tauzero

I managed 20 seconds of it before the vocals set my teeth so far on edge I had to stop listening.

I've played one or two. We're trying to sort a couple out for this year. Slade gets the universal thumbs up but the drummer doesn't want to do Mud's "Lonely this Christmas" which is my favourite Christmas record. He's made a counter-suggestion of Wizzard, which I loathe. Used to do a very punk version of "Silent Night". I'd like to do that again.

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1449012386' post='2920160'] The remaining guitarist is a lefty, so yep, I guess i'm gonna have a lot more space now in more ways than one! [/quote] All you need now is a headless bass and you'll have acres of room. I've got a chorus permanently on and an SVT amp sim (both in a Zoom MS-60B). Occasionally use octave down, also occasionally use octave up (all through "I love rock and roll" and for the brass bit in "Get it on", for example). Just experiment, and record yourselves so you can assess what changes you need to make, if any.

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/St-Blues-Strings-And-Things-In-Memphis-Custom-P-Bass-Guitar-Headstock-PROJECT-/330911627343?hash=item4d0bdeb84f:g:Wa0AAMXQQQhRdMGB"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/St-Blues-Strings-And-Things-In-Memphis-Custom-P-Bass-Guitar-Headstock-PROJECT-/330911627343?hash=item4d0bdeb84f:g:Wa0AAMXQQQhRdMGB[/url] How could anyone resist?

A guitar inspired by Pablo Picasso, who designed such instruments as this: However, Picasso was a drummer, not a guitarist, which explains a lot.

With a former band, the guitarist/singer always put an encore on the set list (well, you should be prepared), and always insisted on playing it, regardless of the reception we got. My current policy is to have an encore number lined up. If it doesn't look like we'll get an encore, then we either play it as the last number of the set (we have got other songs just in case we get asked for an unexpected encore) or leave it out.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1448214408' post='2913727'] "[font=Arial][size=2]the price may appear slightly high to some folks but it is right on the money, I have just sold a pair of effects send-return cables for $4500 to give you a price guide,[/size][/font]" [/quote] Although that wasn't on Ebay.

I see 14 of us are still watching it in horrified fascination.

Fret markers are FretFX, as can be seen in the photo three from the end. If it was in the UK and about half the price, I'd be very tempted.

I have a Korg AX3000B. I don't use it these days as it's been supplanted by a Zoom MS-60B (or a B3). Well built, good effects, but it's one of the many multieffects which has a series of blocks - compressor/limiter, preamp, distortion, modulation, reverb roughly speaking, so it (like most multieffects) lacks the flexibility of the Zoom multi-stompbox approach. It's also got a PC-based patch editor, which is useful.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1448213062' post='2913708'] I think they should be banned. 6 strings? On a bass ? It's supposed to be about the low end, isn't it ? [/quote] You could always string it F# B E A D G. Low enough?

Ten minutes of my life I won't get back. I am presumably not part of the target demographic.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1447951812' post='2911796'] Just to butt in with a pet peeve of mine... [i](Ab)use of the quote button [major felony][/i]: when people hog page space by lazily quoting huge passages of text, rather than trimming the quote down to size. Made even worse when big chunks of text are quoted, only to be followed by "^This" or "+1". That is all. As you were. [/quote] Agreed, especially when huge images are left in as well. Trouble is, forum users in the main weren't brought up on Usenet so never learnt good practice. Oh yes, and as for the self-indulgent gits who have screeds and screeds of stuff in the "Interests" bit which means their posts take up half a page when they generally just have one sentence to say - why oh why? At least with self-indulgent sigs, we can switch off all sigs or the sig of that particular person. It's much trickier to do that with Interests and could have unforeseen consequences.

Back in the late 70s, I was going to see Black Sabbath. A friend told me that the support band were absolutely fantastic, with a demon lead guitarist. So I went, Dickens-like, with great expectations, only to be sorely disappointed by Tanzder Youth (Sabbath were good though). It turned out there had been different support bands, and the one I'd missed through going on the wrong night were called Van Halen.

I can recommend this book on the subject: [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Temperament-Stuart-Isacoff/dp/0571234461/?ie=UTF8&qid=1447786004&sr=8-1&keywords=temperament"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Temperament-Stuart-Isacoff/dp/0571234461/[/url] Yes, I have read it

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1447780849' post='2910335'] Well it's quite normal to put ammo in a magazine. Sorry ... [/quote] In before the lock and load...

[quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1447185146' post='2905683'] I read online that a handy and accurate way to adjust the intonation is to use the open string and the 13th fret, that way your tuner doesn't get confused with which E/A/D/G it is trying to follow. Obviously the 13th should read a half step up from the open string! Seems to work for me, but anyone else tried this? [/quote] [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1447187948' post='2905709'] That doesn't work because the position of every fret except the 12th is a compromise. [/quote] The position of every fret on the fretboard is calculable. It may be a compromise, but if you don't tune in equal temperament then you have problems playing in more than one key, plus it would be easy enough to do on a keyboard instrument but on a fretted instrument you'd need those stupid wiggly frets all over the place (and yes, they'e stupid, unless you're only ever going to play certain chords and never play accompanying any instrument in equal temperament). That said, I generally do it by ear using the 12th fret harmonic and fretted, using a precision (not Precision) fingernail if I'm doing a fretless bass.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1447337716' post='2906836'] Yes, the 18mm slotted which is the green one on the graph. Stevie's initial thought was that it was the driver, since the volume of the box and the tuning were the same. It now looks like it is something about the box which is creating the resonance. Frustrating but I'm glad we found it before publishing the design. We are investigating..... I'm hoping it is something simple. [/quote] Taking a simplistic approach, the wavelength at 750Hz (which is where it looks like the resonance peak is) is about 46cm, so are there any bits of the cab that measure 46cm apart, or possibly 23cm?

Another vote for Warwick. The neck profiles are inconsistent though - I played a few 5s at Bass Direct and subsequently bought a Buzzard 5, and all the necks were a little different to each other. The Buzzard actually turned out to be the closest to my taste as it had a U rather than a C profile which made it feel less bulky - you'd probably want the opposite. Definitely play before you buy.

A GK MB150E and a Triumph Tiger 1050 to carry it round on.

[quote name='Gottastopbuyinggear' timestamp='1445070740' post='2888530'] Just remembered where I'd got the original idea from - this very forum... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/260884-zoom-b3-or-keep-building-effects-board/"]http://basschat.co.u...-effects-board/[/url] [/quote] I still haven't got round to actually putting mine together!

There's the Ashbory too, no longer made but when they crop up secondhand they go for £125-£150. Kala also do the solid-bodied SUBs, hideously expensive for the ones made in the USA (over a grand), rather more reasonable for the non-USA one but still quite a bit more than the non-Kala bass ukes.

[quote name='D'AddarioUK' timestamp='1447164208' post='2905410'] Ghost_bass is right, go for super long. Look out for the SL at the end of the item code to denote super long, they won't be tapered. [/quote] OK, just to clarify it's not through-body strung, it's through-bridge.

I use D'Addarios on my Variax guitar. I'm thinking of putting a set on my Sei 6 (well, somebody mentioned flamboyant somewhere upthread). For a 35" scale through-bridge strung 6, would I need the normal or the super long scale EPS strings? And are they taper-wound at the bridge end?

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1447016123' post='2904224'] Ha! Out of interest, why the copper pot?? [/quote] Because that's where we're playing New Years Eve (following a rather enjoyable Halloween gig a week ago, with twenty or so Draculas singing along to "Sweet Home Alabama"). That's if the number of strings doesn't confuse me too much.