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[quote name='Terry004' timestamp='1454864010' post='2973668'] Hi Guys, bought a Squier Affinity j Bass, trying to get into slap Bass style..problem is E string, really bad twangy fret noise and buzzing. Took it to a Luthier who adjusted the relief and the bridge..nice low set up and action now but still got that really annoying fret twang, I'm using 45-105 strings...anyone got any ideas...? [/quote] Watch these videos and once you've watched them all, you'll be able to set up your own bass (it really isn't difficult). http://youtu.be/te44eWXd9pc

When I saw this video my love for Grace, which I thought was extinguished, was reignited. I think the queen should move over..... and let Grace take over. http://youtu.be/vSa5EvWqB7g

We're heading to London as I type. Lock up yer grannies!

who's going to tell him?

[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, when things were getting a bit tight for cash.[/font] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]'All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.'[/font][/size]

My Jazz bass is sonic blue. I've always wanted a sonic blue Jazz Bass because I think they look cooooool. My drummer said he thought it looked sh*t. He likes black basses. Oh well.

What a bunch of old bar stewards we are.

I'll be in London next week for a gig. My hotel is not far from this shop. I dare not go in.

I check in everyday, but usually just check out stuff for sale and click 'view new content' for a general overview of things. I'm not really interested in ' Off Topic' as it can get a bit heated there. There were one or two people, who have disappeared, whose opinions on bass (and other things) were well worth reading (Outtoplayjazz and xilddx being two). And it was sad to see them go. As long as I still play bass, I assume I'll continue to pop my head in now and again.

It's weird. A venue I play in regularly, has recently asked me to turn up the onstage amp. In fact on two different nights, different engineers have come up onto the stage and turned the gain up on the amp, to get more volume coming from the stage. I thought to myself 'that's NEVER happened before, how weird?'. It's an Ampeg PF 500 which has a post and pre button (which was switched to pre) and a -40db cut button at the back, which was activated. The second time this happened, I assumed this was the problem so un-activated it. The engineer must have had the fader up full and the resultant signal almost blew the speakers. Is the DI signal on these amps THAT high, that they need to cut it by 40db? Or are the sound engineers in the venue just not very good?

The Dana Dixon Band, with yours truly on bass and Evan Jenkins on drums (Matt Schofield Trio). http://theblueskitchen.com/camden/whats-on/atlantic-soul-orchestra-dana-dixon-band-djs-til-3am/

Here's a review from a basschatter [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/84943-fender-road-worn-jazz/page__p__2290162__hl__road%20worn__fromsearch__1#entry2290162"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry2290162[/url]

Given an infinite number of years and an infinite number of gigs, eventually (unless you keep it in a case under your bed forever) you will get a ding in your lovely bass. It just so happened to be the drummer that dinged it and not you. Feel grateful that it was your bass and not your car that got dinged. My guitarist drove his Chelsea tractor into the side of my VW Polo the other day. Luckily it is 14 years old and a bit 'roadworn'. But I had to take a deep breath and be philosophical about it.

I think that the adice given on basschat previously, by people better quaified than myself, is that as long as you use your ears you should be fine. If you hear the speaker farting out, turn it down,

A Stingray is an expensive, premium, professional, great sounding, instrument. Your amp is entry level and priced for beginners. You could buy 6 TC combos for the price of a new Stingray. If you invest in an amp, that will let you hear you bass accurately at high volume, your problem will be solved.

My main band don't have a full time drummer. Instead we use a number of drummers picked from a list. How good the band plays, is usually the direct result of how good that nights drummer is. It constantly amazes me, how a excellent drummer can make such a huge difference to the quality of a bands performance. Like the old saying goes, 'Yer only as good as yer drummer'.

Buy one when you're there and sell it before you leave. Why? Watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-noSy97fMIk

[quote name='Behlmene' timestamp='1451011216' post='2937873'] Seems anything I've recorded using my "regular" studio monitors sounds starkly different when I play it on my home or car stereo. Mainly, I get a loss of mid range and bottom end. What if I used my home stereo as as my studio monitors? I tried it. It works pretty well. I get to hear what my recording sounds like through a typical standard sound system. Has anyone else tried this? Thoughts? [/quote] In decent recording studios, they always have a set of standard hi fi speakers, that they can play the final mix through. After all, that's what most people will be listening to the recording on.

I remember depping for a band many years ago. As I was setting up, the guitarist asked me what I would like to drink. I said I'd have a coke (I was driving). At the end of the gig I asked the same guy when I was going to get paid. He pointed at, my now empty coke glass, and said 'You've been paid'. They were used to going out gigging and setting up a tab behind the bar. At the end of the night, the band fee would be used to pay off the bar tab. Sometimes the band owed the bar money. That's the definition of a 'Boys Night Out' band. I don't play with 'Boys Night Out' bands any more.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1451253158' post='2939151'] Offtopic: That's Ruaridh. I love his playing. Check out his other band Triptych and Flo [/quote] I've seen him with a few bands and I really like the sound of that Vintage bass. I've seen the Dark Jokes a few times playing live on the Mound. Their live sound is better than their recorded stuff (I bought a couple of CDs), which I put down to Ruaridh's bass playing (I think he's quite a recent recruit and not on the CDs) His playing is very tasteful and melodic.

[i]heard a guy playing a Vintage V96 and it had a great sound. Very Stingray like. I'm sure you could pick one up cheaply on ebay secondhand. [url="http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Vintage-V96-Active-Bass-Gloss-Black/T3X"]http://www.gear4musi...Gloss-Black/T3X[/url][/i] [i]Edit - In fact this was the guy. Great band and the bass player is fantastic, despite the fact he looks about twelve. [url="https://youtu.be/AW1jJTVpvZQ"]https://youtu.be/AW1jJTVpvZQ[/url][/i] [i]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW1jJTVpvZQ[/i]

The screw sizes for Fender bridge saddles aren't consistently the same size (as I have found through trial and error). Sometimes it's easier to just buy a new bridge instead of faffing about trying to find the right size. They're pretty cheap. There's a vintage one going for £12 posted on this very forum.

Hartkes are always good sounding amps. And I've never played through a Laney I didn't like. They're usually loud and clean.

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1449442101' post='2923646'] Hi there I can't get either posts or PMs to accept a paste from another source e.g. Word docs, web links etc. I have also noticed that if I type at my normal speed half the characters go missing and it takes ages to type anything. I also notice that on occasion the red wavy line in spellchecker hovers under a word and flashes a bit. Very odd. [/quote] I had problems, as you describe, with the latest Windows explorer. I just downloaded Mozilla Firefox and used that instead. Problem solved. https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/