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I'll take 'heel joint' - shall we say 6 minutes?

Pop music has always been about technology - double-tracking vocals, selective EQ'ing and using artificial reverberation to 'blur' imperfections in vocal performances (and sometimes fretless bass too!) to ensure a more marketable product are common place. Autotune is simply the next step in the race to be fully dependent on technology. What's different about Autotune (and others) is that the public are aware of it. Back in the day the 'tricks of the trade' were closely guarded secrets.

If you've got a weedy output (technical term) and you've changed the battery then I'd look at the wiring as Mark suggested. It may be that one of the wires isn't fully connected, but it may also be due to phasing issues - check that the two wires from your pickups are going to the right places on the Pre, otherwise no amount of soldering will rectify the problem.

Curse you BC, just bought the 'Tower of Doom' album. Back to the OP, do you have the Twins 1 and 2 albums? It's Jaco with his big band live and both discs are incredible. I had the 'Invitation' album (edited single CD version of 1 and 2) for years and loved that, last month I got hold of the 'Twins' (so to speak) and realised what I was missing. Awesome performances from all concerned.

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1349461555' post='1826718'] Do what I did,buy a Fender,use it for 34 years...... [/quote] This.

I bought [i]All American Alien Boy[/i] by Ian Hunter on the strength of Jaco's playing and really like it.

Just tried to have a listen and I can't access any samples - I get a white rectangle in the centre of my screen ad nothing else. I'm on OSX 10.8 using safari if this helps. Like everything else though,

wire brush (and dettol)?

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1328144383' post='1522750'] DHA VT-1 or VT-2 nice clean overdrive. [url="http://www.davehallamps.co.uk/page18.html"]http://www.davehalla....uk/page18.html[/url] [/quote] The VT2 might be a bit of an overkill for this, the second channel goes from fairly mental to King George 6th pretending to be Napoleon whilst making love to a space-hopper in the bath. On a wednesday. The VT1 EQ will allow you to EQ the drive sound too, so you could roll off some od the high end and boost a little bit of the bottom end.

[quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1349208635' post='1823409'] that bach is stunning!! [/quote] +1

Crikey, that's a BAAAAAAADDDDD website. Get thee to Yola and use a template FFS.

Looks like a stratocaster (copy) string tree too - nice 'hourglass' effect on the D and G strings on the headstock. Dafuq?

[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1349216283' post='1823590'] I know there's a known issue with switch mode supplies and Dave's pedals, in that they need to be plugged in to the effect before the power supply is switched on (IIRC). I'm not sure if that is a quirk of DHA's designs or whether it applies to other pedals as well. I seem to remember Dave saying it was a high pitched whistle, and could be cured by taking the above mentioned steps. [/quote] I did not know this. Thanks for that.

I'd answer it like this: Me: "hello, who's that?" Mumbomachine: "mumbomachine" (or similar) Me: "how did you get this number? Feck off!"

I've ended up using a flat screen monitor PSU for my DHA valve pedal and it's whisper quiet - just goes to show what a clean DC supply can do for you.

The only thing I can think of is the quality of the buffer in the Behringer chorus - wired up like that it would affect your tone all the time. I'd certainly recommend some sort of buffer on a board, but I reckon there are better quality (more tonally transparent) ones to have permanently in your signal chain. The Boss ones are usually very good, so why not put the chorus on the second loop from the LS2? You'll probably notice a difference in the sound.

That looks lovely, stirling work Sims!

I've had a few issues with the new style 'switch mode' PSUs giving off noise, I'd recommend trawling eBay for one with a transformer (less efficient and bigger, but quieter) and get a set of daisy chain leads - I think Maplin have some cheap ones in.

Cool, my boys have got the exact same drum kit. They're not famous though.

[quote name='tommorichards' timestamp='1348854643' post='1819233'] this sounds interesting... Do you have anymore information on the matter? [/quote] Ricks have a 0.0047µf cap on the bridge PUP to cut the bass and low mids. This pretty much renders it useless without the neck PUP engaged, as it sounds sh*t.

Not so much a bass that I'll never part with but a neck. It's been on (I think) 4 different bodies with various pickup configurations and is so lovely to play. It came from a 'Yamato' P bass copy (but the neck is Jazz dimensions) from the Matsumoku factory (as far as I can tell) and is just brilliant.