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[quote name='biro' post='404627' date='Feb 9 2009, 06:39 PM']unless you are using linux[/quote] ah... i hate my bloody laptop, on bloody linux EDIT: actually, thinking about it, i was planning on putting it on a memory stick and transferring it onto my PC (which is on windows), would that work? it worked for audacity. ill give it a go now.

[quote name='rjb' post='404095' date='Feb 9 2009, 10:38 AM']As others have said you might consider getting something to start off on. Seeing as you mentioned Ibanez, how about this? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=40703"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=40703[/url] SR500s are brilliant for the money (great active tone, useful electronics, Bart pickups, nice woods) and this is a bargain. You'll then have plenty left for a great amp. [/quote] i was gonna mention that exact bass. you wont get a much better bass, especially for a beginner (such slim necks), for anywhere near that much. i might have to write a review or something on the sr500, cos going on about them so much gets boring, but basically theyre easily the best stock bass ive ever played, inc my dads warwicks (although his $$ was quite close). the BTBs are nice, too, i think it was tinman who mentioned them?

along the top of audacity theres a time bar, in seconds i think. is there a way to change this to beats? so if i wanted a speed of 118 bpm, 4/4 timing, how would i set it so then i can only click on the beat? if i cant do this on audacity, can anyone reccomend free software that i can do this on please?

that looks cool already, and the yellow wash looks even better. just as a matter of interest, how much do your builds cost?

i like the scratchplate EDIT: oh wait, no, its chrome, i thought it was gold andonised and just looked a little different cos of the pics. yeah, new scratchplate needed ASAP

[quote name='OldGit' post='402730' date='Feb 7 2009, 11:58 AM']Just as some like the gorgeously wooded custom Shuker shaped basses (like [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=5402&view=findpost&p=96445"]my own[/url] ) some people really like Jazz basses and are surprised to find someone making a hand made super Jazz they can afford, and in the UK too...[/quote] ooh thats nice, i've not seen that before

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='402497' date='Feb 6 2009, 11:31 PM']Sorry but a custom bass can also be about playing and sounding fantastic. Look at my GB's. A lot of you get hung up on the fancy woods but does that affect the sound and playability? No. [/quote] yeah, but its a picture on a website. it doesnt matter how well it plays or sounds. looks is all that matters for a picture, so youd think jon would go with the best looking bass for his homepage. i just feel that he has made so many much nicer looking, and much more original looking, basses than a blue jazz bass copy, and if you look at those links i put up, im sure youll agree with me. im not saying its an ugly bass, but its just a fender copy.

youve got me GASing for a les paul bass now. i've always wanted a les paul junior bass, i dunno if they make them, but in natural, mahogany/ash, slab bodied, black pickguard and just a musicman pickup. ive always thought that'd be cool.

[quote name='OldGit' post='402451' date='Feb 6 2009, 10:21 PM']Er what do you mean? I think thats a BC member's bass ...[/quote] what i mean is when i think shuker i think - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39830&hl=shuker"]simon1964's shuker[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=182&hl=shuker"]eude's shuker[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=84&hl=shuker"]bassmonster's shuker[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=25096&hl=shuker"]tinman's shuker[/url] (and a lot of nice examples, but tinmans is a fine example and the one i was searching for) scroll down on the shuker mega thread to rich's, another drool worth bass oh, and of course theres the doodle i think of something a little bit special and exiciting looking, i mean the bass on his homepage is nice, but really its just a fender copy. not what i want to think of when i think shuker. oh, and its definatly not a basschatters bass because i saw that bass when i went to jons workshop on saturday, it was a good looking bass, but even then, there were much nicer ones there, too.

on the shuker home page he has a blue jazz copy. let down or what?

if it wasn't for the damage on the upper horn, there would be something wierdly cool about the way that bass looks

