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The other day i broke my set of in ears ( at work no music = very crap day ) so I figure get a cheap set to tide me over and order a decent set online

[url="http://www.ryman.co.uk/groov-e-metal-buds-stereo-earphones"]http://www.ryman.co....tereo-earphones[/url]

There brilliant for the price and made of metal I've not bothered replacing them ;-)

I was in there on Sunday evening with my guitarist lurking at the back As is our custom. Arrived mid set and left pretty much when the band was packing away some good as far as i could tell original's.

I remember one called at the workhouse ?? I also remember we thought the harmonies that were being pulled off were very tidy indeed. some respectable chops from the lead but rhythm guitarist could probably turn up a touch. All in all very tight .

However ... sunglasses indoors at night Is a sin even for a guitarist ;-)

I actually think the moot house might try and take the crown from the grey horse , we have enough "dining experiences" in the greater Kingston area and while the stage/ performance area may be nowhere near as good as the grey horse. From a punter perspective i always thought the grey horse was a bit of a sh*te pub with a good venue attached to it.

I live mere seconds from the old moot , and since they added Sierra Nevada to the draft its hard to say no to live music and great beer.

I'd be in there tomorrow if it wasn't the other half's birthday , we have dinner plans on the posher side of the river ;-) I've signed up my lot for the open Mic on a Thursday for a few week's we'll be crap but will hopefully have a laugh and it will help break the ice on new band jitters , you'll know us because of the singing drummer ;-) ( used to be the front man but only one who knew how)

Doest my status vintage P count ;-) she's a telebass but not as we know it

What an interesting thread I must have been busy at work to have missed this yesterday ;-). I have a completely stock 90's Korean Epi bolt on t-bird from before the Pro was a thing and I can say the sound I get out of it is , Is much less wooly but more wooden and more punchy, like the jazz tone on the pro recording ( I have very old round's on it which if one broke I would have to find second hand or settle for flats)

I will actually be doing some scratch recording on Thursday with it using a DI box straight into a very old digital multi tracker , nothing complex just a couple of bits for my covers band , to onboard a new guitarist so I'll upload and share with what I consider totally flat eq.

I think what defines a t-bird is the shape and style its essentially a twin humbuckered bass which there are thousands of variations of in every flavour, so pickups and tonality of wood will give differnt sounds and as there isnt a "Trademark sound / tone attributed to a tbird like a P or Rick the builder / designer can be a bit more flexible" .

I'll say one thing about tbirds is that they do not encourage static hand placement , weird to explain but on my P orJ basses my hand is glued to the front P or rear J pickup. On my tbird I move my hand and play all over the neck pickup with the same level of comfort to get a tone I feel more suitable for the song.

The sculpted ridge where the wings join the necked body can be as comfortable to me as floating on the E or resting on one of the pickups

Just an idea

I know a great female bass teacher in Ham if she expresses any love for our instrument of choice , however through Rockshool @ who do stuff at airplaystudios in sunbury and tiffins in kingston ( [url="http://www.britishschoolofrock.co.uk/where-we-are/"]http://www.britishsc...k/where-we-are/[/url]) which might be a great way to expose her to some strong rock female role model's as they do from 8 to 18 I know they use [url="http://drummingteacher.net/tutor/kirsty-martin/"]http://drummingteach.../kirsty-martin/[/url] .

Good luck and hopefully see you as a family unit in a few years in the grey horse or the moot house ;-)

perhaps we should start a Kingston basschat splinter group

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I've got one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVby-BPyrnE
An Akai unibass essentially its an [color=#333333][font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]octave up pedal with built in distortion ( roll your own ) and chord options ,[/size][/font][/color]

On its own it sounds a bit synthetic but that isn't what its designed for its for filling out the sound and it does wonders when the guitarist runs off up the dusty end and i've got to keep the whole song going without him .

I've actually started to use our rehearsal place's "free storage" [i]( unused room without carpet and soundproofing thats too small to use as a rehearsal space) [/i]for my trace 715 purely because lugging it in and out of the car boot was becoming an annoyance It's free and i feel fairly safe about leaving it there because its by far once of the cheapest rigs in the store room , lots of fancy JCM's and mesa guitar kitkeeping it warm overnight to attract prying hands.

At home I've got a Behringer 120 watt Alu coned kickback that does me fine for home practice it lives underneath my pc desk in our office net to the tower. I wonder if i'm going mad sometimes as the sound that comes out of it is rather pleasing and very clean and leaves me feeling a bit underwhealmed by the boom out of the trace.

If portability needs to be considered , i'd suggest either

https://www.hwaudio.co.uk/Product/Ultralite-Tanglewood-Guitar-Stand-UBTG1-p428622?gclid=CLfZnOTwtsUCFQn3wgodpRoANA

or this http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ultimate-gs55-compact-folding-guitar-stand/70544

If your travelling DI only to gigs surely you want a more portable offering than a full sized stand.

Free falling Tom Petty and the heart breakers.... please end now ... before i die of boredom ..

I suggested swapping it to good enough because at least that interesting

Looks of horror from the rest of the group.

I'm actually a bit in this position myself , i have a fantastic status that looks drop dead gorgeous I GAS'ed after very badly and is very special as my mrs bought it for me ... when push comes to shove and i'm loading the car to go rehearsal

The Epi Tbird goes in and the status stays at home , Im more at home on it I can make it generate the sound I'm looking for in each song we play its and old shoe , i know exactly what to expect from it and my fingers dont have to think.

