Beer of the Bass

Yeah, the Highway One finish does tend to go glossy in the places your clothing rubs it, so I'd think it would buff to a semi-gloss finish quite easily. When I had mine, I always wondered whether someone could spray a nitro clearcoat over it and buff that to produce something more like the traditional Fender finishes.

It's a shame the five-string only comes in black, otherwise I'd be a bit tempted. They'd be a great candidate for a DIY stingray/sabre type preamp too,

As an alternative suggestion, if you want to try a non-piezo contact pickup, the AKG C411 is well worth a look and is a lot cheaper than the Ehrlund. It's a condensor contact mic, which needs a mic preamp, but I've found mine very useful when I want a more natural sound than a bridge piezo, especially as my current project involves a lot of arco playing. [url="http://www.dv247.com/microphones/akg-c411pp--3323"]http://www.dv247.com/microphones/akg-c411pp--3323[/url]

If you're using alcohol to clean strings, Isopropyl Alcohol is a bit more pleasant to use than meths, as meths leaves a nasty smelling residue after the alcohol has evaporated (the stuff they add to make it undrinkable).

It's an interesting point, that the discipline of being a hired gun means that we don't know what Jamerson would sound like doing his own thing. Though I reckon one of the things which made Led Zep a bit more interesting than your average rock band was that JPJ and Jimmy Page had done several years of pop sessions, so had some of that discipline, versatility, and JPJ's killer arranging skills to boot. I think this enabled them to have a bit more variety in their music than a younger band fresh out of school would have had.

I don't bother with it myself, but you can set eBay to save your regular searches and send notifications of any matching results. Some people find it useful. If it's all such a waste of time, what are you even doing reading this thread?

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1345452621' post='1777541'] [size=3][font=Verdana][color=#000000]As for adapting programmes and software to recognise common words, and send flag messages etc, Christ, do we really need to waste time doing something I assumed, wrongly, could be done by the human brain, by the individual.[/color][/font][/size] [/quote] Just a suggestion, and no different to the way many people use the search functions on eBay, for example. Why the condescension?

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1345448033' post='1777473'] Who cares. Carol Kaye wrote them both. [/quote] Led Zepellin could probably have taught Ms Kaye a thing or two about claiming credit for other peoples work, given that on Led Zep II alone, they pinched one Muddy Waters song, one Howlin' Wolf song and one Willie Dixon song without crediting them!

I think it's important to remember that JPJ wouldn't have come up with a line like that if he hadn't been listening to guys like Jamerson. Standing on the shoulders of giants, and all that...

It's this bass; [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/137533-swamp-ash-5-string/page__p__1337575__hl__swamp%20ash__fromsearch__1#entry1337575"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/137533-swamp-ash-5-string[/url] with Ernie Ball flatwounds on, going through an 80's Locobox chorus, DI'd to FOH.

We played a gig in Edinburgh's Wee Red bar on Thursday and a friend filmed parts of it. Here's one of the tunes; I'm pleased with the overall sound, cheesy chorus pedal and all, though we should maybe move about a bit more. Anyway, here it is; [url="http://vimeo.com/47789205"]http://vimeo.com/47789205[/url]

I like the Miles Davis Isle of Wight set, though it's not my favourite Miles performance from that era. The stuff on the "Live Evil" album from around the same time is fantastic. It seems like the IOW that year was particularly fraught and chaotic, which might have led to patchy performances from many of the bands present. I had honestly never associated early 70's Miles Davis with some of the overly showy and technical jazz/rock fusion which came later, as his sets always came across as being satisfyingly loose and messy. I can totally get that it's not everybody's thing though.

I wonder if it would be possible to introduce a system where users could sign up to receive email notifications when a thread with certain keywords in the title is posted in the For Sale section? If the forum software could allow for this, it would acheive more or less what the OP is talking about without anyone having to follow arbitrary rules.

It seems weird, but pickups with a break in the coil (i.e reading infinite on the ohm-meter) can still produce a small amount of output sometimes, along with a lot of hum. I think it's due to the capacitance between the windings, where the broken coil behaves like a coil with a capacitor in series, giving an infinite DC resistance reading and a very low output. I have had this happen to a pickup before.

I wonder if this idea might have come about due to the design quirks of guitar amps? On amps which use a Fender or Marshall type tone stack, the midrange control affects the attenuation across all frequencies, not just the midrange, so turning the mid knob up will indeed give you a few dB more gain overall. This might be why the idea that "more mids = more distortion" is specifically a guitarist thing.

I've no BMW experience (my bass is worth several times more than the last car I owned!), but if it's a saloon it can be impossible to get the bass in from the back, though you can usually recline the front seat right back and put the bass upside-down in the passenger seat, with the scroll in the footwell and the heel resting on the seat. You may need to remove the headrest from the passenger seat to do this. If you're renting, almost any hatchback will work - I've had mine in a Ford Ka and a Nissan Micra among others. In some of the tiny cars, getting to the handbrake can be a little awkward if you have the neck between the front seats, but not impossible.

Selmer T&B heads can sound good for bass if you like an old-school sound, so I'd go with that option. Guitar speakers (or even older "bass" speakers) for bass can be risky, especially in an open-backed cab, but if your G12H cab is sealed then you might get away with running bass through it at home volumes if you don't crank it to the point where the speakers start to complain. The safest option would be to get hold of a dedicated bass cabinet and run it with the Selmer, or even from the amp section of the Vox. It needn't be a big cab for home recording, either.

I didn't catch the radio program, but I found a copy of Quirk Out on a record stall a couple of weeks ago, and I'm getting really into it. It's the combination of humour with the more out-there elements that does it for me. Mad stuff!

I voted for the first option, but it should really be "I find that playing music helps me to be a better musician". I started playing guitar at about 8, with classical lessons, then got into electric and double bass in my teens. I've always played some guitar at home, but until recently have only played bass in bands, never guitar. Now that I have a "guitar" band on the go alongside my "bass" projects, I find I'm reasonably competent in various rhythm styles but struggle to come up with leads. This is not really a problem in my band, as we've got trumpet and fiddle players covering a lot of the melody lines, but it might be a by-product of thinking like a bassist. Playing guitar in a band still helps me to develop a feel for band arrangements, and it's interesting hearing what a different bassist does in a band context.

I spotted this on Gumtree, don't have the cash myself but it could be a good deal for someone. I think these are pretty much a Bassman 100 with a different preamp, so would be an excellent bass amp (the speakers, less so). [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/old-fender-p100-pa-system--amplifier-and-two-speakers/108614227"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/old-fender-p100-pa-system--amplifier-and-two-speakers/108614227[/url]

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1344558914' post='1766550'] BotB Did I spot you at the Scottish Indie Music Label Fair last week? I noticed one of your bands CD's for sale at the event. [/quote] That's odd, as we weren't there. I wonder how our CD got there?

Just wondering, were the new ones the same nominal value as the old ones, and did you measure the value of the old ones?

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