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DubDelay

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  1. If you’re buying in Ireland and use the Adverts app all the sellers have reviews. Generally buying electrical equipment from sellers with lots of good reviews is a safe bet. Just ask them a load of questions so they have to explicitly state (in writing) that it powers up, pots are ok etc.
  2. I have an early 90s Mij Ibanez Sr800 that is very light. Has active pickups and preamp though so they might not be your cup if tea.
  3. Maybe some people hear it and others don’t. My missis just throws her eyes up as I adjust the knobs on my bass and expound on the nuanced differences in tone. Says it all sounds the same to her. In saying that I think the electrics are what matter for tone but we all love the instruments that feel good. Different story with an acoustic instrument.
  4. This sounds right to me. Some bodies are very resonant and some necks are, they work together or not, and you can feel when that works and when it doesn’t. Those are the ones I end up keeping anyway.
  5. Yup. They are a cool bunch really. Incapablestaircase.com I should add they are always looking for new hosts, it’s all community based radio from around Stroud. I’m in Ireland and there’s people from all over with shows on there now. My mate got my involved he’s from around there.
  6. Looking through it now, feeling like my meagre bass skills are improving already. Also there's enough in there to cover a years worth of shows.
  7. The show and station are eclectic so can get away with nearly anything, I. usually try to start with stuff people know or relate to and then lead into the less accessible sort of material.
  8. Might have to make it a monthly special at this rate. Probably three Carol Kaye tunes at least.
  9. Lots of stuff to go down the rabbit hole with here. It’s probably going to take a few weeks to put it all together. Bit of a hornet through bass ahead. Cheers!
  10. Very good idea to break it down into genres, thank you. Could do the special and then go back to the idea every couple of weeks.
  11. Thanks for all the answers so far, had a feeling it might kick off a debate of sorts. Google does give a good overview but who better to ask than the patrons of bass chat I thought. Very interested in the song that stands out too. I'll give the forum a plug and say the suggestions came from here. Cheers. Pete
  12. This is one of my first posts on here and just wanted to preface it with a thanks for all the info on here. It’s a great forum really. My question is - I have a weekly community radio show about music and am thinking of doing a special on essential bass players and their tracks (or track) that really shows off their style and talent most? All very subjective of course but very interested to hear who people would suggest. If it’s been asked before my apologies!
  13. I have an old cheapo les Paul that sounds nice but it’s a bit wonky. It had a similar problem and it was one of the machine heads was a bit damaged. The machine head off the D string created a similar sort of noise as you’re describing when I hit the E string. It took me ages to figure it out and now I just have a tiny bit of blue tac on it, can’t even see it. If you try holding the E, D and G machine heads one at a time it would eliminate that sort of thing. It’s probably not the problem but no harm in checking.
  14. My Arbour Les Paul weighs a ton and sounds amazing. The specs on a Hohner spreadsheet of models online says it’s laminated Baltic Birch. Pretty chunky boards cross laminated as far as I can tell. The pickups aren’t original someone changed them but it’s sounds amazing and plays nice too. most of my guitars get upgraded sooner rather than later but whenever I think about selling the Arbor I have a go of it and decide it sounds too good. The body doesn’t resonate much when you strum it hard so I think the kinetic energy stays more focused? for context I had a loan of a 90s standard sg for a couple of years when I started playing guitar about five years ago so I have been hands on with a great guitar. Usually the guitars I like most resonate like crazy but not the arbor. so I would agree with the comments here stating it’s the construction. I think people think of chipboard when they hear the word ply. I would imagine chipboard makes a fairly poor guitar or bass. Some instruments have mojo and other don’t. The better the manufacturing process the better the guitar usually I’d say from having obsessively bought and sold 40+ cheap and mid priced guitars in the last five years. I have an Vester strat with an Alder body and it’s so good I’d buy pretty much any Vester I could get my hands on but you don’t see them much in Ireland. There’s a nice minty looking Vester jazz bass on Adverts.ie right now if anyone was after one. The wife would hang me if I bought it in the next few weeks.
  15. Interesting info in the link. Thanks again.
  16. That’s some good info, thanks so much. Going to google all of those terms now.
  17. Getting a bass amp with a 15 inch speaker appeals for sure. Not to the better half though.
  18. Guess I don’t really need a bass amp then as I don’t gig. You read stuff online about the lower frequencies destroying guitar speakers, but not at low volume. And as pointed out all the old bass players were using guitar amps, which was sort of how I figured it. I can use the mid cut on my Sr800 to dial out some of the classic 30 honk, great with a strat or les Paul the honk is.
  19. I sometimes run the fx loop out on the Classic 30 into the fx in on an old 80s solid state I have. I might try that as the classic 30 has pretty saggy tone. Thanks for all the insights.
  20. Hi. Having been on the lookout for a cheap practice amp for playing bass at home I just had a thought and maybe someone here would have tried something similar. I use a Peavey Classic 30 as my main guitar amp at home, the volume is actually fairly manageable, even in an apartment. The Classic 30 is modded with a 1983 Celestion G12-65 speaker and it sounds unbelievably good. Don’t want to blow my vintage speaker by playing bass through it so could I disconnect that speaker and get a bass cab and run it from the speaker out on the Classic 30? This would save money and space and keep the wife happy. Cheers Pete
  21. Thanks for linking that site, lots of great info/guitar porn.
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