Paul Cooke

[quote name='kevbass' post='281374' date='Sep 10 2008, 08:17 PM']I get the feeling had his Dads paypal account not been suspended I wouldnt of heard back from him. He's lucky Ive offered to post it back to him. I then recieve a message from him asking me to remove the negative feedback he has recieved on his Dads paypal account. Which I dont know if I can do, and even if I could, I wouldnt.[/quote] don't... his dad's paypal account... that old excuse... he knew what he was doing...

I still haven't got my ticket for Saturday yet. Steve was getting it for me. Hopefully he'll have got back to me after the next Also Eden rehearsal...

I'm surprised... cack converters are normally very up on the real value of a bass or guitar and will hide the really valuable ones away until the redemption (loan) period is over and they can move it on via eBay... must be because it didn't have a "well known" name on the headstock like Fender/Rickenbacker/Gibson... and very likely because person getting a loan on it didn't know what the real value was either so didn't push it...

I currently have a five string bass to stay below the keyboard player when playing off the same sheet in Church... but I was considering selling it on and converting one of my unused cheapy Encore P-bass clones to BEAD... It's never really worried me having a standard tuned bass in Church either, I just accidentally step on the same note every now and again as I use the "higher" version of the notes I would have played under the E. If I were playing melodies, then I would worry, but as I'm only supplying chord tones to fit with what the guitars are playing, it doesn't matter. I let the keyboard player handle the fiddly bits as he's a fantastic sight reader.

I postcoded my things using a UV marker pen in awkward places that can't be easily cleaned off, such as behind the neckplate, reverse of the control plate, under the cab/amp case, inside the battery compartment... That's OK for normal things, but what about marking "valuable" items such as vintage Fenders and Rickenbakers? Would you want to use smartwater/UV pen on those?

Question: What's left? If item 3 (Elite Phosphor Bronze acoustic strings) is still available I'd like to put my name down for them

[quote name='kevbass' post='275037' date='Sep 1 2008, 10:44 PM']I always use them beer bottle plastic thingys you get on big bottles of grolsch, cheaper and you get to drink the beer[/quote] ah, but... you can't swap basses quickly and keep the same strap... means you've got to buy several comfy straps if you've got several basses you use.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='274847' date='Sep 1 2008, 07:15 PM']But the award for the biggest pile of sh*te goes to Schaller - for manufacturing straplocks that don't lock on to a strap and dump my Status on my foot mid gig making me look a right numpty - not to mention the pain. Thankyou Schaller - you utter,utter twats.[/quote] erm... you're supposed to do them up real tight with a spanner... not finger tight... and then it pays to check them every few weeks... I always have the correct size spanner in my gig bag... not a real spanner though, a thin flat one that came free with a assemble-it-yourself piece of furniture... turned out to be the right size for the schallers so I kept hold of it.

[quote name='BassMunkee' post='274407' date='Sep 1 2008, 12:39 PM']85% of people who say they don't like rotosound strings are just distasted because they either can't play them well, or can't afford them. 10% are just saying it to be contrary or because they think it'll earn them 'bass cred'. [/quote] Rotosounds... out here in the sticks (Gloucester) I have no choice... it's Rotosound or lump it... even then, getting hold of flats is difficult... apparently there's no call for them... I'm never happy ordering via internet... I like to feel the strings before I pay for them... and make sure all four are in the carton... I've had a set arrive with only three strings in it before now... real pain getting the other one sent to me...

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='273940' date='Aug 31 2008, 06:36 PM']My one bug bear is 'vintage' basses. Like when people say, I've got a 1965 Fender Strat in sunburst yadda yadda yadda.... This is the music industry.. not bargain hunt![/quote] hah hah... back in the seventies... I actually owned a '68 Fender P... was given it by my cousin... he'd got bored with bass and passed it on to me. Back then they weren't considered as sacred relics... It was sunburst and I went and painted the body with gloss white emulsion so it would look like Sid Vicious's bass...

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='273913' date='Aug 31 2008, 06:14 PM']I'll let you off... as long as you don't diss my lucozade.... [/quote] Lucozade? I thought it was Ribena at least the cans were all on the floor...

[quote name='BassManKev' post='273898' date='Aug 31 2008, 05:57 PM']how could i forget this one, Gold hardware, cheap, chavvy and taccy looking, no no no[/quote] oh noes... now you've gone and done it... My Tanglewood acoustic bass has some very tasteful gold twiddly knobs on it... chavvy it most definitely ain't I've never seen a chav playing a musical instrument... they're too busy "consuming" awful music on their MP3 enabled phones... and upsetting everybody else cos they're too cheap to use headphones...

