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[quote name='AM1' post='493764' date='May 20 2009, 10:20 PM']So, basically, what you have admitted, is that you don't use the sock. OR the sausage and beans method. Now, in line with your previous minging admissions, I feel that there are some confessions still to be made. [/quote] Its like bass playing, its all in the hands (just)

One set on the bass one set in the tube. A day in there does the trick though. Hence the one on one in route...

Big cab = small d**k anyone???

[quote name='AM1' post='493679' date='May 20 2009, 08:33 PM']Scrapheap Challenge was amazing! No seriously - on dive gear - if I detailed some of the scandalous goings on with CE certification and standards, on what is life support equipment, you'd be horrified. There's a functional safety standard called IEC61508, which covers programmable electronics and no sports rebreather (or several military rebreathers) currently on the market, meet it. Yet they are still able, on the premise of a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) cert, to sell it in the EU. We are talking about electronics that control the breathing mixture and ensure it is respirable - however those electronics, at code and hardware level, are so poorly assembled and programmed, that they are able to hang and reboot back into a mode in which no oxygen delivery takes place, no brownout circuit, one clock, a crap processor, a massive single point of failure in the power supply...meaning that if a diver does not notice oxygen delivery has stopped, they simply go to sleep from hypoxia. This is, ridiculously, labelled as "user error" in the user community, who are, in the main, utterly brainwashed in respect of what constitutes acceptable functional safety standards in safety-critical life support systems. One manufacturer has a fatality rate approaching 75 users (in only several thousand sold units) making the mortality rate less than 1 in 39, and an even worse in active use. Seriously, other than Shipman, the most prolific serial killers had less bodies on the slab! Homebuilding is actually safer, as the builder has control over the testing - I kid you not. PS - my opinion is considered well outside the parameters of the vast majority, but then, they don't have my background. Got me on a rant - I'll stop now![/quote] I find it all to easy to believe every word you've said. You are still certifiable in my book, and in a well respected "nutter in the shed" kind of a way. Well done!

[quote name='AM1' post='493555' date='May 20 2009, 06:23 PM']Oh dear. A simple search was enough to reveal the following: [url="http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/w***_sock"]http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/w***_sock[/url] but you will have to replace the stars with a word that rhymes with tank. The bit about the can of beans and sausages is priceless.[/quote] BWAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAAAAAA ROFLMFAO!!! I never heard of that, not even when I was in the TA, "range glue" yes, but not that. Thats is cracking!!

[quote name='AM1' post='493615' date='May 20 2009, 07:15 PM']Haha you are not pimping out my zing killing skills![/quote] I thought we'd established that he didnt really want it for killing zing.....

[quote name='AM1' post='493615' date='May 20 2009, 07:15 PM']Haha you are not pimping out my zing killing skills! Just looking at the string cleaning tube. I already have all sorts of pieces of pipe and crap here from [b]homebuild dive gear projects[/b]. It's like scrapheap challenge! Haha, keep the tube away from drummers [/quote] "Jeez you came in that, you're braver than I thought!" That sound like a recipe for a seriously nasty acident though. My only experience of diving was about a half hour at the bottom of a swimming pool. I swim like a fish (admittedly something really big like a whale shark) but all that gubbins and gear felt so unnatural to me, I'd rather stick to a snorkel! Scrapheap Challenge, now there's a top program, is it still on?

[quote name='Kongo' post='493519' date='May 20 2009, 05:51 PM']Hell yeah! For 2 years when I had but £160 a month to my name I kept my tone doing this...they begun to stink a bit after a while...that old metal smell would cling to my fingers bad! But it WORKED! and I still don't know how... Oh but this is also best done on strings without silk...Red turns pink and eventually white and Blue / Green / Purple...well you get the picture.[/quote] Whilst I used to boil strings, the temperature change, water, whatever does definitely weaken them as well as clean them. I used to get by by doing this but suffer more and more breakages as strings went through the cycle. And I play soft like a babies behind compared to most. Since using the DRs and the tube I haven't had any breakages (yet) and the strings on my 4 banger are about a year old now. Cant recommend it enough!

Well its effectively two preamp channels into an LMII power section. The LMII is generally considered to colour tone very very little from what I've ever read both here an on TB. Certainly my SA450 (which is also closely related to an LMII) really does let the nature of the bass shine through. I find the combination of sa450 and berg ae410 is amazingly accurate to my ear, when compared to a loud playback of a DI'ed version of my basses over good monitors. So if uncoloured is what you are after I think amp-wise at least you should be on to a real winner. The cab is probably even more important in this regard though (IMO any way)

[quote name='AM1' post='493504' date='May 20 2009, 05:35 PM']Since you've lowered the tone (well you are almost a Stokie!) - I have to ask, why are you pretending here that you don't use a w@nk-sock!! Blokes have NO secrets, we know them all![/quote] Errrr "w@nk-sock", you gotta be sh**ing me! What is this "w@nk-sock" to which you refer???? (BBC prefers two pieces of liver and a radiator I've heard)

[quote name='AM1' post='493501' date='May 20 2009, 05:33 PM']What's this methylated tube business then, I've seen a bit about it but need more detail![/quote] Here is a pretty good version:- [url="http://www.tunemybass.com/strings/bass_string_cleaning_tube.html"]String Cleaning Tube[/url]

