pete.young

You will frequently find that the music is in 8-bar phrases, with a gap between the first beat of the last bar of a phrase and the start of the next phrase. That space is yours, to drive the music through the pause and into the next phrase.

I agree with Shep, I can't see how this will work if the amp is at the beginning of the chain: all those other boxes are supposed to be line level devices not power level. Maybe the arrow is arse-backwards. What I would do is this: set the amps up so that the effects loops are series rather than parallel. Put everything that is always on, and is required to process the entire signal (the compressor, the noise reduction and possibly the Aphex, don't really know what that does) into the effects loop. Tag the M300 onto the output of the pedal board (presumably you want to turn the M300 on and off?). So you end up with: Bass -> Pedalboard in -> Pedalboard out -> M300 in -> M300 right out -> GK1001 M300 left out -> Ashdown Then in the GK 1001 loop Send -> Compressor Channel 1 -> Aphex Channel 1 -> Noise reduction Channel 1 > Return And similar for channel 2 in the Ashdown loop.

Are you planning to attend the South East bass bash? I have a gig that evening but might be able to bring mine along during the morning session.

Cheap SGC Nanyo Bass Collection 5-string, collection from Widnes. Looks like an SB315 to me. Missing one knob, otherwise it's all there. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-STRING-BASS-/221115238422?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item337b7ec816

Plug the markbass speaker into the extension socket. Leave the Ashdown in the car.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1346066685' post='1784693'] I did not know that! Shocking! I've had a few 110v shocks & burns. All back when I was in my late teens/early 20s. [/quote] In the UK, it's 48 V DC.

The Dunlop Power Brick has 3 18v outputs.

I have recorded both the sessions and will watch them today. I got back from a gig last night and just caught the last couple of numbers of the set. What a great band. I love the Wasting Light session recorded in Dave Grohl's garage. I wish I had a garage like that, instead of mine which is full of junk and old bicycles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnmzins2Uow

Does anyone have a circuit for putting an LED on a non-latching footswitch, so that it toggles on and off every time you press it? Edit: After doing a bit of research, what I need is apparently called a 'flip-flop' circuit. Presumably named after its French inventor, Phillipe Phelope :-)

We're doing a mix of function gigs and pub gigs, 5-piece pop covers band. Peavey 2600 amp, heavy but brilliant Peavey subs and tops with crossover build into the subs. Built to a price but sounds great. Yamaha MG206C mixer Carlsboro powered/slave monitor used with Peavey feedback destroyer for vocals W-Audio 600 drives 12" generic monitors for everyone else No backline - everything goes through the PA and back through monitors. I DI off the V-Bass straight into the mixer. Luckily we have a quiet drummer so this keeps the volume on stage to sensible levels, and we can mike the kit if needs be. The Yamaha mixer gives us 3 separate monitor mixes.

Russ Andrews have a nice selection , very reasonably priced!

I used to own this bass, and I can assure you that the body really is one piece.

Around 1840, a french violin maker named Villaume discovered that intonation and playability of the instrument was much improved if a longer scale length was used, together with a narrower neck and other modifications. Similar to the revelation that a 34" scale bass works better than a 30" I guess. From 1860 virtually all instruments were made with these changes, but the earlier instruments recieved a neck graft to make them more playable. Google is your friend here if you need exact details.

Well, even if it isn't a GIovanni Grancino (which I'd agree is unlikely) it does look like a nice old fiddle. Copiers would have used the label to indicate the style they were trying to achieve , there being no Italian equivalent of John Hall in the late 1700's and 1800's. It's hard to tell from the pictures, but if the neck heel repair could have been a neck graft then this would date the instrument to pre-1840. This would have involved removing the original neck and saving the peg head, so there should be evidence of a join around the top of the neck near what on a bass we'd call the 'nut' . The lack of a bridge is fixable - as long as there are no cracks in the top it should be possible. The thing really is to take it to either a violin maker or repairer (there seem to be a couple in Sheffield) or an auction house like Bonhams who specialise in musical instruments. Either of these will probably give you an estimate of it's value.

Needs a 'none of the above' button.

Ah, I see - you can tell I know next to nothing about these instruments, other than they sound fantastic. Thanks for that clip Johnston by the way. Looking forward to the next installment, as ever.

That's a relief, with your previous I was half-expecting to see it painted shell pink :-) Looks nice in that finish. I have a slight preference with the cover on - would be really interested to know if there's a difference between the sound with it on and off.

The Hartke is unusual in having two sets of voice coils, one at 4Ohm the other at 8Ohm. There aren't many others like it on the market.

Anyone? By the way, it seems to be happening with IE9 on Windows 7 as well.

Octave pedal.

It's very annoying. I think I've now got most of the band members trained, and I try to use the shorted runs possible and tape everything down. V-Bass cables are £35 quid a pop.

Since the Blog links appeared on the homepage, I appear to be suffering from some Character Encoding problems and wondered if anyone else was seeing the same thing. I have Firefox 14, and the basschat server appears to be including a Character Coding of Western(ISO8859-1), which causes the links to display like this: [url="http://blog.basschat.co.uk/i-was-hitlers-bassist-part-one/"]‘I Was Hitler’s Bassist’ – Part One[/url] [url="http://blog.basschat.co.uk/i-was-hitlers-bassist-starts-wednesday-on-the-basschat-blog/"]‘I Was Hitler’s Bassist’ – Starts Wednesday on the BassChat Blog[/url] I can fix this temporarily by manually switching to UTF-8, but it only works on a page-by-page basis. If I set the default to UTF-8, it still happens (which is what makes me think that it's the server sending the ISO8859-1 setting along with the page). If this is indeed what's happening, why doesn't the page include a character set which displays properly under ISO8859-1 and doesnt' require a switch to UTF-8?