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[quote name='silddx' post='752285' date='Feb 20 2010, 10:13 PM']Mrs silddx asked if you brought it out at a children's party, could you, with a few twists, turn it into a daschund [/quote] They're not my cup of tea (at all) but it's good that people are building weird stuff like this. As for the price, you'd have to really love the thing to pay such a lot of money for it, but I'm sure there are people out there who do love it. I've always felt fairly well served by the more commonly-available basses on the market so I've never had to look at exotic stuff like this.

I wouldn't pay that for any Precision. In my head they're worth £500 if they're really good ones.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='750819' date='Feb 19 2010, 12:58 PM']I present the first in my series of studies designed for the Pre-Novice. This is called "Étude in E": [/quote] Has anyone got a tab for this?

[quote name='Hit&Run' post='748956' date='Feb 17 2010, 09:13 PM']1) Would I need a different guage to my preferred roundwound guage?[/quote] Maybe? Maybe not. I use a slightly heavier gauge with flats and I like the substantial feel, but that's me. [quote name='Hit&Run' post='748956' date='Feb 17 2010, 09:13 PM']2) I recall reading about TIs being a bit 'looser' feeling than the taut LaBellas. If I were to get some LaBellas, would I need to lighten the guage accordingly?[/quote] I use LaBellas and as I said above the sets I use are actually heavier than the rounds I use (usually Ernie Ball or Rotos, 100-40 or 45 - the LaBellas are 104-43 I think). I'm a pretty weedy sort so I wouldn't be doing it if it was hard work. [quote name='Hit&Run' post='748956' date='Feb 17 2010, 09:13 PM']3) LaBella and TI seem to predominate the choices of many players. Does anyone use any other flatwounds?[/quote] Sorry can't help there, haven't used any other brands.

The first bass player I wanted to be more like was Norwood from Fishbone. I thought Tony Kanal from No Doubt was uber cool too. The first musician, long before I noticed bass players, was Ian Dury.

[quote name='thebassman' post='746818' date='Feb 16 2010, 07:36 AM']if you're amp has 2 speaker outs, you could ask some else to bring another cab. Even adding a single 15 to your rig will make a lot of difference. I need a 4x10 to keep up with my drummer, although he is a very heavy hitter.[/quote] That's a good idea but it's a 4 ohm cab, so adding another cab would drop the impedance below what my amp can deal with. Sounds like all you 1212 owners are confident that my cab will be loud enough. I'm quite looking forward to cranking it up now.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='746999' date='Feb 16 2010, 10:56 AM']When I email a business, I sometimes use a recogniseable username before my domain in the reply address so I can see who's sending me email (a little bit paranoid, I suppose). On this occasion, I used '[email protected]' ('mg' for Music Ground, you see?). A month or so later, I started receiving irrelevant spam to '[email protected]', and it continues to this day. Not suggesting anything.. it's probably a coincidence.[/quote] I used to do that (back when I could collect mail to a catch-all, but my domain is so badly spammed now I don't bother), and I also once sent them email from musicground@mydomain, and got spammed to that address shortly afterwards.

They're shits. Music Ground used to be the best 'rock' music shop in Leeds, it's hard to pinpoint precisely when they turned into such despicable c**ts but it was shortly after they moved into their current premises. You won't find anything in there that's worth the asking price, and you will be condescended to while you try to establish why anyone would think that what you're looking at would actually be worth the stupid amount of money they're asking for.

