Roger2611

yes you will but, taking into account postage and import taxes can you get it cheaper over here? If the answer is yes then buy it over here, if the answer is no buy it from Japan and pay the taxes. I brought some pickups from the US earlier in the year, after shipping and import taxes they were still £18.00 cheaper than the cheapest price I could get in the UK, so I imported and saved myself a little cash.....then didn't use the pickups so have them sitting in a box awaiting a future project!

I also liked the Georgia entry

Might watch it tonight, we have avidly watched it every other year but I am fed up with the political voting

Now sold, back breakingly beautiful cab. I would buy another in an instant if I had roadies to move it for me!

I gave it a go, I have no formal musical knowledge so some of the scales I probably can do but I wouldn't know what they were if they smacked me in the face, same with some of the accenting questions, I quite probably know more than I think I do and can certainly play more than my musical knowledge suggests interesting survey, thanks

We used to find Mr Brightside was a great floor filler, other than that Sex on Fire, Chelsea Dagger or I predict a Riot tended to get a great response

They may be worth a go on my fretless, I love the sound of rounds on a fretless but not the damage they do to the fret board, I will give some a go

No idea but clearly good for metal!

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1462823181' post='3046074'] Ha ha it would be the least of my worries.I wonder what it sounds like [/quote] You would welcome a Hernia? Are you a crazy man

I started with an unlined fretless, it will really help you listen to what you are playing, as others have said a fretless gives you a lot more freedom than a fretted bass but with that freedom comes a trade off of it being a lot easier to sound horrible if you are not concentrating

I was fired for not liking Guns and Roses enough, not sure how much was enough but only owning their first album was clearly not enough....by the way this wasn't a Guns and Roses tribute band or even a band that covered GnR songs!

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1462901123' post='3046842'] Blow him out.... It's outrageous that he expects you to lift a finger. You pay for him for his services, his PA and his expertise. Unless his contract states you will be roadies for him, sit back and let him get on with it. He will let you do it all day long and think you are the best thing since sliced bread, untill you drop something, or cause an injury to yourself or someone around you....then your on your own... I think this bloke is another one thinks that he is doing the band a favour, and you can't do without him.. [/quote] I have to agree, I would not want the band to touch the PA, that way if anything gets damaged it was down to me, good PA guys are anal about their gear, everything has a place and there is a place for everything, leads coiled a certain way, mic's cased in certain orders etc. If you are paying him to put the PA in and do your sound that includes setting it up and breaking it down, if he can't do it as a one man outfit then he needs to come to you and negotiate a price increase to allow him to bring along an assistant, that doesn't have to be expensive as he can probably find a youngster who would jump at the chance to do some PA work and learn the ropes. I remember as an 18 year old banging on TourTech's door and begging to work for nothing so as to learn from a reputable touring PA company, even then I couldn't get in, it was only after working with SSC a few times that I managed to get a foot in the door

Not too far from me in Northampton....Oi wallet...brace yourself!

I like to collect many shiny things

I used to own a Mesa Boogie 1516E cab, that was on castors, I don't think it made much, if any, difference to the sound, if you left it in one place for long enough the castors would sink into the floor under the weight of the cab anyway!

Pleasingly my old covers band would have only scored 2, then trading those against The Wild Hearts "Sick of Drugs" and the Chameleons "Nostalgia" I think we came out cheese neutral

I agree with the above, with pretty much every bass I have sold the first question has always been "is the neck straight?" When I have replied "no it has a little bit of relief so as to make it playable" most buyers lose interest immediately, I guess most potential buyers especially on Ebay are not experienced in the physics of a set up so run a mile fearing being left with an unplayable bass.

I can happily switch between both pick and fingers but I mainly use a pick, in the covers band 90% of the songs were originally recorded with a pick so that is the way I played them. In Yodaclub I only play one song finger style as I don't want the aggressive attack that a pick gives for that song, for all the other songs the aggressive attack and the way it cuts through a guitar / keyboard heavy mix is exactly what I want (also it has to be with a passive bass as the active basses seem to have a very different sound when played with a pick)

I had one whilst playing guitar in a covers band, I didn't find it very inspiring at all, as a booster pedal it coloured the sound and the idea that it could make a single coil pickup sound like a humbucker and visa versa just didn't seem to do anything at all. I sold it on quite quickly and brought an MXR Micro Amp instead which has one knob and just does what you want it to, I have used it on bass and it works fine

[quote name='razze06' timestamp='1461857677' post='3038279'] None. I am not sentimental about my kit. I have basses I like and love more than others, but they are all fair game if the needs come along, as long as I still have one to play. [/quote] I agree entirely, I am less likely to part with the basses I have put together myself purely because because they wouldn't sell for the price they cost to build, so it's a case of keep um and play um I guess

It's one of those games where you take a random object and call it something totally different, for the first 5 years of my sons life I always told him that Cows were called Lions, well it's the privilege of parenthood isn't it Edited for poor grammar.

There is no reason why you cannot do it yourself, I assume the current finish is in nice order, if so it is a case of roughing up the areas to be painted, carefully masking the areas you don't want painting, prime it, paint it, polish it, job done, I would also suggest going for Nitro Cellulose cans from Northwest Guitar Parts, I have used their paint for my last 3 paint jobs and have achieved results way beyond what I would have expected from a can and better than most of the jobs I see on the cars returned to me by customers who have had repairs done at "top" insurance approved repairers.... My only concern is that if you paint your Alembic you will probably destroy a lot of the value in it irrespective of who does the work and to what standard.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1461520304' post='3035359'] I think the trick is to stop thinking of the tone of your bass in isolation and start thinking of the tone in the context of a band. I can only really judge a bass, once I've listened to it in the mix at a gig or rehearsal. [/quote] Very much this, I took my fretless to rehearsal today as I really want it to become my go to gigging bass, we recorded the songs with the fretless (a range topping Bass Collection 512) and then recorded them again with a bitsa Jazz bass, sadly I am in total agreement with the rest of the band the Jazz sounded right. Fretless on standby for another project I guess

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1461408997' post='3034383'] Bad Company's Boz Burrell did a top job of making a fretless sound 'normal' at the appropriate moments and all slippy-slidey at others. Definitely try and keep your fretless requirements together, I wish my band would do this, but I don't listen to myself when I write them [/quote] Now that is a great idea, I am going to play fretless at rehearsal today and just try and make it sound as fretted as possible for the tracks where I would usually use a Precision, unfortunately with a lot of our songs at the moment I do use a pick so today I will commit the cardinal sin of playing a fretless with a pick for some songs!

I really like the track Paisley Park, it was not a track I was familiar with until recently, I love the space in the song