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Welcome to BC, Efrain! bert

Welcome, Mike! Stupidity is enthusiastically tolerated here, by necessity. Just don't lower yourself to the level of drummers, and you'll be ok. bert

[quote name='neil_d' timestamp='1333973382' post='1608899'] Any tips on gear and playing much appreciated, [/quote] Ask and thou shalt be answered. Not by me though (noob, see?) Welcome to BC! bert

Welcome! I'm sure you'll get more that the advice you're after. Fun and stuff. bert

Hello back to you, and welcome! Hope you enjoy. Yes, it's a nice place. A very nice place. Lots of English humour. At least that's what I think when they call me an idiot. bert

Welcome and enjoy! bert

[quote name='Len_derby' timestamp='1334083168' post='1610741'] More gear than my wife knows about [/quote] Hey! We don't need boasting! We need the recipe! best, bert

Hello from not-Wales :-) Welcome to BC. Please tell us a little about your noise and about the physical objects you produce it with. best, bert PS Wales = good. I've been there a lot, and love it. You're from Pontypandy, yes? ;^)

Knowing full well that YMMV + +, but just to be sure: Having given this some more thought, I think maybe you've run into a _function_ of the GB, that allows you to set the gain so that the first stage gets slightly overdriven. In case, this is a good thing, and a light is then not a warning sign but an advertisement. best, bert

Sorry, haven't read all eight pages, but from what I've seen, and trying to answer your last posting: Indeed, the amp is not "overdriven" by the Overwater. It's overdriven by that guy from South Wales. Without going into details: You are asking one or more of the amp's stages to deliver amplitudes (say volume) that it can't. Having done its very best, it clips (cuts) off the part of the amplitude it can't deliver. This clipping results in both a lower volume than wished for AND the production of a massively awful lot of new higher frequencies. Depending on construction and possible presence of protection circuitry, this might blow up the tweeter(s) in the cab. If the tweeter indeed is blown up, this will normally not be harmful to the amp, but in some (rare, as far as I'm aware) instances may reduce the impedance of the cab to far below what the amp's power stage can tolerate (typically removing the impedance altogether), and _that_ would possibly ruin the output transistors (or equivalent) of the amp. This too depends on construction and possible presence of protection circuitry. Without knowing the specifics of your gear or the specifics of that guy from South Wales: you could maybe experiment a little with the gain and master volume settings. Something as simple as that can help a lot. YMMV, and all that. best, bert

Hey Rockdad, Welcome to BC! Sadly though, rock and blues are not our cup of tea here on bc. We're only into Renaissance opera. Enjoy though! ;^) best, bert

Hey Chris, Welcome to BC from a total noob (and self-taught at that). best, bert

Hej Inti, Välkommen til bc! Ovsom bejs plejing video! bert

Propaganda: Duel, from A Secret Wish: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLhYxLE8uCA[/media] Focus: Sylvia, from Focus 3. Instrumental progpop [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ly_bCQ2dY[/media] best, bert

Todd Rundgren: All the Children Sing, from Hermit of Mink Hollow [url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fFaQA9KactQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFaQA9KactQ[/url] Andrew Gold: Lonely Boy, from What's Wrong With This Picture? if I recall correctly [url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iCOS2vOxuXE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE[/url] Beach Boys: Good Vibrations, from several albums. Obvious, but still. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrKKbaClME[/media] Living Colour: Type, from Time's Up. A stretch maybe, but still this has some classic pop inside, and it's close to Good Vibrations sometimes: [url="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M2OR_GuTUDQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2OR_GuTUDQ[/url] best, bert

[quote name='sellisnba' timestamp='1333228262' post='1599075'] [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/69165842@N08/6886957364/"]http://www.flickr.co...N08/6886957364/[/url] [/quote] What a looker! Couldn't make out the logo though. What is it? best, bert

