KingBollock

I was hoping to get an answer to this as it could rather upset my plans for my set up's future.

Took delivery of some [url="http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/Products/Products/quick&q=primetones&type=search&searchclause=all/"]Dunlop Primetones[/url] today, the 3mm sharp ones (well, 2 sharp, 1 rounded, even though I ordered 3 sharps). They're a little larger than the Big Stubbies and while they are smooth feeling, they're not as slippery as the Stubbies. The grip area is also bigger, so they are much easier to hold. One of the problems I had with the Stubbies was that the dimple is too far from the tip of the pick, so I found they stuck out too far and would click against the pick-ups, I don't have that problem with the Primetones as I am able to grip them closer to the tip, which also makes it far easier to do harmonic pinches, which is nice. So, overall, they are expensive at £6.99 (+p&p) for a pack of 3 and I think whether they're worth that will depend on how long they last. They feel like they should be very hard wearing, so they might well turn out to be a very good buy. That picture (taken from the Strings Direct site, where I ordered them from) makes them look sort of rubbery, which is why I decided to go for them, I thought they'd feel good and grip well and have a nice smooth tone, but they're actually very hard and smooth, but they do grip well. And, actually, the rounded tip pick has the tone I was expecting, I'm kind of glad for the mix up.

Today I decided to try something different with my rig, mostly for tidiness, but there's a problem. Every now and then it will fade out, not usually for long, though at one point it did last a while and there was distortion, too. I haven't had this problem before. My rig goes: Bass > Digitech Bass Driver > Zoom GFX-707 > Peavey T-Max input > T-Max FX send > Behringer V-Amp Pro return in > V-Amp line out > T-Max FX return. All I did was put the stuff from before the T-Max into the FX loop before the V-Amp, and that was when the problem started. The only options I had were to try different leads, which I did, it didn't help. I have put everything back the way it was now but I would like to know what the problem was. Once, I tried something similar when I tried to include my Boss GX-700 in the loop before the V-Amp, so I could use its effects. The resulting sound was horrendous, very weak and distorted. I know it might seem a bit odd, going from the pre-amp in my Bass, to the pre-amp of the Zoom, then the pre-amp of the amp, then the pre-amp of the V-Amp, but it works for me, I can get a massive range of tones, all just about infinitely tweekable, and it makes recording easy.

An 8 CD box set Greatest Hits of the 60s, set on random. I've had to add a few tracks from other CDs to make it more complete but it's ace, my throat is sore from singing along to it all day.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1387219118' post='2309547'] Ask her to sew them together for you ... [/quote] I think we should end this train of thought here, else anyone that remembers seeing photos of me will wake up in the middle of the night, screaming, for the rest of their lives.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1387208801' post='2309363'] [url="http://kotaku.com/5948143/japans-panty-vending-machines-the-unreal-hyperbole-and-honest-truth"]http://kotaku.com/59...nd-honest-truth[/url] [/quote] My wife and I once bought a purple, frilly G string and a white, silky posing pouch, respectively, from a vending machine on Great Yarmouth beach front. It was like those ones where you get a ball with a toy in it and you don't know what you're going to get, else I'd have got a black posing pouch... Edit: Remembering that has reminded me of something else. When I met my wife I owned a pair of leopard print tangas that I loved. It turns out that my wife loved them, too, as I recently discovered that she has kept them, even though they haven't fit for about 18 years.

My BC Rich Warlock NT. It's beautiful and sounds immense with it's double P's. I also really like my Cort T-35. It's a hell of a lot of good bass for not a lot of money. I never was much of a one for fashions.

Just in case, if I remember correctly, the album version is tuned a quarter step down, so that might make a difference if you're trying to learn from that version. It was the first song I ever learned for a band, took me two weeks to learn the damned thing, did my bloomin' 'ead in.

Is it an ad for this site: [url="http://www.beedogs.com/"]http://www.beedogs.com/[/url] [size=3][i](I know she's no dog, but they never put fat women with tobacco stained teeth and their bellies hanging over their leggings in Wonga ads either.)[/i][/size]

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1386590288' post='2301755'] 3mm I find anything over 1mm to thick, even for bass! Myself & both my guitarists found out that we all use the same gauge pics, .73mm. My previous guitarist liked his pics not much thicker than a ciggy paper. [/quote] Those Dunlop Primetones go up to 5mm, which looks incredibly cumbersome. I find 3mm perfect for me. I do use other gauge picks, including some very thin and soft ones, depending on what I am playing, but for the vast majority of stuff I like the 3mm. The thickness along with the tapered point allows for a lot of control, I find.

Dunno, but I'd love to get my hands on that pair of 15s.

I don't want to start a new thread for this, I thought this might be a good place to ask... Has anyone bought [url="http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/p/919213/jim-dunlop-primetone-picks-3mm-large-pointed-player-pack-pack-of-3/"][size=4]Jim Dunlop Primetone Picks 3mm Large Pointed Player Pack (Pack of 3)[/size][/url] from Strings Direct lately? I ordered some just over 5 weeks ago and they haven't turned up yet. [i]After[/i] I ordered them a notice appeared saying they were out of stock, which stayed up for a few days and then taken down. I gave them a week or so after that and emailed them, they said that there weren't any in the country... Since then a notice saying that they would have stock in 2 days has appeared and disappeared twice, still no picks. The site says they are in stock now but I still haven't received them. My worry is that when I ordered them I ordered them with a pack of strings, the strings came quickly but the order says that both items were dispatched, but there is a hand written note on the invoice saying the picks were to follow. I am worried that because it says they were dispatched they will be forgotten. I shall give them to the end of next week and email them again if they're not here. I just wondered if anyone had ordered and received them in that time? I'm mostly pissed off because, for picks, they are bloody expensive and I agonised over buying them before deciding to treat myself. I know £7 isn't a lot to most people, but it is to me.

