Count Bassy

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1407104244' post='2517452'] My phone goes into flight mode or off when on stage. Nothing worse than amps picking up interference or your mum calling you to ask how your gig is going. [/quote] Why not just turn it off?

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1406719547' post='2514021'] Erm... Red Red Wine I console my shame with the fact I also got PAID for playing it [/quote] There's no shame in that! Cracking Song.

It makes me feel like giving up.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1406542604' post='2512199'] As far as I'm aware, most of the current crop of class-D's use the same ICEPower module. Marketing nonsense does the rest. EBS seem to be acting more sensibly with the Reidmar, rating it at an honest 250w. I'm happy to be educated otherwise, though. [/quote] I would have thought that that the same power section can handle different amounts of power according to how well its cooled? Certainly with many industrial "AC" drives (which are effectively class D) they have different ratings according to whether they are convection cooled or fan cooled.

You Really Got Me Going - in 2006, at which point I was 49 already!

With the Ceilidh band (I play Melodeon & Anglo conc in that) we've found that (in many cases) the organisers think "The bands free, so we're bound to make a profit, so we don't have to push the tickets". Consequently you get the call a week before "Oh, we haven't sold enough tickets, we're going to cancel it", or you end up playing for a very small number of people.

Bloke in our village used to be the guitarist in a band called "The Alliance", and was pro for 14 years. The Alliance toured extensively supporting Black Sabbath until Black Sabbath stole their singer - Tony Martin. Played a few gigs with him and he's brilliant, but also very modest - no ego issues at all. Earns his living selling canal boats these days.

Whitesnake's version of "Ain't no love" ? Radar Love?

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1405878085' post='2506074'] Groslch bottle washers make the [s]best[/s] cheapest straplocks. [/quote] Corrected.

Different tones: Do you want a "digging in" tone or a "playing softly" tone? Select the technique to give you the tone you want, then adjust the amp to give the volume you want.

I loved his version of, Johhny B. Goode! He's gone but the music remains. A sad loss, and 70 is way too young.

Just E-mail the MP3

and Jeff Healey (RIP)

Get one of the Neutrik double ended locking ones. No need for any sticky tape!.

Rigid AND Bendable!

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1403609016' post='2484354'] Incidentally, snare drums ain't all that cheap either. But consumables or 'gear' should be covered by the person using them. [/quote] I took him to mean the snare itself rather than the whole drum.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1403549473' post='2483829'] Agreed. Though he's not alone in that respect. I recall Dylan being pretty offhand when I saw him at Wembley Arena many years ago (late 80s). [/quote] Saw Dylan at the NEC many years ago - he completely ignored the audience, and had become a parody of himself. Worst concert I've been to I think.

[quote name='plunkrock' timestamp='1401913015' post='2468324'] I picked up a MBT-1 on here recently and have been pleased with it Handy little thing, the bass cut/boost and looping features are what I use most and they work well. [/quote] Yes, the bass cut/boost is one of the things that the MB-BT1 does better than the GTR-1. But then the GTR-1 has basic drum rhythms to play along to, and allows you to record, direct or via in built mics. They would both benefit from some way of trimming the loop points. The built in effects (IMO) are pretty crap in both of them, but then I never really use effects. You pays your money ....

Just make sure that it's coiled the right way - i should go the same way as a screw thread. - Obviously if you're playing in the southern hemisphere you'll need to use one which is coiled the other way.

Once you have access to a CNC you can knock out some dummy necks in something cheap (Pine, MDF?) and see how they feel in your hand. Modify & try again, and so on, though starting with something based on one you already like is obviously a good idea..

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1401738836' post='2466439'] FWIW I had an Ibanez GW35 and was never too happy with it. [/quote] On the other hand I have GWB35 (it was my first fretless and first 5 sting) and love it to the extent that I went out and bought an SR505 purely on spec, on the basis that it was the nearest fretted equivalent. However my experience of other fretless basses is pretty limited, and I've not played an ESP, so temper my opinion with that. The GWB35 was £300 second hand.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1401917466' post='2468390'] Village halls aren't normally the best halls for music... by a long shot. Too many hard surfaces typically... [/quote] I'd generally agree for practices, but for a gig with a (hopefully) capacity audience they can be fine (and cheap).

Whoops

I always find that mine go flat in the warm, and sharp if it's cold, but generally stays in tune with itself unless I knock a tuner somehow. I've always put it down to the strings being metal and thus expanding/contracting.

[quote name='Greggo' timestamp='1400756592' post='2456645'] I find the tone at the point of putting them on is exactly how I like a round to sound, but can imagine that once they bed in they may take on more of a flat wound character. [/quote] I've found that the sound of these strings doesn't change too much with time (or perhaps I just haven't noticed)