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Despite the fact that there's little of the original finish left (BTW why do old Fenders see to shed their finish at the drop of a hat?) at least the wood doesn't look as though it's been sandblasted with coarse grit like the bass in the OP.

[quote name='Kex' timestamp='1461677774' post='3036659'] ...but she wanted me to strip off the hardware and electrics, and even if i could do that ( I can't)... [/quote] Just out of interest why can't you do this? IME it's the easiest bit of refinishing a bass.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1461678875' post='3036669'] Just focus on the look ... loons and glitter, platform boots, no spandex ... the music will take care of itself. [/quote] This. I trust you will be dressing appropriately?

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1461588373' post='3035855'] I saw this a few weeks ago - this caught my eye...I could only count 4 knobs. "[color=#AA5A86][font=Calibri][b][color=#fbfff8]TT[/color][/b][/font][/color][font=Calibri][b]The Gibson pickup fitted 69' stamped 68 inc pots a[/b][/font][b][font=Calibri][size=3]ll 5 knobs are 60s originals"[/size][/font][/b] [/quote] The fifth knob is on the lower horn.

[quote name='NoirBass' timestamp='1461580033' post='3035755'] Agreed, Having measured with a cocktail stick as suggested, the hole goes right thorough to the other side of the case, suggesting there is also a hole in the main pcb. That said, I think 10mm would be more than enough. I'm assuming something like this will work: [url="https://www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk/en/products/m2x10-pan-pozi-machine-screw-mild-steel-bright-zinc-plated-din-7985?utm_medium=google_shopping&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=google_shopping&gclid=CjwKEAjwgPe4BRCB66GG8PO69QkSJAC4EhHhRMIeZwuFikz8HogWlMG0Tfe2h2Ug1eXpYTkIB0pn9xoCcWjw_wcB"]https://www.orbitalf...0pn9xoCcWjw_wcB[/url] [/quote] I'd open the rack unit up and double check before securing it with a screw that long. When I said fairly short I meant 5mm max.

IIRC the screw length is fairly short - as the indent in the rack tray plays a large part in holding the unit in place.

I've owned basses of all vintages from ea ly 60s to brand news ones made in the last 5 years. The ones I currently use on a regular basis because they look, sound, and play fantastically where all made less than 15 years ago.

A very nice Travis Bean TB2000.

When is it deliberate effect and not just a by-product of the equipment being used to amplify or record the performance? Overdrive and compression has been around since valves were first used in amplification. Reverb can simply be the product of the acoustic space used for the performance.

IME pitch to MIDI is unlikely to ever satisfy any half-way decent musician. The laws of physics dictate that the pitch detection circuitry needs at least one full wave cycle to have a good guess at the note and preferably more in order to properly eliminate inaccuracies caused by sharpening of the attack portion of the note. So the lower the note the longer it takes to detect the pitch. Swapping to a piccolo bass is at best going to halve the latency time. Whether or not that's going to be good enough only you can say. However Tony James of Sigue Sigue Sputnik who has been playing bass lines using pitch to MIDI for probably longer than anyone else, says that even with using a Roland MIDI guitar instead of a bass he still has to play ahead of the beat in order for the synth sounds to be in time with the rest of the music. Also be aware that the conversion to MIDI data adds further latency to the sounds. If you are serious about using a stringed instrument to generate MIDI data for synths then you should look at the [url="http://www.industrialradio.com.au/products/pro-4-midi-bass.html"]Industrial Radio MIDI Bass[/url], which uses sensors in the frets to dictate pitch and only uses the actual audio data for trigger information. They also a do a MIDI guitar with the fret sensing mechanism so obviously they don't believe that pitch sensing alone is fast or accurate enough even when the notes are an octave higher. Alternatively brush up on your keyboard skills. I developed enough of a keyboard technique to far eclipse anything I could get out of pitch to MIDI systems in about a week.

