WalMan

I'd be interested to hear how you get on and if you think it is of any real use or just another fad. I saw them a few weeks back when one of the girls at work bought a couple & they were delivered to the office. I had a bit of a search around & read up on them but didn't bother in the end.

[quote name='presoulnation' post='173851' date='Apr 10 2008, 12:42 PM']I've used Warwick basses in the past - as you can see from the av and I offloaded that to fund my Sandberg endorsement. Sandberg produce wonderful instruments, but already in the contact I have had with Warwick they have been far more approachable.[/quote] Congrats. Without wishing to be a wet blanket I seem to recall your(?) thread re the problems you had with Sandberg. Have you checked to make sure there is noting else in the deal that might scupper the Warwick deal (tie ins & the like). Good luck anyway

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='172599' date='Apr 8 2008, 09:07 PM']Nooooooooo You may regret that purchase. I bought a Lindo bass & guitar for a uni project last summer. One of the guitar tuners broke as soon as it was tuned, and the bass's truss rod was rusted solid, so when I tried to adjust it, the bolt snapped. I kept them as I only wanted the necks for the project, and as whole instruments they were still way cheaper than any market replacement. Honestly for these, 'how cheap' is too cheap.[/quote] That'll be the "Minor issues" I suppose it will give you something to torch in the big gig finale if nothing else. I seem remember seeing a Deep Purple / Rainbow concert video where Mr Blackmore was unfortunately followed behind the Marshall stacks by the cameras, to where his tech swapped his strat for a copy that was duly trashed into the empty Marshal stacks loaded with flashbombs

[quote name='Bullet-Rule' post='172583' date='Apr 8 2008, 08:52 PM']While we're on the subject of rock/ progressive, anyone like 'Spock's Beard'? I think their bassist Dave Meros is a star act. I love that Rickenbacker (fitted-with-two-Jazz pups-too) tone of his.[/quote] Oh yes. Roll on July In my monthly searches of eMusic I have found all sorts of stuff new (and old) incuding [url="http://www.emusic.com/album/Lydian-Sea-Architect-of-Humanity-MP3-Download/11158476.html"]Lydian Sea[/url] - a tad DT [url="http://www.emusic.com/artist/Green-Carnation-MP3-Download/11557650.html"]Green Carnation[/url] - Norwegian, but a lot of proggy stuff seems to emanate from that direction [url="http://www.emusic.com/artist/Pain-of-Salvation-MP3-Download/11700649.html"]Pain of Salvation[/url] [url="http://www.emusic.com/artist/Tiles-MP3-Download/11717304.html"]Tiles[/url] - though the albums on eMusic date back to 2004 & earlier [url="http://www.emusic.com/album/Presto-Ballet-Peace-among-the-ruins-MP3-Download/10967013.html"]Presto Ballet[/url] [url="http://www.emusic.com/artist/Transatlantic-MP3-Download/10561305.html"]Transatlantic[/url] - being Pete Trewavas (Marillion), Mike Portnoy (DT), Roine Stolt (Flower Kings), Neal Morse (ex Spocks Beard) [url="http://www.emusic.com/artist/Riverside-MP3-Download/11663295.html"]Riverside[/url] - from Poland I could go on (and regularly do) but a trawl through the [url="http://www.emusic.com/label/Inside-Out-SPV-MP3-Download/121863.html"]Inside Out / SPV[/url] catalogue turns up loads of good stuff (including Spocks Beard) Edit: Kino - Picture & Frost* - Milliontown I'll get me coat

[quote name='Merton' post='170917' date='Apr 6 2008, 08:10 PM']Oh, and I think I have a plan for the cab story should I ever need it...[/quote] ....the source of much discussion too & from the bash We all need cunning plans now & then

Oh look, someone else uses a sniper as well [url="http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=270226131714"]Bid history[/url] I decided in the end not to bother and go with a guy a friend has used for tape transfers and who has a new 1/2 inch 8 track. It'll cost more, but he has a machine I know works. I could have spent £30+ bidding on this roller and get it back to find something else had died in the years of inactivity and could have ended up on a merry go round of buy, fix, find another problem, buy, fix, find another problem, etc

