andydye

Sad day indeed but what a musical legacy to remember him by!!!

Mike recently bought and just this morning received my shuker geddy neck. He was a gent throughout, patient, calm, reliable. No hesitation about recommending him to anyone.

I have the Hercules ones that do the grabby thing and they've worked fine with all my basses, I have 35" scale Lakland at the mo and the stand-neck extends far enough for my bass to be comfortably off the floor...

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1335979612' post='1639040'] [url=http://www.bassic-bits.co.uk/]OBBM[/url] [/quote] +1 some more :-)

there's this thread too: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/163809-which-delay-do-you-use-on-bass/page__st__20__p__1503495__hl__delay%20bass__fromsearch__1#entry1503495"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/163809-which-delay-do-you-use-on-bass/page__st__20__p__1503495__hl__delay%20bass__fromsearch__1#entry1503495[/url]

[quote name='GremlinAndy' timestamp='1335910926' post='1638071'] Hi Andy. Will look into them and let you know.. Tech boost sounds like its got it all... Looking into that too. Cheers guys! [/quote] Hi Andy, [url="http://uk.line6.com/dl4/"]http://uk.line6.com/dl4/[/url] You're welcome to pop round and give it a go mate...

I've got a maxon ad9 that's nice and analog and a line6 dl4 that does everything and has a tap tempo, not used either on bass (yet) but hav used the dl4 loads and it's been brilliant. Not really playing guitar nowadays so may sell the dl4, boxed, all original bits inc power supply etc, I've got the diago pedalpower adaptor for it too...

is your bass strung through bridge rather than through body? it sounds like there isn't enough angle between where the string comes out of the back of the bridge and where it goes over the saddle, this is what stops the saddles from flopping up and down...falling off the thread on the saddle sounds like the same issue... for fret buzzing between 1st and 12th string I'd be looking first at the curvature of the neck, if you sight down the neck from the headstock end, using a string as a straightedge as you look, does the neck appear dead straight (not so clever), convex (bowed out towards the strings (not at all good) or slightly concave (much more like it)? Another test you could would be to fret both the 1st and 12th frets on the e string and see how much clearance the string has at about the 7th fret, if it's touching there's not enough curvature (concave-ness) on the neck, if it's not then there might be something else wrong. If you have buzzing at 13th fret or higher then it's generally a raise the saddles type fix. If any of the above don't help it might be a fret problem rather than a neck problem which (for me) means find a luthier to have a look at it or the neck might need some kind of shim (which again needs a luthier for me!)...

Paypal's exchange rates aren't great, IBAN transactions incur a fee too, they're both costly, not sure which has the higher 'fee' though... If the seller is twitchy about bank transfer despite you having reassured him/her then unless you can agree to use paypal I suggest there isn't a deal. Agreeing on payment terms is a part of the deal and if that doesn't work the deal is off.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1334922069' post='1623468'] Andydye - loving your avatar! [/quote] Thankyou kind sir

if it's first in the chain I'd have a TU-3 as it's buffered which will help with signal loss if you have a few TB pedals on there...

Si just bought my BDI21, polite throughout, got back to me as soon as he could on all pm's, he's working silly shifts at the mo so I completely understand sleep-deprived-brain-not-working-ness as I get it all the time (we've got 3 boys under 5 and the youngest is 8 months!)! Have no qualms about recommending him, lovely guy.

Really nice to hear him talk about the evolution of his sound, seems like a pretty nice guy (but then, he is a bassplayer after all!). The clanky / 'lacking bottom' sound of his bass may be more to do with the microphone on the video camera than with his lack of bottom end? I may not appreciate his current flamenco technique but I can't deny his history of amazing bass work, it was the bass parts on presto that first drew me to Rush as I'd only heard 'spirit of radio' before then, superb playing!

[sup]As I understand it (from my 55-02) the switch only controls the coils of the humbucker, the balance pot deals with the single coil / humbucker blend...[/sup] [sup]The switch is neck/both/bridge as regards coils of the humbucker.[/sup]