NancyJohnson

I am at a loss why more manufacturers don't offer a one box power solution. So many of us run these floorboards full of effects and I'm just horrified when I see people plugging these into the front of an amp. I gigged at The Star in Guildford a few years back, was running a rack (Sansamp RBI/Matrix set up) into my old Hartke kit (115/210); all the bands were using my backline and generally the comments were positive - except one. Another bass player was using a Rickenbacker through about six stompboxes which he insisted on running through the RBI. so he was just piling his dirt and tone through the dirt and tone the RBI was already providing. I remember trying to say he should just try and eliminate the fuzz from his signal source as the Sansamp would cover this, but no. Ended up with him telling me my set up sounded terrible. Err, no.

My wife is asking what I want for my birthday and I'm again looking at dipping my toe into the EUB field. I'll profess that while I've been playing regular basses for 30+ years, I've only played double basses/EUBs maybe twice in that period(!), but like to think I made a decent fist of it (I got a small round of applause in a bar in Budapest). Whether they're decent or not, I do like the design of the NS WAV and NXT basses, and of course, why would I bother with a four string when budget either way allows for a five? So, the WAV5 or the NXT5a. Looking at the product descriptions, they look very similar although the NXT has a dual truss rod, an active electronics circuit but weighs 800g more. I assume the WAV is made in the far east and the CR is from the Czech Republic (similar to the Legend and CR Spector basses). I'm fortunate enough to be in the position where I could go for either, but I do like to have nice stuff and I know if I got the WAV I'd be questioning why I didn't go the extra ££ and get the NXT. I'm just trying to justify to myself that the extra ££ is worth it, or whether (for instance) it would be better to get the WAV and maybe use the difference (c.£600) on buying a second Darkglass 1x12. Oh the dilemma. Anyone got experience of both?

I'm fairly certain I want to go this route at some point...

You could use a powered cab; I have one up in the sale section (also has a mini stand to get it up to ear level).

Hubba bubba.

I've seen photos of this configuration...I think I have some on my computer. No idea whether the neck pocket matches. IMO, a Status Graphite Stingray neck would arguably look nicer on a black Jazz bass.

My first bass was a white/cream Arbiter SG thing, £30 loan from my late father. I sold it for a small profit to this hippie bloke and moved on to a Columbus Jazz Bass copy. I honestly no idea where it came from.

Where does 'back in the day' fit in?

Back then? We're not talking the 1940s. The t-shirt I'm currently wearing pre-dates my NR purchase!

The Sweet. Specifically, Sweet F*nny Adams, Desolation Boulevard and the rebooted Strung Up album.

The NR Thunderbirds are now listed on the Andertons site for £1,650.00, so more than double what I paid for my first run NRs about nine years ago. I'll pass this time around.

'The bottle stopper' With so many people suffering from this form of arthritis, you'd think that procedures would become a little less arcane...my wife commented once something along the lines of, 'well, can't they just take the bone out and put another (metallic) cuboid thing in there?' It's a great idea, but you have to consider that a piece of titanium will just wear down the bones going into it. It's amazing how failure of such a small piece of one's body can be so debilitating.

I've gone from running biggish rack systems/dual cabinet set ups to having a desire for small set ups. All my front end tone comes off either the Dug Pinnick or Geddy Lee Sansamps, so I just want to amplify that signal as purely as possible. I can see the allure of racked gear, but I don't want to go back to that; I genuinely like the idea of the Demeter Minnie and a Sansamp.

Bwahaha. Err, nope. In most cases, in the majority of cases, the sound guy has never heard a note you've played and has little idea what you're supposed to sound like as a unit. Be nice to the sound guy, yes, but beyond that? Nah. Being nice to the sound guy is akin to not sending your main course back to the kitchen.

Haven't had my trapeziods removed, but suspect it's coming, I suppose come the time, it's just a case of deciding which process is better (the rolled up tendon or the bottle stopper/ball joint method). To be honest, I've seen some horrific stuff online (people in persistent pain etc.) and I believe that when it's time to have the op, I suspect I'll park bass playing for good; that said, I do wonder at the age we live in, wherein a rolled up tendon can be used to replace a dice shape bone. Turmeric helps as an anti-inflammatory - I don't take it daily because the pain isn't there all the time. I also take glucosamine sulphate occasionally which purports to be good for the cartledge generally. Oh the pain of getting old. Well, older.

They were about ten minutes from me, too.

I read that thread about an hour ago! Nobody seems to carry Demeter stuff, so I reckon it might be a case if going direct to James D. to see what he can do.

I am getting a bit moist about the Demeter Minnie 800D. As I've mentioned elsewhere, we seem to buy these amps and just try and set things flat(tish) to accommodate stuff we either stick in the front or just utilise the effects return. I honestly don't need the preshape gubbins, I just use the Sansamps to create my tone. Right, now to find out who sells these.

It was 'Dear God' that got the American's panties in a twist.

I saw the Van Halen a couple of times early on (Rainbow, Finsbury Park) and then again at Donington in 1984. Obviously, it was the Dave'n'Eddie show, but Michael Anthony always struck me as a square peg in a round hole. That he was also disrespectful of DLR was just odd, given that it was Roth (coming from an affluent Pasadena family) was effectively the driving force of Anthony's mealticket out of cover band mediocrity and baseball. Perhaps (as he was a salaried member), DLR and da-brudders just saw him as someone non-threatening. I suppose all my rawk brethren considered him to be wholly underwhelming in the band too; don't know what they would have sounded with Billy Sheehan, for instance.

'Look at me, I love Jack! I'd have it on me fecking cornflakes, me!' The obsession with bourbon is about as 80s as the pointy basses here. Oh, and I can't stand Michael Anthony either; he's like the 80s metal equivalent of Adam Clayton.

You know what? Nah.

The Alverez Dana Scoop? Oh, the horror.