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True but maybe he lives miles and miles away from the supplier and had little choice I still say chuck it back

Throw it back, these faults would not be okay on a squier let alone a premium us made item

Maybe I'm being dumb but I couldnt find much bass content on that link apart from the spector/dingwall review and a bit about Doug Wimbish ? I'm a web programmer and I didnt think it was all that bad design-wise - perhaps a little too columnar. Id have liked to see it accessed via cascading menus to make it less busy. Audio coming out of your browser is a big problem for those of us who are reading at lunchtimes at work. Disturbs the other sheep - perhaps your developers could fix this to mute by default? @Dood

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1336416419' post='1645368'] I think the £1500+ instrument reviews is more about letting people know what is out there, than actually telling them everything there is to know about a bass. And as I said before pretty much everyone can find out about all the sub £500 basses with a trip to their local musical instrument emporium. [/quote] Those of us who have one with a reasonable range , that is .... Sub £500 (new or used) is of interest to me. If it comes to me in the form of a magazine that helps me enormously as I have an active toddler and a disabled partner, going into a city isn't an option due to time constraints and those commitments. I don't particularly want to read reviews of £1500 basses as I will never buy one . I don't mind anyone else reading it tho. A good mix is what I would like to see, then I might restart my sub

Yes to all. I have a little behringer 8 channel model that I use to combine drum machine, mp3 and bass into headphones or amp. It has volumes for each channel and various types of input socket . It was about £90 new Thumbs up Edit : post above jogged my memory - its a xenyx 802 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/802.aspx

Try "tux guitar" which allows you to open guitar pro files, write your own, and is totally free

Try PMing matte_black - he made some split coil humbuckers for me.

Cij 62 reissue jazz. It does it all - pickups were very noisy but I swapped them for splitcoil j models made by matte_black and it's a lot better Vintage stingray clone, the yellow paint/stain has faded terribly and the neck is a little wide. Id like a coil tap. Otherwise it's fine

Didnt Michelle Shocked used to do this ? Perhaps one of her songs.

He's coming round tomorrow to plaster our bedroom and ensuite ceiling (we have an artex eradication programme going on) so I'll haev a longer chat with him and see how it goes.

I have a hartke hydride 2 x 10 combo . Thinking of suggesting gnr patience (he uploaded a cover to YouTube) and I have a bass tab to learn from, and also acoustic 'midnight hour' because I can play it now. Practicetime is going to be a challenge due to my family commitments, but luckily my partner and his wife get on and kids are similar ages. I don't know if I have a singing voice - I suspect not.

I thnk, to be honest, that I am trying to talk myself out of it. I've played with other people once before, many years ago, and it was a disaster zone. I know I will feel [b]very[/b] exposed - I'm at that "can hear riffs that I cant quite play yet" stage and I feel very awkward about it. I do rewite basslines in my head when I hear songs, and I do mentally put something over drums that I hear about the place, or in my head so I know I can do better than I can do now. Plasterer guy wants to "get back into gigging". I did manage to do a creditable version on bass of "stand by me" in a lesson with a teacher playing the guitar line, but I had no idea where my timing was, or rather, the notes were in the right-ish places musically but I had no idea where the beat was.

I have an offer to form an acoustic duo. My plasterer writes his own material and is a much, much better player than me. He's played in bands for years and I'm very much a learner who gets little to no time to practise. There is, as observed on another thread , nowhere to hide in a duo I dont want to play acoustic bass but maybe I can use a quiet jazz bass

I swap between reverse tuners on my jazz and normal tuners on my ibanex and also my ray copy without any difficulty. I dont think you'll find it that much of a problem.

Damn, I missed this.

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1334965801' post='1624303'] I remember a lot of pain and effort, at the end of which I could strum along to "She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes". You tell kids today that, they won't believe you. [/quote] Luxury!

just lower the neck pickup a bit, or raise teh bridge if you can. Its quite normal.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1332846985' post='1593803'] [/quote] I'm with him - they're cheap and cheerful and work well. Last for ages too.

Put me on the list please ? Thanks

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' timestamp='1334221706' post='1612615'] http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17673948 Be interesting to see how U.S. and U.K. copyright laws work in this instance. I think that the damages being sought by the yanks are optimistic to say the least. [/quote] They always are, it's just a shot across the bows to encourage negotiation and early settlement rather than actual court time