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[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1413463529' post='2578464']nobody wants a sloppy slapper.[/quote] Speak for yourself!

[quote name='Lucien' timestamp='1413143726' post='2575281'] Here is my Harley Benton PB-50, just refinished in blue (a kind of lake placid blue). [url="http://postimg.org/image/guw1nirtz/full/"][/url] [url="http://postimage.org/"]free upload image[/url] Next up I'll relic it, just some light relic but with (I hope) a proper finish aging and hardware wear. I am going for that Fender CS 55' relic look. Also, the bass has been heavilly modded with all new electronic and wiring, the only thing stock is the wilkinson pickup, but I'm planning on swapping it for a Duncan Antiquity. This is my main bass (dispite the price) and I love it! So, what are your thoughts? [/quote] Did you do the refin yourself? Otherwise for the cost of a HB + refin you could've got a Squier Classic Vibe that already comes in the same colour!

[quote name='grenadilla' timestamp='1413198290' post='2575666']Over on TalkBass a 500 Kustom is getting rave reviews. [/quote] It is indeed, I've been thinking of checking one out: http://www.muziker.de/bassgitarren/bass-verstarker-topteile/ultralight-bassverstarker/p/16723-kustom-KXB500

The matte sanded effect on an ash body is my favourite finish. I've been wanting a Sandberg with the black ash finish for a while, but not liking the position of the MM pup. Hmm, maybe I should book a week off of work! I would go for a 5 string Pingray with wenge neck, ebony or purpleheart board, black hardware, Hipshot ultralite lollipop tuners, and an Audere pre if it was my project.

Classic Vibe gets my vote. Put TI flats on the fiesta red one and you have a cheap Pino bass!

Nice work! Learning 'It Gets Funkier' is on my to-do list!

You've got the bass - you tell us if it's any good or not! They are sought after from that era, certainly better quality than most cheap basses, certainly good enough to gig with unless there are any issues with it.

[quote name='1976fenderhead' timestamp='1412846006' post='2572539'] My one niggle with this is the lack of an overall volume control, or individual volume controls for each voice. What if I want to use full wet octave up but find it appears much louder than the dry sound? What if I want to mix in a bit of octave down but find the same thing? [/quote] This is the sole reason why this pedal does not interest me, I had the same issue with their Hazarai pedal. Lack of individual volumes (or blend plus master volume) cripples their Bass Big Muff too.

I've been in bars where a pint glass goes round and everyone puts a pound in, but there wasn't any live music as far as I can recall!

Since he doesn't actually say in the ad that it's been modded - there is a chance that the bridge pickup was added by Fender when it was ordered from the custom shop! Just sayin'

I kept my LaBellas on for quite a while and they did get better but not quite as smooth as I was used to with other strings. Giving them a good rub down, or just playing bass after eating a bucket of KFC sounds like a good idea. I thought the TIs I first slapped on my P were silky smooth straight out of the packet, but I fitted some to another bass recently and they felt quite sticky too, so maybe I was wrong! Pyramids though - they are like eels!

My favourite flats on a P are TI's, I believe they are what Pino uses also. Lots of midrange character, very compliant, and silky smooth once broken in. I also really dug the Pyramid Golds for a bit more heavy thud, they also sound broken in straight away and are the smoothest feeling strings ever. I didn't really get on with Chromes or LaBellas - too high in tension and they felt stickly compared to the TIs and Pyramids. The last P I bought came strung with Rotosound flats and I was very impressed with those too, very bright sounding and nice to play, probably a fairly new set. I took them off in favour of rounds fairly quickly as I already have another P with TIs, but I think I will put them back on at some point and give them more playing time.

I hear the LH500 has a tube pre, but it is very clean - which suggests it's not that high gain. So if you boost into it, you might start to add a little bit of tube compression and distortion as well as volume, which sounds like a good thing, as long as you don't boost it to the point where it sounds nasty. You won't damage the amp like this, it's hard to say about the speaker but probably not - what is the cab rated for and how many ohms is it?

If going for a sea theme... Cthulhu!

The Unibass has 2 outputs, so no need to split your signal, you can drive an amp from each output. Just plug your bass straight into the Unibass rather than hit your bass preamp first. You can then turn the guitar on and off by turning the Unibass on and off. Then if you want to be able to drop your bass out, easiest solution is to use a tuner to mute that line.

Also, extensions such as AVI and MP4 are 'containers' - they can hold lots of different video formats. It's possible to convert losslessly from AVI to MP4 if they both contain audio/video streams that each format supports. This also means you could re-encode an AVI with embedded MPEG2 video into an AVI with embedded MPEG4 video for example. There is no such thing as a 'standard' AVI format.

Look in the settings - if you are re-encoding video, there should be some options to change the resolution and/or bitrate. Otherwise you are just converting using whatever default settings your converter app is using, which won't give you much control over the resulting size.

If you're having the switch, may as well make it a series/parallel single, it's not any extra effort, just have to get the correct on-on-on switch!

I have a Gramma pad, it doesn't shut my wife up entirely, but I suspect she would complain a lot more if I did not have one!

^ This. Although if you have an active bass, or an effects chain with at least one non-true-bypass buffered pedal in it, then the impedance won't be an issue, in which case passive DI all the way.

That's a very diplomatic way of phrasing "are you lying about the power output of the new amps also?"! Nicely put.

[quote name='rmorris' timestamp='1412433713' post='2568932'] It would make these sort of discussions much more useful if people referenced the sort of sounds and tones they are looking to get... [/quote] Normally I'd agree with you, but this isn't a "which pedal should I get thread", but a "let's list all the cheap but good pedals people should check out of they're on a budget" thread!

Maybe try a Badger Schism or something? One for sale on here that might still be around: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/236241-badger-schism-xv-parallel-loop/ Most dirt pedals will be ok, the SFT and simple boosts like the Phat Phuk and Cream Pie were the only phase flippers I've encountered, also a few wahs and the Phase 90.

That doesn't sound quite right, I thought with a Jazz, the 2 single coils produce hum when used alone but cancel when blended together. Wouldn't mixing a QP and a Stack give you the same result as a PJ combo - only one pickup is hum cancelling, the other hums and therefore so does the combination?

It should give good results if the output impedances of whatever is going into it are close to each other, so you should get good results most of the time but there may be certain pedal combinations that don't play well together.