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[quote name='Faithless' post='1229711' date='May 13 2011, 10:06 AM']I think there's much more involved into fretless making process than leaving frets out..[/quote] Well, yes... assuming you're going unlined you [i]also[/i] have to remember not to cut the fret-slots.
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Oooh, there's a lot of winking going on in here. I love a good backroom conspiracy. EDIT to add...
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[quote name='Johnston' post='1228132' date='May 11 2011, 10:12 PM']c***[/quote] Eloquently and accurately put. John, I hope you can get this sorted out sensibly. Fingers crossed.
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Steve bought a cab from me. An absolute pleasure. Smooth as a baby's bum. A heartily recommended guy to deal with.
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Personally, I like it on some of my basses and can't stand it on others. It's just a case of how it fits in with the general sound of the instrument. I've always encouraged a fair bit on StingRays (and their kin); it just seems to work. I've been listening to a lot of Prefab Sprout recently, and I've noticed that there's a shedload of buzz, clack and rattle from the bass on a lot of the tracks on [i]Steve McQueen[/i] (guessing by ear, I'd say there's a mixture of Precision and Ray on that album). Sounds frigging class, too.
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SOLD: TC Electronic RS112 cab
BottomEndian replied to BottomEndian's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
[quote name='redd' post='1225781' date='May 10 2011, 06:43 AM']Darn, that was quick!! If for any crazy reason it dosnt work out, can I have second dibs? [/quote] Already left with the courier, I'm afraid! -
SOLD: TC Electronic RS112 cab
BottomEndian replied to BottomEndian's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
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[b]***SOLD*** ***SOLD*** ***SOLD***[/b] Nice, smooth-sounding little cab. Totally usurped by my acquisition of a PJB combo... and my wife keeps asking me when I'm selling that black box I don't use any more, so it's time to say goodbye to it. It's about a year old, and it's only had light use at home and rehearsal. Here's the general TC spiel: [quote]Our RS112 is a new high quality compact cabinet in the RS bass range. RS112 delivers TC tone in a small and compact package. But don't let the tight design fool you, RS112 handles 200 watts of power and the 12" driver and 1" tweeter is the perfect choice for a full toned sound anywhere spaces comes at a premium. As with all of the RS range, the 12" driver and tweeter (with rear HF adjustment) are custom made by the Eminence and offer superior quality and power. RS112 is ideal as a standalone cabinet for smaller gigs and because it maintains the RS stackability, it can slot in with other RS cabinets to bolster your sound and scale up you system. The portability of RS112 is blatantly obvious, with its 30 lbs weight, small size and top placed handle it is a virtual grab'n go cab.[/quote] Dimensions are (apparently) W x H x D = 356 x 356 x 498mm, with a weight of 14 kg (just under 31 lb). It's an 8-ohm cab, rated to 200W. Generally in great condition, with just a few very light scuffs (you can a couple of small scratches along the back in the pictures) and one absolute peach of a scrape off a rear corner (bottom-right as you look at the back of the cab). The wall on my staircase fared much worse from the encounter. Going rate new seems to be £329. Given the corner scuff and the increasingly intense marital glaring, I'll say [b][s]£200 delivered in the UK[/s] ***SOLD***[/b]. Yes, I've got cream carpets and children. I'm a masochist.
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[quote name='Chris2112' post='1224379' date='May 8 2011, 07:10 PM']I'm planning on getting the payment in for a fretless ACG... ...will have a piezo bridge and a single magnetic pickup in the bridge position for that awesome burpy sound.[/quote] Yes, yes, yes, YES, YES and a thousand times YES. Fretless + piezo + filter preamp = hot fretless sex.
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[quote name='Scoop' post='1222122' date='May 6 2011, 12:11 PM']Aye, a lot better than I do that's for sure. [/quote] Pah! Nonsense! I'll be delighted if I look half as good as you when [b]I[/b] reach 76.
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[quote name='Mornats' post='1222113' date='May 6 2011, 12:00 PM']Will doing it this way (panning one track left and the other right) essentially put the guitar track back in the middle?[/quote] Yes (assuming they're just straight copies), but twice as loud as just having one of them in the middle. One easy way to get a more effective doubling effect is to put a very short delay on one side, and if you can modulate the delay ever so slightly, the subtle variations in pitch can thicken it up even more. Hard right and hard left might be a bit much, though. Experiment with more subtle panning variations.
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[quote name='eude' post='1222111' date='May 6 2011, 11:59 AM']No no, the camera stays with me at home.[/quote] Aaaaaahhhhh, right. You're not going to Sweden. I am the king of misinterpreting the written word. Anywaaaaay... build's looking good, Scoop!
