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[quote name='Dave Vader' post='1312608' date='Jul 22 2011, 12:23 PM'][url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Bass-Guitar-and-Laney-Amp-Extras-/160622981866?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2565e032ea#ht_500wt_942"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epiphone-Thunder...ea#ht_500wt_942[/url] I had to watch because of his subtitle, and then I had to laugh at his "Genuine Epiphone, not a cheap Japanese Copy".... [/quote] Not a cheap japanese copy .... just Japanese.

I think we need a picture in order to judge correctly.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1311901' date='Jul 21 2011, 07:07 PM']I use the AKG D5 and it's really good. Alternatively look at the Thomann copy of a Beta 58-the T Bone MB85.I know a few top sound guys who use them as their main vocal mic-one guy in particular recently used one for Beverly Knight.[/quote] That's very interesting about the Tbone MB85. Maybe shure have been sitting on their laurels too long and the copyists are over-taking.

Double necked guitars always look like something alien that's come out half-baked from John Carpenter's The Thing

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1311438' date='Jul 21 2011, 12:41 PM']Dunno, he might have dragged it behind his car for a few miles? However it does say "mojo by the bucket", so maybe he used a bucket? Also "matte black" quite obviously means "i've painted it badly myself using half a tin of left over Dulux"[/quote] If he used blackboard paint, he could chalk the chord structures for the nights gig on it.

[quote name='Oggy' post='1311293' date='Jul 21 2011, 10:53 AM']Hi Basschatters I’m not sure if this is the right forum thread but I’m hoping that a few of you will have some advice on this. I’ve had the SM58 for the past 11 years, used it regularly for both live gigs and rehearsal sessions, it’s robust and still sounds (to my ears anyway) as good as it did when I first got it. After 11 years use I’m thinking about getting a replacement, I’m pretty sure that mic technology has moved on - what mic would you guys recommend for live use and why? Oggy [/quote] As far as I've read, the SM58 is pretty much still the standard goto mic. If it's still working, there's no need to replace it. (although if you want to get rid of it, I might be interested )

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1311269' date='Jul 21 2011, 10:32 AM']Variation on the theme: [/quote] Beat me to it - I was about to post that those guys had just copied Rob Pavaronian's act.

There are worse reasons to buy a bass (such as it's fashionable, my hero plays one, my band mates told me I had to play one, it's expensive and therefore MUST be awesome etc).

[quote name='Johnston' post='1311014' date='Jul 20 2011, 11:40 PM']Used to scare the sh*t out of my band mates when a couple of days before a big gig I would mention I was going to re wire the bass though [/quote] Mine get fidgity if I do as much as change the strings.

When the bumf says it's a dark thick tone - what exactly does that mean? I have a Squier CV Jazz and could do with a bit more oomph and definition at times. I play in a salsa band so I want a woody, upright kind of sound - so I've installed flats, but I'm wondering if replacing the stock pups with a pair of Wizard 84s might help. I can't find any you tube vids of people showing off their new Wizards so I can't tell what difference it might make - I don't want to buy them and find they're the opposite of what I wanted.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1297810' date='Jul 8 2011, 11:11 PM']Please don't point out the problems as I know where I went wrong here but I didn't know it was being recorded, also he is only singing as a guide. [/quote] Blimey - those cymbals are loud!

[quote name='ROConnell' post='1309627' date='Jul 19 2011, 08:49 PM']Hi all, Just been looking at Squier Basses and while looking at both the Affinity Jazz and Precision I noticed that the body is Alder. To me this seems weird as normally Fender American's have this wood. Is this less expensive and not as good quality as the USA's? I found that my Squier Vintage Modified Jazz is Basswood but a lot more expensive, this may be due to the Seymour Duncan's in them but I was wondering how well Affinity's are made. Could and owners/past owners give me a general idea if they're good build? Cheers, got GAS for a Precision/Jazz Bass right now so thought I'd ask some questions. [/quote] USA built Fender precision c£600, Squier Affinity P-bass c£175. Personally, I think that my affinity is an excellent instrument and the use of different woods is massively over-rated in the sound you get. Your Semour Duncan's will have a much greater effect on the sound than whether it's alder or basswood.