Im bonded to my bass there are many like it but this one is mine.

Ha Ha reminds me of a few years ago , at a gig I was spotted by the best mate of an Ex , who decided ... she would essentially leap onto my lap without me noticing. The look from my Mrs who was sat on a sofa opposite could have melted the poor girl into goo.

Dina still hates that pub to this day.

No your not , its totally natural , Ive been caught Spamming F5 like a child on Christmas Eve on lots of orders im excited about ...

I have this for the PC , gift from a well meaning relative , its actually pretty good on my machine , and the practice studio its really good.#

Its improved my 6 string guitard skills , wouldnt suggest if you use a 5 string though

the xbox usb type cable as an added bonus works with all pc's as an audio interface with a bit of a driver tweak ;-)

Many years ago in my first youngsters band , playing the infamous rifleman ( now a Lebanese restaurant ) my still current guitarist and best mate
Came over with stage fright and decided to have a couple of pints of dutch courage pre gig - I understand there was some serious Puking 40 mins before the set.

The smallest bass I've ever used in anger , is an Aria Sb 400 which was medium scale ( think cliff burton's black Aria but the passive version). Photo's from that era have been Sanitised by the bad hair police, it was late in the 90's and i thought i was the front -man from jimmy eat world.

Size , or relative size , I'm a 6'4 Viking / hunish type and there's a reason i play a tbird , smaller things like Ibanez or modern things look like im wielding a child's toy .

To be honest i think airplay do it right , cheap and clean NO backline , unless you go ask and pay a tiny supplement ( 2 quid) covering the member of staff giving it a once over when it goes back , then when you return it they know who's buggered it .

I think we pay 8.75 an hour ;-)

In answer to the studios around Esher question , We rehearse here @ http://www.airplaystudios.co.uk/ which is pretty much Sunbury , its clean, the PA's are good they include 4 Mic's per room (shoddy mice stands ) . The bigger rooms have excellent Pa's and they guy who runs the place is a session drummer who set it up as a place to practice . Thus easy going and quite picky about the studio room kits , we use an electric one anyway.

The prices are tidy and parking ample and free. [b]They do not provide Amps/ backline, [/b]you can rent a less than fantastic rehearsal amp from the guy for 2 quid on top of your room charge, or do what i do and use the free storage to hide your Trace Elliott from the Mrs ;-).

unfortunately Im the kind of guy who rests his thumb on the rear PU on a P/ J or J ,or rear humbucker on my Tbird
I think this is why I've never really gotten on with pure P basses ...

The Pickup cover arrived ala ebay .... i think its a Jazz one because it seems a lot smaller than i was imagining , guess i have to wait till
i get home. my worry is that it wont bridge the entire split coil ...

Damn you , its ordered ;-) , the last time i played with bass with pickup covers on i found it very strange ... looks over comfort ;-)

The finish really does not photo well .... plugged in it really growl's ... I guess its been a very long time since I played a P split coil .. i'm tempted to take it rehearsal over the T-bird thursday ... Another idea was to make a black scratch plate up for it but i really like the play between the chrome and green.

Im thinking to track down a neck ashtray ... without having to order from Thomman.

[size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]So the inspiration for this -rebuild was a few months ago [color=#282828]in wunjo's on denmark street shopping for new toys .. when i spied An Aria ,CAT Pro 2 For the best part of 400 quid.

I was disgusted by the price but my first bass was one of these in red - and it has lived in a cupboard sans case for years.[/color][color=#282828]This beast is a composite bodied ( fancy way of saying chipboard i think) heavy and passive but had a pretty decent neck even after all this time it feels comfy in my hands.[/color]

[color=#282828]Years ago I brutally refinished it away from the stock sparkle red ( old photo excuse the quality )[/color][/font][/size]
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[center][size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#282828]Car body spray to a horrific purple/blue ([/color][color=#282828]i was 17 and it seemed dead cool .)[/color][/font][/size][/center]
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[center][size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]5 coats of Undercoat , 10 coats of top coat lots of cutting back because I'd never used nitrocellulose paints before
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[size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]I'd put the bridge ashtray on their as an afterthought but I think it looks great .. does anyone have a neck P ashtray going begging . Willing to put some money up for it ... or perhaps trade for a can of [color=#444444]R&F Nitrocellulose Lacquer (Clear Top Coat).[/color][/font][/size]

I've got one of these , folds down nice and small and with a budgie chord around the front to ensure no fall forwards.
Nothing moves at all i can go up and down curbs I mainly used it for my big old carpet covered trace elliot 7125 SMC
A 1 X 15 combi with tweeter's and expansion cab, It shifts that no problem.

Now it lives permanently in my car boot I've used it to move a washing machine and dishwasher ,
staff at curry's were not accomadating when i told them i wasnt parked 6 allotted spaces.

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001GU6FYI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00"]http://www.amazon.co...ailpage_o05_s00[/url]

*Edit* whoops somone already suggested this one

Rated for 90 kilo's So unless you have to move somthing more than that your golden

I've been in the process of trying to produce something like this except I've gone withe a P / J the body is finished without any mild road wearing/distressing my next challenge is to source A scratch plate as the the doer body is an old Aria CAT without one I believe i'm going to be crafting my own