Ross

Always bought an amp to gigs and usually used whatever was set up (the organiser always insisted on using their backline but I think it's rude to show up without a rig)

Where I slipped up, I didn't bring a spare bass one night and I encountered a rare group of bass players unwilling to let me borrow one when mine decided not to work.
Played in silence a whole gig, horrible gig, majorly embarassing but the show must go on and all that.

Occasionally but I utilise open notes a lot so yeah...
I use an old wristband I found under the sofa currently, does the same job.

Bought a bass pod pro, Chris is a sound guy, great communication, prompt delivery, absolute bargain.
Got a jazz bass pickguard on it's way (It was probably the package I missed on the 30th) and I'm sure i'll also be majorly satisfied with that purchase as well.

I bloody love you!

Learning to read rekindled my passion for bass, I'd wholeheartedly recommend it.

Much happier I've started playing again, don't give up, making music, it's a beautiful thing to do.

Nothing really...
I've had bad luck with gear, always breaking at the most inoppurtune moments.
My epiphone thunderbird was reliable and I wish I hadn't sold it for beer now but I wouldn't buy another, the sound was a bit muddy and it was a bastard to play for more than an hour stood up due to neck dive.

Hmm, I bought a cable from that dude on the forum OBBM, bassic bits cable, thats never let me down and I don't think it ever will.

Cheers lad, I was hoping for notation (I struggle rythmically with tabs alone) but thanks a lot it's a great start

Took me about 3 weeks of googling to build up my resources, it's all out there you've just gotta find it.

I've looked high and low for some decent Jethro Tull transcriptions and can't seem to find any decent ones, has anyone got any decent ones I could maybe borrow? Or would like to recommend where I can obtain some?
Cheers guys

[quote name='Vibrating G String' post='1214480' date='Apr 29 2011, 05:23 AM']Sounds like the pickups could be out of phase with each other. Try reversing the leads on one pickup and see if that helps. There will be a small volume loss when both are on since they are in parallel but it should be minimal.[/quote]
Thanks, will try this.

Update: I have a lead, my mates reckons his dad has one I can borrow, going to investigate for me tomorrow.

Cheers for the guidance, what about neck holes? How do I get those right? (Also need to drill holes in the neck baring in mind)

I don't want them to do it for me neccessarily, maybe loan me the drill/ show me the proper way to do it?

Seems daft to invest in a pillar drill to drill these few holes, if I can't find a kind person to loan me one what about using a spirit level, taping the bit to show where I stop drilling, and hoping for the best?

Main idea of this project is to learn how to do these things though, hence the asking.
Maybe I'll see if someone on here can give me a hand, title changed.

Well, I've bought a body off ebay, it's got all the routing and that done but no holes.
So my question is, how do I decide where to put the bridge so the strings will line up properly with the pickups (fender bridge) and also, best way to mark out the neck holes and ensure that it's a straight join?

Borrowing a hand drill from a mate, I don't have the luxury of a drill press. Any way to ensure the holes will be straight?

Edit: After a few posts it appears I may need a hand, anyone in Plymouth able to help me out with a loan of a drill press in exchange for a few beers or something?

Well you could realistically dissolve a lot of the meat in acid then bury whats left and the decomposition is likely to be less. CCTV will obviously need a workaround mind you, although I'm sure graveyards don't have wide coverage, you'd first take a stroll in the daytime to check out the cctv and security lighting situation til you find a suitable grave. Or if you didn't want to do acid, stick the body in a deep freeze until you found a suitable burial site.
How about this, use a woodchipper to shred the corpse into a paste and then flush it down the toilet.

And theres always this guys method:


Disposing of a body is easy enough if you just think logically, so many murderers bury a body in a public place with road access closeby and I think "are you seriously f***ing retarded?" not that I can speak from experience but if I was an axe murderer I'd certainly do a better job at covering my tracks.

Bridge or neck wide open.
Tone wherever I like.

I can't run both pickups at the same time or my bass makes next to no sound, really odd, I have to turn it up like 3-4 times what I'd put a normal passive bass through if I have both pickups cranked. Giving up and rewiring it soon.