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' post='746769' date='Feb 16 2010, 01:32 AM']But Surely You lose tone quality as your not driving the speakers at optimum performance levels?[/quote] I've never heard of a speaker designed for between two power ranges, typically they just quote the maximum sensible power they can eat. I'd imagine there's a good reason for that. [quote name='AttitudeCastle' post='746769' date='Feb 16 2010, 01:32 AM'](Also Yamaha Attitude so in reality it would be 400W in total as i'd double the rig)[/quote] 400w sounds like a lot of rig, but (bearing in mind I've never used a Billy Sheehan bass) do you actually mix both pickups 50:50? I would've thought the bass pickup would be more an afterthought, and most of the power would be dedicated to the P pickup. [quote name='AttitudeCastle' post='746776' date='Feb 16 2010, 01:48 AM']I would like to Add, my mind is useless a deciding wattages As My only and older brother is convinced you could play An outdoor gig with 15W and that U2 play stadiums with only like five 30W heads and NO PA[/quote] Well your older brother probably enjoyed all the mindbending drugs so let's not pick on him. I've had guitarists with 50w valve amps cause really irritatingly-sharp ear-hole annoying noises at rehearsals, and guitarists with 50w transistor heads fail to be heard over an un-miked drummer. The accepted wisdom is that a bass guitar needs about 3x the power of a guitar (although this depends on the sort of sounds you're all using and whose manufacturers are honest about amp power output and speaker efficiency) to be as audible, and probably with 300w or so available and a decently efficient speaker set-up you'd be OK for anything that didn't have PA reinforcement. Personally I like to know I've got a bit more headroom than that, but in practice I never use it. In your situation though, it's all about the balance between your two amps, and I can't see you using both 50:50, so think about that first - how you use your Billy Sheehan bass.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='746790' date='Feb 16 2010, 03:23 AM']Two things you never loan out: Your rig and your girlfriend.[/quote] Yeah that was one of the first things that popped into my head but we're sharing drums and stuff, so it seems in the spirit. I thought about it and in this situation I don't think anything bad's likely to happen to my gear, and I'll be there the whole time. Still would like to know if anyone's got experience of pushing these little Schroeder cabs hard. Actually Bill do you have a fancy maths thing that would theoretically give us the answer for a guess-sized room? Edit: And I've been trying to get people to take my girlfriend for years. Even tried to get her dad to take her back but he says possession is 9/10ths of the law.

Looks like I'm doing a gig next month where the bass won't be PA'd, the room is 100 capacity, I've been there before but can't remember how big it is, not much bigger than a typical pub ents room IIRC. The other bands want to use my amp, which is an LH500 into a 1212L. I've only used it for backline before and I'm wondering if anyone's had any experience of trying to fill a room with one? I don't know how loud this rig will go if I give it big beans. I'm just a bit worried that if I'm the only person turning up with a bass amp and it's not loud enough they'll all be giving me the evils. Especially because it looks so small and puny!

I think flight cases are still useful if you're touring a lot, it's nice to know that whoever loaded up the van, when you get out at the other end your bass is still going to be in one piece. And it's a safe place to keep your bass inside the venue too, saves you worrying about other bands tripping over it or whatever. I've never bothered with flightcasing cabs, they just get too heavy to lift and loading in/out requires more organisation (a quality bands tend not to have in vast quantities). Depends how expensive / replaceable your cabs are I suppose.

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='745712' date='Feb 15 2010, 11:57 AM']Acid jazz used to do compiliation albums, I've ot a few somewhere, a good rane of sounds from funk, UK acid jazz, latin etc, I bought albums by several artists on the strength of what I heard on those CD's[/quote] One of the early ones; 'Acid Jazz and Other Illicit Grooves' has got some mega stuff on it - get it if you can find it. Big +1 to Roy Ayers - the whole UK Acid Jazz sound was nicked from him, basically.

[quote name='kets' post='745433' date='Feb 15 2010, 12:29 AM']Lots of similar stuff to check out, Incognitio etc. Worth checking out some of the older Acid Jazz stuff like The New Jersey Kings, Corduroy, Mother Earth, possibly even Galliano.[/quote] The "New Jersey Kings" is JTQ. That 'Party To The Bus Stop' album was great though. As for Galliano, all of their albums are very different, give them a preview first.

