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So my new rickenbacker 4003s bridge doesn't have any screws, so the briidge pickup is way down in the hole and quiet.

I assume being a rickenbacker those screws are some random imperial size that would be tricky to get anywhere or be a custom and expensive order.

Any idea what those screws are?

these screws (as not shown in the picture!)

Can automatically put a space in, at the moment I can see the template that puts the 'edited by' but not the bit that calls the template that puts the edited by there.

I don't know - i will look

All my rush tshirts died a long time ago, even if they still fit me, which they wouldn't!

Please mark you bass as sold by editing the first post and adding the word sold 

12 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

But you are far more likely to get the atmosphere and energy at grass roots level that made bands like Rush exciting back in the early 70s, then you are watching some old band on a video screen from a seat at the back of a stadium.

Agreed - I think it is the Scala gig that made me realised how I felt about stadiums, especially as there are 6 months between these two:

NiN, scala oct 2013

NiN, O2 May 2014 (actually pretty close to the stage)

The O2 gig was a lot more expensive. I enjoyed both, but in a very different way

21 minutes ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

fwiw , the last good experience I had of purchasing tickets , was for the Jean michel jarre oxygene  gig in 2007 at the Royal Albert Hall.  I actually went down there on a Monday morning  around 9am , and there was hardly anyone there ! I got a great pair of tkts very close to the stage .

I went to see NiN at scala in (I think) 2013 - the tickets were for the warm up of a tour (which I also saw), they were on line so they went fast but they weren't expensive and you had to use ID to buy them. When you went to the gig you had to show the ID that you had used to book the tickets to pick them up and get in, it worked well, it was a smallish venue and it was a fantastic gig.  I later saw them at the O2, but it was a completely different gig

When I last went to see rush in the 90s, the tickets were as cheap as a Wal

In a way, maybe it is better that groups are like this.

Yes, Rush were cheap to go and see in the 80s, but they were a youngish band, now they are a legacy band so maybe they get a legacy audience that now have a lot of money. There are a ton of youngish bands that cost very little to go and see, maybe it is good that a younger audience have the youngish bands.

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 I enquired and it's karaoke on friday and saturday...

you got your song ready then?

1 hour ago, razor5cl said:

I'm seeing Fields in a couple of weeks for the first time and I was really excited, all of my mates said that they're bloody brilliant live and that Carl is a killer frontman.....I hope this doesn't shatter any of the illusion of excitement for me just yet!

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!

3 minutes ago, TheLowDown said:

Yeah it's a bit on the steep side for what it is. Many people still consider the Live II to be the best of the MPC devices, on balance. It only had 2GB RAM but it's enough for most purposes.

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.

39 minutes ago, TheLowDown said:

There's a MPC Live III now. Looks very good, albeit pricey

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!

34 minutes ago, Fionn said:

Zero patter since day one 

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!

1 minute ago, Rich said:

This is a great idea, and more bands need to do this.

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!

24 minutes ago, SumOne said:

(Then it has got me considering the MPC Keys 37 to also have drum loops and production stuff....but that's a whole different story!)

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

1 hour ago, Stag said:

Like I said, weird take! The body being that bit smaller than a 4003, the neck being a bit thicker - maybe it was just the one I tried.

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.

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

And finally, my entry for "bass face of the bash" is...

 

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

6 hours ago, BigRedX said:

If you are getting noticeable signal loss due to your leads, then you need some better ones.

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.