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[quote name='timefall' post='69494' date='Oct 4 2007, 01:22 PM']Well for that I thank you . I've been listening to some of your stuff on myspace dude - superb!!!. Are you off to Japan anytime soon? To be honest I'm no bass expert, but I write alot of dual keyboard parts that the bassist plays when we do them live and I guess it's easier played on two strings than one, but if a 5-string player can do that just as well I'm all up for that!!! Do you know of any in the Cambridge area? As I said dude - excellent stuff, loving the overall sound - where was it recorded? Jon[/quote] Cheers, thanks a lot! If you're referring to the First Signs Of Frost material, then the Drums were recorded at Ignition Studios (Islington) and everything else was Recorded and Mixed at the Guitarists home studio, using Logic 7 with the usual mics and outboard gubbins . We think it sounds alright, but we're definitely going to be stepping things up for the album we're writing! I play it all on a 4 string, albeit tuned down to C Standard ( C, F, Bb, Eb). Theres plenty of unison lines i play although i tend to keep them in the lower octaves generally because we have two guitarists, and that end of the sonic spectrum would just get cluttered if i kept going high, of course theres exceptions, but thats my general thinking. We've been talking with the label about going out to Japan in the new year, which is all very exciting, i love the culture and have always wanted to travel there, it will be a dream come true to actually play there! I don't know any bassists in the Cambridge area i'm afraid, but here is definitely the best place to ask Si

Wasn't being sarcastic, just saying! Like i said, good luck! Si p.s. if anything, i'm keeping your post at the top lol

Wow, you must have a lot of bass melodies that go the 5 notes past a High G Si

I omitted my mention of chicken-neck for fear of deviation. I do get some odd movements going with me 'ol neck. Again mostly with my more chilled out gigs, with FSOF my neck generally just aches the morning after (EVEN MORE ROCK!!!!!!!! ) haha Si

No way, sell it to me! :-D Si

I don't tap my foot to keep time, its just something that happens if i'm in a fairly relaxed stance, which isn't usually the case with FSOF (ROCK!!), moreso with my covers band lol. Also, i'm a fidgeter, i'm pretty much always moving and tapping my feet and stuff. Sometimes when i'm practicing, i'll be playing one thing, and my leg will be bouncing in a completly different time simply because its sub-concious so it doesn't affect my playing....weird! Si

If you're looking for a six-string player exclusively, i think you're narrowing your prospective field quite a lot! Good luck though! Si

Still a bargain if it's all original and in alright nick! Si

My phone wouldn't let me text the number Si

Hey all! Just thought I'd remind everyone of my originals band's gig tomorrow nite (Tuesday 2nd Oct 07) at Camden Underworld In London. Its our first gig with our new Singer and should be awesome because he's awesome ha! We're supporting Days In December, and theres a couple of other bands on the bill as well! Check the Flyer below!! If you're about, come say Hi! Cheers Si www.myspace.com/firstsignsoffrost

Tiny little update: The headstock logo transfer arrived a few days back from a very nice man called Trey in the US. Its an S9 series Jazz Bass logo. I'll affix it as soon as i get the tuners sorted Nice Si

I've had my ABM 500 for about 4 years, and i reckon it was in the shop for at least 6months before that so not sure if its chinese or UK made. I've had ZERO problems with general functionality, like I've mentioned before, I've had to replace the VU meter bulb once and a button that fell off, thats it.......touch wood Si p.s. the gear is heavily used, 3 to 4 times a week, and completed a 26 date UK tour in May, being played every night pretty much.

The wiring would be similar to that of a Les Paul etc, a volume and tone per pickup. I personally think that a MM style humbucker is going to benefit from a preamp to get sounding real nice. If you're spending the money to rout in a new pickup, might as well get the guy to rout out the space for a preamp. The Aguilar preamps are tiny. Si

Newtone strings can hand wind you a slightly higher tension string which would mean you can have it in Drop D tuning with whatever gauge you like, and still have the same action and impact as standard tuning, although they'd feel a bit tight if you tuned back up to standard again. (do you mean just Drop D, or Drop D Standard, so DADG or DGCF?)? I use Newtones exclusively for standard tuning, and also a high tension set for Drop C standard. And the price, about the same as a set of Elites....delivered, nice Si p.s. most think that increased tension is caused by thicker gauge strings, thats true to a small degree, but the majority of tension is controlled by the core of the string. Newtone can increas the size of the core to suit your tuning, potentially allowing you to use thin gauges for low tunings if you don't want fat strings.