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We're a 4-piece power trio. Close, but ...
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[quote]Warning: I sell this vintage guitar/bass like more collectible piece than musical instrument for playing. That’s why I can not guarantee it plays properly.[/quote]
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Got a twin pickup passive bass, separate volume and tone pots for each pickup. Bridge tone pot works fine, neck tone pot does nothing. Is the problem more likely to be the pot itself, or the way it's wired to the pickup?
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You think a capo's weird? Here's Jack Casady with a frog on his neck. ^_^ [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0[/url]
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We've had some good charity experiences, but they've either been events run by pubs where we also get paid gigs, or a joint effort with other bands we know and trust. I'm very wary now of approaches by people we don't know well and ask a lot of questions and run a mile if I don't get the right answers. A while ago I agreed to be in an impromptu jam band at a benefit for a local musician who was dying of cancer. You'd think the idiots could leave their egos at the door for that one, but no. With things already running late, due to slow change overs and over-running, one band stood waiting on stage for 5 minutes while their singer showed his wife how to use a video camera. We cut our set to 2 songs to try and help things back on track. At least we hadn't rehearsed.
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[quote name='fede162162' post='697101' date='Dec 31 2009, 12:12 PM']Hi guys, I've been reading the TB thread for more than 1 hour, and now I'm feeling dazzed and confused, and bad! This because my main bass is a FULL Signature!!! So have I been conned?? well...I don't know,US guys say I have, but my Signature is better than my fenders,for looking, playabilty, and also sound in my taste.[/quote] As a number of people said on the TB thread, if you've got a bass that works for you, how much does it matter who made it? I bought a jazz body off him a couple of years ago. There were a couple of minor issues with it - the pickguard wasn't cut right round the neck pocket and the neck bolt holes weren't central in the pocket - but I fixed it up with an AllParts neck and it looked good and sounded good. I really liked the pickups. I did suspect, however, that his story didn't stack up, as there was absolutely nothing about that Signature on the net that doesn't trace back to Lamberts. So I emailed the chamber of commerce in Cranston RI, where he says Signature was based, and asked if they had any record of a company from the 1990s with that name. They hadn't, which doesn't prove it didn't exist, but it adds to the circumstantial case against him. Certainly Signature from Cranston RI had nothing to do with Signature in Canada. -
Klaus Voorman, [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350168968958"]Weird looking thing[/url]
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I've started moving about more since I got more confidence in playing, I don't think style comes into it though. We used to have a keyboard player who was into amateur dramatics and he was always going on at me for turning my back on the audience. I think he was upset that I went for a chat with the drummer during his solos. If there's room I wander over and irritate the guitarist. I've also been accused of not smiling, but I say we're a rock band, not Herman's bloody Hermits.
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If I'm reading you right, you tried 5s before, but went back to 4. That's what I did, despite having a Spector 5 I really did like. However, we do covers and mostly I'm working off something close to the original bass line. I tried adapting those lines for 5 strings and decided the difference wasn't worth the effort and the risk of mistakes. Where I did find it easier was things like blues, where I'm improvising the bass around a chord sequence. So I think the answer would be to throw away the original 4 string lines and rework the songs from scratch, but I just didn't have the time or motivation to do it. Good luck with it (from a failure )
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"This bass isn't designed to have a low action"
spinynorman replied to Mokl's topic in General Discussion
My daughter's a hairdresser and she gets these idiots all the time. Her attitude is she refuses to do anything she knows is wrong and risks damaging her customer's hair or even burning their scalp. She tries to explain this, but if they insist, she asks them politely to go back to the salon that said it was ok and get it done there. On the other side, she gets new customers who come in literally in tears because of what's been done to them elsewhere, and she sends them out smiling. So, you probably don't get too many tears in your workshop, but you must see a few smiles when you hand back a perfectly set up guitar and they try it out first time. Those are the ones you do it for, forget the others. -
[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='683815' date='Dec 14 2009, 11:37 AM']All Snow Patrol songs sound the same and I very often can't remember which is which and that's led to some embarrassing starts until I pick it up.[/quote] I have a fantasy hate band - ColdGreenRazorPatrol - lots of monotonous strummy songs where the bass doesn't come in till somewhere near the end, by which time I've died of boredom.
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I always play flats, either Roto Jazz 45-105 or TIs, and always with a pick (.45mm Dunlop). Clicks aren't a problem unless you've got a very trebly EQ. As flats are less zingy than rounds you might find they help.
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Refering to a bass as 'her' and 'she'
spinynorman replied to cLepto-bass's topic in General Discussion
The worst I've seen was on a US forum, something like "Paula Pics Nekkid!!!" - pictures of a Les Paul bass with the finish sanded off. Yuk. -
I found this by accident. [url="http://www.tothestage.com/upload/FretboardCare2_1879.pdf"]http://www.tothestage.com/upload/FretboardCare2_1879.pdf[/url] Looks like a bit of a commercial for Planet Waves. My fretboard care amounts to a rub with lemon oil, maybe, if I have time, on the rare occasion I have the strings off. Like once every ten years. Am I storing up trouble?
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Moving the strap button is a recommended solution on Gibson TBirds, which are through necks, so it shouldn't be a problem.
