BassTractor

Hej Chris, Välkommen till BC. Hoppas du tycker det är roligt här! And welcome too. I hope you'll have a good time here. best, bert

[url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/VanderkleijAuroracomplete_zpsf5a57c03.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/VanderkleijAurorafrontleft_zpsb757ea22.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1170.photobucket.com/user/basstractor1/media/VanderkleijAurorafrontrightbig_zps324abc54.jpg.html"][/url] Notice the loop choices as well as the CVD, which is the Continously Variable Damping. My amateur guess is that it controls the output impedance, and hence gives you control over the damping factor. This in my book is fan bloody tastic, and very useable. I think the best thing to do now is just ordering it, and if it doesn't perform well enough, to just throw it away. Yup. That seems like a good plan. .

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1379245769' post='2210183'] gain at 3 o'clock, master at 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock. [/quote] You can't use the Master for two hours and then wait one hour before using the Gain. That's really nonsense, and you should've known better, Axe. That said, are you shure you tried the Little Bastard and not the CTM-15? The LB (sadly) has no Gain knob.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1379351888' post='2211606'] [/quote] Yup. Very cool.

Here's my humble take: Versatile. Why? It has bass It has low middle It has high middle It has treble. As long as a bass has all of those, the two things that make a bass non versatile are not present: - terrible electrics/electronics - terrible body/neck constellation To become non versatile, above elements would have to suck up large frequency areas, making playing style less than a huge factor, and or the knobs would have to almost not work. Next question: is it just as versatile as other basses in the same price bracket? I doubt it.

[quote name='Dramatis Persona' timestamp='1379346330' post='2211528'] Thank you! The next step is finding a cool avatar. [/quote] You'll find that on this site you need a CAT in your avatar.

IMS, E16014 is an Ernie Ball number. If indeed so, you can ask Ernie Ball directly in this thread on their factory forum: [url="http://forums.ernieball.com/music-man-basses/1254-music-man-serial-number-database-546.html"]http://forums.ernieb...tabase-546.html[/url] You must be or become a forum member though. Edit: If you can't be arsed to ask there, expect it to be from between April and September of 2000. These dates are not secure, but work well enough for everyday use. At any rate the Bass is hardly from 1999 and hardly from 2001.

Everything comes naturally to me, it's all bloody easy, a bit more difficult now, but it's still easy peasy getting what's in my head to come out a speaker in the way I want it to. YMMV. [quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1379295019' post='2211001'] Yes, music is subjective but why make it an issue at every turn? [/quote] Good point, imho. (Also, it's a lot less subjective than many people like or realise, but that's another thread.)

Welcome, Claudio! I'm sure you'll find friends here. Just be yourself and nice. Oh, and don't have a brain or opinions. As to work as a cook, there's a nice Italian restaurant in Whitchurch ... (do a search for the thread where it's all explained) Anyway, enjoy the site! best, bert

Hey Andy, Welcome amongst the visible ones! Do I get you right? You've lived for almost fifty decades? Whoa! Impressive! Anyway, partake and enjoy the forum s'more. best, bert

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1379322191' post='2211135'] it could be that right-handers aren't used to playing against lefties as much [/quote] This goes for tennis indeed, and so I assume it goes for similar sports as well. Added points for the lefty player [b][i]being[/i][/b] used to playing with righties. Yessss!!! Happily though, I lose all my games, so I'm spared the shame of having won in an unsporty fashion.

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1379273801' post='2210744'] Any thoughts / observations on this point? [/quote] I pick up movements others make very slowly, and it doesn't matter if I'm looking at the other dancers or at the teacher in front of me who does in in a mirrord way. However, watching a pair of dancers doing a dance, I do get what they're doing, and this way I once quickly became a competition dancer in classic and latin. Yes, several decades plus moons ago. Sigh.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1379247785' post='2210211'] Instead of saying no, just send them a nice cordial reply stating what you'll work for. [/quote] and [quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1379252396' post='2210327'] be calm, controlled, measured, put your point across and stick to your guns despite any histrionics or other types of leverage [/quote] Words from the Wise

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1379193816' post='2209787'] I actually counted those 'wins'. How sad is that..? [/quote] Not that sad. You could easily have called me out, coz I actually contemplated writing twelve or fourteen of those. How sad is that...?

