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[quote name='steve-soar' post='278479' date='Sep 6 2008, 11:05 AM']I am always amazed at the total lack of respect that some people in the courier industry have for other peoples property...[/quote]
Years ago I ordered a Pioneer DVD player from a place in the Midlands. Arrr, back then you had to get the machines chipped to make them play R1 DVDs, none of this handset hack stuff going on. I was desperate to get my hands on it, the courier had left a card, it was a rainy Friday and I didn't want to wait the weekend, so I called up the courier and offered to collect the package from their warehouse.
I turned up at the warehouse, mistakenly ending up in their sorting area and was horrified at how brutal the blokes were handling the boxes. I saw boxes being thrown out of the back of a van straight onto the concrete and being kicked along the floor. It's obvious that companies over-engineer products so they actually survive the shipping process, but sadly there are some monkeys in the courier game that, as you say, have no respect, and probably get a real thrill out of knowing they've broken something which is in their care during shipping.
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Well I have an update on the cabinet situation, and I've included some pics. Bear in mind also this damage was caused through the cardboard packing box and the two inches of blown polystyrene insulation around each corner inside the box.
OK firstly, they didn't reply to my e-mail, so I telephoned them. I was told they're OK with everything and they're going to e-mail me something to assist UPS in collecting the cabinet and, once they've got it back, they'll issue a new one. Small woohoo. The girl I spoke to said they wouldn't issue a replacement until the first cabinet came back to them, so I'd be looking at a two week wait. Like it says in the title, damn.
Then last night I get an e-mail from Thomann, who say they are reluctant to take the cabinet back as it's too big. They've also said that they can just send me the defect part (they're alluding to just the corner protector, not the cabinet as a whole here) - clearly they seem to think I can screw a corner-protector into something that's mis-shapen like a satsuma.
One final thing, I've offered the cabinet up onto my MAG 1x15 and it's not square to it...looking down from the top the cabinet seems a little offsquare...not much, maybe a centimetre. To me this says it's either 1) not built properly, or 2) gone out of shape following the transit impact. I've been running similar MAG stuff for five/six years and aside from scuffs and scratches from hundreds of loads, the cabinets have held up extremely well.
I have a feeling this will run and run. All for a saving of £50.00. <sigh>
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[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='276771' date='Sep 4 2008, 10:23 AM']Devin Townsend- not a bassist but a master producer as well as an all round wierdo genius/guitar hero.[/quote]
I just wish DT had had the balls to stick with The WiLDHEARTS.
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All US rock, all distinctively different end results:
Eddie Kramer
Jack Douglas
Ted Niceley
Rob Cavallo
Ed Stasium
I'd also offer up Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne bass player) and Mark Hoppus (Blink182/+44). They've both produced some good work.
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I roll the tone off for one song we do that has cod-reggae intro, otherwise it's just full on. A while back (and after installation of a new SD Basslines), I rewired my Precision for volume only (from the Mark Hoppus model schematic) and it sounded just like it does with the tone full on.
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Ordered an Ashdown 4x10 last week and it arrived today...damaged. It's taken a really hefty knock on one corner that has broken the plastic/nylon corner, squashed in the actual cabinet material (MDF/ply?) and dare I say it, put the cabinet out of alignment.
Anyhow, goes without saying, I'm not keeping it and have reported the problem.
What the deal on returns? Do they re-ship and collect? Anyone know?
Cheers
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Chris Squire is the only original member? Loose talk for a band that hasn't played live together in four years and even so, wasn't Jon Anderson still fronting them then? That said, the last Yes incarnation featured a line up that you can date back nearly forty years.
Personally, I've never seen him with anything other than a Rickenbacker.
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Is this what you're looking for?
[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465846"]Black Ricky[/url]
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[quote name='crez5150' post='271495' date='Aug 28 2008, 07:25 AM']Is that the old Catseye studio's?[/quote]
Yep, they've undergone a bit of a restructure/rebranding/renaming. I've rehearsed and recorded in enough places and this place is clean, tidy, acoustics are very good. Andy's results are great as well.
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On the subject of Earth Terminal, a mate of mine recorded there recently and spoke highly of the place. They did a staggering 13 tracks over two days!
From a more personal perspective, we rehearse (and record) at Sounds Good in Lambourn Woodlands - it's a couple of miles off the Hungerford/Wantage turnoff of the M4 - I'm in Crowthorne - so a little west of Reading and it's just under 40 miles from me.
They have four rooms; three live rooms and a control room. All digital. Engineer Andy Rowland is a top bloke and knows his gear inside out (which always helps
) Link:[url="http://www.soundsgoodstudios.co.uk/"]Sounds Good[/url]
Highly recommended!
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Don't know whether this will come over correctly, but I think this is the first time I've ever seen an Fender-style headstock without a logo on it that looks so nice. Does this make sense? Without a [Fender] logo it generally looks like something is missing.
The black hardware is yummy. Nice bass.
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[quote name='Alun' post='269710' date='Aug 25 2008, 07:38 PM']Haven't tried the H4 but have an H2 and it's great - once you get the mic levels right ( it has a lot of flexibility), it can record a noisy band without any problems.
I usually leave mine on 192k MP3 and the results are fine. If you want a sample, PM me your email address and I'll dig out a clip ( I tend to leave it run)
Cheers
Alun[/quote]
Hi Alun
Don't worry about the files...I've had some MP3s through from HJ - all good. More than demonstrates what it can do. I'll add one to my shopping list.
Cheers
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Right now...Motion City Soundtrack - Broken Heart (acoustic version, AOL sessions).
