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[quote name='6feet7' timestamp='1415194077' post='2597685'] Fluffy to tray, rough to pedal [/quote] Yep, this is the "standard" way of doing it.

Well, the obvious question is: why do you want to sell it?

I seem to recall that the site trialled a system like that---searchable fields, etc etc and that everyone hated it and demanded the return of the current system!

I can never quite understand the abuse Adam Clayton gets, it's a bit odd. I don't really like u2 but him and the edge take way too much stick in comparison to other, similar artists. As to the bass itself, I don't get it. It's just a really, really expensive green jazz bass isn't it? If that is what I wanted I'd rather buy a standard one and get it refinned to my own custom colour, it would probably be cheaper. If it's just designed to appeal to Adam Clayton fans then fair enough but there seems precious little to excite anyone else.

Love that. Really cool, good work.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1414624679' post='2591671'] [/quote] You might like the other ones: The “Monkey Explains it All” FX guides were created by Andi Allan ([email protected]) as a response to a request for a simple explanation for how an envelope filter works, posted on the Harmony Central forums (acapella.harmony-central.com). Due to enthusiastic response, they grew quickly to the format you see now, i.e. very scruffy indeed. Feel free to quote the FX guide anywhere you like, as long as the first two paragraphs are included and the original text is not altered in any way. [b] Envelope Filter:[/b] Envelope filter is a bit like an automatic wah (not to be confused with auto-wah). Imagine that you have a wah pedal and a well-trained monkey. When you hit the strings hard, the monkey pushes the rocker pedal forwards. As the volume decreases the monkey pulls the rocker pedal back. So the volume envelope of the guitar signal determines the position of the pedal, via the monkey. Now imagine that the monkey is a tiny monkey hidden in a pedal, and that the rocker pedal is a rocker pedal hidden inside your stomp box. Then it's a simple step to imagine that there's actually no monkey or rocker pedal, and that it's all done in electronics. So basically, if you hit the strings hard you get a treble boost, and as the signal from the strings dies away the boost fades. If you regulate how hard you play, you can get a similar sound to how many people use wah, emphasising the upper frequencies as you hit the strings. [b] [/b] [b]Harmoniser:[/b] A harmoniser is a specialised pitch shifter. I'll break out the monkeys again for an analogy-rich description, if I may. Imagine that there is a well-trained monkey. This monkey has a pair of headphones on, through which he can hear what you're playing. He also has a guitar that sounds just like your one. There's a dial on the front of the box where you choose what key you're playing in, and another that lets you choose what interval you want (e.g. a fifth, a major third or whatever else). The monkey looks at what you've chosen on the two dials, hears what you're playing and plays a note at that interval in the scale you've chosen. His signal and yours are mixed together and fed back out. As in previous analogies, imagine that the monkey is inside the pedal/rack unit, and is tiny, with a tiny guitar and a tiny pair of headphones. Then simply imagine that there isn't really a monkey, and that it's all done with some very clever electronics. Ta da! [b] Analog delay:[/b] Imagine a line of laid back, hippy monkeys, each with a guitar just like yours. They're sitting on little stools in a cunning arrangement such that each monkey can only hear the monkey sat before him. The first monkey hears what you played, turns to the next monkey and plays it back to him. He then turns, and plays to the next monkey. At each stage, little mistakes are introduced due to the hippy monkeys' inherent laid-back-ness. At the end, the last monkey plays, and his guitar is connected to the output. The monkeys are in a big big circle, and the first monkey, as well as hearing what you're playing, can also hear the last monkey - but not very well. There's a baffle between them, which cuts down how much he can hear. The first monkey plays both what you're playing and what he can hear of what the last monkey is playing, and this is passed on as before. Now imagine the monkeys are tiny, as before, with tiny guitars and tiny stools and a tiny baffle. They're in a box. A knob labelled “feedback” controls the baffle. Then, kapoosh! The monkeys disappear and are replaced by a Bucket Brigade chip, and off we go. [b] [/b] [b]Digital delay:[/b] Exactly the same as analog delay, but there are many more monkeys, and they're all actuaries and very precise. Some people miss the laid-back-ness of the hippy monkeys, but many like knowing that little actuary monkeys are taking very good care of what they're playing. Some of the monkeys know special tricks, like making what they play come out of the output even though they're not the last monkey. [b] [/b] [b]Chorus:[/b] Thousands of monkeys are sat on stools in a large hall. Each has a guitar like yours (getting repetitive yet?). They are all sat at different distances from you, and hence hear what you're playing at different times. As soon as you start to play, they all copy what you're playing. In an analog chorus, laid-back hippy monkeys ([i]see analog delay[/i]) are used; in a digital delay straight-laced actuary monkeys are used. Because they are all playing just slightly out of sync with you, it gives a much richer, fuller sound. In