neepheid

I don't like it. I've seen bands that do this and what I don't like is sounds coming out at me which are not attributable to any action performed on an instrument on stage. The falseness of it irritates me. Just a personal opinion, you decide

I generally have to buy my basses at distance due to my location so I usually don't have the luxury you are talking about. The only thing I absolutely require is that the neck must be suitably chunky (no less than 40mm at the nut and a generous amount of wood front to back). Once I get it, it's new strings and a full setup. Then if it doesn't work out I sell it on. Time consuming process, but it does mean I get to play a fair few basses and seeing as the vast majority of purchases have been second hand I haven't lost much money in the process. I've found a few keepers in the process, I'm happy with my lot If I do ever get the chance to try before I buy then a lack of compliance in the strings is a big turn off for me. If the strings are a chore to press down then I won't enjoy my try-out and even though it could possibly be fixed with different strings it is highly unlikely that I will buy the bass on the basis of that first impression.

Basses are inanimate objects, and therefore have no feelings. There's nothing to hurt, so own, fool around with and discard as you see fit

It's not worth 2 grand, fake or real. IMHO, of course

I passed my first band audition with a red one of those

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I'd throw Billy Cox into the mix. Some of the stuff on First Rays of the New Rising Sun is very challenging indeed (to me anyway )

[quote name='woodyratm' timestamp='1330431037' post='1557265'] Was that photo at a Panda eyes gig? Also Lemon Tree? [/quote] Correct on both points.

In general I try to not look like someone has stepped out of the audience and picked up a random instrument. It's not a snobby thing, it's just I feel better having made a bit of an effort to look like I meant to get up there. Generally a shirt and tie, with a fondness for waistcoats. Having said that, last gig was a polo shirt with lots of vaguely automotive patches on it (think someone going to a fancy dress party as a motor mechanic and overthinking it a little) and black jeans. I thought I'd tone it down a bit for the local rock dive bar

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1330350847' post='1555994'] I have read about the "OMG" setting... but what is it??? [/quote] Ou7shined is the man to ask regarding this having studied it in great depth and replicated it in one of his basses, but basically it's applying a capacitor to the output from one of the coils of the MFD while leaving the other to come through unmodified. Don't ask me how but it results in a super bassy sound, like a bass boost and seems louder, which seems impossible considering all you're doing is taking away some of the treble frequencies from one of the coils, but that's what my ears are telling me!

Do what you like. If you keep the original loom and it can be non-destructively removed and put back in afterwards if you decide to move the bass on then I don't see the problem. I presume you're going to keep the first two switches (pickup selector and series/parallel), so what you going to do with the last one? Passive safety valve? Kill switch? Just leave a dummy switch in? Replace it with a battery state LED? So many possibilities I never use the "active" settings on my Tribute L-2000 - the treble boost sounds nasty to me and it's plenty loud as a passive instrument anyway. I've been thinking for a while now of making mine 100% passive and making it possible to switch between humbucker/OMG/single on both pickups.

[url="http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/Bzzzt-Wrong.html"]Bzzzt! Wrong.[/url]

This is the first thing that popped into my head when presented with lyrics about birds and rabbits, a melody and a click track. Pretty cheesy, will probably change it completely once the rest of the band wade in with contributions, but you did ask [url="http://soundcloud.com/neepheid/bouncy-bass"]http://soundcloud.com/neepheid/bouncy-bass[/url]

How old are you? Is it too late for you to age it yourself by having a long an distinguished gigging career?

It all depends. On lots of things. It might be simply aesthetic. It might be to accentuate the bass (or treble) response of certain strings (like a split P pickup). If you think about it, the split P pickup is an angled pickup. Sometimes it's the only way to get pickups with wider pole piece spacing than the string spacing to fit. With blade polepieces it doesn't really matter.

The PJ combo on my Yamaha BB614 is great, and the J pickup is more than capable of keeping up with the P, output wise. I tend to use one or the other - in just about every two pickup bass I've played, using both pickups seems to be the most "polite" sound of all - the characters of the different pickups seem to cancel each other out leaving you with something that sounds like a generic bass sound rather than having any grit or other defining traits. Blend pot? Pah, just give me a switch (which incidentally the passive BB414 has )

I tried one in a shop a few months ago. Nicely finished and put together, but the sound was way too old school for me. Very bassy, even on the bridge pickup. Too much mud for me. I thought I had stuffed cotton wool in my ears. I really had thought the bridge pickup might have lifted the sound a bit but no. No amount of amp tweaking could bring it out. A shame, I wanted to like it. Someone must have liked it, it's not hanging in the shop any more

I redid the test with headphones and I could definitely make out the 17kHz, the 18 was debatable. I'm 36, been playing in bands for 3.5 years, worked behind the bar in a live music venue for quite a few years before that. I think I'm lucky to still have what I have, and I'm more cautious these days with using earplugs and the like. When I say "more cautious" I mean sometimes I remember to wear them. It's not good enough and I must step that up.

[quote name='Pete Academy' timestamp='1329990227' post='1550782'] Can you compare Alex James to Nathan east? Workmanlike? [/quote] You sound like me whenever someone has the temerity to slag off Gibson basses Ahh, the sweet and sour of opinion.

Since joining The Oxbow Lake Band last year I have spent most of the time gigging their old stuff (although I have managed to put my own spin on a few tracks) this is the first song where I've had free reign to come up with something myself. It's a live recording from our gig at Banff Castle. The recording is quite bass heavy, unfortunately for you all [url="http://soundcloud.com/oxbowlake/boy-angus-is-a-dreamer-live-at"]http://soundcloud.co...dreamer-live-at[/url] All comments gratefully received.

Cutlery isn't particularly exciting these days either. Let's have a bitch about how boring forks have become. These new forks aren't as good as the classic forks of my childhood etc. etc. ad nauseum.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1329911518' post='1549456'] They certainly broke the mould when they came up with that one. What does that big bar (which looks like one of my kitchen cupboard handles ) do? [/quote] From the bumf that came with it: "Finger bar rest. Extra long, for new comfort when playing." Clearly, long is the new comfort

I don't really see what everyone is bitching about. I guess that makes me wrong.