Paul Cooke

It's not helping the shops though... they're having enough problems shifting stock at the existing prices without Fender jamming the price up... My local shop told me on the Friday before that the prices were going up on the Monday morning... had I had the money spare, I'd have had them set me one aside by paying a deposit on one... I'm not sure what the position is on set-asides though, would I have been paying the difference between the deposit and the price at set-aside, or the difference between the deposit and the current price on final pickup?

it's the name... people put Badass bridges on because they want a Badass bridge on it... they kid themselves that the sound is better, but it's purely the fact that it says Badass on it...

I'm intending to come... I'll be bringing just two basses... the Squier VMJ and the Tanglewood acoustic bass... both Zoom units and if I can lug it down to the car, the Laney RB6 combo... although, I hope to have traded that in for a Lowdown Studio 110 by then... I have an estate car and would be able to give a lift for anyone else from the Glos/Chelt area

[quote name='Absolute-beginner' post='343683' date='Dec 2 2008, 11:37 PM']I thinnk from lands end up to and not including south Glos! err maybe. woss fink?[/quote] Well, since the whole of Gloucestershire is being shafted by being a member of the South West Regional Development Authority, then Gloucestershire is in the South West... [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_Regional_Assembly"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_West_Regional_Assembly[/url] Gloucester gets the smelly end of the stick anyway... it's always on the periphery of any region it's in... so it's always being ignored by the media... Our local news channels are horribly biased towards Bristol on the one group, or Birmingham on the other conglomerate...

I've stopped buying any Bass magazine... the saved money goes in my Fender Fund piggy bank...

what? No ABBA?!?!?!?! and no "The Thrill Is Gone"?

"Que diable est-ce?" "J'ai payé combien?" Google translate is your friend...

[quote name='Ray' post='339810' date='Nov 28 2008, 04:28 PM']I'd be grateful for any advice on the best way to go about it.[/quote] Just stand in the wings and enjoy the show... let them know your enjoying it... to sit in would require you leaving your rig set up... and you're supposed to have removed it before they start anyway...

what really annoys me is that you can't adjust the level of the MP3 playback without the input being adjusted as well... The input levels etc. adjust the input volume, but the only output volume adjustment I've found is the rotary pot and that adjusts everything... what baffles me is that the manual is so cryptic and the explanations as to how to create a rhythm track are incomprehensible, yet this thing is aimed at guitarists... I basically have a degree in rocket science, I'm also a technical author, yet I have big problems making head or tail out of setting up rhythm tracks... I currently use mine for ad hoc recordings using the built-in mic or an external stereo mic and also for playing MP3s into my practice amp to jam along to...

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='338676' date='Nov 27 2008, 05:25 PM']Where do you work....a monastry? [/quote] mixed open plan office... no cubicles here...

next time put Not Safe For Work in your title...

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='338066' date='Nov 27 2008, 08:44 AM']That Slade song.... have to learn it... surprisingly nice bass line as it turns out BUT I can't get what's going on in the bridge bit (something like Dm F Dm Bb..). Has anybody figured out the high up bass bit there? Any pointers appreciated - if I'm going to do it, I might as well get it right [/quote] See my PM... PM me with your email address and I'll send you what I used last Christmas... GP4 file and the bass line printed (notation & tab) in pdf from that file and a midi file generated from that GP4 file (you should at least be able to play the Midi) I hand retabbed the pdf to fit onto a single A4 sheet and match the lyric sheets the choir were using, unfortunately, that retabbed sheet got lost... otherwise I'd scan it for you... I'll email to anyone else who wants it as well...

[quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='337039' date='Nov 26 2008, 10:19 AM']an old man i school uniform is just wrong[/quote] should be in long pants now at least...

[quote name='Balcro' post='335891' date='Nov 24 2008, 10:21 PM']I think I'll use the F-F for a quick clean of the rosewood neck. I guess it may have some astringent qualities which will neutralise a build up of finger grease. I'll rub it on to clean, then quickly rub off with a dry cloth to remove the grime and oil residue. There's no way I'm going to rub in WD40. If you've ever had a really mucky session under the bonnet you'll know it has a tendency to dry up your skin something rotten. So what's it going to do to the natural oils in wood? Why would you rub a mineral oil into wood when there are plenty of wood related oils?[/quote] the only listed ingredient on the Fast Fret sleeve is Light Mineral Oil...