most types of chorus, the monkeys are actually sitting on an old-style fairground carousel, and therefore each gets nearer and further away from you, hence playing with a different delay as the carousel turns and giving a warbled sound. Yada yada tiny tiny monkeys yada yada. Nice knob controls how fast the carousel spins. Ta da! [b] [/b] [b]Phaser:[/b] Similar, overall, to chorus, but there are only, typically, 2, 4, 8, or maybe 12 monkeys in total. Phaser gives a sucked, whooshing noise. [b] [/b] [b]Flanger:[/b] Two monkeys. One has a guitar just like yours, but with a tremolo bridge (if yours doesn’t have one). He plays the same notes as you, but the other monkey is quite mischievous and is constantly wobbling the tremolo arm up and down. When the sound of the first monkey’s guitar is mixed with yours, the subtle pitch differences create a whooshing, almost jet-like sound. Some flangers use several teams of monkey guitarists and tremolo wobblers. [b] [/b] [b]Compression:[/b] Picture the scene. Sicily, 1947. A monkey. With a volume pedal. He has tinnitus, so he doesn't like loud noises, but needs things to be a certain volume level in order to hear them, poor little mite. He is wearing headphones. When you play, if it's too loud, he turns the volume down a little. If it's too quiet, he turns it up. He can do this quite quickly if he wants, but there's a big dial in front of him, telling him how fast he's allowed to turn the volume control. There's another control that determines how loud his headphones are compared to your guitar. Pop the little chap in a box and paint it (traditionally) blue and off you go. Oh, it might be a good idea to replace him with some sort of electronics gubbins, to save his poor hearing. Some compressors allow you to have a little effect loop in between your guitar and his headphones, so that you could (for instance) have him only listen to the bass part of your guitar sound, but work the volume control according to that. [b] [/b] [b]Pitch Correction:[/b] So, there's this monkey, goes into a bar (stop me if you've heard this one before), and he's got a little guitar just like yours with him. He also has a fancy Strobe tuner, and makes sure that he's perfectly in tune, and a music stand and the tab for your set. When you start playing, he unplugs you from the amp, sticks the cable into an A/B box, and plugs himself into the A/B box and then that into the amp. Both of you then start playing at the same time. If you go a little bit out of tune for any reason, the monkey carries on playing, and because of his shiny strobe tuner, he's always playing the right notes. He hits the A/B box pedal and plays until you get your act back together. Just occasionally, you really muff up your lines. When this happens, the monkey throws his guitar to the floor in disgust and jumps on it, with bizarre noises as a result. He then quickly pulls out another guitar and carries on playing. But you know there'll be trouble later. [b]Solid State overdrives:[/b] Take an infinite number of monkeys, each with a guitar. The first is a third the size you are, and plays notes at 3 times the pitch of yours. The second is 1/5th the size of you and plays at five times your pitch, and the third is 1/7th the size of you and plays at seven times your pitch, and so on for the rest. The smaller monkeys are quieter than the larger ones, as you’d expect. They all play along with you, and the sound from each guitar is added into your signal. This gives quite a harsh fuzzy sound. [b]Tube overdrive:[/b] As above, but now the monkeys are different sizes. The first monkey and guitar are half the size of yours, and therefore play an octave higher than you. The next is a quarter the size of you, and plays two octaves higher, the next 1/6th the size of you and plays at 6 times your pitch and so on. Again, this gives a fuzzier sound, but one that's much smoother and easier on the ears than the SS overdrives. [b]Fuzz:[/b] Essentially the same as solid-state overdrive, but the monkeys play louder, with the end result that the sound coming out is very very messy indeed. The monkeys particularly like this, because they get to play good and loud and generally make a racket. Fuzz monkeys are generally fed the most bananas. [b] Boutique FX:[/b] Boutique FX function in basically the same way as non-boutique FX, with the following differences: 1) They only use free-range monkeys, who are very well fed and trained and love their work. 2) They are almost exclusively made with analog, hippy monkeys. 3) The monkeys, instead of having stools, have comfy designer chairs to sit on. Lay-z-boys are particularly popular. The boxes they live in are also brightly decorated, which the monkeys love. These factors combine to make many people think that boutique FX produce better sound, due to the happier monkeys. However, these monkeys are very expensive to raise, and so the boutique FX tend to cost many more bananas to buy. There is much debate as to whether it's worth it. [b] [/b] [b]Univibe:[/b] Again, a monkey sitting on a stool. He plays the same thing as you, but there’s another monkey spinning the first monkey’s stool rapidly. This makes the first monkey dizzy, and the sound his guitar makes is therefore rather warbly. It’s like a combination of flanger and chorus. Univibe is seen as rather cruel to the monkey on the stool, and therefore many guitarists prefer the sound of a Leslie speaker cabinet, in which a speaker (or two speakers) is/are rotated by a motor. Many say that the Leslie is much superior in sound as well, but they’re bigger, heavier and more expensive than even a boutique monkey based univibe.