[quote name='El Bajo' post='1304892' date='Jul 15 2011, 05:09 PM']Hi Ianark. Depends. its hard to say unless we know what level you are at. how long have you been playing? Is it an originals band? When the guitarist talks theory do you look at him with a blank expression? If a note is called out do you know where it is? Personally I don't practice scales that often anymore becasue I think knowing chord forms/tones and interval sounds are more important. With scales I tend to switch of and follow the pattern without taking in what I'm actually doing. Best thing that I did to help my musical knowledge was try and read music. If you can get hold of some basic sheet music of the net give it a go. Its slow and frustrating but after a while you get the hang of it. I wouldn't bother to much with exercises unless you really do have some weaknesses in your technique, just use the band songs for warm ups. Also, if you're fed up with the style you're playing, have a go at something else such as Funk. I'm playing around with Jamaraq and early Incubus Love it.[/quote] I didn't realise anyone had replied to this as I'd been using the "Search for new posts" function and hadn't seen this thread return. Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Background is that I've been playing bass for almost two years after being asked to join a salsa band. I'd never picked up a bass guitar before that. I had played an acoustic guitar and was self-taught on that, but wasn't anything more than competent. As far as music theory goes, I learnt piano when I was a child / teenager, so have (had) a modicum of music knowledge. I can find my way round a score, but can't connect the notes to the fretboard quickly. When playing live I find that I tend to stick to what's written too much, which means I get stuck if I lose my place, and I'd love to get freer and more able to improvise during the long "mambo" sections in the salsa tunes where the horns and percussion are letting rip. Good thing about my band is that I pertty much hold the lower register as my own - no bass drum - so there's only me and a trombone and the left-hand of the piano down in the bass clef.

[quote name='cycrowave' post='1308684' date='Jul 19 2011, 12:32 AM']This is an interesting point. What I will say though, is that when I started out I insisted on getting a left handed instrument. That was my choice, and I think it would be wrong to deny others the same.[/quote] True - but it was your choice because you had a choice. Who knows whether you wouldn't have been just a proficient had you chosen to use a right-handed instrument from the get-go.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='1308431' date='Jul 18 2011, 09:05 PM']Look again- it's a 6 piece body...[/quote] Wouldn't have bothered me, I rather like that "butcher's block" look.

[quote name='neepheid' post='92390' date='Nov 21 2007, 10:46 PM']Smooth and ready for finishing: I've ordered some cans of nitrocellulose lacquer for the finish (from Manchester Guitar Tech, after I was impressed with pictures of the results that customers were getting) and I finally managed to get hold of a guy in Sweden who could supply me with a couple of missing parts which are very difficult to get hold of (jack plate and a waterslide Hagstrom logo for the headstock). Getting closer...[/quote] Wow - this guitar would have looked awesome left that natural colour with the black scratchplate.

Well, here's why I think that left-handed guitarists are the exception, and are sometimes (not always - but definitely sometimes) convinced that because they write left-handed that MUST start on a left-handed guitar. There are no left-handed violins or flutes commercially made - at all, you'd have to have one made for you specially - and that's because if you're playing in an orchestra and you're playing left-handed you'll be clashing elbows with everyone else in your section. However, there's no evidence anywhere suggesting that leftys never take up the flute or the violin. When I imagine playing the violin, I imagine my fretting hand is my right-hand (despite using my right on the frets when playing bass) but - as I've never played a violin before, I really cannot imagine that it would be any more difficult to learn one way than the other, in the same way that I don't get a car built left-handed so that I can change gears with my right hand and steer with my left. If you don't have an option, you just get on with it. Everyone complaining about the dearth of left-handed models should be hoping on behalf of future generations of left-handed guitarists that rather than making the range slightly larger, they should stop making them completely and then they'd be able to play all those right-handed basses that are available everywhere. I genuinely suggest that in almost every case the reason that left-handed guitarists play a left-handed guitar is because they were given one first. Of course, I'm sure that there are exceptions - but that's what they'll be, exceptions. Oh - and while I'm left-handed myself, I expect to get flamed for this.

I can never get the shiny control plate clear of fingerprints.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='1307130' date='Jul 17 2011, 09:48 PM']I was really sick of playing drums and percussion. Everything was heavy and nobody will help. So I now play the bass - everything is heavy and nobody will help !!![/quote] Two years ago I went to an open rehearsal for a salsa band - they liked the way I banged my cowbell and offered me a place as their bassist. Next rehearsal I played the bass for the very first time. * * Admittedly, I'd played guitar so wasn't entirely unfamiliar with fretted instruments.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='1306943' date='Jul 17 2011, 07:06 PM']Lefty playing righty. [b]Started on the violin, and I don't think there was ever a left handed option.[/b] My mum plays the fiddly righty and she's a lefty too. I play drums set up right too, though I did slightly favour my left foot for bass drum, but figured it would be easier if I ever wanted to kit share, but I've never got good enough to play drums in public for that to arise![/quote] This is why I wonder if guitarists are a little strange in being so into left-handed instruments. I can't think of many other instruments that make left-handed version so much available. Left-handed pianos? Flutes? Violins? I've never seen any such things commercially available.

[quote name='TheGreek' post='1306482' date='Jul 17 2011, 10:57 AM']RRP: £199.99 | SAVE: £70 Chase Price: £90.99 Err..who did the calculation here???[/quote] None of the RRPs, savings and prices on this site bear any relation to each other. Ridiculous, really.