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I get a bit too giddy about the sounds, but not the gear. I'm gigging a Squier at the moment.

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='730783' date='Jan 31 2010, 05:05 PM']Their bassist plays in another band and so the have to turn down gigs if he's not available. The drummer and singer independently asked if I'd consider joining them and asked for my phone number! How cool is that!?!?[/quote] Excellent, you obviously rocked it. How silly do you feel to have waited this long to do it?

Sounds to me like you might want to ask your teacher what strings he's got on it.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='730063' date='Jan 30 2010, 08:02 PM']Damn, I'm after short scale - do you know if it's possible to trim the 32" without causing any intonation problems?[/quote] I heard Wayne does have double balls but short scale.

Is there a bassist who doesn't have an LS-2? I'm actually thinking of selling some pedals now. But then my board will be too big so I'll get rid of that, then I'll decide I want more pedals, then I'll have to buy another bigger board, and... Maybe I'll just leave it.

I'm impressed with the tracking, but it sounds a bit of a one-trick pony to me. If it could do a square wave I'd probably buy one anyway, but I don't use saws that much.

Bear in mind you'll get a handling charge from the courier who picks up the parcel when it arrives in the UK, shouldn't be over a tenner though. As for VAT and import duty, I have got away with low declarations from private sellers but never came across a business willing to mess with HMRC!

Nice bass. My first Warwick was a Corvette Proline 6 with a white maple body which I eventually had to sell to appease the tax man, that was a sad day. It was an absolute beaut, totally natural to play, didn't feel like a six-string at all. Glad you're stoked with it.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_Ahhuto98"]Warnin warnin nuclear attack![/url]

Oh and don't forget to thank the missus for making you do it.

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='729282' date='Jan 29 2010, 10:28 PM']So, after posting [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=52797&view=findpost&p=524206"]this[/url] a while back, I've finally taken the plunge and will be playing live for the first time ever.[/quote] Reading your post from last summer, I've got some similar habits. I spend a lot of time alone and I have a pretty small circle of friends that I stay in regular touch with. I have a bit of a social phobia and sometimes it gets the better of me and I avoid gatherings (incl. my best mate's wedding a few years ago) especially if I have to meet a lot of people I don't know. I struggle with some everyday things, like shopping. I hate shopping on my own, especially for clothes for myself. I avoid it wherever possible and get practically into panic-attack territory sometimes. I used to even stress over going into a supermarket. All that said, I reckon I've done over 500 gigs. [quote name='Hot Tub' post='729282' date='Jan 29 2010, 10:28 PM']So, my question is simply this: How do you get over the nerves? I am absolutely [u][i]SHTING [/i][/u]myself, and if I'm honest, I really don't want to do it. I know I'm gonna miss a string, or fluff a change (I mean, FFS, you don't get much simpler than these songs!), or just generally have a train wreck. But, I also know that if I don't do it I probably never will, and I will continue to kick myself for the rest of my life.[/quote] Are you nervous specifically about making a mistake, or just about getting on stage? Because the easy answer to the making a mistake thing is: You will make mistakes and probably nobody will notice, or if they do notice they won't remember. One time I actually played the wrong SONG for the entire first verse, because my monitor was inaudible and my set list was wrong (and - to be fair - I was hallucinating quite severely). Shrugged it off, made sure I played sober ever since. Still make mistakes of course but not of that magnitude. You just have to keep playing, mistakes are history as soon as they've happened. If you dwell on them you won't be concentrating on what you're doing next, and you'll make another mistake. If you're worried about getting on stage, hang out with the band while they're setting up if you can, get friendly with the people you're going to be gigging with and you'll hopefully develop more faith in them and a bit of camaraderie. All that will give you confidence when you step up to play with them. [quote name='Hot Tub' post='729282' date='Jan 29 2010, 10:28 PM']How to approach it? What to think? What to feel? What's gonna happen? What if I make a t!t of myself, or worse? I can't practise any more, although I'll probably have another dozen or so run-throughs tomorrow morning. Should I do it? Should I back out?[/quote] Definitely don't back out. After the first few bars of the first tune you'll get into the music and the rest will all be a blur, and you'll wish you could remember more of it or that it could've lasted longer. I promise.

