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[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='832830' date='May 10 2010, 09:43 AM']I'd love 10 minutes with her, although would probably struggle to find something to do for the last 7 minutes. [/quote] The 12" version of Mustang Sally?

That'll be because it's going to be sent in the next minute.

[quote name='Bigwan' post='840696' date='May 18 2010, 11:50 AM']FAIL! That'd be Alannah Miles you'd be meaning![/quote] I blame my Alannisheimer's.

[quote name='davidmpires' post='840771' date='May 18 2010, 12:51 PM']I have some hardware to help me practice such as a Jamman looper courtesy of Davo London, a Zoom H4 and a Tascam with the cd thing. Now up until now I put the songs on my pc and have to use two headphones to hear the bass on one coming from the amp and another one coming from my pc with the song I’m learning. Now I want to be able to use just one, what’s the best way to do it? And cheaper way. I want to be able to mix my bass with my pc so I only need one set of headphones and stop disturbing my OH with the sound of the amp.[/quote] Get some CD-RWs and burn the tracks you're working on as audio tracks (rather than MP3s) to them then use the Tascam CD trainer. As I will be doing this evening, in fact.

I've been throwing some suggestions at covers band B - we have both male and female lead vocals. Finding songs for male vocals is dead easy. Female: Torn - Natalie Imbruglio Black velvet - Alanis Morrissette Zombie - Cranberries Because the night - Patti Smith Fever - Peggy Lee

[quote name='Telebass' post='840530' date='May 18 2010, 09:15 AM']No, and the laws of physics say otherwise. The tension increases when the length of string that is under tension is increased, not the 'speaking' length of the string. Hence string-thru-body does have a small increase in tension, and basses with separate tailpieces might also have similar.[/quote] Note: I can't see the video, I'm at work. That definitely doesn't seem right. The tension in the string and the speaking length determine the pitch, regardless of how much string there is elsewhere. Where it might make a bit of difference is that as the string is displaced in the process of plucking it [*] or fretting it, it is also lengthened, which will increase the tension in the string. Assuming a friction-free nut and bridge, the longer the overall unclamped length of string is, the lower will be the increase in tension due to string displacement. However, considering the ratio of displacement to speaking length, the effect will be negligible - it's perhaps 1%, so that's the increase in tension, and if you extended the string to double its length, you'd at the most halve that, and given friction losses in the nut and bridge saddle, it's very unlikely that you'd feel any difference at all, except that your bass would be six feet long. [*] or slapping it, if you really must

Have tarpaulins or similar on hand to put over the gear if it starts to rain. If it pisses down, don't play. It's not just the 240V wandering round looking for a handy route to ground, it's also the slippery stage/ground that provides a hazard. If it's just drizzle, make an informed decision. Ideally, have a reserve indoor venue. We moved an entire rock festival from the Tamworth castle grounds to a large upstairs room in a pub about 20 years ago.

A bit of an unusual one this, because I was in both the support band and the headline. The Casa Bar in Tamworth is the old cinema, which has undergone a couple of major upheavals and is now a large room with a bar up one side. Rather than having the stage where it was before in the place's incarnation as a music venue, it's an unstage with a drum riser facing the bar. Audience levels vary drastically - it's a good place to bed a band down a bit as, if you're not a school band with a lorra lorra mates, it's very low pressure (ie. small audience). The PA also isn't great - I took my mixer amp along. There's no foldback but there's a fair bit of spill so you're not playing deaf. First up, me on guitar and Mrs Zero on vocals, aka Second Time Round. All went well, did more of my own stuff than we've been doing of late, which was nice (partly so the other band could hear them, I'd like to do some of them with the other band). Next, me on bass with Different Glory. Generally went well, although I'd completely forgotten that we'd moved one song down a tone, which caused me great confusion. Guitarist: "If we'd had foldback, you'd have realised you were playing the wrong thing quicker". Me: "I realised I was playing the wrong thing immediately, I just couldn't remember the right thing". Still, it generally went OK, and the alternative covers version of the band will be playing there soon (that's Different Glory plus two vocalists, which we still haven't found a name for).

