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[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1482360756' post='3199970'] @ Beer of the Bass, I can accept that there is a pitch change which although barely perceptible, would have a noticeable effect. Sort of like low level "wow-and flutter" as we called it in days of vinyl and affordable turntables. [/quote] Because the doppler effect of the Leslie cabinet is created by moving the sound source (the speaker) relative to the listener, you get both vibrato and tremolo in equal measures as can be heard on any of the Hammond and Leslie clips available on YouTube.

There's plenty of music in it, and you can pause, so it can be broken up into a two or more sessions, if you can't find time for the whole thing in one go.

AFAICS this hasn't been posted yet. [url="http://www.nts.live/shows/trevorjackson/episodes/trevor-jackson-trevor-horn-in-conversation-16th-december-2016"]In-depth Trevor Horn interview[/url] by Trevor Jackson on the NTS web site. It's 3 hours long and covers his career from his first gigs depping on bass for his dad in dance bands, right up to the early 90s. Lots of interesting stuff and plenty of his production and remix work with a few secrets given away!

Very few guitars have active electronics so why are we bass players so obsessed with them? Some observations: 1. Most don't do anything you can't already do much better with the controls on your amp. 2. The volume and blend on the cheaper models are nearly always passive, which to me seems stupid as these are the two functions that would benefit most from being properly buffered from the pickups and the amp input so that they work smoothly and consistently through their range. 3. Most on-board pre-amps are generic circuits that have been shoe-horned into their instruments without any thought for the type and position of the pickups feeding them or the original acoustic sonic character of the bass. Music Man seem to be the only mainstream exception to this.

So how do you tell if a song is in C or A minor? And does it matter?

But surely you don't get any real benefit from heavy amps and cabs in a live situation unless either the majority of your FoH sound comes directly from your rig or you are mic'ing up one or more of the the cabs and that provides most of the bass feed to the PA speakers. Same in the studio. Mic on the cab(s) only and no digital post-processing. Is anyone on here actually doing this?

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1482323076' post='3199533'] So the confusion is further exacerbated by the misnaming of the Strat's "trem"/"tremolo unit" which should ACTUALLY be called a "vib"/"vibrato unit". [/quote] [quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1482324948' post='3199572'] It doesn't help that Fender guitar amps have an amplitude-wobbling tremolo effect which they've always labelled as Vibrato! [/quote] So Leo got it wrong? What an idiot! ;-)

I also thought that you needed the special (John East designed IIRC) pre-amp installed in order to balance out the volume differences between the three pickup configurations? However my experience of Enfield basses is limited to the original "Cannon" model with the Super 8 Pickup.

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1482263192' post='3199089'] One thing that puts me off those pickups is the lights. I know Sims like their LEDs but I would want the option to disable them on the pickups personally, I don't know if that is doable without hacking about though! I assume the pickups are totally passive apart from the LEDs, if so you could just disconnect the power. [/quote] Don't you need the LEDs to know what configuration the pickup is in?

The whole of the Aimee Mann [url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Drifter-Snow-Aimee-Mann/dp/B000IY01QG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482226225&sr=8-1&keywords=One+More+Drifter+In+The+Snow]One More Drifter In The Snow[/url] album. Even traditionally upbeat songs like "Winter Wonderland" have a melancholic feel to them. Should be retitled "Slit Your Wrists At Christmas".

Japanese nutters Polysics have a track called "Kaja Kaja Goo" which has Nick Beggs playing Chapman Stick somewhere in the mix... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aEwoEB7Xng

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1482085856' post='3197527'] Spandau Ballet - Listening to Marvin all night long (Hank or Gaye)? [/quote] Are you sure it isn't about Lee Marvin?

Unlike the guitar where it nearly always means a P90 style design, "soapbar" pickups on a bass are any rectangular shape wider than a J-type pickup and can have pretty much anything lurking under the cover.

Knuckle Guitarworks got there first with the Quake Bass.

+1 for the bicycle box. Plenty big enough. Far stronger cardboard than the average guitar box and if you get all the packing materials that originally came with it, plenty of extra bits to pad the package out with. Bicycle shops are always IME keen to get rid of them too!

For me the album released at the end of 1979 that has had the most staying power is PiL's "Metal Box".

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1481891158' post='3195983'] Pedulla Buzz basses do look cool but every time I see one I just think, "Blimey, move a bit too sharply and that upper horn would snap right off!!!" [/quote] You know, not every bass needs to be as chunkilly built as a Fender. Wood is incredibly strong stuff -they even make buildings out of it!

