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I think I must be going mad as I just clicked on "bolt-on" for some reason, when I meant to say "neck-through" (I don't normally have this problem...). There's some bolt-ons which have quite a smooth heel, and I am making a bolt-on out of some bits and pieces I have hanging around, but I prefer the feel of a neck-through bass to things with clunky heels like Fenders.

When you're playing a barn dance, every number is a floor filler. Well, it is if the caller goes round and drags them all off their arses and onto the dance floor. As for the covers band - WMC audiences have no taste whatsoever when it comes to what they dance to, so "Red Red Bloody Whine" gets them every time, not to mention all the other crap that UB40 came out with after they'd stopped whining in Brummie accents about being unemployed because turning up in a Rolls to a gig damages your unemployment cred. And breathe. "Mustang Sally", that's another one, and it's the law anyway. And I enjoy playing it. "Dance the night away" - dreadful song, but you can have fun seeing how many octaves up and down you can go before anyone notices (you'd probably not use a bass any more ER than a 5-string though). "Hey Baby", especially with the "boobs, arse" version of the backing vocals. It can make for good watching. "Build me up Buttercup" (used to be my mate Buttercup's theme tune for his disco until he pegged it a few years back). "I love to boogie" by T Rex. Preferably without your vocalist going "waaaa-aaaay" and "oggy oggy oggy" over the intro. Grrr. "Be my baby" is another elderly number that they sway along to. "Hi Ho Silver Lining", an unappreciated classic. Doesn't necessarily get them up but the arms wave and they all cry out "Aston Villa" or whatever thugball team they support at the appropriate point. "Music". We do this as our last number, and of course it's in the bum-squeezer slot, so when it starts up we get a fair few couples who have short memories getting up. They normally realise their mistake about two bars into the second section, although we do play one club where they've line-danced all the way through it. Fantastic. Getting your vocalist not to go on and on between numbers so everybody sits back down - priceless.

[quote name='Marky L' post='91300' date='Nov 20 2007, 10:00 AM']What I always remember is in the 2nd series (there was a 2nd series wasn't there??) they started to get a bit more techno and began using gadgets, except the drummer who was seriously against drum machines, electronics etc.. it was obvious he was worried that a black box with lights and beep beep sounds was going to put him out of a job![/quote] I thought that the drummer showed a MIDI kit, using it to play a melody on at some point, and either Deidre Cartwright or Henry Thomas used a MIDI guitar/bass to play drums.

I have sung lead vocals in the past (not a good idea really). I don't do backing vocals with the covers band because the vocalist and guitarist (who was the vocalist until we recruited, er, the vocalist) are very tight and I have my work cut out forgetting the notes anyway. I do with the acoustic duo - I find that playing guitar (even fingerpicking) and singing is easier than playing bass and singing.

"Dance the night away" by the Mavericks. Because I'd slit my wrists if I had to play it as per original, all the way through the song...

[quote name='ergon' post='90342' date='Nov 18 2007, 04:41 PM']Ok, there's beeen a miss understanding, i didn't mean that if you used a amp lower than the rating of the cab it would blow up, of course it woun't!, i said it would be innefficient, also i never said that using and amp rated higher than the cab that it would definatly blow up even at low volumes! What i was saying is that to use a cab of a certain value of watts with minimal risk of it being damaged and without it being inefficient you would have to use the right value of amp. It obvious that underpowering an amp wont do any damage, but for using the speaker with maximum efficiency a 30watt amp just wont do! I'm pretty sure a man with over 30 years experience in industrial and electrical engineering who runs his own business where he works for and advises other people on how to design and build furnaces and gasifiers using very high voltage power circuits etc. is not going to be talking out of his behind when it comes to physics.[/quote] How frequently does he drive a furnace into clipping, and has he done any Fourier analyses of the resulting waveform? To add a bit to what Jack said - if you drive an amp into clipping, the waveform you're pushing out changes from a sine wave to a square wave (the highrer the clipping, the more square it gets). This is a Bad Thing because: A square wave is actually the combination of all the odd-order harmonics of the fundamental frequency, and so will sound rather nasty A square wave transfers more energy than a sine wave of the same peak-to-peak amplitude (which is the actual limiting factor to the amplifier) And quite possibly it's less kind to speaker voice coils because they get cooled from being in motion, and a sine wave propels them gently from one extreme to the other, while a square wave smacks them all the way out and then all the way back in again, with a lot of time spent at maximum excursion with a lot of current going through them Incidentally, Roland seem to think that the Cube-100 puts out 100W (although they don't actually state that it's RMS). Where do you get the 28W figure from?

