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I used to live near Nantwich... wait, that was a week ago. A bit too soon to reminisce.

Who bought it then?

Could get some chrome knobs?

[quote name='Rich' post='607840' date='Sep 24 2009, 04:07 PM']£450 BIN on a well-used bass that's £500 brand new, what a cracker. I like the bit that says: "[i]Due to this being a special bass we only want serious buyers, so we have decided to have collection only, that way we know that whatever home it goes to, the person is obviously very passionate about music to have travelled to pick it up and we hope it gets to continue touring.[/i]" Roughly translates as: "[i]We can't be arsed to arrange a courier.[/i]"[/quote] They have quite a way with words, it should almost be commended. So what if they spent more time thinking about how to phrase the advert rather than how to price it.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='606956' date='Sep 23 2009, 06:54 PM']I'm surprised at the amount of positive interest this is starting to attract.[/quote] So long as the price doesn't go too high i actually think i'll buy this. It looks amazingly...overloaded. (the body of it)

I quite want this. It looks amazingly awful and like it has tooo many knobs.

[quote name='iamapirate' post='603680' date='Sep 20 2009, 04:56 PM']The guitar effects can be applied to a mic - look in the manual for that. I *think* you can go into bounce mode and ONLY put that vocal track up, press the effects button once or twice until it's illuminated and it'll apply effects I *think* to the tracks that are bouncing. Then hit record and play and it should apply the effects. EDIT damn, just seen it's a microBR - I'm talking about the boss BR-900 haha. it might be the same[/quote] Thanks for that. I've managed to sort it, i think, by bouncing. A nice slight distortion on the vocals, would've been better with more though.

I've recorded some songs and am trying to turn up the distortion on the vocal track so it sounds more fuzzy. Is there anyway to actually to this without re-recording? It's on a seperate virtual track to everything else so i could bounce it down to another track with some effects on or something, but i havn't ever tried to do this (specifically adding fuzz) before so i was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Thanks. Ashok

I've only ever played one 5 string, and the strings were too close together. 4's enough for me right now. Enjoy.

I play in several, 3 to be exact, bands that're just a case of messing around and having fun. It is great fun but i'd quite like to get into a band with which i could 'go further' and get 'real' gigs, making money would be great but i dont particularly feel the need for it so long as i'm enjoying it and can survive each day. But that's an ideal. Enjoy. Ashok.

[quote name='Jobiebass' post='600831' date='Sep 16 2009, 10:30 PM']I think its common knowledge I have no idea how to write my own stuff.[/quote] (on a tangent) I read your bulliten the other day about 'hanging up your bass' as such. And if you're able to, then try and learn to improvise it's great fun. There's probably a bulliten somewhere on this website about learning to jam, it's great and provides a whole new field of bassing to explore. (and on topic) I write most of my own bass lines but the guitarist in one of my bands has no trouble writing them either.

What i played at was reffered to as a jam night and an open mic night depending on who you spoke to. I'll echo what the dude above me wrote. 'Go along and find out'.

I used to play regularly at one in liverpool but that was more a case of turn up and a backline (amps n drums...and guitars if needed) were provided and just get up and play. Either as a band, or solo, or at the end it could descend into a jam session. They used to be great fun, most of my live played was done at open mic nights. The one's i played at had a really friendly atmosphere and you get a good mix of bands, some really really good ones turn up, sometimes you get the same person playing the same song each week. I'd say it's worth going to one.

yowzers, free tv. That is generous.

Budget, well it's...£100 max i'd say. But i might just get a pair of headphones for the moment n get a small amp later down the line when i have a reason for it (i.e. a new band) I have a Boss Micro BR to use as a preamp so that should be fine. Thankks for the suggestions.

Ok well this has been done before many times i think, i might've even started one, so i'm sorry to bother you all again but any quick suggestions. I'm looking for a relatively cheap pair of headphones with which to practise my bass through. I'm going to uni. in september n dont want to piss off everyone in the halls using an amp so yeah, headphones seem like the best option. Overhead ones i think are the best, and i haven't ever used them apart from borrowing my dad's bose ones, but they're quite out of my price range. So yeah. headphones...go... Thanks in advance, wonderful community of bassists. Enjoy.

Just bought a Santana DVD from him, good stuff. Good condition. Very cheap. Thanks. Enjoy.

rechargeables?

Do that still stick that amusing picture of 'Bunny Brunel' in with the strings?

I've played one of these, i think, in college. Twos really quite nice especially for strumming chords.