Mr. Foxen

If I could make my living making slightly poo basses I would. The fact that people always bid on every one I've seen is sort of a reason, course, if they BIN I won't see. The holes are precision aligned to improve resonance in the fundamentals of those strings in the body wood. I think he learned it off Fender.

[quote name='paul, the' post='159300' date='Mar 17 2008, 11:17 PM'] you lot have really odd wives I plan for mine to have a vagina.[/quote] Yeah, we all have plans...

I like mine, although rarely use it in anger, since I just dropped everything a step. Seems to work pretty well, as long as you keep your nut lubed (heh) and don't wind too much string round it. Fitting is no prob, mine had coupla studs that locate in the screw holes and a nut type ferrule, others may be different.

Try raising that string a little, see if that sorts it. Not much to lose trying that.

I had one, looked nice, sounded ok, but I didn't get on with the skinny neck at all, so it went.

I'm pretty jealous of that.

[quote name='joegarcia' post='157803' date='Mar 15 2008, 02:30 AM']Hang on a minute. Thats my drummer. Just looked at your signature. You aren't Incarnate on Choke are you?[/quote] I am indeed. Rehearsal with borrow cabs in a coupla hours. This ones just down to D though, should be reasonably sensible, except for loudness. Wouldn't like to call Ben an inexperienced guitarist, leaving sonic space may not be his forté.

[quote name='joegarcia' post='157787' date='Mar 15 2008, 01:09 AM']Have you got the worlds biggest 4x10 or the worlds smallest guitarist?[/quote] We actually do have the worlds shortest guitarist. And the most awesomest drummer too.

My 15s are a Peavey 115BX BW (or something, it says on the back) had is original 4 ohm replaced with a 8ohm speaker, the other is a home made that looks like its been built to same spec (ish) as they are exactly the same size, both ported, the home made has a smaller triangluar port, 3x3x pythagoras. I also own a H&K 4x10, which is a guitarists house so can't look at any firther detail, never intended to sell it so paid no attention before. Edit: I have a Peavey black widow speaker that can go ineither, as yet I've not managed to break either or been dissatified in any way, so have not had them out to look.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='157232' date='Mar 14 2008, 09:49 AM']Well you should have said you'd just wanted the easy but probably incorrect answer, as opposed to the correct answer that may require engaging some brain cells. If you want to forget backline you better be playing gigs where you get seriously nice monitors. Alex[/quote] Theres a correct answer now?

Spade connectors is the way.

Well that got suddenly in depth and complicated. Most useful tip I've had was 'buy a sansamp, forget backline'.

Well that got suddenly in depth and complicated. Most useful tip I've had was 'buy a sansamp, forget backline'.

First fretless played was a defretted 6? precision, my bass mentor guy had defretted it in the Jaco era when he upgraded to a Jazz bass.

So the new band wants to be like Sunn O))). Any tips on making the most of my bottom end? I have a Peavey Firebass head (700w at 2ohm) and two ported 15" cabs.

That worked fabulously well. Cheers for that. I can heartily reccomend a Mullard ECC81 in the first channel of a DHA pedal.

Don't forget I have a 4 ohm black widow speaker laying about spare just down the road from you.

I've got one of those in red, really nice, punchy for a passive too. Can't see you being dissapointed if you bought it. Onlt reason I don't play mine much is the 5 string part.

I used meths and some kitchen roll, stinks up less than some things, fine on the cheap guitar finish (poly).

I've just been given a mullard ECC81, if I were to put that in the left position of my VT2, would it give me one channel of warmer, without the grrrr, and the second channel for the overdrive distortion? Or will it make everything go wrong? I'm trying to learn valves through experimentation.

Well, if a Bristolian basschatter can bum me a lift to the bass bash, I'll bring mine.

Heres the great man himselfs livejournal: [url="http://stwish.livejournal.com/"]http://stwish.livejournal.com/[/url] I was considering buying a bass off him, he seems to reply to mail within a coupla hours. Scored one locally though.

[quote name='Jase' post='147719' date='Feb 27 2008, 11:47 AM']I've had a few problems today and yesterday, ebay being one of them. I'm being directed all over the net to shopping links....very odd [/quote] That sounds like you need to get Adaware or Spybot search and Destroy, clear up all the dodge things trying to advertise at you. I am in no way affiliated with either of those, they ar just good free programs.

Volume volume means you can go 75%/100% and such, so in theory more variety, at the cost of simplicity. Depends on how much you fiddle with it when you are playing.

I was passing a charity shop, and there was an old valve radio in there. Had a look in the back and it had what looked roughly like a 12AX7 with Mullard written on it. What are the chances of that being a useable valve for my DHA pedal? Will the fact its been used in a radio for ages mean it probably won't be very good, or is the low power use in there going to mean its a good score? Being a charity shop the whole thing was cheaper than a NOS Mullard. Oh, and might it not have actually been an ECC85/12AX7?