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[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='377620' date='Jan 12 2009, 01:06 PM']I'm certain I have a problem in both ears. They feel like they're blocked - like when water's in them post-shower - all the time. There's no gunk in there , used drops and had them syringed. The result is I can hear my own voice too loudly and I've started speaking so quietly to compensate that folk can't hear me. I had a lot of problems scuba diving a few years ago - think it stems from that.[/quote] Sounds like a problem with the Eustachian tubes. Is it like when you have a really snotty cold and get totally bunged up?

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='377574' date='Jan 12 2009, 12:35 PM']Still reckon white basses are the ultimate stage basses.[/quote] Bloody white supremacists get everywhere.

[quote name='ARGH' post='373679' date='Jan 7 2009, 11:32 PM']People that cant see the need for 6 string bass's,TRY one.......really try,and if you cant play it you are a thickie and deserve to stay in the remedial class and learn how to make tea with the rest of life mental failures...yeah thats you..your Auntie Jean,and a wheelie bin.[/quote] There's no [b]need[/b] for six-string basses. They have a niche. Most bassists can live without reaching into that niche.

And [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200297077817"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=200297077817[/url] - he's regularly selling them. US-based, though. And he hasn't got any 5-string sets. Damn.

Elite Stadium 40-100 or 40-125, single or double ball end. Except for the 7-string, which has a set of Overwater's finest on it.

[quote name='Buzz' post='374002' date='Jan 8 2009, 01:32 PM']Does no one else spot the resemblence of design B to one of the ACG designs?[/quote] A bit of a resemblance but not so much as to be a knock-off. It also has a bit of a resemblance to a Peavey Cirrus walking into a strong wind. There isn't a really vast amount of variation in shape available once you've determined that you're making an asymmetric two-horned forward-leaning bass, given the constraints that actually producing a practical usable instrument place on you (neck dive being a primary consideration, so headed basses have held back the evolution of the instrument enormously).

[quote name='OldGit' post='372392' date='Jan 6 2009, 08:27 PM']The stands came with a thing that could be screwed to a speaker so that it can be mounted on top of the stands if it doesn't have a hole.[/quote] Is there a reason for not simply putting a top-hat into the bottom of the combo?

[quote name='Cernael' post='368940' date='Jan 2 2009, 11:02 PM']As for your second sentence, as I've come to understand the impedance issue (which, admittedly, I don't do very well), the biggest problems comes along when you have a high output impedance (like piezos), feeding into a too low input impedance (in the amp). This, if I understand it, is the opposite situation, which shouldn't be that much of a problem. And anyway, can't you change the impedance and/or voltage to acceptable levels with the right buffer/preamp anyway?[/quote] The resistance of a bass string is tiny. I'm not sure what the impedance implications are - I think you'd need a very high impedance coupled with huge gain and the sort of signal-to-noise levels that you would be very unlikely to find at an economic price. The high impedance means that the input would be susceptible to induced noise, which would be induced whether the strings were coated or not (if they were coated, it would be a capacitive coupling with the coating acting as the dielectric).

B for me too. I'd like to like singlecuts but they just look wrong (and I've owned a couple of Les Paul copy guitars, so it's not an utterly abhorrent concept to me).

[quote name='crez5150' post='371931' date='Jan 6 2009, 12:58 PM']It's all a bit irrelevant because you couldn't compare the same bass as a four or five string.... though I guess that's not the question.... [/quote] Oh yes you can... Two ways 1) Take a 5-string bass, play it, then take a string off and play it again. Compare. 2) Take a P-type 4-string (J-type would be tricky), and play it. Put a Wilkinson 4+1 bridge and top peg on and play it again. Compare. FWIW, I don't think there's any noticeable difference between 4-strings and 5-strings of otherwise equal spec. They'll sound just as good as each other (or, if they're Precisions, just as bad as each other).

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='370223' date='Jan 4 2009, 07:14 PM']I totally agree with you, I'm a huge fan of Mark King, he's probably the biggest influence on many players aged 35 upwards.[/quote] 35 downwards, surely? I doubt you'd find many 50somethings who had Mark King as their biggest influence.

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='370703' date='Jan 5 2009, 10:40 AM']Jeez, have you seen this one? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MusicMan-Stingray-5-String-3EQ-Piezo-Custom-Finish_W0QQitemZ250348037483QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item25"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MusicMan-Stingray-5-..._CV?hash=item25[/url] 0348037483&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1298%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 "Custom" paint job - looks like someone tried to go for a distressed look with a couple of tins of Halford spray paint. If my kids ever did that to one of my basses I'd lock them in their rooms for a month. Oh my god what was he thinking of?[/quote] I liked this: Weight: 10 lbs (4.54 kg) - varies slightly What's going on then? Matter-energy conversion? I think we should be told.

