GarethFlatlands

I almost forgot:- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ShE-t-E9g"]Cave in - Seafrost[/url]

I have a 1 drink max limit in any case as I'm usually driving to gigs. Very rarely I'll take another onstage and drink it throughout the gig as long as it's not affecting my timing but that's pretty rare.

Why not buy a blend pedal? They seem like useful things to have in terms of bass effects generally, plus you can use any distortion you like with the option of blending it for bass. Edit: - And a bass player with some great distortion sounds IMO is Caleb from Cave In. I believe he uses a Rat and a Fulltone Fulldrive which are both primarily guitar pedals.

There's a few for sale on here, some real beauties, including a nice Corvette $$ 5 string for a ridiculously low £600. Get while the going's good! I've got a Streamer Pro-M myself and really love the sound but don't like the pickup placement as I keep hitting it with my pick.

It's called a Lork Clip.

[quote name='4000' post='1245548' date='May 26 2011, 01:17 PM']Alembic Triple Omega (this was mine, sadly no longer): [/quote] Might be just me but Alembics do nothing for me. I'm sure they play better than any bass I could ever reasonably afford but every time I see one I just think 'bleurgh!'. Horses for courses I guess.

[quote name='Toasted' post='1191939' date='Apr 7 2011, 04:47 PM']Similar experience [/quote] +1 I loved it, then they offered me a GT1 at a very reasonable price and I agreed there and then. Then I worried about how I was going to get the money for it. Wouldn't buy an off the shelf amp again. Great customer service too, bad power at a venue took out one of the tracks on the amp and they fixed it while I went upstairs at the factory and played through the speaker wall. No charge either. They did charge me for a re-tube but it was half the price you'd pay elsewhere. One of the bonus points of living an hours drive from the factory I guess.

Have a squitzy at [url="http://line6.com/community/thread/16561"]this thread[/url] and let me know if you spot any gaping flaws in my plan. Thanks.

[quote name='JayPH' post='1244768' date='May 25 2011, 08:48 PM']Am I too old to play for the Saturdays [/quote] A friend of mine was checking in at a hotel a year or so ago when they walked in. No Frankie but he says Molly is amazing.

[quote name='Mgmikeyg' post='1244809' date='May 25 2011, 09:20 PM']Hi I'm am 13 and am just starting to play bass, currently I have a Squire Precision Bass but it is much to big for me. What would be a good buy for a good short scale bass on a budget? Thanks in advance![/quote] There's a thread on short scale basses [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=136811&hl=short+scale+bass"]here.[/url] What kind of music are you hoping to play?

[quote name='therose789' post='1244554' date='May 25 2011, 05:55 PM']+2[/quote] +3. Still love Disposition, as mentioned above and would love JCs bass tone generally.

Look forward to reading the build diary and seeing the finished result, don't think I've ever seen a semi-hollow fretless p-bass before.

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='1243957' date='May 25 2011, 10:02 AM']The new Ryan Giggs ear plugs are really good, can't hear anything with those in.[/quote] You can, you just can't tell anyone what you heard.

I've only played with the guitar POD 2 which had a tube pre-amp setting on the amp side but I don't think you could bypass that side of it fully so not sure to be honest. Anyone own one who can help out?

[quote name='XPAULUSX' post='1243170' date='May 24 2011, 05:22 PM']I'm guessing the foot controller will be a must then? Unless I can get my hands on an xt live Version?[/quote] If you want to change sounds on the fly then yeah. If not, then you could just change patches between songs as necessary with the normal desktop kidney bean shaped version. Assuming you've got a power amp input or similar on your amp you should be able to bypass its tone shaping and just use the XT.

[quote name='51m0n' post='1242993' date='May 24 2011, 02:34 PM']Bootsy's VSTs are all superb, but NastyDLA is without doubt the best charcterful delay I've heard in a computer. Some other good free VSTs are (in no particular order):- TAL series: great plate reverbs, nice distortion fx, some cool dub style delays too. G series: I use GMax a lot as a quick brick wall limiter Jerome series: Some really nice 'quick and dirty' limiters/maximisers, PC2 a superb no colour compressor TLS series: Excellent bunch of coloured compressors/limiters FlangerHand: weird flanger thing, nice to automate PushTec: clone of a Pulltech eq, kinda... NU-tron: wannabe mutron Voxengo: Some really useful free mastering tools (beeper, M/S, span) Ambience: another very nice free reverb bluenoise mydrumset: nice free vsti drumkit....[/quote] Thanks for the headsup, I'll have a look at them. I'm using AcmeBarGig as a free guitar amp VST for quick and dirty demos. Pretty versatile and easy to use. I'd go to a proper head and separate cab sim but it's more than I need really.

Right, done a bit of reading and it looks like the Line 6 EX-1 uses a 10k linear pot. Having a fidget around with the pedal and a few pots I had sitting in a box, I reckon a standard lin 22k pot would work given that the pot moves through about 80-85% of a full rotation and the wah seems to do approx 50%. That's probably as accurate as I'm going to get with stock value pots, although some reading around shows 20k pots work as well so it shouldn't be a massive problem. Assuming the cylinder with the teeth comes off the old pot shaft and goes onto the new one alright, it should be straightforward to wire it up to a mono jack. Remove and store all the old insides, try and find some screws which mean I can ditch the feet and velcro it to my board and I'll be sorted. Updates (with pictures hopefully for the curious or bored) at some point.

[quote name='TheRev' post='1241921' date='May 23 2011, 05:30 PM']I always like the intro to Rotten Apple by Alice in Chains -it's my music shop riff. [/quote] Good call. It used to be my soundcheck riff until someone recognised it. This was the next one which I still love playing to test a rig out. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiTtWnx_rjY"]Tool - Disposition[/url]

Beyonce because I love a good pop song and she has many. The view's been mentioned too. A Perfect Circle as they're one of my favourite bands and their revolving line-up makes it a possibility, albeit a remote one. Same answer with Nine Inch Nails. Kate Bush because I love her music and my parents would be well impressed. My dad might be more 'impressed' with Beyonce mind, but he wouldn't mind Kate Bush.

[quote name='silddx' post='1241838' date='May 23 2011, 04:37 PM']Reaper. £25 instead of £370 for Logic, and it seems to be as fully featured. Amazing![/quote] +2 or 3 or whatever we're up to. From rough song idea working to proper recording, can't beat it for value/functionality. Love it.

I've got an old CryBaby hanging around and was wondering if it would be possible to modify it into being used as an expression pedal for my M5. The Mission Control pedals seem to use similar housings as seen here:- [url="http://www.mission-engineering.com/Mission-Engineering/Products.html"]http://www.mission-engineering.com/Mission...g/Products.html[/url] Any thoughts about what it would involve before I take apart the wah and potentially ruin it? Parts I'd need, that kind of thing?

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1239049' date='May 21 2011, 10:07 AM']Could it be that guitarists are more concerned with their playing skills and technique rather than constantly looking for some 'magic bullet' technology to do the job for them?[/quote] I'm the other way around in terms of tone shaping, my guitar rig has a very nice amp and an ever changing pedal board. My bass rig is a crap Peavey combo that I can hear myself thorugh and not much more, a Sansamp DI to make it sound less crap. And as for Fenders, they look cool. They sound alright too but it's mainly the looks.