JapanAxe

Cheers! Watching it now...

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1396038545' post='2409419'] Just bought a TC Hall of fame, Dolphin music are doing them for £109 including free postage . [/quote] That's a steal!

Probably the most tweakable reverb pedal is the TC Electronic Hall of Fame. You can download toneprints(TM) devised by famous players, or make your own using the free software, and beam them to the pedal via your smart phone held against one of your pickups. There are quite a few toneprints specifically for bass, including some by Gary Willis, Mark King, and Marlowe DK. I think there is one for sale in the BC Marketplace too.

Wickes sell pre-cut lengths of electrical cable that have soft plastic caps over the ends to stop people stabbing themselves on them and then calling AmbulanceChasers4U. Sometimes these might fall on the floor...

1st April is fast approaching...

OK, found the specs for the Seymour Duncan SPB3 on their [url="http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/dimensionpages/spb-3.shtml"]website[/url] and the 'body' of each part of the pickup measures 2.25in x 1.09in. The corresponding Yamaha part is 2.20in x 1.09in, so pretty close - the SD is 0.05in (i.e. 1/20in) wider. These are external dimensions of course, so I still don't know whether the SD innards would fit in the Yamaha covers (or indeed whether SDs are that bit fatter than Fender originals on account of the chunky pole pieces). Also brought up the [url="https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/downloads/dimensions/bass/p_bass.pdf"]Bareknuckle[/url] specs. They give external dimensions of 88.50mm x 25.44mm, which must be wrong as it is 3.48in x 1.00in - I reckon the first figure should be 58.5mm, making the dimensions 2.30in x 1.00in. More usefully, the bobbin dimensions are given - less usefully, these seem wrong too!

Tight playing and nice sound but like so many of these vids, that is tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome waiting to happen!

Hi folks I have a 1984 Yamaha BB400S with a reverse P-type pickup thus: I am looking to try something else in its place. The fact that it is 'reversed' (i.e. closer to the bridge on the EA portion rather than the DG portion) is not a problem; the issue is the [b]mountings[/b]. A Fender P-type pickup has a single mounting screw either side of each of the 2 parts. The Yamaha has 2 on one side and 1 on the other, and both parts sit in a Z-shaped mounting ring. Also the Yamaha parts have plain rectangular bodies, as against the lugs running almost to the top of the Fender units. It is therefore not possible to fit a Fender P-type pickup without butchery of the [s]ring piece[/s] mounting ring, which I don't want to do. The alternative seems to be to pop the innards out of the plastic cover and swap them over, but this will only work if the innards are the same size. I am going to measure the internal dimensions of the Yamaha covers when I change the strings, but I don't currently have access to a Fender P pickup to get the corresponding measurements. Does anyone have a Fender or like-for-like replacement P pickup, and the means to take accurate internal measurements of the covers? Or are there technical drawings on the net than can give me this information? Finally, are BC-ers aware of any after-market P pickups where a gut-swap would be difficult or impossible because of (for example) wax or resin potting? I remain your humble servant, JapanAxe

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1395996488' post='2408693'] can put up with crap acoustics and crap venue and crap beer and all manner of other crap things but the one thing that really grips my sh*t is trying to see through a sea of smartphone screens [/quote] Pea-shooter and supply of small ball-bearings?