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Just taken delivery of a Tech 21 Landmark 300 head from Etienne. Well packed, superquick delivery. Great unit. Buy in confidence!
Cheers
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Just picked up a Korg tuner off Terry. Swift shipping well packed etc.
Top bloke.
Cheers
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[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='268314' date='Aug 23 2008, 09:02 AM']I just have to say that I think you're all naughty boys ( and girls ) on this website.
Before I joined I was more than happy with my Yamaha TRB playing through my budget conscious Behringer amp and twin cab set up but now now !!!
My first acquisition ( after following all the debates about the relative merits of MIJ, MIA etc ) was a Geddy Lee Jazz ( lovely to play and sounds great )
Then I just had to give these much talked about Wizard Thumper pickups a try so I bought an ebay special Squire Precision, bought the Wizards and fit them and yes, they do dramatically, alter the sound !!
Now I spend all my time researching the relative merits of the Mark Bass amps and cabs as I have become obsessed with ditching the Behringer stuff for some light weight, cool looking loud gear !! Going to make the purchase soon.
Now ( and this has just started ) I have got really in to following the custom built threads and I have fallen in love with some of the bass's I see being built and have convinced myself that I now desperately need one !!
When will it all end ?? or does it ??[/quote]
Just like an extended 12" disco remix of [i]Le Freak[/i] by Chic it will end, but goes on and on and on and on..
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Can I tell you a little Paul Gilbert story? Years ago, mid-nineties maybe, I went to a Billy Sheehan clinic that was being held at a Hall in Fleet, Hampshire with a mate of mine - he was a huge Mr Big fan, me a big Dave Lee Roth fan, so we had common cause.
So we're in the bar having a pre-clinic drinky and were in earshot of of a quite obnoxious guy who was Sheehan's manager.
Every other word was [i]f2ck[/i] or [i]Gilbert[/i]. Gilbert was on his way out of Mr Big, as [i]he was drunken f2cking ass who couldn't even tune his guitar because that goddamn f2cker is out of his head most of the time[/i].
I was squealing with laughter until I heard him say Mr Big are going to fire Gilbert and [i]get that little prick who did that Mothers Head CD[/i] - Richie Kotzen - to play for them.
Kotzen was my hero. I think I shrank several inches. Ruined my evening. Bastard.
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I can't believe that no one has chewed your arm off for this. £240? Have a bump on me!
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No worries...Shaggy can put the swag towards a Bean!
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Has to be black or black pearly. Have a look at the photo here (I know, it's a DJ5).
Beautiful.
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Gbase.com is great for the pictures alone.
A 1975 T-bird here: <drool> [url="http://www.gbase.com/Stores/Gear/GearDetails.aspx?Item=1871876"]Linky[/url] </drool>
Matching headstock as well.
Dreamy.
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[quote name='Shaggy' post='265329' date='Aug 19 2008, 11:26 AM']Again, not trying to hijack this thread, but what was your impressions of the bass otherwise? Seem to have a warmer, woodier sound than a Kramer. Lovely basses!
I'd liked to have met your luthier - I also play the lute (badly)[/quote]
You know the weirdest thing about the TB is understandably my overriding memory of how heavy it was.
It looked beautiful and was incredibly stable, never went out of tune, infinite sustain (which was good, but when you're playing a lot of notes each bar, sustain doesn't come into it!).
The pickups weren't very adjustable; there were allen bolts through the back of the body, but they pretty much did nothing other than anchor the pickups/body/neck together. The original bridge was pretty chunky/clunky and I put a BadAss on when the guy changed the fingerboard. Prior to the bridge change, the bass had through-the-body-stringing. The holes never quite matched up, so if you had a tendancy (like most poor musicians) to boil up your strings, it was terrible trying to re-string it with used strings.
I have no recordings or anything that I know of. Sure I remember it sounded OK at the time, but nothing special. I've mentioned here a few times that I've always been looking for a Rickenbacker type clank and I never got anywhere close to that. Soundwise I would say (from memory) that I sounded more like a phat version of Peter Swivel (of US 70s metaller Starz) rather than say, Mick Karn.
Given the choice, would I get another one? Yes, but only for the novelty of having one. There are dozens and dozens of better basses for the money. If I did try and find one, I would probably go for one of the later models - perhaps serial numbers 400 or above - Travis Bean altered the body shape slightly - the wings were wider and they just looked aesthetically nicer - or if one came up, maybe one of the dozen new prototypes that were made about five years ago, which are [i]incredibly[/i] saucy.
If you're looking for a Bean, there's the Travis Bean resource site - google it. There's classifieds, a forum etc. There's also tone of photos!
Hope this helps.
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[quote name='Shaggy' post='265202' date='Aug 19 2008, 08:34 AM']Damn, feel your pain on that one – I’ve been looking for a fretless one (in fact any one) for around twenty years![/quote]
Not trying to hijack the thread, but this [i]was [/i]fretless for a while. The original board hadn't adhered properly to the aluminium in a couple of spots, so I had an ebony board put on (and a BadAss bridge) by a luthier based in Kingston (he was a British Airways engineer and made baroque instruments in his spare time. Let's just say he knew glue!). It was later refretted by Dick Knight.
It was a beauty, would be worth a small fortune now.
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Post your pictures, Lets see what you all look like.
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This is one of my favourite pictures of me and my old mum, 77 years old. She used to come to my gigs, I took her to see Kiss and Cheap Trick, she likes Rush, Orson and, dig this, the Stone Temple Pilots.
She introduced me to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, good science-fiction actually phoned me one time to say she was watching a video of Blink 182 on MTV and said, 'that boy [Mark Hoppus] who plays bass for them looks like you.' Gotta love her.
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