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I picke dup a new DTR2000 for £125 at the beginning of the year. Its fantastic.... But the strobo-whatsits are meant to be the bomb.......

Back on topic: The Big One: The Only One (you'll ever need or buy again) springs to mind

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='556114' date='Jul 30 2009, 01:07 PM']Maybe marketing should have thought about that a bit more: I read that as "Ultra Piece of sh*t". [/quote] Nah it stands for UltraPointOfSale, and thats pretty accurate as it goes In the circles we work in POS is always PointOfSale, never Piece Of S**t, so in that regard the marketing boys were/are spot on, but the capitalisation drives me up the wall!

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='530333' date='Jul 2 2009, 10:23 AM']That won't stick. Camel case never does. How many people (apart from me and probably you, Alex, you anal fella you) actually go to the effort of writing eBay or PayPal? It makes me wince every time I see Ipod or Imac too. Mind you, don't get me started on people writing MAC when they mean Mac. [/quote] Bwaah count yourself lucky, my day job involves a product called UltraPoS, and yes spell it wrong you get pistol whipped by marketing

my son has a Squier Bronco, does a superb imitation of a very old beat up P to my ears. Love it!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='128656' date='Jan 27 2008, 02:10 PM']"And the winner for most pickups in a single bass goes to..." [/quote] bootsy's star bass normally....

Freeway is just sublimely funky, how come I've not heard of this lot before then????

Never heard of them, listening on groove shark now. They're excellent, like it alot! Bit Jamiroquoi, but without the edjit singer..... Ta

Nope, I'll give it a go, but bear in mind its up against a couple of 18v active beasties, so it aint gonna compete really

Thats a sweet bass, love the case too. Whoever gets it is going to fall head over heals I reckon

normalise will help BUT all it can do is make the loudest level in a track hit 0db (max loudness). If the dynamic range of that track is wider than most (the peaks are higher than the average on the rest of the tracks) you will still suffer the same issue. Then you have two choices - make the loudest tracks quieter, or compress the quieter tracks. You are getting into the beginnings of mastering at this point... If you dont want to have to master it yourself ther is another option... Foobar2000 is really helpful here. It can set replaygain on mp3 files then run a conversion including the replay gain tweak. This will take into account peaks versus average vol etc.

Anything Michael Manring played on a Zon hyperbass...

If that fails I reckon you should strap a nuke to your forehead and nut the smegger, or hit them with a major leaflet campaign.....

"And the beat goes on" - The Whispers

Awwww that sucks. I am a serial failee with trying to get into bands too. No doubt you saw the mega thread on me trying to get into the impellers? Well I got asked to audition with another lot that I really would have enjoyed playing with, learnt their stuff, all ready to go, two days before the audition I email them to double check time/day/venue etc (as you do), and get told they've had a rethink and are going ahead with the old bassist anyway. Utterly poor of them to wait for me to email them IMO! I dont know what you have to do to get into a decent outfit these days, its totally beyond me.....

I like bridge pup for fingerstyle, fretted or not, but it does need a healthy bass boost on most jazzes IME - then you can end up with some lovely tones.... Not dissing neck pup at all (like that alot of slapin'), all depends on the context for me, tend to use any and all pup blends...

My tip for a top starter bass for young'uns is a Bronco, they are short scale, look right, and you can (with some effort due to the stupid truss rod placement) get the action decent. Oh and they are as cheap as chips!