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[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1474738085' post='3140168'] Inside circle is boost/cut, outer circle is q factor/centre frequency. The inner knobs follow resistor colour bands (couldn't get any brown though so I had to settle for dark red for 1), though because I preferred the way it looked, the outer circle is reversed... The sweepable centre frequency meant marking the frequencies each band covered would have been super complicated, I've calibrated the bands to cover a fairly comprehensive range, so really it shouldn't matter, red is low, grey high, everything beyond that is down to the ears. [/quote] That is utterly genius!

That Columbus bass is a generic one. You can find loads of them, all identical but with different names on them. My one is a Westfield one. I have seen others labelled as Rogue and others that I can't remember off the top of my head. They went for £200 when new. Mine has Chromes flats on it, which probably doubles what it's worth now. They are a very good entry bass, though.

I got my chair from these people: http://chairsforoffices.com They're not cheap, but they're not hugely expensive either. I got mine from there because I am a rather large chap and they do a chair that suits me perfectly. It takes my weight effortlessly and has a huge amount of positional options. The arms on mine can be raised or lowered or taken off, which was another reason for choosing it. They also do spare parts. I get the feeling that my chair will outlast me. This is mine: http://chairsforoffices.com/tall-person-heavy-duty-office-chair-seat-slide-black-grey-seat-height-62cm.html?filter_name=140033gk

For me it is my BC Rich Warlock NT. I sold my first ever bass and regret it to this day, but my Warlock is the first since then to feel like "mine". Back when I was a kid working in a guitar shop, I was asked what my perfect bass would be and I described this Warlock. That was ten years or so before they even made this particular model (and they only made it for nine or ten years). I know I would regret selling it, so I won't.

I'd be chuffed to bits to own that. If I'd found it in a skip. Then I'd strip it, repaint it, clean or replace the rest, then flog it.

See if you can find a disco equipment shop with a dark room where you can see the stuff working. Those places tend to be quite reasonably priced, too. I am fortunate in that I don't know of any around here and I am scared to look. I have a bit of an obsession with pretty lights. I still have a bunch that I just couldn't part with when we packed up doing mobile discos (which I only put together so that I could play with the lights). An alternative is to build your own if you only want boxes.

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1472920334' post='3125370'] http://youtu.be/NrHnerXEx5M [/quote] Is it bad that, while listening to that, I kept thinking that he'd get a more consistent sound if he used a pick?

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1472847811' post='3124838'] Last time i saw them was on the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Tour.....Donington 88' and twice at Hammersmith Odeon. I haven't bought much of their stuff since really. Every song they write now is a mini rock opera. [/quote] I got into them in 1987 and the last album of theirs that I love is Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. They then went on a two year break and thirteen year old me didn't have that long of an attention span, so there was only a very short time where I would have wanted to see them. I still listen to all the albums upto and including that one, but they lost me with everything since.

Steve Harris is the main reason I took up bass, though he doesn't really influence my actual playing. Would like to get one of his signature basses, too. The blue one, like the one used in the Live After Death video.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1472672471' post='3123198'] Either you are all lying b'stards or the quiz is broke, I didn't even pick throw keyboard player out of window option! I answered honestly and got Sid Vicious, surely I have more talent than that.......hang on, white / black Precision, pick player, ex punk / still punk at heart, actually used to have the nickname Sid, the good looking one in the band....it's all coming together [/quote] I got Sid, too.

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1472247784' post='3119873'] I dunno, I leave you lot alone for an hour................. I've always wondered how Freddie Kreuger managed the toilet [/quote] Perhaps it's a seemingly complicated arrangement that is obvious to those who know. A bit like the sea shells...

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1472204435' post='3119371'] When it comes to the internet I never cease to be surprised by the absolute self confidence of the immature, inexperienced and logically challenged. [/quote] [quote name='Wikipedia']The [b]Dunning–Kruger effect[/b] is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of those of low ability to recognize their ineptitude and evaluate their ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: high-ability individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.[1] Dunning and Kruger have postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in those of low ability, and external misperception in those of high ability: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1][/quote]

This is the worst one that I own.

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1470466870' post='3106149'] Off topic for a post entitled "Music Tapes in 2016"? [/quote] Oh, I don't know, have you heard Mathcore?

A few years ago I cracked out my old Spectrum 128. All the games that were on tapes that were kept in cases worked fine, but every single one of the games whose cassette didn't have its case, failed to load. I was always a bugger for not putting stuff away properly when I had used it, which is why I never liked vinyl much, too easily damaged (and all the records that I did keep well got damaged by someone else, every single bloomin' one of 'em!). Yet I have always been really careful with all my CDs.

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1469848516' post='3101505'] The film is called `Sybil` or `Cybil`? Sally Field plays the leading role. In it, her "safe-place" where she can open up to her therapist about her terrifying childhood is a large, overstuffed armchair she refers to as "the big chair". I remember reading somewhere that the Tears for Fears' album and track, "Songs from the Big Chair", are a side reference to this. [/quote] Yes! In the past, when I have searched, that is the only thing that ever came up, but I only had that one scene to go on and could never find any images or clips of it, and I don't remember any of the stuff from Sybil that I could find. However, I have just found the exact scene on YouTube. So, thank you, I can now tick that one off!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1469843002' post='3101499'] 'Tales That Witness Madness', the 'Mel' episode... [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_That_Witness_Madness"]Tales That Witness Madness, Wikipedia ... [/url] http://youtu.be/eZg0uUJGm50 [/quote] Did you know or did you get the info from the name in the jpg address? Or maybe a Joan Collins filmography? All I remembered was that a man fell in love with a tree, and in the end the tree wins. There are a couple of films I remember watching back then that I would love to know more about, but I only remember certain scenes. One looks like a hammer horror in which people are sacrificed on a stone alter (attached to a wall at one end) where a large, wrought iron gate looking thing, with what looks like the shape of a bat in it, hinges down and crushes the victims. The other was very disturbing. It's supposed to be a true story. There was a girl whose mum would keep chained to a piano for hours and hours, and when she inevitably wet herself, the mum would take a hot poker to her insides. It was nasty. I don't want to see it again, but I would be intrigued to know more. I would have been around seven years old when I saw them (~1982). My mum loves horror films, but she didn't like watching them alone and my dad worked nights. And as I was the oldest son, and the only one that didn't get freaked out, she liked me to stay up and watch them with her. I saw quite a few of the "video nasties" before they were banned.

