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You may only be left with the body, but as long as it's a quality pier of wood and a good tone wood then it'll be worth it. As long as your willing to spend a bit knowing you won't get it back, but if you do it right and well then you should have something that you won't want to sell anyway, hopefully

What do you mean? Does it buzz when you guitar is plugged n and it's just on? Or does the DI output buzz and generate noise. I think you mean, the second one. In that case there is usually a ground lift button on the back close to DI Section. Otherwise it could be a lot of reasons. Like guitar sheilding, poor cables even electric outlets. Did you try google?

+1 I brought my barefaced then got my amp, first the SVT-3 pro. But it's heaviness and lower wattage wasn't doing me favours, sounded great though. I sold it a got the OTB, much more warmth and low end, now i'm a happy chappy.

I had a SVT-3 pro once that output 275w at 8ohm but it seemed to under power my compact. Also I've head the B2r is kinda naff sounding. It's a cheap imitation of an ampeg sound and that's what it sounds like. Although I haven't heard it myself. If yu get it for the sound you'll be carry un wanted extra wieght as you'll need a power amp to help it drive the compact. A cheaper and better option would be the bass driver or para driver from tech 21. Which faithfully gets that nice tube grindy tone. And then a power amp.

The trace 300w cab will be fine with the orange TB. The orange has an ohm impendance switch. Which means it's 500w at either 4 ohm or 8 ohm. You can run the cab with the orange selected at 8 ohm. I would be careful turning up to high though you may damage then speakers if they begin to distort. This way you CAN'T add a second cab. You can also run the cab with the orange selected at 4ohm, this would b quoted and safer for the trace cab, although I did this once with my barefaced compact and OMG is it still loud!!!! This was you can add a second 8 ohm cab. This way the orange is only ouputting about half it's 500w, although no where details exactly what wattage it does output when at 4 ohm I to an 8 ohm cab. My guess is closer to 300 rather than 250. In short the trace cab will be fine with what the orange will put out. I would advise against the orange SP 2x12. It's not as loud as many other 2x12s it just has a similar bass response. You'll do far better with the OBC 1x15, or saving a further 50-100 punds and ordering a barefaced bass cab. The compact will blow you away. The midget will cut you in half, and still be louder than ornages 2 smaller bass cabs. And the SuperTwelve will cut you in half while blowing you away. With any three of those barefaced cabs you'll get a lot more out of the OTB than anything that Orange can offer you.

Currently the jack casady I now came strung with chrome di'ardio flats, a little old I guess now but they sound great, full of warmth and body, especially with fingers and surprising on the shorter scale. However sometimes I notice that the higher strings can seem rather thin and it doesn't sou d to good when slapped, and since me an the band are becoming more experimental I want to have this ability on the jack casady. I don't really want to take my jaguar to slap the 2 songs I actually slap in. I know I could just use the jag but I want to use both on an equal amount. I'm also looking for the added sustain and overall roundwound tone that I lie on my jag. Anyway, my worry is I've heard that short scale basses can sou d muddy and thumpy with rounds, I also don't want to lose any string tension. I guess my question really is if anyone has had any experience with rounds on this bass how do thy sound? Also could anyone suggest a set that would be ideal, I've always previously used EB super slinks.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='843860' date='May 21 2010, 09:43 AM']I like it, but not as much as the Big Al [/quote] lol is there a pic of a goldtop double humbucker one? If so I will GAS in my undies.

Gossip - standing in the way of control. No Doubt or Gwen - I'm just a girl jet- are you gonna be my girl The Knack - my Sharona Wheatus - teenage dirtbag some of my personal favorites

I think Junes issue will appear in stores at the end of this month. As for mays issue, 90% of the stuff in the first few pages I already knew, from here. Do I really need to pickup next monthes? Is alexs column a good read?

