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SteveO

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  1. Don't talk to strangers (Dio) God I hate that song, but the guitarist loves it and the singer loves it and it usually gets a good reaction from the crowd, and it's all I can do to keep pictures of jimmy savile wagging his finger out of my head when I'm trying to remember the changes.
  2. [quote name='mcgraham' post='579238' date='Aug 24 2009, 05:32 PM']The problem is with a splitter is that there's likely to be some signal loss unless it's being driven in some way, at least that would be understanding. I really want this to be something that is 'just' what I want, and not some compromised approximation. I play in a lot of places where monitoring situations aren't ideal, and where I cannot have my own mix, or I cannot even guarantee a line out for a box such as the micromon. Something that can sit between the desk and an existing monitor without 'damaging' an existing setup is what I'm after.[/quote] Ah, right I get it. If I can't get a monitor line then I just have the bone coming through the earphone so I can hear the monitors as usual and I can set my own level just for me. Still, I see where you're comming from in not wanting to compromise. Just a thought, but if you are wanting to intercept the feed to the monitors then you're gonna need something that can handle a line-level signal to an active monitor and also handle a hot signal to a passive monitor - I'm assuming you want to use it with any House PA as you say that you can't guarantee a dedicated signal, and obviously the house PA could have either passive or active monitors. Edited to make sense
  3. [quote name='dannybuoy' post='576771' date='Aug 21 2009, 04:25 PM']I do this with 2 devices; a Radial JDI (any DI box will do) and a [url="http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/MA400.aspx"]Behringer Micromon[/url]. [/quote] +1 for the micromon, I use it with my trombone. With a foh feed from the desk and DI from the bone-mic (which runs though to the desk) I can set my perfect mix in no time. Cheap as chips too. (It's about the size of a tub of philledelphia and sits unobtrusively on my music stand) It sounds just what you're asking for, apart from the lack of the 'output 3' on your wishlist. I'm not too sure if you meant Output 3 should be the monitor signal from the desk plus your mixed bass sound (i.e. the same signal as is going to the headphones) or if you meant it should just be the monitor signal from the desk running straight back out again, in which case it's surely be easier to take this from the desk too. Either way, a splitter as suggested by dannybouy would work for both.
  4. I thought pots came with at least 2 contacts and usually three. I don't think that I've ever soldered to the case, although I know that many things are made with them soldered that way. The case on a pot is often internaly wired to one of the contacts (nominaly called the ground, although in a pot this is meaningless) and so you [i]can[/i] solder to the case, but it's easier to get a clean joint on the correct contact.
  5. [quote name='steve' post='577348' date='Aug 22 2009, 09:23 AM']I've got this, but can't figure out how to output the split files[/quote] It's not too hard. When you have split the avi you get 2 clips in the top window. Drag the one you want into the timeline at the bottom, then "Publish film" from the file menu.
  6. [quote name='steve' post='577310' date='Aug 22 2009, 03:13 AM']sadly i'm on a pc mate, thanks anyway[/quote] Windows movie maker is also free. It's a bit naff when it comes to outputing the file and it's fairly limited but it's OK for simple work and you can cut avi's up easily. It's part of windows live ([url="http://download.live.com/"]free download[/url])
  7. Bit confused about 'Polyrhythmic' in the title. Unless he means that he's intentionally not playing in time with the drumtrack...
  8. [quote name='mrcrow' post='570756' date='Aug 16 2009, 05:21 PM']point taken... i got bostik glue on my rickenbacker paint and it dissolved it i was sorry.. cheers[/quote] Sorry mate if you thought I was being sarcastic. What I meant was when I said i'd not use white spirit it was based on experience with lighter fluid. As it's not lighter fluid then I made a wrong assumption, and as you have used it then it's clearly OK. I've not used paraffin to clean plastics, but i've got a plastic carton of it in the garage so it looks safe, and white spirit being a derivative of paraffin is not gonna dissolve anything plasticy either. I was being serious about using paraffin, I remember dad using it to clean glue off something when I was a nipper, but TBH I think he's better sticking with washing up liquid. it'll come off eventually and as long as the green sponge stays away then it'll be fine
  9. [quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='570743' date='Aug 16 2009, 05:08 PM']If its a Peavey Mark III then it will be at least 25 years old...[/quote] Me and my big mouth. still, 25 yrs old for an amp is good going isn't it? my grannies TV was 10 yrs old and required a good slap to get going properly. Even then it was all red and blue (made watching snooker interesting) Things don't last forever, but I'd be thinking that it's a bit of a coincidence that the amp died so quickly after purchase. I'm gonna shut up now cos clearly I'm not helping at all
  10. Don't worry, it happens. you've always got a chance of electronic failure in anything you buy (anything electronic ), and some things make it past QC only to die the first time they're used properly. Just send it back. That's assuming of course that it's new. if second hand then good luck...