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[quote name='eude' post='1222107' date='May 6 2011, 11:54 AM']...parceling up the new camera for a week away in Sweden...[/quote] Fixed, for the perfect solution.
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[quote name='eude' post='1222104' date='May 6 2011, 11:50 AM']I am taking delivery of a new (to me at least) DSLR today[/quote] Bwahaaa... there goes your weekend!
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[quote name='eude' post='1129753' date='Feb 16 2011, 04:17 PM']You want me to post a picture of the joint on mine, just for illustrative purposes?...[/quote] Seeing as Eude failed miserably on this count ( ), allow me to fill in with an ACG singlecut bolt-on neck joint: Yum yum.
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I'm sure 5im0n will be along at some point to set us all straight...
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[quote name='Wil' post='1222026' date='May 6 2011, 10:34 AM']Just wondering what tree I should be barking up before I start playing with the attack and release settings.[/quote] I'd incorporate the attack and release ([i]especially[/i] the attack) into your initial fiddling, to be honest. If you still want your pick attack to cut through, you might suffer from having the attack set too quick -- the compressor would pull down the pick attack along with the rest of the note, whereas a longer attack would give the pick a chance to cut through before the gain reduction starts. Purely personally (and everyone's different), when I'm starting to fiddle with a new compressor, I set the ratio to around 3:1 and threshold to the point where normal playing is getting a gain reduction of (at most) 3 to 6 dB... and then go nuts from there. Spend a loooong time adjusting things and listening to the difference they make. Only [i]you[/i] can say what settings are going to work for you.
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[quote name='xgsjx' post='1220916' date='May 5 2011, 12:30 PM']Other option would be an ebow & a volume pedal[/quote] +1 Also, no frets.
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What baffles me is when people somehow draw a distinction between (for example) "jazz" and "rock". Yeah, sure, there is jazz that sure as hell isn't rock, and there's rock that sure as hell isn't jazz... but there's a bucketload of stuff in between, blurring the lines (if you thought there were lines in the first place ) and combining ideas from all over the place. It's all just music.
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[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1219972' date='May 4 2011, 03:35 PM']We occasionally have something on Tyneside. Maybe it's time...[/quote] Yes. Yes, it is.
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Fishbone in Newcastle tonight :)
BottomEndian replied to thisnameistaken's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='bassoctopus' post='1218317' date='May 3 2011, 08:49 AM']Great gig as usual, but sound was pretty poor[/quote] Is this endemic to O2 (or ex-Carling) Academy venues? I've been to gigs in a few, and every single one has been horrendously boomy and muddy. -
I always thought the tone-wood thing was a bit flaky, now I know!
BottomEndian replied to iconic's topic in Bass Guitars
[quote name='Sawtooth' post='1215799' date='Apr 30 2011, 01:50 PM']Also, Kramer used to make an aluminium necked bass, which I believe was played by Derek Baxter on the 'Minder' tv theme ...[/quote] I thought that was the legend that is Mo Foster. -
[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1215636' date='Apr 30 2011, 11:32 AM']Unless you keep an instrument hermetically sealed and monitored...[/quote] ...to act as a control instrument in a decades-long experiment involving the acquisition of not one, but at least [b]two[/b] new instruments... hmmm... As a musician, GAS-fiend and former scientist, I'M TOTALLY ON IT. Just need to build a hermetically sealed stronghold. Oh, and I need to move house first in order to accommodate the apparatus.
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[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1215608' date='Apr 30 2011, 11:02 AM']Ooh I'll play. No but the unsubstantiated, intangible BS spouted about them does. [/quote] So... can we just indulge a couple of questions from a wood numpty (i.e. me) to try to separate the BS from the fact? 1) If a bass is made with non-optimally-dried wood (i.e. probably most of the mass-produced basses on the planet), and the wood then dries out as it ages, can that offer any change/improvement in tone (acoustically at least... let's ignore for now the possibility that the electrics are more important)? (Or will it just knack the finish?) 2) I've read a fair bit of stuff (probably unrooted in reality) about woods somehow being "played in" over the years, particularly with acoustic guitars. Like the resonances "open up" or something. (Could be related to moisture content, I suppose, or could be something else... or purely psychological.) Thoughts?
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[quote name='rob_89' post='1213976' date='Apr 28 2011, 05:10 PM']Hope ive not missed this in the ad but how much does this beast weigh? in KG please[/quote] [url="http://www.philjonespuresound.com/about/reviews/394.pdf"]This review[/url] lists the weight at 172 lb... which is an eye-watering 78 kg.