Woodinblack

I have had that a lot recently after joining a band that plays motown and 50s-60s stuff, (and started a thread about it) and I know very little of it, so when they say 'don't worry its a standard', it is stuff I really don't know. And in a way that is nice as not only do I discover new things, I discover it by playing it. Luckily most of it is easy enough to wing. In fact there is a lot of stuff I know in the last few years from playing in cover bands that I never heard before, some good and some not so good (and some, like oasis, that I wont do). Most rock based stuff from the 70s onwards I have heard though, I was always around groups of people who liked rock music, so pretty well all 80s rock and a lot of 70s rock where it was something a friend of mine liked. Strangely not the Stones and Who, I never knew anyone who listened to that sort of stuff, was considered old stuff (even though most people like zepplin etc) and a lot of american stuff that didn't really feature like springsteen or grateful dead. So those listed groups I would have never heard a whole album and only recognise 'hit' songs (apart from grateful dead - wouldn't recognise anything from them).

Thats one days gigging, when I am almost completely a fingers player!

TBH - one note tells them that the signal chain is working, and what a rough level is, and then it is very easy to adjust the level when you are playing.

I got some wooden ones for christmas, although I don't use them much, just for a couple of songs. but because I was playing 5 hours on NYE, I was resorting to using it a lot as my fingers were a bit blistered. I have worn the plectrum down already!

I had a 70s Ibanez fireglow, it was my first bass, I really loved that thing. I think it cost me £20, and I had it for years before it was stolen. Would love another, but they are silly money.

I have a TC RH450 and a Ashdown CTM100. The RH is a lot more controllable and a lot more portable, they both sound good but different. I take the CTM out if I am feeling enthusiastic, and I have space, otherwise I take the RH out. I doubt anyone in the audience can tell the difference, but I think the CTM sounds better (although the RH does overdriven preamp better), a bit fuller Strangely enough, I play the CTM in the house, the RH is always in its gig bag ready to go.

Was that the ric or the copy? It has to be said in that case thought that the tone he gets these days is pretty similar on a precision

Well, I am not familiar with the Yamahas, so while I am sure they are lovely instruments, there isn't that much likelyhood that unless I found one really cheap and played it and fell in love with it it is going to happen. Not that unusual in the signature models, I suspect that not that many people are that worried about that, I'm certainly not, I have never used any of my ibanezes passive - actually thinking about it, active / passive switching is a relatively new thing, my SR1000 prestige from 2005 doesn't have passive. The GVB36 didn't have it either. The signature models are all different, the GVB36 was backwards, which caught me out a few times, treble closest to the volume. And for an Adam Nitti bass, its a bit of a bargain! https://www.dv247.com/en_GB/GBP/Ibanez-ANB-1006-Adam-Nitti-Transparent-Blue/art-BAS0007789-000

I just looked. They look nice but are certainly not cheap are they!

Money for nothing - it has the sax start with the guitar and everyones vocals. If we have enough time, the start of brown eyed girl, then fortunate son for the drummers vocals, then surfing USA for my vocals, then the middle bit of brick in the wall for the footpedals.

I love to see groups on TV in whatever way it can happen, even groups I don't like. I can accept that I am not going to like most of them but it is good to see them there. Would rather a different presenter, but will stick with anyone if that is the way it gets there.

We have never had a correlation between the number of people who say they are attending on facebook and the number of people who attend.

They probably use enough cameras so they can make a whole program avoiding a specific area of the audience, just in case.

Same spacing at the nut, but yes, 6mm more at the neck. So they have gone and ruined it! ok, scratch that one, back to my lusting after the 2605!

Hard to say, would certainly like to listen. I mean if they sounded a bit different then it would be perfect justification for having another SR as it would obviously be different, not just like the 2605 that I still want but can't justify!

No way will they find 40...

But now their sale has it is for £432 (reduced from 503, which I never remember them having it at).

yes, 400 is quite warm. what is the power of your iron? Maybe it isn't clean or too lightweight, but it would seem odd. I don't do it like that, I would say a second to warm up, feed the solder in, but don't leave it in contact too much afterwards, it should stay hot enough. just be sure to not move it as it is cooling. - Either way, I would say, do it the way you are most comfortable with. It is unlikely you will damage them but if you do (and with the 1n4148s it is obvious, they would fall apart), they are about the cheapest components you care going to find, literally 1 or 2p.

Slap bass?

Oh why don't they do that colour for the 2405 - I would totally get that one. The 2405 is more like the tizer one, and I prefer the purple.

They aren't specifically sensitive if you are not soldering too close and I wouldn't think they needed more attention than normal, although if it takes 5-6 seconds to solder something I would say your iron is too cold, it should only ever take a second or two. So turn the iron up from what you have it on if it is temperature controlled. Although the 4001s are pretty robust (the black ones, or 400x series anyway), the bottom ones, presumably 1n4148s can be a little delicate close to the body, so when you have soldered one side, let it cool a bit before doing the other side. I can't say that I have ever lost a diode soldering it in though, and that includes surface mount.

Ooh - new basses from Ibanez. There is a different colour GWB35 which is nice, but the SR2xx5 range has grown including this: https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/sr2405w_1p_01.html The 2405 which has something new - an Aguilar pickup, looks like a humbucker. Thats a first in the SR prestiges. Looks rather nice too.

Probably on very comfortable beds with very expensive sheets I would imagine

Off out now for the first of 2 NYE gig. First (3-6) is our local friendly pub, although it is a pain to park there during the day as it is still an 'ordinary working day'. Second is tonight, 9:15-10:15, 10:45-11:45, 12:10-12:40. At least we can park at that one!

I think so too. He has been doing it for decades, maybe it is time to get someone else in, or maybe a series of presenters, Later with xxxx.