[quote name='chris_b' post='369210' date='Jan 3 2009, 12:30 PM']Any list of best british bass players should include John McVie, Bill Wyman and Alan Gorrie.[/quote] Surely that depends on how long the list is.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='364617' date='Dec 28 2008, 09:20 AM']Load of 'bull' - I've no 'beef' with Arias but you'd have to 'hide' this if anyone 'moo'ched round to your gaff. Taking the cover off 'cud' re'veal' a nice bass 'udder'neath , so a 'pat' on the head to the buyer.[/quote] Are you trying to heifer laugh?

New Years Eve at the Shard End social club in Brum. While normally they don't have children upstairs, for NYE, as a special treat, children weren't allowed anywhere in the club. We've played here on Saturday nights quite a few times, and gone down pretty well to what is normally a full room. Last night the place was barely half full, almost all of the attendees being 60+. Our spies told us that the downstairs room (where a disco was going on) was as empty and with a similar demographic. A bit earlier in the year, after the ents secretary found that we no longer had our former pisshead vocalist, he cut our money for the night from £800 to £650. I'm sure you will all forgive me for calling him a f***ing stingy c***. So that just added to the pleasure of the evening. Anyroadup, the gig went sort of OK although we didn't really get into it as there was so little movement from the [s]graveyard[/s] audience. Did the chimes off the radio and played them Auld Lang Syne (in a medley with "Donald where's yer troosers" and "Loch Lomond"). Then another hour, and they resurrected themselves enough at the end to ask for more. I wish I'd taken the Gallien Kruger or the Hartke kickback - taking a DR250 upstairs was a struggle. Still, it does sound good. Our conclusion was that we really really want to do somewhere else next year, er, this year.

Also out, not sure what time we finish but I shall be heading off out as soon as I've drunk this -----> cup of tea. Unfortunately I can't take Mrs Zero but it is paying pretty reasonably. Right, cup of tea drunk. I may be some time...

On the original question, I started getting some horrible distortion from my Nady 201 a while ago when it was on top of the amp which disappeared if it wasn't. Then it went intermittently dead (inaudible, power light still on on receiver). On examination (as they say), the jack socket, which is one of those big plastic boxes, had cracked, so one contact was poor and was presumably being shaken off by the vibration on top of the cab. Replaced the jack socket with a plain ordinary moulded one from Maplin and the problem was solved.

[quote name='crez5150' post='364230' date='Dec 27 2008, 03:36 PM']Looks like standard Neutrik Jacks on that cable ...... lot of money just for the lead?[/quote] It gets more economical the longer you have it, so 5m is only £180. So get a really long one and cut it in half, then put Neutriks on the cut ends, and you've saved a fortune... Ah, having looked at it again, it's £30/m plus £30 for a brace of Neutrik plugs and soldering them on. Bargain.

Why do people want to buy instruments that make it look as though they don't give a f*** about them?

Pretty good. I get asked to accompany people at open mic nights, and a couple of them get the odd gig here and there and ask me to go and play with them there (so it's not just because I happen to be in the right place at the right time). Would like to be doing some original work though.

Titanium is also used for F1 wheelnuts, and it's quite astonishing when you feel the weight of one of those. If you look at the article, it's rather vague about the wound strings, and says that the plain strings are overwound with titanium. It mentions about reducing string breakage but it's unclear how that happens. Titanium is about half the density of steel, so if I've got my visualisations of what needs to be multiplied by what right, the diameter of the string would have to be double the diameter of a steel string for a string of the same tension. Aluminium falls between steel and Ti, but for some reason there is no market for aluminium strings.

[url="http://shop.cafepress.com/design/22771043"]Bassist T-shirt[/url] in full-fat. Which was nice.

Have been a member for some years, but very rarely read it and almost never post there. I did find them stunningly unhelpful on the subject of EUBs - plenty of opinions and advice about various facets flying around, but when a few people posted about their actions and how high they had them set, and I asked how they measured the height of their action, no response whatsoever. Surely it's not that difficult a question to answer.

[quote name='Galilee' post='362152' date='Dec 23 2008, 05:02 PM']Cheat! I should throw an open B in here.[/quote] I have a Tennessee 15-string. Which of the open Bs should I play?

2 basses, 21.24% 3 basses, 20.80% 4 basses, 14.16% So logically 9 basses = 56.2%, so I'm in the majority. I shall see if Mrs Zero is convinced.