pete.young

In answer to Owen, no, I've never done anything like this, I've always stuck with the GK3-B. Matt Golgotha's thread about his Midi Jazz has some good information though [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=50068&st=0"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=50068&st=0[/url]

[quote name='deepbass5' post='1075660' date='Jan 2 2011, 08:01 PM']M Bass Player Mag did run a comparison on speaker cone equivalents which was interesting, with reference surface area and moving air.[/quote] It seems to me that this is meaningless. In order to know the volume of air that a driver moves, you also need to know how far the cones move, which is going to be specific to individual drivers.

[quote name='BassBus' post='1075163' date='Jan 2 2011, 11:56 AM']You could put the pickup anywhere on the body you choose but at the risk of more latency.[/quote] The Roland instructions say that the pickup should be positioned at most 50mm from the bridge, which rules out putting it inbetween the pickups. Not sure why, but I think it's more likely to be related to ghost notes than latency issues. The further away from the bridge you get, the closer the various harmonic points of the string get and there is a possibility that these might fool the pickup into sensing the wrong frequency. The Streamline clip is very interesting - that shouldn't work according to Roland! I will do some experiments if I have time, although my GK3-B is screwed onto the bass so moving it about is a bit of a pain.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' post='1060596' date='Dec 16 2010, 02:28 PM']They're run by one of the regulars over at the musicradar.com forum. I haven't built any of the kits myself but a few of the guys over there have done so and all seem happy with the results. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_ouc6GZCE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_ouc6GZCE[/url][/quote] Well, I went for the diypedalkits clean boost pedal. It was expensive for a kit, but had the advantage of having the casing pre-drilled, something which I'm not really tooled up to make a decent job of. It works really well - I've posted a review in the reviews section here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=116827"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=116827[/url]

I've just spent a couple of hours building my first pedal and I thought a review was in order, in case anyone else fancies a punt at it. The pedal I chose is a Clean Boost pedal from http://www.diypedalkits.com/ in a very small housing, which I needed because of limited pedal board real estate. After a slight hiatus caused by Xmas post and bad weather (during which time Kevin offered to send me another kit because of the wait, most generous), here's what arrived: This was quite an expensive kit, but came with all the holes in the casing pre-drilled. Since I don't have a bench drill this was a worthwhile saving of effort. The kit included comprehensive instructions. The PCB which does the work is based on veroboard - here it is under construction: Here's the completed board with the pot soldered in place. Spot the deliberate mistake - the transistor (the black lump on 3 legs in the middle of the board) was too high and I had to remove it, clean up the tracks and fix it back in place as close to the veroboard as possible. Space is a bit tight fitting this into a micro housing, and the transistor was taking up space that would be needed by the DC power socket. Doh. Here's the switch being wired up: While all this was going on, I decided to save myself a fiver by painting the case myself, using spray cans with car primer and top coat that I had lying around in the garage. Here's the case inbetween top coats: Finally, you need to fix the other components (jack sockets, LED, etc) in place and solder them up. With everything connected, you can see there's not much room: Finally, here it is all assembled, velcroed and fitted to my pedal board (which gives you an idea of scale). What does it sound like? Well, it's a clean boost! This design is apparently a copy of the Zvex Super Hard On, down to the authentic crackly pot. It does deliver a lot of boost (said to be in the range of 20Db!), but virtually all the action is in the last 60 degrees of the pot. I'm not sure if that's normal or due to some duff assembly work!

The pickup is actually 13mm wide at it's widest point. It won't fit on my TRB5P unfortunately, but it's such a good bass I bought it anyway!

A Status fretless probably sounds like a nice fretless, but it won't sound like an upright bass. Depends what you're looking for.

If the East Anglia bash happens, and we both get there, you are welcome to try mine! Sorry Jack, no soundclips yet. I'll see if I can persuade the young master to record a couple while he and the firepod are in the house. There are some interviews with VB-99 users on the Roland website www.rolandus/community/insider but they're a bit heavy on waffle and a bit light on actual soundclips.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1071408' date='Dec 29 2010, 12:39 AM']Frankly, it's a bit silly to go after them for this. It's clearly not a performance as we know it, but I suppose it counts as a performance within the narrow confines of the law.[/quote] It's not the first time the PRS has been caught out by making clearly ridiculous demands. Remember the guitar shop told that they needed a licence to cover customers playing songs of PRS members when trying out instruments. [url="http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/tm_objectid=16513231&method=full&siteid=50003-name_page.html"]http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/cove...-name_page.html[/url] Although some of you might regard a ban on the likes of Stairway to Heaven as a good thing. We've already had a thread about that elsewhere.

