Baloney Balderdash
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Yes, but as I see it having such a system is assuming in before hand that people will use these words with the intention of being vulgar, and as such judging them in beforehand, I for one really don't understand why "stinky poo" should be any better, if anything it is even worse, "sh*t" is after all a quite common curse word, whereas "stinky poo" means exactly what it says "stinky fecal matters", just put in a more infantile way, judging certain expressions as especially bad over other expressions that semantically is even worse shows a lack of ability to understand individual people's use of language and how it might for example be a product of their social background and circle of friends, where it might not have the same bad connotations as you insist it to have, a lack of ability to understand that language and words connotations are merely social constructs, sucking up to this sort old fashioned pseudo moralist code of conduct that really has absolutely nothing to do with real ethics, finally they are after all just words, they can mean whatever you want them to mean, and if you insist in seeing something dirty in them then it is you who think dirty not the people using them with no dirty intentions in mind. This sort of censorship would never be implemented on any Danish forum, and I am not going to change my mind about it being completely and utterly brain dead, that it protects absolutely no one, but on the contrary display intelligent people as salivating imbecile morons, contributes to maintaining and feed an old fashioned rigid pseudo-moral socially conservative code of conduct and view on reality, and that the people deciding to implement this system have an infinitely more dirty mind than all the bull-crap and cow-dung in the whole wide world together could ever possibly have.
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I contemplated if it would be inappropriate to like your post, but got to say, even if it's hard to earn respect by taking one's own life, she absolutely earned it in my book. This seems like a fitting homage to your friend (a shame it's become such a worn out cliche, cause its actually a great song) : Life's a piece of stinky poo (well, that is not how the actual lyrics goes, in what kind of world would you want to censor Monty Python *resigned sigh*) When you look at it Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true You'll see it's all a show Keep 'em laughin' as you go Just remember that the last laugh is on you (also I fail to see how a "stinky poo" can possibly be any better than a "stinky poo", and personally I take infinitely more offence to being made into looking like a completely retarded imbecile than someone using the word stinky poo)
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I wouldn't worry, neither as a hypothetical future second hand buyer if the offer was right and I happened to be on the lookout for that particular model. I am not shallow like that. It's only a quite minor cosmetic, I would't even really call it a flaw, rather peculiar detail, that I actually even think adds a certain unique charm to the fretboard.
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That's not Lemmy! (the one in the OP) Not even remotely! Scam! -
I am primarily a pick player too. I am perfectly capable of playing with my fingers, and I primarily do so when I play electric guitar, but for bass I much prefer the specific tone you get from a pick, that signature snappy emphasis of the attack. Personally I prefer a relatively flexible one and found the Dunlop USA Nylon .73mm just about perfect for me, and since those picks are ready available and cheap I will never face any problems with finding a new pick, and I got no issues with brand new picks either.
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Active Pre Amps - bass mostly 40hz?
Baloney Balderdash replied to redbandit599's topic in Bass Guitars
Technically the center frequency it is the middle, and therefor top point, of the (kind of bell shaped triangular) curve that the boost/cut effects, so the more you boost or cut the broader a frequency spectrum will be affected around the center frequency, how broad determined by the bandwidth (or steepness/angle) of said curve (which will vary depending on the specific equalizer's circuit, and as far as goes fully parametric equalizers will be adjustable), either measured in dB/Oct (dB per octave) or as the Q value. -
I would most possibly and enjoy it too, and sometimes I feel sad about and for some people apparently not being capable of sharing other people's enthusiasm and seemingly never feeling the urge to explore unknown territory just for the sake of their own curiosity, cause to me that is a pretty essential part of life and the human experience. As for the video in the OP, that's pretty amazing, and I even really liked it as well, pretty much sounded like a great jazz bass solo (as in an electric bass guitar solo in a jazz piece), which I guess is not all that strange, given what it was based on.
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Active Pre Amps - bass mostly 40hz?
Baloney Balderdash replied to redbandit599's topic in Bass Guitars
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Assuming the Eden cab you mention is actually an 8 Ohm cab, as labeled, since you can't measure the load the way you did, as the replies above explains, adding an additional 8 Ohm cab in parallel would give a 4 Ohm load, and in series 16 Ohm (assuming you are using 2 speaker outputs from the amp to connect the two 8 Ohm cabs it would most likely be 4 Ohm, as multiple speaker outputs on an amp are usually wired in parallel).
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If that is the case, and the guy with the Trace Elliot amp for sale doesn't agree on reserving it until the 30th of this month, perhaps I should get the new Ashdown Ant amp then, about the same size and got about the same power as the ELF, and it does claim to have the Ashdown tone, which as I understand it is close to the classic Trace Elliot one, as it is one of the people who designed the Trace amps who run that company. Will be a bit more expensive, but not by that much. Something I will have to seriously consider at least.