  11. [quote name='mrcrow' post='570715' date='Aug 16 2009, 04:36 PM']white spirit is quite inert lighter fluid sounds like it may not be but i wouldnt push anyone to use it if in doubt another fluid is methylated spirit...you can drink that... [/quote] I stand corrected after a little looking, white spirit is derived from paraffin and is principally composed of simple C7-C12 hydrocarbons, whereas lighterfluid (naptha) is just a light distillate of crude oil and can have loads of weird and wonderful (and presumably plastic dissolving) hydrocarbons in it. Ooo, there's another suggestion - Paraffin
  12. [quote name='Hot Tub' post='570627' date='Aug 16 2009, 02:27 PM']Try mayonnaise. Seriously.[/quote] This works, as does vinegar with a bit of washing up liquid. (or you can buy it as windolene) I've never tried white spirit on plastic, but would imagine you'd get the same results as lighter fluid (the often used glue remover) which will result in a sticky blob where your scratchplate used to be. Just use a kitchen towel. it'll disintegrate a bit, but you get loads on a roll
  13. In all seriousness, My JV precision, a jazz (?) that's as good as the precision (not too bothered about brand, as long as it feels & sounds as good and has single coil pups) A double bass that's not cheap and nasty. One like the house bass in the Jazz cafe in Oslo. Don't know the make as there's no marks anywhere. Amp wise... can I have an SVT pro IV and a Little Mark III please. Cabs... Once I've finished building these BFM's I should be sorted thanks all the same.
  14. [quote name='stevie' post='568133' date='Aug 13 2009, 05:29 PM']Bill doesn't like discussing his designs anywhere but on his own, tightly controlled website where nobody can ask embarrassing questions like, why exactly do you want to build a mid horn for your bass guitar?[/quote] Or maybe you're just cynical and Bill likes questions about his designs to be answered on his own forum so that other people who have the same problems can also benefit from the answers. In a fair and just universe Bill would obviously tell all his customers to come to Basschat for the answers. Just because only a small minority are bass players is no excuse really and I'm sure that all the sound engineers that make up the majority of his customer base will feel right at home on a forum dedicated to bass playing. Sheesh. Oh and in answer to your Qn about horns.... because it sounds better? And before you ask... yes, I'm a fan of Bill and his designs. yes, I think Bills and Alex's posts on amplification and cabinet design are most welcome on Basschat. yes, when someone makes a snide comment against either I'll give them a flame-slap.
  15. I think that sustain is seen as a measure of the quality of the instrument. I mean If the bass has great sustain then there's subliminal thoughts that the rest of the bass must be better than average too. Obviously there's no reason for this to be the case, but there you go. Personaly I'm not too bothered by it. I usually play my bass with the vol turned down a bit, together with a noise gate which dampens the sustain down to about 5 seconds (the gate's not there to kill the sustain, it's just a consequence of it doing its noise reduction stuff). It's more than enough for me, and like Lfalex said above I usually dampen the note long before 5 seconds have passed. Maybe at the end of a song i'll let it ring till the noise gate kicks in, but by then the crowd are cheering and the girlies are throwing their shreddies onto the stage... you know how it is.