It's certainly been very very hard work since Simone left. I think she's now working for Vintage and Rare.

Yes, you can use it for amp modelling and effects, but none of the polyphonic stuff will work, so no instrument modelling and no synths. Maybe it's time to think about owning more than one bass and pick up a cheap something through the forum. As long as it plays OK, it doesn't matter what it sounds like! Dave.c picked up a very decent little Cort for not very much outlay just to use with his V-Bass. There is another way, if you want to get the best out of the V-Bass and stick with the Status- you can get a set of piezo saddles and a midi expander board from Graphtec. Not cheap though, and will require some mods to the Status.

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='1071107' date='Dec 28 2010, 05:05 PM']It's probably a case of this particular speaker delivers the colouration required - the fact it's a 10 is neither here nor there, and other 10s, 12s or 15s don't give it. Speculation of course.[/quote] Given the comment that 'half the speakers in the cab will only produce lower frequencies' , I'd say it is particular speakers rather than particular speaker.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1068652' date='Dec 24 2010, 12:03 PM']£455 and rising [/quote] Holy crap. For that price you could buy a V-Bass, a GK3b and a bass to fit it to!

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='1068859' date='Dec 24 2010, 05:06 PM']Doubt it, I wouldn't fancy my chances balancing a valve amp on top of a vertical 6x10! [/quote] Good point, I think it would need to be at least a 6x12"

Well, we tried Merton's with my Burman 100W valve head at one of the bashes and while there are no definitive measurements, it was definitely loud enough! [quote name='Merton' post='1067720' date='Dec 23 2010, 12:55 PM']How different from the Vintage is this, just out of curiosity? (No, I am not going to buy one, my next purchase is a Big Twin!!)[/quote] I'd like to know that too.

Now here's something you don't see every day - a Greco. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage87-GRECO-RB-model-Bass-MADE-JAPAN-/280607796836?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4155872e64"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage87-GRECO-RB-m...=item4155872e64[/url]

[quote name='dbass' post='1065696' date='Dec 21 2010, 02:26 PM']*puts anti-nuclear flash glasses on* Christ Jesus, they are bright!!!![/quote] You should see them under UV light! Don't have a picture of that, probably just as well. Ady, the rest of the band admired them for the obligatory 30 seconds and then moved on to the usual whinges! As for sound, they sound remarkably like the DR Sunbeams, I had on my G&L2500 which is not a massive surprise. Rich and round and warm, if you like that kinda thing. I'll admit I was originally thinking about putting them on the TRB5, but the colour is just too much of a clash. Seems a much better fit with the natural wood of the Bass Collection.

There is a lot of great information on this site, the trick is not to try and overload yourself. Check out the major's bass boot camp [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=74284"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=74284[/url], don't try and do all of this, and not in one go, just dip in and out when you feel the need for something new to work on.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1062877' date='Dec 18 2010, 08:09 PM']+1 on the Bonnie Raitt song. Personally, I hate bad salads.[/quote] Yeah, nobody sings a torch song like Bonnie Raitt. Love Has No Pride is another great one. I'd like to nominate My Immortal by Evanesence - here's Amy singing it: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2qZt8l7Xy8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2qZt8l7Xy8[/url]

[quote name='greyparrot' post='1062551' date='Dec 18 2010, 03:24 PM']so far ours is on but i dunno...............its pretty crap here and getting worse by the min.[/quote] Hm, in Witham? What do reckon my chances of getting to Great Cornard are like?

I'm heading off to Great Cornard in Essex shortly for a Pogues tribute gig. No problems here, though theres snow forecast for later on.

[quote name='tauzero' post='997717' date='Oct 23 2010, 01:25 AM']Just to add to the Wakemanny stuff, he also played keyboards on Bowie's "Life on Mars".[/quote] He did the whole Hunky Dory album. I hated Yes. Still do. Can't get past the awful vocals. ELP, now there's a proper prog band.

+1 for Banzai, I have one of their A/B/Y boxes and it's quality.