Musicman666

Just about anything by the police.

18 hours ago, Count Bassy said:

Mick Karn ruined fretless for me. However good I am (and I'm not) I can never sound like Mick Karn.

double track everything and you will surprise yourself…

Pino plays exactly what the song requires …that’s why he can charge top rate for what’ can be a fairly straightforward bass line, also pino often offloads his surplus basses via the bass gallery and from what I can tell the quality of those basses is top notch which makes me wonder how good are the ones he hangs onto.

Just got this pedal, …it seems to be a one trick pony but it’s a good trick, just makes everything sound better. For me it doesn’t readily overdrive rather than just give it a bit of tube breakup which is just perfect. It’s one of those pedals that you need to turn on and off to fully appreciate what it’s doing. I’m pairing it with a cali76 which I think could be the end of my quest for better tone….for the foreseeable future anyway. 

28 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

 

 

Also, being told "if it's good enough for Pino, it's good enough for you", isn't going to win you any business is it? 

   Wow.. it’s a shame because the quality bar a few exceptions is second to none, just needs to be a bit more humble when things inevitably do go wrong.

On 06/01/2022 at 17:22, Lfalex v1.1 said:

I had little joy from my Streamline. Focussing purely on the mechanical qualities that might affect a neck:

 

On mine, the phenolic fretboard started to de-laminate, and the lacquer cracked behind the bridge.  Most expensive bass I've ever purchased. Biggest disappointment.

Everything in status is handmade … so if you get the trainees first proper attempt things might  go a little pearshaped….just send it out and hope it’s accepted. I have also seen shoddy work come out of wal from their trainee who ironically is now their main man. 
 

the net is full of perfectly fine secondhand status necks so your experience is probably a rare exception although I have also witnessed fraying edges on their fret boards… but this is where the first owner (unpaid final inspection checker) needs to send it back but rarely ever does if it’s just cosmetic…. You might even be advised to remove any finger rings upon raising the issue which is basically code for wear and tear which then takes us into the one word against another scenario…lol.

I don’t think I can remember a brand new bass that didn’t have one or two minor flaws..

Surface chipped edges status can easily fix.

On 08/01/2022 at 09:33, Hutton said:

I don’t see why the Gallery don’t simply remove a bass from the website when it’s sold. Bass Direct remove items quickly once they are sold. As I said before I suspect it’s just laziness.

Annoying right?…. And if you came earlier this is what you could have!  Bass direct are just as guilty.

Yeah…sounded a bit unlikely.

I had a fretless ebony one of these …flogged it for a couple of hundred in the 90s, luckily I managed to pick up a mark ii a few years later at considerably more that two hundred.

Still for sale?

54 minutes ago, Musicman666 said:

Maybe this one but price is starting to go up. https://www.thomann.de/gb/jhs_pedals_buffered_splitter.htm

 

ignore my thread ..I’m getting this one ..
 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Musicman666 said:

I’m a bit foggy on this, I want to split my signal in the studio to two seperate effects pipelines. I’m looking at what’s out there and there are some quite reasonable options pricewise such as the ehx switchblade + or mxr m196 …but then you can go silly with an active radial. My question is if I go passive am I halving the output and reducing the quality of the signal?, I don’t really want to compromise on output and quality but on the other hand I don’t want to throw good money away on some high end gear that I don’t really need.

 

any suggestions guys thanks.

Maybe this one but price is starting to go up. https://www.thomann.de/gb/jhs_pedals_buffered_splitter.htm
 

I’m a bit foggy on this, I want to split my signal in the studio to two seperate effects pipelines. I’m looking at what’s out there and there are some quite reasonable options pricewise such as the ehx switchblade + or mxr m196 …but then you can go silly with an active radial. My question is if I go passive am I halving the output and reducing the quality of the signal?, I don’t really want to compromise on output and quality but on the other hand I don’t want to throw good money away on some high end gear that I don’t really need.

any suggestions guys thanks.

you need to move the upper strap pin backwards as much as possible to shift the center of gravity in your favour.

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

If this doesn't do the job, you're dead.

 

 

I must be…Just sounds like a regular bass tone ..?  

Killer tone…This was a Travis Bean aluminum neck…di and double tracked.

Agree about flea on that last one …maybe he was slightly taking the mick? But everything else was not what I would call bad at all, McCartney was sloppy but in a good way, burst out laughing when enwistle got a mention, seriously wtf?

During the 80s in deptford the ozrics regularly played in this dark crypt under a church against a psychedelic light show till four in the morning.They would distribute their home made cassette tape albums, it was a pretty chilled out scene. Webcore was another band that used to play there quite a bit.

2 hours ago, therealting said:

 

Basically I had three Calis at the time…

Good answer.

Low action for me on my fretless is when it can’t be played lying down …only standing up.

On 24/10/2021 at 12:17, therealting said:

The Cali 76 used to be mine, I can confirm that it is basically a brand new pedal - it’s a beautiful pedal and you won’t find a cleaner one. 

I can’t fathom why anyone would want to sell this pedal in the first place…

5 hours ago, Thunderbird said:

Everything says I should like this band and I've tried listening so many times and just don't get it 😮

ozrics is what happens when you get brought up on a diet of gong and hawkwind …

I have a couple but the reasons or buying them was purely because of the spec, not the player.

Used to follow this band a lot in the 80s, remember one particular squat gig getting raided by all these police …the support was zodiac mindwarp…heady daze for sure.

my wal..