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So I wrote a message to the seller of the 300W GP7SM head and offered him the option of reserving it to me to the 30th this month, with the promise that we'd then have a 100% certain closed deal by then, where I will have the money to actually buy it, or not, and then him taking the risk of possibly not finding another buyer before that anyway and me having changed my mind in the meantime, of course formulated in a much nicer, not so ultimatum like, way, actually just asking him kindly if he would be kind and reserve it for me till I had the money by the end of the month, and assuring him that if he did I'd commit to paying him there. So time will tell if he'll accept, and I can expect to have a new amp by the end of this month, or I will have to wait with buying it till I got the money, taking the risk of someone else doing so before me, but on the other hand then still will have the option for eventually deciding against buying it. I'll write an update when that has been settled.
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Confirms the impression I got from the rest of the replies in this thread, that the ELF will likely not do what I am really interested in. As for waiting and getting a SMC instead though I think I'll stick to the SM I mentioned in my OP, as I already got a compressor that I love, and as the GP7SM, as I also mentioned in my OP, will be the exact same type of amp, just in head form and with more power, as the combo I once owned and absolutely loved the tone of. Actually I am pretty convinced now that that would be the right way to go for me, so now I just need to decide weather to actually do it or if I would really be better off spending my money on other useful music equipment instead. It's not like I am really strictly needing an amp, as, as said, I am actually quite satisfied with the tone I got currently, it is just that I am really tempted by the prospect of once more owning a Trace Elliot amp and being able to once more achieve that sweet sweet tone they are capable of.
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True, but I would think I could still get a general idea of more specifically how the ELF and old Trace Elliot amp compares tone wise, judging from the general consensus of people with first hand experience with both. In that this is not exactly as much a matter of personal preferences and taste in tone as it is a specific comparison of how close two different amps get tone wise to each other. My impression so far from this thread is that the ELF likely won't do what I am interested in and that I would properly be best off either buying and old Trace Elliot head or simply stick to my current setup and use my money on some effect pedals I want as well. I actually think the replies in this thread has helped me, they somewhat managed to changed my initial slight preposition towards the ELF in favor of other options, and I would say that's the proof of it not being completely pointless, but still interested to hear from more people and their take on it.
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Thanks. Seems not everyone agree with you, judging from the comments I have read other where, but in case you are right that would be a really heavy argument for me to get the old Trace Elliot GP7SM head instead of the ELF, so waiting to see if that will be the general consensus of this thread. I concluded that, yes, but I didn't say anywhere that that was the most important argument to me, I just listed the ELF's obvious advantages, and as I also wrote I wanted to know what disadvantages there would be, like for instance tone wise, by getting that over an old Trace Elliot head (in fact I say so at the very beginning of the paragraph you quote me for). No use in being able to transport it easily if I would be as good without it tone wise, and if that is the case there would be no reason for me to buy it either really. Obviously not going to buy something that would be completely useless to me just for the sake of being able to drag it around with me. While being able to transport it easily would be ideal, transport of an eventual more heavy head could be arranged otherwise, even if it'll make it slightly more complicated for me, for one the drummer I play with owns a van, as said I have no intention of sacrificing tone for transporatabillity, as I also wrote in my OP I am actually already pretty satisfied with the setup I got currently, just tempted by that sweet classic Trace Elliot tone, and if the ELF won't be able to deliver that I wouldn't spend money on it even if it had been as small and light as a stamp and had a 100 years full unconditional warranty.
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Thanks for your input. Well, if I can trust the comments I've read it is supposed to have inherited the old Trace amp's conservative power rating, meaning it ought to be much louder than the watts it is rated at would suggest, and I have a history of using bass amps most people would claim to have too little power to keep up with a drummer in quite loud rock band settings, even keeping up in small bar sized venues without PA support, and the 130W 1x15" Trace Elliot combo that I owned had no issues with keeping up with a loud rock power trio at rehearsals with the master volume never getting past the 11 o'clock position, so as far as wattage power goes I think I should be good with the ELF.
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You might be right, though that is not what Trace Elliot/Peavey claims, and doesn't match the comments I have read from people having first hand experience with using the ELF either. I for one actually love the straight up tone of the classic Trace Elliot amps without using the pre-shape function (which the ELF doesn't but the Transit B be does have, though personally I hate scooped tones, so I have no use for such a function whatsoever), and with a pretty flat EQ setting, and from what I've read the ELF should be capable of delivering a tone pretty close to that. Not saying that you are not right, just that I'll wait for some people with actual first hand experience with both old Trace Elliot amps and the ELF to dime in with their view on this matter.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look at them. But I would still like some arguments for why I should buy a relatively old and heavy Trace Elliot amp head, that would be impossible to transport back and forth home, rehearsal space and eventual future gigs using public transport (since I neither got a car or a drivers license), over a brand new tiny and light ELF head that I would be able to transport back and forth without any issues whatsoever, use as a dedicated preamp if desired, since it doesn't need speaker load, and with a warranty of 3 years?
