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[quote name='Funkmaster' post='429817' date='Mar 9 2009, 08:54 PM']And perhaps more to the point - van anyone suggest a different set up of about the same dimensions I could try (that'll compete with a couple of loud R&B bands!)[/quote] GK 200MB? The predecessor to the MB150. Sounds like the construction is different - the sides of the MB200 bolt on with some sealant at the joint. I have a 200MB and a Hartke 120W kickback which also has a 1x12" speaker, is a similar height and width but a bit deeper and a bit heavier, and I think has a better tone than the GK (although I've had to replace the driver in the GK so it might not be as good as the original). Or get a small head and an Omni 10.5.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='440271' date='Mar 20 2009, 01:41 PM']Most of them! Pickup surround screws (small raised countersunk) Bridge screws (larger plain csk, only 2 out os 5 present!) in black finish. I'll check Axesrus' site, cheers[/quote] There's packs of them sold [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400039024521"]on That Ebay by Janika's music shop[/url]. Looks a good price for a big bag of screws.

[quote name='chris_b' post='441481' date='Mar 22 2009, 02:42 AM']Has anyone ever had an amp fail and had to use their backup amp?[/quote] Not me, but our guitarist has been having amp problems for the last three or four gigs (thought it was sorted but it wasn't) and it was so bad at one that he switched to the keyboard player's Roland combo and she got plugged into the PA. I do take a backup amp for the covers band (the ceilidh band has a PA that I'd just go straight into if necessary) - main amp is a Superfly, backup is one of those little Crate Powerblocks with a lead to bypass the built-in distortion.

Are the neck profiles on Statuseses identical (for a given number of strings, anyway)? And how similar is the 5-string neck profile to the Hohner Jack (if anyone should happen to have tried both)?

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='445754' date='Mar 26 2009, 10:22 AM']Glove sizes? What century are you fellas from?[/quote] Gloves are an important part of a motorcyclist's attire. In order to purchase a glove of the optimum dimensions, one may refer to the standardised "size" of the glove, and thence proceed to purchase the item wherein the size marked accords with the dimensions of one's own anatomy.

[quote name='The Funk' post='441470' date='Mar 22 2009, 01:51 AM'][quote name='BottomEndian' post='440190' date='Mar 20 2009, 12:13 PM'] I can't even manage OFPF in first position on 34"...[/quote] You're not supposed to. Your third and fourth fingers are supposed to double up. [/quote] Only if you've got really really girlie hands. I've got fairly girlie hands (glove size - 9. Mrs Zero's glove size - 9) and I can do OFPF in 2nd position (I have no need to do it in first but I'm sure I could).

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='443918' date='Mar 24 2009, 04:09 PM']Just my idle musings. New back in 1989/90 the 4 stringer would have been about £1600 (if it were a standard bass), if it was a custom order it could well have cost £2000 - £2500 (+LED work).[/quote] In 1987, my Thumb NT with a natural finish was priced at £950 in Musical Exchange and they did it me for £900. Inflation was low then (Maggie's monetarism) so unless the paintwork added a colossal amount, I'd have thought £1000 or a little less in 1989.

Only the covers band has a drummer (occasionally use sequenced drums with the acoustic duo). If the tempo changes at all when it shouldn't, it's not noticeable. I think he makes slightly less gaffes over the course of a gig than I do. The 3.5 of us don't actually need to discuss each others' parts to any great extent, we listen to the originals and then do whatever seems appropriate. And on the other form of timekeeping, him and Mrs Drummer (who is our 0.5 of a member and plays keyboards on some songs) are almost always first to arrive at gigs, shortly followed by me, and eventually the guitarist turns up.

I've fallen in lust with that Vanden. Um, £25 and a bag of wine gums?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='441468' date='Mar 22 2009, 01:47 AM']That's when he realises he has forgotten his whole kit.[/quote] That's impressive. I only manage to forget guitar stands and the like.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='440054' date='Mar 20 2009, 10:01 AM']1 ) 'An unusually powerful 150-watt amplifier.' [/quote] Yes. It has 150 unusually powerful watts inside it, which is equivalent to 250 of the normal watts you find in most other amplifiers, and 400 of the slightly feeble imitation watts you find in Behringers. They are getting celebrity endorsement for it from Normal Watts-Roy, who is changing his name to Unusually Powerful Watts-Roy in honour of the amplifier.

