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[quote name='phsycoandy' post='496055' date='May 23 2009, 02:43 PM']It plays like I never want to part with it! Thanks for the comments, she always gets favourable glances at gigs.[/quote] Have you got any more pics so I can indulge my bass lust for your bass ha ha ha! Any sound clips?? Seriously that bass is stunning!
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[quote name='phsycoandy' post='181126' date='Apr 20 2008, 04:42 PM']Heres another one of the recent crop of walnut models, mostly struck from the same tree! [/quote] I seriously think this is THE most beautiful bass I've ever seen!!! I am so curious as to what it plays like!
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That's absolutely beautiful...as I bet the tone is. But I'd whip those covers off in a flash...get it naked!!!
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[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='495124' date='May 22 2009, 01:07 PM']Like an STD.[/quote] Between constantly crapping yourself and slagging off Warwicks, can you tell me how it is possible to stand totally still while playing bass! Are you one of those bored looking, "what am I getting for tea" bass players
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[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='495113' date='May 22 2009, 01:01 PM']I did it in a night club. And the pub. And walking home from a nightclub. Never sober mind.[/quote] You're a catch alright!
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[quote name='Johngh' post='494991' date='May 22 2009, 11:21 AM']Were they they the same gauge ?[/quote] Yes, both 45-105.
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[quote name='alexharvay' post='494988' date='May 22 2009, 11:15 AM']Variety is the spice......... D'Addarios, Ernie balls and Rotosounds are all makes that I have killed off quickly. Not to say they're rubbish, some bass players I know swear by some of these makes.[/quote] No, no, no. Hi-Beams are THE LAW!
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[quote name='51m0n' post='494910' date='May 22 2009, 09:51 AM']Hi Beams are even more supple: the tension is the same or there abouts given the mass and length of the string are the same, the string is just easier to bend. The tend to be a bit more sccoped sounding, I thing they have more top and more low end then the lo-riders do. You may need to lift you action slightly (hence hi beams) due to the extra suppleness of the string.[/quote] That's interesting, because I recently swapped onto Hi-Beams on a bass that had previously been setup whilst it had D'Addarios on and now it has a fair amount of fret buzz. I love Hi-Beams! The D'Addarios were well harsh in comparison!
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[quote name='cheddatom' post='494959' date='May 22 2009, 10:45 AM']Well, not really, the sweat drips off my face and I would guess a few of those drops get onto the strings, but not a significant amount. I am always soaked through after gigs but my strings have never gone black or even got significantly dirty. Similarly when I play drums I sweat even more, [b]so much that it feels like i've had an extremely sloppy turd in my pants,[/b] but I can still hold onto the sticks!![/quote] Haha, that sounds like you're speaking from experience! I don't know, I just admitted to being a bit sweaty, now all the rancid confessions are sliming their way out! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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[quote name='alexharvay' post='494930' date='May 22 2009, 10:09 AM']I don't know the first ting about diving so interesting to learn that cardiovascular conditioning plays such an important part in diving. I'm a good middle distance runner and I attribute my lack of sweat on stage to that. I'm assuming you've tried several different makes of strings? Like I said, Elites work for me and I've found Ernie Ball, Rotosound and a few other stings just don't last as long under my fingers.[/quote] It's hugely important for diving. If you only do one form of cardio though you will hit a wall, the body needs to be shocked regularly, that's why it's better to also include swimming and cycling. Diving - yes probably most recreational divers using single tanks and only going to 40 metres max. can get away with being unfit and overweight (grossly so in many cases!), but it's a road to certain death on deep diving, particularly regards closed circuit and decompression. Poor cardiovascular conditioning impedes the lungs from exchanging gases, increasing the overall work of breathing (which in a closed loop can result in increased CO2, hypercapnia and death) and impedes effective decompression. Not to mention the difficulties in getting on and off a vessel in force 6 seas, carrying 70kgs+ of gear. Sweating on stage - I defy anyone to play for an hour, playing constant fast 8ths (in fact more like 16ths a lot of the time) under hot lights, while also leaping around like a maniac, and not sweat You WILL sweat on a punk gig, no two ways about it! I haven't tried that many makes of strings actually, (well not on my basses) it does seem to be Hi-Beams that always die quickly, but I did kill some D'Addarios fairly fast recently as well.
