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my favourite sound is either the Dragon Attack solo or the high up bit on Liar. I'm confident I can get it on my usual rig

I have no conscience. I am the man, Do you play with 3 or 4 fingers? the you're a cnut. f*** off. Take me drunk I'm home

Give me a challenge you cnuts. I am your god from beyond youre aethiest grave god freaks. I laugh that anyone that says I cannot do something. give me a challenge

My neighbour from across the back said 'you'l never be anything. you're rubbish' i would like to say that beyond any filters that I am the f***ing master you f***ing zero f***ing cnut. itf ther war a prize for being the fuxking man then I am the f***ing man yoiu f***ers. f*** f*** f*** f*** f***k f*** f***

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My mum originally- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody contains the world's greatest misheard lyrics: 'Save this boy from his pork sausages' and the greatest line ever: 'Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard' If it wasn't for me old mam I would never have got into bass and would never had my first P bass copy. My second influential person was a guitarist in my first band's aunt who took us to see Eric Clapton in 1994. My first ever concert. Nathan East playing. Has affected me ever since

I am a huge John Deacon fan and have always loved his sound. He was my first bass hero and I suppose a lot of what he did has rubbed off on me. I have never had any luck with regular P basses in terms of getting a good sound so what would you recommend to help me get the John Deacon sound?

I'm putting it to the other guys in the band to either got with 2 2u racks or a 4u roller rack or the 4u roller rack bag. This is actually for our band's PA amps - 2 Crown XLS602s I just can't make up my mind what to go for

I had a Crafter last year. Used it live on several occasions and it was really good. Fed back on my amp but it has a phase switch to overcome that. Absolute bargain. Really nice playing bass Other ones that may fall into your price brackets are Epiphone El Capitains and possibly second hand Fender BG whatevers. I'd probably avoid all no name stuff as you want something that you can actually play and not have an action like Robin Hood's straightest bow

I think DRs smell of wee

I really believe that it all boils down to what you've got: Gallien Krueger - solid state but does a good impression of a driven valve amp Ashdown - Valve pre - as wooly as a wooly christmas jumper Hartke - pass Genz Shuttle - personally this is the best sounding light weight amp I've tried. I could even be persuaded to say better than Gallien in overall sound. The valve does make a huge difference to the sound as far as I'm concerned. I recently had the misfortune to try an Ampeg STV II Pro and, well, it was complete $h!te. Definitely put me off valve for a while. It'll take someone a lot of effort and a warm Marshall VBA400 to change my mind. I used the Shuttle in preference to it as it sounded a million times better and louder. I've just recently sold a proper valve preamp combo - a Trace Elliot TVT9 guitar combo - it had 8 preamp valves which were very effective. there is a debate as to whether 1 single preamp valve does anything or not. I'm looking into multi valve preamp setups just now

Shine do make very good basses but forget about the neck through natural ones as I think they look cheap and scrimp on the electronics and hardware. I think that they make Epiphones still. not sure though. My first 6 was a Washburn that I got from Dolphin music for about £135. The best 6 I ever owned was an Ibanez SR1016 (I think) and would buy it back if the owner was ever selling it (who happens to be a member here) If you're starting out then the best thing to do would be to try as many basses as you can. I've bought so many basses that I feel that i can comfortably buy something and make it sound good, even if its a pile of $h!te. Better to buy a bass with decent electronics and hardware than something that you'd have to spend a shed load making playable

If its all about a certain sound that a certain bass player had on a certain album then forget about it. Personally Rickenbackers sound hee haw like Chris Squire, Stingrays sound nothing like stingrays and so on. I can get my Wamoth bass to sound more like a Rick than I could get my Rick to sound like a Rick. I've been everywhere from A to Z (excluding Alembic and Zon ) and its all about trying different stuff. Nothing is as it seems.

I'm currently using Optima Gold Strings so where's your stainless and nickel now then? Seriously though, I cannot believe how good Rotos are when they go dead. Seriously good strings. It is really going to depend on your bass: With the Stingrays and my '51 P bass reissues, nickel Hybrid Slinkies were where it was at but I absolutely love stainless with my Warmoth. I'd also have to say a huge +1 to Hartke strings. Cheap as chips and they sound fantastic. When the Optimas die I'll flip a coin to decide if Rotos or Hartkes go back on. Nickel is softer, as is 24 karat gold, than stainless steel so won't eat your frets as much. For pure finger softness and the ability to play dozens of nights on the trot, nothing can beat TI flats.

4 string 3 bands usually go for around £700, 5s for £850. Personally, the best Stingray I ever owned was my 30th Anniversary but it was far too beautiful to consider gigging in pubs. The punchiest, growliest, gnarliest bass sound I ever had from any of the Stingrays I owned and the reason my Warmoth has a mahogany body.

I thought I'd revive this thread instead of creating a new one. I too am looking for one and came across this: [url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Gator-GRBW-4U~ID~8470.asp"]http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~G...-4U~ID~8470.asp[/url] Not sure it would hold up with 2 Crown power amps in there though. The problem I have with the regular ones is that the wheels don't seem to stick that far out so, it for example, you happened to be wheeling the rack across some gravel or grass etc it would bottom out. Are they all like that or are there better alternatives? - we're all getting old and fed up of carrying the bugger. i prefer ready made rather than cobbled together so would prefer something that is designed to have wheels than attaching something etc

I forgot to add that you need to play relatively simply with 8s and 12vers. If you go hell for leather, a hundred miles an hour, all you get is noise

[quote name='ahpook' post='494727' date='May 21 2009, 10:27 PM']the fender cowpokes had j-necks and a [b]p-ish [/b]body [/quote] Was it just me that read that as something else?

I'm in the position where I don't think I can get any better sound than I have at present. My Genz Shuttle 6.0 and Schroeder 1212L sound fantastic, can go loud as hell and I can carry both of them and my bass in one trip. I would really like to try a Compact though but don't think that there's anyone around my way with one.

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I've owned several 8 and 12 string basses. There are sites dedicated to both. They give a lot of useful information about what to look out for. They do tend to me more 5 string width than 4 string, especially the 12vers. You absolutely have to have a bridge with 8 saddles, otherwise intonation will be a mile out and these things sound hellish when one of the strings is out of tune. The bridge on those shine ones is bad as it only has the one saddle per group of strings but the kicker is that a lot of strings won't fit into the ferrules on the back as they are strung through the body. Some strings have large ball ends on both normal and octave strings and these won't sit in the ferrule. You have to find the ones that have a regular bass size ball end and a guitar sized one for the octave to allow them to fit correctly. I have thought about going the Warmoth route a couple of times. Their stuff is extremely well put together but you absolutely have to know that it is right for you, otherwise its worth about 2 bob when you sell it. Their 8 string necks are designed to fit regular Fender sized 4 string neck pockets

I always maintain that you can gig with any bass providing it isn't damaged in some way like a badly bowed neck or faulty electronics. In fact I would happily accept a dare for someone to give me the worst pile of garbage they could and I will do an entire gig with it. Before I got my gold Warmoth I did several gigs with one of these although not the same colour I would add: [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/PINK-Metallic-Electric-BASS-JAZZ-style-gigbag-Strap-NEW_W0QQitemZ320372982879QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item4a97b7c45f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A4%7C65%3A15%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A200"]http://cgi.ebay.com/PINK-Metallic-Electric...3A1%7C294%3A200[/url]

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