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1395930685' post='2408096'] [center]The Welsh National Theatre presents a play in one act:[/center] [center][size=5][b]Dos i chwarae efo dy nain[/b][/size][/center] [i]Scene: A cottage kitchen. A tin bath hangs by the door. The mantelpiece is dressed with Welsh dolls. On a wall hangs a portrait of JPR Williams. An elderly man with a beard like a hedge is whittling scrimshaw at the table.[/i] [i](SFX: Male voice choir rendering 'Men Of Harlech' to - fade)[/i] Enter Myfanwy: Myfanwy: 'Allo, Da. Da: (Grunts) Our Myfanwy... Myfanwy: Da ... I dunno 'ow to tell you but ... Da: It's that shinach, Evans' boy, intit? Giving him a swydd chwythiant behind the wine bar, were you, like the strumpet you are? God be thanked yer Ma is gone this ten year, she'd die of shame, look you. Myfanwy: No, Da. It's the PA. It's gone again. Sounds like a fel rhech jet. Da: Pwdin blew! Were you letting that lembo of a bass player use it? I've told you before it's a Dynacord. A precision tool designed to accommodate only the female human voice. Anything below your range and it'll be cacging planciau in its fuse-box. Myfanwy: Well, he's gone on the inter-Llweb, see, and these people reckon its something else and you're an interfering old corris. Da: Dammo! My bluff's been called. Sit down, love. It's time for some truth in this house. Myfanwy: (worried) What is it Da? Da: When I told you I'd been the soundman with Showaddywaddy and I'd nicked your PA from their storage after The Aberystwyth Incident ... well ... I lied. Myfanwy: Oh, Da! Da: No. I knocked your PA up out of some winding gear, a one armed-bandit and a pit-pony. That's why it's dim gwerth rhech dafad Myfanwy: But why, Da? Da: After your Ma died, well, I just wanted to do everything for you but you went off to the bright lights of Surrey and I was ashamed Myfanwy: Oh Da, I love you. Da: I love you too, Myfanwy (They fall sobbing into each others arms) [center][i][b]Curtain[/b][/i][/center] [/quote] Sir, I sincerely hope you have not missed your vocation

[quote name='Jonnyboy Rotten' timestamp='1395878940' post='2407649'] It seems they are as careful with their customers details as they are with their guitars! [/quote] Too right! Look what happened to my password when they sent it back to me:

[quote name='ken_white' timestamp='1395961164' post='2408542'] Quick update on the audition I had tonight.. In their words "I blew them away" Now that's a decent enough comment to inspire me :-) [/quote] Well done mate - go for it! It sounds like your bro-based band is in a very deep rut, so have fun with something new, but don't burn any bridges.

At the risk of returning to topic, I have tried both D'Addario Chrome flats and D'Addario Half-rounds, on both my Sandberg and my G&L, and I didn't find the half-rounds to be much brighter than the flats - they just felt stickier!

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1392474035' post='2369162'] i was just listening to Ronny Laws, and found out that bobby played on the records. so i checked some of his stuff out. he's got a great style, and seems to me to have a huge amount of techniques down. stumbled across this vid. what a clever man. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx2lza1Rb0U[/media] [/quote] I just found this vid whilst searching for demos of stack-knob Jazzes. That guy's sound and playing are so good they put the [i]edible [/i]in [i]incredible[/i](TM).

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1395866063' post='2407467'] i can see no issues at all he could teach mr king a lesson or two about tasteful slapping and he could teach grayson perry a thing or two about tasteful dressing imho ymmv mcton etceteraetcetera [/quote] We've gone a bit OT here but yes, that guy makes my day. [i]Vive la différence,[/i] as the Koreans say. For me, GAS comes from spending too much time on Basschat!

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1395854835' post='2407247'] Always been a huge Police-fan so when they did their reunion-tour I was so much looking forward to it... Turned out to be such a disappointment....terrible live-sound, support-act Fiction Plane (Sting's son) was mùch better and Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland were half the great musicians I expected them to be. Sting couldn't reach the high notes any more.. Wish I had never seen it. [/quote] Me too. £80 a ticket to watch some tiny figures on a distant stage, or a big TV screen. By contrast I have seen Iggy Pop twice at the Apollo and John Hiatt at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, and all were cracking gigs.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1395786848' post='2406423'] But there's loads of other options for 1960. How about a Gibson EB2 or even better a Gibson EB0 with the original Les Paul Jr body shape. Failing that something European like Burns or Höfner? [/quote] Out of those I think I'd go for a Burns. Then again I can't remember ever seeing one up for sale on BC!

Don't forget to consider looks! If you have a rack-mount power amp, that will be 19in (48.3cm) wide. A cab that is much narrower than this may look a bit silly. Shallow I know, but I like a rig to look (as well as sound) bitchin'!