Maude

The floor! I'd like to get a good stand but they all look a bit unsafe to me so for now it's the floor or facing inwards in a corner. I'd like to hear which stands are rock solid though because the floor at pub gigs worries me as well.

Could you not put a P neck on your jazz if money is very tight, or do you just not like the J? I bought an Aria STB series P for £40, put some 1/4 pounders and a set of Chromes on it and I think it's awesome, very light and well balanced and the Aria necks are superb. There's the Jazz version on ebay atm for £50ish, I'm sure they use the same P sized neck for both.

I joke about this subject but in all honesty I could buy whatever I wanted and she'd be ok (ish), but sometimes it's hard to justify another bass when the money could be better used on the house. Right now we have a half finished kitchen and after that an extension needs to built, we don't have masses of money and to not buy all the new worktops this month because you saw a bass on here for sale can annoy the most patient spouse.

Shh, can't reply at the mo, the wife's in the room .

[quote name='Nick Riffed' timestamp='1382231037' post='2249607'] You would be surprised about how many things there are kicking around my house that I can plug my bass into, none of them happen to be a computer. Lol. [/quote] Well there's my solution then . . . . . . . . . . I'm coming to live with you!! Out of the bundle I bought, I will use the Steinberg MI2 interface into my computer and the Behringer (see if that gets past the swear filter) Ms40 monitors out of it. They both have enough ins and outs to make whatever I need doable, if there's any latency issues then my bass can go straight to monitors while the PC pipes in whatever I want to play along with, there's two volumes on the monitors so PC on one and bass on the other to balance the sound. I don't need the PC that came with it so I should easily be able to flog that for £50 (maybe more, it is tower, monitor, mouse and a decent keyboard) and I'm only out of pocket £30 for the interface, monitors and a carrier bag jam packed full of every type of lead I could possibly need. It'll all stay wired up so I can just plug a bass in, which live in a rack next to the PC, whenever I've got some spare time. My Line6 X3 can stay in the rehearsal room with the amp and it all leads to not carrying gear around and setting up all the time. Job jobbed .

"Join a bass forum". Think of all that equipment you didn't need and all that time you could've spent practicing.

I'm not sure which PUs you're after but are these any good? [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gibson-USA-Thunderbird-Bass-Humbucker-pick-up-Neck-/261310325705?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item3cd74f23c9"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gibson-USA-Thunderbird-Bass-Humbucker-pick-up-Neck-/261310325705?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item3cd74f23c9[/url] [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gibson-USA-Thunderbird-Bass-Humbucker-pick-up-Bridge-/261310326597?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item3cd74f2745"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gibson-USA-Thunderbird-Bass-Humbucker-pick-up-Bridge-/261310326597?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item3cd74f2745[/url]

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1382195857' post='2249165'] Very difficult, it will use a programmed chip, so it's basically a mini computer, you'd need the code and even then you probably couldn't do it exactly, and even if you could, you'd probably be breaking the law. [/quote] Fair enough, I thought it was maybe just a whole bunch of resistors and diodes and stuff rather than programs. Just thought you buy can a hell of lot of electrical components for £700. They do seem like crazy money but if you want/need it then that's the price you pay, I'd be worried about buying one now and then they fall out of favour and are only worth a couple of hundred. I'm sure when I had my Unibass they were nowhere near that sort of money, even though discontinued.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1382040650' post='2247220'] I think that the OP may be the only bass player who has never heard of Billy Sheehan…! [/quote] I had never heard of him when I bought my first bass (BS signiture Yammy), I just liked the minty green colour and the black offset blocked fretboard. I'm a bit embarrassed by that now.

I bought my Line6 X3 Live secondhand and it came in a proper branded gig bag, and a really nice quality one at that. Not much help I know but it shows they are/were available I suppose.

As an electronics dumbass, how difficult/expensive would it be to make an identical clone of these? As there not particularly old I assume all the components are still readily available. Just an idol question before anyone jumps out my monitor and brands a Behringer logo on my ass .

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1382040984' post='2247225'] Nice bass but no hat [/quote] While I still have hair??

