Mr. Foxen

Learning to mod basses to a way I like has dissembled four basses and produced two. Course, the parts went on to better things, but there is a net loss overall.

[quote name='joegarcia' post='340251' date='Nov 29 2008, 02:33 AM']too many pedals.[/quote] True that, if Rose sarts a song a bit sooner than expected, Joe puts Fred Astair to shame.

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[quote name='d-basser' post='338214' date='Nov 27 2008, 11:07 AM']hmm the idea of a valve head form you and a cab from alex...ultimate bass chat rig![/quote] OBBM cables, Prosebass bass.

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Defretting your first bass is a rite of passage for bassists. With the sanding, get a block of soft wood, once you've had the frets out, put the sandpaper roud side out over the board and sand the board radius into the block. Then you have a radiused sanding block to smooth the board with once you've filled the gaps.

Don't Ricks come with stereo output as standard, perfect for Billy Sheehan tyle bi-amp goodness?

WD40 irritates your skin due to the organic solvent part of it dissolving the oils out of you skin. Thus solvent evaporates so it should cause the same irritation if it is on your strings. I use lemon oil on boards and don't do much with my strings. Might throw some in some meths in a sealed tub, see if it rejuvinates them though. I bought a guitar with sticking out fret ends and put loads of lemon oil on the really dry board, left it to soak and kept reapplying till it stopped going in, after a few days the ends didn't stick out any more.

Looks to me like an easier to post scheme, and gives you the added 'I made it' glow.

Haven't bought anything in ages, thats probably a win for me. Edit: Within moments, a cheap looking buy it now and I've gone and bought another pedal to not use. Eyes peel on the for sale forum soon.

Pretty sure the pot doesn't go all the way round in the motion of the pedal, so it might no go between 0 and full, maybe 0 and 2/3. Leaing the circuit there means its active rather an passive, which should give you boost as well as cut or something.

Probably need to isolate where thats coming from. Whats it like with just the 10s. And what bass/settings are you running into it?

[quote name='wmsheep' post='334103' date='Nov 21 2008, 09:05 PM']Yeah, it`s filled with tiny beabs/beans; as you invert it they all fall down to the bottom over internal baffles or something and it sounds like falling rain.[/quote] Proper ones are a length of cactus with all the needles poked into the inside, and tiny shells in, so when you turn it, the sound goes on for ages, if you get the tilt angle right you can control the rate and really draw it out. Hippies loved them.

Ended up not going anyway, kinda unemployed at the moment.

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=houU6FjEnaI"]Shall be the whole of the law.[/url] crank as much gain as you can, and push your headstock against your cab. This is the true feeling of the bass.

I just quoted it. I don't understand it.

Had a housemate who was a SRV obsessive, apparently he used lasp gasp batteries in his tubescreamer, less power decreases the headroom or something, so more distortion. Pretty sure if you like that sound, then a fuzz pedal is the way to go, from the the possiblities are endless.

I've been using my 'new' vintage valve head for last few practices, I've noticed even after warming up for the time it takes to set up the drum kit, it takes playing for about 20 minutes for the sound to stabilise from sounding dreadful to sounding great. Kinda concerned. My solid state head started meh and stayed meh throughout.

I recon this would make a nice living room setup: