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"The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the [url="http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Universe"]Universe[/url]. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish." sorry couldn't resist it

TV through a 4x10 cab do you take a sofa to gigs and play laying down

even when blowing is asked for sucking is preferred, well generally speaking

As pointed out by Muzz above - I don't see this being anything to drag me away from the Mark bass I have gigged for ten years, Mesa have just adopted their VPF from the description on the youtube demo.

Icastle has mention both things i would have offered up. Any send and return can break down opening the circuit, I periodically use industrial contact cleaner (being a spark sorry if you dont have this) spray a jack plug and pull it in and out, also wipe the jack off on a cloth to remove any dust or crud and do it again. I do this to all aux jack sockets because your fan pulls air and dust in through them. Always worth doing this once or twice a year. I have also bought a new speaker from EA at great expense import duty and tax, because of a farting noise from the speaker, eventually tracked it down to a loose cable in a speakon i had made up, not before also thinking like you that my markbass speakon socked had a joint problem on the board. Because the sound problem was intermittent this took me months to locate the source, not helped by the fact i had two identical cabs and two different amps both with similar home made cables

It was style over substance, I would have liked to have heard more of his last album etc, but this was about the man, A man dealing with the big C and how that knowledge and end date affects an individual, It was not a musical journey biog. Still Liked it could watch again.

Yep - the same, looks like tortoise shell when glossed up

That should come up great when finished - here is a pic of my Shuker which looks 3 dimensional in the lights [attachment=205907:IMG_1813.jpg] good luck look forward to seeing the finished bass

Thanks Bluejay i can now tune my 5 string using tab.

I stuck with it and enjoyed the Art house style interlaced clips, strange but thought provoking. I was not aware of his intellect and other interests. So wonder now if he had more to do with the input to what was to be an epitaph to him, If you are to die and someone wants to make a documentary about your exit, My guess is he wanted it to be a poetical statement about his inner self not just dismissed as "another old guitarist died today headline".

Just bought a cab from Owen, well packed and quick delivery. Sounds bl dy great too. I had no worry about sending him the cash. Always good to see his opinion on topics too

Reading English - yes Reading music -yes this opens up many more areas for you to explore 5 String bass - Only if your music requires it. The reason i now only play 5 string basses is because for the last 30 years from the early 80's synth bass forced us down this route and now many pop numbers are recorded with 5 string parts. But there are lots of Indie bands, country and folf and jazz where you do not need 5 string low bass.

I sold a cab to Squib a couple of years back in a motorway service station on the M40, nice smooth deal no probs at all. Last week we met in the same service station and i bought an amp off him. We're all mad on here aren't we. But Stu is sound as a pound. trade in confidence.

Just wonder how you are all setting up your gain signal path, Is your bass passive/active ? is the volume full on, does your 500 w amp have a gain control front end where is this set and then is you master volume set to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, or 10. I have two class D 500 watt amps and find they are far more than i require if i set my bass and input gain up correctly. I started out with a 60w combo in clubs it was fine. I get really annoyed at manufacturers that only put all the bells and whistles on their largest powered amps. I would be happy paying for the additional flexibility on smaller powered amps.

Sounds like you have the right approach, I have also wasted many years due to picking up my bass and twiddling the same ole phrases and fills. The reason for posting that link was that 10 days ago I didn't think I stood a chance of playing that. The gig was last night and I think I got away with it . But what it did do was make me practice all the other numbers with renewed vigor. Some complex Mr Buble' arrangements. So the result is today I feel great and I know that the hours i put in last week will stay with me and have made me a better player. The next step is for you to get good enough to have the confidence to join a local band where you can read regularly to maintain your reading skills. All the best

Can you guys Bill/ Alex explain this with ref to qouted or more commonly non quoted Slew rates and in rush currents. Established companies were once proud to quote this which i believe is the ability of an amp to deliver that instand power when the string is pucked. Transformers used must have an affect on this re the old school large transformer / mosfet amp to those used on class D. or can both have good response.

Borrow a beer crate from the bar, or these are handy to have anyway I bought one of these [attachment=204345:trolley.jpg] and made one of these which I always put my cabs on [attachment=204346:board.jpg]