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1379190096' post='2209740'] I find if that with the right tuning on a 5 or 6 string I can play most of my set on open strings and I struggle to do that on a 4 stringer [/quote] Now we're talking, and here is where the 13-string bass comes in: a whopping whole octave, and what in the old days used to be called the "fretting hand", can now just concentrate on keeping the neck in the coolest of angles. It's a win win win win win win win win win win win win win situation.

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1379181321' post='2209609'] It's only a matter of taking away the material you don't want. [/quote] Ah! You mean remove anything that doesn't look like an elephant, right? That's how they make statues of elephants at any rate, so I thought maybe there was something similar going on here. Anyway, amazing, amazing work!

IMS, printboards are identical on these versions, so the HB might be functionally identical - probably with different sized headphones and aux connectors. If you can't find out in the mean time, I'll check this out later this evening, when I have some time. Edit: Not found what I wanted to find, but here you can find pictures of the innards of the HB and Ibanez versions: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/168416-another-promethean-clone/page__st__100 That whole thread offers quite some insight, like that RedSub and Harley Benton are identical, that the Ibanez has a different pre-amp, and that the Beta Aivin has some extra stuff on the back. Dunno about its pre-amp.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1379166608' post='2209364'] £2:2s:0d..? Are you sure..? [/quote] Yup! It was roughly £2.2.0. That's why I found it cooler to use the guinea as a unit and not the pound. See, actually, it was NOK 20, and depending on the currency flavour of the day, methinks that was indeed close enough to a guinea or two.

Thanks to alembic63: Gentle Giant: "Just the Same" - live, January 1978. IMS, GG were back in London after a long hiatus and a lot of US concerting. The audience was not a native GG audience, but was scraped together somehow - don't remember exactly. The next song of the concert, great in its own right, was "Playing the Game", featuring the Shulberry 3-string. [media]http://youtu.be/4StScMaYffE[/media]

Sent money to Germany by direct bank transfer some weeks ago, and the cost was 2 guineas, whilst the currency rate was slightly better than the one used by VISA. Maybe something for others too.

"The Way It Is" is bloody great, innit? Possibly the top track of that album. I have a weak spot for this piano bit of Americana, and it has influenced my own piano playing.

Hey Duffer, Welcome from another Ashbory user, a noob at 57 years of old. You do know that you need an EBS Fafner amp and an Ampeg SVT 810 cabinet for this, yes? (Only kidding. I just took the most expensive stuff I could hastily remember before my first coffee today. Way more expensive stuff does of course exist. You need that instead.) Enjoy the fora, their info, discussion and banter! best, bert

Sorry, but this is laughable. A proper bass has 10 or 13 strings. That and thanks a lot for reviewing and posting! My gas has only gotten worse now, and I'm soooo gonna get this if I can find the dough. Ha! Got an idea! Will put a 70% discount on everything in my shop just to get the revenue to buy this bass! Yup! That's what I'll do. All your fault! Thanks!

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1379085665' post='2208539'] I like the CAR but the 4-in-a-row headstock doesn't work with a symmetrical body for me :-( [/quote] Ha! Exactly my response. But now I look at it again, I notice it also needs 5 more knobs/switches and yet another pickguard.

As a keyboards man in bands, hearing the P never did very much for me, unlike the SR. Appreciated it, but did not get wildly enthusiastic. As a concert audience member, the same. Based on that type of listener experience, as to the older basses, my money is on a Jazz, a Rick, a StingRay, a Danelectro 58 Longhorn even, but not on a P. Own two myself though, and thoroughly enjoy playing them in the living room.