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1333024180' post='1596299'] Even the best guitars and basses cost peanuts when compared to the best orchestral instruments (for example). It's all relative, YMMV, IMHO and so on and so forth. [/quote] This. Also, a good synth with 5 octave keyboard would set me back 2,000 quid or more in the old days. These days, most of the time it's more. A top synth may set you back between 4 and 8 thousand. In ten years time, this synth will virtually have no value left, and that is if it still works, which is not a given. Basses OTOH... But you all know that. My first bass was an AXL AP-800 at roughly £180. Mind ya: this was only last year - me be noob. I didn't have the intention of switching from keyboards yet, and it was bought for recording the odd bass tone. Though it taught me that I wanted to switch to bass altogether, I thought it sounded uninspiring, and I had trouble with its look of cheap components and cheap build as well as with its twisted neck that rattled all over the place. I lost some confidence, and brought it back. Maybe that was just undeserved; other AP-800s may be ok. For £170 (ten quid less), I then got a B-quality Hohner B2B. That one was perfect if you could forgive the 5 centimeters of slight discoloration of the fingerboard's side as well as the lack of a strap connector on the neck side. Luckily, I could! Sounds very well IMHO. Very little knob turning required, but turning a knob or two does make it versatile, which was quite a surprise to me. To me, it seems to play well, and it is my fave bass for travelling lightly. Lacks a leg rest thingie though, so I must either get one of those or forever play with a strap. Again, I'm a total noob, but I hope my experience may help another beginner. BTW, thanks a LOT for this thread! It helps me finding a bass for a friend who wants to start this year, and helps me to understand the subject matter better. best, bert

[quote name='Prosebass' timestamp='1332368700' post='1587500'] thanks to this song we were known as the 'White Dopes on Punk' [/quote] So _that_'s why the Rutles used that title! I naively thought they'd made it up. best, bert

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1332423354' post='1588091'] The Tubes are a great band - "Remote Control" is one of my all-time favourite albums. [/quote] This.

[quote name='nick' timestamp='1332176731' post='1584354'] [size=4][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Is it a thru-neck?[/font][/size][size=4][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] Does look quite similar to a Vantage and even Washburn 'Scavenger', either way I'd guess it was related, in being Matsumoku origin.[/font][/size] [/quote] Thanks for the responses, guys! The ad is gone, so I can't confirm, but I found this Matsumoku bolt-on Aria from the seventies: [attachment=103073:Aria 70s by Matsumoku body.jpg] I think chances are the "Boogie" is bolt-on too. It doesn't strike me as a very expensive bass. Now I'm often wrong of course, being a keyboard nazi and all that. best, bert

Thanks, guys! Yeah, I'd seen the Thunder likeness. To me, the Boogie looks like a cowardly Thunder. :^) What struck me especially about this Boogie was the very special form of the body bottom (or whazzacalled). Never seen anything like it, and can't find pics of anything similar. best, bert

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1332028944' post='1582423'] I know nothing about them, but the logo is identical to that used by Mesa for their Boogie amps in the 80s/90s. [/quote] Yeah, you're so right, and I hadn't even considered that, as the owner said they had _zilch_ to do with Mesa Boogie. So: either he was just wrong, or someone abused the Boogie logo. Thanks for coming up with that picture! best, bert

Hi folks, Anyone know anything about these MiJ Boogie basses? A guy who owns one, remarked they suspiciously look like old Vantage basses, also from Japan. Idunno. What sayest thou? best, bert [attachment=102798:Boogie MiJ all.jpg] [attachment=102799:Boogie MiJ body.jpg] [attachment=102800:Boogie MiJ head.jpg]

Hey, man! I counted two knobs and six switches, so this is a synth thread - not a bass thread! Anyway, great looker if I ever saw one amongst the elderly. Can you tell anything about how it plays compared to the J, and how it sounds? If this is well-known stuff to others, please give me a hint and I'll trawl the web. best, bert

[quote name='CPCustomdubwise' timestamp='1330604076' post='1560091'] As this is my debut non-transactional post and even though this is not the correct forum for this,Hi guys! Nice to meet you. [/quote] Nah, you only wrote that to qualify for your 5% forum rebate on my soon-to-be-sold and laughably cheap 2008 Nigeria X-pense 7.5 str. with Brazilian Rosewood body, neck and fingerboard (whilst I write this only to boost my postings #, so I get to sell it). Nice to meet you too, CPCustomdubwise. Bert