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[quote name='Astronomer' post='187650' date='Apr 28 2008, 10:23 PM']I'm physically cringing as I type this. Could someone please tell me what compression does? I've heard and read a lot of talk about using compression to get a particular sound, but when I try to use it the only thing that happens is that things get loud enough to make small children cry. In Norway. So, what's it about? Is it just a means of preventing damage to the input stage of an amplifier, or to a speaker, or does it actually change the sound? Sorry, I know it's a really dumb question, but it's bugging me and I can't understand much of the stuff on the net. [/quote] +1. For me, limited compression evens out my bass so everything sounds [i]level[/i]. Excess compression c/w a bit of drive/gain gives me what Line 6 would describe as pawnshop punk/JJ Burnel kind of distorto. To be honest, for some time I've been wondering what compression does as well... P

Doesn't do anything for me, sorry. When I visit a guitar website, I want to see saucy pictures of the guitars reclining on silk sheets (well, you know what I mean), not planks of wood ('The Process') in a Flash presentation that is too big for my display (my screen resolution is 1024x768)...I can see wood going through surface planers on the Discovery Channel any hour of the day. Having a quick look at the Bongo pages, I'm still a little staggered that a company of this size doesn't actually have some well photographed images of the actual model in all the available colours, with the actual hardware/scratchplate options, rather than some quick and nasty rollovers that display other models. If it's an available option, then they must have a demo model that can be photographed to serve the purpose. At the very least, do a job of it in Photoshop. While writing this epistle, I remembered looking at the site Nissan set up for the Qashqai car...this was some time ago (they've changed it since, but this is still way better). That's how options should be shown. [url="http://tinyurl.com/4ly3pq"]Nissan Site[/url] First impressions are it's a bit of a cut and paste job. Horrible. P

I just took the pickguard off my Waterstone bass (don't ask why) and it broke. Anyone here adept at making me a replacement on a rapid turnround? I'd prefer a tortoiseshell finish, but I would also consider a pearly one. No screw holes. I have the bits for the template! Thanks P

[quote name='robert43' post='180833' date='Apr 20 2008, 01:54 AM']Hi all the head stock looks a lot like the old SX head ie the hook type of head[/quote] I thought that as well...they have to all be coming from the same factory. P

[quote name='lukeward2004' post='180786' date='Apr 19 2008, 11:55 PM']Wow, that is a stunner! I bet it costs a nice wedge too.[/quote] $4000 P

Christ. Where did I put my tissues? I don't generally get stoked at basses that look like furniture, but it's a thing of beauty. More here: [url="http://www.rocketmusic.net/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=2293"]Streamer 2008 Ltd.[/url] P

I've started to clear out our garage following extensive renovations to our house, so if anyone is interested to collect: - three big sheets of green (water resistant) chipboard flooring - 240cmx60cm - one full height vertical divider for MFI Milan double wardrobe - an Ikea Kalcium lightshade - new and boxed (this is like those funky lightshades you get in cafes/bars) Also, a huge amount of Q magazines and UK & US Premiere magazines. All for collection from Crowthorne, Berkshire. P

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='174340' date='Apr 11 2008, 09:09 AM']I expect everyone's already sick of seeing my Cutlass 1.[/quote] I like MM Cutlass basses. Post a pic. P

I used to have an Orange Matamp head that was previously owned by Davey Johnstone, Elton John's guitarist. I bought it in the mid-70s from this warehouse place in Chalk Farm, London. The place was stocked-to-the-gills with used gear that had been moved on by pro-musicians. P

[quote name='BassManKev' post='172008' date='Apr 8 2008, 08:28 AM']£449 is the going rate, at the usual english shops (dolphin, dv247 etc etc) very, very interested i am (should this be moved to effects forum??)[/quote] I only looked on Thomann for the price. The beauty of this unit is that I can sell on my bass and guitar PODs via t'eBay, which should cover about half of the purchase price (which will placate my wife). P

CD Baby is great - I've just bought CDs by Sensory Lullaby and Millicent Friendly from them. Been using them for ages. Suggest you also check out Not Lame as well...the home of powerpop! P

