hogman

Amplifier Cabinet Questionnaire – Tom Parker, 10T 1. Is a light bass cabinet important to you? Y es 2. Would you be interested in a smaller designed cabinet for maximum portability? Yes 3. What is the weight of your current rig now? dead light nemmisis eden 4. Have you ever had portability issues with this cabinet before?Yes cos I was using loads 2 ampeg 8x10s and 2 2x15 5. Would a Neo speaker make the amplifier more appealing? Not bothered 6. Would you want casters on the amplifier for added portability? No they allways fall off or break 7. Would you want the input to be in the back? Y 8. Would you want the Ohm rating to be 4? Y / 9. Would you want the power rating to be over 200 watts? Y Is a metal grille cover attractive on an amplifier?

I think this could be quite amusing and I am sure there are a few missed out: In Rough Order Vox nightmare I needed a crane to put it on. Ricky 4001 Sunburst Ricky 4001 Blue cos Geddy Lees was Blue CMI Ricky copy it was about now that I realised I didnt like the binding on them ha ha Kramer Flying V with Auminium Neck white then camo Hagstrom I cant remeber the model but they featured it in bass player magazine .. the model not mine it had pictures of flowers on it so it went real quick 5 string Aria Pro 2 strings to close together Sexy Black!!! 66 P bass been refinished purple like a cadburys wrapper ohh chocolate 68 P Bass re fin yellow Gibo EBO wish I had not sold this one.... Like a wine red Ibanez destroyer red BC Rich iron bird black BC Rich warlock Black BC rich Bitch (I had some wiered deal thing) black Ibanez Blazer Bass Black 8 string beast custom made never found out who by. tunned Fsharp b e a d g c f wieghed a ton had norma P bass spacing and I could not get hold of a low low string could only get upto 135 if memeory seves me right. 6 sting cairnes would love a photo of this my first custom bass sunburst Yamaha 5 string BB something or other natural 77 Jazz bass Black Aria SB 1000 Black re fin Ken Smith 6 string too neck heavy and made a shed load of beer tickets selling it ob to be honest it was a good bass but not worth 2K Natural 66 Thundebird for about 15 mins got it on hp then took it back cos i could not really aford it shop gave me back my deposit and I got real drunk I mean real drunk!!!! Music man stringray for about 2 hours made a shed load of cash buying then selling while on tour Another P bass squire I think as a spare black Kramer picollo natural Tokai P bass mega sunburst disaapeared Fretless Jazz mid seventies lovely Jazz bass white now sporting a music man style neck emgs and a badass bridgethis then did me as my main bass for about 1500 gigs Warick streamer jazz man Shuker custom built thang 6 string fretless shine not bad and now up for sale the thomstick strings cost me 70 squid Cairns picolo I have owned a few of uprights plywood awful thing and a german dead flash costafortuna Had an electric upright that was a project by some clever person real nice but yet again i was offered a shed load of beer tickets so it went....

[font="Comic Sans MS"][quote name='NJW' post='16936' date='Jun 13 2007, 03:12 PM']i love the new string sound, but of course that is entirely subjective. Boiling bass strings is a bad idea. First of all, it DOES clean out the grime from your string and make it sound 'new'. It can also damage the windings and core, meaning it will sound 'dead' again far quicker, and you hugely compromise the integrity of the string, meaning it could break. Secondly, people usually do it in pans... and the residue that comes out of a boiled string sure ain't something you wanna be mixing with yer 'taters. For cleaning strings, people recommend using denatured alcohol (methylated spirits to you and me), if you wish to go through the hassle. Personally, I'd just buy new strings.[/quote] Excellent thread The boilling issue when I was a wee boy on tour and could not afford new strings boiling would get me about three more gigs out of a set of strings. I had my own string boiling kettle with it written all over so no one got stingervitis... ha ha but people still used it.... I know the string are weaker and not as bright as new ones but when your on a budget it does work okay for the studio. You have to boil them to bits to get all the muck out a did two boils and got them out of the water quick on the last one. I know of a guy in sunny Stockton on Tees Rarphy Chapman who has the original strings on his P Bass its a late 60s hes also got a spare set from when he bought the bass.. Duck Dunn is another leave on till they break. As was James Jamerson he was also a flatwound kinda guy if memeory serves me right. I use Doctor Ducks axe wax and this stuff makes my stings last loads longer leaves a thin film on the srting so the trick is take old strings off clean neck n fingerboard every 5 or 6 cleans clean bridge screws and drop of oil new strings on Doctor ducks axe wax on before the strings are tuned to pitch so you get the stuff all over the string tune to pitch check all yer bits intonation and string height quick polish n tune and away yer go after gig or long playing session an hour or so quick wipe over with doc ducks and back in its case...(this last bits the ideal and should be done but like I do that!!!) By the way I dong get doc ducks for free for free or cheap it really works though. However I currently have a good deal with elites which i do like!!! not as bright as rotos when they go on but stay a bit more unbrite for a while longer!!!! meaning im not fiddling with eq and such. They also do me a a set that I want 40 - 65 - 85 - 110 as I use a couple of hipshots on me 4 string and I hace a custom gauge set on my 5 as well. Thomstik for me frettless cost a packet but feel and sound great quite a woody tone.