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[quote name='Toadonroll' post='339952' date='Nov 28 2008, 06:10 PM']i.e. Give Jake a break![/quote] That could have been better phrased, as the obvious answer is "which arm?". Oh bugger, by saying something, I have made it obvious that I have something to hide. Or summat.

I think there should be a photo of the bass at every stage in its travel, like when that garden gnome was kidnapped and taken on a world cruise.

I haven't had any comments like that in decades. Prolly 'cos I'm a sh*t-hot bassist...

[quote name='leschirons' post='339092' date='Nov 27 2008, 11:50 PM']Thank you all very much for all the suggestions. I do actually use Elites at present but will definately (as a start) buy some Elixir strings.[/quote] You could try switching to Elite Stadiums (stainless steel).

[quote name='OldGit' post='339214' date='Nov 28 2008, 08:40 AM']I don't think Fender has much sway in China ...[/quote] Could email them and suggest that they start doing Rickenbackers...

[quote name='casapete' post='338493' date='Nov 27 2008, 03:01 PM']+1 for the SM58 beta if you can stretch to it - last mike you'll ever buy!![/quote] "Buy an SM58 and die"?

Me2. Last one coincided with, er, something (I think I was wandering round North Yorkshire that weekend), so would like to get along this time, probably with the UK's biggest collection of Tsais and maybe a couple of small combos. And an NS WAV-4 if there'll be enough room.

Just tried to get into the Wiki and can't - IP address not found. Pinging wiki.basschat.co.uk gives the same result. Is there a DNS problem somewhere or has the Wiki been shifted to a new home page and nothing changed to reflect that? Or is it a problem up my end?

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='334906' date='Nov 23 2008, 02:18 PM']I think it needs an extra neck screw. Somehow 10 doesn't seem enough.[/quote] I think he should take the neck off and sell it as a project. It would keep someone busy for a few hours bolting the neck back on. Anyway, the shape is shamelessly stolen from master Vietnamese luthier Antonio Tsai. [attachment=16375:tsai5string.jpg] At least the Tsai has a proper through neck as God intended.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='334796' date='Nov 23 2008, 11:55 AM']Could be a cheap way of getting a decent headless bridge/tuner assembly.[/quote] There's someone in the States who does them for about £40 plus whatever HMRC extract from you - just do a search on "headless bridge".

It could do with a badge of some sort, or some little bit of colour on it somewhere - just to give it a little visual impact other than black box with grille and to mark it out as not "just" a really nicely done homemade job.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='334846' date='Nov 23 2008, 01:08 PM']FWIW, I really don't want to be an Ashdown basher, but... Superfly? Dual compressor?[/quote] The Superfly's a great bit of kit.

Saturday for us (the ceilidh band) was an 18th birthday party. The youth in question had come along to one of our dances earlier this year under protest, then got hooked halfway through and it was him who asked to have us for his birthday rather than it being imposed on him. Which was nice. The numbers dancing waxed and waned through the evening but was always reasonable. I used the Korg AX3000B for the first time - I have it set up to try and emulate an acoustic bass with the NS WAV-4, which worked pretty well. Also recorded the gig off the mixer using my new (refurbished off That Ebay) Creative Zen V Plus, which sounded good when I played it back - the bass was properly recorded, unlike when I used an iRiver T30 which seemed to lose the bottom end (sample rate on the Zen was 160k vs. 128k on the iRiver, which might account for that).

[quote name='queenofthedepths' post='333921' date='Nov 21 2008, 03:45 PM']I've got a triple one of those - I used to have a single one but it takes up too much space for one bass! My problem with these is not the neck rest but the cradle that keeps falling off - one of them snapped off completely and is replaced with a pillow, one falls out nearly every time I pick the bass up, and the other is fairly unreliable too! It's not worth replacing for home storage, but I really want something very sturdy for gigs, where I can switch basses without having to worry about my stand falling apart![/quote] Have you put the cradles on properly? Mine's fine as long as you push the cradle pivot well in with the cradle upside down, then turn it right way up. There's a projection on the pivot which needs to go through both walls of the stand tube IYSWIM.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='333980' date='Nov 21 2008, 05:04 PM']When the petrol tank is nearly empty, on both the Buell and the KTM I get an interesting range of pops and backfires on the over-run. Maybe what I need is a special device that simulates a nearly-empty petrol tank.[/quote] Clothes peg on the fuel line.

