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As well as BestPractice, there's a Winamp plugin called PaceMaker which does the same thing. Or, if you want to play music on an Android phone and change speed or pitch, there's the Maple MP3 player.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1388539680' post='2323326'] Everyone should be made to play one of these at some point in their playing career - absolutely sublime experience [/quote] Just don't look in the mirror while doing so. I forgot about John Newman. How is it possible to sing so incomprehensively? "Merg werg wergle merg umba merg"...

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1388535701' post='2323267'] Ray Davies was a bit off key [/quote] If he hadn't had ten backing singers all singing in perfect pitch, it wouldn't have been as noticable... Haim bassface was fantastic, Mel C gave a good account of herself.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1388515982' post='2323006'] Link? [/quote] Look for content from BC member douggie. There's only one thread [s]this[/s] last year.

Steve Manes' list? I didn't realise that was still going.

One of my bands has supported a couple of bands where the bassists haven't had a clue (root notes only for the verse and chorus of Wishing Well, for example). I have found it remarkably easy not to tell them where they're going wrong, partly because it's not the done thing, but partly because they're even more obnoxious than me. So the OP should take it as a compliment on his personality, that he is regarded as unobnoxious by his would-be mentor.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1388437066' post='2322051'] What I could not get on with was, I could have 3 stomp boxes or put it in memory mode, where it did not display the boxes, the only way to cycle up the stomp box displays was to bend down and use the up arrow buttons. [/quote] You can also press and hold the left footswitch, then use middle and right footswitches to scroll up and down.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1388433189' post='2321972'] Yeah I saw that before, looks like a great mod! Though what I meant was the ability to go from, for example, A1 to C3 by just touching one switch rather than cycling through. I realise I'm expecting far too much for a £140 pedal though! [/quote] You'd need a few more footswitches. I had a Boss MS5B (I think) where it was easy to select bank and patch number on the fly, but you weren't then in single stompbox mode.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1388334601' post='2320877'] Yep! The one thing I really want would be a footswitch so you can easily select a specific patch on the fly. [/quote] There's a way of doing that... [url="http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/"]http://ashbass.com/AshBassGuitar/Zoom/[/url]

[quote name='Mikey R' timestamp='1387628118' post='2313931'] Ive youve got the preamp on your pedalboard, theres no way they engineer can bypass it. Its always a struggle convincing the engineer to mic or DI from the amp. [/quote] The engineers I've encountered over the last few years are all delighted that I have a DI socket on the amp. The last time one objected was six or seven years ago.

I'll throw the EA iAmp800 and Tecamp Puma 900 in as further suggestions, just to muddy the waters a bit. Saying that, I used to use a Superfly 500 into a Tech Soundsystems 4x10 (so it was actually just 250 as I only used one power amp) versus three guitarists and a noisy dummer and it kept up, though I replaced it with a Superduperfly 1000 (hence 500) because it used to get disconcertingly warm.

If you can pick up a second-hand RS112 for a comparable price, you miyght find that worth going for. I've used one for quite a few club gigs with a medium-loud drummer and never pushed it.

My Warwick JD Thumb 4-string. I've gone over to 5 strings now but it would take something very special to induce me to sell the Thumb. The neck is lovely (that's what sold it to me) and the sound has that rich complexity that you can only get from twin pickups (and not all of them at that). Reading this triggered me into getting it off the wall and having a little play, and I've fallen in love all over again.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1388266422' post='2320280'] OK so I've had a chance to review the results and they're definitely interesting and may even be relevant to other active discussions. We had just over 350 responses which was great and provided an insight for us who was actually engaged with the site at the time the survey was open. [/quote] I was engaged with the site. I didn't see anything about the survey. Anyone who doesn't frequent Off Topic (or use Facebook or Twitter to find out about the contents of an internet forum, which seems rather counterintuitive) is unrepresented in the survey.

In: Status Series 1 5-string Zoom MS-60B Line 6 G50 Out: GK 200MB combo Mrs Zero, if I don't get some basses sold

Zoom B3 and expression pedal, or one of the Digitech BP series other than the BP50.

[url="http://jeanbaudin.com/bassgear.html"]http://jeanbaudin.com/bassgear.html[/url] It's the first one on that page. As for a name, some would call it a bass, some an ERB, some an ironing board, and some an aircraft carrier.

Presumably he puts a lot of thought into dressing up so that it looks like he hasn't dressed up. Imagine how many fans he'd lose if he went from being "black T-shirt man" to "white T-shirt man", and becoming "colourful T-shirt man" would completely wreck his career.

[quote name='Matte_black' timestamp='1387904140' post='2317106'] An used Conklin GT7BD is 1000 times better than those things. If you can live with the tight spacing it could certainly be a keeper. [/quote] Having played both an Antoniotsai 7-string and a Conklin one, I'd disagree with you. I really didn't think much of the neck on the Conklin.

No, all that the positive/negative thing does is ensure that with multiple speaker cabs, they're all in phase. From your description, I'd be looking at the power supply first.

Ending an auction on Christmas Eve Making it collection only [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Line-6-pod-xt-/131074873396"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Line-6-pod-xt-/131074873396[/url]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1387652176' post='2314294'] I would play one on stage if I lived in the future, when no doubt designs like this will proliferate, but to be honest with you, I'm not really even living in the present. Never mind embracing change, I'm still trying to come to terms with the fact that I am going to have to pay the Poll Tax. Stainless steel basses is a bit too much for me to take in .2013 is a bit too much for me to take in . [/quote] You could cover the stainless steel bass in <Blue Peter>sticky back plastic</Blue Peter> for that full-on retro look and feel. Combine the third millennium with the 1960s.

And then get a hard case...

Antoniotsai - inlaidartist on That Ebay. Mind you, you need to look on ebay.com to see his stuff. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380793743372"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/380793743372[/url] for an example but I wouldn't pay $1000, I'd either wait for an auction or try an offer of $400-$500.

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1387789375' post='2315543'] Just for intonation mabbe? [/quote] It would appear so, but done that way because of the unique bridge arrangement. See towards the bottom of this review: [url="http://101basses.com/new-atlansia-breeze-bass-the-newest-bass-guitar-from-h-noble/"]http://101basses.com/new-atlansia-breeze-bass-the-newest-bass-guitar-from-h-noble/[/url] Although on the diagram it's described as "pitch adjuster", adjusting the pitch with it would seem to alter the intonation. I must say it's rather an ingenious approach to the issue with strings coming over the bridge - with a B string with windings all the way to the eye, you either have to kink the string or put up with it bulging over the bridge.