That's the one! Thank you! I've been wondering for years and just had absolutely no luck searching, but I hate starting threads just to ask something I should be able to find on my own. But good old BassChat comes good again. The Bass I had seen was the X-5, I believe. I didn't try it because I was looking for something that would go well with country music and moving away from metal. Still ended up with a BC Rich Warlock in the end.

Sometime in the 90s I saw a Bass that I liked the look of that had odd knobs. They were sort of sunken on the edge and were turned vertically instead of the usual horizontal, rolled rather than turned perhaps. Annoyingly, a few years ago, I saw someone reference the make of Bass as the make that had this particular knob configuration, they also referenced the knobs a certain way, too, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. For a while I thought it might be Samick, but I think the Samick might have been the make of the Bass in the shop that I actually tried that day. I have tried every configuration of words to describe them, I can think of, in Google and come up with bugger all. I'm sure someone here will know. Probably everyone bar me.

Another good reason for buying a few different types and thickness picks is that you can change the pick depending on what you are doing with it. I currently use 7 different picks depending on what I want it to do. Though I have a favourite for most things (3mm nylon Big Stubby. Though that might change if Strings Direct ever send me the picks I ordered nearly 3 weeks ago...) the others come in handy, too.

For the last few days I have had the songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show on repeat.

I don't grunt but I do hold my breath while playing, which used to freak some people out because I can hold my breath for quite a long time. I tend to do it when concentrating in general, though, as though I can't breath and think at the same time. Which seems about right.

Westone Raider I, in silver/grey. It was my first bass and I adored it. I probably wouldn't own any other basses, wouldn't have even thought of it, if I hadn't had to sell it due to financial squeesation (I think I just invented that...) through no fault of my own. I even miss the smell of its hardcase.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1383260494' post='2262443'] A quick pic for the childless: [/quote] That is even more hideous than what I first associated the name with...

I have a Cort T35 that I love, it looks cool and sounds ace. I got mine for £220 used, though the previous owner only had it for 4 months before deciding Bass wasn't for him, it still had the selophane on the cavity cover and backs of the tuners. It has 17mm string spacing. I would recommend giving one a try if you don't fancy one of the usual suggestions.

Bugger. I did that once, turned down an offer from some musicians that went on to do great things, because I wasn't aware, at the time, that you could be in more than one band, and I didn't want to be unfaithful. A few weeks later the band I was in disintegrated. But, shortly after that, I got an invite to be in another band that, while never getting big, was the most fun band I have ever played in, I absolutely loved it. So, you never know, it might just be for the best.

Another trick is to toss a coin. Assign one bass to heads and the other to tails and toss the coin. When it lands and it lands on the wrong one you will feel your heart sink a little. If it doesn't then you still have your answer.

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1382516057' post='2252982'] I had GAS for Trace gear during the 80's but only ever owned their GP11 pre amp which went into a Peavey power amp feeding a Peavey cab with (i think) 15" 10" & 6" speakers which was so heavy it spent most of it's life in a [b]big caged trolley we pinched for behind a supermarket![/b] Ended the 80's with a more sensible Peavey TNT 150 [/quote] I did that too! In my case it was for my 60s Marshall 4x12. My 13 year old self could only lift it 6 inches off the ground on my own. The local Co-Op had these really heavy duty trolleys that were exactly 6 inches high, short enough to wheel under their back gate. The damned thing squealed like crazy and I got a lot of looks as I pushed it to and from the local youth club for band rehearsals every week.

[quote name='pst62' timestamp='1382427313' post='2251876'] You can't knock him for that! If ever a flight case was justified for short journeys, putting them in a 2cv6's is it! I remember seeing one get rear ended by a milk float when I was doing me paper round in the '70's, the Fibre glass constructed milk float came off a hell of a lot better, the Citroen's arse end just folded in like it was made of kitchen foil. [/quote] Sorry to go off topic but you just reminded me of one of my favourite stories from when I was a kid. A mate of mine was doing work experience at the local milk suppliers and one day managed to run himself over with a milk float. He had been told to test it as the brakes had just been replaced. Someone stuffed up because the brakes failed while he was driving it. A lorry had pulled into the yard where he was driving and he rammed it at full speed, which, surprisingly enough, was enough to catapult him through the windscreen, where he got trapped upside down with his leg in the air between the lorry and the milk float that wouldn't stop. The float just kept ramming him and shattered his leg. Actually, I'm not quite sure why I've always laughed at this story, probably because he later turned out to be a jealous knob, but whatever.

I have the Bass I have always wanted, it cost me £250. I could happily spend £400 on upgrades for it, though. There are a couple of Basses I fancy, the most expensive of which is about £600 brand new. If money really was no object then I would build myself a fully fitted out workshop, take classes in Bass building and design and build my very own Bass from scratch. To be honest, I haven't put much more thought into it than that.