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Mikey D

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  1. [quote name='P-T-P' post='50077' date='Aug 24 2007, 12:38 PM']Thanks, sorry to be a pain, so the back of the neck is a smoothly sweeping, quite shallow curve from the treble to bass side, something like this ) ? The TRB1006 I had was a definite three side affair that I hated. Reminded me of the neck on a Status SmartBass 4 string I tried.[/quote] I'm selling one of the original TRB6's in the for sale section at the moment, this has the very flat (in my opinion) neck, much like the thrunecks I have tried previously. This is one of the main reason the jap trbs are so sought after a nice wide flat neck wtih wide spacing.
  2. I'm selling my last fretted bass, as I am almost a 100% fretless player since getting my Gary Willis 5 (or at least i may just buy a 5 with high C eventually as I never use the low cool.gif. It is a Transparent Blue original built in Japan Yamaha TRB6 with Yamaha GB26 Deluxe Case. With additional strap locks and matching blue strap! Nice or The best TRB ever built and they are now increasingly hard to get a hold off! I have put the pictures from the Midlands Bass Bash up so you can see it as a comparison to the newer TRB1006. Honestly, this is a great built bass with a great sound. The electronics in this bass are also very good with an adjustable sweep for one of the settings on the eq (this bass comes with 3 preset mids, unlike the new trbs). I have used it though Trace Elliots, Phil Jones, Mesa Boogies and SWRs and I have always been able to get teh sound I want out of it. As with my Sub, I look after my basses, but they are for playing(!) thus are not in exhibition condition. This one has a chip out of the top of the headstock (which I believe you can see in the photos and a small chip on the upper bout where your arm would go over the bass, thus this one cannot be seen most of the time). I have removed the Yamaha midi velcro which have left no marks and it is strung with Elixir strings. A few of the guys tried it at the Midlands bass bash if you want an honest opinion of it. That is Joe in the pictures, he played it quite a bit! Unfortunately I have lost the hair band i used for tapping, but I am sure you can find one of those if you need it! Construction Bolt-on Scale Length 34" (863.5mm) Neck Maple Fingerboard Rosewood Nut Width 2-3/16" (56mm) Radius 39" (1000mm) Frets 24 Body Ash Bridge Solid Brass Pickups Side by Side, Single Coil (Alnico) Controls New Active 5-control Hardware Gold Active Electronics The Yamaha 5-control Active System Electronics. Our custom 3-band EQ gives the TRBs extensive tonal versatility. And the 3 position Midrange control, with user tweakable settings, facilitates fast and repeatable presets. Bolt-on Necks The TRB6 model features the Yamaha all-access bolt-on neck joint. This type of neck and neck-joint are true classics for good reason: enhanced punch, and defined attack. [url="http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail/0,,CNTID%25253D202%252526CTID%25253D224500%252526LGFL%25253DY,00.html"]Link to Yamaha's site for this discontinued bass[/url] Price £460 as is or a trade for a nice 5 that i can restring with a high C. Just so there is no confusion, it is the bass on the left in the first two photos.
