KingBollock

I need to replace parts of the bridge saddles on my Warlock but I am having trouble finding out what these particular parts are called never mind actually finding them to buy. It's the smaller part that sits in the larger part (I have taken to calling them the saddle and sled). I want to replace them with something quite specific. 11mm wide, 4mm deep and 5mm high (so half as high as the current ones), in stainless steel. Anyone have any idea if there's even a chance of buying them, or how much it would cost to get some made with the screw holes drilled and tapped? I'd have a go at making the myself if it wasn't for the screw holes, I don't have a precise enough drill or a tap and die set. My only other option is to grind the current ones down, but I would like to get them in stainless steel to match the frets and I am planning on having a go at making a stainless steel nut, too.

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1364117861' post='2021974'] Thats a very interesting thought actually. Never thought about that! [/quote] When money's tight, you have to get inventive.

Just had a thought. I did some reconditioning of a stereo power amp I have and it is made up of 3 parts, the transformer and two separate boards for the amps, basically two mono, 250w rms at 4 ohms, amps, each with a volume knob. It's a 2 unit rack amp, but it is quite shallow. It would be dead easy to take out the innards and put just the transformer and one of the amp boards into a much smaller case. The only thing is, if you we're to buy something with the intention of doing this, you'd have to know whether the amps are on two boards or one.

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1363987440' post='2020725'] It is nice here, but all of you claiming it's because we're all bass players have obviously not been to that other well known bass forum very often. [/quote] It almost seems like some people are suggesting we're all alike, though I'm sure that isn't actually what they mean. But one of the good things about this place is the variety of personalities and the interesting discussions that can arise from that. Occasionally threads can go tits up, but usually interesting discussions between people holding very different views can be had completely amicably, which is ace. The one thing we all have in common is the Bass, and even in that we still have huge diversity in opinions and styles.

I love it here, for many, many reasons.

There's a 100w rms amp kit at Maplins: http://www.maplin.co.uk/200w-power-amplifier-46467 It requires a few extra bits, like a heat sink, transformer and an enclosure, but it still works out quite cheap.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1363954157' post='2020038'] While sound and playability are essential, personally I couldn't play a bass that I didn't like the look of as well (or at least not in public). [/quote] I agree. I don't think a Bass is truly the whole package unless you like the way it looks. It doesn't have to be pretty, but it has to have some kind of character that you can truly fall in love with. My favourite Bass I bought purely because of the way it looks. There are several cheaper models that I avoided to give it a better chance of not being a dog, but really I just got very lucky in that it plays like a dream.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1363863790' post='2018511'] mmmmmmmnah. I think you are wrong [/quote] Just because you don't need to know all the theory to be able to play it, doesn't mean there isn't any behind it. I can't read music past a very basic level (which I only learned for learning to play the Penny Whistle) yet I used to be able to play Fur Elise on the Piano, does that mean Classical music is ignorant of theory? I remember the chap who did the orchestra parts for Metallica's S&M album being surprised at just how steeped in theory Metallica's music actually is, even though the band were unaware of it. Though I believe Cliff Burton did know, which might explain a lot.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1363822911' post='2018352'] Good call they are very light. The Hohner 'Jack' bass might work too. Also maybe the original Fender 'Urge' bass - 32" scale and lightweight. I would normally recommend the Hohner B2A but if playing below the 3rd fret is painful you should avoid any bass that doesn't have the strap button in the region of the 12th fret. [/quote] I was thinking about the Stick type Basses and their weight distribution, I was wondering if one of those Country style, single button straps (I can't think what they're called right now) might make it better? It might well help with shoulder problems too as it only hangs from your neck.

What about some sort of stick bass? Steinberger, Hohner and Westone all do them and I'm fairly sure there are more. They're very small and light. The only thing I'm not sure about is neck dive, it's been 20 years since I last played one.

This is for the Warlock. The Cort isn't properly black, it has green, copper and red flecks in it. Should take one of the Warlock without the finger marks...

This is where having no money actually comes in handy, you really do have to make the most of what you have. I'm not saying I never get GAS but it's a limp thing with no teeth.

Something I like to do is dangle my cables from a height to allow them to untwist unimpeded. I'm fortunate enough to have a long drop, straight down, above our stairs that I use. But you could always hang them out a window, let them untwist and loop them as you gather them back up. If your cables are really bad and need to be warmed up, you could hang them out of the window in the sun for a few minutes before looping them back up.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1363739706' post='2016985'] Ha..! Just as I thought..! I can read the top stave, but not the lower section..! It must be me, I suppose; too old. I'll be keeping the pencil. ([i]Thanks, just the same, I appreciate the effort[/i]...) [/quote] Yeah, when I used it I had to make a list of the drums that the numbers represent. But you get used to it pretty quickly. Shame I never actually got around to finishing what I was doing with it.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1363735747' post='2016926'] [b] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4]Hey man, can you send me the drum tabs of this?[/size][/font][/b] [/quote] !

