NancyJohnson

Maybe I'm just jumping to a (too early) conclusion, but an internal jumper? Sheesh. Okay...so this kind of answers that it can be used in single cabinet set-ups, but if you want to switch (quickly) to a dual channel application; do you need to take the unit out of the rack, take it apart and move the jumper? In the main, I would be using it through a single enclosure, but I do run a stereo poweramp and I can run dual cabinets. Surely it would have been simpler to have i) an external switch, ii) external jumpers (via patch cable), iii) a dedicated mono output socket or iv) circuitry that identifies what's plugged into either of the effected outputs (ie if only one jack is plugged in, it outputs a combined signal). I'll still end up with one of these I guess, but the internal jumper seems a bit of a pain.

[quote name='Cuzzie' timestamp='1499525122' post='3332025'] So...... Are any of these out in the wild yet? What are you pairing it with? General overview please... [/quote] Only seems to be available in the US at present. There's a video on You Tube with the GED2112 running into the effects returns on a pair of Orange heads...as the .pdf manual isn't up online, I'd be interested in finding out if the unit can be run in mono or whether it requires a stereo poweramp. Anyone from Tech21 reading?

[quote name='pnunes76' timestamp='1499622049' post='3332551'] Hi, I'm 40 years old and I'm thinking to start learning to play bass guitar. I just read a lot information about the instrument, learning experiences, difficulties... My question is, I'm too old to learn to play bass guitar and how far I can go? Thanks [/quote] Whenever anyone posts up a question like this, you're always going to get positivity from members here (it's like nobody wants to say anything detrimental), so I'll pass on this little nugget: I have a mate who started at 40-ish, he said the hardest things were; i) not having the time to practice, ii) not being able to remember everything he'd learnt - the capacity for recall isn't as great as it is/was when you're 20, iii) the inherent fear that once he even got anywhere like up to speed, he was always going to be 20+ years behind guys of his age (which I suppose is fair comment), iv) being overlooked for band positions because of his inexperience, v) the fear that his wife will pull his testicles over his head if she finds out how much he's spending on this bedroom hobby. He eventually gave up! Learning anything is a long trip, so just be prepared for that. No one can just be handed an instrument and be expected to play it in a day, irrespective of what anyone says, it's a grind. It's going to hurt, you might even bleed once or twice, but if you're determined enough, you will succeed.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1499411213' post='3331342'] I know Alex who runs Plasma TV very well, we`ve been mates for nearly 20 years. [/quote] Really lovely bloke.

[quote name='Tony p' timestamp='1499409311' post='3331327'] That's a pretty cool vid, looks very professional too. How much did it cost, if you don't mind me asking? [/quote] Nothing. We just turned up and played.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1499254388' post='3330279'] All this Thunderbird talk has provoked mild GAS. I'm just not 100% sold on the body shape, preferring instead the more rounded outline of the T-bird inspired Schecter Nikki Sixx signature. At £1000+ that's out of the question, so I'm thinking about reshaping an Epiphone Thunderbird body to suit. Has anyone done this, either to a T-bird or any other bass? It'll probably exacerbate the neck dive though... [/quote] Neck dive is a myth. I thought we'd established this. Keep up at the back!

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1499018888' post='3328640'] No, I accept that I may the odd one out, but in all my years of playing bass, neck width has never been an issue. I am currently playing Thunderbirds and haven't even considered the width of the neck. [/quote] I've played a ton of different basses over my 35+ year tenure and I'm with you. It cracks me up when you see people asking the width of the neck at the nut or the radius...a millimetre here or there on a four string bass, shouldn't really make a whole lot of difference.

My band did a little live internet-TV thing a few weeks back for a company called Plasma Music Television, who are based in Hemel Hempstead; while the live steam was a bit bass-heavy (nothing wrong with that, eh?), Plasma have mixed one of our songs and put it up on You Tube. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHuNcPbt5Ms[/media] We still haven't quite worked out what their business model actually is; they have a ton of cameras, sound gear etc. We think they're looking at selling their recording/editing service back to bands, but there was no hard sell, it was just turn up, set up, run a couple of songs, find a pub, return to the studio, record, interview, load out and home. They are looking for bands who do original material to go in, so if you have a free Saturday, hit 'em up. Later in the year, they're also looking to do a live telecast in the [i]'Later...' [/i]style, with several bands. Tell them Paul from Who Killed Nancy Johnson? referred you. P

Nanowebs all the way. Because I'm a tad anal about recording when I change strings and what is on each bass, I can happily advise that I changed the Elixir Nanoweb nickels (set#14066) on my Lull yesterday with a set of steels (set#14677). They'd been on eight months. In that time I've done about 20 sweaty gigs and rehearsed (four hour sessions) pretty much every week. The D&G were still pretty good, but the E&A were just at tipping point between sparkle/whump and were losing clarity and the intonation was going off a bit. Yes, they're expensive (£35) but I'd have probably gone through three, perhaps four sets of other brands in that time.

I'm baffled. I thank you and I'll be here all week.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1421083216' post='2656942'] I think we've been here before. My Travis Bean 2000 bass. #222. It was on eBay about 18 months ago. I mean, it played like a dog and was back-breakingly heavy, but it was like a piece of art and was stunningly beautiful. Would I buy it back given the chance? Nope. Would I keep it if it was still mine? Yes. P [/quote] Following on from this, the new owner posted to the Travis Bean Resource about something, I replied, a year later, he replied. The bass is in Oxford... I'm hoping to cop a feel of it when we play there in September. Woop.

