Paul S

I favour basses with narrow and shallow necks and have found a few, some already mentioned. These are all 38mm at the nut AND shallow - exceptional necks all of them. Fender Jaguar (and so Fender Geddy Lee) Fender Precision Lyte Peavey Fury and Fury II (Milestone III also, but that was more of a budget thing) Then come standard Jazz bass type necks - 38mm at the nut and a little deeper Fender Jazz. SBMM SB-14 Yamaha SX800A Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV Epiphone EB0 (nicre shallow neck to grab and stop it diving) Fender Musicmaster Slightly chunkier but still 38mm-40mm Westone Thunder Hohner B Bass Hohner B2A Some P-Basses - MIJ Squier Silver Series has a 40mm and shallow neck.

We do Hysteria and I just use a Boss ODB-3! Not had anyone come up to me and say it sounds nothing like the real thing. So far.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1367672609' post='2068221'] Get some sweat bands - double duty ones. You can pick them up easy enough, and they really do make a difference. I`ve found that although I thought it was my hands getting sweaty when playing, it was in fact all of me - urrgh, but it`s what happens with punk I spose - but putting the bands on prevents it running down your arms onto your hands. [/quote] ^^This^^. I use a double size one on my right arm which, the way I play, also stops rubbing on the edge of the bass. Single size on my left arm. Sweaty brow mid-song, it is easy to mop up, too.

The second sound clip is called 'O Jesus King' - something spooky going on here! Turin-burst finish?

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1367399768' post='2065032'] As an aside, I came across this the other day. Brilliant! [/quote] Like that lots. A bit different. Thanks for the link!

Unless you are absolutely desperate for the money or the sapce the instrument takes up I really wouldn't bother. They go for peanuts - no-one wants or likes them. Mine was a timewarp beauty with almost no wear and I think I sold it for around £150. Imagine if it were a Fender in showroom condition of that age!

Only if you use hammerite. It flakes off too easily otherwise.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1367228403' post='2062689'] Finally! After four pages, we come to what's important about bass guitars. My view is this: Bass guitars, particularly P-Basses, should be WHITE - or a variation thereof. That is all. They just don't sound proper otherwise. [/quote] Black, surely?

It was those little runs that had me flummoxed, so the tab for those was exactly what I needed. Didn't help that I started off playing along in E then got in a right old muddle. Great track! Shame we don't have Michael Mcdonald doing BVs, not sure it will sound quite so haunting without.

Hmm, that doesn't sound promising. I had the Zoom B2 multi and the poor chorus was one reason I got rid of that. I was hoping that the chorus in this might be different.

Absolutely fantastic stuff, chaps. Thanks a million. I just couldn't hear it, but now it makes sense. Gotta love Basschat!

Plea for help. I am trying to learn these. I usually pick up things by ear but increasingly my ears are letting me down. Doesn't help that the recording of Red Streamliner I have seems picthed somewhere bewteen E and F, so working out some of the runs is pretty much hit or miss! Does anyone have any kind of tab for these two tracks? ta.

I have DI out from the amp so that won't be an issue for me. I don't really like effects and don't use them much - I think this is why this appeals so much. But, yes, will I actually like the effects it has? Difficult to say. I tried a lot of chorus pedals which i didn't like before I settled on the EBS Unichorus, which I do like. Hopefully this will be somewhere near it. Anyway, thanks!

Bought a Badass II from Samuel. Relatively straight forward transaction. I'd buy from him again.

So it doesn't have to scroll through everything, only the ones you have saved? This is where my 'dim' bit comes in, as I couldn't work that out. Edit - just seen the diagram. Makes sense now!! You must have children - patiently explaining things like that. Another edit - I currently use a bit of overdrive,chorus very occasionally, fuzz even less occasionally, and have a tuner. I was going to buy one of the programmable DI pedals, too - I could bin all of those and just use this one pedal by the looks of it.

Wow. This is still the definitive version, though. Topical, too: [url="http://youtu.be/5NMzuQFHJVU"]http://youtu.be/5NMzuQFHJVU[/url]

I'm an inveterate fiddler and love experimenting with various bits to see what happens. I only have a couple of basses that are, and will remain, stock

So, for the sake of conversation, if the singer decided to change the agreed running order on the fly because of the way the crowd were behaving, you'd be in trouble if you neded a particular patch that was programmed to be a number of clicks away down the line?

I have Compact and Midget and, for how I use the rig, having the two cabs I think gives more flexibility. For gigs I use both together as they compliment each other beautifully. For rehearsing I tend to use just the Midget for portability. It is easy to tame with the eq if required - I have a scooped sound anyway but a little extra bass helps. Which all proves how subjective this is! Isle of Wight - not too far from Brighton! Why not pay a visit to Alex?

Daft question. If you save one particular blend of effects to patch 1, then another to patch 2, can you go backwards in one click to patch 1 or do you have to keep on cycling forwards? - So I guess save the same effect as patch 1 to patch 3

There is an early 90s MIJ Squier Silver Series P-Bass for sale here - if it were my money I'd go for that. Light-ish in weight, neck is almost Jazz neck thin and a really great woody tone.

get one. [/thread] Seriously good bit of kit. Easy to fit, although I have had grounding issues bnefore now that can be hard to track down. Opens up the tone of your bass like you couldn't believe. Im my P-bass it makes it sound like a P-bass on steroids but also a whole host of other tones available that you won't get from a passive P Bass. I have one in a passive Westone Thunder Jet bass and it makes it sound like a £500 instrument. If you don't like it, and some people don't, you can sell it on for not a great loss.

I went from a big 'classic era' Trace Elliot rig (not valve, though) to TC Classic 450, through Barefaced Compact and Midget. Superb rig. I like the way the TC colours the sound - it was actually the reason why I bought it when I spent a day at the Bass Mechants a couple of years back trying everything FWIW I tried all the heads there through a TC cab as the chap I spoke to (whose name I have forgotten) said it was the closest thing they had to a Barefaced cab (but in his opinion not as good). I decided I needed a back up head and bought a Genz Benz Streamliner 600, the plan being to regularly gig with whatever rig I preferred and keep the other as a spare. It is also a superb rig with the BF cabs. Just different. The TC has the tubetone control, which gives a pretty authentic overdriven tube sound that is nicely controllable on the fly to vary your sound, should you need to (I do). The GB has tube preamp and gives the genuine tube-y sound but it is hard to adjust it on the fly as when you adjust one control you have to adjust others to compensate. I also like the TC Spectrocomp or whatever it is called which gives a very useable compression. I find myself using the TC head more nowdays as it is easier to get the sound I like. If I were starting again I would buy the RH450 so I could use the programmable footswitch - I now realise I would find that incredibly useful even though, at the time, I didn't think I would. But the huge thing is that sounds from heads is so subjective. I get the sound I like from the TC head but a lot of folks hate it. Unless you can try it out in the flesh you never really know - I went out with my credit card fully intending to buy an Orange Bass terror from what I had read on here but it didn't even get shortlisted once I tried them all out.