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='90737' date='Nov 19 2007, 11:31 AM']Let me tell my wife first....[/quote] It is easier to seek forgiveness than to ask for permission...

[quote name='paul, the' post='87310' date='Nov 12 2007, 01:49 PM']What makes guitarists want to become bassists?[/quote] It happens when the other guitarist is better than you (or thinks he is). Then you find out how much fun bass is...

[quote name='BOD2' post='88941' date='Nov 15 2007, 02:02 PM']and lets not forget... TLA - Three Letter Acronym[/quote] ETLA - Extended Three Letter Acronym RTFM - Read The Manual BTDTGTTS - Been There Done That Got The T-Shirt DAMHIKIJKOK - Don't Ask Me How I Know I Just Know OK JFGI - Just Google It

I've no first-hand knowledge of Dudepit or the man himself. There has been a recent thread on alt.guitar.bass about him though. If you don't read news proper like, you can [url="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.guitar.bass/browse_thread/thread/a12d40e2f97bdf0e/8ab22c928951e1a0?lnk=gst&q=dudepit#"]read it through Google[/url] - click on "show quoted text" in the first message to see what Sterling Ball had to say about Steve Barr recently.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='88526' date='Nov 14 2007, 05:14 PM']Its mostly for those "Tommy Shannon" moments and they (SRV and Double Trouble) just down-tuned a tone...[/quote] Digitech BP-200 and use the digital whammy to pitch-shift down a tone. Easy...

My mainstay bass is a 4-string, but I have recently found a 5 which is the equivalent in playability (I've never settled with 5s before, not because of the extra string but because they have only been good players, not excellent ones). It's now my main gigging bass - I like being able to play patterns both across and up and down the neck. I bought the 7 because I fancied experimenting. It may or may not get used in a formal band situation (I might finish up doing "Mustang Sally" with it in the covers band...) and it does get used at an open mic night (an opportunity to experiment in the company of others, though a little wasted on "Maggie's Farm"). I'll probably never do it justice, but I do derive pleasure from it. I don't want to be like some old bloke waving his stick [1] around and saying "it used to all be 4 strings round here, and with proper frets too". [1] Not Stick

[quote name='obbm' post='78706' date='Oct 24 2007, 09:21 AM']I've just been looking at the web site of tlc-direct.co.uk. Interestingly a 100-metre reel of their 2.5 sq.mm rubber covered is about the same price as I pay for a 100-metre reel of Klotz 2.5 sq.mm. but the Klotz is a much better cable as it is finer stranded and therefore has a better frequency response. Remember that mains cable is deigned for a single frequency, 50Hz.[/quote] Don't understand that. Surely the only significant effect that having more and finer strands would have is to make the cable more flexible? After all, to affect the frequency response, it would have to significantly change the capacitive load that the cable presents, which is negligible (I don't think there would be any inductive component in the load). The resistive load would be about the same for the same cross-section, and should be very very low anyway.

Can you slide a sharp blade in between speaker rim and cab front, and go round the speaker rim? It could be that the sealing gasket is well and truly stuck. Would do less damage to the speaker rim and cab front than trying to prise it up.

There's an even more exrteme Conklin that some of you may not have seen... further details of which can be found on the [url="http://www.lordonly.net/lojtbas3.htm"]Lord Only website[/url].

