NancyJohnson

Now listen up, I know a lot of shots here are all basses reclining on feather quilts and things that look like furniture on expensive stands, but this shot was taken of me (well more specifically my bass...a 1979 Precision, black/rosewood board) at a gig a couple of weeks back. 'The camera didn't feel like it had fired', my mate said on his e-mail, 'but I realised I had [it] set to the B(ulb) setting, so it was a long exposure.' Personally, I love it. It's a weird picture, and so anti anything that's posted here, but it's great porn. I can't stop looking at it. P

OK reading into this, the M-Audio PCI card looks ideal...remember this is just for very basic recording. I can achieve an awful lot in Audition, which I know backwards. P

In answer to one question here, I just want to keep it as basic and as simple as possible...I neither have the money nor inclination to throw loads of money at this (my guitarist co-owns a studio so go figure), I just want to be able to put ideas down on the PC, play around with them in Audition and then cut a CD of any end product mixdown. P

Nice article in todays Daily Telegraph about buying from the US. One interesting piece in the article made an instant connection with me about buying stuff from US sellers (a la Talkbass) who will only ship to 'the lower 48 states', or, more to the point, sellers who offer free-shipping to the lower 48. You can now register a US mailto address through [url="http://www.myus.com"]'My US'[/url], who are based in Bradenton, which is south of Tampa on the gulf coast of Florida. [i]My US[/i] will then forward the package to anywhere worldwide. Prices? A 20kg box costs $177.50 to forward the the UK...30kg is $212.50, so roughly £80-£100. Obviously you're gonna be responsible to pay duties. Hope this helps! P

I want to set up a very basic (cheap - heh) recording set up on a PC running XP Home...I want to throw as little money at this as possible...this is just for track building and ideas. Additionally, if I have to buy any external hardware, I need to be able to break it down easily. I've got, and am adept at, Adobe Audition 2.0 (I have a friend who works for Adobe...); I generally use this for editing of existing tracks recorded elsewhere, so I'd like to keep using this. Gearwise, I have an Alessis SR16 drum machine - which for the purpose of this, I will fire fills and stop it via a footswitches...I don't want to program it - and a Line 6 bass POD, Line 6 guitar POD which I will DI and guitars. All I want to do is plug something into my PC (preferably via the USB), and play along with the drum machine, then add bass and vocals later. Can someone let me know what I need to do (or buy) and what I need to set the PC to do. Keep it simple! Cheers P

Some years back I spoke with a guy called Mark Plunkett (no pun) who was the bass player for Little Angels (remember them?) - who had just had a #1 album 'Jam' - about the Fender Precision. I asked why it was that he was using a Fender Precision over the Spectors and other furniture that he had in backup. He simply answered that they don't go wrong and a million buyers couldn't all be wrong. That stayed with me. A short time later I got my '79 in a trade deal and I've used it ever since. Aside from the original pickup failing a couple of years back and then one of the pots going, I've never done anything to it - it's a very reliable machine. Doesn't need adjusting or tweaking, it looks better the older it gets and it sounds just beautiful - I gigged with it Friday and two guys in the crowd remarked after how [i]clanky[/i] it sounded. I play it every day and have jammed/gigged with it maybe 500 times since I got it. With this in mind the only thing it lacks is a low-B...hopefully a Lakland DJ5 will be mine in the new year and my Precision can go off and have a well-earned semi-retirement. P

[quote name='metaltime' post='76227' date='Oct 18 2007, 10:28 PM']now we are talking i think of you compared your brain and einsteins there may be similarities warning warning im a 1/3 of a bottle o jack down may no longer b talking sense[/quote] One evening my drummer and me drank half a litre of Jack and then started on a bottle of Four Roses Bourbon. I have never been so drunk (or sick during the night for that matter), but I have to say, more credit to you Mr Metaltime...I did it on a Saturday, not a Thursday. P

My E was a bit dead, so I whipped off the whole set, put them into circles (ie in shipping condition) and put them on the top shelf with the cups and knives etc. Incidentally, if we're gonna start keeping records, they are D'Addarios EXL220s or 170s. My good lady hates me using the saucepans to eke(?) another week or so from them, so I just figured 'what the hell, they're going to be in the recycling end of next week anyway' and stuck em in. Corker. P

I put my old kernackered strings in the dishwasher this morning. Jeepers, this is much better than boiling [i]and[/i] they're lemony fresh! P

My band Last Three Standing make our live debut on 26/10/07 at The Catseye Studio, Lambourn Woodlands, Berkshire. It's a free event to promote the facility where we rehearse (our frontman co-owns the place) - if you want to come along, please let me know off list as numbers are limited. There'll be a few bands playing. Please visit [url="http://www.lastthreestanding.co.uk"]www.lastthreestanding.co.uk [/url] for the full skinny. Thanks P