First bass was an awful plywood 'Satellite' Jazz copy that I got from McGranes in Leeds (now gone) for £50, and a 10w practice amp (can't remember the brand name). First "giggable" setup was a Yamaha RBX-550M and a really lousy-sounding Laney 100w / 1x15 combo. Currently gigging a Squier Jazz (my lovely Warwick Thumb hasn't had a gig lately) into a Hartke LH-500 into a Schroeder 1212L, but I did go through the inevitable steps of TE AH heads and 410s, and spine-destroying SVTs and 2x15 cabs, etc. along the way.

[quote name='51m0n' post='740923' date='Feb 10 2010, 12:58 PM']Oh my, now you've hit the world of hurt face first [/quote] There's almost no likelihood of having just one filter either. I've got four at the moment and were it not for terrific feats of self-control I'd have more. Envelope control won't be enough, you'll want ADSR, you'll want footpedal control, you'll probably want tap-tempo LFO control and sample & hold control. Then you'll want a formant filter, and a band-pass filter, and...

[quote name='theplumber' post='742739' date='Feb 12 2010, 02:04 AM']its only wood and wire...you make it sound good![/quote] Yeah the player is important, but if the bass is arse then nobody's going to sound good on it. Unless they are world-famous for having a sh*t sound like John Entwistle was.

Lots of Smiths stuff but in particular... and This totally bonkers Madness bassline: And this classic that I think I first heard on De La Soul's 'Ring Ring Ring', then Skee-Lo's 'Tale Of Mr Morton', it's a right slag of a bass groove, probably been on a dozen hit records:

Is that amp either battery-powered or light or cheap or any two of those three?

Maybe he set his tone up to play solo, he might not always sound like that. I liked his feel and some of the stuff he played. He's probably a lot better than he looks on that video, and he looks better than me on that video.

[quote name='Jerry_B' post='742668' date='Feb 11 2010, 11:49 PM']You should see what he did to our patio - or 'the cellar', as we now call it.[/quote] I just nearly choked on my wine.

That's ace! I don't remember that game, must look it up.

I had one of those back in 1994. Fretless, all black with cream binding around the top, ebony board, apparently mine was the fretless that toured the trade shows that year and I got it for half price in Denmark Street as a result, £400 IIRC. Bloody amazing sounding bass that was. I remember someone I bumped into that weekend loved the look of it and gave me a Harrods duster to keep it smudge-free! TBH I always put Rotos Swing Bass 66 on mine, sounded mega. Wasn't really going for an upright sound though.

[quote name='silddx' post='742651' date='Feb 11 2010, 11:31 PM']I would suggest it's where your head is positioned and your perceived finger placement is the result of optical perspective. I couldn't care less what Gary Willis says but if he hasn't thought of this then I suspect he doesn't put shelves up level either.[/quote] I had Gary Willis round to tile my bathroom last summer, I said "Gary, get off your arse, stand back and look" but did he listen? Honestly it looks like Escher did it. Arsehole.

[quote name='Tactician' post='742119' date='Feb 11 2010, 02:25 PM']A small cube speaker cab with a small comapct , but powerful amp is a reality. They are out their to buy and to build. But I don't see many bassplayers I teach, or others I see around, wanting to be seen in front of small systems. They want to stand in front of 2x2x15", 2x4x12" and 8x10" cabs and plenty of them - at least whatever mum and dad can buy. When did you last see a bass player at a concert standing beside a couple of 14" cube cabs and an amp smaller than micro hi-fi?[/quote] Arranging a gig for next month I've just been on the phone to one of the other bands saying they can use my 2x12 bass rig. At first they insisted I use theirs (an Ashdown 410 and some amp or other), but I think I've just about managed to explain to them adequately that mine will be much louder than theirs despite being half the size and weighing half as much. They still don't quite believe me I'm sure, but I know my rig will fill the venue because I've played there before. And I'm looking forward to seeing the bass player's face when he soundchecks with it.