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[quote name='Monz' post='548888' date='Jul 23 2009, 01:33 PM']It does... sooooooo smooth Come to the Harlequin on Nursery Street August 1st and have a listen, nahh bugger that you can play [/quote] Damn! I'm at Sonisphere...

Any good straps out there not made of dead animal skin?

I have used many many combos, but I want to take my first step into real amps. I am looking for something cheap but powerful. I play mainly metal or hard rock, but looking to branch out into whatever makes me a better bassist- but I want an amp that can give me a decent overdriven tone as well as a good clean one. Also, I currently use a POD into a PA speaker, could I buy a head and use it with the speaker, or vice versa with the POD? Thanks for your help,

Go for it, it looks decent, and it's only £50. Win!

I was looking at wireless stuff. Are the T-Bone things thomann.de do any good? I'm on a budget here, lol

[quote name='mrcrow' post='545515' date='Jul 20 2009, 05:32 PM']like those guys who wear T shirts in the middle of winter and i am happed up with 5 layers [/quote] That'll be me . I have been known to wear T-shirts on snowy days... THREAD HIJACK!

[quote name='clauster' post='527177' date='Jun 28 2009, 10:34 PM']Clling Mr Pirate! Are you able to arrange collection of this yet (or meet half way)? I'm feeling guilty having had Wesley for three weeks now.[/quote] I had him for five- don't worry mate.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='544686' date='Jul 19 2009, 02:05 PM']It's weird how one's experience can vary. I went into PMT Birmingham asking after a particular [i]tuner[/i] pedal to be told by one of their more 'mature' people that they didn't stock that brand, that the brand was crap, that "[i]only an idiot [/i]would want to buy one" and that he'd rather "step on dog sh*t than one of those". He then followed this up with the observation that "If you still want one of those, you can go somewhere else. If you want a proper [i]fuzz[/i] pedal, you should try one of these". As you might imagine, I was a bit displeased. A couple of his mates were stood in the background having a good smirk while he delivered this peroration, so I suspect it wasn't the first time he'd gone off on one. Having reminded him it was a [i]tuner[/i] I was after, I bollocked him savagely in front of his colleagues for a very long five minutes. As compensation for "your rudeness and stupidity" I then gouged him for a "proper" tuner pedal at 40% of their tag price - what my 'crap' choice of pedal would have cost. Swings and roundabouts.[/quote] Scary...

[quote name='DanOwens' post='534498' date='Jul 7 2009, 10:59 AM']I'm liking the fact that nearly everyone likes a bit of dirt!! Dan[/quote] Dirt is an essential really. ATM I use a PODXT, but on it I use: Amp sim Fuzz Wah Mainly. On my own I use an auto-wah patch loads. And I have a sweep filter, but again I just play with that on my own. Live, I use just a (uncompressed) clean or gated fuzz.

I use the Dunlop ones, the plastic ones. Never failed me yet, but get lost easily... actually that's probably just me.

The new Dream Theater album is accessible for metal. Myung mainly plays root notes, but there's a lot of interesting root notes in Dream Theater's music. I suppose the earlier stuff is better for bass- that was when they were more layered.

Windows actually just got a few Trabens in. Dunno where from though.

Mick and Jim off Sh*tknot use them as well... hey, I'm subscribed to Total Guitar on youtube!

You get a really good crunchy/raspy drive sound with a tubescreamer IMO. If you got a bass clone or a modded one (or a modded clone for that matter ) that would probably do the trick.

So we did this one song, the first one that plays- what do you guys thinK? Can be anything constructive...

If there's a switch/combination of buttons that say "Memory Mode", that's probably it.

[quote name='Rich' post='500561' date='May 29 2009, 07:44 AM']I used Status Hotwires for yonks, then tried Warwick Reds for half the money and found that they were definitely better than half as good, in fact I think they are [i]as[/i] good. So have used them ever since. Cheap strings aren't everyones cup of char I know, but then again neither are Elixirs. [/quote] I'm using Warwick Yellows, and they seem to be doing fine. Not 100%, but I'm fairly sure they've died a bit in the ~3 months I've had them. decent strings, nowt special I feel. I'm one of those people that likes dead strings though.