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  1. Kiwi
    Light 'em up, ride 'em out!
  2. Kiwi
    I've had plenty of requests to let cousin/best mate/son-in-law 'have a go' and sit in with the band on bass but I've turned them down flat every single time.
  3. Kiwi
    I have two basses which I find interesting but I wouldn't use them on a gig. Another which wasn't intended for live use but I guess could be. Apart from that the others are for gigging if I should ever find myself doing that again. Ironically those giggable basses were all less than 1300 quid. One of them was 600 quid and replaced my main Smith bass. I remember being paranoid that the Smiths would be nicked. I actually turned down an opportunity to buy a preCBS jazz bass at lower than market value because I wasn't comfortable having that much cash tied up in something so portable (says him before eventually sinking five times the sum into a collectable classic car 6 years later after selling most of his bass collection). These days, I'd probably make something that gave me what I wanted. Although I'd still hanker for a Wal Mach II 5 string and a Celinder J Update 5 even so.
  4. Kiwi
    Fill the cheese cavities with epoxy.
  5. Kiwi
    Goodness me MLD has a nice sounding bass. But I can't help but wonder how much of it is down to skillful eq and compression.
  6. Kiwi
    A nose ring.
  7. Kiwi
    Did new prices jump to the same degree? I've watched Smith basses slowly climb out of my reach due to this and the increasingly poor exchange rate between the pound sterling against the US dollar. Quite glad to have made the most out of the opportunity I had to own three when they were more affordable to me. I see the price of new Wal basses climbing and the asking price for used ones climbing also...no justification for it apart from supply and demand. But I can't imagine the same applying to Fenders.
  8. Kiwi
    I'm a big believer in matching basses to amps generally. I bought one of the first batch of GB Shuttles imported into the UK in 2007 and haven't wanted for anything else. Great amps and I love how firm and articulate the mid range is. But not great for every kind of bass. I used Smiths and Spectors mostly for gigging - the Smiths had a scooped midrange which the shuttles compensate for nicely. The Spectors have a firm midrange which again the Shuttles accentuate. Before then I had GK RB700 which was also great with the Smiths but perhaps not so good with brighter basses (although for picked rock bass, that probably works very nicely). I've also had stunning results from Musicman Stingrays and a Mesa Boogie Bass 400+, the low end seemed to match nicely - like a velvet glove. Bright sounding basses like Status Empathy's and Modulus Quantums are very nice with SWR SM400's. Fender P with Ampeg SVT is a classic. Warwicks and Musicman Stingrays seem to go well with Warwick amps and of course the Jaydee/Trace amp and cab combo is now legendary. Jazz basses seem to go very nicely with MarkBass amps and cabs - good for accentuating midrange snarl although they do tame the highs a bit too much for my taste. The other great thing about the Shuttles is that the power section is made by B&O and available separately on Ebay. I had one pop on me a while back and, being located 600km away from the nearest western trained amp tech in Hong Kong, it was a piece of pie to order the module and install it myself. Just needed connecting up and all the connections were solderless. YMMV of course.
  9. Kiwi
    Good grief, run away. I purchased a copy Steinberger trem many years ago by Overlord and it was a total waste of money. An unretrievable disaster in every sense of the word. The unit was cast, not milled so the tolerances were a joke. You might as well set fire to the cash. For headless units, look for NOS steinberger parts on Ebay or Reverb. But there are alternatives offered by Gotoh, Hipshot and ABM also.
  10. Kiwi
    What a stunner, glad the string spacing is 19mm though.
  11. Kiwi
    They're great basses, the body shape isn't to everyone's taste but the graphite necks are perfect.
  12. Kiwi
    Rob Green once admitted to me that he had problems with the recipe for phenolic resin in some basses in the early 90's which caused necks to warp.
  13. Kiwi
    I knew someone on here wouldn't be able to resist!
  14. Kiwi
    Maybe I need to get in before March 6th...hmmm. Actually, we're doing OK. Despite having a case of the virus over the road from us, we're safe. Been watching the western media stir up levels of hysteria on social media. Not normally very entertaining but I've finished changing all the strings on my guitars now. Wonderful man. Would love to be sandwiched between him and Lee Sklar at a pub table listening to them talk about Jaco.
  15. Kiwi
    FFS, even if I could make it over I would be slapped in quarantine for 2 weeks.
  16. Kiwi
    That is so 80's and Soul Train lol
  17. Kiwi
    200 made I believe
  18. Kiwi
    ...? This was the millenium dome, right?
  19. Kiwi
    I sent it through the general contact page - it seemed appropriate given I don't know any of the staff personally. I guess it might take a few days to respond though. I'm not a a member of the gear page so will need to set something up. Points were (IIRC) 1) Envelope for individual steps 2) Mute for individual steps 3) More control over ADSR 4) UI issue in editing software 5) Form factor and connectivity - tap tempo/patch change/MIDI ports in a MkII version 6) New idea - sustain function for incoming notes
  20. Kiwi
    Yes!! Sky would have had lost Francis Monkman by then I guess.
  21. Kiwi
    @Quatschmacher message sent - 6 points covered.
  22. Kiwi
    First concert - Too embarrassing to mention but a well known singer songwriter on a Greedy Bastard tour. Last concert - Monty Python @O2 (does that count as a concert?) Best concert - Prince Aftershow party, 2007 with Beverley Knight Worst concert - A well known singer songwriter on a Greedy Bastard tour Loudest concert - My cousin in law's wedding. I had to leave even with noise cancelling earphones in. Seen the most - Prince Most surprising - Herbie Flowers and Richard Durrant @ London Ukelele Society, Herbie bought me a pint and we had a chat, I got to play his bass. Also honourable mention for Driving Me Crazy a house music/jazz band doing a Masters At Work/Louis Benedetti thing. I saw them twice in Islington before they disbanded and they blew me away. The drummer was a beast and never strayed from the pocket. Dave Troke was on bass. They never got the recognition they deserved. Next concert - Out here? HAHAHAHAHA! I'd have to go to Hong Kong. Wish I'd seen - Pink Floyd during their quadrophonic years, U2 Joshua Tree tour, Level 42 at Wembley 1986, Led Zeppelin @ O2, Prince Y2K celebration, Princes Trust Rock Galas from 1986-1990, Chic PS: Just found a bit of Drivin Me Crazy on Youtube but the mix really sucks:
  23. Kiwi
    I'll pass that along. No doubt it will cause some amusement.
  24. Kiwi
    Re MIDI, I'm not interested in forking out extra dosh for functionality that comes as basic on other pedals though. I really don't understand why they expect customers to compromise this much. For tap tempo, I could set up another pedal like the Adrenalinn as the clock source but it takes a second/couple of beats to sync. Sustain stage control is a good one, it would dispense with the need for the modded Freeze pedal completely.
  25. Kiwi
    MIDI Controller being footpedals or bass with pitch to MIDI? I don't have a MIDI controller with me at the moment, it's back in the UK. In any case, the lag of pitch to MIDI makes it impossible to sit in the pocket. A fallback solution is Industrial Radio's bass controller but I wanted to keep things as analogue as possible and to know what was happening where without the inconvenience of hunting through a load of advanced settings or learning to use new software. I also didn't want to rely on something as fragile as a laptop on stage or on software based solutions which have inbuilt obsolescence.
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