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[quote name='bass5' post='773898' date='Mar 13 2010, 09:18 PM']Sorry I am new here, what is this bash all about? And why are people bringing their gear? Is this a... "show me yours and I'll show you mine?" type of thing? Thanks[/quote] That seems to be it T

Soooo, B.C has spoken and the clock is now ticking to a June London Bash 2010. June = 35.29 % (12) Any month is ok = 29.41 % (10) May = 14.71 % (5) April = 20.59 % (7) Next job is to choose a venue. Some places have been suggested already, but at the end of the day, it's up to you to choose. T

[quote name='yorick' post='772451' date='Mar 12 2010, 09:13 AM']My first orchestral dep playing Holst's Planet suite from end to end for a wedding in the grounds of a medieval manor. [/quote] I would have travelled a long way to do that gig ! what a tremendous peice of music ! what were you playing ? arrangement ? the orginal orchestral or modded for electric ? T

voting draws to an end soon folks T

[quote name='Bilbo' post='771509' date='Mar 11 2010, 12:42 PM']When did I say that? Seriously, I do it another way. I now do all of my transcriptions on Sibelius and start with the notes in bar one and work on from there to the end bar. When I have finished writing out the notes the bass plays, I look for the chords. Sometimes I find them by playing along with a guitar, sometimes I have real book charts already but occasionally I go to the net. Sometimes I get a riff and stick with that, other times I look for every fill. It it does depend on why you are transcribing. Sometimes I only want to study a short passage, a few bars. Sometimes, I just want to work out a head, or a solo, or a riff etc. The ones I publish here are generally (but not all) 'complete' end to end transcriptions in a effort to be helpful to people who want to study them but, at home, I transcribe as much or as little as I need to get what I want out of the exercise.[/quote] Quite right Bilbo. I should have said: LEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEAR NTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOR E ADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSICLEARNTOREADMUSIC Heartily agree with that T

As others have said, train your ears !!!!!!!!!! The practice you put into this will be repaid to you throughout your life, as at sometime in the future, it could be sitting in a traffic jam, or anywhere, you will listen to something and be able to honestly say you know how it goes without even picking an instrument up. And as Bilbo says: LEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSICLEARN TO READ MUSIC T

Met Steve at the Birmingham NEC to pick up a rack case from him. Steve even changed his schedule to help out mine went up the wall. A nice straightforward deal with good communication throughout Nice one Steve Cheers ! T

Ordered cables on monday evening Posted Tuesday Arrived Wednesday I Mentioned to Dave on Monday I had a gig the coming Friday and needed some cables. As you can see, he came through, bless him. Excellent quality gear too. As Higgie said, I won't be going anywhere else. top man Cheers Dave ! T

Aha ! so that's where the money went Steve glad it was spent well T

HI again folks In order to move things along, I'll end the poll this Saturday and begin a new poll on venues. Hope your next gig's a good'n T

funny this comes up there is another thread about pete cornish cables around here at the mo. The op used cornish's cables to replace a set of planet waves and found a marked improvement. wonder if there's a connection ? T

when was the last time you were up that way Pete ? T

You've beat me to this one as I meant to bring this topic up myself. The topic of high end expensive sound systems came up the other night and a buddy mentioned that some people use mains purifiers for their systems. Apparently it does even out the fluctuations of the mains power supply, producing a better sound. Never heard of it being used for the kind of bass amps we use, but I did wonder if it would be worth trying out. I did read on another thread that someone protected their rig with an RCD and surge protected four way blocks, but that's a bit off the op's topic really. Watching with interest T

that's well worth knowing hamster cheers for the heads up T

Ouch ! I use humbrol enamel paint to seal paint gaps, which prevents moisture from getting under the existing paint finish layers, which can cause a bubble. T

[quote name='whynot' post='766165' date='Mar 6 2010, 04:02 PM']It's a TC RH450 head into a Tecamp S212 (4 ohm). I have an EBS Octabass in line which I find pretty useful for some things at the moment.[/quote] lightweight and powerful = winning combination nice one on the wembley gig ! cheers T

Once more into the breach with this topic lads and ladetts Has anyone done controlled testing with cables ? i.e. keep the rig identicle (inc guitar settings) but change only the cables, compare different brands, lengths, etc using several different listeners then compare notes etc then compare with passive and active basses Could also check with oscilloscope to compare frequency conduction over cable length of different brands Or is this too scientific ? perhaps could do this at a bash ? T

[quote name='Johnston' post='765428' date='Mar 5 2010, 05:49 PM']Anyone on here for bidding on this???[/quote] Dont' know about this one, but the maya jazz I have is really friendly to play and always sits next to me while I'm at the computer would like to know if they're generally a good make, or if mine is a one off T

some nice comments there what's in that rig ? cheers T

What were your previous cables ? T