[quote name='D-L-B' post='172451' date='Apr 8 2008, 05:35 PM']I've just stumbled accross this topic while browsing the forum and this is only my second post on here. I'm a 'newbie' and also wish to try and sell some gear here shortly. I've allready posted in the Introdutions and even touched on this very subject there. I worry that I may be less appealing as a seller due to my relatively low post count. The difficulty is it's almost impossible for me to 'contribute actively' to the forum when it moves so fast and I really don't have the time to trawl every topic to find something where what I have to say might be worth a hoot. I, like a lot of members, come on here mainly when I know what I'm looking for, be that info or gear. I'm not about to start posting rubbish or repeating what everyone has allready said just to get my post count up. Dan [/quote] So you used the "Cute Dawgie" gambit in your avatar I think I have admitted before that I first came here when I was looking to sell my old combo, which actually went on Gumtree in the end, and cannot now remember whether my "For Sale" post preceded my "Hello" entry (perhaps that's why the combo went on Gumtree ) All transactions I have had have been completed with no problem and I have rightly or wrongly tended to the view that this seems to be a friendly place where generally members act with consideration to each other. I recall seeing one noob who posted for sales early on and adopted what I felt to be a bolshie attitude when asked for pics etc., and I dismissed his offers immediately.

[quote name='3V17C' post='171610' date='Apr 7 2008, 05:15 PM']i'm guessing he means covering up the mic thing on the noise limiter so that it doesn't go off so readily - a band did that at a local venue near here, covering the limiter in gaffa, foam and allsorts. unfortunatley that was the night the council came to check on volume levels..... oops![/quote] I used to suffer these horrors when playing WMC's 20 years back. The problem tended to be they were fed by a crap mike that usually had a really tight frequency band so that the bass could be as loud as you like, but touch the snare with the brushes & it tripped. A pin through the mike cable usually did the trick of killing it without being as obvious as a big lump of foam that would probably just shift the killer frequency, or so I was told Always used to be a mad panic to kill the amps before the power came back with a massive spike. What it might do to today's digital toys I dread to think

Just as well it wasn't this weekend for the Sussex contingent at least for the early start!! All gone by the afternoon.

[quote name='99ster' post='170533' date='Apr 6 2008, 01:08 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-TASCAM-1-2-ROLLER-38-48-42-44-TSR-8-MSR-16-REEL_W0QQitemZ270226131714QQihZ017QQcategoryZ15199QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-TASCAM-1-2-ROLLE...ksid=p1638.m122[/url][/quote] Now why the heck did I not think to look there!! Just have to hope the rest of the machine works after lying untouched & unloved for probably 6 years at least!! That or find a transfer service Cheers Al

Last night had its moments. First night back after nearly a month off & concentrating on new stuff at rehearsals. Keyboard player cried off in the morning with the lurgy, not a major problem as we have played as a 3 piece + vocalist for years, but it does open up the sound a lot. Concentrating on new stuff did lead to a few fairly major clangers for each of us, but I think we managed to bluff through most of them. Not sure who ended up with the orange sticker last night. We all deserved it Funny gig as it never really fills until 9:30 so 9:00 we started off to pretty much WAGs. Filled up well as the evening progressed, which was nice The G&L sounded brilliant, particularly having had the chance to work on the bass with the sound guy at the tech rehearsal last week. The L2500 is IMO just a superb instrument in a rock setting. Bit of Stingray top & bite along with a really solid bottom end that sits beautifully in the mix