Honestly, they're pretty much all fine. Want indestructable? Buy a TU-3 Want accurate enough to set intonation? Buy a Turbo Tuner Want cheap? Buy a snark pedal tuner or a pitchblack Want really cheap? Buy a clip on. Want to tune lots of strings at once? Buy a polytune They'll all tune your bass great. Just choose what secondary feature interests you the most.

Why do you need it to clip on? Whats wrong with a pedal one?

I assumed the TRB100x model was doomed when they introduced the TRBX series. A shame, because they are fantastic basses, but then again I suspect Yamaha haven't sold too many of them. Judging by the second hand prices there's not a lot of demand for them

I bought a Snark pedal tuner from eBay a few months ago for £22 brand new. Its great, prefer it to the pitchblack I used to have. If its just for home use and you have a smart phone then check out things like HT6 which is basically a polytune in app form. Its really good. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harman.hsp.ht6&hl=en https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/hardwire-ht-6-fasttune/id492692669?mt=8

I'm not a snob in [i]most[/i] respects but am fully aware that I am in others. I'm happy to give pretty much anything from any genre a chance, but if I don't like something I'll be fully prepared to explain to you just why its terrible and to judge you for liking it . Tends to be on a song-by-song and artist-by-artist basis rather than dismissing genres though. Just for the record: I love hip-hop.

[quote name='JuliusGroove' timestamp='1414231385' post='2587262'] I'm not overly sure how compression works. Is it like cutting out certain frequencies to boost a more pure signal? [/quote] [i][color=#000000][font=Verdana]Picture the scene. Sicily, 1947. A monkey. With a volume pedal. He has tinnitus, so he doesn't like loud noises, but needs things to be a certain volume level in order to hear them, poor little mite. He is wearing headphones. When you play, if it's too loud, he turns the volume down a little. If it's too quiet, he turns it up. He can do this quite quickly if he wants, but there's a big dial in front of him, telling him how fast he's allowed to turn the volume control. [/font][font=Verdana]There's another control that determines how loud his headphones are compared to your guitar.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Verdana]Pop the little chap in a box and paint it (traditionally) blue and off you go. Oh, it might be a good idea to replace him with some sort of electronics gubbins, to save his poor hearing.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Verdana]Some compressors allow you to have a little effect loop in between your guitar and his headphones, so that you could (for instance) have him only listen to the bass part of your guitar sound, but work the volume control according to that.[/font][/color][/i] [color=#000000][font=Verdana]Can't take the credit for that---it was written by Andi Allan at MonkeyFX. [/font][/color]

They're excellent. I ordered some strings and plectrums recently and they arrived within 36 hours. Unfortunately they'd sent the wrong plectrums but one email later I had the correct ones on their way to me, and they got to me the next day. Top service.

