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Thanks for the tip, I haven't looked at gumtree for a while. Shame its not the red one, I've emailed the seller and all things going well, I'll be paying him a visit tomorrow to take a look... The missus says I have to sell my double bass if I do buy it though How hard can it be to hide a one and a half foot long piece of wood?
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This sounds like what you need - MP3 Bass trainer. I use the guitar version of this as the bass version wasn't available when I bought it.
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[quote name='Sibob' post='40101' date='Aug 1 2007, 05:35 PM']I've always worked by the 'rule' of thumb that you should have the bass at the same height standing as when your sitting with it on your lap. That way you're not playing in two completely different ways. Cool Si[/quote] For this reason I hardly ever play sitting down. I find that my different basses each need a different length strap to feel right, so each bass has its own strap optimaly adjusted. The time to adjust shouldn't be an issue as once its set as you like you don't have to do it again - Iyou should usually be able to get the optimum length for any leather/suede strap within a few minutes. Note: If you get a thunderbird bass, you really should adjust the strap as long as it goes, as they don't look cool played high up.
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[quote name='OldGit' post='54135' date='Sep 2 2007, 11:48 AM']Tbird neck dive fix is here [url="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~wizkid/music/thunderbird_mod/"]http://www.lysator.liu.se/~wizkid/music/thunderbird_mod/[/url] Cant help you with the weight though [/quote] Ha! that's exactly what I did to my "sno-white" epi t-bird. It certainly cures the next dive. I don't notice any weight issues - mine doesn't seem any heavier than any of my fenders once I moved the strap button.
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If it was in or near Surrey/South London I'd be interested, but I think I'd get sick of the A3 trekking down to Portsmouth. Good luck with your search.
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[quote name='Bass_Junkie' post='53791' date='Sep 1 2007, 01:01 PM']aparantly those basses are quite bad sounding, though i love the look of them![/quote] It appears you have been grossly misinformed about the sound of epi t-birds. You should try one for yourself before repeating such nonsense.
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You should have received Cubase LE in the box in addition to Gigastudio. I think that could be what you are looking for.
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I bought one for £50, then realised I didn't really have a use for it so sold it for £85. I guess I should have hung on to it for a while.
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It could be that (for example) your maximum bid was £10 higher than the bid currently shown the winner put in a bid £11 higher than the current bid, which was £1 higher than your maximum bid.
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New Luthiers wanting feedback on their first bass!
Jean-Luc Pickguard replied to warwickhunt's topic in Bass Guitars
[quote name='warwickhunt' post='51923' date='Aug 28 2007, 08:09 PM']Think Thunderbird... great bass I'm sure but horrendous balance issues.[/quote] Not if you know where to locate the strap button. -
Getting some flatwounds need some opinions
Jean-Luc Pickguard replied to markdavid's topic in Accessories and Misc
I use Thomastiks, they are very low tension and feel better than any string I've used. A lot of people prefer a higher tesnsion string so they're not for everyone. I used to use rotos a while ago which are high tension but I'll never user those again as I had three sets that sounded & felt very inconsistent from string to string. For Old-school you may like the LaBella Deep Talkin' flats, like James Jamerson & Duck Dunn used in the 60s. My daughter has a short scale set on her 30" daisyrock heartbreaker bass - sound & feel great and come in a variety of lengths & gauges. -
Bass player wanted in London
Jean-Luc Pickguard replied to bassplayerwanted's topic in Musicians Wanted
If a female bassist auditioned would they be expected to wear a suit & tie... -
What exactly is an envelope filter?
Jean-Luc Pickguard replied to Baseballfan1456's topic in Effects
[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='51290' date='Aug 27 2007, 02:24 PM']The first issue is that it would be a lot of work, and second describing sound is so subjective that it's really difficult to get the gist. To quote someone from bassworld (BT68 I think) " ... trying to describe a sound in writing is like trying to describe a smell through the medium of dance ... ". To be fair though, Andy at Monkey FX gives it a good go: [url="http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/fxguide.html"]http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/fxguide.html[/url][/quote] That's an excellent description. Now I'm off to buy myself a wah pedal and a well trained monkey... -
What, Why, Where, Which, Who and When?!?
Jean-Luc Pickguard replied to bassmandan's topic in Bass Guitars
Reminds me of... "Talking out of turn...that's a paddling." "Looking out the window...that's a paddling." "Staring at my sandals...that's a paddling." "Paddling the school canoe...ooh, you better believe that's a paddling." -
As much as I like Flea, the tutorial dvd he did a while ago was a complete & utter waste of money.