That looks very nice indeed. And kudos to Dave Wilson for suggesting matching the back of the neck to the new body colour.

Again it's a case of using the right tools for the job. On stage unless it's tiny or you like to stay stood right by your amp, you can't beat a good wireless system. However in the studio it's good quality (OBBM) leads all the way.

Any photos of the back panel?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1461260871' post='3033089'] A proper all-tube is around 35kg, so I'm guessing around 9kg. Which would be very light for a valve amp. [/quote] If that's the case, you can put me down for one right now. That would be only 1kg heavier than my Tech Soundsystems Black Cat which has a P2P wired tube pre-amp and 2 x 500 W class D power amps, in a similar 2U case.

Would someone hazard a guess at what 1/4 the weight of an all-tube equivalent actually is?

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1461257955' post='3033017'] I Should've Known - Aimee Mann [/quote] TUNE! as the kids say... ;-)

That's more like it! I'm counting 7 valves though. I wonder what the other 2 do?

[quote name='FuNkShUi' timestamp='1461239946' post='3032764'] Some of those i've not heard of. Will check them out. Nice one [/quote] Have fun! You might have problems finding the Quruli track. For some reason the PV isn't available on YouTube in the UK. There are a couple of live versions, but since the studio original is made up of mostly loops and samples they bear little resemblance to it and IMO are vastly inferior.

A couple of years ago me and some of my friends had a "Desert Island Discs" evening at christmas. These were mine in order of year of release: "Seven Seas Of Rhye" by Queen "Being Boiled" (Travelogue version) by The Human League "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson "Doot-Doot" by Freur "The Rattler" by Goodbye Mr Mackenzie "New Wave Jacket (Reform)" by Polysics "World's End Supernova" by Quruli "The District Sleeps Tonight" by The Postal Service

Considering the artists he's been playing with recently, I doubt Mr Paladino is short of a bob or two and I would imagine also that he's not desperate to free up the space this instrument occupies, so I wonder why he's selling it? Could it be that it's not actually a very good bass?

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1461154863' post='3031917'] Why is it listed as left-handed? [/quote] Because IIRC the default is for left-handed (they are alphabetical order in a drop-down menu) and the seller didn't notice.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1461155466' post='3031929'] Indeed! You can only just get away with a guitar or two and bass, noodling or song writing etc for the most part. Rehearsal or acoustic drums no chance. [/quote] I've lived in what others may consider some fairly horrible places in the past simply because I had no other residential neighbours and therefore it was possible to practice there with a full band including drums. I have rehearsed in my current place with a drummer who used an electronic kit, but we had to build an isolating platform for it to stop the physical sound of it (mostly the kick drum pedal) from travelling through the structure of the building and annoying my neighbours. However this did mean that at practice volume the drum sounds were almost completely masked by the sound of the sticks hitting the drum pads. Not ideal.

Ignoring the fact that this thread is over a year old and therefore any answers we give now are most likely irrelevant... Pretty much any 34" scale bass with a decent P-style pickup in the appropriate location will sound like a P-Bass. Even this one: [IMG]http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n249/BigRedX/Bass/BornToRockF4B.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1461119452' post='3031628'] In my 50 years of playing bass in rock bands, rehearsals have always been in someone home. I would never join a band that was paying for rehearsal space unless they were making big bucks. Blue [/quote] That's a luxury that only someone living in a country with plenty of space can indulge in. Here in the UK only if you are very lucky will one of the band members lives in a detached house with understanding neighbours. For everyone else the rented rehearsal room is a necessary evil.

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1461140268' post='3031726'] ...are you expected to set up and break down your rig in that half hour? [/quote] I can set up or break down my rig in under 5 minutes. If I was auditioning band members I'd be looking for people who aren't going to spend ages faffing about with their gear trying to remember which order their pedals go in etc. The quicker you can set up at a rehearsal the more music you get to play. The quicker you can set up at a gig the less inconvenience you are to the pub.