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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1445268665' post='2890083']
The list of Muppet/Seasame Street appearances is legendary[/quote]

As it happens, Cleo Laine has been a guest on both the Muppets and Zingzillas (with her husband John Dankworth in his last TV appearance before he died in 2010).

Sorry to bring the thread back on-topic, but I think the guys at Wunjo bass on Denmark Street must be reading it - as I was on my way home last night I noticed that one of these basses has appeared in their shop window yesterday

I've tried them in the past and nearly bought one on several occasions (the Trib was very impressive for the money) - it's a bit like Leo's next version of my '79 MM Sabre, which I love.

I suspect its biggest drawback is that it doesn't also make tea

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/246214-ibanez-sr-kaoss/

[quote name='DavidMcKay' timestamp='1444930819' post='2887477']
Surely this affects tuning?....
[/quote]

I'd think it would make it difficult to get right

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1444925330' post='2887429']
Can't see a string groove holding at that tension. As previously suggested it looks like it's been wrapped around.
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I agree

[quote name='Macker5' timestamp='1444667196' post='2884925']
Although........that serial number on the headstock does not appear in the Fender link in post #2!

Is that a serial number on the back of the neck?
[/quote]

I'm no expert, but having trawled a few Fender serial number sites, S plus 7 digits doesn't appear to match [i]any[/i] Fender factory's serial number format.

S plus 6 digits was in use in Japan 1994 to 1995 and 2004 to 2005, but that's about as close as it gets.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1444768601' post='2885905']
They did a lot of LDS in the 60s
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Part of the free speech movement at Berkeley, no doubt.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1444490416' post='2883653']I use one of the neutric switching jacks, that way you just don't have to think about it, it is automatically muted.[/quote]

I'd not heard of those before.

Neat, but Neutrik say they don't work with active instruments, which would rule them out for most of my basses.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1444407318' post='2883065']
I use a volume pedal on the B3, its much easier to use when playing than the volume on the bass
[/quote]

Ditto. Makes for some nice fades on quiet passages of songs where you may want to lose the percussive attack phase of plucking a note and just roll it in smoothly.

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1444463299' post='2883374']I used to use the Fender volume pedal in conjunction with delays and reverbs to create some awesome swell effects but that's all I used it for. For muting between songs I just used the control on the bass.[/quote]

A separate volume pedal is also handy to eliminate cable plugging noises if you're switching basses between songs. Saves a trip to the mute button on my amp.

[quote name='LemonCello' timestamp='1444229496' post='2881364']
Fenders are Think Fender and think Strat/Tele and Precision/Jazz. Think Gibson and think Les Paul.............??? you get my point. Someone above will cane me for that but it's true[/quote]

Well, if we are talking about guitars, there is the small matter of the SG, 330 and 335 that Gibson also make. Michael J Fox wasn't playing a Strat or a Les Paul in BTTF.

I reckon the Flying V must be pretty high up there in the iconicity chart, too.

A. Only one, but before he does, he will replace the stock filament, glass and bayonet connector to achieve a better tone of light.

A. Five to argue over which kind of lightbulb keeps glowing longest after you switch it off.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1444313959' post='2882170']
It would be cheaper to buy a 610 and a 210 together. Not quite as cool though.
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My maths says, excluding shipping, it's £50 cheaper than a 610 and a 210 (£1099 + £449 = £1548).

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1444313352' post='2882160']That's a lot of money, and as it's so unique it's hard to see what similar things cost. The Ampeg Heritage 810 is a grand. I suppose you've got to ask how much the weight saving is worth (obviously sound quality and dispersion are factors too)[/quote]

FWIW, while the street price is a grand, the RRP on the Heritage SVT-810E is £1300, according to some other people also in Brighton.

[url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ampeg-heritage-hsvt-810e/58425"]http://www.gak.co.uk...hsvt-810e/58425[/url]

Though you're only ever going buy at RRP from Barefaced, so it may be a bit of a moot point.

Looking at the raw numbers (and consistent reports about BF cabs in general) the BF is about twice as loud, so, arguably, you could save yourself buying [i]two[/i] SVT cabinets if you need to play that loud

Not that I need anything like this for what I do.

