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I really miss mine too. I had a blackface one and it was lovely but it didn't just do 'grind'; it was capable of all sorts of sounds - all of them good!

Voted - some really good tunes this month (as always).

I used to knit but then a friend suggested I try crochet. Now I'm hooked.

I live too far away from all the good stuff .

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1382995243' post='2259007'] A friend of mine knows a punk bassist who had a bass with only two strings - both tuned to "E" - just in case one snapped...true story.. [/quote] Jerry Only (Misfits) used to tune his bass E, A, E, A for exactly the same reason.

Chord OC-50 - it's an octave pedal that sounds identical to the hallowed Boss OC2 and it's built like a tank. You can pick them up for about £40 and they're worth every penny.

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I think is you want to runboth signals together then you'll probably need some sort of buffer in there to stop the impedance loading, which means it won't be true bypass. A high quality buffer is often preferable to no buffer most of the time...

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1382943556' post='2258124'] It'll be popular in Japan. [/quote] Bassist might need a costume change first though...

Shitsticks, that's awful.

This was on the BBC's webpage today - a little bit mo' info on the charity and what it does with the money... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24581600

"If you have to ask, you'll never know"

unplug it and dip the end in ethyl alcohol?

Mmmmm, fretless 'Rays just sound the BALLS. I don't know what it is with those 'speed bumps' that most people seem to have fitted on theirs though - stops the mojo coming out.

Not dirty. Not looped. I might do them under the 'trades descriptions act'.

Vai looks about 12 there!

Be aware that you'll need a 75ohm cable, not a standard phono to phono lead for S/PDIF connections.

Yay - Nick as the geek, loving it!

Congratulations on the win. Niiiiiiice bass that.

[quote name='DanEly' timestamp='1382447542' post='2252221'] Loverly advice. One last question, with Bart pups, what wire is essentially black/white? If that's makes sense [/quote] Looking through Bartolini's wiring diagrams it seems that their convention is Black = hot and White = earth/ground.

Big +1 to the live solos are boring posts! I think electric bass [i]can[/i] have just as valid a coice for expressive solo performance, but finding a player who can put all the pieces together is a real needle in a haystack affair. I was listening to some Marcus Miller tonight and I genuinely enjoyed his playing and musicianship. All the usual suspects (Jaco, Flea) etc... are superb musicians who just happen to have chosen the bass guitar as the tool of their trade. Players like these can stop an audience in their tracks at 20 paces. Expressive soloing transcends simply repeating charlie Parker/Jaco licks over the changes and enters the realm of communicating emotional content through sound. THAT, my friends, is a tall order. It's like stepping up to the microphone without knowing exactly what you want to say, and that can only end in embarrasment and airborne fruit.

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Dunno, maybe a 5 string unlined fretless Jazz with two humbuckers (but switchable between single coil and humbucking) and a John East pre. Swamp ash body , maple neck, ebony fingerboard, tort plate and olympic white finish. Not that I've given it MUCH thought. Pretty please...

Ms Hathaway is a brilliant singer - she's on Marcus Miller's "live and more" album doing 'summertime' (with Poogie Bell on drums too) http://youtu.be/G-SyzPda7RA