The Goatreich

Ha, it's perfectly possible, and I don't even own it yet. I want the compact rig for convenience, and the 8*10-all-valve rig as a penis extension Slightly off topic, but how do these Barefaced compacts fare against the Orange compacts? There's a bass terror amp and compact cab for sale on this forum that is local to me, and I'm slightly leaning towards that route, however a good friend has both cabs and in his experience the Barefaced is the better of the two?

I'm pretty chuffed with this offer! If the sale of my huge ashdown rig goes through as planned tonight, I should have the funds in my hand to order the barefaced compact tomorrow. My plan is to own, one practical rig for rehearsals and small gigs, which would be an Orange Bass Terror 500, on powering a Barefaced Compact, and one monster rig which would be an all valve head powering an Ampeg 8*10 classic for bigger gigs and when we travel in a van. Might even think about getting the Midget on top of the compact seeing as that's what people are recommending.

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1321378228' post='1438471'] Never seen it written before! RIP Nian [/quote] It's even better when written. I love the almost reverse onomatopoeic nature of it. Long live the Welsh language

ych a fi!!

Amazing, I'll keep my eye out on the SH market then. Those Japanese links look good, but I'm a bit wary about ordering from a site that I don't understand the lingo

Hey all, does anyone know whether the Gibson Thunderbird IV bass has ever been available in white? I can find plenty of results for the Epiphone model, but wondered whether the real deal ever existed. I've never wanted a white bass before, but I saw the bass player from Yob with one of these the other day and it looked very sexy!!

This is AMAZING!!

My mate's band have just blagged Justin Chancellor to play for them!!!! I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw it! [url="http://www.smnnews.com/2010/07/22/intronaut-recruit-tool-bassist-justin-chancellor/"]http://www.smnnews.com/2010/07/22/intronau...tin-chancellor/[/url]

I like the idea of joining a successful tribute band that doesn't necessarily play every weekend. I'm busy with my main band, but would love to do something like this one or two weekends a month for the crack and for the cash.

I'm getting an odd issue where sometimes my Sansamp pedal won't power on when using the power brick in a live setting, but does everytime in the practice room. The only difference I can see really is that usually on stage I'm plugging into an extension cord of some type, but in rehearsal I'm usually straight into a wall socket. My Boss tuner is also running off the same power brick and never has the problem. It's not a massive deal, but I did buy the power brick to avoid having to buy batteries all of the time. Has anyone else had similar issues, and managed to get around it somehow?

[quote name='mrtcat' post='939020' date='Aug 28 2010, 08:43 PM']"Starlight" by The Supermen Lovers[/quote] I LOVE this tune!!

My Sansamp stompbox is the best bit of kit I own. I can never get the sound I crave without it in the loop, even through my SVT3-Pro. If it got stolen today, I'd buy another one tomorrow. It's also incredibly handy when we fly to gigs and can't take our own backline. Any P.O.S. amp that we end up using sounds like a beast. Highly recommended.

Thanks for the reply. I agree with what you're saying, and I do think that he would definitely learn from a more theoretical tutor and I will very likely pass this onto him to see what he thinks. 99% of my bass playing experience is practical based, and have mainly learned through just playing along to other peoples' songs and of course being part of several bands writing music over the years. It's highly likely that I could do with lessons myself, if I could only afford them. He started with me under no pretence that I would walk him through exams etc, he just wanted to be taught some of his favourite songs and also be introduced to new techniques, mainly slap. Since starting with me I can see that he has improved his left hand positioning ten fold and his ring and little finger have definitely increased in strength, which I'm very happy about. The main struggle at the moment is playing along to the metronome, maybe it is time to point him towards someone that can help him out long term. I only hope that he can afford the cost of professional lessons.

[quote name='Chest Rockwell' post='936806' date='Aug 26 2010, 09:43 AM']can you last two posters explain those posts in English? too hot? you mean, too powerful?[/quote] Too hot = too powerful a signal.

Rio, or anything by Duran Duran!!!

Hey guys, I've recently had a friend's younger brother coming over the house for some basic bass lessons. He started playing less than a year ago, and basically wants a hand in learning some of his favourite tunes, and also some pointers in theory and other methods such as slap. I've been playing for 15 years on a non-professional level but during that time have had extensive experience of playing in a rock/metal style, which is luckily the genre he's into and wants to learn from, at least for now. About a month into the lessons and I'm discovering that since I'm entirely self-taught I'm struggling to give him decent lessons that will help him in the areas he needs to work on that don't simultaneously bore him to tears and want to give up. The main problem area at the moment is time-keeping and following a beat. I have him playing major and minor scales up and down the fret board, along to a metronome set at various speeds, which feels like a proper lesson, but I can tell that he's quickly getting bored of it and his mind wandering and so we always move on to learning whatever song we're in the middle of learning at the moment. Now, of course, I'm not asking any tutors on here to give up precious trade secrets and lessons, but does anyone have any advice on good ideas that I can show him to help him learn and nail the very basics? I try and think back to when I was at the same level and he is, and I pretty much just listened to songs and copied them, never really struggling with playing along to a beat (not saying I didn't, and still don't struggle in other areas ). I would appreciate any advice people can give. Cheers!