At rehearsals I end up wearing whatever I've been wearing all day (generally not a gimp suit or gas mask then). I figure it like this, I am definitely going to get as sweaty as a Dutch posing pouch, so why bother changing anything. I sometimes wish I had done something more clever come the end of the rehearsal as I slide off home, just me and my clothes soaked in 20 gallons of slimey sweatiness. Having said that I do enjoy that first break in a rehearsal, when you take your bass off and your T-shirt is glued to your back with sweat, kind of tells you you've been doing something worth while! Strangely for all I sweat a lot by all accounts its never very smelly (or so I have been told), and my feet never smell at all. Nope, no fungus either. I dont think I've ever had a reheasal top, however I have a DIY T-shirt with a picture of the pyramids and the legend 'Slavery, gets s**t done' underneath. Which really does get me in the correct mood for D-I-stinking-Y, which I loathe Unfortunately I hate DIY to such an extent that it is a pathetically excellent state of repair

Crikey No really, thats is staggering playing mate. Stumbles off back home to consider slitting wrists........

[quote name='AM1' post='493472' date='May 20 2009, 05:09 PM']It IS a true fact though that you always pull when at your absolute dog-roughest! [/quote] But what and at what cost to your dignity?

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='493434' date='May 20 2009, 04:42 PM']Sorry. What did I miss...? I was away with the kleenex...[/quote] Fortunately it was only coffee all over my keyboard at that, what with being at work and all!

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='493404' date='May 20 2009, 04:24 PM']All this talk of a sweaty AM1 is kinda turning me on.[/quote] And you think you're alone in that do you?

[quote name='AM1' post='493370' date='May 20 2009, 03:47 PM']I think I better bulk buy some strings soon![/quote] In all seriousness I'd really recommend the tube of meths for string cleaning, and if it doesnt work out you can always use it as a poor mans pipe bomb.... I havent bought strings for my 4 string in over a year, and it still sounds zingy enough with the strings from the tube.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='493357' date='May 20 2009, 03:35 PM']Ha - bass strap glow... Neoprene straps are the worst for that (anything like Neotech or ComfortStrapps...). They proper hold the ming.[/quote] They do that - "I love the smell of neoprene early in the morning!"

[quote name='AM1' post='493356' date='May 20 2009, 03:33 PM']Haha, I only dive so I can keep rubber suits in the car! Bring out the gimp! [/quote] Bwahahahhahhaaa!! There is a very rude comment about fishy smells in there too, but I'll leave it with the gimp suit (in the car) You're not on RateMyGASMask.com are you??

[quote name='Eight' post='493343' date='May 20 2009, 03:19 PM']Then do the same on yourself AM. Dirty dirty people.[/quote] She wont do that, WD40 and other oil based lubricants degrade rubber, and we all know she lives in a wetsuit.....

[quote name='AM1' post='493310' date='May 20 2009, 02:51 PM']A fellow honker! A year! Respect, you minging, stinking, rotten, rancid sweaty! [b]I bet you smelled like a rotting corpse inhabited by skunks. [/b] Clean clothes for gigs are over-rated anyway, it's just not befitting to punk rawk to be putting on clean attire to play in.[/quote] In that particular T shirt I did. Mind you - our percussionist was a lot worse than me

On the delightful subject of being a sweaty gooey lump at a gig. I used to regularly be able to literally wring out might T-shirts like a drenched towel after a gig. On several occasions the offending T would be chucked into a bag until next gig. At one point we had a few one off T-Shirts painted up, which effectively couldn't be washed. I wore one for a gig every couple of weeks for over a year until it disintegrated. In between gigs it went back in the bag. It never ever got a wash. Was really really fruity before it fell apart though Got me well in the mood for going mental on stage. This was a very long time ago however! I was a m*nger, I admit it

Roscoe Century Standard. Although I think it will hit you a bit harder than 1500 now (due to exchange rate nonsense) Fantastic tone, ridiculously playable, light as a feather. To hear it have a listen to the first track on my myspace page (What It Is). Its all my Roscoe. Looks lovely too (not too much of a bling bass IMO)....

[quote name='Kongo' post='492876' date='May 20 2009, 12:52 AM']I hope your tone stays true.[/quote] Cheers, Ragnarok is a great name for a bass

I destroy strings. In minutes.... I think I probably sweat unfermented nitromorse or horse s**t or something Rotosounds I can kill completely in half an hour I currently use the tried and tested denatured alcolhol (methylated spirits) tube. One set on bass, one set in tube. Rotate as required. (Every gig/recording at least) Thats with DR strings. Nothing else feels right and sounds as good and lasts as long for me. Shame they aren't cheap too. I always kink the strings before cutting. Thats how I was taught when working in a proper old school music shop (by a luthier). Remember when fitting strings to make sure that the length of string after the initial kink is such that the string winds around the peg getting closer to the headstock the more times it winds (ie its longer rather than shorter). In that way the break angle over the nut is increased the more turns. Restringing a bass is a skill not to be underestimated IMO. I wipe down my basses after playing with a microfibre cloth, taking care to get the neck and strings thoroughly clean. My strings never go black. My tone is now consistent. It zings on my 4, and less on my 5 - but thats the nature of the basses. They both sound great