Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

neepheid

⭐Supporting Member⭐
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    11,123

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    22

 Content Type 

Everything posted by neepheid

  1. neepheid
    I was going to say ... remember books?
  2. neepheid
    Thanks for the vote of confidence And... bump!
  3. neepheid
    [quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1342183983' post='1731033'] Not sure what these do. [/quote] It's a USB audio interface for computers. It allows you to plug in instruments/microphones and record them on the computer with very little latency and allows you to monitor through headphones while you are playing/recording. Can also output to other things and has ground lift switches which are handy because sometimes computers introduce noise.
  4. neepheid
    Perhaps putting a picture of me up hasn't helped my cause - bump
  5. neepheid
    I don't think I'm the target audience for this article [size=2]/me mumbles something about them all looking the same[/size]
  6. neepheid
    I don't really have a problem gigging any of my basses which are worth from £100 to more than £1000 in pubs. I've never played in any pubs which have made me feel uneasy about my gear or my own personal safety. However, when I play Belladrum festival next month, you bet I'll be taking my least expensive bass (a well used Yamaha BB300) - it's not punters, other bands or thieves I'm worried about, it's more likely to fall foul of the weather or me drinking a few too many paper cups of beer and leaving it somewhere
  7. neepheid
    Buy this bass and you can look at least this cool
  8. neepheid
    What can I say? My first priority will always be to my Gibsons when it comes to the crunch.
  9. neepheid
    Heh, I never knew the Victory Artist was featured in something so high profile
  10. neepheid
    Well, that just shows you how crap bathroom scales are. Proper scales at work say 4.8kg or 10.6lbs.
  11. neepheid
    I think in a lot of these cases the person hears whatever they want to hear. I've been through that and now I only replace bridges for functional reasons like better adjustment options rather than tonal options, which to my mind are ill-defined and a bit spurious in the grand scheme of things.
  12. neepheid
    Of course it's possible, it's only wood and metal. Is it advisable? No. You want to do all this work: - drill three massive holes into your bass and push threaded inserts into said holes which will probably pop out under string tension, if not right away then over time. - reroute your bridge earth wire to come out into one of these holes (unless you're lucky and they happen to coincide) - deal with any neck angle issues (which will be a lot of fun if your Tokai is set neck and would warrant a build thread of its own) because the three point sits half a mile above the surface of the body. - fill the screw holes that the previous bridge left. to voluntarily give up the ability to individually adjust your string height? Be happy with your Tokai. I had one once, it was a nice bass. Don't make it worse in some attempt to make it look a bit more Gibson-y. In summary - possible? Yes. Advisable? No. The three point bridge is nasty - and that's coming from a rabid Gibson fan. I only have one bass which employs that abortion of a bridge and I very quickly replaced it with a Hipshot Supertone.
  13. neepheid
    [quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1341734946' post='1723193'] When you started in your first band? What are your reflections on this now? Just nosey and curious really! [/quote] Although I had owned a bass for about 3 years before I first played with a band, I'd say I had accumulated no more than a couple of day's total play time before I played my first gig, including the 3 practises with the band before the gig. Reflections? It proves a point - just get stuck in.
  14. neepheid
    Hi, best guess I have is around 9lbs (stupid bathroom scales). Lighter than my Victory Artist and a little lighter than my RD Artist, but heavier than my IV. Will get a more accurate weight on the scales at work.
  15. neepheid
    This piece might be helpful... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190697798799"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190697798799[/url] You'll have to see if they are willing to ship over here, and you've got about 20 hours left. Good luck
  16. neepheid
    I recently sent out a request for a single one of these knobs and a very kind forumite sent me three for the cost of postage. As I only needed one I now have two spare and in the spirit in which they came to me I now offer them for free to anyone who needs these for a Yamaha (or just a nice pair of Gibson-esque speed knobs). They are press fit and look like this:
  17. neepheid
    These are fantastic, I think the single most useful bass related gadget I've bought. Everyone knows about the tempo/key alteration and the bass enhance/cut. I use it for silent practice but it can also feed an aux input on an amp, I use it in conjunction with a 2.1 computer speaker at work. I even used it once for two basses with one amp for lessons - one bass in the normal input and one via the Tascam into the aux in
  18. neepheid
    [quote name='billyapple' timestamp='1341560665' post='1720840'] What does she weigh? [/quote] I don't know, I'm at work just now so I'll have to get back to you on that one this evening.
  19. neepheid
    [quote name='billyapple' timestamp='1341514931' post='1720441'] Wow! Lovely. You're right about what you say about both Pup's in phase. She's a beauty, why are you letting her go? [/quote] My heart lies with Gibson (which makes it a bit easier to decide which bass has to go) but it's mostly because I overspent a little on my most recent purchase, oops
  20. neepheid
    [b]14/08/2012 - Price reduced to £800 + postage.[/b] [b]30/08/2012 - Will take trades - interested in G&L El Toro, Gibson Ripper, more when I think of it.[/b] [b]05/10/2012 - Traded! [/b] For sale I have one very rare bass, a 1981 Guild B402-A, one of only 335 made of all varieties, of which this is the 313th (assuming linear serial number use...) Body: ash Neck: maple/rosewood, set Frets: 22 Pickups: 2x Guild single coil Bridge: Guild BT-4 bridge (a cross between a Gibson 3 point and a Schaller 3D) Electronics: Guild preamp, 2 band EQ Controls: volume, volume, pickup selector, phase switch, passive/active, bass, treble (active only) The bass sounds fantastic - both pickups together in particular sound fantastic (when in phase) - they complement each other instead of what I usually find that they kind of cancel each other out. Here are some soundclips (in the filenames, read "parallel" as "out of phase" and "series" as "in phase" - when I first got the bass that's what I thought the switch did) - [url="http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/mp3/b402-a%20soundclips/"]http://www.ifb.co.uk...a%20soundclips/[/url] This bass is in pretty good nick for its age, there is some lacquer checking on the neck and the body but you can't feel the cracks when you're playing. There is some damage at the bottom edges of the headstock, probably caused by an unpadded wall hanger and a few lacquer cracks. The bass comes with the original hard case - it's a little tatty and one of the catches has lost a spring (still works, but you have to lift it by hand). I even have a key for the case. Here are the photos. Can take more photos on request. It is difficult to price these, but I'd be looking for £[s]900[/s] 800 plus postage for this.
  21. neepheid
    I rescued an old song the band were about to ditch with some root/octave stuff
  22. neepheid
    I'd ask over at [url="http://bassoutpost.com/"]http://bassoutpost.com/[/url] - a lot of Gibson knowledge over there.
  23. neepheid
    Mark recently sent me some Yamaha speed knobs for the cost of postage, very generous, thanks! Kept in touch throughout and the items were well packed.
  24. neepheid
    There will always be someone who knows more than you and can play "better" than you. You're better than someone who has never played the instrument before. You will always be somewhere between these two extremes (especially as the first one is devilishly difficult to define). I sometimes wonder if I'm just peddling snake oil, that anyone could play what I'm playing, but the thing I always remember is that I'M the one who's playing it, not someone else. I have found that the biggest shot in the arm for my playing by far was to get lessons. Much more fun and more engaging being taught by a person than reading from a book. I learned some theory, tidied up some bad habits (still working on being more strict at alternating fingers in right hand) and found that I was in a much better position to jam, compose and enjoy myself because before that someone would say "this song's in A" and I would say "that's nice" - completely unaware of why that information is pertinent
  25. neepheid
    We're using a road sign theme at the moment:
×
×
  • Create New...