Graham

Involving time travel, Metallica on the Shattered Justice tour, without a Tardis, Down or Cave In would suit me very well. I have recently come across a small band from Brighton called Sea Bastard I'd love to play for, if their bass player quit I'd give auditioning serious consideration.

I doubt I'll get anything bass related, as no-one's asked me what I'd want and people wouldn't buy blind. If I end up with some money at the end, I'd like to pick up a Gramma pad, but don't see me having much cash left over..... If Santa were to bring me the new Pratchett book and the final series of Breaking Bad, then that would leave me very happy.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1387763829' post='2315450'] I heard Dave Grohl and Macca's band play Wings 'Band On The Run', at the whitehouse, in front of the Prez and Paul. It was pretty sh*t. And I'm sure he'll think so too when he watches the video. Definitely too high a key for his voice. Hearts Stairway to Heaven, at the Kennedy Centre was a huge cheesefest too, as they murdered the song. The worst part was when the curtains parted, a gospel choir was revealed, and turned the song into some kind of 'Christian Rock'. The Leds smiled dutifully but I'm sure they were thinking 'WTF!!!'. [/quote] That reminds me of when Metallica were entered into the Rock 'N Roll Hall Of Fame and filmed the ceremony, various bands covered their songs to varying degrees of success. The bemused looks on their faces when Snoop Dog rapped his way through Sad But True was funny, but better still how uncomfortable they looked while Avril Lavigne butchered Fule. Her backing band were brilliant, she was not.

Nice work guys, I knew Ritters were expensive, but didn't realise quite how expensive they were, otherwise alarm bells would have sounded sooner..... :embarrassed:

Number one would be Jean-Paul from Clutch, so much groove and feel, but still rocks it. Also, Danny Carey from Tool to push my non-4/4 playing and Chris Erlandson from Arch Enemy for full on death metal fury.

Thought I'd have a look to see if there were any more Christmas bargains on Gumtree (not that I can afford anything), but a Ritter for £1k anyone? http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/ritter-roya-jazz-bass-5-string/1042743870

I'm no Ritter expert, but this strikes me as a bargain: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/ritter-roya-jazz-bass-5-string/1042743870 Well, a bargain if you've got a spare grand hanging around

In no particular order Geezer Butler (Sabbath) Caleb Schofield (Cave In) Troy Sanders (Mastodon) Rex Brown (Pantera/Down) Justin Chancellor (Tool) Mike Flores (Origin) Dave Edwardson (Neurosis) Paul Turner (Jamiroquai) Stuart Zender (Jamiroquai) James Leach (SikTh) Edit: Apologies to Jeff Caxide (Isis), I'd unaccountably forgotten SikTh

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1387562241' post='2313458'] Last weekend before Christmas - Christmas Eve - New Year's Eve - St Patricks's Night - and so on. I always try to stay in at such times to avoid the preponderance of amateur drinkers, who inevitably become VERY 'unreliable' indeed. Nasty business. It just ruins things for experienced, well-behaved alcoholics, in my opinion. [/quote] http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/pubs-to-trial-professional-lanes-2013122082253

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1387299035' post='2310442'] Basically, Ray 4 and Ray 5 prices...or thereabouts. For that price, it HAS to be a Musicman. [/quote] Or G&L ;-) (also biased)

I went down to GAK in the summer on a Saturday, tried out a couple of USA Precisions and the bloke running the bass section couldn't have been more helpful - happy to let me try what I wanted and bent over backwards to be accommodating. I'd never thought a lot of their customer service in the past, but now wouldn't hesitate to use them. He was also happy to let a young lad play his dream bass - a Rickebacker of some variety, despite it being a rare one over here and it being obvious the lad wasn't going to buy it then.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1387211105' post='2309419'] Same concept as the sfx Thumpinator. Some amps already have this in their preamp sections. I believe the East preamps have such a HP filter also. [/quote] I understand the Genz Streamliner has sething similar in it

If you can sort out an engineering drawing, Picross Precision in Eastbourne will machine it for you. They're not the cheapest (and that's without the economy of scale you get from volume ordering) but they will do short runs and their quality is very good.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1387063497' post='2307961'] All sounds a bit creepy to be honest. [/quote] Yeah, it is a bit bunny boiler

Well, I'm content again now, and don't feel the need to change anything in my set-up. There's some things I'd like to add - the aforementioned envelope filter (hardly essential, maybe if we get a bonus next quarter) and a Gramma Pad would be beneficial for some of the stages we play; but for my core tone, I'm actually completely happy. At the moment.

I've been suffering from a little GAS recently, my current amp is a Genz Streamliner 900 into a Barfaced Compact (G1), but the last few weeks I've been thinking I should maybe see if I can see about trading it for an EBS Reidmar and Classic 1x12 cabs. Reason for this is my previous rig was an EBS Fafner and Proline 4x10 which I adored, but was too big for the house we moved into last year. I'd been missing the "EBS sound" and had felt that the Streamliner/Compact was a bit "bottom heavy" in it's tone and I wanted more clarity in my sound. Fortunately, I suspected this was just GAS and thought, I must be able to get a clearer sound with a bit more EQ tweaking - particularly with the ceramic pickups on my SB2. So last night, I cut the bass a bit more, pushed the mids and treble more and found a nice balance between the two pickups on my bass - mostly favouring the P pickup. It was fantastic: a clear, muscular tone, without being too aggressive and wasn't overbearing in any of the frequency bands. After fiddling with the controls for a while, I got a brilliant overdrive sound out of my Lomenzo Hyperdrive for the songs that needed that too. If I won the lottery, sure, I'd go out and get something like a Fafner II and Neo 2x12, but I'm really going to try and remember in future that odds are, I already own something that will get me the tone I need, rather than spend a lot of money on something that will do more or less the same job. So GAS be dammed. Of course, I don't have an envelope filter which would be useful for some bits, and I could use an ERB............

It does depend on what area you're in too, at work we find UPS absolutely hopeless, but up Ipswich way one of our vendors think they're great

I think I may have been looking at the drummer before the jump :-)

A mate manages to get this one of me at a big gig summer before last: [Img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y175/Ghost_Upon_The_Stage/IMG_255906409554237_zps3a6d6ea6.jpg" class="ipsImage" />

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1386845077' post='2305197'] Barefaced is CNC - hand assembled at best. They are putting together cabs on what is, albeit a small one, assembly line. All made to a certain spec, or a derivitation of as specified by themselves. The problems that have been reported by others in other threads, don't follow this... routing bodies, hand carving necks, hand winding pickups, custom circuits... much different kettle of fish. [/quote] I think, though far from sure, that the OP's is a gen 1 Compact which would be pre-CNC, not 100% on that though; shouldn't really make a difference to QC though IMO

This is you isn't it Lowender? If not certainly someone on here, as Nelson Montana was the person who recorded a blind test recently between a Fodera, Musicman and Squire.

[quote name='eude' timestamp='1386669694' post='2302744'] +1! If its just the singlecut aspect of the the Thumb Bass SC 6 string you like, I would definitely consider some UK based luthiers. You can't go far wrong with ACG, I've got of them, 3 of them singlecuts and they're sublime Eude [/quote] This Shuker is one of the few singlecuts I really like, looks stunning [Img]http://www.shukerguitars.co.uk/scrange1.jpg" class="ipsImage" />

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1386499605' post='2300646'] nobody going to fess up to that mistletoe and wine thing? [/quote] Nice fretless part on that :-p