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[quote name='cheddatom' post='494909' date='May 22 2009, 09:50 AM']I play hard, and I sweat a lot, but not from my hands you weirdo![/quote] Yeah exactly not from your hands, but I bet sweat drips onto the bass anyway, then when you play, your strings get slippery, you slippery weirdo!
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[quote name='alexharvay' post='494904' date='May 22 2009, 09:37 AM']Ha, I don't play jazz and I don't play like a boring twat but I can get away with changing every few months. But I get what you mean. Maybe if you improved your cardiovascular endurance you may sweat less?[/quote] I'm as fit as a fiddle mate, cardiovascular conditioning is THE single most important factor in deep diving. Maybe if I jumped around like a loony less when playing, I'd sweat less! (Or played jazz) I don't really think it is just sweat off my hands at practices/gigs is what is killing the strings so fast, I think it is also probably oil, plus the fact that I am pretty much glued to my bass most of my free time. In fact, any more and it will have to be surgically removed!
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[quote name='pete.young' post='494778' date='May 21 2009, 11:28 PM']If it was good enough for Jamerson ... If you use flatwounds, there's really no point in changing them.[/quote] I don't use flatwounds. I use 45-105 roundwounds. By the way, Jamerson may have used "dead" flats but he also used a '62 P Bass, a tone monster in itself, as well as playing more like a double bassist with an extremely high action and using signal boosting for overdrive. There's dead and there's blackened and black roundwounds do NOT sound good!
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[quote name='SteveO' post='494746' date='May 21 2009, 10:50 PM']lol. makes sense, maybe i'm missing out, but to be fair it was a sarcastic comment and really shouldn't be taken too seriously One day I may try new strings and it may be a life changing experience, but I wouldn't hold your breath coz it'll probably only be when they come fitted to a spanking new bass, and sometimes I think i'm the only gasless bassist on here [/quote] To be perfectly honest, I was being diplomatic in my reply to you. Putting on a new set of strings more frequently that once every fifteen years isn't GAS... I think in your case, it WOULD be a life changing experience if you put new strings on! You don't realise how crap they really sound until you fit a new set. Nothing worse than the tone from dead strings, it's so dull.
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[quote name='SteveO' post='494718' date='May 21 2009, 10:21 PM']I changed my strings once... I became paranoid and bought a 2 spare sets, one for the 4 and one for the 5. Thought i'd change them and keep the old ones in case of breakages. Swapped out the 5 string, but never bothered with the 4. I still have the unopened packet in the gigbag... that was back in '95. Come to think of it, the 4 still has it's original strings, they must be 15 years old now. Not sure what a set costs now, but this maybe a usefull tip to save on replacements... I have an amp with a trebble control on it. A quick clockwise tweak makes the sound lovely and zingy when needed [/quote] Hiya - tried all that - no amount of tweaking will make blackened strings sound zingy, trust me! Also, I am really not a fan of bass tones that are too trebly. I find a big difference between zing and treble! I'd love to hear those 15 year old strings though!
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[quote name='cheddatom' post='494417' date='May 21 2009, 04:22 PM']Conclusion: If you're normal, just change your strings every few months. If you're abnormally disgustingly sweaty, fill a tube with meths and keep a set of strings in there to swap with another set every day or two.[/quote] No, no, no...you got that a touch mixed up. Let me assist you by correcting it: If you're abnormally, disgustingly into jazz or play like a boring tw@t, with no energy, change your strings every few months. If you're normal and play top quality, energetic, sweat-inducing music, fill a tube with beer, to cool you down and bulk buy lots of strings. I'll get my coat!
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[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='494282' date='May 21 2009, 02:30 PM']You dodge rounds anyway and when you do buy one, its like trying to get blood out of a stone. You nearly took the pattern of that Jagermeister glass the other night, I thought you were going to try and ring it out.[/quote] Ha, at least I didn't crash out on the tube then have to pinball it back, the long road home, whilst shovelling in a rat-bab from the local dog-meat purveyor. HAHAHAHA!!!!