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I came to Pearl Jam late and have been wondering ever since how I managed to miss them for so long. Love them, some great live stuff too, when it doesn't end in a political rant. We tried to play Alive, which I guess is one of the really obvious ones. Parts of the bassline I found quite tricky, mainly the timing, but fun to play when you've cracked it, and it's really great driving along under that solo. Unfortunately our singer claimed she couldn't get the vocals. I think she wanted to do Jeremy.
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Cutting on-stage volume is a nice idea, but I rarely get my volume knob above 2.5, which is as low as it'll go without losing all the tone. Guitarist is in a similar situation. I've got a 50w Crate combo, which in a lot of places we play would be enough, but audiences - and landlords - seem to expect at least a waist-high pile of gear, even in a broom cupboard with a bar. We did a straw poll of some bands who inhabit the same circuit, expecting someone would have cracked the problem, but they all said they couldn't hear their vocals either. Someone should write The Basschat Guide to Cheap PA, it would sell. @Phaedrus: I saw some reviews of the dbx231 that said it was noisy. How have you found it? It's a bit more expensive than the Behringer, so I was expecting it to be better.
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Well, the only idea we could try at last night's gig, since we happen to have a spare stand, was to put the monitor up at ear level at the side of the stage. And ....... IT WORKED! Only downside was I had to be more careful where I stand, but she could have all the volume she wanted, and no feedback. On-stage sound generally seemed clearer. By the end of the night I was looking quite smug (guitarist was hugely sceptical). @Happy Jack: I've had mixed advice about feedback destroyers, brilliant or useless depending who you talk to. Was it you that was selling the Sabine and Peavey ones a while ago? I did seriously think about it, but didn't go for it in the end. I'm in leafy Warwickshire BTW. I think we'll still have to do something about the EQ, as the side monitor won't be possible everywhere, but looks like that's cracked it for most places. LawrenceH, you're a star.
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If I've got one volume control, it's full on most of the time, unless I really think I'm too loud mid song. If I've got two, one gets rolled off a bit. Never had 3.
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5 minutes. I try not be late. I used to do a half hour trip from work, with by an hour trip home after. The drummer sometimes didn't turn up, with the dubious excuse that he couldn't leave a patient on the operating table (he was a surgeon). After a while I got really fed up with the driving and then the band split anyway.
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Lots of interesting ideas there - hadn't heard that about SM58s before, mind you the price of the SM87a is a bit eye-watering. Maybe look at the Sennheisers first. The monitor on a stand idea hadn't occurred to us and that would be easy to try next gig. And we'll sort out the EQ. Not sure my brain can cope with RTA software, but you never know. Thanks for the ideas, everyone.
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Ok, thanks so far. The mic is Shure SM58. I take it the cheap plastic speaker is the SRM350 - it felt quite expensive to me, but agreed it isn't primarily a monitor. Gear is a constant compromise between size, weight, cost and performance. Can you give me an example of a monitor with smooth response, since we've more or less decided to replace the Mackie with something else? EQ may well be the answer, as there is limited EQ on the mixer. FOH is generally ok, the problem's always with the monitor.
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We're using a Mackie SRM350 as an active monitor for vocals, but the singer often can't hear herself. It's 165W and the obvious solution is a more powerful monitor. But part of the problem is feedback when the monitor is turned up, despite spending a lot of time on EQ to cut it out. Although the Mackie is mainly an active PA speaker, Mackie claim it works well as a monitor and reduces microphone feedback. My question is - if a good 165W monitor feeds back at a certain volume/eq level, will a more powerful monitor still feedback at the same level, or should it be able to go louder? Or could the problem be the level of the signal coming in?
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Vintage MIJ (formerly J@pCr@p) Spotting
spinynorman replied to Bassassin's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
[quote name='Bassassin' post='655149' date='Nov 15 2009, 01:25 PM']The nice MIJ EB copies do come up, Kasuga & Matsumoku definitely are worth a look as well as Fujigen. I'll flag 'em if I spot 'em. J.[/quote] The one I had might not have been Ibanez, there was no name on it anywhere exept the Maxon pickups and the bridge pickup was so far gone I replaced it with an unauthentic EMG. The thing that distinguishes it is the body, which is too long for an accurate EB3 copy. The ones I've seen since have all been the shorter, fatter body. If you do come across a 2345 or similar I'd be interested. -
eBay Negative Feedback Suspiciously Removed?
spinynorman replied to benebass's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='Balcro' post='654908' date='Nov 15 2009, 12:02 AM']I think ebay is in decline. Ever more examples of dodgy sellers and manipulated feedback. I came across this today - well, he could be mistaken - [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/EPIPHONE-BY-GIBSON-BASS-GUITAR-EXCELLENT-CASE_W0QQitemZ150387677152QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item2303cdd7e0"]http://cgi.ebay.com/EPIPHONE-BY-GIBSON-BAS...=item2303cdd7e0[/url] Yea, of course, Balcro[/quote] Epiphone Accu-bass, as it says on the label by the heel [url="http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/profile_mojo_data/2/5/9/6/259673/pics/_c40004_image_0.jpg"]http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/profile...004_image_0.jpg[/url]