paul_5

Quite like that.

Musicman Big Al. I'm sure (like all MM basses) they're a joy to play, and have a massive palette of tones to choose from, but I saw one once and it made my eyes throw up. That's right - eye-bile. I'd have one though, and only play it in the dark.

[quote name='Fender_Greg' timestamp='1357496584' post='1923559'] Show us a pic!! [/quote] Don't act like you're not impressed! The switch in the bottom right toggles between Silicon and germanium diodes in the feedback loop of the 2nd gain stage. Nice!

I've just modded mine to something very close to the 'deluxe'; added a "mid", "gate" and "blend" control. Awesome. Not £100 either!

It's really easy to make a 'charge pump' that boosts a supply to 18v DC - handful of components and a couple of wires.

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1357485067' post='1923227'] the 410 is nice but im only gonna change if my band gets a lot of gigs next year and i really do like the look of an 810! andy [/quote] Isn't 1000W enough for you?

[quote name='GreeneKing' timestamp='1357408161' post='1922298'] [b] What's the appeal of a fretless?[/b] Mwaahaha [/quote] This ^. I think it's just a more expressive instrument, also I like the slightly softer attack on each note; My right hand technique really 'digs into' the strings, so not having any frets helps to eliminate the 'clankiness' that I get on fretted basses.

Bonzo / JPJ Les Claypool / Tim "Herb" Alexander Charles Mingus / Danny Richmond Paul Chambers / Philly Joe Jones Geddy Lee / Neil Peart Justin Chancellor / Danny carey

Nice pëüddål board!

Love my Hydrive 410 - just sounds 'right'.

I once had some trousers with velcro instead of a fly zip or buttons. That's not relevant, I'm just saying.

I seem to recall that the only authorised UK repair centre for Ampeg are these chaps: http://www.panicmusic.info/index.html

No worries, just post it to me and I'll do some... ;-)

Definite outcomes or targets. Makes it easy to measure how far you've come or to highlight areas for development.

the 'Toby' chap looks like he's [i]making[/i] a stool.

[quote name='Ashwood1985' timestamp='1357165603' post='1918649'] (DUDE! I just noticed your R2D2 mug avatar! Already googled it and will probably order the bleepin little bad boy! Gas for robotic china ha!) [/quote] 'twas my 'BC secret santa' virtual christmas present.

[quote name='DHA' timestamp='1357201597' post='1918904'] Most of it you can't hear but these high and low frequency harmonics have an effect on the tones "fat" sound, just makes it sound [s]richer[/s] frickin' awesome. [/quote] Fixed

sound clips?

powered the digital pedal from the TU3. Sorry, wasn't really clear in my post.

I use a separate supply for my VT1EQ. I [i]can[/i] run it daisy chained from my one spot (with an inverter), but that's only 9v. The only time I've had 'buzz' issues was with a digital pedal (EHX Freeze), so I used the 9v feed from a Boss TU3 and that sorted it; must be them magic buffers... I find that old style 'transformer' supplies are cleaner than newer 'switch mode' ones, but that's just me.

[quote name='risingson' timestamp='1356979026' post='1916056'] It does, but then is is surprising that we should be surprised about popular music being massively image conscious? I thought it was kind of obvious really! [/quote] Pop music has always been about looks. Maybe I should give it a go, as I'm fecking loverly.

Just finished one of these - tiny little compressor to go on the board in a loop before the Q-tron. Surprisingly good! [IMG]http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd471/paul_510/ReallyCheapBassCompressor.png[/IMG] I got the diagram from the http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk very clean, virtually noise-free compressor. Total price is less than a tenner.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1356847383' post='1914251'] No. I won't show you my purple monstrosity... [/quote] Thanks for that. (sighs of relief all round)