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[quote name='EBS_freak' post='494259' date='May 21 2009, 02:09 PM']Of course, when said tramp wakes up in the morning, it will be on the floor as the bench would have been nicked in the night to sell to the scrap metal merchants... Got to love Stoke. Quite a few interesting venues in Stoke. Any "Gardeners" fans?[/quote] I've actually met some really decent people from Stoke though - in London, you don't get the time of day.
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I don't know if it's the done thing to hijack one's own thread, but, you haven't lived until you've seen a tramp in Stoke, sleeping on a bench, with his crutches tied to himself, to prevent anyone stealing them!!! I mean, it's not good when you have to worry about someone nicking yer crutches while you have a quick kip!
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[quote name='51m0n' post='493680' date='May 20 2009, 08:33 PM']BWAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAAAAAA ROFLMFAO!!! I never heard of that, not even when I was in the TA, "range glue" yes, but not that. Thats is cracking!![/quote] So, basically, what you have admitted, is that you don't use the sock. OR the sausage and beans method. Now, in line with your previous minging admissions, I feel that there are some confessions still to be made.
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[quote name='51m0n' post='493715' date='May 20 2009, 09:27 PM']I find it all to easy to believe every word you've said. You are still certifiable in my book, and in a well respected "nutter in the shed" kind of a way. Well done![/quote] Which is exactly what all of my extremely competent and experienced dead friends/colleagues said, whilst having previously tried to convince me that CE "certification" must mean that equipment is "safe" and I must put some trust in the system. Bollocks to that! Pinto comes to mind - product safety defects in that case were deemed too expensive to recall and fix and a decision was taken, on cost grounds, that fighting lawsuits from the deceaseds' relatives would be cheaper in the long run than a full recall. You do not even want to get me started on this subject, believe me! The string tube, how long do you leave your strings in there?
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[quote name='51m0n' post='493666' date='May 20 2009, 08:14 PM']"Jeez you came in that, you're braver than I thought!" That sound like a recipe for a seriously nasty acident though. My only experience of diving was about a half hour at the bottom of a swimming pool. I swim like a fish (admittedly something really big like a whale shark) but all that gubbins and gear felt so unnatural to me, I'd rather stick to a snorkel! Scrapheap Challenge, now there's a top program, is it still on?[/quote] Scrapheap Challenge was amazing! No seriously - on dive gear - if I detailed some of the scandalous goings on with CE certification and standards, on what is life support equipment, you'd be horrified. There's a functional safety standard called IEC61508, which covers programmable electronics and no sports rebreather (or several military rebreathers) currently on the market, meet it. Yet they are still able, on the premise of a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) cert, to sell it in the EU. We are talking about electronics that control the breathing mixture and ensure it is respirable - however those electronics, at code and hardware level, are so poorly assembled and programmed, that they are able to hang and reboot back into a mode in which no oxygen delivery takes place, no brownout circuit, one clock, a crap processor, a massive single point of failure in the power supply...meaning that if a diver does not notice oxygen delivery has stopped, they simply go to sleep from hypoxia. This is, ridiculously, labelled as "user error" in the user community, who are, in the main, utterly brainwashed in respect of what constitutes acceptable functional safety standards in safety-critical life support systems. One manufacturer has a fatality rate approaching 75 users (in only several thousand sold units) making the mortality rate less than 1 in 39, and an even worse in active use. Seriously, other than Shipman, the most prolific serial killers had less bodies on the slab! Homebuilding is actually safer, as the builder has control over the testing - I kid you not. PS - my opinion is considered well outside the parameters of the vast majority, but then, they don't have my background. Got me on a rant - I'll stop now!
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[quote name='Eight' post='493606' date='May 20 2009, 07:10 PM']As a side note: Anne, bottle it and sell it. Some people spend ages trying to get the zing out of strings. You make millions (minus 10% pour moi of course).[/quote] Haha you are not pimping out my zing killing skills! Just looking at the string cleaning tube. I already have all sorts of pieces of pipe and crap here from homebuild dive gear projects. It's like scrapheap challenge! Haha, keep the tube away from drummers