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  5. I have Guitar Rig 2 to use at home now and am not gigging that much so they have to go to pay rent! (Being a poor student again is rubbish!) [b]Pigtronix Envelope Phaser with Controller Pedal £185 New (Not Including Control pedal)---£110 (Now £110 including postage) Used. Excellent condition as new, both boxed with manual and original power supply and adapter.[/b] The EP-1 is an expressive, flexible, dynamic effect with a warm analog personality, versatile tone palette and a stage friendly interface. EP-1’s "EF trigger" input allows an instrument’s sound to be phase modulated by an external audio source such as a drum machine or laptop beat. This side chain input can even be used as an FX loop for maintaining accurate envelope response when using other effects in line before the EP-1. The Envelope Phaser also features footswitchable phase inversion, expression pedal speed control for mind bending rotary speaker effects and can even be used as a clean analog fat booster. Destined to be the modulation effect of choice for many guitarists and bass players looking or that elusive "liquid tone" the EP-1 will also find itself at home in the hands of scratch DJs, laptop musicians and recording engineers [b]SOLD-Hao Rust Booster - True Bypass Switching $135 New---£50 Used, excellent condition as new. No box with additional power supply. - SOLD[/b] Japanese effects builders Hao build some of the best pedals, and this one is definately one of the best boosters out there. The Rust Booster Clean Boost was designed to amplify the original input signal without altering its tone in any manner. Simple yet versatile with Boost and Level knobs, Rust Booster gives you an instant signal boost with no tonal coloration. It has two controls, level and boost. When Boost knob is cranked, Rust Booster produces crunchy overdrive without sacrificing your guitar's original tone. Clean or dirty, Rust Booster will surely be a "must-have" on your pedalboard. Bass players will also love Rust Booster for its ability to boost bass signals without sounding thin and muddy. [b]SOLD - Hughes & Kettner Rotosphere £329 New---£200 Used, Excellent Condition. No box with orignal supplied power supply. - SOLD[/b] The MK II version offers two new features that its predecessor, the first Tube Rotosphere, lacked: 1. When you stop the rotary action, the simulated drum and horn always return to the same default position. This ensures that varying rotor positions don’t color the sound of the pedal and that you get consistent tone when you use the Tube Rotosphere purely as a tube preamp. 2. A couple of trim pots let you adjust the FAST speed separately for the drum and horn. These two trimmers are located to the left and right of the BALANCE knob. Use a small screwdriver to adjust them. Feel free to try out different settings for the two rotors and dial in the combination of speeds that you like best. The button that controls the BREAKER function was replaced with an On/Off switch. While the old model required you to hold the button down with your foot to arrest the rotary action, now you can simply activate and deactivate the BREAKER at the touch of a button. That frees up your foot to operate other effect devices or, in the case of organs, bass pedals. Technical specifications * Model Tube Rotosphere * Stereo Rotary Cabinet and Tube Saturation in One * Preamp 1x 12AX7 * Effects Rotary, Drive * Switching Functions Bypass, Breaker, Slow-Fast, Mode (guitar/keys) * Special Features Drive, Output, Rotor Balance 2 Trimmers for Fast Speed setting * Bypass Real Bypass * Dimensions 215 x 205 x 80 mm * Weight 2 kg/4,4 lbs [b]SOLD - Electro-Harmonix Bass Microsynth £165 New- £100 Used. Great condition, but has scratches on body & 1 of the plastic 'knob' covers missing. Wooden box and original power supply included. - SOLD[/b] Analog synth for bass The Bass Micro Synthesizer has the same features as the famed Micro Synthesizer but with a filter sweep range tailored for bass guitar. Power supply included [b][/b] Buyer pays postage. I am more than happy for these items to be collected from Birmingham, or with the possibility of arranging it to be Milton Keynes if I am about there. PM me if interested.
  6. You just have to be be upfront and specific to the reason. Don't just say "you're crap" if there is something they need to work on, let them know and if they are willing to work on it, give them a chance maybe. If there is no way of it working you just have to man up and tell them. It's hard when it is a friend though, but personally I haven't known people to stop being friends if they are honest and upfront, rather than just bitchin about them and not being honest. That is where friendships are lost. Best to do it sooner rather than later as it can be bad for the band as a whole if one person is bringing it down. I have known bands to rehearse minus the offending member, then eventually get a replacement without telling the original guy, thinking that they are still in the band etc. Not good and it can cause a lot of s**t if you aren't upfront in the first place.
  7. Yeah Newport music school. Or Paris, but i don't fancy running round asking french people where somewhere is if i turned up late to audition!!
  8. If he is the one I have just seen on myspace, he is indeed a very nice player. Well I have sent a few questions off to Berklee themselves and a few other people, so will just wait and see...
  9. [quote name='guitarnbass' post='49005' date='Aug 22 2007, 03:14 PM']I know one thing, it's terrificly expensive...[/quote] That's why I'm looking at the scholarships.
  10. Has anybody on here studied there or known anyone who studied there? What's it like?
  11. D'oh that is tonight. Otherwise I would have popped down to see my mate Lewis and go see Laurence in the flesh. I still haven't seen him!!
