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[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0oZ8PQNC00"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0oZ8PQNC00[/url] funny how the bit at 6.11 where she shows the same riff on the 4 and 12 actually shows the 4 to sound so much better- definition and grind. I think the fundamentals of the octave strings mask the harmonics of the regular strings, and adding distortion just muddies it up further. Doug Pinnick used a crossover to split the highs to go through guitar amps for distortion, and John Paul Jones had stereo outputs on his doubled-string Manson basses, sending the bridge pickup through distortion, so i think the signal on doubled/tripled-stringers needs extra separation, esp. when using distortion.

I find it funny that Chris Squire requested a thin neck on his sig. Rick- on his Instructional vid his hands look huge- I'd have thought he'd prefer a 50's P-bass tree trunk neck dimensions.

[quote name='theosd' post='93544' date='Nov 23 2007, 09:33 PM']Sounds like muddy sh*te on the youtube videos I watched of her demonstrating it. I much prefer the Rick tone.[/quote] agree on that- the live clip of them covering Rush's Limelight is pretty awful- the tuning sounds out and flubbed notes aplenty. her playing on the Rick is great, but not so sure about her voice- she sounds just like the singer of Fiery furnaces- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERSf4aAcimo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERSf4aAcimo[/url] and it sounds a bit weak over the heavy instruments.

on the liner notes for Slave to the grind, there's all these bass endorsement mentions- Hamer etc., but in a later interview he said he just used a 70's P bass on it! great tone and playing though.

[quote name='NJW' post='91956' date='Nov 21 2007, 04:22 AM']Im sorry to spoil the fun... I worked on crew for a McFly concert and there were no additional musicians... and they were quite good! They had a lot of dummy amps though, but they do play live (perhaps not on telly though!).[/quote] it did surprise me to hear suggestions that McFly might be miming, as the bassist looks like he's playing the right notes- however, the guy in Busted made it look like he had some very strange tuning on his bass....

backing vocals and occasional lead vocals. I find it quite enjoyable. singing gets more appreciation by the audience than just playing bass. the only thing i don't like is if in an original band the others give me parts to sing- and then nitpick over whether I'm singing them right.

there's another Rino88 ad for a guitar in which that scary bloke says it has "humberbacked pickups".

he's put a Badass on it, but with no holes to keep the thru-body stringing. the thumbrest would be more useful closer to the pickup.

the Yamaha Attitude Custom had a P pickup and a piezo in the bridge- someone here's just bought one. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7985"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7985[/url]

nice. one thing- it's a maple fingerboard, but there's no skunk stripe round the back- must be a separate fingerboard (to get the trussrod in), like on my Warmoth. which years did they do that on?

Cliff Burton and Jason Newstead used a distortion pedal with a wah pedal after it for that song- sounds like Trujilo's doing the same.

is the guy demonstrating it trying to be like Tim Westwood in Pimp my ride? dammmmnnnn......

in a review of the original ATK in Guitar magazine, they said that the 3-way switch positions were parallel, single coil + dummy coil, single coil + dummy coil but with treble roll-off. the treble roll-off setting seems a bit pointless when you have a treble pot. they should have put a series setting in instead, as on MM sterlings and ray5's.

the singer of the band I quit a month ago hated the Hohner B2A I used at rehearsals, and was always bugging me to get a more retro-looking bass than even my Warmoth p-bass, I should have got a Westone Rail just to piss him off!

I remember reading that a lot of 70's maple neck fenders have the different shade to the headstock and neck because it's a different lacquer used on each for some reason. that scratchplate is a replacement- it isn't a 70's one- there should be an extra screw in the middle near the pickup. the body looks like it's been refinished.

only £270? he should milk it for all it's worth. I'll have another pun in a minute...

sho' is mighty purdy....not.

how fast does it do a change to an alternate tuning? if it's in mere miliseconds then Michael Manring would love it- it would be far more accurate than his hipshot detuners and hyperbass retuning bridge. if you just want a bass that won't go out of tune, just get a graphite-neck headless.

maple is a bit snappier. the fingerboard does have an effect on the tone because the nut (on Fenders) and every fret sits on it- it lies between the neck and the support for the end of the vibrating string length. good for a really cutting edge- eg. the tones of JJ Burnel (although I think Rattus Norvegicus and No more heroes was a rosewood P, and maple on Black & white, The Raven and La Folie), John Entwistle on Live at leeds, Derek Forbes, Steve Harris, Tony Butler. good for slap. I think rosewood damps the highs and high mids slightly, which gives a warmer sound, and more forgiving of string-fret contact when plucking. a problem with maple is that over time with heavy use, sweat will soak into the neck at the fret slots, and where the lacquer gets worn down, and the neck will look a bit grubby, whereas you wouldn't notice on rosewood.

found that pic of the doubleneck- [url="http://www.nlightsweb.com"]http://www.nlightsweb.com[/url]

[quote name='3V17C' post='8861' date='May 29 2007, 09:21 PM'][b]Michael Anthony from Van Halen [/b]- a pretty steady rock player but I was listening to the old Fair Warning album the other day and theres some very tidy little bass parts on there.[/quote] yeah- here's "so this is love" from Fair warning played live- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Sebn7YyjE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Sebn7YyjE[/url]

I heard Northern lights on 6music a year ago, and thought it was Chris Squire on bass- a bit of searching dug up an interview with Jon Camp, and he said his hero was indeed Chris Squire. I also found a pic of him playing a custom-built doubleneck with the bass side styled like a Rick (not a Rick though, it had flash woods and inlays)

Mick Karn basslines sound great on my Hohner TWP600B (I pulled the frets out and put flatwounds on for a double bassy sound)- eg. Japan's "in vogue".

that one on Gumtree's a US Precision Plus Deluxe. edit- actually that's a weird one- it's got the US P plus deluxe active eq, but 20 frets and standard bridge, and standard exposed pole pickups- the Plus Deluxe had 22frets, Lace Sensor pickups and a heavy cast bridge. it looks like cross between that and the later Mex precision special.

it's often musicians who look good that inspire people to emulate them- see also Nikki Sixx, Twiggy Ramirez. whether they're actually good musicians doesn't really come into it. see also all the women who reckon Russell Brand's "the best comedian eva!", and pathetic males who use his lame-speak....