KingBollock

I use a toothbrush for the bad bits, but kitchen paper if it's not too bad.

Maplins PCB cleaner: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-pcb-cleaner-200ml-n64an Just don't get it in your eyes, it's not nice. Edit: Yeah, what Flyfisher said.

My wife gets rather annoyed at all the calls the police get on weekends from people complaining about the noise from the pub next door. And they don't just complain about the music, "There are people standing outside the pub waiting for taxis and they are talking!", is a common one, apparently. My wife's view of it is "Well, you moved in next door to a pub, what exactly did you expect? The pub has been there far longer than you!", though she doesn't actually say it.

[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1402174046' post='2470796'] So it comes as Pictured.... Does that mean she comes with the bass? [/quote] Maybe, if you're playing just the right frequency while she's perched on the corner of the cab. The "pink note" possibly?

I have always ignored the Big Muff until now. Your video got me having a look around at other videos of it. I am going to start making my own pedals soon and I was trying to think of a good place to start. Need to find a schematic now.

I remember seeing one of those Hot Locks videos with a bass player (I can't remember his name, long haired rocker chap in a wheelchair) that would hold the tip of his index finger between his middle finger and thumb, leaving a few millimetres sticking out, that he would use as you would a pick. I sometimes use a banjo picking style on bass, and will use my finger nails. I actually keep them short and use the tips of the nails with my fingers curled up, with an upward pluck. I find this useful when using a pick, too. Hold the pick between finger and thumb, as usual, and use the middle and ring finger for plucking. It's a good way of getting clean chord sounds.

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1401807865' post='2467085'] These days Izzy Hale does a better impression of Seb Bach than Seb does [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CX3XxfXgLs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=_CX3XxfXgLs[/url] [/quote] She even does a cover of Slave to the Grind. You're right, she does sound uncannily like Sebastian, but with added testicles.

What about Lemmy? He has a naturally raw voice, and even if you only count from Motörhead onwards, you're still talking 1975. I like a lot of old death metal, but I don't like this new core stuff, there's no depth to it, it just sounds like shouting. I also believe that I am one of only a handful of people that actually likes Dani Filth's voice. Though obviously that's a more black metal style.

[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1401698682' post='2465848'] I prefer the Doom Metal that came along a little later based on the original Sabbath type music......Candlemass were great with Messiah Marcolin on vocals. [/quote] The bass player for the rather excellent doom band Serpent Venom is a really nice bloke. They have a new album coming out this month, too.

Could be the comedown from the adrenaline high. Or something.

I was given a Satellite bass for free once, it played really nicely and sounded fine, too. The worst bass I ever played was a £900 Hamer. But that was the only bass I ever played that wasn't nice. As for sixers... I was given an Encore Les Paul copy that was so horrible that I gave it back. But the very worst was a rather more expensive Jackson shark-fin that a paid a few hundred quid for (second hand) after coming into some money. It was nasty, it felt like playing a plank. After a few days I realised I was never going to get on with it, no matter how much I wanted to, so I took it back to the shop and they gave me my money back.

I don't want to replace it with a black one, I want to replace it with a steel one, to match the frets. It was a mod I had always intended on but didn't get around to because it didn't need it. I did some work on that bass recently, replacing bridge parts, I have a feeling that restringing it took some extra material out of the nut slot. A tiny amount, but enough.

Say I wanted to make my own bass nut from scratch but had no existing nut to base it's measurements on. How would I go about making a blank? What I am really worried about is going to all the time and trouble of carving one out of steel and then going a tiny bit too far with the slots and buggering it up. Is there a measurement based on the height of the first fret that I should use and not go lower than? I have been thinking about doing this for ages but never got around to it, however I have discovered that the nut slot on the g string is ever so slightly too low, requiring the action to be higher than it otherwise could be. And I like my action really low. There is already rather more relief in the neck than I would like, so I didn't want to have to increase that. What I really could do with is showing it to someone that can look at it with new eyes because I am getting too frustrated with it. Such a simple thing and I have been doing it for years, but just not getting it right with this bass, possibly because this bass means more to me than the others. If I manage to do this successfully, I want to carve a nut from bone for my five string. I should probably start with that one, I've got everything set fine on that bass, it would just be a case of making a perfect replica. I only want to replace it because bone would suit the binding better than the current black one. See, I am actually really vain, but I am too fat and ugly to get away with it myself, so I transfer it onto my basses.