[quote name='jakesbass' post='728500' date='Jan 29 2010, 10:55 AM']if you're looking for something loud and darker in colour just keep trolling through the various ads and be prepared to kiss some frogs in your search. If you could spend up to about £400 then you will eventually find something. Best of luck and if you spot anything you want an experienced eye cast over then post it on here or PM me or some of the other DB players, we are generally a helpful bunch IME.[/quote] Will do. I was thinking about £400 would be about right. [quote name='slobluesine' post='728558' date='Jan 29 2010, 11:56 AM']theres a B&H Golden Strand on Ebay at the mo... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Golden-Strad-Double-Bass-Jazz-size-Upright-Contrabass_W0QQitemZ270520863834QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Sting_Instruments?hash=item3efc4ccc5a"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Golden-Strad-Double-...=item3efc4ccc5a[/url][/quote] I was looking at that last night, hard to get an idea of how it sounds from his clip though - his mic seems to only be picking up buzz from the G string and very little else. I've stuck it on my watch list anyway, it seems 'teej' really likes the one he's got.

[quote name='ardi100' post='728382' date='Jan 29 2010, 08:20 AM']I bought mine from my school (which had 3 and no students, so I didn't deprive any learners!) which was happy to get some money for something that was just taking up room. ... I say try and be creative when looking. Junk sales, clearouts etc could all be fruitfull.[/quote] I'm useless at finding bargains that way but I will try. I wonder if the girlfriend's school has any basses they want to shift... [quote name='ardi100' post='728382' date='Jan 29 2010, 08:20 AM']PS Did I see you posting on an android forum recently? Got a Hero?[/quote] It's a small internets isn't it? Yes that was me. I also bumped into someone I knew on there - a drummer I haven't seen in over 10 years. Weird.

Cheers for the advice. I've seen all those cheap orange basses and I can't have one of those anyway - my girlfriend insists that if I buy a DB it has to have a positive aesthetic impact on the house. So something chestnutty I suppose, pre-scraped and dinged preferably. I'll give him a ring at the weekend and see what he's got to say. I didn't get a whole lot of time to talk to him before because he was on a gig.

Well work's been crap for ages and I've been after a DB for ages but if there's one benefit of a slow year at work it's that my tax bill is a lot smaller than they thought it would be and I hardly owe them anything. I don't want to splash out in a big way (times are still a bit tight) but I'm looking for a DB that I can take out and busk with my guitarist (and maybe drummer) when spring eventually arrives, but I don't want to spend a lot of money on a bass just to take it out and scrape half of it off on kerbs and other public obstacles. So something fairly loud played pizz, not bothered at all about arco sound - I can't bow for toffee anyway. I'll be using it mostly for old '60s Jamaican pop music so a good boomy sound would be ideal, not too bothered about treble detail. Can I do this on the cheap or is it not really feasible? Thing is: I met an upright bassist at the back end of last year (don't really want to name him because of his controversial bit that comes next...) who was telling me that I could probably find something ideal for "about 150 quid" (he actually said there were "always loads" of these basses for sale), and if I spent another hundred or so on getting it set up properly it would be ideal. This seems to go totally against the advice I've read on here in the past though. Is he just dead wrong on this? He seems like a good guy, down-to-earth middle-aged chap, he can certainly play, and he was up for giving me some lessons and helping me find an instrument and he's the sort of guy I think would make a good teacher. But is he totally off his rocker with his buying suggestions?

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='728063' date='Jan 28 2010, 08:23 PM'] Like this [/quote] OMG where did you find that? Awesome. We should petition the FA to make football more like that.

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='727555' date='Jan 28 2010, 01:33 PM']So do I! Competition stripes are the very thing. I like the 70s porn colours too.[/quote] It puts me in mind of a '70s West Germany football kit.

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='726031' date='Jan 27 2010, 08:47 AM']Side or front?[/quote] Yup. I actually like that Wal.

Looking at those blisters on your picking hand, I used to get those when I was younger and picked down by the bridge. It wasn't until much later that I realised I picked down by the bridge because I was picking too hard to pick anywhere else - the strings would just flail around if I didn't pick where they were very taut. And I was only picking that hard in the first place because I couldn't hear myself properly. Turn yourself up - or stay near your amp where you can hear yourself clearly - for a whole rehearsal and see how your fingers feel after that. As for your fretting hand, I've never had (or seen) anything like that. I would be guessing the same as Sarah that maybe the alloy in your strings doesn't agree with your skin. Try pure steel strings and see if that makes any difference.

For me, whatever the phrase "bad taste" might encapsulate, a guitar's not "naff" until it's got LEDs in the fingerboard.

I love the old one, not so fond of the newer die-cast XO model - it sounds a bit weedy. It's really good for old Moog/ARP -type bass sounds, and a couple of other tricks, it won't do oscillator tones and that sort of thing though. Basically it's an analogue octaver, a distortion and an octave fuzz, combined with your clean signal in a 4-channel mixer, going through a pretty neat envelope-triggered low-pass filter that lets you set the decay time. All together they're a clever set of features.

The ones that really impress me are the ones that people know and hum.

I'm having the four bar bass break in Tommy The Cat. Short, to the point, batshit insane. Ideal.