There's a couple of basses that I've sold that I would buy again if there was a 5-string version available, and I would love a really good 8-string (octave pairs) bass, but I have still to find one that I think looks suitably cool.

The Clash for me have always been one of those bands that I like the idea of more than I like the band and their actual music. I also keep forgetting that they are one of the few punk bands that I got to see in their hey day, mostly because their live performance (at the Rock Against Racism Rally in London) was so underwhelming. Since then I've come the enjoy most of the first two albums plus the awesome single "White Man In Hammersmith Palais", but I've never been able to get into the London Calling album. I liked the title track as a single and even more, their cover of "Armegideon Time" on the B-side and I really like the track "Lost In The Supermarket". The rest of the album and everything they recorded after that just leaves me cold.

[quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1481807008' post='3195296'] i have this problem too and just read one of the many hundreds of emails from ebay and noticed the fine print: [i][b]"You were sent this e-mail because your Notification Preferences indicate that you want to receive information about Special Promotions, Offers and Events. You are subscribed as [email protected], registered on www.ebay.co.uk. If you do not wish to receive further communications like this, [color=#ff0000]please [/color][color=#ff0000]click here[/color][color=#ff0000] to unsubscribe.[/color] Alternatively,[color=#ff0000] you can change your Communication Preferences in My eBay by clicking here.[/color] Please note that it may take up to 14 days to process your request. Please visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.[/b][/i]" [/quote] Thanks. I've looked all the way through the Communication Preferences and I can't see any options that apply to my situation. I'll try unsubscribing next time I get an email about something I've looked at just once - I'm expecting a whole load of them in the next couple of days for stuff I've checked out from thinks in other threads here - and see what happens.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1481736898' post='3194729'] With so few operational pressing plants around these days the lead time is ridiculous compared to the way it used to be. [/quote] Actually even with the recent increase in production times it's still nowhere near as bad as it was back in the early 80s. My very first release on vinyl was as part of a double compilation EP with 7 other bands (each had half a side which worked out at 4 1/2 minutes of "music"). My band weren't able to get into the studio until the end of June and were the last to submit our tape which was then added to the others and the masters were cut by the legendary George Peckham a couple of weeks later. We didn't receive our share of the finished records until the week before Christmas that year. That's a lead time of around 5 months from cutting to getting the records back from the pressing plant. And that was pretty much the norm for production times for all the bands I knew who were putting out records on their own label back then. These days you should still be able to get lead times of around 5-6 weeks without having to pay a premium (so long as your release doesn't co-incide with Record Shop Day), but when a proper production run of glass-mastered CDs takes 2 weeks at the very most, it's still not particularly quick.

I've only bought two albums that were new this year. "Atomic" by Mogwai on the strength of hearing the track Ether every day on 6 music for about a month. Unfortunately this is by far the best track on the album the rest of it being rather "meh". So my album of the year is going to be [url=https://terminalgods.bandcamp.com/album/wave-form]Wave / Form by Terminal Gods[/url], who I was lucky enough to support a couple weekends ago, and who are as good on record as they are live.

You've probably learnt more about the business side of the music business through this, than anything you've been taught on your University course. What exactly does the person you've been collaborating with want from you going forward? And what do you want? AFAICS he just wants to use another bass player for live work, or is he finished with your collaboration altogether? If it was me, I'd step back, calm down and try and end this on good terms between the two of you if possible. You never know when you might want or need to work with the people involved again. Are you a member of the MU and the PRS? If not you should definitely consider joining both. The MU has free legal advice for situations like this. Also if you have had any writing input to the songs you should get this registered right now. Songwriting is where the serious money is, not playing an instrument. If the other person is done with your input altogether, I would suggest that you let him walk away with what the two of you have done in exchange for 50% [b]GROSS[/b] of all royalties that these songs may attract in the future. That's a good fair and even split at this stage and get the agreement in writing. The get the songs registered with the PRS with that split recorded ASAP. And good luck for the future.

Not using a regularly checked email address defeats the object when it comes to reminders for things I am interest in like items on my watch list that I haven't decided whether or not to bid on. I think that the only real solution is to use two different browsers for looking at stuff on eBay. One where I'm not logged in for random browsing and checking out links in this forum, and then another where I am logged in for stuff that I am considering buying or bidding on. I was hoping that there was a more convenient solution.

You should be able to connect the ground wire from the bridge to one of the negative terminals for the pickups.