Here's one of me with the Gedo from our Eden Project gig last Friday. [attachment=146349:IMG_30211.jpg]

Update, a bit of confusion on the list of peeps but seems to be in order now. These will be on there way to Johnny D by the end of the week, PURPOLARIS you're next after Johnny I think, sorry.

I enjoyed reading all of that, thanks. Some really useful info in there

Well I've just managed to snag this lot for £80 so hopefully it will do all I need, and can be set up out the way somewhere to not annoy others. I'm picking it up on Tuesday. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FULL-SET-UP-AUDIO-RECORDING-PC-WITH-Behringer-ms40-digital-monitors-speakers-/281177648418?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=DUbpb%252Bvta2iK0Qcx5moLBDWqTxU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FULL-SET-UP-AUDIO-RECORDING-PC-WITH-Behringer-ms40-digital-monitors-speakers-/281177648418?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=DUbpb%252Bvta2iK0Qcx5moLBDWqTxU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc[/url]

I'd definitely keep the fretted bass as well even if you are all about the fretless, you just never know. Unless money is an issue then get rid and replace when more suitable. Unless it's not financially viable to sell and then replace as you'd lose too much. Ahh what help am I? I've been trying to do a similar thing but it appears (in my head) that I still need a 4 fretted, 4 fretless, 5 fretted, 4 acoustic, 4 semi and my Variax because it's so versatile. Oh and then the EUB and acoustic doublebass .............. oh yeah and the homemade UBass I'm in the middle of. What I did manage to rid of it would seem is most of my will power

Right I'm done with these now, I think [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]PURPOLARIS is next so I'll PM him.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]These are very nice strings for my style of music but the RABs have just won over them. Soundwise, to my ears, they are very similar to the RABs, a tad darker sounding maybe and a touch louder, there are subtle other differences but not, I feel, enough to make a difference when playing amplified using a piezo (also EQ can make both strings sound alike). I liked the higher tension but some of our songs have quite fast fingerings and it's quite a workout by the end of a set.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I'm comparing them to RABs because they are similar strings and I already have a set of RABs, if I already owned the UBs I'd probably favour them over the RABs.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]But I'm happy to trade a tiny preference in sound for a bit more ease of playing and not have to shell out for another set of strings, if they were a lot more superior I'd do it but I don't feel they are.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Please excuse the bad terminology but hopefully you get the picture.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Again, thanks to Daf and Innovation for giving us the chance to try out these strings for a couple of weeks free of charge, it really does help .[/font][/color]

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1381448197' post='2239430'] Yes I know, I've been feeling bad about it since I clicked on the 'Post' button... [/quote] You shouldn't feel bad about being truthful

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1381095829' post='2234394'] How many encores is this getting? [/quote] I wouldn't worry about it, it's not 'A Major' problem.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1381095154' post='2234382'] My complaint about [i]Strictly[/i] is that no bugger comes out till it's finished. My band played a social club gig last night, due to start at 8. Four (4) paying punters in the room. Hirer suggested don't start till 8.15, by which time a few more had drifted in, but the place didn't really fill up till half way through the evening, so people paying £6 on the door for half a night's entertainment. I suppose they're the ones losing out in the end. [/quote] If you knew in advance what songs they were all dancing to you could put a big screen (with no sound) in the club and do live versions of the strictly songs, in whatever style your band normally is .................. I want to see a psychobilly band do it

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1381090186' post='2234325'] I've never looked, but I think my ring tone's a lightish brown. [/quote] And consider the tone ................. lowered!! Not a bass tone as I could never hear it in the workshop where I work so I have the intro to 'Dead Skin Mask' by Slayer, that cymbol can be heard above a surprising amount of noise

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1381080662' post='2234143'] Rubbish! Seasick Steve is doing OK. [/quote] He certainly is but is it new? But that's a whole different debate.

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1381079898' post='2234126'] That's why I said 'in 30 year's time' [/quote] Fair play, by the time I'd read through all the posts I'd forgotten that bit. In that case, I'm not sure, I'll ask my kids. I know that I don't buy enough new music anymore to know. I suppose that so much music being made electronically these days must mean that we've already slashed at least 50% of the new musicians off the list of possibilities.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1381079886' post='2234125'] Then start it yourself. [/quote] Game changing scenes are a young mans game .