[quote name='Musicman20' post='843953' date='May 21 2010, 11:17 AM']I think that was it, the first thing they said to me was harp on about money, and then it never happened for 4 months. They have cancelled the future gigs as well now as no bass and the vocalist is still not ready. I really dont like leaving cabs worth £500+ in a room I know little about. Gigs would have brought out the big guns But it never got that far. Im glad I had nothing there as id have to go and get it and bump into them. I think the drummer loves being loud, thats it.[/quote] I'm no singer so maybe I'm just being foolish, and some people ae different. But I still managed to learnthe words, bassline and lead guitar to Stevie Wonder, Superstition in 1 night. Not perfect but well enough to play any of those parts live on stage. But that's just me. And same my rig is only worth £800, but I left that and my Orange guitar amp at a function room. I stayed to watch lock up and arrived the next morning before they were open. And unless the drummer is a total wimp and the kit is crap, small and has no projection there is no need to mic it up. My band barely mics up at gigs let alone rehearsal, but our drummer is a beast. Only would be usefull if they were recording while rehursing, but there'd be so much bleed in a close setting like that, it would sound aweful.

The statement "we earn quite good money" implies the fact and will attract a lit of bass players who wish to earn monies off this gig, and "quite good" what's that enough to live off? A few extra hundred? Or a tenner every month or so when try actually get a gig. Then they are totally hypocritical and say they arnt interested in the "mighty (pound) dollar". Well excuse me don't advertise the availabilty of good money and expect a 15 year old kid who just wants to rock his socks off. To me they are being completely misleading. I would lack effortto lug hear around after being told I would make "good money" and after four months recieve nothing. I realise a lot of people understanding of "good money" is different but I work for nearly minium wage, that's not good money. I've only been gigging since last December but have since always played for free, and have played along side a band I consider proffessional. They were cool chaps, played, gigged a lot and got paid, and even though it was operated out of the back of a transit, if I was paying them I'd be happy. Also dealt with otherwise of the spectrum on a free gig, meddly type deal. The guys showed up late, complained and spent 20 minutes effectivily plugging in and tuning up..... Not cool. Plus 1 though to TimR.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='842815' date='May 20 2010, 09:05 AM']At the end of the day a retailer can sell a product for whatever they want to, but it's frustrating, as a shop needs to make a certain mark-up to survive. Last week I was asked to price match Thomann on a Boss Me-50B at £173. Roland have ensured that shops advertise all their products at the same price online, which has worked well, but the retailer will still reduce that price. We have had to stop doing Yamaha keyboards because of silly pricing. We were lucky to make 10% profit on a £2000 Clavinova trying to match the likes of Normans, etc. Good news for the buyer, I have to admit. Worrying for the likes of me.[/quote] I understand your point, as my parents own their own business and are always being undercut by others. Although we enjoy a healthy business thanks to it's location and great reputation (bobbersmill transport cafe : Mill cafe, nuthall). If there was a local music shop nearby I would always go there first as I hate some sites un willingness to state weather something is in stock and delivery time. I would happily by that bit extra to be greated by a fellow musician who is happy to help. I liked foxes when it was there you could pull the guitars off the shelf and jam, drum and guitar centre all the basses are hanging high so if I wanted to try I'd be looking at a full day of shopping in that one shop. Great stock but some staff don't seem to have a clue and I can't get to anything.

If you have PA support you don't need a back up amp, as Long as you have a dedicated monitor for your signal the sansamp para driver should do.

I'm quite happy with my OTB and compact, I've already broke light fittings on low volumes. Unless I can find the effort to buy and then lug around my dreambass rig, I'm more than happy for now though. I'll maybe get another a midget or another compact in the future, just to kill myself in my room.

