pete.young

Some good tips here. When I was learning piano my teacher used to raid the music library for stuff a grade or two down from what we were learning and make us sight read it. Once through each piece only, no stopping. When you'd finished the book, bring it back and be given another one. If you can, skim through the piece in 30 seconds or so before you start, noting key changes and time changes. The other useful piece of advice I was given is to learn to read intervals, not absolute notes. A line in the stave to a space is an even interval (4th, 6th, octave etc) space to space or line to line is a 5th, 7th, 9th. Getting into orchestras as a string bass player is usually easy - full orchestras need 8 double basses. Jazz and swing bands are much harder since they typically only have one bass player. My sight reading improved radically when I took up tuba!

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Quality control on the MIMs is variable. The best ones are very good. Most of them are adequate. For MIJ/CIJ, the best instruments are the not-for-export, which have that winning combination of US pickups and hardware, and Japanese build quality and attention to detail.

Can't see any problems with posting your actual experiences. Thanks for taking the trouble.

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='533599' date='Jul 6 2009, 10:46 AM']Count me in Alex, Ipswich Suffolk Area[/quote] +1 - what psychoandy said!

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='530893' date='Jul 2 2009, 06:20 PM']I'm totally pants at listening to a song and working out the notes being played. I'm a little better at sorting the rhythm but that still leaves room for improvement.[/quote] It's like sight reading. Don't try and work out the actual notes, listen to the intervals !

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='530022' date='Jul 1 2009, 10:09 PM']I'm still in shock as well and apparently its hit everyone who knew him hard. I'm still trying to get in contact with Maria so I can pass the wishes of everyone on.[/quote] Good luck with that. I didn't know him well, but I remember him from way back, bassworld days. Awfully sad, please pass on my condolences along with all the rest.

I don't know why people don't seem to get excited about these - better quality than a late '70's Precision and 1/3rd the price. I love my BB800, wish I could justify buying this one. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YAMAHA-VINTAGE-CLASSIC-BASS-GUITAR-RARE-BB-1000-BB1000_W0QQitemZ220446276662QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item33539f3c36&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A1|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A7|294%3A50"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/YAMAHA-VINTAGE-CLASS...93%3A7|294%3A50[/url]

[quote name='mcgraham' post='524938' date='Jun 26 2009, 03:33 PM']For those who have magnetic pickups and piezos, what controls is your bass equipped with to mix the two options? Separate volumes? Anyone got a blend between the two? Simply an on/off switch for the piezos? Or maybe a switch that has options for magnetic pickups only, piezo only and both together? Also, what do people do with eqing the two signals? Is it standard to have a separate eq for each, or just for magnetic and not piezo? Mark[/quote] I have a Dean Bromberg which has 2 jazz style pickups and a Fishman piezo bridge. There's a 3-way toggle for piezo only, magnetic only or both. There's a master volume on the guitar. The magnetic pickups have a volume control each and there's 3-way EQ. The piezo has a separate volume control but no EQ.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='524257' date='Jun 25 2009, 11:19 PM']Pete, don't tell me you also do the Vanilla Fudge version! [/quote] Unfortunately not. The Kim Wilde version. Blush.

[quote name='budget bassist' post='519241' date='Jun 20 2009, 12:56 PM']so any more updates?[/quote] Check out Crimson's build diary for the 13th June. It looks stunning.

Couple of gigs coming up with the covers band Crossover: This Saturday 27th June: Swan, Long Melford Friday 10th July: The Royal Oak, Ipswich - looking forward to this one because we can do some more rock stuff.

I guess it depends on what you're covering. In my covers band we have some stuff for which a synth is very handy (Keep me hanging on, Aint Nobody, I Kissed a Girl), some requiring envelope filter and compression (Canned Heat, Twisted), bit of chorus occasionally comes in handy (Feelin good, pretending to be an upright bass), distortion (Standing in the way of control, shut up and drive). I also have an octave down pedal but I find I'm using that less and less since I switched to 5-string. And a good tuner is handy. Of the multi-effects, the only one that appealed to me was the Boss one, the ME-50B ? It's configured like a bunch of stompboxes so I think it's more usable in a live situation, if your brain works in a stompbox kind of way.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='523045' date='Jun 24 2009, 10:24 PM']It's 520mm or 20.5" plus the thickness of the finish and the corners, so about 525mm all told. Couple of shots here with a 19" rack on a Big One: [url="http://www.barefacedbass.com/thebigone.html"]http://www.barefacedbass.com/thebigone.html[/url] Alex[/quote] Bit top-heavy then. Burman is 700mm wide.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='522489' date='Jun 24 2009, 12:10 PM']vintageised Big One, done! Alex[/quote] Very nice. How wide is it? I'm trying to visualise my Burman Pro 4000 sitting on top of one.

[quote name='riff raff' post='511593' date='Jun 11 2009, 08:43 PM']i'm feeling the wizard thumper.[/quote] The thing about Wizard is that if you ring Andy and explain to him exactly what it is you're looking for, he'll custom-wind something for you if the stock winding isn't going to give you exactly what you need.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' post='511640' date='Jun 11 2009, 09:54 PM']Funny thing is,altho' I haven't heard him speak,I find him misunderstood and very intelligent and of course an awesome player.[/quote] I have. Trouble is, he'd rather talk than play, and he's so full of crap that when he dies we can give him an enema and bury him in a shoebox!

I guess we were lucky we survived the '60s/'70s, not knowing this stuff. Then again, who had an amp more than a whopping 50W ? OBBM is right again, film at 11.

[quote name='dangee' post='508690' date='Jun 8 2009, 11:06 PM']The fan seems to be running fine. I'll give Alex a call tomorrow. I went direct to Proel as I called the Bass Merchant yesterday for advice and I was told they would just go straight to Proel, so I might as well. As a point of interest, Proel immediately told me the problem was that I was using two cabs. I heard them saying that my head needed 'the mod'. A known issue? In a discussion with a second person they then said that I was running the head below 4ohms and that was the problem (as EBS advertise the 112s as 8ohm cabs, but they probably aren’t). They even wanted me to test the impedance of the cabs![/quote] And how do they expect you to do that?? What utter cack. Nevertheless, your contract is with the shop you bought the head from, not with the importer. Sale of Goods Act as amended etc. It's their responsibility to sort it out. FWIW I've been using an LMII with an EBS 2x12 (4Ohm) , which is exactly the same thing you have but in one box not two, with no problems. There's no way this can be blamed on the cab.

[quote name='steve-norris' post='502489' date='May 31 2009, 07:16 PM']I had a long chat with the guys at EMS over in southend, very helpful they even offered to take some fuse holders off a V8 board for me, great guys and very knowledgeable. On their recommendation i found the parts i need at RS components, i forgot about them in their opinion the power valves are unlikely to salvageable so any KT 88's that you would recommend?[/quote] I'm very happy with the JJ Tesla KT77s I have in my Burmans, so if they make a KT88 it might be worth considering.