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[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1382601000' post='2254072'] The mute rubbers they used on pre EBs used to fall off - [/quote] The foam mutes on my '78 were a gungy mess - they'd rotted.

Ridiculously talented...what's not to love about her funky stuff. She's a bit like a jazzier Erykah Badu on bass.

[quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1382274575' post='2249895'] I was using Acoustic throughout the 80's and converted to Boogie in 1989. That said I was using a Peavey 1820 cab (18 and 2 x 10). Great idea but the sound disappeared completely around the middle register of the bass!! [/quote] Their 410TX cab had the same issue. I thought it might be because the drivers were wired to be out of phase.

Alembics with graphite necks. Pangborns with graphite necks. 5 string Steinberger cricket bats.

Looks like a Tune Bass Maniac.

Sorry, I had planned to go up there last week but work committments kept me here. Jon's also having some work done on his house so I suspect something may happen closer to Christmas.

Fingerboard can influence fret noise for sure and a thick board helps keep the neck straight if softer woods are used for tonal reasons. I'm not sure about how much it contributes beyond that.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1382259780' post='2249697'] What could they use for the fretboard? Is the native field maple hard enough for a fretboard? The body would be easy, with alder, linden, and ash being commonly used woods, as well as woods such as oak and walnut. [/quote] I made enquiries about it with Jon Shuker in the past. Supply of woods is very inconsistent...often they are acquired on an accidental basis if sourced outside the commercial supply chain. 'Found woods' also need time to dry. Architectural salvage yards may be the best source of stable woods but provenance would be hard to establish. I have a stash of crab apple back in NZ I am planning to use at some point...if it dries without cracking. Sycamore for the fingerboard BTW, field maple is a slightly different species.

I've just done a bit of reading up on the matrix of sensors used in the fingerboard of the DG 20 and it sounds in principle a lot like the system Steve Chick uses...although his is resistance based rather than pressure based. Oh well...

I had an idea yesterday which is basically to take the Casiotone DG20, fit the tech into a more traditional body and include all those bass synth patches from the Akai SB1 which noone else seems to have nailed in other pedals yet. The lack of any need for pitch to MIDI should take care of lag. The only downside would be that it wouldn't be possible to get the sound of a real bass guitar with it but for most pop, techno or electronica songs where keyboards would otherwise be used in the studio, I don't think that would be an issue.

Zackly.

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1371724404' post='2117324'] I honestly think everyone on TB [/quote] *COUGH*

I started playing bass in 1986...my first amp was a NZ made Jansen 1x15 combo that was as big as a small fridge and put out 50w. I then swapped to a Peavey TNT150 but didn't like the lack of focus in the mids so then changed to a Trace Elliot AH250 series 6 with a Peavey 410TX cab but didn't like the lack of warmth from the amp, or the complete absence of mids from the cab. In the 90's I saved up for went for an SWR Basic 350 and Triad which was much more my thing. I had that set up for quite a few years.

Andrew McKinney is the bassist and he's a member.

I still have mine. I bought it for 90 quid in 2003. It tracks better than anything short of Steve Chicks revamped Industrial Radio MIDI synth system...particularly loves single pickup basses such as P's or stingrays. However a potential competitor is the Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer although I have not bought one yet and have been discouraged by a two knob interface and no USB programmability. The SB1 was never overhyped by Akai - it has a limited range of sounds but most of those sounds can be slotted straight into a song that someone has recorded in the past and they sound warm and fat. This makes the pedal UTTERLY fantastic for function bands and funk/disco covers. I Feel Love ? Right there. Rubber bandy synth bass from a Chicane tune? It's right there. Is it worth 700 quid? No, absolutely not, it's stupid money and I'd happily sell mine for that given its more than an Octavius Squeezer now. But I haven't tried a Squeezer yet to know how it stacks up to a Deep Impact to make that choice. So in the meantime, it's still a great pedal. I think Akai should do a re-release. I think Eventide could use the tech in their Pitchfactor pedal to do a pedal that is better.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1381685295' post='2242300'] I have an NS CR5- even better with a B. I also have a Yamaha attitude. That's quite meaty, too. Warwick Fortress MM 5 gets my vote, but that's because it has two preamps, one for each coil of the HB, and you can dial in stupid amounts of bottom end. [/quote] Yep but the OP specifies 4 strings only

The old all valve 400 series are super clean. I don't know much about the newer walkabouts. For grit or grind, Ampeg SVT would be the thing.

Bass guitars: Steinberger XL2A - huge lows which is why they were so popular with dub and reggae players for a while. Uprights: NS CR4 - the 42" scale provides monstrous lows with the right set up.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/121641-quite-firm-laurence-cottle-youtube-video/page__p__1117307__hl__cottle__fromsearch__1#entry1117307"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/121641-quite-firm-laurence-cottle-youtube-video/page__p__1117307__hl__cottle__fromsearch__1#entry1117307[/url] drop this guy a line?

I have multi effects rack units but to be honest the Zoom B3 is about as portable a solution as I could imagine for chorus, octave and compression. Anything requiring processor power and I might as well use Guitar Kontrol Rig. The multi effectvs units have a switchable effects loop though which still means they're useful for combining multiple inputs.

The neighbor who keeps ringing up the council complaining about all that screaming and the smell of burning?

Your link has [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/216825-spiritualismmediums/page__st__370"]page__st__370[/url] at the end. A link which doesn't have the decimal places has page__st__360 at the end. I wonder if this has something to do with why...?