paul_5

Eurgh! Don’t fancy yours much!

Doesn’t matter how crap it was, I’m still jealous.

I’m a sucker for ash, but yeah, it can be heavy.

I take issue with Iron Maiden repeatedly informing me that it’s “2 minutes to midnight”. It’s not, it’s twenty past two n the afternoon. come on ‘arry, have a word with yourself.

FWIW I’ve had Boss, Aguilar, EBS, EHX etc... In the past and have settled on the Valeton; it sounds and behaves just like an OC2, is a fraction of the size and less than half the price of a used OC2. You might be surprised if you try one.

Oi, Cornershop, Nooo! Not everybody needs a bosom for a pillow! Actually, it’s much more comfortable to use a real pillow, why would they be so cavalier about sleep health? why??

Touché

Joey Ramone should have been brought to task for his claim that post ‘teenage lobotomy’ he was bereft of a cerebellum; any fool knows that to lobotomise a patient involves severance of prefrontal cortex connections, whereas the cerebellum is found in the posterior of the brain. flipwit.

Playing mostly fretless, do I say yes or no?!?

Change your volume pot to a 500k log instead of a standard 250k log - that’ll brighten ‘er up.

At least it’s true bypass.

Yeas, NOBODY looks good playing a Steinberger.

Yup, I’d connect the hot and ground to the 2 input lugs. What I’d do is to use the wires from the header connector and attach them to your pickup wires instead of soldering to the connector pins. Alternatively you can desolder the connector pins on the volume board and solder your pickup wires there instead. I’d also check for continuity with a multimeter between the ground connection and the 2 solder points that you’re using - easiest way to find out which one goes where.

Make sure the weight of the tone arm is adjustable and that the cartridge and stylus can be replaced, a stylus with too much weight on it will plough it’s own furrow in your vinyl.

I once ran my fretless Jazz into a fender deville -‘‘twas a joyous experience!

I’ve been so high I was hallucinating whilst listening to a Joe Satriani track - I focussed on the reverb and saw the band playing inside of an empty swimming pool. wow man.

Don’t know about the value, but SX basses are great basses; really well made and they play and sound amazing for the money.

Most un-grunge.

Me too. I’ve got a compressor on my board, but it’s just there to compensate for changes in signal level when changing pickups/basses.

Mine’s a late 2011 i7 with 16GB of ddr3 RAM and an ssd, so it’s already obsolete!! check on the minimum operating system for the current version of GarageBand though, as you can’t rollback to an older OS than the machine was built for. SSD is the single best upgrade for an ageing Mac.

Let me know when you do and I’ll try low-balling you!

DI is essential for plugging into a PA or desk for providing a balanced signal with the correct impedance. Multi FX are great for making awesome space noises and such. Some fx units will provide a line level signal, which is louder than standard bass/fx pedal outputs, which might be the right impedance, or balanced, or not. I think the original Zoom B3?has a dedicated DI output as well as a normal 1/4” output, so that might be worth looking at.

Also watch out for plug-ins that hog all of your resources; I’m running Pro Tools, and every time I load up kontakt player it gooses my system. I’ve had to remove it from my plug-ins folder, as even having it in there and unloaded slows down my machine, it works ok in Cubase though.

A good quality compresser, eq and reverb are pretty much all you need.* *as well as IR cab simulators, pianos, synths, bitcrushers, drum machines and drum kit emulators, delays, samplers, multi band compressors, distressers etc....,