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='402266' date='Feb 6 2009, 06:51 PM']Yes it is of course possible. Axes-R-us as well as other online outlets sell micro-effects circuits and knobs to fit into guitar bodies (as well as eq'a and pre-amps). the only real drawback is having to take your bass off, lie it on the floor then stomp on it every time you want to turn the effect on or off. this can be a real pain mid-gig.[/quote] would it not be quite simple to switch the footswitch (dunno what its called, the bit you stomp on, anyway) out with say a mini toggle switch or something?

whilst looking at my distortion pedal, with a 3 band EQ, then gain and volume knobs, as well as a bypass footswitch, i wondered if it would be possible to take the electronics out of that and put them into a passive bass, as a sort of on board pre-amp and on board distortion effect. for someone like me, who hates passive basses and loves the sound I get out of my distortion pedal but can never be bothered with getting 2 leads and then fiddling with the knobs on 2 different pre-amps etc, this could be quite useful (and although i currently have no desire to do this, and no passive bass, maybe eventually i might try this on a cheap bass if it is possible, but atm dont bother recommending tools/luthiers or anything because thats not what im interested in right now) so would it be possible? i'm guessing it would, surely its just a case of wiring the input to the pickup and the output to the jack? im asking about pedals in general, but i dont know much about pedals so if theres a huge difference between different pedals we'll talk about my marshall guv'nor distortion pedal, the one i was wondering about. i realise its probably not possible with multi-effects, either, because surely you need a digital screen and a huge hole in the back of your bass to do it. and has anyone done this?

[quote name='Marky L' post='399862' date='Feb 4 2009, 12:15 PM']Does he want to sell it?? Seriously?? I managed to miss 2 for sale on here recently and I am happy to go down the CIJ route if one comes along. I guess I would really like an original from the 70's to fill that nostalgia hole, but when reality strikes (looking at the bank balance), I'd certainly entertain the Jap version as an option if one comes up soon. M.[/quote] no, he doesn't want to sell it lol. i was just saying that you might be better going for one of them than actually waiting for a real 70s one. they have them [url="http://guitaremporium.co.uk/index.php?f=data_fender_japan_new_guitars&a=2"]here[/url] though. and i believe (i may be mistaken) that the owner of this site is a basschat member.

[quote name='Stan_da_man' post='399079' date='Feb 3 2009, 03:59 PM']You could just buy an Ibanez and have a better bass without the nice inlays. [/quote] +1 but i think he was excited about the black pearl bats

ahh, ive been looking for an aria stb-pb-dx for ages, i gave up and bought an OLP mm22, and now ive found out that this place has one!

well i wasn't sure what the difference between bass synths and synths were, if there was one, ou7shined. i'm thinking a bass synth just a synth thats in the bass clef, either done on a keyboard or on a bass? and a synth is just something that digitally reshapes sound waves so that you can make different sounds with it? so i'm guessing that fuzzy sound that i always relate to synths isn't the only sound you can make with them? or am i completely off

well, in my last reply i had 4 bands. now theres only one of those left, and that one didn't have a myspace or website. so here it is - [url="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=397981867"]blaq rain[/url] were currently recording, so music should be up fairly soon. but theres a couple of live vids of ac/dc covers you can watch, not great quality, but you get the drift.

in a thread i was just reading about a synth on ebay, i realised i have absolutely no ideas what a synth is, so could someone please explain? oh, and sorry if this is in the wrong section, but due to the nature of this thread (as in i've not got a clue what a synth is) i had absolutely no idea where to post it.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='397361' date='Feb 1 2009, 10:51 PM']TBH I don't really know what a synth does.[/quote] i was thinking the same thing, i think its time for a new thread!

i know you want a geniune one, but i'd seriously recommend trying out a fender CIJ 70's reissue, my dad has a white one, black pickguard, rosewood neck, like you want, and its absolutely brilliant. has US pickups, too. its getting nicely mojo'd now, too, and hes only had it a few years.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='397094' date='Feb 1 2009, 06:40 PM']Otherwise just use the controls on your amp.[/quote] +1

+1 for squier VMJ