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The only advice I have is to relax, try and enjoy it Your first few live performances are a bit nervewracking but in the grand scheme of things there are far greater terrors in life than playing a wrong note or two. You'll do fine

A capo will almost certainly work better than any pedal solution.

[url="http://www.bassesbyleo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1693"]http://www.bassesbyleo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1693[/url] Current G&L fretted 4 string basses ship with D'Addario EXL170 strings. Nickel. Regular Lights. 45-65-80-100. Long scale. Includes Tribute. Current G&L fretted 5 string basses ship with D'Addario EXL170-5 strings. Nickel. Regular Lights. 45-65-80-100-130. Long scale. Includes Tribute. Current G&L fretless 4 string basses ship with D'Addario ENR71 half-round strings. Nickel. Regular Lights. 45-65-80-100. Long scale. Current G&L fretless 5 string basses ship with D'Addario ENR71-5 half-round strings. Nickel. Regular Lights. 45-65-80-100-130. Long scale. All this is as of 9/2014.

You can make a B-B baritone easily using a standard guitar and fairly standard strings. If you think about it, the highest five strings of a B-B set are the same as the lowest five strings of an E-E set (pedantry: one of the strings is out by a semitone). So just take a standard set of guitar strings and move them all one position, so put the low E where the A string normally goes, A string where the D normally is, etc. Find a suitable single string for the low B (I think D'addario and Ernie Ball both do very heavy singles, you probably want something like 0.60---or buy a single bass G string of suitable size) and Bob's your mother's brother. You may need a new nut to do this but finding the strings should be straightforward. Guys on another forum I frequent have done this and claim it works great. Its not quite the same as a proper longscale baritone but it would probably work for what you want to do.

I've got a BB414, the neck on it is fantastic. I think the pickup heights on mine need a good tweak (the balance across the two pickups isn't quite right) but I've never bothered because I bought it as a backup bass and so it spends 95% of its time in the wardrobe. For the £150-ish they cost second hand they are incredible instruments. Would happily gig and record with it. I imagine that the older Japanese ones and the higher end modern ones are even more impressive.

Personally I don't think you need to restrict yourself to neck-through (someone was going to say it, might as well be me). Other than that I have nothing helpful to say.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1413891939' post='2583161'] Great price - was that used? I've just bought a Neotech Mega after a shoulder injury, and am very happy with it indeed. The stretch/bounce really absorbs shock compared to my plain leather one. Mega comfy. [/quote] Yes, got it off a basschatter

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1413758960' post='2581674'] The Neotech Mega bass strap makes playing a 12lb+ bass bearable for me, so I imagine it would do a job for a 9lb bass. Nice and wide neoprene job. [/quote] Another +1 for the Neotech Mega. Probably the best £20 I've ever spent.

[quote name='sirmuppet' timestamp='1413885586' post='2583045'] Would contact Fender but doubt Fender UK or USA would know as it's Fender Japan. [/quote] Contact Fender Japan? Edit: I used to own a Fender Japan telecaster. Fender UK were able to help me with a query I had about it without any issue. The FSR ones are imported into the country officially so Fender UK must know something about them.

Contact Fender and ask them, they should be able to tell you

[quote name='alhbass' timestamp='1413645141' post='2580499'] Thank you for your contributions so far. But i must say i'm absolutely none the wiser. Can't make head or tail of the Wiki article, and everyone else seems to be as vague as I am... What is it meant to do? [/quote] All the Wikipedia page really says is that Presence is an upper-mid / high frequency boost.