If the rest of the shaft is 6 or 6.3mm diameter then it shouldn't matter if you put a round screw locking type on it. You can set the screw to fit against the flat edge. I'm having no end of trouble finding knobs for my amp, 4mm shafts, bloody stupid thing!

Mine's a cheapy (£200 new) Fender five string but I love it. Lots of fun can be had by transferring finger picking rolls onto the bass, too.

I managed to confuse my wife when I asked her to pass me her hair straightener while she was doing her barnet. It has a very flexible lead, felt like neoprene, and it is black. I meant to have a look to see if her hair dryer had a similar lead but I couldn't find it, it might still be packed from her holiday, but it makes sense that such things would have flexible leads, to make wielding them easier. If you can't find a broken hair dryer to nick the lead from, I happen to know that you can "make" a broken one by trying to turn it into a super powered bong... I also know that the owner won't be very happy about it, but it is too late by then.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1401101872' post='2459985'] Where would music be without entertainment? Surely the real conclusion is that there is room for all forms of music . . . Even karaoke and elevator Muzak. You just have to choose the stuff you like and allow others to do the same. [/quote] It would be sososososososo much more artistic and worthy!

[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1401043988' post='2459500'] Personally I'd cover it in brass fittings and cogs and flog it to a Steampunk band . I remember first rig I had was a Carlsboro 150w stack (when I knew nothing about anything). Came with one matching 1x15 and an odd shaped 1x15 cab of undetermined origin. Bought some chipboard and basically reverse engineered the Carlsboro cab, and built a copy using the speaker and fittings from the odd shaped cab. Actually sounded better than the Carlsboro original. [/quote] Yesterday I coughed and sneezed at the same time, [i]that[/i] sounded better than the Carlsboro Stingray I used to own.

Sort of reminds me of a design I have had in my head for a couple of years. The plan is to take an existing cab and clad it with rough looking boards and add vertical bars in place of a grill, to make the whole thing look like an old animal crate.

How about making one from the mains lead to an old clothes iron? They have to be pretty flexible because of the way they are used. Maybe, using that criteria, someone might be able to think of something better.

Perhaps the Chapman stick is the bride? Might explain why it appears to be covered in sp**k.

That looks ace (Someone already did the brilliant thing...). I am a sucker for anything shiny but it's not just the lights that look cool, the overall effect is really nice. I have some plans for using black light LEDs and UV reactive paint.

I have seen High-on Maiden a couple of times and a Beatles tribute that I think was called The Fab Four. Enjoyed both. I'd be up for a Rammstein tribute band made up of chubbies. As long as I got to set fire to stuff. I used to work for the bass player for AB/CD. Never saw them play, though, can't stand AC/DC, so not much point really. They once supported the Stereophonics in an arena in Cardiff after winning a competition on MTV.

Decided to widen the scope of the topic as I have another question or two. Firstly, for now. How do people go about running guitar cables and mains cables to their pedalboards? I have seen people with mains extensions on their boards, and even with a pedalboard power supply you need to get AC power to it. I want to be able to run the pedalboard power from a rack mounted power strip, probably a Samson PB10, so that all my power comes from one place. I was hoping to be able to make an umbilical with the audio and mains cables bundled together, with a good, solid amount of shielding covering the audio cables by wrapping the audio cables together with copper or aluminium tape, which would be earthed, then running the mains cable along side and all wrapped up together with self amalgamating tape or something, but this isn't going to be enough is it? I was also considering a multi core audio cable, with four wires and a shield. There would be two audio cables, each using two of the core wires, and then attach the shield to ground at one end. I would use a suitable plug and socket at each end, perhaps even a PC monitor type which can be screwed into place for extra security, then have a box with the socket at each end, one on the pedalboard and one on the rack, to split the cables to go where they need to. I think this would be neat and simple to set up once built. I know I am over complicating things but I have too much time to think about this stuff and, to be honest, all the fun for me is in the designing and building, the more complicated the more fun, but I don't want to do it all and end up with something that is crap. Even with all the extra stuff I don't mind if it just works as well as a more simple setup, I just don't want it to be worse.