iamapirate

The worst is when you play at theatres. I played at the de la warr pavilion in bexhill and left my bass leaning on my (45 degree angled) amp, just as you do. Then go there about 20mins later, thinking all would be fine (as my bass was in pristine condition), pick it up, and the guitarist says 'whao, whats that huge dent in you bass' and i think he's kidding me on, and the rest of the band look at my bass with a kind of 'uh oh' look. I look down to find it looks like someone's dropped a chisel on my bass as hard as they can to leave a nice wood-gash on it. bargh! Anyway, I just try and keep my bass as in good a condition as possbile. I know that for the first few gigs i did I'd be there before the gig with it and find a new 'dink' on it and get pre-gig annoyance at whatever inconsiderate twat did that.

sounds like you're in for the long haul wait. I'll just try not to die of old age before he gets it done.

not... fair

They're not half bad these guys: [url="http://www.canterburythankyou.com/"]http://www.canterburythankyou.com/[/url] (by the way, I don't play with them haha, just thought I'd spread the love)

bah humbug? But +1 to having at the 'anthem' at the next bass bash! totallly!!!!!!!

ooh, I'd say the breakdown for me would be more like: fingerstyle: 70 % slap: 10% pick: 10% Tapping/chords: 9% mental freak out rave psychedelic foot-playing: 1%

I thought that you'd want to emphasize 2 and 4 more than 1 and 3

Pearl, (my pearl-white fender usa jazz) has always been like a wife to me (hence the slapping). Goes well with my stage name 'clam' as well.

Remember, GAK in store and gak.co.uk are different companies. I bought my usa fender 2008 jazz from them about 10 months ago, got an email from them the next day saying the olympic white was out of stock for another month or so I think, but they had a pearl white in stock so they changed my order for me, and they delivered within a week. Shame no one was in the house and we had to go to the depot in the evening, but the prospect of a brand new jazz was enough to let my dad slip for that

Tower of Power - Diggin on James brown http://open.spotify.com/track/6MSgoU05KbgBCX1w0r1MU6 My favourite to just sit down and jam to.

Do you have a chorus and/or an EQ? Ad do you have a preamp already? Or a proper amp? Becuase you could do the above with a decent chorus (which you can upgrade whenever), and cheap behringer EQ (about a tenner second hand) and an AB switcher which are about a tenner as well. Then the hartke preamp is very similar tone-wise to the sansamp stuff, and by doing it this way, it takes up more room, but you can adjust everything in the future very easily, and inexpensively. So if you decided the chorus sucked, then you could change it to a coocat, but if you had a sansamp, then you'd need a whole new system and back to square one.

mark_random, review, please!

What you could do is (to get the preamp sound from it) plug the effects send into a small mixer, and then plug your headphones into that. That may work!

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[quote name='bassbloke' post='676177' date='Dec 6 2009, 09:39 PM']Lessons? They'd make more of a difference to your playing than a new amp or bass.[/quote] o.O this is interesting!

[quote name='TRadford' post='676220' date='Dec 6 2009, 10:15 PM']Surely you can buy new rubbers for them? I have some etymotic 4's and you can buy all new foam or rubber ear peices for them.[/quote] Yep, they're about £20. One heck of a deal, still.

[quote name='noelk27' post='675363' date='Dec 6 2009, 12:43 AM']Which, if I read this motion correctly, even though I've been a member since the site migrated, and was a member at the previous incarnations, with a relatively limited number of posts in proportion to the time I've been a member, I'd be excluded from PM'ing without restriction. A member is a member, irrespective of length of membership of, or degree of participation in, the forum. Only those who transgress, breaking the rules regulating the community, should have limitations placed on them. Any other situation is iniquitous.[/quote] ok, my bad. Say a post a month? What I mean is, a spambot will either be: a) a new member an inactive member and/or c) a member with a low post count.

I've been having similar problems. i think it's when you tick the box instead of clicking at the top right of the topic, it doesn't work. I'm not sure, though....

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wayne do you mean: bass 1 -------------------------------------->Input A of switch _______________________________________________---->switch ----> amp Bass 2 -----> chorus -----> EQ ------>input B of switch

beyerdynamic are great. Are there any other cheaper ones? i know their design hasn't changed since the mid-eighties.

+1 Doesn't really impress me that much to be honest. Too much 'jazz' as in it sounds horrible, but niiice.

Could always buy another amp and AB it. Or, if you have a passive/active inputs, then AB it with the hartke going into the active input, and the clean going into the passive. That way the preamp in the amp wouldn't boost it too much. Not sure about the whole preamp-into-a-preamp thing. :/