Ian Savage

[quote name='rob_89' post='910943' date='Jul 31 2010, 08:47 AM']its a crap song but listen to Maxwell Murder by Rancid for the bass[/quote] It's a great song, and I've already linked it

I'm fairly sure they're identical to the Epiphone Valve Juniors - let us know how you get on with it Wayne, I never got on with my Epi as it was TOO loud and clean for home use (and didn't take pedals all that well) but not loud enough for live...they mod up well apparently, but I couldn't be arsed

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMi0R1ogi8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjMi0R1ogi8[/url] About 0'54" in...love this guy's playing.

I play bass, drums and guitar (and sing) to an equally mediocre standard, so I'd class myself as a mediocre musician.

How is the bass drum mic mounted? If it's on a stand, it might be worth taking it off and putting it inside the bass drum on your drummer's damping (assuming he uses a pillow/blanket/whatever for bass drum micing); if it's not stand-mounted or it's on a solid-metal based mic stand, one with rubber feet might solve it.

Good score! Looks like a Vintage to me, but could equally a Shine or whatever badge they're sticking on them in China now...

Nice to know that audiotardary spreads to the bass world as well! [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']speakon connectors have greater surface area connectivity as opposed to phono jacks.[/quote] Actually, compared to PHONO jacks (i.e. RCA jacks, hi-fi type) they don't. Compared to TS jack plugs (the type we're all familiar with as instrument connectors and yes, sometimes speaker connectors), yes, they do. [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']thicker cables, like 4.5 have less resistance than thin cables.[/quote] Well, bully for you, that's a C-grade in high school physics right there. [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']replacing your skinny cables, and phono jacks, especially on big wattages, noticably improves the sound.[/quote] Any sources for this? NOTICABLY? Really? A few hundred Watts into what are usually hugely inefficient and inductive loads can be affected NOTICABLY by an extra mil of copper? Particularly in a live environment, where someone could move any of your EQ controls by a quarter of their travel or more and you probably wouldn't notice in the mix? Oh, and as I said before, what're often used as loudspeaker connectors for instruments are TS jacks, not phono. [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']P.A. guys know this.[/quote] Yes, yes we do. Because we commonly handle many hundreds if not thousands of Watts through a single cable and have spent hundreds of pounds on the amplifier providing these Watts, and we don't want the connector being pulled out halfway through the gig by someone putting a flightcase on the cable, shorting the amp and making a hell of a noise if not killing it. THAT'S the primary reason I use Speakons (and I basically use as thick a cable type as I can afford, and have NEVER noticed an audible difference between bog-standard twin-core mains cable and supposed high quality 'audio cable', some of which I was given for free ) [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']so should bassplayers.[/quote] If your amp and your speaker cab have Speakon connectors, use 'em. If they don't, use half-way decent jack-to-jack speaker leads (ideally with a right-angled plug on the speaker end, the only bad experience I've had with jack connectors for bass has been someone shoving my cab right back to the wall and destroying the plug - which would also have happened with Speakons), unless you're putting out kiloWatts. To my mind, having a speaker cable that's thicker than your mains cable is a waste of copper. [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']use decent electrical solder too.[/quote] Can't argue with that. [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']the old leaded solder is great, and flows out nicely, like an argon-arc TIG weld.[/quote] As long as you deal with it sparingly, in a well-ventilated space, go for it. Although be aware that if you're also paying for gold-plated connectors at the same time, that lead-based solder CAN dissolve the gold plating. [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']plus, you will have less hassles too. buy the four pin speakons, as the two pin ones are incompatable with four pin ones, and are not interchangable, and cause trouble.[/quote] Possibly 2% of bass players will have bi-amped rigs which would benefit from four pin Speakons, and of that 2% maybe 10% actually use that facility (purely speculative figures, by the way, I'm happy to be corrected). I know of very few bass heads outside of the true professional area which offer bi-amping via a four-pin Speakon. [quote name='Mark Percy' post='904338' date='Jul 24 2010, 09:34 PM']get an engineer to do your amps, with a preferred hole cutter that works by tightening a nut and bolt to punch the larger hole. that way there is no unwanted tank cutter filings and swarf kicking around, causing enturbulation, and generally enturbulating the area with turbulence.[/quote] 'Enturbulating with turbulance'? You're having a laugh now, surely?

[quote name='kingofthestuntmen' post='614770' date='Oct 2 2009, 01:29 PM']Fnaar, fnaar etc... Koch Amps website here - [url="http://www.koch-amps.com/"]http://www.koch-amps.com/[/url][/quote] I always thought they could have some of the best advertising ever, simply by singling out famous players who DIDN'T use their amps. "Dave Navarro...has no Koch." "Kirk Hammet...has no Koch." "Yngwie Malmsteen...has no Koch." And so on, and so on...forever

[quote name='BigRedX' post='897229' date='Jul 17 2010, 12:46 PM'][url="http://www.spectorbass.com/bass_perf_rex4_1.html"]this is probably what you're thinking of[/url].[/quote] That's the badger, cheers Red - at least now I know I'm not going insane on that front...

[quote name='Wil' post='896710' date='Jul 16 2010, 05:28 PM']I was a bit bored this afternoon - forgive the sloppy MS paint job, but if I were to ever have a custom thunderbird made, it would be something like this. Essentially just a bit of body streamlining - something between a mockingbird and a thunderbird.[/quote] That top horn screams 'Schecter' at me, and I could swear that I've seen one of their basses that looked exactly like that - Google gives me nothing though, I might have dreamt it.

Love the look of 'em, love the feel of 'em, love the sound of 'em - can't get on with the neck dive (Thunderbirds that have buckle rash on the back of them haven't been played at the right height IMO - they should be well below the belt buckle ), and irritated by the fact they they neither stand up on their own nor fit into any normal guitar stand. Still holding out for a MusicMan Stingray SUB as my rock bass, then