I know this isn't musical, but got a beautiful black bodied Olympus OM1. It's trashed - much in the same way as an old peeling Fender Jazz - the brass was showing through the black finish, it's dinged and the seals needed replacing, but it's lovely. £40.00. A place in Reading had a double cutaway Gibson Les Paul junior on sale for £120.00 one time about five years ago. It was wrecked, but played great. I literally sprinted to the cashpoint but it was gone when I got back. Damn damn damn. P

[quote name='Buzz' post='71957' date='Oct 10 2007, 01:53 AM']Check NancyJohnson's most recent thread, he did his own banner: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6680"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6680[/url] Looks quite swish actually[/quote] I thank you. We're gigging 26/10/07 at Catseye Studios in leafy Lambourn Woodlands, Berkshire (where we rehearse). The banner (plus my Waterstone 12 and 79 Precision will be on show. P

[quote name='Hamster' post='70717' date='Oct 7 2007, 06:13 PM']I went to Dawsons in Reading last night to the free Fender clinic with Greg Koch and Reggie Hamilton. It was very hard to keep the plastic in my pocket after such an enjoyable free gig. Had a long chat with Reggie - such a nice guy. I liked his tribute bass, very easy to play, wide range of tones and a D tuner. I just made do with some strings and a signed CD from the master of gristle Hamster[/quote] Hamster Where do you live in the Runnymede? Windlesham born, raised in Egham (or Pooley Green to be more precise). Moved away about twenty years ago (along with Bill Bryson!). P

I got this link off a US site...someone selling a Chris Squire. I'm wondering something, I've played a few Ricky's in my time and never really fell in love with them, but the tone here is quite stunning. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0hrmaTuqUI"]Link[/url] Is this tone achievable on all 4000 series basses? P

Nope, all the amps were Rolands. I've actually got an Ashdown Mag and that sub-filter would probably have been a better description to be honest. P

I played a Highway One Jazz in Dawsons, Reading yesterday - it was set up like a dawg and the strings were way heavier than I usually use, but it was OK and I suppose reasonably good value. Something a bit weird though, it sounded like it was running through an octaver...this is the best way I can put it. I used to have an EBS pedal that reproduced the same note an octave down and this is kind of what it sounded like. I tried it through three amps (all Roland) and it was the same through all of them. I've owned an Aerodyne Jazz previously and my Waterstone 12 has two pickups, but neither of them produced this kind of growl. Played several Jazzes in the US last year and didn't hear it any of those, so I'm wondering what it was that was producing this sound. To be honest, I really liked it! P

Muzz Skillings was going to be a fireman before Living Colour got signed - on the Primer video the band (well, Glover and Calhoun) were ripping the piss out of him about the possibility of turning up to gigs in his FDNY gear, or leaving mid-show because there was a fire somewhere. All I know now is that he's playing rhythm guitar for a functions band in New York. I preferred Muzzy over Doug to be honest. I only saw Living Colour a couple of times - this really saddens me as they were my favourite band for a long, long time - I did however catch the Doug Wimbush clinic at the Bass Centre when it was over in Wapping. I actually took my wife with me (who came on as reserve when the guy I was supposed to be going with dropped out at the last minute) - she loved it and said it couldn't have been more entertaining. P [quote name='steve-soar' post='60894' date='Sep 15 2007, 05:32 PM']Didn't Muzz Skillings leave to be a fireman ? Saw them on the Vivid tour at Manchester Poly.[/quote]

One of our cats is called Scoop. Heh. P [attachment=2304:scoop.jpg] [quote name='Scoop' post='59630' date='Sep 13 2007, 01:22 AM']In decades past I was employed by their label to be their freelance marketing consultant - this may explain why they never made it huge - stunning band. Always have been, always will be. Sigh. And they're not even paying me to say it anymore.[/quote]

This has probably come up a ton of times before... I need a [b]stereo [/b]digital recorder [reasonably priced, simple to use, proven track-record] that I can just put into the middle of our rehearsal room and record jams for reference purposes. Simple. I need it to take a couple of microphones and have the ability to transfer tracks (in RAW/MP3/whatever file format) to a PC via USB. Just want it in stereo, no need to track lay or anything (we have a studio next door for that). We play pretty loud, so adjustable recording levels are a necessity. Don't need anything with all the bells and whistles...tuners, built in drum machines etc. I'd be grateful for a heads up. It used to be so easy when I was a kid when the cassette was king! P