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So I am pondering on maybe getting myself a proper bass amp here coming the 1st of November, next month, since I am currently just using the poweramp section of my 160W Peavey Solo Special 112 guitar combo, with the build in 12" guitar speaker unit disconnected and the amp instead hooked up with a 4Ohm, 400W, SWR Triad I bass cab with 1x15 + 1x10" + tweeter horn, and even if I actually really like that tone that gives me I just absolutely love the classic Trace Elliot tone, once having owned a 1x15" 130W GP7SM combo that I was very very fond of, and kind of regret selling. So the question is, should I get the extremely tiny and light weight, relatively new, 200W Trace Elliot ELF amp head, which I will buy from brand new, or get the used, relatively old, and quite heavy, 300W GP7SM amp head, that is currently for sale for just about the same price as I can get a new ELF? I would appreciate arguments for and against, beside the obvious advantages the ELF got size and weight wise, making it extremely easy to transport, unlike the old GP7SM head, that I know will be quite heavy. Like would there be any obvious noticeable difference in the tone they respectively produce when set flat and not using the pre-shape of the GP7SM head (which I will definitely not be using anyway, hate mid scooped tones). What would you chose and why? And what would I lose getting one over the other, beside the obvious warranty, ease of transportation, less EQ tweaking options, lack of pre-shape functions (which, as said, I won't have any use for anyway), and 100W less power, of the ELF? Or should I rather, since I am actually quite satisfied with the tone I get now from the Peavey, which also got plenty of enough power for my use, forget about the temptation of getting a Trace Elliot amp in my possession again, and instead use my money on some new effect pedals that I also have cravings for?
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Sire Owners - Quick Pickup Question
Baloney Balderdash replied to BassApprentice's topic in Bass Guitars
No, that is not true at all! Pickups that are sealed got covers as well, they are just not removable, as the pickups have been sealed in the covers, if they weren't the coils would be exposed, a sealed cover is still a cover, just not replaceable, just like a sealed can that have not been opened is still a can. What they should have replied to answer his question would be either A: They are removable and therefor replaceable or B: They are sealed and therefor not replaceable, which would have addressed the actual point with his question directly. That they got covers says nothing about if those covers have been sealed or if they are replaceable, and therefor the answer he got from Sire is as good as useless, not answering his actual question and not addressing the whole point with asking it whatsoever (as in weather they are replaceable or not). -
Thank you. With that in mind I think I might get the EHX B9 Organ Machine to use with the sort of stoner/doom rock bass/vocals and drums duo that has my main musical focus currently. Since I actually tune my bass in G standard tuning, 3 half steps above E standard tuning (kind of more functioning as a sort of 4 string baritone guitar/bass hybrid), I should have no issues with tracking, and the always on 1 octave up that I always have added to my bass signal will help giving an extra dimension to the organ sound as well. I'd imagine that pedal would work really well for that project, well the C9 as well properly, but I can't afford them both at once, and I think the thick doomy church like organ sounds that the B9 is capable will be the most obvious choice.
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Good to know. I got the impression that the 9 series pedals weren't really usable bellow open A of a bass from the comments I've read mentioning the tracking of them, but guess they indeed are then. Sorry for giving off misleading information earlier in this thread, but I just assumed that the people who wrote those comments, and who claimed to have actually first hand experience with these pedals, knew what they were talking about (as this was not just based on 1 single person's claims, but several people), but I trust that you would actually have the more nuanced and accurate answer to that. As for weather placing a compressor in front of them helps, I know that it usually in fact will improve tracking on pitch tracking devices, but I also know that EHX actually claims that their 9 series of pedals already got a build in compressor that will compress the signal fed to the pedals's pitch tracking circuit/algorithm when engaged, exactly with the purpose of improving tracking, but I wouldn't know if adding additional compression helps that further or not.
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Is that a low D as in 2 half steps bellow low open E of a 4 string bass tuned in E standard tuning (as in D1), or as in the open D string of a 4 string bass tuned in E standard tuning (as in D2)? Cause I've read several places that it won't track properly bellow open A of a 4 string bass in regular E standard tuning (as in A1), which is what I based my previous replies in this thread on.
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Sire Owners - Quick Pickup Question
Baloney Balderdash replied to BassApprentice's topic in Bass Guitars
If I was you I'd let Sire know that it in fact doesn't answer the question you actually asked them whatsoever, since they in fact asked them self if it did (even if they deliberately left out a question mark after asking it, and even if they are perfectly aware of the answer to that them self). They might as well have written this back to you: "Yes, the pickups got covers. As to the answer to the actual question you asked us, we know, just refuse to tell you. Now go screw yourself annoying customer." -
Sire Owners - Quick Pickup Question
Baloney Balderdash replied to BassApprentice's topic in Bass Guitars
What an absolutely lazy donkey jerk answer, doesn't answer your actual question at all, and they are perfectly well aware of that, then still got the indecency to ask if it does, like as it does and like they don't know better. ("donkey" = another word for "behind") In fact more of an insult than an answer. Bad service!