Considering the carnage that would have ensued had they typed ' instead of ", it's fairly minor. Anyway, what wimp can't cope with a 43" scale? It's only an inch more than 3/4 DB...

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='439038' date='Mar 19 2009, 11:14 AM']Also the term "chav" means different things to different people. Just because you live on a council estate or have 12 kids by the time you're 25 doesn't automatically make you a chav. As far as i'm concerned chavs are people who go round leaching off government benefits knowing that they could easily get a job, blowing all that money on pot, kidnapping their own daughter and fooling the whole nation into giving them gifts and money, going round reckoning they're some gangsta and stabbing people etc... as far as i see they could be reasonable people, they don't have to be rich, they just have to be decent hardworking people who do what they can for other people as well as themselves without being criminals. But they're not, they're just lazy and selfish and don't care about what they do or how it makes other people feel as long as they're happy. That's what makes them chavs.[/quote] Fred Goodwin - superchav.

[quote name='rjb' post='438882' date='Mar 19 2009, 07:19 AM'][Goes and tries to play left handed, being a right handed player..] Good lordy that was really hard. Seems like an awful lot of effort. I'd rather save up and buy a custom if I were you....[/quote] I tried it too, on Moody's LH bass, and was completely unable to (possibly due to getting on for 40 years of conditioning). Although one guitarist I knew, a lefty who'd learnt righty, decided that he really should play lefty (he'd been playing righty for many years and was a good guitarist) so went out and bought a lefty and learnt to play it that way round too.

[quote name='nick' post='437721' date='Mar 17 2009, 07:43 PM']It has been spending more & more time hanging on the wal, than actually being played.[/quote] Now that's just extravagant, having a Wal to hang other basses off.

Just goes to show the value of sniping sites...

I asked Ashdown - I wanted to find out if I was better off using an 8 ohm in each power output rather than paralleling the two speakers and running 4 ohms off one output. With an 8 ohm load, the output per channel is about 175W.

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='436410' date='Mar 16 2009, 06:21 PM']I once played two Alembic basses in the Gallery, both the same model, same electronics through the same amp, different woods and both sounded totally different.[/quote] Same age and brand of strings?

I'll have to dig a few reviews out, but I do remember that one in (IIRC) "Making Music" said that one track would benefit from using a fretless bass. Which I entirely agreed with, as I'd recorded the track using a fretless bass.

After listening to [url="http://www.expertvillage.com/video/92019_piano-jazz-experimental.htm"]this[/url], it's difficult to imagine that anyone couldn't love jazz.

[quote name='OldGit' post='431708' date='Mar 11 2009, 05:38 PM']I use a BEHRINGER AB 100 foot switch. It's an anoyingly piece of kit - changing the battery is terrible andit east them, the power cable falls out etc But it's cheap and avaiableand it but it does have two level controls and you can use it for one bass and two signal chans or amps as well.[/quote] I hope you're not labouring under the misapprehension that one level control changes the level on one channel and the other on the other when you're using it for two inputs and one output. The AB100's level controls only work separately if you're using it with one input and two outputs, otherwise only one of them changes levels and it changes the levels on both channels. Also, mine's gone all hissy after using it with a power adaptor for some time. My solution is a passive A-B box (my 2B or not 2B box) and set the levels on the instruments. There's not a lot of difference between the levels for my instruments (NS WAV-4 and Warwick Thumb) so it's no great problem.

[quote name='ped' post='428712' date='Mar 8 2009, 05:19 PM']I never intended for anyone to like my music apart from me![/quote] Now that's the sort of ambition I can relate to.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='429361' date='Mar 9 2009, 01:49 PM']If you preferred the feel of your bass then that's good but i'm sure there are a lot of people out there who much prefer the feel of it over a JD thumb. Of course you probably won't want to hear it because i'm just some idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about![/quote] Funnily enough, I'm perfectly aware that there are people who would prefer the feel of an Alembic to a JD Thumb. Some people even like Fenders, for heaven's sake.

You could try [url="http://www.axesrus.com"]Axes'R'Us.[/url]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='428064' date='Mar 7 2009, 03:59 PM']As has been said, you might like a warwick as much as an amlebic but the warwick is a mass produced bass whereas the amlebic is a custom built bass.[/quote] thisnameistaken's Warwick is from the same era as mine - I certainly wouldn't describe it as mass-produced. And I wasn't that taken with the Alembics I've played, I found my JD Thumb far more playable.