paul_5

welcome on board.

man, that's a looooong top horn.

[quote name='webster' post='1233885' date='May 17 2011, 06:55 AM']Didn't Flea use the big muff on Sir psycho sexy, with a dying battery? Sounded awesome![/quote] I think it was a MuTron with a dying battery. I've just got a BBM and I love it. I've had roughly 5 different dirt boxes in the last 12 months, but this is my favourite.

I've got this configuration (volume/blend/tone) on my Blade and I love it. It's great for doing volume swells with one pickup "backed off" slightly - which is practically impossible with two independent volume controls.

What amused me was that in the poll results graph at the top none of the colors (sic) mentioned corresponded to the colour of the bar representing the result. I suppose that's ironic, and would have been missed by TBers on the whole.

I voted upgrade. For me the 'meat and potatoes' of a bass is how the neck feels. If you find one that works for you then keep hold of it. I've got a frankenbass that has the neck from a really dodgy Japcrap bass, but I just love the feel of it. I built the rest of the bass around being able to use that neck.

Oh my, Bilbo, I can see I'll be very busy for the next few months. Thanks SOOOOOO much for this.

seconded - my GFS stuff arrived within the week.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1228010' date='May 11 2011, 08:37 PM']Well,it is pretty much the same spec as his other bass,just with wood pickup covers and an extra XLR output. Besides,he sounds pretty much the same whatever gear he's using.[/quote] yeah, I thought he already had one of these. It's the same spec as mine...and then I woke up!

I've tried a few in my time, Boss CE3B, CE2B, Digitech bass chorus, EHX small clone and an EBS unichorus. The Boss CE2 and the EBS were my favourite two, the winner (for me) is the EBS - it's just lovely (and has a small footprint, too) and choc-full of analogue goodness.

Hi TNIT, loads of guitarist that I know swear by GFS stuff. You can get some pretty good deals depending on the exchange rate (not sure if they have UK distribution yet), but they're knocking out all 3 pickups for $90 US. Their website is [url="http://www.guitarfetish.com/"]HERE[/url]. I put some of their overwound AlNiCo P pups on my fretless and they're insanely clear and rich for the money (about $40 at the time). [b] Edit: [/b]they're even cheaper on the bay: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GFS-Premium-Overwound-Alnico-Boutique-Strat-Pickups-I18-/380142172737?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item58823d3a41#ht_2563wt_1022"]GFS ON EBAY[/url].

I've nothing against Reason as a piece of software, just the way people scratch the surface with it and assume that they are now a 'producer' because they've 'written' a 4 bar loop.

[quote name='Bankai' post='1227249' date='May 11 2011, 10:35 AM']Also greatest moment; literally the moment he hands me his bass, I plant the headstock straight into the wall. Great start...[/quote] Doing the relic'ing yourself then?

Spot on. We have a saying at work "Reason doth not a producer make". It takes more than phat beats innit? Shizzle (etc...).

Hve you thought about coated strings? Elixirs tend to last a while (unless you play with a pick, which just shreds them) though they're not [i]quite[/i] as zingy as new uncoated roundwounds.

yay for bass chords. Tenths are even better, as they're often easier to play.

Basschat has a lot to answer for here. My GAS list for this year was to possibly defret my 5 string. I haven't done that, but so far this year I've traded amp heads and sold and replaced half of my pedalboard.... Curse you BC, you're so tempting and convenient and I'm weak, so weak...

No. I teach on music production courses at degree level, and the students are taught to eliminate any noise of this kind, which is fine as that's what the University stipulates. On a personal level I think that 'modern' music is overproduced, and the finished product should be faithful to the performance captured during track-laying - if that includes fret buzz then so be it. [/rant]

cheers for the advice. I thought it was a ground loop and tried all posts of gadgets to get rid of it. Isolating transformer, di boxes to lift the ground, resoldering leads etc... The valve in question is an old one that i was using to attenuate the output (12au7 instead of 12ax7) to eliminate a tiny bit of noise that i had in protools. At the moment it's redundant, as that valve just controls the 'drive' circuit, so as long as i don't use it it's clean as a whistle. Oddly enough the svp doesn't have a ground lift option anywhere. Oops

Jeez, how tall is your drummer? Looks like a series 5 4x10 combo, not sure about the 1x18. For a lot of people this is the time that Trace really hit their stride as far as making great amps goes, so somebody should want it. Your quote might not be too far off the mark.

Sorted, swapped V4 and V5 over and voila, no noise. Whodathunkit?

i've only ever bought one bass brand new (straight from the distributer and not hanging up in the shop for 6months). The distinct advantage of this is that i get to relic it myself!