MoonBassAlpha

I'm not allowed Beefheart or the Residents on in the house, but we do agree on most jazz, latin and Joni. She's largely of the opinion that she's seen my band before and doesn't need to se us again (maybe until we write some new stuff).

Looks like a Gordon-Smith!

I just bought the above from 179westwood29 (Andy) of this parish hoping it would be useful for guitar as well as bass. Used it for guitar for practice and a gig last week (my guitarist doesn't own a giggable amp!) and he was delighted th the sound, and I have to say it is rather nice. It's nicely luggable too in its little fur lined bag, though the cab with the EV speaker made up for it, weight-wise. The eq is subtle and interactive, as simple old valve designs often are and will take some getting used to after using eqs where each control actually does what you think it is going to do! Will try using it for bass next practice, but suspect it might come up a bit short on volume, even in my tiny room.

Just bought a dinky little Ashdown CTM15 from Andy, absolutely could not have been better, swift comms and delivery. I would have no hesitation dealing with him again. Cheers Jules

Have you been a bit cheeky with the badges?

Yeah, just whack it up! The light only comes on to tell you you're getting away from clean territory - nothing's going to get damaged. I think the .2 version of the Shuttles was meant to have more drive available than the original.

Good detective skills, no, sharing a stool with a naked drummer is a most unsavoury thought. I think our guy will bring his own rather than suffer that option...

I know it's an unfashionable point of view, but our brothers in riddim can be a little overlooked sometimes. Now, this may be tongue in cheek, but this is from a website of a band we're supporting soon, band name removed: [color=#141823][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]****** ****** is an exciting 4-piece indie/rock originals band, comprising of catchy lyrics, beautifully powerful female voc[/font][/color][color=#141823][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]als, thrilling guitar, pumping basslines and a drummer. [/font][/color] [color=#141823][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Couldn't they have thought of [i]anything [/i]nice to say about him? [/font][/color]

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1435582535' post='2810222'] Is the auto tune for effect ? [/quote] Necessity.

Sounds fine through my system - quite a warm bd sound

Love the way he ducks the high notes, but to be fair, Freddy did too, live.

You could really tell she wasn't miming!

Great guitar sound, I can't imagine a better one for this type of music.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1435261516' post='2807153'] I depped for a gig. The guys were used to a 'proper' bass. Raised an eyebrow when I pulled a sparkly orange bongo out of the case [/quote] You forgot your bass then?

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1434909590' post='2803778'] I will say I hate talking between songs and bands should just get on with it sometimes! [/quote] aHA! You are shouty woman and I claim my £5!

Some of you must have gone through the whole Pink Floyd songbook to come up with these! I gave up at Chapter 24

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1434360778' post='2798829'] The prototype Barefaced guitar cab is sitting here, I just need to finish off the electronics and fine tune a few other details... [/quote] Ooh!, any teasy details? Form factor, size, weight? [b][i]anything[/i][/b] to further whet our appetites!

Can you be sure the rod has actually snapped? it could be the nut stripping its thread and making a loud click as its tension is released. Could be worth just trying a replacement nut. I'm not sure if this is true, but I think I read that the nuts are made of softer material than the rod, so if it strips, you can replace the nut, not the rod. Good luck with this.

Had to do a spot at a charity do yesterday that our drummer cried off in the morning (he doesn't miss gigs so must have been very poorly) so we re-jigged to just bass and acoustic. It went ok, but I'd forgotten how free and loose with timing my guitarist/singer is when left to his own devices. Can't say I really enjoyed it, though I could hear my singing better and it sounded (to me!) better than usual.

Heat up the brown tape with a hairdryer and gently peel it off. Usually works ok.

I've just used the drum parts from multi-track recordings to play along with in the absence on our drummer. Works a lot better than a metronome or drum machine.

I made a lash-up for guitar using a small speaker attached to the head of the guitar running from the speaker out on the amp. It worked brilliantly, but the little speaker wasn't up to it power-wise, and eventually fizzled out. Great fun to play though!

[quote name='ColinB' timestamp='1433699939' post='2793207'] Nope. Just listened to it again and (in my opinion) it's absolute pants. Not a single redeeming feature.... and deserves an entry into the 'crap lyrics' thread for the bit about needing a small vacation - but it sure looks like rain - and if it snows the line down south will never stand the strain. Turgid. [/quote] I don't know what sort of lyrics you would expect from a song about a lineman who was in Witchita, but they seem perfectly reasonable to me, they even rhyme! Gotta love the twangy (baritone?) guitar that sounds like it was played through a transistor radio, and a nice drum groove in the playout.