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basses aren't really that fragile though. Maybe if you're in a horrific car crash your bass with be knackered, but, you've just come out of a near death experience, probably not that bothered about your bass. Even if it was in a hard case it might not have been saved. I've never been able to afford a hardcase for my bass, as i've always had more pressing things to buy. I've never had any problems with my basses, they get thrown around quite a bit in my car, get squashed between amps and stuff. I know this is going to sound horrific to some of you, but there's no damage. Don't be so protective or your bass will never have any balls!

[quote name='Jam' post='91479' date='Nov 20 2007, 02:01 PM']I don't think he stayed long enough to find out![/quote] I thought you were joking when you said he dropped it! That's a pretty nasty thing to do, even if the staff were snooty.

[quote name='Jam' post='91442' date='Nov 20 2007, 01:15 PM']So he just dropped it and walked out.[/quote] Was it dented?

I can't talk and play at all, but I know people who can. I can talk and play drums though! Weird.

I have to learn some new bvs and it's so hard to do whilst playing in a weird timing!

If you want a double tracked sound, try a chorus or a short delay time.

[quote name='ped' post='91360' date='Nov 20 2007, 11:49 AM']....slightly soiled[/quote] I was going to make a similarly disgusting retort, but then I remembered I was on basschat and I should mind my manners! You should start some self-moderation :-p

Where can I get a Mark King sleeping bag?!??

I haven't watched the solo, but i've seen plenty of live footage. You think he'd get a bad back from walking around like that! I don't think he looks unprofessional, I think that would be very hard to do in Metallica!

[quote name='Buzz' post='90971' date='Nov 19 2007, 05:46 PM']You're not the only one, my friends and I do the same.[/quote] Are we racist?

Maybe we should have an 'erb forum instead?

What's the point? You think they'd just do a backing track.

I've tried that kind of bi-amping before, and, it was good, but not as good as running my FX straight into the bi-amp rig. Weird?

Thanks! That does make sense. It's very hard for me to think of a way around that though, as obviously I know the riff very well, and it inhibits my sonic imagination!

We've finished the CD now, it's 3 tracks. We're not making them all available at the moment, as we're considering our options, but, on www.myspace.com/nologorock, you can listen to one of the new songs called "fake smiles in the photograph". Please let me know what you think of the recording/mix/master.

Everyone I know refers to this man as "the monkey", because of his facial expressions. I don't know many people though :-(

I haven't read every single post, so, sorry if I say something stupid! I've read quite a few comments saying "you can't use an ERB in a band context" "people only use them for tapping/showing off" "you don't see an ERB at your local open mic night" etc. Well, I play a 6 string, (I don't know if that's counted as an ERB or not) and I take it to open mic nights with my guitarist. I like to play a lot of chords, which often involve the high C, and I like to play a lot of low groovey bass lines, which often involve the low B. The band i'm in is a 3 peice, and I use lots of effects, a bi-amp rig, and my extended range, to help fill out the sound. I didn't get a 6 string so that i'd have to use my left hand less either. Quite often i'm on the High C at the 24th fret. I still think i'm a bassist though. If anyone's interested, there's a new song (fake smiles in the photograph)on my band's myspace (myspace.com/nologorock) where i'm playing 5 string bar chords in the chorus (not impressive, but effective use of ERB).

[quote name='EskimoBassist' post='89565' date='Nov 16 2007, 07:01 PM']Wolstenholme used to use a Boss ODB-3 quite extensively actually. Check "Hyper Music" for a demonstration of this. I quite like the pedal, but theres so many haters!![/quote] Where did you get that info? I'm not into them much these days, but i'm always on the muse gear msg board and no-one has ever said that.

I'd love to be able to change tunings by pressing a button. Tuning up is not so much of an issue, but I am lazy so.... I think this has been around for a while. Can you have it fitted to a 6 string? I wonder how much that would cost?!?

Have you heard his live sound? I would have thought it was something that everyone would hate, regardless of their preference. It sounds like one of those 14 year old kids doing his first gig with a little practice amp turned up to the max, hitting his bass as hard as he can with a pick, but missing the strings half the time.

I don't think you can generalise about all Ibanez pedals like that. Any distortion pedal has the potential to feedback. 99.9% of distortion pedals have the potential to sound good!

You could take the head out of the cube, and put it ontop of a nice loud combo.

I don't blame his amps. I blame him! I've seen bands playing with ashdown bass rigs that sound great! I've never seen system live with a good bass tone though.