  16. [quote name='EBS_freak' post='567971' date='Aug 13 2009, 03:09 PM']Are you using those planet wave jacks by any chance (the one with the expanded bit on the jack) - if you are, don't! This is what happens! Take a look inside - if the contacts are exposed, you will be able to bend it back to position but be warned, it's likely to go again. Replace it when you can with a better quality component with stronger metal to grip the jack.[/quote] +1 on the planet waves. great Idea, but knackered my RBX. Unfortunately the jack on my RBX (375) was a sealed unit buried in the woodwork. I managed to get it out with a pair of tweezers and needle nosed pliers, but then had to get a replacement through a local shop because I couldn't get to the contacts without destroying the unit.
  17. [quote name='raptor' post='567883' date='Aug 13 2009, 01:50 PM']Top marks for getting the line" she's at the end of her teeeeeeeetheeeeeeeer ! in a song[/quote] Random thread resurrection ?
  18. [quote name='ped' post='567449' date='Aug 12 2009, 11:57 PM']IT COUNTS!! [sub]It counts :'([/sub] [/quote] Well I've played an acoustic bass with no monitoring at all. outside. couldn't hear the bass. 'twas dark so couldn't see the fretboard. was drunk so couldn't care less anyway. Ha Beat That!
  19. [quote name='stevie' post='567191' date='Aug 12 2009, 08:27 PM'][quote name='ped' post='567181' date='Aug 12 2009, 08:19 PM'] No amp at all (in ear monitors!)[/quote] Any advance on this, folks ? [/quote] Well It's cheating a bit isn't it. I mean it's not as if there was a pub full of people crowding round a set of sennheisers trying to hear the bass solo. I think the op was referring to inaudible monitoring rather than low power monitoring, in which case my entry's probably null and void too.
  20. Did a gig with a peavey microbass (20W?) once. The gig was me on a p-bass with my microbass and 2 semiacoustic guitars and vox running through a 4x10 + 100W marshall head. We'd decided beforehand to keep it really low as it was only to about 30 peeps on a sunday afternoon in a pub. Nice and easy, nice and mellow. It worked really well, nice clear sound round the room. Would have used the same setup again if the band hadn't folded due to megalithic prima-donna flouncing.
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  22. [quote name='BassKS' post='564288' date='Aug 9 2009, 07:01 PM']huh? Well, my point was whether to use a rosin core 60/40 or a lead free solder for stuff like connecting pups to the pots and onnecting the jump wires to the bobbin wire etc...[/quote] Don't worry about it. I use B&Q own brand solder for pretty much anything electrical (from soldering jack leads to fixing washing machines) on the side of the pack it says its a tin/lead solder. I seem to remember something about an EU directive about electrical equipment using lead free solder in manufacturing, but don't know if this means that the solder you buy now is also lead free. At the end of the day, solder is solder. Unless the joint is gonna be stressed (i.e. taking some weight) then use whatever you can get your hands on.
  23. [quote name='Bassassin' post='564113' date='Aug 9 2009, 02:25 PM']From a quick glance at the pics, it ain't from 1960 and it seriously ain't worth £400! Maybe a tenth of that. This is a generic mid-70s plywood starter bass - it looks medium-scale to me, & the brand name will, like about 95% of 70s MIJ guitars, be just an importer's brand & nothing to do with a manufacturer. The "domino" position markers are quite unusual & fairly cool - but still don't make it worth that money. J.[/quote] Cheers Jon, That's pretty much as I expected. For some bizare reason I forgot that the importers put their brandname on generic basses, possibly because I've never come across Riviera before. Maybe they just imported into scandinavia?
  24. Was just browsing the Norwegian classifieds and came across this [url="http://www.finn.no/finn/bap/object?finnkode=18392040"]1960 Riviera.[/url] To be honest I have no intention of buying it (unless it turns out to be a steal! :brow: ), but as I've never heard of the brand and can't find any info on the web I thought I'd ask you guys, mainly cos £400 seems a little on the steep side for what looks like a crappy piece of driftwood, even if it is nearly 50 yr old driftwood. The ad's in Norwegian (duh!) but to save confusion the guy's selling another bass (a blue 'Robert T Studio' whatever that is ) and a Behringer BDI-21 aswell, which are the last two of the photo's. Anyone have any info out there?
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