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[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1045742' date='Dec 2 2010, 10:18 PM']With the eBay name "tinkpinkemma" I suspect that we may be dealing with someone of the female persuasion.[/quote] She might be a lizard woman. Her feedback as a buyer includes "Multibuy Live worms reptile food Mix n match livefood (#200539485238)".

Of course, you could always get a cheap multieffects that does pitch shifting and use that to bring your bass into tune with the record. Or a cheap Zoom RFX or 1201 1U effects thing - they track well. I'm posh and I use a Tascam bass trainer so I don't need to.

Bought a speaker cable from Dave - arrived quickly, all jiffy bagged up.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1044424' date='Dec 1 2010, 10:23 PM']Putting a Gibson logo on a bass that looks nothing like a Gibson is a good idea. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Matsumoku-Westone-Spectrum-bass-guitar-Japan-85-Black_W0QQitemZ320621800322QQcategoryZ4713QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m263QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DDLSL%252BSIC%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%252BDDSIC%26otn%3D8%26pmod%3D120654289830%252B120654289830%26po%3D%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5338709543184181872"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Matsumoku-Westone-Sp...709543184181872[/url][/quote] That's a dreadful listing. Reasonable quality pictures, evidence from the neck plate that this is a genuine Matsumoku, attributed excerpt from magazine giving history, and mentioning of the incorrect Gibson decal - there's buggerall to take the piss out of. Incidentally, harking back a few posts, I often go looking for fretlesses. My search term is (fretl*,frettl*) which probably doesn't get them all as there's bound to be some fretelesses and some fecklesses, but it does pick up the ones with random numbers of tees and esses.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1042233' date='Nov 30 2010, 12:34 PM']My camera phone has been used by a professional bass player, and he says it's better than any Hasselblad ...[/quote] That's quite true, have you ever tried making a phone call with a Hasselblad?

Hofner violin bass. I turned one down because it played like sh*t and the controls were all gummed up. If I'd known then what I know now...

Four-string or five-string fretless with the ceilidh band, five-string fretless with the originals band. five-string fretted with one covers band, six-string fretted with the other covers band, and occasional excursions for the 7-string fretted. I started on 4s and started flirting with 5s after I'd been playing about 15 years, but it took me a long time to find one which I felt anything like as comfortable playing as my 4s. I'd say I am a default 5-string player these days, the 6 is so I can familiarise myself with it as I may move on to 6-strings on a more widespread basis.

I like natural, not at all keen on painted finishes.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1037203' date='Nov 26 2010, 12:29 AM']Might worth checking of the amp actually outputs at 4ohm. I've had guitar amps that have output 2x8ohm lol the ashdown superfly head.[/quote] Not quite sure what you're saying here - do you think that each channel of the Superfly doesn't run into a load lower than 8 ohms? The Superfly puts out 250W per channel into a 4 ohm load, and about 175Wpc into an 8 ohm load (double those wattages for the Superduperfly). Each channel has a minimum of 4 ohm load.

It's a tenner an hour for the place I use in Birmingham (Robanna's), gear tends to be Ashdown heads or Ampeg SVT350s (the Ashdowns are reliable, the Ampegs aren't) and assorted 8x10s (the last few practices, I've had Edens which might have been 2 4x10s, unbadged and unidentifiable, and Ashdown - the Ashdown 8x10 was the best of the lot). There's no consistent backline but it's generally reasonable to good.

[quote]Worro all. I'm a bass player of a bit over 30 years experience, currently based in Birmingham until my divorce is finished and I can get my house in Tamworth back. Currently playing in a covers band, a barn dance band, and (playing guitar) in an acoustic duo with the once and future love of my life. No, not the guitar, the girlfriend. Oh, and the bassist for the house band at an open mic night too. Started playing at university in the 70s, briefly stopped, started again in the early 80s, had a bit of a pause in the 90s, and I've been back in full flight again for the last four years or so. Have played mainly 4-string fretted (and the Warwick JD is my favourite bass, which I've had for nearly 20 years) but am playing quite a bit of 5-string and fretless these days, plus electric upright. The bands, incidentally, are Breakaway, New Corona Band, and Second Time Round. As an aside, does anyone in the Midlands area know any good agencies? The various bands could do with a few more and better-paying gigs, social clubs these days aren't exactly thriving...[/quote] And since then, I've left Breakaway and joined The Lightning, Different Glory, and Spiral Six, done the divorce and married Mrs Zero. And the last post on that introduction thread was from Si Cox, with a list of potential agencies...

Read the [url="http://upce.toffee.net/"]upce FAQ[/url].

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1027864' date='Nov 18 2010, 12:57 PM']That would be good for an active 6 string guitar to get its power from something connected to the tremolo arm.[/quote] Something connected to the tremolo arm? That would be the guitarist, wouldn't it?

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1034258' date='Nov 23 2010, 07:21 PM']I've always thought the cascading dot pattern on my NS-Design CR5M is innovative[/quote] I find it confusing. Nice to look at, not so much fun to play with. Pretty much everything I could think of has already been mentioned - I will, however, throw stacked pots into the ring. When you've got something with a tiny body like a Thumb, the controls are kept compact but not too close together, so you can have either more things you can control or less knobs.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1033016' date='Nov 22 2010, 06:27 PM']A bid removes the BIN, no idea why some idiots bid on BIN auctions.[/quote] I can give you a reason - if you're not sure that you want to buy it but don't want someone else to have it while you're making your mind up/sorting out finance/getting agreement from whoever wields the rolling pin in your household.

I rather like it, and you can see the logic of putting a fat arse on an acoustic bass to try and give it a bit more volume. Looking at his other instruments (not the family snapshot), they tend to be rather more conventional looking.

Up to £102, so someone fancies a bit of DIY...

With or without you Summer days (I see "You're the one that I want" has already been suggested) Honky Tonk Women (verse) - at least as recognisable as the bass line in the verse of "All Right Now" Some of the songs already suggested aren't so much recognisable from the bass line as from the riff - for example Enter Sandman, where the bass doesn't kick in for about three minutes. I suspect that the first of my suggestions might not be recognised by a high proportion of over-60s, while the second would be recognised by a similarly lower proportion of under-40s.

Bugger, really wanted to come, started up the M42 and the bonnet catch on the car started playing up. Having had a bonnet become liberated and flap up in front of me before, I gave up on the trip and went back home.