paul_5

[quote name='CBbass' timestamp='1336269391' post='1643424'] Make them an offer for the bass, perhaps you can get it for a low price! [/quote] You could explain that your uncle has room in his loft for it, and you're buying it as a gift...

Played at a friend's wedding this morning. Lovely do, beautiful old (and I mean [i]old[/i]) church, unfortunately it had old wiring to boot. Tried a new mixer that I borrowed from a mate at work and stuff just whistled. Pulled my 30 year old studiomaster out of the boot and 5 minutes later we've got a great, clear sound. All in all, a good do.

[quote name='Al Heeley' timestamp='1336244088' post='1643105'] its good practice to always have the tuner as the first box in the signal chain - that way you can ensure that the tuner receives the cleanest signal which means most accurate tuning [/quote] Aah, mine is later in the chain, does this explain some of my fretless 'moments'?

Lovely offer, but distance and gigs permit me from popping round.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1336144369' post='1641630'] It's not really a case of what is being reviewed that bothers me, it's the fact that practically everything gets a pretty positive review. I mainly buy it for the backpage stuff, the lessons and the like. I think the section on other bassists from not very well known bands is a pretty good section, gives coverage for quiet promising acts and opens up readers to new music. [/quote] All of this. I used to enjoy the technique stuff when there was a bit more variation (solo bass arrangements, more theory based stuff), but now I've outgrown the cycle of funk / learn to read music / triad shapes that seem to frequent bass magazines. That's my fault though, [i]not[/i] BGMs.

we got a load of Carlsbro things for our BTEC course. Our students still managed to kill some of them , but most remained intact. We don't deliver BTEC anymore and this is one of the reasons why.

Yeah, I'd give the flea bass a WIIIIIIDDDDEEEE berth. £200 will get you a really good squire VM Jazz bass which is a far better bass in terms of playability, sounds, feel - pretty much everything

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1336111773' post='1640949'] Do you play to a metronome? If I set the murf to a pattern & we start off in time with it & then turn it off for something like a verse, when I bring it back in the tempo is out. [/quote] Not at all - the freeze won't do looping of phrases, but generates drones based on your input signal - a bit like this: [media]http://youtu.be/jTlVmNuD5Qw[/media]

[quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1336087723' post='1640879'] Yeah it is nice for droney stuff, or just filling out a sound under a bassline. think I'm gonna flog it though cos you can do similar with the hold setting on the DD-6 [/quote] The freeze pedals get loads more useful once you put them in a loop. I regularly set mine droning a chord or double-stop up the dusty end and then when the guitarist dives into a solo just bring it back in without stopping the bass part. The trick is finding one chord or note that will fit with everything else...

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1336078246' post='1640694'] I always wanted to go & see him in the Rio whenever we went to Vegas. Finally the Mrs said we could go & see him back in 2007 & He stopped his residency there! However, Bjork did a gig in the Palms & it was awesome!!! [/quote] ...must have been a 'short people' convention or something

Brilliant, just brilliant. Lovely growly Jazz Bass tone too.

Most Jazz basses have a point on the neck (roughly 4th or 5th fret) where the fundamental dies away really quickly, leaving you with only the harmonics - this might explain some of what's happening. I was chatting to a luthier about this a while ago - it's something to do with the mass of the headstock. He suggested clamping a heavy piece of wood to the back of the headstock to increase its mass, and thereby allowing ALL of the note to sound properly.

[quote name='umph' timestamp='1335190246' post='1626916'] been there done that. Best one is not plugging in a power supply [/quote] Did that last night - trying to measure voltages in a transistor and everything read 'ZERO' - I'd forgotten to connect the battery. Again, much hilarity ensued...

Looks like [i]vintage[/i] yacht varnish though...

[quote name='merlin' timestamp='1335903964' post='1637926'] ha ha its your round... [/quote] Fine - I'll buy you a pint of whatever you like for every song that you get right..... ...not bought a beer for a while

Dear God - there's more!!! [media]http://youtu.be/Ew32aq9LSbc[/media]

I posted this a couple of weeks ago in the hope that somebody on here would own up to it, but it's still funny (and a little bit relevant), so here it is again... [media]http://youtu.be/SV7TFje7Ido[/media]

Drummer at last night's rehearsal - "I could do it, but I'd have to unlearn (sic) everything that I do, then learn that" - dafuq?

yowsa, the best Chillis album bar none - thanks a million for this.

thanks for this - what do we do with .mogg files?

*insert welcoming and mildly amusing response*

I've got a fairly brutal saw that I use for trimming tree branches if the worst comes to the worst... Seriously though, try it, you might like it. In its defence the Marilyn Manson version gave the song a bit more of a 'hetero' edge (if you feel that it's important to your audience), so it might not be such a big issue. Wikipedia also informs me it was the biggest selling UK single in 1981.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1335631681' post='1634055'] I'm one of the few who think that "Snakes & Arrows" is one of the best things they've ever done. [/quote] +1, I thought it was a bit of a 'return to form' after TfE and V-Poor trails.