Me likey

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1444221958' post='2881274']


... but true (unless two or more 8 x 10's are envisaged...).
[/quote]

I'm starting to imagine the band 'Disaster Area' in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy using more than two 8x10s

http://www.p2r.se/music/disaster.htm

[quote name='eude' timestamp='1444229841' post='2881367']Well of we do do it in Surrey, I'll be driving from near Sanderstead train station, so if you can get to me, I can drive from there.[/quote]

Would you keep me posted too if this happens? I'm gassing for one of these badly

I'm only a short way away in Sutton.

[quote name='grandad' timestamp='1444142990' post='2880626']
Zoom B3?
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Or an Zoom MS-60B that will do pretty much the same as the B3 in a single stomp box size package (though you lose the DI, USB interface and a couple of other goodies like being able to use an expression pedal).

That said, I'm very happy with my B3 as a compact do-it-all solution.

Edit: there's also the newer Zoom [url=https://www.zoom-na.com/products/guitar-bass-effects/bass/zoom-b1on-bass-effects-pedal#overview]B1ON[/url] and [url=https://www.zoom-na.com/products/guitar-bass-effects/bass/zoom-b1xon-bass-effects-pedal-expression-pedal]B1XON[/url] which are usually cheaper and allow more simultaneous effects.

[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1444123039' post='2880405']
Whats the weight on that 8x10?
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80 lb (36.2 Kg) apparently, according to the OP on TB.

[quote name='spyder' timestamp='1443964936' post='2879010']
I totally agree cables make a big difference to your sound. I use The Chord Company Cream cables that are designed by a bass player and made in Salisbury.
[/quote]

Must be the ley lines that are prevalent round that part of Wiltshire making the difference.

Similar cables designed by bass players and made in Wolverhampton or Doncaster simply don't have the same mojo.

I stand corrected. It seems he used a fretted '78 Stingray.

[url="http://members.tripod.com/~j0hn_e/bp997.txt"]http://members.tripo...0hn_e/bp997.txt[/url]

Originally published in the September 1997 issue of Bass Player.

[b]Paul Denman's Search for Space - Grooving the Gap with Sade & Sweetback[/b]

[quote][color=#000000]---What's the secret behind your deep tone?[/color]

To me, it's in the fingers and in the way you develop over the years.
The other thing, of course, is the instrument. I bought the Music Man
StingRay I'm using right now in 1978, and I've used it regularly ever since.
I've bought other basses, but I always go back to that one, because it's just,
you know... it's me. Everyone's got that certain bass or guitar; it becomes
[color=#000000]part of you. When I strap on this bass, it feels as if it's part of me.[/color]

[color=#000000]---What other basses do you own?[/color]

I have one that's pretty much the same as my '78 StingRay, but it's a
'79; those two have natural finishes. I also have a '78 sunburst-finish
StingRay. I have a '85 Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay 5-string, and '85
fretless StingRay, a Washburn AB40 acoustic bass guitar, and Azola Baby Bass,
a 3/4-size upright made by Emanuel Wilfer, a Gibson EB-3 from the '70's and
a really weird Premier short-scale bass from the '50's that has a glitter
finish.

I've got a ton of effect from the '70's, too. Not that I've ever
used any of 'em- I've just been buying them lately 'cause they look cool!
[Laughs.] I've never used effects with the band; I just buy them to have
fun and mess around.

--- Which instruments do you use on the road?

I use the StingRays most of the time. I've used the Wilfer acoustic
on every tour I've done since '86. And most of the songs on Love Deluxe were
played on the Washburn, so I use that.

I play through Trace Elliot amps, and I always have. I just really
like 'em. I'm using AH600SMX amp with a 4x10 and a 15- that's it. I got my
first Trace rig in '84 when we signed a deal and I got some money; before
that, I used anything I could.

In the studio, I just plug straight into the mixing board. The sound
you hear on our records is just me and the bass with maybe a little
compression.[/quote]

You'll need a fretless '79 Stingray, too

As I'd already been working my way through learning a selection of Beatles bass lines, Something has risen to the top of the list in the last couple of days thanks to this thread - I'm very much enjoying getting to grips with it in close-to.

There's a rather nicely detailed appraisal of what Macca did with Something in Bass Musician Magazine

http://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2012/06/mccartneys-masterpiece-bass-on-the-beatles-something-by-rob-collier/

Not in bed perhaps, but if I'm learning new songs I often sit and listen to a recording on the train to work and mentally run my left hand through the bass line fingering and my right hand traces out the correct rhythmic pattern.