JapanAxe

¡Hola! Welcome to Basschat Ian.

Wahey! Good for either of those dates but prefer 31st (have a gig on the 2nd).

The fault you found sounds to me like a rotary encoder problem - these are used instead of pots to control parameters in digital kit. Glad you fixed it. If you liked what your GT-6B did, go for it!

[quote name='Angel' timestamp='1401444686' post='2463631'] Also, it always seems a bit strange to me that on many basses there is a bridge HB, and then another HB right next to it. Why not have the second one up near the neck? Do they actually sound that different when so close to each other? [/quote] Yes they sound very different. Some basses do have the other HB up by the neck, e.g. but not everyone likes such a bassy sound, even on a bass guitar!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1401445065' post='2463637'] Time to show my ignorance, too - I was under the impression that as single coils are prone to unwanted noise, a humbucker will solve this problem... you do get extra beans as well, but I don't think overdrive or distortion is the main purpose. [/quote] Correct on both counts. A single coil pickup is vulnerable to radio frequency interference (RFI), and mains hum from nearby equipment. A humbucker has two coils joined in series (usually) or parallel (sometimes available as a switchable option e.g. on G&L L-series), with the magnetic polarity and coil-winding direction reversed - this has the effect of adding together the signal from the strings, but cancelling out incoming noise. The output is higher (in series mode), but there is usually some treble loss compared to a single coil. Many people do not realise that the P pickup is also a kind of humbucker, where each coil senses 2 strings rather than all 4.

See my comments in a recent thread '[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/237489-octaver/page__view__findpost__p__2458020"]Octaver?[/url]'

[quote name='paulbass' timestamp='1401402642' post='2463412'] I think i'm going to have to polish up on my persistent skills How do you get your gigs if you dont mind me asking? [/quote] When I was playing the pub circuit, the 3 of us used to take a list of a dozen music pubs each. Call pub, ask to speak to landlord. Repeat until you actually speak to him in person. Introduce self/band, [u]get name[/u], offer demo. Send demo. Wait 2 weeks. Call pub, ask to speak to landlord. Repeat until you actually speak to him in person. He hasn't listened to it. Wait 1 week. Call pub, ask to speak to landlord. Repeat until you actually speak to him in person. He still hasn't listened. Explain you are taking your bookings for next year. He asks you to call back at x time. Call back at x time. Ask to speak to landlord. Repeat until you actually speak to him in person. Fix date and price. I estimate 10-20 phone calls per successful booking! (And for 'him' read 'him or her'.)

6 hours? What a waste of time. You could have been reading and posting on Basschat. Oh, wait...

[quote name='paulbass' timestamp='1401401791' post='2463400'] I have contacted a couple of places using lemon rock but the venues never get back in touch or are fully booked. [/quote] You have to be persistent when contacting venues - emails tend to be ignored, and you have to pester landlords/bookers to the point of embarrassment if you're going to pin them down to actual gigs.

IMO the standard of MIM basses has gone up considerably in the last 10 years. (This may well apply to other countries of origin, as the factory workers raise their skill levels, and the manufacturers come to expect more from them.) 10 years ago I didn't think much of the MIM Precisions I tried (kind of 'dry' sounding, for one thing), but I had no such reservations with the MIM Mustang i got a few months back.

Biker festivals - pretty sure they would love your material.

There's a bad connection, or a break in the circuit board. If you are lucky it will be something simple like the input jack coming adrift from the circuit board. If not - new circuit board

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1401380029' post='2463054'] Normally this is the point at which I'd say "guess it's time I went down to one of the big guitar shops in Surrey and try a couple"...but then we come full circle back to the OP's question! [/quote] As OP for this thread, I have to confess I have recently sold mine in pursuance of the 1-in-1-out policy which I adopted for the purpose of retaining my manly appurtenances. However, when I was looking, I didn't find that many - even in the big Surrey shops. I still haven't ruled out a lined fretless headless (cricket bat), on the grounds that I could easily hide it. I would get someone to take a date-stamped photograph of me playing it on a gig (not attended by Mrs Axe), then about 18 months later, stroll into the living room with it. When Mrs Axe says 'What? Another new bass?' I can reply that I've had it for years, before digging up the photo as proof.

Do you mean playing bass on a session being recorded in Pro Tools? I'm guessing that would be the same as recording to tape, wax cylinder, whatever. If you mean charging for recording other people into Pro Tools, that would be a different question - not to mention the answer might vary depending on which side of the Atlantic you are.

I have the L1505, and I tend to go for passive and series, treble half-way, bass at 80%. This gives a 'vintage' voice imo (though I am using flats) - flicking to active brings in a more 'modern' voice. I used to have an L2000 Tribute, and yes, there are a lot of options. Don't worry if you can't find a use for them all - you'll still find plenty of great, usable sounds.

Looks the biz but (gulp!) no tone control?

Looks like I won't be able to make the SE Bass Bash this year, so I might be tempted, even though it is a 2-hour drive. I'll keep my eye on this thread, and if it's a suitable date, could be up for some kind of lift-sharing arrangement.

[quote name='winterfire666' timestamp='1401189013' post='2460894'] for me aguilar hands down over the mark bass, but i would also consider the GK and dont overlook Carvins offerings they are fantastic value for money [/quote] Molan should be along any moment to big up the Carvin range

In 14 years of live bass playing, I have never broken a string, and I have had one amp failure (I then plugged into the PA - sounded shocking, but the bald blokes in cutoffs leaping around to 'Pretty Vacant' and 'Teenage Kicks' didn't seem to care). I generally take just one bass to gigs - two are passive, the other 2 are active with a passive option. Obviously other things can go wrong, so I should probably adopt a 2-bass policy, although (for reasons I can't quite pin down) I am reluctant to do this on pub gigs. Sometimes I just like to swap over for fun, or to see which basses work best on which material, or though which amp. It's only in the last year or so that the possibility of taking a spare amp become a viable option. I always carry spares of all the usual 'consumables', and now that I have a second soldering kit, that's going in a compartment in the boot of my car (along with the 'spare' spares - guitar lead, mic lead, kettle lead, 4-way). Strangely, on skinny-string I almost always take 2 guitars out. Some guitars work so much better on certain songs, but I do try to minimise (if not eliminate) mid-set swapping. I have had guitars fail (selector switch, solder joints, bust strings) at rehearsal, so obviously that could happen on a gig.