WHUFC BASS

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='378598' date='Jan 13 2009, 07:46 AM']and I've got the gas for a Telecaster Guitar as a result... Picked up my daughter's Encore electric guitar over the break and I've been playing it more than my basses... I've had so much fun going back to stuff I used to do... power chords, blues licks... It's so much easier now having been playing bass... I now know where the notes are and what I'm doing rather than just blindly repeating licks out of a guitar magazine... I can come up with my own and they sound good as well... [/quote] Thats how I started 3 years ago. I know play guitar in two bands. Still looking for a band to play bass in !

This sounds like the bloke I bought a guitar off way back. It was a real nice PRS Copy. It was identical to the one made by Harley-Benton but the action was the lowest I'd ever seen on a guitar. Frets were all nicely stoned and dressed, and the sound was ok too. The body was mahogany but it was about a 5 piece body,this was my only gripe. The rest was great for the money.

As mentioned you can't generalise but I think the far-east come in for a lot of undeserved stick. I would put Japanese instruments up against anything coming out of the U.S. or Europe. They have been consistently good since the 70s - so much so that Gibson and Fender used their plants for manufacturing their guitars. As for Korea, again, some very high quality instruments come out of Korea. They are well made, and yes, they do use quality parts too. From experience Washburn and Schecter make cheap quality instruments. As for the Korean Rockbasses, they are quality. They use MEC pickups and Warwick tuners and play fantastically. I have a 5 String Corvette and I love it. It has the best neck on a 5-string I have ever played. It sounds great too. They use quality swamp as and maple on it too. I think the Chinese models that are in production now just aren't as good.

[quote name='4000' post='378109' date='Jan 12 2009, 07:03 PM']But seriously, all I can say is "may each note I play be a black arrow of death to all those who play False Metal". Or something like that. [/quote] I saw Manowar in the late 80s and they were a great band, shame all this false metal sh*t was lost on a British audience. It might wash with the yanks but for f***s sake, get a grip Joey.

[quote name='simon1964' post='377107' date='Jan 11 2009, 08:16 PM']LOL! As it happens, I played one of these at a local music shop a couple of weeks ago, and didn't like it at all. Got a decent review in BGM though.[/quote] Me too, tried one at the Bass Centre. Horrible I thought. The neck was probably the worst 5string neck I've ever played.

Geezer for me all the way. I didn't play the bass properly until I started listening to Sabbath way back. Probably the biggest influence on my playing.

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQrGtCxcwY"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQrGtCxcwY[/url] Some great bass tones in there... I really like Robert Trujillo bass sound on here. probably the tone I've been trying to achieve for a while. Geddy Lee reminds me of an anorexic Mrs Doubtfire.

Looks fine to me...

[quote name='Rusty Shackleford' post='376397' date='Jan 10 2009, 07:38 PM']mike watt[/quote] Thats a really good shout, fantastic bass player... [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-VSJ0pQ9g"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-VSJ0pQ9g[/url]

Comfort Strapps - easily the best gutiar and bass straps on the market.

[quote name='lowdown' post='374947' date='Jan 9 2009, 11:51 AM']I like them... Not sure they are underated though.. Over priced maybe... Garry[/quote] Not many people I know use them or have even heard of them. Most seem to be using Rotosound or Ernie Ball strings which for me just don't do it.

[quote name='Jake_M' post='298219' date='Oct 3 2008, 01:34 AM']Anyone's else's first bass line Love Song, Public Image, Peaches or Warhead?[/quote] Warhead was for me! I love the UK Subs. They're playing this Sunday in London which I'll be going to. Other first basslines include "Wonderful World" by the 4Skins, "Tube Disasters" Flux of Pink Indians and "When ya Get Drafted" by the Dead Kennedys. [quote name='markytbass' post='298348' date='Oct 3 2008, 08:49 AM']What about Norman Watt-Roy and Bruce Thomas?[/quote] Two fantastic bass players, especially Bruce Thomas. I really rate his playing and his sound too. Get Happy is an absoloute milestone for new wave basslines. As for JJ Brunel. He carried my bass amp into a rehearsal studio on the Holloway Road back in the 1980s. He's a really nice down to earth geezer.

Mk1 Sadowsky Outboard Pre-amp Peavey TKO75 Bass Combo - 80s model DR Hi-Beam Strings

[quote name='Brother Jones' post='361645' date='Dec 23 2008, 03:18 AM']I bought a mint red-stain SB-Elite II from a BC'er when BC was called...something else...about two years ago. I love it to bits. It's quite Alembic like in that the neck doesn't have a lot of taper and the electronics are pretty unusual. It's passive, but for a good three months I didn't realise because it's so versatile. It has (I think) two volumes, two switches which are possibly coil taps or something to do with series/parallel and a weird passive tone control that sounds unlike any other passive tone control I've ever used. It's going to need some work soon though, as the output sounds very low compared to my Fenders (let alone Sadowskys) and there's quite a lot of RF noise. But the sheer through-neck build quality, sustain, versatility and (dammit) good looks of the thing mean that it's one of the only basses I'm just not interested in selling.[/quote] That would be the one you bought off me That was a really nice bass as it goes and I thought it was active for a long time until I opened up the control cavity. Just in case anyone was wondering what it looked like: [url="http://www.putfile.com/pic/3030169"][/url] [url="http://www.putfile.com/pic/3030166"][/url] If I'm not mistaken its got an ash body with maple/walnut/maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and mother of pearl inlays.

Franco Rocco Prestia managed to lay down 16th Note basslines with his fingers effortlesly. I think its just practice.

You think so? I love that bass sound. Reminds me of Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath

Enjoy.... [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qDU_EHP0yl8"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qDU_EHP0yl8[/url]

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='374485' date='Jan 8 2009, 09:43 PM']That's a painful watch - seemes to take ages - but it's really interesting. I've got some GAS for a f***ing case now [/quote] Mate, honestly, I've got absolutely no affiliation with them but all my guitar cases that I travel with when we do gigs abroad are Hiscox and they've never had any mishaps. Believe me, Ryanair have done their best to smash the granny out of my axes but Hiscox cases really are the most affordable, durable, resilient cases on the market.

I know they cost slightly more but I don't think Hiscox cases can be beaten for durability and toughness. They're a good British company that make quality products which in my opinion make other cases redundant. Check this out: [url="http://www.hiscoxcases.com/products_hiscox.htm#construction"]http://www.hiscoxcases.com/products_hiscox.htm#construction[/url]

Give me Motorhead any day !!

[quote name='ARGH' post='373709' date='Jan 7 2009, 11:59 PM']Sometimes you have to do a gig and you dont have a choice what amp you have...some rooms are just boomy and crap,others are bright and harsh,in some genres the guitar (read Metal) sucks everything out,and you have to fight back with mid,plus Mids give the patented ARGH Distortomatic thud..Its why Im better than you,I dont need a ryth guitard in any band..and I rule the world. I dont want to be playing a gig where I cant hear what the f*** Im playing as I walk round the room wireless attached. You need mid to play Metal,you need mid to play Bass,end of.[/quote] You're a guitarist and I claim my £5