[quote name='mcgraham' post='837254' date='May 14 2010, 03:04 PM']I'd love to come but I am sadly not around that weekend, so I wouldn't be able to bring my Wood&tronics beauties.[/quote] That's not good enough, we need a different date then. Wanna go on your fretless...

MotoGP from Italy... I can record that. Should be OK for it.

Sulphuric acid and man up a bit. But leaving it to harden is better if you want to be a big girl's blouse. If you burst it, the layer on top will be able to move against the layer underneath and it may come back nastier, or it may slough [1] off and leave you with a tender exposed area. [1] Why not Reading, or Swindon?

[quote name='Rettoglide1' post='837220' date='May 14 2010, 02:46 PM']If you've been playing for any amount of time or are any kind of decent musician you will know the Level 42's records are musically and technically superior to RHCH just by listening.[/quote] You are bass_ferret and I claim my reference to the Wiki.

The real defining difference between an acoustic DB and an EUB is that tallboy-sized box at the end of the sticky-out bit. What you need to do to get that sound is apply a fairly thick reverb with a short decay. Depending on what strings you've got on, you also might need to cut the treble too.

[quote name='Davy' post='765708' date='Mar 6 2010, 12:08 AM']Thanks for the technical explanation, that's what i was planning on doing. I wonder if any other basschat members have done something similar and did they find a big difference in volume from the superfly?[/quote] I built a 2x10 cab and wired it up to allow it to be used either as a 2x10 in parallel at 4 ohms or two 1x10s at 8 ohms (which gives 175WPC = 350W). If you use a jack socket with switching contacts, you can have it as a 4x10 when used on the speakon and 2 2x10s when the jack is plugged in as well. Note - if you do it that way, using it with the jack socket alone will only run two speakers.

Have you made sure the power lead is firmly rammed home? I encountered that a couple of times.

Get it from Bob Gollihur's site: [url="http://www.eclecticbass.com/wav4instruct.pdf"]WAV-4 instructions[/url]

I use the black Dunlops on guitar and (occasionally) bass. I used to use translucent nylon plectrums which were graded 1 to 4 (I went for the 3) but I have no idea what brand they were or whether they still exist. If anyone knows the sort I'm talking about (this dates back 20 or 30 years), I'd like to know...

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='830880' date='May 7 2010, 06:02 PM']I'm all for the banning of "second" or "rhythm" guitardists. [/quote] Two of the bands I'm in (well, three, I suppose[1]) have two guitarists - in fact, the vocalist in the rock covers band also plays guitar on about 50% of the band. Somehow or other, we cope. [1] The originals band has spawned a covers band which is the originals band plus a couple of vocalists

He has now said that he's been told it's a copy so he's setting the start price at Squier levels. As for oiling and fret cleaning - he hasn't said he doesn't know about guitars, he's said he doesn't know about bass guitars. Subtle difference.

What is very odd is what you find if you go to his feedback and look at the stuff he's sold. Three cars, each with a different format of listing but demonstrating different but intelligible levels of English, a couple of Sky boxes ditto, and things like a clock and a trailer which demonstrate his rather haphazard approach to the language. I can only assume that the intelligible adverts were lifted from the original ebay listings that he bought the cars from.

I can't see a £399 in the bid history.

[quote name='SS73' post='826265' date='May 3 2010, 10:41 AM']Nice 4001, looks real clean etc, but the neck pup is in the wrong place for 75.[/quote] Is it? I just had a look at Rickenbacker's archive and it looks right to me: Seems the same to me.

Would anyone build a headless with the truss-rod adjustment at the body end?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='824635' date='May 1 2010, 10:20 AM']What the hell happened to this thing? Why would someone not even go to the effort of dusting something before putting it on eBay?[/quote] That'll be because they've seen one too many Antiques Roadshows and confuse dust, crap and grime with patina.