dannybuoy

I blame whoever put it at a 99p starting bid!

Oh good grief, not again. I have good fish, and good chips - do I need tomato ketchup? Depends if you like the flavour!

Like this one? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvAJFmfkh1k[/media]

It's good enough for Alabama Shakes! I have found that a very light piece of foam that does almost nothing down by the bridge sounds very good when moving it up towards the pickup. Still searching for the perfect mute that mutes evenly across the uneven string heights. Might have to get a Bassmute after all.

How long strings 'last' depends on how zingy you like them to sound. Since I play bass and not treble, I've had my current rounds on for almost a year!

I would recommend practicing to drum patterns instead of a basic metronome. Or jam along with some old school funk records!

Kinda like Jack White's plastic guitar:

Not sure I hear any effects in there? Just a vintage sounding guitar with humbuckers probably into an old tube amp. Depends on what guitar and amp he already has - I would maybe look at amp models on the multi-fx, but a large part of that sound is from the guitar itself. If he has a strat for example you could make it sound more like humbuckers with EQ or perhaps a pedal like the EHX Knockout.

I've tried a Gold Lion 12AX7 in the V1 position (on the right) and a Jan Philips 5751 (which is somewhere inbetween a 12AT7 and 12AX7 in terms of gain). Definitely lower gain with the 5751, although the Gold Lions have slightly more gain than stock they still sound better. Still trying to decide what I prefer, limited by the fact that Hot Rox sent me an EHX valve in one of the Gold Lion boxes by mistake (I should have had two of em) - they are hopefully sending me a replacement. I'm not sure if changing the V2 valve on the left to a lower gain tube will have the effect of limiting the maximum power out of the amp? Depends exactly how it's wired up but the schematic in the manual isn't detailed enough. [url="http://www.orangeamps.com/images/Terror_Bass_manual_20100205.pdf"]http://www.orangeamps.com/images/Terror_Bass_manual_20100205.pdf[/url]

Give me your Shuker then and I can mod it in a similar fashion if you like! I'd like to see a pic of that, never seen a 6 string P before - I imagine the pickups are hard to come by!

Looks like this owner tried to reduce the weight of his T-40... [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300715853460&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123#ht_500wt_1415"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300715853460&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123#ht_500wt_1415[/url]

When you push the Genz hard, I think the compression you hear is Genz's fancy '3D Power Management' which is supposed to emulate tube compression. It sounds to me like a limiter applied to the low end only - at high volume you can dig in and get a bit more growl without clipping the amp due to too much bass coming through.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1337585413' post='1662183'] I thought that swapping the wires over on one end of a jack lead would invert the phase. I'm pretty sure I learned it at uni? EDIT: Ahhh, but that wouldn't solve the problem when the pedal is off. Surely there are another couple of wires inside the pedal you could flip over? [/quote] There are two wires to the jack lead - one with varying voltage positive to negative, and one ground that stays constantly at zero. The ground is a common connection linking all the way from your guitar strings to the earth socket in the plug wall. It just would not work if you swapped them, you would probably just get a loud buzzing sound like when you half plug a jack plug in. You need another gain stage instead like a simple transistor buffer that can take the input and produce a voltage swing going in the other direction instead.

[quote name='Mark_Andertons' timestamp='1337780692' post='1665347']All too often tempting to just grab a plectrum! [/quote] It's not against the law! Sometimes a pick is necessary for certain sounds, I use both. Big fat Dunlop triangles for bass.

Can't go wrong with DV, I've bought stuff from them for over 10 years and always had great service.

I bought some from Maplin a while back.

Yamaha BB with P/J pickups? Fat beefy rock tone from the P pickup that you can add a bit of J-like growl to when using both pickups.

There are 2 versions of this by the way: Old version: New version: