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[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1378397781' post='2199719'] Excellent Michael Is the above available for purchase? [/quote] Purchase?? I was hoping they were going to be in the raffle..........

[quote name='gazhowe' timestamp='1376509591' post='2175283'] I'm planning to go too as I missed the last one. [/quote] .....and I'm hoping to be coming along with Gaz - shifts permitting I'll bring some basses, an extremely small amp, and my stageClix wireless for peeps to try out. Johna

I've now been using this unit almost every weekend for just under two years now, and it recently stopped working at the transmitter end, the knuckle joint appearing to be the problem. Plugging a lead into my bass again was weird After contacting the company at [email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email] their technical depts Gerda Posch asked me to send it over to the Netherlands where the team would check it out. It was returned to me two weeks later - they replaced the transmitter with a new one and also a new battery....for NO CHARGE!! Superb service

Ah bo**ocks incredibly I just found out about this bash at 5.30pm today - gutted I missed this after enjoying the previous one so much Hope it went as well as last time, if not better Nice one WOT

That looks like it's going to be one amazing bass, lovely woods on the body, great stuff Any ideas for pups and onboard eq yet?

Well, after over a years use I thought I'd report back on this little beauty. Got to say that this piece of kit has been nothing short of brilliant IMO Batteries still going strong, still works perfectly every weekend. So far so good

Really nice playing but I've got to ask just to satisfy my curiosity... Was that recorded as you played - I like the way it's filmed with two camera angles - or did you overdub the music to the shot? The recording is really good and I wondered if it was live to the camera(s)? If not, how did you record it?

Just been on your website and looked at your gear No wonder you don't list it under your sig that's some guitar selection Great band, and in Mickey Krystal a future superstar surely Enjoy the tour

Phil Gould may indeed have put a bit of beef on, but I bet he's enjoying the view of Yolandas backside better than he ever did with Mark Kings

I've had over thirty five years experience and find it harder than ever to nail new material, but I put that down to age - my brain does not take stuff in and remember like it used to, I must get rid of those aluminium saucepans..... Presumably you are talking about what a lot of us do and that is to play a cover of somebody elses tune, if that's the case, read on. If it's original material, you'll have to somehow tailor the following Learn the bass part... Obvious reallyl, but specifically I mean learn it so you can play it without thinking - yep, it's hard work, I have sat for HOURS in my kitchen going over and over one song but it's the only way to do this Then.... Learn the vocal - the lyrics, the phrasing, the tune, the lot. Now, verse first... Play along to the original and [i]hum[/i] the tune as you play the bass line. Do this and visualise the lyric but don't try and sing just yet, you need to focus on the brain split between bass and vox. Do it over and over until you feel you can join in with the singing. Then.....speak it through at first so you get the phrasing married with the bass. Any tricky timings you find between bass and vox, go over them again and again So, once each verse is mastered, move on to the chorus and do the same Put the whole lot together and then sing along with the original until you have it nailed. Finally..... practise singing TO your audience - by that I mean try not to look at your fretboard as you sing, try not to look down, try not to always have your eyes closed. Get these final bits right and you've cracked it! Two of the hardest songs I can think of that took me yonks in the kitchen were 'Rat Trap' by the Boomtown Rats - totally counterpoint bass/vox and that lazy Geldof drawl too - and 'Lonely Boy' by Andrew Gold. Best of luck

[quote name='RichF' timestamp='1345983321' post='1783758'] Thank Jesus I am 5 hours away [/quote]

[quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1345381397' post='1776838'] Aaages ago there was a really long thread linked to on here where a builder goes through every step of making a jazz bass copy, including pickup winding that was a really interesting and informative read. ..And with a bit of googling, here it is [url="http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/169606-1960-jazzbass-build.html"]http://www.tdpri.com...bass-build.html[/url] Pickup build starts around page 4. [/quote] That is the best build thread I have ever seen AWESOME!!! Thanks for putting that link up

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