Jean-Luc Pickguard

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

I took my new Beyerdynamic DT-150s to the recording studio last week to focus in on individual sounds and the engineer liked them so much he's going to try to get the studio to buy some sets. I like to mix on headphones, but always listen on decent monitors as well.

[quote name='Buzz' post='48657' date='Aug 22 2007, 12:15 AM']Dunno, 70's would be a nitro finish wouldn't it?[/quote] I think they stopped using nitro around '68 and went over to polyester. I'm sure someone correct me if I'm wrong.

If you got credit from a shop you WILL be treated like a mug. Your best bet is to first workout how much you can afford to pay a month and set up a savings account. Set up a standing order to transfer that amount from your bank account into this new savings account. Then apply for a credit card with 12 month interest free period offer on purchases - halifax currently offer this, I'm sure there are others as well. When you get the card just use it once to buy the bass (after shopping around and haggling over the price) then put the card away don't get tempted to run up a higher debt. Pay the minimum amount off each week from the savings account, then just before the interest free-period ends pay the outstanding amount off and cancel the card. If you receive any credit card cheques or loan offers from the bank in the meantime shred them immediately, they want people to borrow more than they can afford and if you do you'll regret it almost immediately.

I wish I'd known about this stuff last time I had to strip the paint off a 70s fender (most had already been sanded off by the previous owner). Even Nitromors could hardly touch it.

[quote name='beerdragon' post='48241' date='Aug 21 2007, 12:02 PM']but you would'nt want to play one [/quote] I would for £100,000 a week

I thought the first one was aesthetically challenged but the atum-re on the link just looks scrotal to me. Just my honest opinion. maybe I'm too conservative. (with a small "c")

[quote name='E_MaN' post='47437' date='Aug 19 2007, 04:47 PM']buy the bass that inspires you to play[/quote] E_MaN speaks the truth. You already have a Carvin, which is probably a very nice bass but doesn't sound like it particularly inspires you. Its much better to have a bass that you want to pick up and play every time you walk into the room. You can safely ignore your friend's opinion about the Hoppus - as the saying goes "opinions are like a******s: everyone has one and most of them stink" )

Cool idea, but it seems kind of expensive for something that looks like it can easily be made for next to nothing.

[quote name='Crazyforkillua' post='47265' date='Aug 19 2007, 01:52 AM']Yea, pop punk. I want a Mark Hoppus bass, but my friend says they're a load of crap [/quote] Did your friend give a reason for his opinion. Has he played a Hoppus? I see no reason why a Hoppus would be a load of crap. I'm not keen on the styling, but I doubt it would be much difference between it and any other MIM precision apart from the jazz body and it has a great Pickup. Mexican Jazzes & Precisions are consistently very nice instruments these days. Have you seen the MIM Mike Dirnt Bass?

For Punk I'd go with a US Fender Highway 1 Precision or a Fender japan 70s Precision reissue. The highway 1 will get nicely mojoed up from playing wear over time. Sorry I couldn't resist - no offence intended:

It was designed to emulate the sound of an acoustic upright. I'm not sure if its more or less easy to adapt to a 43" scale

A sign hung near the stage like this helps: "All song requests must be submitted on a fifty pound note. The band reserves the right to substitute any requested song for one with some of the same notes in it."

I don't think I play any better after a drink, but I probably care less about any flubs in my playing.