gjones

Volume wars are never a good idea. Personally I think you need to keep an eye on the keyboard players left hand. Unless they're Professor Longhair, the bass notes they play will be pretty rudimentary and won't add anything to the overall sound. All they'll manage to do is muddy up the bottom end. Remember to be diplomatic about it. Alternatively a little bit of extra EQ may be all that's needed. In the last 3 years I've owned a Fender TV15 (with the old fender tone stack EQ), a TC Electronics Classic 450, an Ashdown ABM 500 and now an Ashdown MiBass 550. And they all benefited from the extra EQ boost provided by my little BOSS GEB-7 graphic equaliser. Because it's a graphic EQ it's really easy to boost and cut specific frequencies and it makes it very easy to get a sound that works. They cost approx £80 brand new and a lot less than that secondhand. Which is a lot cheaper than going out and buying a 1000w amp in order to blow the keyboard player off the stage

He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to just own the one bass. I wonder what happened to them?

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You obviously like a challenge. I feel they are a example of 'Style over function'. I bought a set for my Jazz because they looked pretty. Then I realised that they seriously compromised the way I played and off they came. They're in a draw gathering dust now.

Ebay charges have got so exorbitant these days it will end up with all deals carried out this way.

I don't suffer from tinnitus myself but have known many who do. A trick I learned from a journalist, who traveled a lot and rarely got a good nights sleep, due to having to sleep in noisy city centre hotels a lot, may help. He used to set his travel radio to play the white noise between channels which blocked out all other noise and allowed him to sleep in the noisiest of hotel rooms. I've tried it myself, from time to time, and it does the trick and is non obtrusive (it just sounds like sitting on a beach near the sea). It should also mask the irritating tinnitus frequencies which prevent you from sleeping and you don't need it on loud to do the trick.

Now I know why I never attempted to respray any of my basses.

E is most guitarists favorite key, especially if they're planning on doing a solo. So if this guy likes doing solos you better get used to it. You're lucky he's not a Jimi Hendrix or Stevey Ray Vaughn fan because then everything would be in Eb.

They sound good on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-uPgqcHuo

It could be worse. We could be guitarists.

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I wonder whose music Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell listen to? Not the sh*t from their show obviously. Do they listen to music at all? Do they even like music? Edit: Looks like he stopped listening to music in 1975 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/95e3e1cc#p0093v6h

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1352594198' post='1865079'] I've just got back from a gig at a beer festival. It was a nice event in many ways though the guy who was running the stage and doing sound (also singing in the last band of the evening) seemed to be doing his utmost to make things difficult for us. When we were booked for the gig, we were told that there would be backline so we wouldn't need to bring ours. I arrived to find a clapped out 80s practice amp, which must have been brought especially for us, as his own band had brought their own 8x10 rig which they weren't sharing. If we hadn't been told backline was supplied, I'd have cheerfully brought my own amp, and even shared it with other bands if necessary, but we had been effectively told not to. The sound guy alternated between uncommunicative, sneery and patronising, treating us as though we were kids playing our first gig. When we played, we only used two vocal mics and a bass DI in the PA, yet we were plagued by constant booming feedback. The sound guy responded to this by muting the bass but not touching the mic channels, which obviously made no difference to the feedback but made us sound even worse, with only 30 watts of knackered Laney for the low end. Mysteriously, when his own band played, they had not a trace of feedback from the mics despite being a lot louder than us. I have a strong suspicion that he was trashing our sound intentionally, out of general arsiness. I'm not going to describe the bloke or his band, as his dress sense and demeanour had "local character" written all over them, so chances are some of the Scottish BCers may have encountered him. I'm kind of taken aback, as this is the first time I've encountered quite this degree of big-fish-in-a-small-pond adversarial pettiness on a gig. Still, on the upside, we got fed, watered and paid and the organiser expressed an interest in booking us next year, but didn't sound impressed with the other band... [/quote] Oh go on. I'll not tell anyone. Oh and by the way it wasn't my band honest. I wouldn't dream of carting an 8x10 around.

Our guitarist puts them up on youtube. His quality control usually only extends to how good his guitar solo is on that particular song. I don't think the fact that the rest of the video is good or bad even registers in his tiny brain.

It would be very easy for an unscrupulous dealer to arrange fake Fenders to be built to his specification in a factory in China. Then import them and fit Fender decals etc when they get to the UK. The quality would probably be very good, as they already make Fender branded basses and guitars in chinese factories (not just Squiers anymore).

Interesting in the early day he used to use a pick - if this video from rock goes to college is anything to go by [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwKstla6w0[/media]

It would probably be easier to convert it to a 3 string.

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I've had a few Japanese Jazz Basses and they have all been great in their own way but all had USA pickups (other than a Japanese Squier). For a really growly typical Jazz Bass sound I recommend the Wizard 64 pickups, a set which I recently bought and was very impressed with. They will turn you instantly into Jaco Pastorius for about £70.

I think it's just that the body has been sanded which is putting people off. It looks like it's a Silver Series and although they are made of good quality wood it's close grained and doesn't look very pretty when sanded. The grounding strip is missing which means it will probably buzz a bit but is easily fixed by fitting a brass strip from the bridge to the rear pickup shield. The only thing that would put me off is that the rear pickup has been changed and as far as I'm concerned the pickups are the best thing about the Silver Squiers.

[quote name='4StringFortress' timestamp='1352296812' post='1861207'] Thanks for the advice guys, I've heard good things about the Ibenez Promethean amps, here is one here at GAK [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ibanez-p3115-bass-combo-amplifier/56949"]http://www.gak.co.uk...amplifier/56949[/url] Would that do for what I need? Bare in mine im in a heavy rock/metal band with a loud drummer. [/quote] Possibly - Ibanez gets a lot of love on basschat and It does have a speaker output for another cab which is good but I doubt there would be many who have tried this particular model. The hartkes mentioned previously are good loud amps and are cheap secondhand. Remember you do get much more for your money when buying secondhand than brand new.