Dan Dare

Just looking at the Marketplace. Does anyone really buy used strings (tastefully garnished with bits of skin, dried sweat, bogies, etc)? Ho hum.

[quote name='DorsetBlue' timestamp='1481806488' post='3195292'] Well you could be sneaky. Buy the Squire or Encore (or Thomann) guitar, check it over to ensure it is fine and then take it apart. Then reveal parts to daughter and put it back together again, making improvements (cavity screening etc) as you go. You then have known quality parts but still have the custom built feel. [/quote] That is a smart idea and you know you'll get something that does the job.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1481705191' post='3194355'] It's Glockenklang... it'll be awesome. [/quote] Did you mean expensive?

Pointless to get worked up about this. Magnetic fields do not run in a straight line vertically from the pole piece. They're more doughnut shaped. As long as the string is there or thereabouts over the pole pieces, it will be fine

Most combos have a preamp out, so you could add a power amp and cab.

Jack's Instrument Services in Manchester. They're just about to make me a p/g for exactly the bass you have. Made me one for a P bass recently. Nice job and not that expensive. Google will find them.

Yep. Gotta be an Icepower 700ASC. Everyone - MESA, Genzler, Aguilar, etc - uses ICE modules. Bloody Bang & Olufsen won't sell them to end users, only to OEM manufacturers. A piece of p*ss to build into an amp - make 8 connections and mount the module in a hobby/project case (£40 on eBay), add a decent pre-amp and bingo. But no, us punters have to pay £700 plus to one of the afore-mentioned for the privilege. Hi-fi world is even worse. Plenty of manufacturers put B&O modules in a pretty case, add a few connectors and a pretty blue LED and sell them for thousands. It's rip off city.

A pal of mine lent a double bass to a visiting (male) bass player from France and the bastard sold it and did a runner with the money. True story.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1481528895' post='3192866'] But did he play 4 hour bar gigs for nowt? [/quote] Probably did in the early days...

Here's a revolutionary idea for y'all. Consider reading notation as well as tab. Woooah, yes I know it's a bit out there, but it will save these tedious arguments about which is better/quicker/yada yada. They both have their uses and if you can do both, you're covered every time. Now, what was so difficult about that?

Need to try it and see. Could work, especially if you don't need massive volume. Use a decent preamp.

Steamhamster?

Creek T43

You need to make it clear that any damage must be paid for.

Bass gear is solid, British kit, maybe a bit uninspired and tends to be heavy, but well made and reliable. Their guitar amps - what they're really known for - are excellent. Good value for money.

It's his venue. he can book who he likes and for whatever reason he likes. I'd ask straight if you were too loud (for his taste, not the band's), apologise if he says you were and ask if you can try again.

People who play stupidly loud at rehearsals are either dick waving or trying to conceal the fact that they're making cock-ups all over the place. if they won't stop it when asked reasonably , walk. No point in working with idiots, especially deaf ones.

Yeah, best of luck with it. Is that a Volvo Amazon on your posts? Lovely cars.

Someone probably spilled a drink on it, hence the steam :-)

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1481038917' post='3189212'] I've thought about making a beveled/angled something to place on top of my subs so it's impossible to place cups on top of them, never got to do it but it comes to my mind every other gig. Only times i've got really upset while playing was when a punter (and even staff members) rebember to place drinks on top of my amp, usually they get the hint after they see my furious face looking at them... i'm a bit OCD with my gear... maybe more than a bit... [/quote] Ah, drinks on gear. My favourite. I wouldn't say it's OCD to worry about it at all. The subs for my PA are a magnet for glasses. I explain to peeps that the power amps are built in to them and that if the drink goes over, the fans will suck it inside and wreck them (at £3k a pop, not fun) and they just look at me as if I'm mad.

Mesa. A pal uses one with his 70s P bass and the sound is spot on.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1480887183' post='3187909'] I'd love to see some of the classical musos I know trying to cope with an authentic period 17th or 18th C classical music audience (to match their authentic period instruments). The ones where they'd cheer during bits which they liked (the equivalent to the round of applause 8 bars in to a hit on a live album when the audience suddenly recognise their fave tune, or after the lead guitarist does a blistering solo), make the orchestra play their good bits again, often in the middle of a piece, or call out in the concert for the orchestra to play some hits and oldies that they knew. [/quote] hence the old joke - That Pavarotti. Great singer, but a bit precious. Doesn't like it when you try to join in.

La Bella 760FL the closest to 40-100 Chromes, I think. The gauges are almost identical. Thomastiks too supple in my experience. The .70 A string is just too soft (to get the octave accurate, you need to push the saddle waaaay forward). Shame, because they sound great. I replaced the A on my set with a Chrome in .80. It's almost as good sounding as the E, D and G, but not quite (although better than the soggy Thomsatik A, which sounded a bit limp to my ears).

Above the 12th fret? It's a bass, for heaven's sake, man. Get a grip...