There was a thread here a month or two back about the X3 Pro unit from Line6. Thomann are listing this at £501 (even though it's not available yet), which compares favourably against the Bass POD Pro which was around the same price a few weeks back. If you're interested, Line6 has a proper website up and running now: [url="http://line6.com/podx3pro/"]POD X3 Pro[/url] To be honest, playing guitar as well as bass (I swing both ways in that department), I'm pretty excited about this unit...it's good to go for bass, acoustic and electric sixers and vocals, plus the ££ price comparable to buying guitar and bass POD units. The old units have been great tools for me live and in the studio. On the downside, it looks that when I finally do get around to throwing some swag at my amp setup, I'm going to have to get a bigger rack! P

After the gig I did last night (see thread elsewhere), one of the guys in the audience came up to me and commented how much I sounded like JJB. I'm using a 1979 Precision, albeit with a Seymour Duncan quarter pounder, into a POD, into an effects return on an Ashdown shortstack (2x10 combo and 1x15). I use a patch on the POD that's a slight adaptation of a patch someone wrote to emulate the Les Claypole (Primus) sound. Played quietly, it's pretty close. Live I just roll up the bass and compression, output the POD at about 80% and use the master on the amp to control the volume. It overloads nicely. I also play very hard with a pick. P

I've got an old Marshall Guv'nor pedal that I take everywhere. I don't even know if it works anymore. I've also got my old teddy bear from when I was a baby. P

A few years ago a local music store had an early '70s Fender Jazz bass...it was old and trashed...[sonic?] blue finish. This is before Jazz prices started to skyrocket. The shop clearly had no idea of it's worth. It was around £350.00. It had a set of old/dead flatwounds on and I asked if they'd restring the instrument so I could demo it. The shop declined. I got home and my wife said that if I wanted it, I should go get it. I slept on it, went back next day and it had gone. P

[quote name='MacDaddy' post='161043' date='Mar 20 2008, 07:40 PM']sorry for another imminent question, but I am genuinely interested: which bass did he use on Alive II?[/quote] I wouldn't go with the photo that graced the inside cover of Alive II, as I don't believe that it was taken from the LA Forum show...I'd read this somewhere around the time it came out - Geoff Barton (Sounds) - I think. I used to keep every Kiss cutting I could find back then! That said, the bass in this picture looks like one of the Spectors mentioned above. Incidentally, Barton was in LA on the behest of the label/management of New England (who were produced by Paul Stanley) - they were supporting Kiss at the LA Forum show. Barton, who I'm sure was cognizant that Kiss were recording, gave New England a small (albeit good/accurate) article in Sounds, while, within a week or two, a multi-page spread on Kiss appeared. Incidentally on its review in Sounds, Alive II carried the strapline 'Perhaps the greatest live album of all time'...I think for me, at fifteen or sixteen, it was the best thing I'd ever heard. P

[quote name='cetera' post='160129' date='Mar 19 2008, 10:14 AM']The two basses he used in the 'Turn On The Night' video were a black Pedulla Buzz (originally got in 1983) which he had customised with a painted dragon face on the body in 1987..... and his Jackson Axe. The Jackson Axe is either his original one from 1983, dipped in chrome, or a second one.... Actually, on the subject of his Pedulla.... he also had a white one from 1983... which he subsequently had painted with his 'make-up face' in 1987. Both Pedullas were sold in the Butterfields KISS auction for many $thousands a few years back...[/quote] ...I think you need to post some pics of your basses on the porn page. P

[quote name='Calderone' post='160044' date='Mar 19 2008, 05:11 AM']that's the lobue !!! thanks for your replies .... Hey what about the Axe he used on Turn on the night ? that was really chrome !!!! i've never seen that axe before ![/quote] The You Tube video I just watched is pretty pixellated, but there's at least two basses on that video - an Axe bass - it looks like a Jackson one (simply from the headstock design) - and maybe the Pedulla Buzz? He was using a Pedulla finished with his made up face on it following the unmasking...the You Tube clip is pretty awful quality. That said, when I watched the You Tube clip my first impressions were that it looked like a Modulus Graphite/Flea bass (although I doubt it!). P

Two or three shots..well three. P