[i]It took me ages to find this. I never knew the name of the film, even though I remember seeing it several times when I was a kid[/i]

I've never had the money to go buying into new formats, I always have to wait until the prices come down, by which time they're usually better established. However, I did buy a PC in about 2000 with a Zip Drive in it. I never had any disks for it, though, because they were £8 each!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1469569212' post='3099513'] I remember the consumer battle between VHS and Betamax. VHS won out, but Betamax was the superior format. [/quote] From what I gather, this was somewhat down to size (I was first told this while working in a tv and video repair centre while repairing a Betamax machine for the first time). The Betamax machines had a much larger head drum than vhs machines. And the internal mechanism in a vhs took the tape from each side of the cassette and introduced it to the half of the head drum closest to the cassette, whereas a Betamax took the tape from one end and wrapped it around almost the whole drum. Which meant that you couldn't build Betamax machines as small as vhs. Betamax tapes were smaller than vhs which, while they were slightly easier to store, meant they didn't have as much tape in them. Also, having typed this thread I am now more aware that Betamax also takes longer to type, so perhaps that was the cause of its downfall? I used to have three Betamax machines and hundreds of the cassettes. We still have a vhs, somewhere, and a big box full of videos in the garage, many of which you can't get on dvd. A few weeks ago I finally unplugged my standalone audio cassette player and moved it out of the way to make space for something else. I also threw away a bin liner full of cassettes that I had recorded on to, too, though I have kept most of my official cassettes and blank cassettes still in their packaging but they're now in a box in the spare room. I also kept a couple of mix tapes that I had been given by girlfriends when I was a kid, though mainly because I like the songs but some of them I don't know who they're by or what they're called, so I can't get anywhere else. I was looking at mini Hi-Fis recently and several of them were just amps with auxiliary inputs on them, though some had digital radios and/or Bluetooth as well.

[quote name='Shambo' timestamp='1469008734' post='3094995'] Being approached by a total stranger as I walk down the street with a bass hardcase. Being cold called like a PPI claim. "Hello. You don't know me but I got your number off a mate (who?) says you play bass." I don't know who you are or what you want to play. You've never met or heard me play. Why would either of us behave so desperately? [/quote] That's reminded me of one I had forgotten about. I was seeing a girl who was distantly related to the local crime/gang family (the sort that are a one family crime wave who every one knows and don't want to cross. Most towns have one, I think), and they had a band. One of them approached me in the street, completely out of the blue, to ask if I would play bass for them. I told him I wasn't interested. The next thing I know people from all over the place are getting in touch asking why I turned them down and worried about my safety! I never heard another thing about it from the actual family, though.

A bloke, him self a very good guitarist, had seen me play a was very keen for me to meet his brother, who was also a guitarist and putting a band together. I went along for a rehearsal and it was just him and his mate on drums. They were obsessed with Hawkwind and weren't interested in anything else. It was boring. Another time a band turned up at my door (I don't even know how they knew where I lived) complaining that their bass player hadn't turned up for rehearsal and asked if I would jump in for him. I said yes because I was doing bugger all else that day. They were two guitarists, but one of them wouldn't even pick his up, he just wanted to sing, even though they had a singer there (neither of them could sing). The other guitarist was ok, as long as he was playing Enter Sandman and he was looking at the tab in his book, he fell to pieces otherwise. They said they had a drummer, but I knew who they were talking about and I also knew that he'd never owned a drumkit in his life. All the girlfriends and their friends that they'd brought along, were very enthusiastic... At the end they huddled together and then told me they had decided to fire their bass player in favour of me. Nope! Not happening!

Those look lovely and might well inspire me to finally get around to a project I've been meaning to do for ages. I have never done anything with oils on wood until very recently, so I know nothing at all about it. The stuff I used was Danish oil, is that anything like Tru-oil? I didn't use the Danish oil on a guitar, but I have got a headless Flying V that has a lovely grain on it. It was originally translucent red, but I stripped it, and after years of being buggered about with (it was purple and silver at one point (at the same time...)) a mate finally painted it banana yellow for me, but it's really badly done, so I want to strip it again and do a proper job of it with something that will show the grain well. The wood is a pale one (don't know what it is) with a nice dark grain. I used the Danish oil on pine and I love the way it came out.

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1467723827' post='3085630'] Don't heat the grub screw - it'll expand & be harder to move - heat the saddle which, hopefully, will expand more than the screw and allow it a bit more room to turn. G. [/quote] Surely if the saddle expands it'll squeeze the grub screw even tighter? Wouldn't it be better to freeze it? Although, causing any expansion and/or contraction might just be enough to break the hold on the screw. So, maybe, heat and then freeze?

Even I can do those chords! Now, if it did Bs...