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1363734254' post='2016904'] Hmmm... Just wondering where drums comes into this. Not much tab available, as far as I know. If you want it transcribed (and it's very often necessary...), you plug in your ears and sharpen a pencil. Of course, playing it oneself after transcription is yet another phase, but tab is definitely not an option for drummers. Are we too musical..? Too 'classical'..? Just lucky..? No, we just learn to read drum scores, and that's it. No debate, really. [/quote] Drum score? I remember my brother's drum teacher using something that looked like tab, using different letters to represent each drum and cymbal. Last year I used the drum section of GuitarPro to get the drums from a track onto a drum machine, it used numbers to represent each drum. It was really handy.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1363723369' post='2016640'] Yes. I very much have an attitude of "If you're going to do it, do it right". No half assed "There's a few mistakes in there, oh well ". You're playing somebody else's tune, dude, play it right, note for note, or add your own thing to it and make it better, but there's no point in leaving mistakes in it. I did it once, and i heard the mistake that many times, that when i listened to the song afterwards, for about a month, i expected to hear the mistake in the actual song. [/quote] Looks like I'm just going to have to accept that I'm not a proper bass player... However, I notice that some of those advocating only learning by ear are also those that say you don't have to play the tune as it is on the record, just play something close and it's good enough, the audience won't be able to tell anyway... So, are those people actually learning the tunes or not?

I am terribly guilty I am afraid. Though not of actually asking anyone for tab. I remember in music class at school, I had been playing about 6 months and had only just switched from Art to Music. The teacher hit a note on the piano and asked me to play it. I said I couldn't, so he told me it was an F, and I looked at him blankly. He asked "How the bloody hell do you play all the stuff you do if you don't know the notes?" and I honestly couldn't tell him. Even now I struggle with working things out by ear. I usually start out with a tab and I know when a tab is wrong, but even then, if some of it is close, I can still get it. And while noodling about if I accidentally play something I recognise I can usually work the rest of the tune out without even having to listen to it. But if I sit down to work a tune out just by listening to it I really struggle, even after all these years. As for playing in bands. Throughout the time I did play with bands, I played a lot of songs that I had never even heard [i]of[/i], let alone taken the time to listen to them. The first proper band I was in the lead guitarist came to my house and spent an evening showing me the tunes they played, we went through about 15, including originals. I can still play most of them, 24 years later, even though I never even knew what some of them were called or who they were by. Fortunately most of the bands I played in subsequently played the same covers and wrote their own originals, so I managed to blag it.

Whenever anyone knocks something undeniably good, just because they don't like the way it looks, it always makes me think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siPxyOxeQBc

Perhaps he is perfectly happy with his business as it is? People have different ideas of what constitutes success, some people don't want to own all the money in the world, I can't imagine that he's poor. And perhaps he's just the kind of person that takes offence at people making inferior copies of his special and unique product and isn't the kind of person to just let it go and has enough money to throw at lawyers to make litigation his hobby? Probably because he can't get anyone to play golf with him. Perhaps he's just a bit of a knob, or wasn't breast fed or something? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps!

For the first 6 years I played in bands and loved it. Then things went tits up and for the last 19 years I have played on my own. I practice scales a bit and play along to music sometimes, but mostly I just make it up as I go along, occasionally with a drum machine. I love playing and don't need a band, though if the right band situation were to come up I would love to do it again.

If you like your pick ups to sit quite high you need very long springs, else they will rattle. I need to get around to replacing the springs in my Cort Flying V for that same reason.

I am a sucker for pretty, sparkly lights! I have all my gear set up in my music/computer room, so it is always there, ready to be played. The one thing that truly takes my breath away, still, is my BC Rich Warlock. I'd wanted one for over 20 years and was actually worried that I wouldn't like it once I got one, especially as I got it off EBay having never actually played one. But it is beautiful. Unfortunately the only stand that I have that it fits in, has the nasty habit of folding over forwards and smacking whatever it's holding into the ground, so it is hidden behind a guitar amp so that it can't fall forwards. Such a shame to hide such a lovely thing, but better than letting any damage come to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wRTxBhqNuY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_BOroqOFsc

I think all those people, and there are many, that refuse to listen to Motorhead "because they have spent the last 30 years sounding exactly like their Ace of Spades era", because they have never actually listened to anything since then, would be surprised at what they have been doing and just how heavy they are. http://youtu.be/HXPHuT22yH4