steve-soar

Great stuff Steve, what "workhorse" 5er do you have in mind?

[quote name='steve-soar' post='441917' date='Mar 22 2009, 06:53 PM']I've always liked the look of them. What does 6 position mean and what strings do they use, with the extender?[/quote]Just checked site.

I've always liked the look of them. What does 6 position mean and what strings do they use, with the extender?

Yep, now go and buy that extension cab and be loud and proud.

When I first started, I was scared to use my little finger, as it was uncontrollable and uncomfortable but I'm glad I peresivered. How do you use your plucking fingers, or do you use a plec? Keep up the hard work...next step, "Music Theory"

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The Jazz is typically jazz-sounding, detailed, plenty of growl - completely hum-free - sounds great recorded (especially with a bit of compression) but the E and G are a bit hotter than A and D, and it seems to 'disappear' a bit on stage.. I had the same problem with my Jazz, so I put some EMG J pups in. They have radiused blades as oppossed to flat pole pieces and as such, pick up the A and D much better, giving you a much more even output, instead of the classic Fender "fade" of the middle strings.

Nicest looking basses on Basschat. Except for mine.

Best SVT II I've ever seen.

Stunning. Should be all black.

Some great playing there, I'll watch out for him.

[quote name='ped' post='437539' date='Mar 17 2009, 04:57 PM']yeah having the EQ flat is a must IMO because all the EQ settings are extreme. I haven't heard one pair of cans reproduce most bass heavy records without distortion on the 'rock' setting. Even so, after all the evolutions the iPod has had, I don't know what they haven't developed a user programmable EQ... or have they? I have only had a 4th gen iPod Video and an iPhone...[/quote]Too much bass ruins things. (Thinks about what he just said and hides).

[quote name='coasterbass' post='438253' date='Mar 18 2009, 01:44 PM']I think you select your lefty/rightyness at a sublimal level. Like many here I play cricket/gold righty. I hold my knife and fork righty. Yet I never considered playing bass righty. I've thought about this before and i attribute it back to those prepubescent days of playing air-guitar in my bedroom. I played air-guitar lefty - no rhyme nor reason for it. I was a lefty air-guitarist and it stuck from there. To really make the point, my first bass was righty (borrowed from the bands old bassist who wanted to play lead guitar) and he taught me the basics righthanded. Yet I still flipped it over and played 'the wrong way'.[/quote]PLUS ONE BILLION!!!!! See you, that's me, that is.

Wenge, I JUST LOVE SAYING IT. Beautiful bass.

The Wife gave me a pair of beyerdynamic DTX 50's for Xmas, they rock. I have the eq flat on my ipod and they're grat from low to high.

Me likey a lot.

[quote name='YouMa' post='434771' date='Mar 14 2009, 06:33 PM']No he only had a daughter and she is a phtographer,i assume you were trying to make a joke?[/quote]I was recording in 1987 in macclesfield, at a place called "The Cottage". The engineer was a guy called Roger Bowden and he was married to Ian Curtis's widow Debbie. Their daughter was only small, back then and was doing our heads in playing the theme from "Thomas the Tank Engine" over and over again. She was however the spit of him, very disturbing. After the first day of recording, we stayed in a lovely house, as provided by Roger. I think it was Debbies Mum who welcomed us and showed us to our shared room. Later the next day, we were told that we had stayed in the very room where Ian had commited suicide.

Fantastic, what a shape. A little tip on getting a good meaty slap tone, don't eq the pickups individually, just dive in with both pups on and tinker. It toook me days and days to get something I was use to, then I thought screw it, it's an ACG and it sounds like nothing else. You will be playing with the eq for months, it's all good. I love it. Steve.