75% of my non food shopping is done online. In particular, music goods. The closest music store is still a £3.20 bus ride, unless I want to walk for an hour and half, and then it's overpriced and doesn't have items in stock. The strings I usually use they only stock 5 string packs, and they are £32 in there. So then I take a 20 minute walk to the other side of the town centre and still get charged £25 a pack. On eBay the sam strings are less than £20. It's not just though, there used to be a foxes music 5 minutes away, I needed a hard case for my epiphone dot studio, they took my name and number and told me they would order one and to come next week 3 weeks and 3 visits later still no case. I went online I paid the bit extra that GAK had advertised and after 2 weeks it didn't arrive and they sent me another one no questions, later the other arrived. Online stores offer a better value and a broader range. How can I go local when the nearest local one is longer 20 minute car ride.

This whole episode is ridiculous. They'll never hold down a decent enough time period of decent cash coming in with the way they behave. Maybe they should come to one of our bands practices, and see how to PLAY in a band. What happened to the original bassist? Did his back give way after having to lift the PA more than his own rig? I hate douches like those though, your not proffessional until your earning from it, and quite obviously they weren't. I sometimes wonder what goes through thier minds when they are spending 30 minutes faffing around doing nothing. Anyway G, you are better off without. I know it must be hard though especially when you are being promised good monies and you are wanting to get to it.

Stories of this kind of customer service is always nice. Keeps customers returning, increases custom (I'll be going there from now on haha) and as a result we can all continue to recieve the fantastic service that they provide.

I just gave one finger a try, seems relatively simple as long as you are fast and accurate. Not able to dampen so great with my thumb, I have shakey hands. Maybe you should upload another two clips. One the standard 2 finger style, and another 1 finger, as a comparison. On first impressions though, it lacks fluidity but adds in punch. IMO.

I just use what my mum has in the bathroom, but it's been accurate so far. I wieghed my old power jazz that was 9.4 Lbs I think, only reads to one decimil point however. Still I thought that was heavy. I'll wiegh in my other basses and maybe my whole bass rig as a comparison, and my own wieght.

Did what he said, and thebass arrived sooner than expected. And I love it. Great guy to deal with.

I have one, it's reliable and reasonable priced. Can't go wrong. There is an Dunlop 6 band I think but it had no level control, and then a 9 band. Geb 7 is the best compromise on controls over price.

Intonation again? Could be some kind of fret issue, dead spots on the neck, my jag has a suitable tone difference on the 3rd fret 4th string, just sounds off and noisy compared to any other note.

[quote name='squirebass' post='838557' date='May 16 2010, 12:33 AM']As a matter of interest what do you think of my modded Squire Bronco? She sound very much like my Standard Jazz bass.[/quote] my guess it would with 2 jazz pickups. Lol. But did the short scale add any more thumpy bass, that jazzes tend to lack?

[quote name='Moos3h' post='837937' date='May 15 2010, 09:43 AM']Sod the bass...big cabinets with 15" speakers (with bucket loads of Xmax) and big power to drive 'em. I can bring down small towns with my two Fanes [/quote] lols I love 15 inch drivers. I have usually given my eq a low mid boost on a 2x10 combo, which gave me a big punch, but since switching to my current rig, all I have to do is dail in the volume and gain, set it flat and the compress it to about 2:1. I have no experience with this yamaha attitudebass but I can see it has a neck bucker and a P split coil in the mid. It can be that bright of a bass. Correct me if I'm wrong but all I see the bass having is a huge low thump. You would benifit from a jazz type bass as IMO the usual jazz bass growl and treble fills a lot more space in a mix than any P bass would. To save money though I would probably use the P pickup solo'd, to try and get more Mid frequency, which will punch through and give you a percievdd 'big' sound. Obviously all this is conjecture and opinion.

Voted other. Black and White look to plain, brown tort is best on oly White. The best suited would be red tort. Although I had a spark of genius when I remembered the pick guard on a customised OLP guitar. It was 4 layer ply, B W B the top layer was a dark grey/silver pearloid. I'm sure White pearloid would match it well, especially with the block inlays. Second thoughts I'm now looking for the grey pearloid gor my jag