So my guitarist was having a clear out and has just given me back a load of 1/2 inch 8 track masters I though had been lost. They date back quite a while. One set were mixed for a cassette album (that tells you how long ago, we didn't even consider burning CD's!!) and the others were from sessions that we recorded, but for some reason were never finished - I think we had a major style & name change & they became obsolete to what we were then doing. I did a very rough mix of the first set of tapes when we recorded the second, but that was really only a push up the faders & do a rough mix to cassette while waiting for the others to show up (recording was in my parents old house) and frankly a bit hot on level. So I have the tapes but need the means to now get it into into my computer to mix. I thought I had lucked onto a 1/2 inch recorder to borrow from a friend who actually recorded the first set of tapes and went round to pick it up this evening. However, disaster of disasters, when he dug it out from behind the mixing desk looking a bit dusty we found that the pinch roller had completely perished and fell apart when touched So I need to find either a replacement pinch wheel, or someone with a 1/2 inch recorder to effect the transfer. Google has not been a great help. Anyone got any good ideas? I would really like to get these tracks onto the computer & mixed after all these years.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='169565' date='Apr 4 2008, 12:46 AM']So long as they're not slapping for 3 hours and getting on everyone's tits, that is.[/quote] What do you mean

[quote name='E_MaN' post='168797' date='Apr 2 2008, 11:40 PM']Get your hands of a copy of 'How to be Idle' by Tom Hodgkingson. As a person who suffers from moods this book is a shining light of excellent liturature. It has taught me to live life totally differently, and I have never had a proper 'mood' since me first reading it and I've read it 6, 7 times now. At the tender age of 19, I'm glad I found this book so early in my life. Cannot rate it highly enough.[/quote] Cheers, I shall have to have a look for that. Reading it again I should just add that my "why do I bother" comment was more playing/gigging rather than life in general.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='168243' date='Apr 2 2008, 11:07 AM']I’ve been feeling really gloomy lately about the band and the future of live music in general . You know the stuff - dwindling audiences and fewer gigs etc.,[/quote] ...and I mean this as nicely as possible, but I'm glad its not just me Boy I've had some black moods recently (though Sunday was a small shining light even if I did get nothing in the raffle!!) Never thought I'd say it but I find myself wondering quite why I bother sometimes, and I [i]NEVER [/i]thought I would ever be saying that. Perhaps I too need to find something new???

[quote name='nottswarwick' post='165966' date='Mar 29 2008, 06:16 PM']mmm, which is series actually, middle switch towards bride or neck. I did mine with the switch towards the neck - the lounder setting, always thought this is series, I may in fact be wriong. Anyone?[/quote] Yup forwards is series. Wiring diagram [url="http://www.glguitars.com/schematics/ASATbass_L2000_L2500_controls_diagram.pdf"]HERE[/url] Just back from a tech rehearsal to run through stuff with our sound guy & my L2500 sounded luuuuurvly mostly on Active+, Series & both pups (so from back to front forwards, forwards, middle) all tones & volume up. For the rocky stuff we do it is just so good and sits in the mix really well.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='166840' date='Mar 31 2008, 01:16 PM']Overall, I had a great day and a real good laugh travelling there and back with WalMan and Merton and thanks Al for doing all the driving! Your navigator on the other hand needs her circuits re-testing... Still, we only got lost 3 times, so that's good I'd say for mere 'bassists'![/quote] Looks like Diedre wasn't the only sat nav who got it [i]COMPLETELY[/i] wrong We went round lots of roundabouts two or three times & were in fact within a few hundred yards of the venue a couple of times before looping another roundabout & heading back to Northampton (where there was a different Weedon Rd). Then Mert wondered if we left at the right junction. Included a call to OBBM during our travels. (I'm just making excuses now ) [quote name='silverfoxnik' post='166840' date='Mar 31 2008, 01:16 PM']By the way, I've got some video footage to upload but never done it before, so if anyone can tell me how to do that please, I'll try and load it up tonight?[/quote] Nik try setting up a YouTube account & posting it there Al