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I have mine working perfectly in XP with cubase studio 4. If you're using XP and need to do a clean reinstall, there's doc here: [url="http://www.tascam.com/details;8,15,68,19.html"]http://www.tascam.com/details;8,15,68,19.html[/url] clean Uninstall of the US-122 on Windows 2000 / XP (download) that might help along with the latest drivers. It won't work in Vista though until new drivers come out. The XP drivers don't work.
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Gavin at GM audio fixed mine: [url="http://www.gmaudio.co.uk"]http://www.gmaudio.co.uk[/url] GM audio is a Trace Elliot affliated authorised service centre and used to do all the warranty work for them.
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I think the idea of using egg crates comes from seeing photos of studio walls covered in foam acoustic tiles that look like egg crates (as redroque mentions), certainly not actual egg crates. If egg crates are used it'll be like the bits that boy racers stick on their cars that they think look cool but don't actually have any practical advantage.
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I've tried various types of recording device to record rehearsals in the last few years: DAT, minidisk, iRiver H340 HDD MP3 player with PZM mics, a Stereo electret mic, a matched pair of phantom powered condenser mics, using a variety of cables, mixers etc sometimes with various Heath Robinson-like configurations. It would usually take up a fair bit of rehearsal time to set up and even longer to get the results edited down to CD. Then we used some gig funds towards get a zoom H4, a couple of 2GB cards and some rechargable AAs. Now it takes literally a minute to set up the H4 on a cameral tripod press record and the whole rehearsal can be recorded very easily in the best sound quality I have been able to get of all the setups. I then put the card into the reader on my laptop, pull the CD quality WAV file across and edit in Magix Audio Cleaner 10 (whichwas going cheap in PC world) I can edit a rehearsal down to CD and make copies a lot quicker and easier than before. I have also used this to record our gigs (the other methods I had tried were too much hassle to set up) and we have used CDs created to make a live demo that has got us more gigs.
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[quote name='Vasquez Rich' post='50579' date='Aug 25 2007, 03:12 PM']Every time I go to London I (stupidly) make a bee-line for Denmark St, every time I am completely uninspired by all the shops. IMHO overpriced and not very customer friendly. For example one of the shops wanted a whopping £1400 for a new T'Bird, another shop just along the road wanted an even whoppinger £1200 for a used T'Bird... my Mrs asked me why I had a long face and I said that I could get almost everything they had for cheaper in t'north or off the internet. Don't think I'll bother next time. Richard[/quote] I once stupidly tried to take my very nice 80s japanese tokai ('58 korina) Flying vee into one of the shops in Denmark street after seeing that they had sold one with a price ticket of £600. I thought I'd see what they'd offer me including the hard case. I would have taken £300, but was only offered £200 max. I later sold it privately for £450. I can't understand how they get the secondhand stock. Would the previous owner of the t-bird (in Vasquez Rich's post above) have taken just £400 for it originally? I guess the ticket price allows some haggling room, but the mark up seems to be rather excessive to me, especially as a lot of secondhand stuff doesn't seem to be particularly well set up.
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everything is everything - willie weeks
Jean-Luc Pickguard replied to anthomp's topic in General Discussion
I have the magazine - Willie's playing on the Donny Hathaway live album is great. I love the solo on everything is everything. I'll should be able to get a pdf of the transcription over the weekend. PM me your email address & I'll send it on to you. -
[quote name='bigd1' post='49675' date='Aug 23 2007, 05:07 PM']It seems that all that is on this forum of late is "what is best" kind of topics. Good god enough man !. We used to have really good topics not just pointless crap like this. BIGd grumpy old git coz it's tttttttttttttttttttttttooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooottttttttttttttttt.[/quote] Yes have more "quality" threads are needed about the standard of topics.
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Have to tried running the EMGs from two batteries to get 18v rather than just the one? I'm guessing that you'll be getting less of the "sound of wood" with EMGs. I didn't really get on with the one I had in my precision for a while.
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I can't see what the problem is. Just go for it! No matter what level you're at now, joining a band is bound to improve your playing.
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Is it this? bassidol.com I wonder if its like the (now defunct) local shop's battle of the bands where instead of getting sponsorship bands were charged to enter and tickets for punters were £7. Finalists got to play an unpaid gig that the promoters were making money on. It smells like a money making scheme. I wonder why Gibson & Roland got involved...