Roger2611

Get well soon sir!

I cocked up last year and confused the Musician in Leicester with the Soundhouse in Leicester, the Musician had a lovely up to date TE rig whereas the Soundhouse has a knackered 1x12 Carlsboro combo with a volume control that has been snapped off and all volume has to be controlled by a gain control, so I left the Mark Bass rig at home, I rocked up to the Soundhouse and as soon as I saw it I knew this was not the venue with the nice TE rig, however the sound guy knows his stuff and most importantly knows the venues acoustics so despite using the remains of a Carlsboro amp I could hear everything I played and people commented afterwards as to how good the bass sounded!

Hi all, I have just been looking online and am struggling to find any useful information on this! I, no doubt like many on here like to record and produce my own music, I assume like most we are recording to a computer possibly via a guitar / bass amp and maybe going into the computer via an interface / some effects and outputting to an amp so counting the sockets used potentially up to 10 sockets being used at the same time, add to that a drum machine and a keyboard that maybe be sitting on standby and we start getting into quite a large power drain off a single wall socket, how are people managing to safely power so much gear? I have a modern fuse box designed to protect both me and the wiring and thus far no matter how many sockets I have drawing power at the same time I have never had the fuse trip out so I can only assume that the current draw is not too high otherwise the sockets fuse would trip? What is a safe amount of power draw on a single socket and is there anything out there designed to give multiple power outlets without overloading the initial socket? Apologies if this is viewed as being in the wrong topic so please feel free to move it to the appropriate forum if you want to, I just put it here as I thought it would be of interest to quite a few of us. Rog

Yeah, I keep getting it, bloody frustrating and if I am honest it does discourage me from visiting the site as often as I used to!

We used to do Back of my Hand by the Jags, great song to play and always well received

It just shows you really don't need a £10.000 bass to sound good...that said I preferred the Fodera sound overall

I was slightly frustrated that we didn't get the original bass solo in Everybody Dance, it's the "wow" moment in the song for me, I assume Jerry Barnes can nail it, it was my only small gripe at what was a fantastic performance

[quote name='The59Sound' timestamp='1498492177' post='3324990'] Were there any acts that anyone liked? I smell a lot of jealousy here. Could be wrong. [/quote] Chic were fantastic, Royal Blood smashed it, The Courteeners sounded pretty good, and the Killers doing Mr Brightside made hairs on the back of my neck stand up, I tried our Ed couldn't get into it, turned over to Biffy Clyro who shouted at me a lot but sounded ok, possibly not as shouty as Foo Fighters and Radiohead, oh Radiohead I so wanted to like the set but it just didn't happen....well there's my Glastonbury review for you!

Stunning set

I don't think the electric guitar is dying, it is evolving, technology seems to be paying a bigger part, look at band like White Stripes, Slaves or Royal Blood (on at Glastonbury yesterday) man with guitar / bass and a hefty amount of technical jiggery pokery creating the whole band sound and doing it very well, I imagine they will be the artistes inspiring a lot of younger players......maybe it's not the death of the electric guitar that we should be worried about maybe it's the death of the stand alone guitarist / bassist that is more of a threat!

I struggle with them, at times they seem so far up their own bottoms (The Pyramid Song being a perfect example) that it is painful, at other times sheer brilliance (Fake Plastic Trees amongst others) We watched most of it on BBC2 last night, I got so board in the first half that I turned over (albeit very briefly) to the Dizzy Rascal.....the second half of their set we found far more enjoyable.

Unusual serial number sticker, I would hazard a guess that, as with many of these, the original was virtually unreadable, maybe someone has just put a readable sticker on instead? Can you play fretless, of course you can and none better than a bass collection to learn with

My old Tokai Jazz had heel end truss rod adjustment

The rehearsal room we sometimes use has some interesting gear, a 4x10 cab with 3 speakers in it, I will let others guess what ohmage that will be running at and another 4x10 with only 2 speakers working, you will probably not be surprised that I take my own amp and cabs!

If you are very patient and use very fine wet and dry paper (I use it nice and wet) gently rub through the lacquer coat (best try and do this over the whole headstock otherwise you will end up with a patch, once you get through the lacquer the decal should disappear quite quickly but be so careful as if you go through the base coat you are screwed and will need to paint the headstock again....good luck

Even more scary is the drunk bloke / "lady" who walks up to the front of the stage and just stands there staring at you, no movement, no expression, no nothing.....you are trying to keep going with the question "are they going to kill me. throw up on me, drop dead" countless other scenario's running through the mind, so far when it has happened they have tended to wander off eventually but on one occasion a rather drunk young "lady" fell face down on my pedal board and stayed there! That was odd!

I am Groot!

I owned a Pro? 4 last year (all white through neck one) I liked the look and sound of it, I thought it was quite Precision like in sound but I found it really unwieldy to play, it felt huge, I gigged it once and sold it on.

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If a covers band, then a set list that shows the other musicians have a similar taste in music If an originals band then a similar taste in music would be key, You can work around people unless they are a total arse and for musical ability people can improve and I doubt any total novices are going to be starting a band

One thing to consider is at some point you may wish to sell it on, would the lack of serial number cause you problems when trying to sell it?

I imagine the market for that will be somewhat limited! Are there many blind bassists out there with £8500 going spare!

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1495546429' post='3304632'] Trigger's broom - that made me smile. Well played, sir. [/quote]

[quote name='NickA' timestamp='1495472868' post='3304001'] Place of manufacture aside ... are they much different to the "real" ones? .. and presumably THIS one (same price at present) [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/G-LL2000-Bass-Guitar-Fabulous-Condition/122504347569?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D44293%26meid%3D90ab7770db644cae95766c803af2bbb4%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D282486684839"]http://www.ebay.co.u...%3D282486684839[/url]is the real thing? actually there are a bunch of them out there some Tribute some not. It's a minefield! [/quote] Zoom in on the front of the neck photo it still says "Tribute Series" but again the seller hasn't bothered to mention it! I would be interested to know the difference between the US basses and the Tributes, I have a Tribute M2000 bass and I am struggling to find anything I like about it, I assume given their good reputations the US bass is entirely different?

1980 to 1984 aged 14 through to 18 the most musically formative years of my life, I loved the eighties....well the first 4 years anyway