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Nice one Eude, i'll check that out! Had a play with it last night, and with the ME-50B he's lent me too, was plenty fun. I made some utterly digusting noises running it all through my Crybaby..... I'm not sure it was anything remotely useful in a musical context, but it was damn good fun

Exactly what it says on the can.... I've been loaned an SYB-3 by an ex-bassplaying friend, and although I'm looking forward to just experimenting with it when I get home tonight, I wouldn't mind knowing what i'm actually doing. Can't find it on the Boss site, so I was just wondering if any of you fine upstanding fellows has a copy that you could email to me

[quote name='larrikin' post='120779' date='Jan 15 2008, 01:38 PM']i'm looking for a white IV but can't find one anywhere, the distributers for the UK is a company called rossetti who are useless, they say that white IV's are only available on special order...[/quote] There's a white one for a grand in Sound Control, Nottingham. I've just spotted it looking through their clearance list. About 1/4 of the way down [url="http://clearance.soundcontrol.co.uk/index.php"]this[/url] page!

[quote name='Forcemaster' post='152110' date='Mar 5 2008, 11:38 PM']Thanks for the advice everyone. Has really helped. Though now to choose a midi board![/quote] [quote name='crez5150' post='152160' date='Mar 6 2008, 07:20 AM']Good advice Dood..... I find the Behringer equipment a bit too noisy.... much as Alesis rack FX..... Can't go wrong with TCE also check out Lexicon for some lush fx..[/quote] No worries if it's only a MIDI board though, there'll be none of that magical Behringer hiss in his signal path.... which is more than I can say for some of the Behringer stuff I've got at home

Having said that, back when I wasn't brave enough to dabble with my own gear, my Trace stopped making noise one day and earned a trip to our local 'reputable' amp service establishment. It came back with a 45p parts charge, and £50 labour! He'd changed a fuse, and allegedly 'thoroughly tested, given a full service and internal parts cleaned'. When it stopped working again within half an hour of switching it on, I opened it up myself, and there was more dust in there than in a used hoover bag, and not a damn thing but the fuse had been touched. You can never be quite sure what you're getting from these places, but they've had no more of my business since then.

As far as I'm aware, if you buy a properly made mic splitter box, you should be able to send phantom power down there with no probs. It's the kind of thing that gets used all the time with tour rigs to split to a monitor desk or a multitrack recorder, so it should be cool. Don't think they come cheap though :s

[quote]If I caught up with someone who attempted to steal one of mine I would add another ding to the beast by using it to teach the thief a lesson. Scum. The first is always the worst![/quote] After we'd safely got the bass back, we did head off to go and teach him a lesson. One of the lads from the support band had the foresight to call the police though.... and they caught up and pulled him over when we were about 5 seconds away from some tough justice. I think he had a lucky escape! [quote post='152071' date='Mar 5 2008, 10:11 PM']Which bass did he make off with, you stay very mysterious the whole way through [/quote] It was my Stingray... and at the time, the only decent bass I owned, which didn't help my heart rate one bit. As if that hadn't been enough, our van broke down, and the lead guitarist wrote his car off on the way home, all on the same night!!! Couldn't make it up if you tried

Haven't seen it mentioned on here, but a few places stateside have started stocking pre-slotted Badass II units. As I'm far too lazy to indulge in the precision craftsmanship required to file my own saddles, I've got one of them on order at the moment. If anyone's interested, I'll let you know how it works out.... although I haven't got experience with a standard Badass to compare, so it's probably (like much of what I have to say) of questionable value

Aren't the new American Standards shipping with fancy stackable SKB cases? I'm glad my Stingray came in a proper case, bought it in Australia, and it survived the baggage handlers best attempts from Adelaie, via Hong Kong, Heathrow and Manchester. I did see them [i]actually[/i] throw it when they were unloading at Heathrow..... I'd have ran out there and singlehandedly destroyed them all, if it hadn't been likely I'd get shot at as a potential terrorist or something

You're kidding?? I [b]love[/b] the postie!! Today, he brought me a bass crybaby, two sets of strings, and my Wizards!!! I'm hoping he brings me a Badass II before the week is out, and then I can stop hanging round the letterbox trying to bite his hand off every morning

Pfft, I was about to berate him, along the lines of "Hasn't even got any Ampeg", then I saw the B-15. Not that I'm remotely jealous. At all. No :wacko:

I think I've had the luckiest escape from dings.... I was playing a show in a rock club of questionable sophistication in Warrington, we'd finished up and started loading out of the fire doors next to the stage. I'd stopped to track down my bottle of water when someone grabs me and says the words you never want to hear.... "Hey mate, some smackhead's just made off out the door with your guitar!" He'd grabbed the nearest thing off our guitar stand and legged it into the darkness. The load out stopped and we made off in after him. We eventually caught up with him, he'd dumped it in a patch of grass just off the main road, and tried to make an exit from the seven angry scousers who were in hot pursuit. Unbelievably, we got it back to the venue, and there wasn't a single scratch or dent on it. Those things are indestructible

Browsing Thomann and came across [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/tech_21_bass_driver_deluxe.htm"]this[/url], anybody else spotted it, or is it old news and I'm just out of the loop? Looks the mutts nuts though, I feel a bout of GAS coming on

Good lord, how have I [i]not[/i] heard about this???? I'll be downloading the very minute I get home from work, I think

Our practice room is loud as sin, it's been crippling my poor ears for ages. Our drummer is a proper rock monster, and there's three guitarists, so I've had some hearing issues myself. Finally gone back to wearing ear plugs, and the difference it's made is incredible. Not only has my head stopped ringing after every rehearsal, but the clarity in everything is so much better. I can hear me, but I can hear exactly where the drummer is heading too (usually off on a tangent somewhere ), so it might be worth trying that!

It sure does, it's my favourite thing to do I've actually gone on a bit of spree myself the last couple of weeks. I was going to buy 'a couple of bits' to kickstart my Squier project, and I've ended up with a P/J set of Wizards, a Badass II, a whole new tone circuit and a scratchplate, as well as a Behringer BDI21 and a sexy white Crybaby!! Not to mention an enormous eBay watch list, and a shopping list of components to start modding all my other gear.... think I'm catching the bug! Can't wait to get all my new toys out in rehearsals this week!

+1 for the TC Electronic stuff... I haven't used it with my bass, but a guitarist I work with uses a G-Major in the loop of his delicious Laney valve head, and the effects are spot on. No discernible loss of tone either.

I've heard the VBA ones in action, although I haven't played through it myself. Sounded tasty to me

Relieved him of his Behringer BDI21 this week. Absolutely top bloke, friendly emails, and the pedal turned up well packed and quick as you could ask for. Couldn't be better - cheers James!!

Cheers for your words of wisdom everyone.... I think I'm going to go with Vol/Vol/Tone for now, seems a shame to waste the output of my pickups with a blend knob. I guess if I really miss the master volume, I can always just rewire it!! Ordered the pots and stuff from WD last night, and they came this morning!! Gonna give the body and neck a good clean and start the wiring next week while I wait for my badass to land. I've been saying for two or three years now that I'm gonna fix this bass up, so it's about time really

Looks great, and the sound samples on the website seem pretty cool. How much did it wind up costing after the shipping/customs/nonsense?? I'm quite tempted!!

[quote name='SwordRaven' post='148261' date='Feb 28 2008, 09:59 AM']In my experience it's a DFA pot.[/quote] Haha, does that stand for what I think it does?

I'm not a big fiddler once I'm playing, to be honest. Even with the 3 bands to play with on the 'ray, I tend to find somewhere I'm happy and leave it there, I like the simple approach! You know where you stand with everything on eleven