[quote name='crumpet_tramp' post='330683' date='Nov 17 2008, 02:20 PM']at a band practise recently and my laney combo (HCM65) recently doesn't work, First it does not power on but you can it hum. Too confuse the issue, if you use the fx return you can use the power amp and noise comes out the speaker. I have checked the fuse and it hasn't blown. I opened it up and i could find no other fuses to go wrong.[/quote] I suspect the power supply feed to the preamp section. The mains power will go to the transformer, and the transformer output voltage will be rectified and smoothed either on a separate power supply board or on the power amp board. From there, there will be a power take-off that will go to the pre-amp and the indicator light on the front (which I assume isn't lighting up when you say that it doesn't power on). That's come adrift or broken, or a PCB track has cracked at one end or the other. Consequence is that the power amp section (which includes the fx return) is up and running, but the preamp and power indicator aren't. [quote name='crumpet_tramp' post='330683' date='Nov 17 2008, 02:20 PM']Then about two days later, i was using the head (RB700) and then this also just faded, this does not work if use the FX return. This time when i checked the fuses the main one on the back of the amp had gone. So i replaced this with a slightly smaller fuse and this blew up big time, and blew up all the smaller fuses inside.[/quote] That sounds like it's trying to tell you something, like an output transistor blown.

I use one of the £4-50 goose neck stands from [url="http://www.themusicking.co.uk"]The Music King[/url]. I've got a 7-string and a 6-string one sat in a couple of them at the moment. Must get round to buying another four or five. Only thing to watch out for is losing the plastic stopper/mushroom things at the end of the neck rest, as the rubber cushioning then falls off.

You do accommodate tinnitus after awhile. However, it sounds like the ear infection is causing it, so if you get that sorted (and either ditch or thoroughly sterilise your earplugs, if they're reusables) then it should pass. You can't do anything about it though - best thing to do is not think about it. I don't notice mine unless something makes me think of it, then it takes me a while to ignore it again.

Far more sensible is their [url="http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200271992047"]secven-string fretless acoustic bass[/url]. If they were five bob, I'd have one, but for a couple of hundred quid, I'd at least expect them to be able to cut slots in the nut at even intervals, and get the spacing between the strings at the bridge the same. At least we know who's been employing Mr Wishbass for set-ups.

Birmingham? There's a fair few rehearsal rooms there.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='330852' date='Nov 17 2008, 05:49 PM']I would also like to see a 5 string bass using a 4 string neck. I made one myself a few years ago using a Rick copy (it was dead when I got it). Extra machinehead hole drilled, EMG 35 pickup and Kahler adjustable bridge. Would be good to have one made properly. You get 'wide necks' so why not 'narrow necks'?[/quote] I've got one. Wilkinson (IIRC) 4+1 bridge which adds a string to a P-type neck. Must get a jack socket onto it, I want to sell it...

[quote name='Telebass' post='331789' date='Nov 18 2008, 08:50 PM']Batteries = point of unreliability. I only ever use simple basses, but into a bang-up-to-date amp, and a radio, so no cable loss.[/quote] So the radio is one of those wind-up ones then?

[quote name='bassjamm' post='329631' date='Nov 15 2008, 12:57 PM']I'd like to have a tinker with one for sure, as well as a Jazz 24, they look pretty cool too!!![/quote] Try one before buying it - if the neck's the same as the Precision Standard V (the nut is the same width), it's clunky. Which is fine if you like clunky but I don't.

A double bass for a raft. I'd be a bit torn. My Thumb (an 87) is the nicest bass I've ever played, but the 7-string would keep me occupied trying to get my head round it. And I'm not going to go round the country trying out basses to see if there's another one I'd like more...

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='328803' date='Nov 14 2008, 02:26 AM']I have to confess I've never tried a Variax guitar beyond picking one up in a music shop but it always struck me as a particularly stupid idea. Let's do the processing outboard, eh? I mean, the potential with the Variax is to either like the bass but hate the modelling, or like the modelling but hate the guitar - it's never going to satisfy more than a narrow band of players and its remit is to satisfy loads of us. Really, really silly idea IMO.[/quote] The guitars are great - after all, there are only two guitar necks, and Line 6 cover both of them, depending on model. I'm not so convinced by the basses. I've had a little play on one (unplugged) and didn't think much of the feel of it. If I actually wanted to play a Fender I'd [s]shoot myself[/s] get one. Basses all sound the same anyway.