steve-soar

Try lowering your pickups slightly. The Will Power pickups, neck, have huge magnets in them and having the strings too close can cause the string to vibrate eratically.

[quote name='Subthumper' post='189347' date='Apr 30 2008, 11:25 PM']Hi all, even though I've been in the electronics game for some years, I still find a confusing amount of claims by manufacturers about their products and I 'm still in search of the best solvent for cleaning up noisey pots, sliders and jack sockets. Can anyone recomend the best? Cheers Just[/quote]Can't recommend the best, as I've only ever used two types. The more expensive Servisol and the cheaper Halfords Electrical Contact Cleaner. I used the later yesterday to clean the pots on a 20+ years old semi acoustic guitar that had been lying in a loft, face up and uncovered. It was about an inch thick in sh*te and the pots were very bad, crackled even when you rocked them. I gave each of the four pots and the pup selector switch a good 2-3 sprays, turning the pots back and forth for a while. Bingo, good as new. Nice smooth action again and no crackles whatsoever.

I say, let's overthrow the planet. Anarchy will reign for about 10 -15 years, then, when all of the politicians and leaders or the armed forces have been executed, military technology has been reabsorbed into the mainstream, so as to bring us up to speed with what's really happening, we will live through a very interesting period of lawlessness and bartering. In this total reconfiguration of human society, there will only be two things that will have survived from the old ways, cockroaches and students.

Hi Kev have you ever used spraying equipment before? Base coat, gold, colour, lacquer, total 12 coats with flattening in between. If you feel confident in your abilities why not have a couple of pracice attempts on a mock up. But remember, if you don't get an exact match it's gonna look terrible and will ruin the whole look of your bass. I'd guess about £100-150.

[quote name='andy67' post='187913' date='Apr 29 2008, 11:22 AM']I recently bought Billy Sheehan's advanced bass book/dvd, he was explaining his rig and the individual components it comprises of. The SVP-BSP was stunning! Plenty of control and fine tuning options. I may get one eventually...[/quote]Hi Andy go an have a listen on Basstasters to the SVP BSP, it sounds so good and can easily hold its own against all the "Dolce and Gabbana" stuff. I've got the SVP PRO and it's drive-gain mixing capability gives you a nostrel slicing distortion. Made in the USA, upgraded with five Harma Diamond valves, sweet, sweet, sweet with 1.4Kilowatt of Crown power amp.

Project Classic in Cherry with Ortofon cart. I used to have an Ariston A8?, the one that Linn based the LP12 on. Someone I know is selling a Townshend Rock with a Linn arm but the bearings a knackered. I phoned Max T to see about a rebuild but it was quite pricey. I'd like a Roksan Xerxes X with all the trimmings. But if I won the lottery, I mean the big one, I'd have a DCS CD player, Clearaudio Master Reference turntable, with Koetsu cartridge, Bryston, Mark Levinson, McIntosh or Krell amps, Wilson Alexandria speakers with solid silver speaker cables and interconnects. All built into a concrete and steel reinforced, subterrainian listening room, acoustically corrected. All fitted by the Audio Salon, over seen by John Crabbe and Ken Kessler. Obviously that would be next door to my recording studio.

[quote name='Bass Culture' post='187277' date='Apr 28 2008, 03:05 PM']Just wanted to give a big thumb's up to Steve after he recently completed some maintenance and upgrade work on my Les Evans custom fretless. The jobs included changing the bridge, reshielding the control cavity and checking the wiring on my preamp, and setting the bass up afterwards. The quality of his work is excellent and the bass is sounding as good as it ever has. Not only was he very reasonably priced but he even arranged delivery of the bass back to me when he was finished - courtesy of his lovely wife, Alison. I would have no hesitation in going back to Steve for any jobs in relation to any of my basses and can thoroughly recommend him. Thanks, Steve - and Alison! Mark[/quote]Hi Mark, Wow! Thank you so much. It was a pleasure. BTW, what turntable do you have? Cheers Steve.

Dig dat Doug Dude.

Great. How does it compare to the combo?

Why do you ask?

[quote name='bassboy115' post='185979' date='Apr 26 2008, 04:08 PM']kool... may see you there then. Im the short guy with peroxide blonde(white) hair! doors are opening at 8.30 but were not on till about 10.30 and its £3 entry in case you do come. Hope to see you later! Alex [/quote]Hi Alex, how's the 4.5 doing? White hair? Outstanding. Stay groovey. Steve.