I thought of Cataldo immediately. They're not, however, a (regular) Thunderbird body with a Fender neck... they're more in the John Entwistle style. I read somewhere (TB/LBO) that as a moneysaving exercise, the Cataldo headstock design came about as he was using bought-in Mighty Mite necks and reshaped the headstock.

We played Southampton on Friday night, then did a showcase (for the B-stage at Marvellous Festival) at Jagz, Ascot early Sunday evening (see below) and then headlined a punky festival in Maidenhead, Berkshire Sunday night.

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1498859489' post='3327681'] Captain Pine-Coffin. WTF [/quote] When I started at my first job (Electricity Board), I had access to application forms, some of which were decades old. I distinctly remember having a little chuckle at Norman Pine-Coffin. There were dozens of belters.

I have a mate who is known to all and sundry as Queasy. For a long time, I never actually knew his real name, it was always Queasy. Real name? Phil Pawley.

We played a shoebox in Shirley, Southampton. Barely made double figures in attendance. Sometimes I ask myself, 'What's the point?' On the upside, we got paid, and sold six CDs and four t-shirts.

[quote name='Ben Jamin' timestamp='1498868605' post='3327726'] I guess he's quite happy with his pedalboard set up, and he'd still need a switch to mute the various channels anyway, so it's just more cables hanging off your bass in the end! It'd be interesting, if they did do a dual output, if they could built a POG into the one of them, with maybe a killswitch? Could run off a 9V like an active bass. It just gets complicated haha! [/quote] When I had my Rickenbacker, I just plugged a stereo cable in it which terminated in a pair of 1/4" phonos! I'm sure that give the money behind RB, the guy could run a bespoke dual channel wireless system.

I'm just a progressive old fart and want my audio well produced and delivered with clarity. About 30 years ago, I watched [i]Tomorrow's World[/i] dreaming of a future where everything would be delivered via the Information Superhighway; I distinctly remember a piece where one of the presenters, possibly Michael Rodd, explained that there would be a future where every song ever recorded would be delivered in ones and zeros via a little cube of some sort (suffixed with the quote, 'Like this,') while he fumbled around with a small opaque plastic box with a couple of wires coming out of it. Well, that future is now. Why are so many people uneager to embrace it?

[quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1498814579' post='3327203'] The only reference point I have to my first band is on a copied tape. My 2005 vw actually had a tape deck. It destroyed that tape. Tape must be not just dead but extinct by now surely?? [/quote] To (mis)quote the author Jasper Fforde, we seem to be taking these [i]great leaps backwards[/i] where deliverable media is involved, the slow slide back to vinyl, wet film etc. I'm sick of the vinyl is better argument...sure it is! Well, if you like to listen to your music while living next to a railway line while eating crisps. Surely artists would prefer to have their music played back in the pristine quality of how it left the studio? Anyhow, tape. Sigh. Someone (let's just refer to all these fools as 'hipsters'), some [i]hipster[/i], has come up with this ridiculous concept. It's just a matter of time before old cassettes, ghosts of Christmas-past stored for years in shoeboxes in hot attics, will make a resurgent return along with people saying, 'Maaaan, I love the sound from those old TDK D tapes. The hiss is great, it really adds to the ambience of the piece.' World. Gone. Crazy.

Don't mind a bit of RB, but it's all a bit samey. On the gear front, and in consideration that he's now in the warm embrace of the Fender custom shop, I'm suprised he hasn't gone with some kind of stereo/Rick-o-sound thing on the basses rather than splitting his output signal via crossovers and various Pog-type pedals.

Four operative procedures for trigger finger conditions (all successful), but now both thumbs are giving me arthritic issues. There's a surgical solution available (search You Tube for 'basal joint replacement'), but right now I'm able to keep the pain down via a combination of medicinal turmeric and glucosamine. [EDIT] The turmeric is in capsule form (CostCo) and is a proven anti-inflammatory; I was a tad sceptical to be honest, but the pain I was getting has lessened. Believe me, things got very sore after a four hour session and even a slight knock to either thumb from the wrong angle was agony. The Glucosamine is supposed to lessen deterioration speed of the cartilage and encourage regrowth...I'll take the first one, but the second part I'll take with a pinch of salt.

Fender won't entertain a direct approach; you need to go through a store with a Fender account. Crazy.

Cough. Basses for sale. Cough

At one point I owned seven or eight Thunderbirds. They were all wonderful basses, but the RRP (or even the discounted sale prices) were ridiculous outside of America. I've been trying to work out how much Gibson basses work out at as a percentile of take-home pay...assuming you're on the 2014 average pay (last figures April 2014), that's £27K...or around £1,8K a month after deductions. The last series of Thunderbirds carried a UK SRP £1.8K, so based on this pretty much a full months salary. The average US wage (September 2014) is quoted at $52Kpa (or £40K). Granted there's individual state taxation, but this would equate to a $3.1K take-home (£2.4K) and in the US, the 2014 Thunderbirds had a SRP of $2K. So c.64% of a months salary. Whether or not this is relevant to this thread, I don't know, but gear always seemed cheaper in the US. Yes, I know you need to factor in import duties etc.

I always find it shocking how many derivatives there are of Les Paul guitars. Want a bass in a different colour? Ker-ching.