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Try Gogling Gorm pedalboard. The DIY option but only £3 -£5 depending on size.

Another Ashdown EB180 user here. The DI doesn't cut the speaker, but turning down the master gain does. TBH I'm not a great fan of the combo sound, but the DI out from the head though a decent PA sounds glorious IMO.

I'd say anyone who's bought a used Warwick in the last 2 years has got a bargain. Shame though as I don't get on with mine most of the time, but I'm not selling at a bargain basement price.

Cool vid and like the song too

Cheers Pentode. Got 22 hours in the studio for three weeks time. Just hope its better by then.

Not a happy bunny right now! Had a gig on Friday night and three songs in started to get pains in one knuckle. I thought it might be a carpal tunnel prob as I've had that before. But came off stage and the knuckle was swollen and had blackish marks over it. Trip to A&E Saturday morning and it turns out it's cartilage problems. I've gotta go see my GP to find out what's causing it, but really fed up and quite worried now. The only other people I know who have had this sort of thing have had it with their knees and it's taken years to sort out. Please will someone tell me that knuckles fix themselves nice and quickly?

Kent/Sussex boders and happy to do it for nowt if you come to me or a beer or two if I come to you

It's all in the title really, except that there's three other bands playing as well. £5 0n the door.

Peg-leg Legs Parker

'Tis fine to do

[quote name='Shaggy' post='577395' date='Aug 22 2009, 10:04 AM']just wondering if you could do the same with a Mesa 400+ into a bass....... [/quote] A double bass maybe?

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='576460' date='Aug 21 2009, 10:44 AM']Great story.[/quote] Great thread

From a very young age I was always into music and was made to learn piano, which I hated. Then a trip to see my American cousin when I was ten got me into Kiss and at that impressionable age I wanted to be like Gene Simmons (even now I'd rather learn to breathe fire than slap at 100 notes per second lol). Fast forward a year and I was listening to Numan/Tubeway Army, Joy Division/New Order etc and I wanted to start playing - pestered my Dad into getting me a bass (tiny Satellite thing) for my 12th Birthday, but beyond learning the names of the notes in the first five frets didn't do much. Jump forward another year and the Head of Music at school asked me to stay at the end of class (Nothing unusual there - I hated school and was usually in trouble). He told me he'd heard I had an electric bass and that he was looking to form a band to compliment the orchestra for the school's musical productions and would I like to the bass player. It was the only extra-curricular activity I ever voluntarily signed up for. By 4pm the following friday, he'd found out my bass was a toy, I couldn't read music very well and didn't understand chord charts and had no technical expertise at all! Over the summer holidays he went out and blew a significant part of his departmental budget on a US Fender Precision (sunburst, black scratchplate, maple neck - lovely) and spent friday afternoons starting to teach me to start to play. Later he blew more of his budget on the services of a proper electric bass teacher for half a dozen of us kids. The support and encouragement (and direct intervention he put in on my behalf to ensure I was still allowed to play after getting into serious trouble in my last year) went well beyond what I've ever experienced from any other teacher. So in short - Gene Simmons, Paul Gardiner and Peter Hook inspired me to get a bass, but it was Jon Fielder who got me to actually play it - I owe that man a huge thank you.

HI Wayne, what are the "few other bits"?

I love my Korg Pitchblack - simple but accurate.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='548176' date='Jul 22 2009, 08:47 PM']You confessed all that right off the bat though, which is why you haven't seen much criticism - we know that you know it's not perfect.[/quote] And it's a hell of a lot more perfect than I could manage! Nice work Zoe

Its a 55p - so there would also need to be routing for a new pickup (unless someone makes an active sc P pickup?)

Well, in the end a week turned into 6! Having always had 4 string passive basses, over half of them Fender Ps, it's really openend my eyes and ears. Do I want a five string? Yes! Enough to part with my 'vette? Maybe. I've got a few bits earmarked for selling, once they're gone I might have enough for a used Ibanez ATK305, but if I don't get back into the Warwick over the next few weeks that'll be up for grabs too and hopefully I'll be able to get a G&L Tribute L2500 - 5 strings, able to produce my favourite tones (P & J) and lots more besides (MM) and I can get used to active tones as well. Bonus!

[quote name='M4L666' post='545579' date='Jul 20 2009, 06:32 PM']I had him for five- don't worry mate.[/quote] Six weeks to the day now

Now with Tjkennelly. Gonna be interesting to see how I readjust to four strings.

Or if you're not happy with Cheddatom's suggestion I have a pukka version of Reason 2.5 I'm looking to sell.

[quote name='DHA' post='543831' date='Jul 18 2009, 10:18 AM']Correct HJ. The VT1-EQ-Bass-Drive and VT2-Twin-EQ-Bass are designed to do this. But maybe not everyone wants a valve as a pre-amp so I have been thinking of doing a SS pre-amp for sometime now. It could be used with other pedals or standalone with a line and XLR balanced out, 3 band active EQ plus mid band Q and maybe a headphone amp and line in for home use without an amp. Maybe one version could have a tuner mute as well? Battery and power supply connections and in as small a box as possible. Anyone interested? Another product I have been thinking of would be the above but with a few FX loops as well, maybe with wet/dry blends. 9 and 12V outs some nice lights for levels, etc. A sort of pedal board interface if you like.[/quote] Another interested bod here!

Move on sorted - handing it on to Tjkennelly on Monday evening.

A bit OT but just to say Goldie loks fantastic as a fretless.

A few favourite simple riffs all over the neck (usually Stone Roses stuff) just to check for dead spots, then squeeze out some harmonics, a good look over the bass for blemishes, pointy fret ends etc, then a good play with the controls and finish off with a couple of minutes of "Dune Tune" just because I know how much music shop staff love to hear a badly executed classic.