pete.young

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1495845724' post='3307085'] Aside from perhaps a sort of stuck-in-1979 sniffy contempt for the genre, I genuinely have no idea. [/quote] Jools is from the punk era. Sniffy contempt was the absolute minimum reaction to prog rock about that time. Interesting bass that Sheryl Crow was playing last night, some kind of short-scale Guild. Anybody know what it was?

I have a Seagull Grand Sunburst GT Q1T. It's a small bodied Parlour guitar with a 14 fret to body neck and built in pickup. It beat similar sized and priced takamine guild and tanglewoods hand down and held its own with a larrivee 3 times the price. Sound and build quality are excellent. When we plugged it into a Roland ac60 the amplified sound was also excellent and really brought out the bass range. We even had someone trying an electric in the next room come in and complain about the volume! Based on my experience I would definitely recommend Seagull. If you dont want to spend more than £200 look at the Vintage V300, they are unbelievable guitars in that price bracket.

Had my BB800 since 1980, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who can beat that!

[quote name='Chrismanbass' timestamp='1495151652' post='3301744'] maybe something to do with having to use open strings for a certain riff to make it work for example Living on a prayer in any key other than Em doesn't flow properly to me [/quote] You don't do the key change into Cm then? I sometime use 2 capos, when I want one on the first fret a second on the 14th fret in order to measure the clearance at the 7th fret to work out whether the bow in the neck is right. Other than that, no.

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1495106886' post='3301296'] I believe that this is one of the later models - possibly a 100 - built after BC were first taken over. [/quote] I disagree. The serial number clearly dates it to 1988. It's not an SB100. There of some pictures of my old red one in psychoandy's for-sale thread. Someone did a fair bit of research and identified the 5 as a 400 series. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/141457-sgc-nanyo-bass-collection-5-string-sold/page__p__1273893__fromsearch__1#entry1273893"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry1273893[/url] The control plate is identical, down to the funny 'Made In Japan' sticker and the two additional screw holes in the middle of the plate, which are very unusual. The finish on the body is translucent and looks to be Sen. The fingerboard is ebony. These are all characteristics of the 320 and 400 series. The 300 series and the 100s usually had rosewood fingerboards and solid body finishes. I can't tell what kind of bridge is on SICbass's from the photos, It probably also has a brass nut. In the other respects it looks similar. Edit: I've also noticed that the difference between the two serial numbers is 17, so I'd guess they were made very close together.

It looks very similar to the SB425 5string that I used to own, which I think Skezza still has. I'd say an SB420 from 1988, first two digits of serial number is the year. Pickups may have been changed too. They should have SGC in gold on them, can't tell from the pics if it's there, worn off, or not present.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1494863961' post='3299138'] Add I will survived to the set [/quote] "It should have been me"

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1494398791' post='3295549'] I don't understand. You have two lovely and expensive cabs which you quite reasonably don't want to take to the rougher venues, but all the suggested replacements are of equally lovely and expensive cabs. [/quote] +1 . For cheap and indestructible you need a Peavey 410 TX or TVX, the TX I know works well with an LM2 so the TVX probably does too.

Usual questions, how much do you want to spend, electric or acoustic and what are you looking to achieve? Acoustic 12s can be hard work to play and there's a lot of finger pressure needed. The best 12 I ever played was a Fylde Prospero. If I ever see one for sale I'll buy it. If you are looking for extra texture on recordings a six string in Nashville tuning can be an interesting alternative.

Surgical spirit.

Think this is bogus. No one uses flats. Mandolin strings are too short. Most banjo strings are loop end. I have an Irish tenor set with a .028 wound 3rd and a 5 string set with an .024 wound 4th and they are both just under 1 metre long. Your best bet is to contact Newtone and ask them to make you some specials.

[quote name='NoRhino' timestamp='1494246268' post='3294274'] Ron Wood [/quote] Seriously? Have another listen to Maggie May and get back to us! Think he was wearing 16oz boxing gloves and two blindfolds.

Walter Becker, if his playing on Kamakiriad is anything to go by.

@Al Krow, according to Imelda, in several published interviews, the rockabilly stuff isn't her roots - she started off doing blues, jazz, soul and gospel, and the rockabilly came later. I went to the first night of the tour in Ipswich on Thursday night. I like the new album a lot, some of the songs are very strong and the performance she gave was excellent. The crowd was probably 50/50 between fans of the old stuff and people who've discovered her music over the last year or so. The set was the whole of the new album, plus Mayhem, Johnny Got a Boom Boom and a couple of other oldies. It's clear where she sees the new direction. She was backed by a 7-piece band: drums, keyboards, lead and rhythm guitar, trumpet, sax and the excellent Al Gare on upright and electric bass (an Italia Mondial Classic unless I'm very much mistaken). All good players, very tight as you would expect.

[quote name='donslow' timestamp='1494014315' post='3292675'] That is monstrous..... [/quote] Nothing that a couple of cans of Halfords matt black couldn't fix! Speaking of Matt, a Squier Matt Freeman sig or indeed a Vintage V4 Tony Butler would be very cost effective alternatives if you can find one in the classifieds here or elsewhere.

When I was a pimply faced youth, my guitarist friend and I had a gig backing a country and western singer/guitarist. We got bored and decided that Help Me Make It Through The Night would work better with a Reggae accompaniment. Got the DCM at the end of the gig, it was worth it. (Don't Come Monday)

[quote name='Higgie' timestamp='1493776431' post='3290599'] I don't know, mine seems to work! I regularly use it with just one bass straight into the return of A, and then switch to B to act as a mute! If you were using it with batteries I could definitely see a problem? Using it with a power supply seems to be fine. As it's one of those Boss Pedals that can distribute power from a second jack, maybe it's always on once you connect a power supply to it? [/quote] Yes, that'll be it. Something else I have not yet tried with mine, such a useful pedal I wouldn't be without one!

Surprised that works Higgie, according to tfm you need something plugged into the input jack to turn the unit on, even if it's just a plug with no cable.

The H4 also has two 6mm jack/XLR inputs in addition to the built in mikes, so you could take a signal off the desk and a DI off your bass and balance the whole lot up. I'm assuming that the earphones are always on, I'll have a listen next time and see if it does. No reason it should be any different to the H2 that I can see.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1493558586' post='3289093'] If you aren't a techie think of this as being like one of those Bose PA's with the long thin bit fixed in front of the sub. It promises a full range frequency response and a broad flat projection of the upper frequencies even when you aren't in line with your speaker. I'd love to hear what anyone who has used one thinks. [/quote] Missing link perhaps - http://www.genzleramplification.com/product/BA12-3/BASS-ARRAY12-3.html ? Dunno, but I did see someone using a Bose L1 with the bigger of the two subs as a bass rig the other day. It sounded really good!