Already in debt up to my eyeballs or I'd be so on it being that Geddy is one of my favourite bassists and I'm pretty into Rush in general right now.
But seats? Man I don't think I could ever bare to go to a rock gig and sit down, I'd rather come out with agnoising back pain and numb feet than be that far back

I've just spent an inordinate amount on a bass body, budget wise I didn't intend on spending a third of what I ended up bidding.
Then I won and the reality set in "OH GOD WHAT WAS I THINKING?"
And in this stupor I paid from the wrong bank account (one with nothing in it) so I have to go and pay in the cash 9am tomorrow to avoid a charge...

Who else has ended up in some kind of mad GAS bidding war?

[quote name='mojobass' post='1211575' date='Apr 26 2011, 11:55 AM']BUMP[/quote]
PM sent re: wood jazz control plates.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1212237' date='Apr 27 2011, 12:58 AM']Does anyone else keep catching the title of this thread & seeing "[b]Rotting[/b] Bodies"?

Just me, then.

Anyway: polythene rubble bags, 2m depth hole, fill with concrete.

Jon.[/quote]
Wrong, everyone knows you go to a graveyard miles away from your home in the dead of night, dig a predug grave slightly deeper. Then bury the body, cover with soil to bring to it's original height.
They'll put a coffin on top, bury that, and no one will ever find it.

Pity cremation is becoming so fashionable these days.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1211540' date='Apr 26 2011, 11:14 AM']To my mind, the 70's guy (let's call him Jeff) looks more suited to our tempestuous and troubled times than the two doughy dullards in 'homogenized metaller black'.

Think about it.

Jeff looks like he's having a good time. Jeff's eyes gleam. Jeff's moustache is full and luxuriant. Jeff's hair is bouncy and elegantly coiffed. Jeff's threads are bright and sparkly and - well - friendly. Jeff's weight does not exceed that of his band's touring PA. It all suggests a man at ease with himself.

Adam and Jason (for those are their names) are a different matter. Their eyes convey a self-important stupidity. Their faces are pouchy. Adam has bingo wings. Jason is clearly busting to hang a colossal rat. Adam and Jason affect that ubiquitous hard-man scowl that says "Talk to me and I'll get my 'entourage' to give you a kicking". They are endorsees and thus quite clearly total breadheads. They are a summation of all that is wrong with society in general and our bass-playing community in particular.

Jeff is a man for our times. Jeff would tell you that dope gets you through times of no money better than money gets you through times of no dope. Jeff would point out that we all have to work together to stick it to the man. Jeff would let you sleep on his couch and he'd square it with his 'old lady'.

We need guys like Jeff. He's a dude.[/quote]
I want to marry this post.

I'd buy Jeff a beer and then give his missus one too

Get a stanley knife, every time you think about buying a new bass, cut one of your fingers off and drive to hospital to have it reattatched.
This will remind you, you don't need a billion basses and a billions amps and effects to be a great musician, as long as you have working hands you're all set.

I haven't tried this method so obviously you'll be my lab rat but I think it's a worthwhile contribution to humanity if you can save a few bassists from crippling bass related debt

You wouldn't you'd assemble an army and create an uprising, if you've had all your freedom taken from you, what have you to lose?
Hell, I'd assemble an army for a parking ticket if I could, anything to avoid a lawyer.

[quote name='TimR' post='1210461' date='Apr 24 2011, 10:32 PM']Depends what they want to ban. They banned handguns a specific barrel length and stock length. Rifles weren't banned.

So my description would be a stringed instrument with scale length of between 30" and 36" with open strings producing fundamental frequencies between 20Hz and 200Hz. As a start....[/quote]
I'd build one just outside those boundaries and call it a contrabass ballsack.

[quote name='TimR' post='1210396' date='Apr 24 2011, 09:36 PM']I'm not sure about that. When they banned 'handguns' they didn't just ban handguns, they described exactly what a handgun was. You can't just call it something else - a bass by any other name is still a bass.[/quote]
But you'd theoretically then have to ban all guitars, a bass is a type of guitar is it not?

You could just change the tuning and scale and call it a baritone bassolin, technically not a bass guitar and thus not banned.