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='273824' date='Aug 31 2008, 04:59 PM']I will add. Pointless pedal boards. Ashdown. Headstock snobary. Coffee table basses.[/quote] pointless pedal boards... yup, that's why I just use a Zoom B2.1U or just my ME-20B + tuner pedal on my home made pedal board... just to keep them in one place... along with the wallwart PSUs... and the DI it isn't pointless... it stops them moving around and speeds setup/teardown and I don't waste time hunting around for the PSUs... Ashdown, wouldn't know... Headstock snobary (sic).. I play a Squier... and I'm not ashamed of it... the 70's VMJ is a great bass. My Tanglewoods are extremely nice as well... Coffee table basses... Ummm... I'm currently lusting after (and saving up for) a very nice Tanglewood Canyon III I've seen in a shop with the most beautiful spalted maple facing I've ever seen... and it sounds great and plays well as well... triple bonus... I've had it put by on reserve I also have a very nice piece of Bubinga which also makes very nice sounds as someone put pickups, strings and a neck on it...

the logo worship of anything that has Fender on it... it always amazes me that the first thing a lot of bands do when they get that big money advance is to replace their perfectly good gear with Fenders...

well it would be interesting to see how you get on using that ronseal... I have used two part West System before now and it came out well. [url="http://www.westsystem.com/"]http://www.westsystem.com/[/url] Costs a lot more than the ronseal and you have a lot left over... ah, I've just spotted the "small batch" range which would be better suited... I usually use whatever I've got around as I also do repairs to dinghies and cruisers when you do your first coat of anything, make sure the surface is thoroughly degreased and has no sanding dust left on it, then just before applying the coat, use a hair dryer to warm up the fingerboard so that as it cools, it draws the coat into the pores as the air shrinks (yes, I know the wood shrinks as well, but the air shrinks more).

[quote name='BassManKev' post='271659' date='Aug 28 2008, 11:55 AM']im having fun with it, however im struggling to set the expression pedal to control the freqeuncy, all i can get it to do is change volume and wet/dry blend, help?[/quote] that is what the manual says... the expression pedal when targetted on the ring mod (wah/efx) controls the balance (page 28) that's all it will do, sadly... I would have expected it to control the frequency as well, as the pedal controls pedal wah & phaser frequency parameters

Just get another Fender Jazz and have it strung BEAD... then the feel and string spacing is very nearly the same so you won't have as much trouble swapping between normal gigs and Dub gigs.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='264551' date='Aug 18 2008, 01:41 PM']I am astonished that any of this matters to anyone.[/quote] apparently back on page one, the OP got upset that a seller had withdrawn something he (the buyer) had most likely been stalking hoping the price would come down further... (I'm supposing here, the actual real reason isn't mentioned) Bit like a Dutch auction... the price starts high, and then the bidders try and wait each other out as it comes down until either one cracks and decides he's going to miss out if he doesn't make a move or else the price goes under the reserve. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction[/url] Selling in here is a bit like that... if you price it too high, then no-one nibbles, and if you set it too low, then it gets torn out of your hands by the first to spot it who has ready funds.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='264392' date='Aug 18 2008, 09:56 AM']Bear in mind we're talking about Fenders here. Until the late 70's, Fender generally did solid colours, bursts and blondes. 'Interesting wood' on a Fender generally means late-70's Northern Ash.. which can be heavy. Again, generally speaking.[/quote] I was always of the impression that the solids were usually sprayed over botched sunbursts

[quote name='coasterbass' post='264390' date='Aug 18 2008, 09:53 AM']I could hear myself pick the strings, and people could happily chat at normal volumes over the PA when standing on the sweetspot of the dancefloor!! Ludicrous.[/quote] well, if they had to shout to each other in order to converse at a distance of 1 meter, then they should have been wearing ear defenders as that is the rule of thumb criteria for them to be worn. If you have to shout, then your ears are being damaged. The damage is accumulative and non reversible.

[quote name='Alun' post='263928' date='Aug 17 2008, 12:57 PM']Hello. In a couple of weeks, [url="http://www.panicroom.org.uk"]Panic Room[/url] will be doing a quick run of gigs. We will be found making a prog/folk/rock noise at the following venues... Sat 20 Sept - Town Hall, Lydney ( with support from Also Eden) Hope to see some of you there. Please come and say hello if you do venture along Cheers Alun[/quote] I'm hoping to make that one. My bass teacher is the bassist for Also Eden. PS, they have a new album coming out. It will be good. I've had access to the interim rough versions of the songs and they're very good...

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='263588' date='Aug 16 2008, 01:33 PM']Use the neck pup on your jazz - problem solved![/quote] That and roll the tone right off and also play up on the finger board with plenty of meaty pad on the right hand fingers