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The best phaser ever!
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Transdermal Celebration - Ween
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I love it! Sounds nice too.
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P-Bass rewire - grounding question
Baloney Balderdash replied to PaulT77's topic in Repairs and Technical
To answer your actual question, yes, there is another way of grounding the bridge: Run a slim piece of conducting self adhesive copper shielding tape from under the bridge (of course after removing the bridge), and then, stuck to the body of the bass, down into the pickups cavity, or in the other direction, down under the pickguard and into the control cavity, and then, inside the pickup or control cavity, solder a wire to that strip of copper tape, and from there connect the other end of that wire to where you would normally connect the bridge ground wire. That will work exactly just as great for grounding the bridge as a regular bridge ground wire. -
Gig bag for a tall-ish person
Baloney Balderdash replied to Mediocre Polymath's topic in Accessories and Misc
Or just get yourself a short scale bass that'll fit into a guitar gig bag like me. Though being 6'4" I still need to remind myself of having to duck every now and then, to avoid the top of the bag/head of the bass hitting the upper ledge of doors. -
Struggling with picking a new bass (5-6 string)
Baloney Balderdash replied to DaLi's topic in Bass Guitars
You might consider string spacing as well, which indirectly influence on the width of the fretboard. I briefly owned an Ibanez SR306, that i tuned low D, as in 2 half steps bellow regular 4 string bass E standard tuning, to high D#, and for the money it's an amazing bass, but, combined with the fact of being used to play short scale bass, I just couldn't get along with the wide fretboard, despite string spacing only being 16.5mm. I can't possibly tell you whether you need a low B or low E will be all you need, but if I was you, which I wasn't last I checked, I'd go for a 5 string with 16.5mm string spacing, and preferably medium or short scale (though I realize that doesn't leave many options). My current main instrument of choice is a just 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, tuned to G standard tuning, as in 3 half steps above the upper 5 strings of a 6 string bass tuned in regular B standard tuning. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
Why so? Edit!!!: Yeah, right, got it, technically, if average would be around 50%, but that means absolutely nothing in reality in regards of the issue discusses. -
I would love to have one of these, or the 50W PF-50T version. Love the fact that it got a transformer DI out, meaning you get the full poweramp and transformer sound from that DI, and could just run it into a poweramp if the relatively low wattage of the amp is not enough, but still have the sound of the full amp. I actually once owned a 60W Ampeg B-15, the 1968 version of the B-15S, which I very much regret being stupid enough to sell, it was a phenomenal amp. And despite its age, and taking quite a bit of abuse in the about 12 years period where I owned it, I never had any issues whatsoever with it. Congratulations! Edit!!!: Also these amps look damn cool, got to be the coolest amp design ever!
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Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
I suppose you got a fair point there, at least as the system works now, just look at the US. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
From different, strictly logical, perspective popularity will always be a strictly quantitative parameter/statement, and can never be a qualitative parameter/statement. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
Pizza with chicken, mushrooms and green and red pepper fruit, eventual with chili (the kind that is chili flakes and seeds in oil) as well (and of course including the basic tomato sauce and cheese as well), is my go to pizza, and absolutely delicious. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
"Law of Jante", here in Denmark, as also mentioned in that Wiki article. -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
I don't get Einstein. And I am pretty sure his Theory of Relativity is just nonsense. For sure quantum mechanics are, even a ten years old can tell that. Why try so hard to be clever? -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
You forget that in many a bass players view here bass being anything but root notes is considered unnecessary flashy meaningless noise and heresy, regardless if it serves the song or not, according to these people it is simply by definition not possible to groove if you play more than just 1 note, and all songs should groove, if not they are simply by definition to be categorized as meaningless noise! -
What exactly did You did after Your last gig ?
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
Wouldn't make much sense in the context though, would it? Beside I was right: -
Very cool. Congratulations. Though it seems to also be missing one of the intonation things, for the high G string. I am strongly considering buying the fretless Harley Benton take of the Violin/Beatles Bass, sounds phenomenal on the YouTube demo I watched, even if having been recorded DI, without anything further done to the signal.
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What exactly did You did after Your last gig ?
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
I am not entirely certain, but my best guess is that "KG" is referring to the official abbreviation of Kilogram (measurement unit for mass aka weight), and combined with the "-up" a reference to your weight going up, due to intake of McDonald's food. -
Which is 30" scale, 38mm nut width, not 34", 42mm nut width! Not that that makes it any less a real bass...
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Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
With clips of them playing all root notes, to display their true "greatness"? So he should have chosen 10 second clips of all of them playing nothing but root notes? -
Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
On a more serious note, I can totally get behind this list. -
What exactly did You did after Your last gig ?
Baloney Balderdash replied to nilorius's topic in General Discussion
What did you did? Diddle liddle dee, dum Did you did Diddle liddle dee, dum Dum-dee-dum Did you did Tjuh, HEY! -
I wonder why they felt the need to update the drive circuit in the first place, and what went through their heads when they tweaked it and after testing it thought: "Spot on, that's THE tone, definitely a clear improvement, this is bound to be a hit!".
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If he was he must have been a genious, inventing the first ever wireless bass system. It's so ridiculous it is cool!
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Is there a popular bass player, that you just don’t get?
Baloney Balderdash replied to Rayman's topic in General Discussion
Maybe because he instinctively knew this: Good morning -
This is you answer!