I really love my Tanglewood TW55 Sundance [url="http://www.tanglewoodguitars.co.uk/products/default.asp?cID=26463245&sID=26465174"]http://www.tanglewoodguitars.co.uk/product...mp;sID=26465174[/url] Mind you, anyone one would at the steal of a price I snaffled mine for... even full price it's good value, with nice acoustic tone and a good pre-amp with built in tuner. their bottom of the range one [url="http://www.tanglewoodguitars.co.uk/products/default.asp?cID=66460000&sID=66460001"]http://www.tanglewoodguitars.co.uk/product...mp;sID=66460001[/url] looks like excellent value for money £200 rrp but you'd have to play it to make a proper decision...

I recharge my fast fret stick with a few drops of 3-in-1 oil and WD40 to chase it in with... it was rather greasy at first, but after a few weeks soaking in, it really does the job... I now have two FF sticks, one in use, the other soaking in... I use the flap of one of those plastic document wallets between the strings and the fretboard when I'm rubbing the stick against the strings... stops the fretboard getting messed up... also allows me to press real hard to get the windings clean. I clean my rosewood fretboards every couple of months using Lem-oil and a clean cloth... my maple fretboard gets cleaned with a slightly damp cloth and then wiped off with a dry one. There's nowt wrong with WD40... the guitarist with The Hamsters has been using an old FF stick with WD40 for well over a decade now and he's never had any problems... he wipes his strings with the stick every few songs during the set. Keeps the stick in his back pocket.

anyone live close and can drop in to visit him and take him up on his offer to have a play on it??? It's not like he's in that weird eBay zone called the outer hebrides where most of the really dodgy bases get sold from...

Based on my 2 years experience of using my Zoom B2.1U... there are only three things wrong with them: 1) The two onboard footswitches can get a bit erratic in operation, although mine has cleared up again... 2) There is no aux input, which makes it a little difficult when you want to jam along to an MP3 and use headphones 3) It would be nice if there was a master limiter/compressor setting in addition to the master volume setting I've taken to using a limiter in the signal chain in front of my Zoom and turned off the limiter module in all my self edited patches With the addition of an external footswitch connected to the Zoom, it's very giggable... The footswitch makes it so much easier to select the bypass and mute option for silent tuning or taking the zoom out of the chain. A momentary press gives you bypass. A press and hold gives you mute. Both activate the tuner mode. Far easier than trying to press both onboard footswitches at the same time.

+1 on the Zoom B2.1U if you really must get a pedal... but a bigger rig should give her more headroom to get dynamic with and bigger speakers for a better low end response... try something in the 30 watts range... she should be able to carry that... I'd sell you my Laney RB6 combo (165 watts max, 100 watts into 15 inch kickback combo speaker), but it's on the heavy side for me and she would have big problems trying to lift it...

how the heck do you play the bass strings then? Must be a real reach around to fret them... I know, it's really a taptar...

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='326655' date='Nov 11 2008, 12:16 PM']Two suggestions for improving things... 1] IMHO Basschat's prime plot is the "[b]View New Posts[/b]" As we get more popular , it takes a fair bit of time to scroll ...just to catch up on the last couple of hours. This can be potentially de-cluttered. I suggest postings of a more administrative nature to be automatically kept out of this zone. How it's done, I'm not sure, but Feedback postings are not newsworthy. Another is when an item is sold/withdrawn from the For Sale forums. A tick box that the OP can activate to indicate the thread is closed, could then take it out of the View New Posts window. 2] And then there's the [b]Feedback[/b] business. It is not being used consistently, so either it becomes more user-friendly/encouraged or we scrap it. Otherwise, I think Basschat is the best thing since roundwound strings, and all who are behind it deserve a massive pat on the back. ([i]cue applause and ...cut[/i])[/quote] Basstalk (the American based website) have a preferences facility to select only certain forums in which to "search" for new posts... this means that the vast majority can be filtered out by the user to suit his/her tastes... (you just need to be a member to use that, not a supporting member)

[quote name='paul h' post='324416' date='Nov 7 2008, 07:11 PM']You know, as much as I love it here I think a paid subscription would kill it for me. Yes, I am [i]that[/i] tight.[/quote] +1... but I'm not tight, just have no credit rating and cannot make on-line payments...