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[quote name='stevie' post='612978' date='Sep 30 2009, 02:03 PM']Don't you love the way eBay has us all believing we *win* things. Excuse me while I pop down to Tesco to win the shopping. I'll win some petrol on the way back. [/quote] Brilliant.

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='612809' date='Sep 30 2009, 10:29 AM']The quote that always stood out in my mind was him saying that he had to try and make all his basslines sound a bit funny. [quote name='JJTee' post='612953' date='Sep 30 2009, 01:35 PM'] House of Fun is fantastic in particular.[/quote][/quote] House of Fun is one of my favourite bass lines ever, it's nuts. And a near 100%-perfect pop song.

I use mine in a ska/rocksteady band and nobody seems to miss the low-end rumble at all, I'm always getting compliments on how good the bass sounds. It was also funny the time my guitarist decided to help me load in, went to lift the Schroeder with a mighty tug and nearly hit himself in the face with it.

[quote name='Bass_In_Yer_Face' post='612668' date='Sep 30 2009, 12:06 AM']blimey! somebody else has heard of ebh![/quote] I saw them at the old Queens Hall in Leeds, they were alright.

[quote name='Rich' post='612215' date='Sep 29 2009, 05:15 PM']Yeah... a retired vicar and a civil servant. Says it all really. [/quote] Clearly the venue is causing a genuine problem or the council wouldn't be threatening them - the council wouldn't take any action unless it had witnessed the noise problem first-hand. Only last weekend I was on the phone to the hotel across the street from me, asking them why I had to call them twice every weekend to complain about the noise, and why they couldn't just do something about it - maybe by closing their effing windows like I asked them to. I think I'll be ringing the council instead next time because I'm wasting my breath with these tossers.

[quote name='henry norton' post='612531' date='Sep 29 2009, 09:52 PM']PA gear asides, could something like a SansAmp be able to produce a flat response[/quote] SansAmps have a big mid scoop. If you're trying to get a flat response then the last thing you should be shopping for is an amp and/or speaker sim! TBH I'm not sure I see the wisdom in your goal. If, ultimately, your bass is going to go through your bass amp, is there any sense in tweaking the hardware to sound just-so through studio monitors?

No, but my girlfriend had an odd one the other day: She took a mix CD into work (she's a drama teacher) to stick on while something or other was going on, and one of the kids was surprised when she told them it was several different bands because he thought they all sounded similar. My girlfriend was busy telling her that there's nothing similar about the tunes on this CD when another lad - who plays bass - piped up and said "It's because they've all got good bass lines, Miss".

You could try [url="http://www.myspace.com/haighguitars"]Shane Haigh[/url] in Horbury (Wakefield). Or there's [url="http://www.guitarrepairman.co.uk/"]Jim Fleeting[/url] in Ripon if that's not too far for you.

[quote name='YouMa' post='611235' date='Sep 28 2009, 08:45 PM']the only thing that puts me off flats is the slap tone,[/quote] There's an obvious and socially-acceptable solution to this problem. [quote name='YouMa' post='611235' date='Sep 28 2009, 08:45 PM']do a lot of funk players use flats,when did roundwounds start to dominate.[/quote] Pretty much as soon as they were introduced. Flats are a good sound to have available though, if you want that '60s vibe.

[quote name='MythSte' post='611042' date='Sep 28 2009, 05:28 PM']Must be mistaken im afraid. I think there was a 2ohm mod on the old Genz neo-pak?[/quote] That's the blighter. Thanks Ste!

I thought Shuttles could do 2 ohm loads? Did I get confused with something else?

Lovely. I wouldn't have thought something so hatstand would sound that lush.

They look nice enough. I had Bart soapbars in an old 6-string Corvette I had in the '90s and they worked. I didn't put any other kind of pickups in that bass so I don't really have anything to compare them with. A friend of mine's got Bart J and M -type pups in a MM copy he built. Again, they work, but I've never heard that bass with anything else in it.

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='610681' date='Sep 28 2009, 11:27 AM']You are indeed right, I remember reading that a while back, so who is the mysterious Mr X, Andrew Levy maybe?[/quote] Doesn't sound like him. It doesn't sound like Randy Hope Taylor either. I reckon it was whoever was playing guitar for them at the time.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='610104' date='Sep 27 2009, 04:30 PM']Of course you wouldn't stop playing - who would? But when you hear a sound it's always a 'Marcus-style' or 'Jaco-style' sound.[/quote] I can't remember the last time I heard anybody who sounded like Marcus Miller or Jaco, but then I don't listen to music because it's got a talented bass player on it. Actually more often than not I avoid those records because they sound bad. Certainly there were guys in the '90s who sounded fairly fresh - the bassist out of Dag had a surprisingly low and dirty approach on some of their tunes, Mark Sandman was doing his "slide bass" thing, Robert Sledge was rocking out in Ben Folds Five, and so on. I think it's just that in many cases people don't have much of a reason to do something new with the bass. Certainly Sandman and Sledge were in combos with odd instrumentation which meant they played the instrument differently, but most of us are just "bass guitarists" and that's what's that's expected of us, so that's what we do.

Just a good compressor I think. Sorry.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='608766' date='Sep 25 2009, 04:42 PM']Dave Ryan at Electro Music in Doncaster usually keeps a couple of Sandbergs in. There was a lovely PM4 Extreme model in a while ago. Sounded amazing as well.[/quote] I think the PMs look really nice, especially the 5s. I keep thinking I'll have one of those but with the Jazz neck on it.

Simple line but lovely, nice use of acoustic bass too: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8mpAvTm_Y"]Moloko - The Time Is Now[/url]

[quote name='jakesbass' post='608370' date='Sep 25 2009, 09:32 AM']Thanks Andy, I'll remove my post too and we'll move on. [/quote] I've also removed my reply in order to look as magnanimous as Jake.

My house is terrible for this, dimmers all over the place, my old Stingray would hum like a tramp's trousers whenever the lights came on. Current Jazz is a bit bad for it too. Strangely it doesn't affect my Warwick at all - suggestions as to why my Warwick's immune would be welcome.

I can't remember the last time I saw someone playing a 5-string bass. It must've been a few years ago. I think they were more common in the '90s, actually. They may be getting [i]less[/i] popular.

[quote name='NJE' post='606764' date='Sep 23 2009, 03:55 PM']Ivory ramps , Ivory Fingerboard ."[/quote] Is the case lined with panda fur?

Looks like one of Danny La Rue's jackets.