Doctor J

The LE model has a two band pre amp. I've had a couple of three-band vari-mid models over the years and never really liked them. The AFR picks came in at that poimt too.They came in around 91, I think.

An old Ibanez SR800LE with Lo-Z pickups. There's a beauty on ebay but it's priced just a bit too high and the lad won't play ball.

A snapshot from earlier in the year

Ian Brown on his first tour after Unfinished Monkey Business came out. He had about 35 minutes of material and tried to make a 90 minute set out of it. It was so bad he played a woegeous cover of Thriller twice. Genuinely embarassingly poor, embarassed for him, his band, his family, the promoter and embarassed I had paid into it.

At a festival about ten years ago, I had some time to kill, nothing on the lineup at that time appealed to me so I wandered into the nearest tent to wait for a rain shower to pass over and was completely blown away by Mull Historical Society. I thought they were fantastic, having been put off by the name. Another terrible name band, Goatwhore - yes, that's right. They were support at a gig a few years ago and I was again completely put off by the name, had never heard them, but they have been one of my favourite metal bands ever since. Still think the name is utterly abysmal, all the same.

[quote name='Iain' timestamp='1448092845' post='2912949'] Loving that last one you made! J-P-J pickups are interesting - vol-vol-vol-tone controls? [/quote] Thanks. No, I have an EMG BTC preamp in there. It's Vol-Blend-Bass-Treble. The neck J and P go to a small three-way toggle switch under the volume control and the output of that goes to the blend pot - the bridge J is on the other side of the blend.

I love that Hamer, that's the 2Tek bridge? Here are mine. First, my beloved old ESP. Many have tried and failed and this is still top dog. Charvel JP. I got this in a trade for a couple of pedals and a set of tuners. It needed a bit of work but it's a beast now. And I made this one, one piece ash body with a mighty-mite neck. It's a lovely player.

Saw Chic in a big top in Limerick on Tuesday, amazing gig. They've probably got the best set list out there. Since the last time they toured here their profile has gone up quite a lot, so this is the last reasonably small venue they play and it was nice to get in early and get right up the front, get the sound straight from the amps on stage. Jerry Barnes is one hell of a player and pulls some of the most entertaining faces you'll see on a stage.

They're Gotoh GB11W tuners. Lovely collection of ESPs there, the guitars too. I've had an ESP J since the early 90's. Many have come and go in that time, the likes of Fender, Sadowsky and their ilk, but the ESP is still the best J bass I've ever played.

Just bear in mind that they're nothing to do with the old VHT, just a Chinese company who bought the rights to the VHT name from Stephen Fryette a couple of years ago and make ultra cheap amplification like Behringer and that ilk. All "proper" VHT amps are now sold under the name Fryette.

[quote]I may have stayed with the guys and put a little more in to the band if I knew I was getting a bit more out. Does that sound awfully selfish?[/quote] When you put it like that, it does, a bit. You left for the right reasons, you shouldn't have stayed for the wrong ones.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1341766120' post='1723778'] Never heard this before! Is that just with this particular head or what? [/quote]Ohms law. http://physics.bu.edu/py106/notes/Circuits.html [url="http://www.bcae1.com/spkrmlti.htm"]http://www.bcae1.com/spkrmlti.htm[/url]

Beautiful bass. What the hell is going on with the carpets there though?

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1340568800' post='1706435'] Right, it's like this... You can add cabs until you hit the minimum impedance figure. Two 8 ohm cabs equal a 4 ohm load. So, using the MAG as an example, you can run two 8 ohm cabs on the amp and you will get the maximum volume that the amp can produce. If you go below 4 ohms (so adding a third cab or using an 8 ohm and a 4 ohm cab at the same time) then you're probably headed for an expensive repair bill. How's that? [/quote]It's not quite that simple. It all depends on how you connect the cabs to the head. If the cabs are connected in parallel - ie each cabs is plugged into each separate output of your Ashdown amp, then the ohm rating is halved - ie two 8 ohm cabs will result in a resistance of four ohms which is your ultimate goal to get the best out of your amp. However, if you connect in serial - ie the second cab plugged into the first cab which is plugged into the head - then you double the resistance, meaning two 8 ohm cabs will combine to make a 16 ohm load.

That looks amazing. Great work.

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' timestamp='1341486516' post='1719810'] Hear hear ... some great tracks: Never Say Die Hard Road Air Dance and the best track on the album ... Over To You. Superb song. [/quote]Junior's Eyes and Johnny Blade make it for me. I think it's a great album, personally. Technical Ecstacy is class too, no doubt about it.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1341451936' post='1719373'] Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but unfortunately yours, IMHO, is wrong ;-)) Mob Rules is unmistakeably Sabbath and 5star quality Sabbath at that. Plus, the expanded edition contains a live disc containing NIB which Dio does proper justice to! It's like saying everything Genesis did after Gabriel left was sh*te, which is complete bollocks. [/quote]Or Iron Maiden after Dennis Stratton, the Beatles after Pete Best, AC/DC after Mark Evans. Every band goes through... ahum... Changes, frequently for the best. To me, Faith No More lost a lof of their charm once Chuck Mosely was gone but seemingly most people consider the Patton-era (even that after Jim Martin left) to be the definative FNM. I don't get that but people are people. To ignore the post-Ozzy material is to wilfully turn your back on some truly amazing music and for what purpose?

The three Dio albums are top quality, Dehumanizer being my preferred one but owning all three of them should be compulsory by law. The album they did as Heaven and Hell is also definitely worth hearing. It's a grower. It has it's critics but Born Again is a belter, I think, if you can handle the very 80's production. Same goes for Seventh Star, there are some great songs but it's very definitely of its time. The Eternal Idol is a personal favourite, the title track in particular is probably the heaviest thing Iommi ever did. There's a deluxe version of it available now which has the Ray Gillen version for the second disc (essentially Tony Martin came in at the last minute and replaced Ray's takes) and Ray had one of the finest voices you'll ever hear. Headless Cross is ok, nothing spectacular but I know a lot of people who rave about it. The stretch from Tyr to Forbidden is the era I find hardest to get into. Forbidden is utter crap, strike that off the list right now. I would take the Iommi-Hughes albums first before that era of Sabbath. Fused is a rocking album, well worth checking out.

The DVD is included with the 25th anniversary edition of the Graceland CD, just watched it last week myself.

Maple is and always will be the classic Streamer, but there is no harm in changing it up every now and then to give the current generation of Streamers their own identity.

Well done, that's great news

Sweet. I used to have one just like that, it was a superb bass.

[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1341148138' post='1714274'] [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170866561910?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649"]http://www.ebay.co.u...984.m1439.l2649[/url] Impulse buy.. now I just need the spandex leggings, cowboy boots and wig. Oh lordy... [/quote]I hope you're very, very tall

Agreed. The matching headstock is what makes it all work. A matching neck might be too Easter Bunny, though

Was it here or TB where some fella was complaining that shop shop had made sh*te of his wheel and chipped paint under it during a setup? It's easy to botch both designs in the wrong hand, but the point is this thing is pink and I like it!