to get it posted, here are some public service announcements regarding food! Spanakopita recipe https://domesticgothess.com/blog/2020/01/11/vegan-spanakopita/ Vegan lardy cake is based on this recipe except I soak the fruit in boiling water with a teabag, then drain and let dry as much as possible. I then mix them in the fat/sugar/spice mix and laminate the dough, so I roll the dough out as a rectangle, cover the left 2/3 with some of the filling, fold the right side over then the left, roll out again and repeat until no mix is left. And I bake it as a loaf rather than 4 small cakes. https://www.sweeterthanoats.com/vegan-lardy-cake/

No, Its a very headful Sei Flamboyant.

Probably not. They are a short run, they will all sell and then they will not make any more for a decade or so. Its the way ric do things, if they didn't they would all not sell for a fraction of what they cost. Rickenbacker didn't get to where they are today by giving people what they wanted!

There were some other league raffle prizes indeed - not often you can get a bass in a raffle! So many interesting things there, as I said surveying the scene at lunchtime, I doubt there is a shop in the UK you could go in and see the same range of basses as at the bass bash! Great to meet everyone new and old, it was another fine bash and this one just a little bit busier than the last few, so we had to get more tables

I have mine I am bringing just the 4 basses and a few other things, but that is probably just as well as MrsSabbyInBlack will need the space to get a couple of days of food in the car!

A space behind the bridge where maybe you could put a sandwich for half way through a long gig?