[quote name='Sibob' post='85491' date='Nov 8 2007, 03:34 PM']Yeah that neck joint in the second to last picture doesn't look very healthy at all![/quote] Looks like someone has applied a chisel to it to excavate some wood and get the neck to move forward, then changed their mind and put a beermat behind it.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='85430' date='Nov 8 2007, 01:23 PM']Difficult to tell from such small pics, but the Pickups could be DiMarzios? The bridge looks the same as on my late 80's Washburn so maybe some reasonably decent far-east not-quite P-copy...? Edit, the neck looks as though it needs adjusting in the pocket - look at the G string...[/quote] Might not be the neck needing adjustment but a replacement bridge put on way off-centre. Looking at the headstock shape, with that rounded bit where a Fender would have a sharp angle, when did the far eastern copiers start making not-quite-exact copies to avoid copyright cases?

Ours on Saturday night was a charidee gig - we regularly gig at the Kingstanding Warriors British Legion and one of their members has had cancer and been unable to work, so they ran a fundraiser to get him and his family some money for Christmas. No, we're not the economy version of Disneyland, he's getting better - sufficiently better to get up on stage and sing "Sweet Caroline" anyway. Good atmosphere, though it took the standard crap like UB40 to get them on their feet. Which meant I didn't do the barn dance I was originally supposed to be doing (and which the other half was calling at). It's all good for the soul though, innit?

Many years ago, I was in a university band which was searching for a name. Somewhere or other, one of us had found a promotional single for a range of vacuum cleaners called Cymex, which started with atmospheric music and "five - four - three - two - one - the Cymex are coming". So we adopted that as our name and used the single to play us in on the two gigs we finished up doing before I dropped out. One minor point - the only one who'd actually paid proper attention to how Cymex was spelt was me (I think the others were doing sociology so reading was an optional skill), so we had posters which spelt it variously as Cymex and Simex. Inebriation works (or just being rubbish at speaking, like me) - Horslips, frexample, was named thus as the band memebers were debating the name in a state of drunkenness, which resulting in the suggestion "Four horsemen of the apocalypse" being mispronouned "four poxmen of the horslips". And in the case of one of my bands, the intended suggestion of "The Simpsons" finished up coming out as "The Symptoms", which was what we became.

Although I voted Warwick, it depends on the gig - I used to use the 4-string fretted Thumb for the covers band but now use the Antoniotsai 5-string. The 4-string fretless Thumb does open mic house band duty and the barn dance gigs in conjunction with the NS WAV-4. The JD Thumb is currently the least used but the first one I'd save from a burning building.

I've included the EUBs in the list. Currently owned: Warwick JD Thumb fretted Warwick Thumb 4-string fretless with reprofiled neck Antoniotsai 5-string fretted Antoniotsai 7-string fretted Antoniotsai 5-string fretless (soon) Eagle 4-string fretted acoustic Kneiper 4-string fretted acoustic NS WAV-4 All owned, in approximate order of purchase: Rosetti 7 semi-acoustic, apparently made of papier-mache Hayman 40/40 Burns Bison Fender Precision fretted Frontier fretless Fender Precision fretless Hohner B2 Warwick JD Thumb fretted Wilkes 4-string fretless Maison 5-string fretless Bass Collection 4-string fretless Vester B/O Thumb copy, 4-string fretless Westone Quantum headless 4-string Steinberger XZ-25 Brice V2 5-string fretless Axl AAB-336 Tiger Pro 6-string fretted Warwick Thumb 4-string fretless with reprofiled neck BSX Flip Godman 4-string fretted acoustic Eagle 4-string fretted acoustic Palatino VE-500 Kneiper 4-string fretted acoustic Antoniotsai 5-string fretted NS WAV-4 Antoniotsai 7-string fretted Antoniotsai 5-string fretless (soon) There's a fuller history at [url="http://www.tauzero.co.uk/music/bass.html"]www.tauzero.co.uk/music/bass.html[/url]

What are you actually trying to accomplish? I'm not sure about the point of having an internal module which merely amplifies rather than giving you tone control capability as well. If you want tone controls, there's [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Artec-All-In-One-Onboard-EQ-For-Active-Bass-A3_W0QQitemZ130166971018QQihZ003QQcategoryZ22669QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]a two band module[/url] or [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Artec-All-In-One-Onboard-EQ-For-Active-Bass-A2_W0QQitemZ130166970567QQihZ003QQcategoryZ22669QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]a slightly bigger two-band module[/url]