  12. [quote name='woolleydick' post='44033' date='Aug 10 2007, 11:01 PM']I have a 1994 Ltd edition Encore p-bass 068 of 300 sounds similar[/quote] Ah, from what i remember it looks a bit like one of sting's basses. Honestly, I wouldn't mind having it back to play on, one of the best fours I have ever tried and it's a bloody encore!
  13. I'll do it for half that and cook for the skinny ones to beef em up a bit!
  14. [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='46979' date='Aug 17 2007, 09:04 PM']Julian Crampton is one of my favourite players right now - he's just taken up the bass chair with Incognito. I was lined up for some lessons with him but he had a nasty habit of going off on tour and could never commit to a date...[/quote] Absolutely excellent player, he played with Incognito years ago, his playing on 'Jacobs Ladder' is one of my favourite bass parts. Me? Playing since 14th birthday (27 now). The first year and a bit was intense, 10 hours a day style, before school, at school, after school, when I should have been sleeping. For the next 10 years there was no real serious practice going on, just playing a bit here and there and wasting my time learning a great slap technique, oh the other things i could have been learning. Until last year when I auditioned to study jazz, since then the serious practice has been going on again, although probably only 4 hours a day or so. It makes me wonder why i ever stopped taking it so seriously as I absolutely love playing and get a lot of happiness out of the fact that i am improving. The practice is in addition to practicing double bass and 8 string guitar. I listen to jazz, study jazz, play jazz, go to jazz gigs...You CAN have too much of a good thing! Sometimes i swear I am going to go into a jazz trance and never return to sanity! I do appreciate technical playing, widdly stuff, complex harmony and a millions notes a minute, but i am fully aware of what my job is and happy to sit grooving on one note for and hour if it is what is required. Favourite bassists: Originally Jaco, then Patitucci and the past few years has been Dominique Dipiazza (who i was lucky enough to have a week of lessons with, keep an eye out for a bit of his teachings in the next issue of the lowdown) and NHOP. Gear: Blue Yamaha TRB6 (Normally EADGCF), Black Ibanez Gary Willis (EADGC), Wes Lambe 8 String Hybrid(EADadgbe), a century old german upright into a Phil Jones Suitcase and 4b extension. Effects: EH Bass microsynth, Hao Rust Booster, Pigtronix Envelope Phaser, H&K Rotosphere and NI Guitar Rig 2 into Apple powerbook.
  15. Yeah I use alot of those sheets and etudes, some are very good, some not so.
  16. I have had this page for a while now and have been recommending it to people for walking bass. I have a few more pages from the book and from what i can tell, it seems like a university 'white paper' document for their jazz course, not just bass or possibly from Bert Ligon's books that they recommend.
  17. 'The' Arabic scale is 1,b2,3,4,5,b6,7 so in C it is C Db E F G Ab B. When you say chords, do you mean chords you can use this scale over or the particular chords that an arabic musician might use? Check out this site when you can see the positioning for a lot of scales including the arabic scale: [url="http://www.studybass.com/tools/chord-scale-note-printer/"]Scale and chord creater[/url] Also worth a look for chord progressions: [url="http://www.arabicguitar.com/"]Arabic guitar tabs/chords[/url] I just got back from the Sligo Jazz Project yesterday and was exposed to many a great scale by Dominique Dipiazza, I will put a few up on this site with a few licks and exercises when I get a chance.
  18. I agree with alun, although, if you want a bit more (lots more) flash CHOPS by Joe Pass and NHOP is a close 2nd.
  19. [quote name='paul, the' post='41039' date='Aug 3 2007, 07:55 PM']You can play that? The main two part riff is simple enough. Then you listen to what Khumalo plays [/quote] Of course.
  20. My first bass was number 184 (from what i remember) of 185, 1994-1995 limited edition, it was an ash p bass with a red tort pickguard. Lovely playing bass, actually far too good for the money. I donated it to my niece to learn on a few months ago.
  21. Herbie hancock's future2future has a mutli angle function that is quite good, so you can cop a few of matt garrisons licks a bit easier.
  22. as Paul, The said...but he slaps, very tastefully though: Juan Nelson:
  23. Making mistakes happens all the time, even by the best professionals out there, it is how you recover from them that matters.
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