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='166575' date='Mar 30 2008, 09:49 PM']I would love to attend the next bash, although i think i would feel a bit unworthy in the presence of some properly experienced players. [/quote] Oh I wouldn't worry about that - I'll be there And we're back after a much needed coffee at Mert's so I rather think passing on the meal after - great as that would have been - was probably a good move. And so to the initial SE Bass Bash Bus ([i]reduced[/i]) photos - Arriving, or not as the case may be - Merton realises why his mother told him never accept lifts from strange men - CK needs feeding - the SE Bass Bash Bus prepares for lift off & another eventful journey full of exciting detours. Walman insists it was just the [i]pretty [/i]route. Silverfoxnik & Merton wonder just [i][b]HOW[/b][/i] someone with satnav can get quite so lost so often. - A bevvy of basses have a day trip to Northampton from the seaside - The Vigier club holds its inaugural meeting - Walman demonstrates the wrong way to play a really nice bass Good to meet up with some old faces, as well as meet some new, chat and try some different stuff. Thanks to all involved in organising this celebration of bass. One has to wonder though quite what the Sunday diners thought was happening, probably that another earthquake had hit.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='166047' date='Mar 29 2008, 07:25 PM']+2 [/quote] + some And now to my pit for tomorrow we drive me hearties

[quote name='ianrunci' post='165528' date='Mar 28 2008, 08:15 PM']Mine is the Peavey EXP HP Signature in the pic. Georgeous, ebony fretboard and finished better than any other guitar Iv'e ever owned[/quote] And yet I mentioned mine to a guitarist last Saturday evening & there was a definite air of "Peavey? Bag o' sh1te". Mine may not be the most expensive of models (£199 as I recall) but it looks good, plays well and sounds great for what I am using it for, both electric through the PODxT & acoustic model straight into the recorder. Still there you go.

Probably a Strat. Currently have a pointy Ibanez that drives me so mad getting the floating trem set up that I have pretty much given up on it & got a Peavey Generation EXP with piezo's in the bridge. That is great for home recording. It could probably do with some better pups but for what I am doing noodling at the mo it is fine. I heard the Peavey at a Stu Hamm demo and was impressed. Then saw Neal Morse last year & his guitarist was getting a great acoustic sound without changing guitars, and which turned out to be a PRS with piezo's installed. So whatever I got (Strat or otherwise) I think now I would look for something with that option - or get it added

[quote name='Steve_nottm' post='164508' date='Mar 27 2008, 02:43 PM']and there are a couple that I'm really struggling to get. Namely "Funky Music". Anyone play these and have any specific pointers? Oh, and wish me luck![/quote] Struggling in what way. The way my lot do it it is fairly straightforward. Do you know what key you will be doing it in? Have you got a copy. Could possibly run a mix with my lot panned one side & my cruddy bass the other so you could see what I do FWIW Oh and good luck. Don't know all of the songs on the list but some - like Watchtower - are simple enough3 chord jobs

[quote name='Muppet' post='164092' date='Mar 26 2008, 09:46 PM']I looked at this for my band but as far as I can see, and I'd love to be corrected, we'd need an output per channel on our desk, which we don't have. And then at £950 for the hub and four units, you'd have to decide whether it was worth it[/quote] with the Aviom it all happens at the stagebox end [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-2/Analog-Input-17/AN-16-i-M-Mic-Input-Module"]HERE[/url] which as well as feeding the desk that runs into [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-5/Network-Devices-28/A-16D-A-Net-Distributor"]THIS[/url] which in turn feeds my sub mixer [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-1/Mixers-3/A-16R-Rack-Mount-Mixer"]HERE[/url] or one of [url="http://www.aviom.com/Product-Categories-1/Mixers-1/A-16II-Personal-Mixer"]THESE[/url] Don't ask me what it cost. The sound guy decided it was the way to go and - with no dependants (other than a huge dog) - went ahead & got it Completely over the top, but the idea at the time was to keep stage levels down with more controlled monitoring & control over FOH - it just never actually happened

Will have to check this out. Bit less of a hike than this Sunday and just down the road from Mrs W's best friend so I can dump her there & not feel guilty for deserting her for another bass bash on a Sunday