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I shipped a bass to Spain a couple of months back and I also took photos of it before, during and after packing. Partly to demonstrate that I couldn't pack it any better, and partly so the buyer would be able to tell if the package had been opened in transit.

[quote name='acidbass' post='553475' date='Jul 28 2009, 04:13 AM']Oh well, keep them coming, it only improves our playing at the end of the day really [/quote] Some of my favourites from the "bizarrely bouncy ska-ish" genre: Two from Matt Freeman... One from Bedders... One from Eric Wilson... And one Tony Kanal...

There's some lovely fills in this. I remember yonks ago seeing Jamiroquai do it live and being pretty impressed at Stuart Zender's Nate Watts impression.

Could you email their support and ask if there's anything they can do?

The timing of that last line was meant as an homage to [url="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/123-LEGO-Indy"]"STICKLE BRICKS BABYLON FIVE?"[/url] but I don't think it worked.

I usually go for something a bit guitar-looking, Fenders or whatever, but I've had bad experiences with them so my main bass is a Warwick Thumb. But I don't think it looks like a flashy bass at all. It's quite small, it's fairly dark brown, there's no quilted top, no high-gloss, no pointy horns, no gold hardware, no LEDs, etc. Nobody really notices it.

That's one of the few bits of the '80s I never even grew to like. Eventually, when Stock, Aitken & Waterman were busy ruining everything they touched, I started to appreciate that Wham and Duran Duran were actually pretty decent, but that MOR sound never had anything redeeming about it.

I suspect their income from making music is fairly meagre, but it's heavily subsidised by fees for photos of them holding various bits of gear and saying "I actually use this", along with tours of music shops doing "clinics", which are basically opportunities for endorsing artists to say "Given that I apparently like and use this product, and you would like to be more like me, you should probably buy one", but mostly consist of blazing solos following by brief Q&A sessions where all the answers are "practise a lot", and then the odd anorak gets his copy of something signed a photo of himself looking a bit out of place with the Bass Megastar looking a bit apprehensive.

[quote name='musicman1' post='553445' date='Jul 28 2009, 12:49 AM']i have recently purchased an Akai deep impact, but it does not work. does any one know where i can get it repaired in am in cambridgeshire thanks rob[/quote] Ah so you won that? I was wondering how many people here were chasing it. Good luck!

[quote name='BigRedX' post='553222' date='Jul 27 2009, 09:19 PM']unlike Fender who had run out of ideas for bass design by 1963.[/quote] Er... Geddy Lee Jazz? Steve Harris Precision? Er... Marcus Miller Jazz? Hmm... ... MIKE DIRNT PRECISION?

Earth, Wind & Fire, Average White Band (not fingerpicky - pick picky, but great grooves), Commodores...

I noticed the other day that Paul Weller nicked this middle 8 straight off 'Johnny Thunder'. Still a great track though.

So did someone on here win the auction? Looks very cool, although that front pup angle looks a bit big if the front pup is the same dimensions as the rear one.

The Yamaha BB bass necks aren't slim. Have you tried a Fender fretless? Sounds like your ideal bass tbh. You might have trouble finding a used USA model at under £500 but a good Jap one would be around that price. There's no point suggesting rarer basses as you're a lefty. Sorry.

If they rehearse at that time they're not proper musicians.

I remember joining a fairly poor band in the early '90s which insisted that everybody wear only primary colours on stage. It worked out OK because I already had a pair of yellow Converse but to be fair they were right, it suited their music well, and they tended to dress the stage with stuff like giant inflatable Fyffes bananas so that was extra-good. Nobody else was doing anything like that and I think it probably made them more popular than they really deserved to be. And, more to the point, it was fun. They were called 'Fabbo'. Bless 'em.

There's loads. Maybe start with the Boss ODB-3, it's got a blend control on it and you can usually pick them up used fairly cheap. It might also be worth trying the Digitech Bad Monkey - they are dirt cheap and don't really need a clean blend, there's still lots of bottom available. It's an amazingly good pedal for the price. Ultimately it depends what sort of dirt you're going for, on that Incubus tune it's difficult to tell what the bass is providing, dirt-wise. Bear in mind there are always ways of mixing any particular dirt pedal with a clean signal (the Boss LS-2 is the cheap route, or a Barge Concepts blender, or the Xotic blender, etc.) so if dirt is all you're doing, it might be worth finding the right dirt and then doing the mixing outboard.

I only ever used chorus when I wanted to sound deliberately '80s, but I don't think anyone else got the joke so I stopped. But yeah, the Boss CEB-3 is pretty good, if you like that sort of thing. It has a crossover on it so you can limit the chorus to upper-register stuff, which is handy.

I met TM Stevens at a gig he did in New Jersey in the mid-90s, turned out he was working with a few people we knew / were working with, so we used to hang out when he was in town. He's a top guy, one of those players who genuinely ploughs his own furrow, but still gets loads of work. Quite a character.

Hmm. I've got a couple of their instrument cables but I sincerely doubt I've kept the receipt... The little bungee clip thing for coiling them up is a great idea though, that's half the reason I bought them.

[quote name='yorick' post='549046' date='Jul 23 2009, 03:44 PM']Have a butchers at the EH Nano Bassballs.[/quote] While the Bassballs is technically an envelope-following filter, it doesn't sound anything like a normal filter. If you're going to just have one, I wouldn't have that one. I love mine, but I don't use it as an envelope filter.