Roger2611

I thought this was a UK seller, I have seen quite a few attractive looking guitars and basses for sale from this seller over time but they are usually described as not being very original and hence look seriously overpriced at times

Mrs2611 is quite happy with me being a musician, it was part of what attracted her to me in the first place, she comes along to most of the gigs and makes it a social thing with the other wags, so no issues there, however since I discovered Basschat she has mentioned it being like the other woman and we may as well be devorced.....Gee I love you guys you'll never leave me will you

[quote name='jimbaby' timestamp='1369934874' post='2094703'] Great basses, but maybe a tad heavy for a bad back. [/quote] ++1 Great basses but they do tend to be made from granite made to look like wood

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1369938044' post='2094767'] Anything other than force myself to continue practising. Tried that. Didn't work. In fact, enforced breaks (of weeks, in the last instance) have been of more benefit to me than extended practice. You come back to it to find your fingers working at double speed and all sorts of previously unplayable passages flowing forth like bananas out the ying-yang. Must be the old subconscious processing and refining. [/quote] + 1 to that, I really should be practicing tonight but I have had a sh**ty day at work and really can't be bothered tonight as I know I will just get the hump because I can't play something right first time, that will just make for a wasted session

I like the way the seller has gone to the trouble of dating the instrument whilst clearly not bothering to look at any photo's of what he is dating, I might message him and suggest it is actually a 1950's Hoover

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1950s-FENDER-Precision-Bass-Guitar-Serial-No-9113-/310678715931?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4855e4fe1b"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1950s-FENDER-Precision-Bass-Guitar-Serial-No-9113-/310678715931?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4855e4fe1b[/url] Spotted this on Ebay today, it has me totally convinced

One of the bands I play in has decided (for reasons totally lost on me!) to cover The Bucket by Kings of Leon, the bass is rather indistinct in the mix but to my ear the bass is playing a high D through the entire verse and only ever changes for the chorus, I have had a look at the online tab which reckons it is a D A G riff throughout the verse but I think it is a guitar playing that part...anyway listened to it far more times (4 to be precise) than the song deserves What do you think bass players of the world? Oh yeah, sorry for subjecting you to this Sorry Sorry

Every time these ads get pulled it reminds me why I don't own the real thing which is a shame because they are some nice looking basses out there that I could own

Sound Pad in Barnstable had some rather GAS inducing product last time I was down that way

I have worked with some excellent sound guys over the years as a bass player and have worked with some excellent bass players as a sound guy, I have never and have never seen a sound guy go up to the bass player and start messing with his eq, I would assume that most players getting to work with a decent pa will know how they want to sound and from there it is surely down to the sound guy to get the overall mix right....sure I have gone up to bands and said FFS if you want to hear the vocals I suggest you turn your amps down and let the pa do the work but other than that eq wise a decent pa and sound guy should be able to cope

Doing a single wedding tomorrow and if you ask me that's one too many for the whole year!

Oi Dave there's smoke coming out the p a, should I call the fire brigade.....tends to get us a bit of quiet for a couple of seconds

Still there and I quite like the natural finish and the price ain't bad

Mrs2611 and I quite like their dulcet tones...never heard them before

Another one for me is Stuart Morrow of New Model Army any of the early stuff is awesome

I guess if I knew then what I know now I would have liked to be a few few years older when Punk first exploded but being that bit too young I got to experience the second wave of punk bands, the start of goth and new romantics, so all in all I am happy with my lot

The 60's Epiphone guitars seem to be commanding large prices these days I assume that the basses are effectively Gibson basses like their guitar counterparts so it may not be a bad price for it

From my understanding impedance is how hot the ouput of your pickup is going to be, the higher the impedance the higher the output will be which will translate into driving the front of you amp harder and earlier into distortion (great for a lead guitar not so sure for a lot of bass work) you don't really have to worry about matching impedance but if you had a bass with twin pickups and had 1 high impedance pickup and 1 low impedance pickup you would potentially have a noticable volume drop when switching between pickups. I think I am right on the above but if not I am sure someone will point us in the right direction

Gretsch = lust and divorce, especially if I ever come home with a White Falcon, Mrs2611 knows how much they cost!

I am afraid I only use standard tuning, my head can't handle anything complicated! However our guitarist swears by having multiple guitars (3 usually) all tuned at the start of the night to the key of the song he needs it for, he is a firm believer that a guitar needs to settle into a tuning change and from what I see at rehearsals where he will only use one guitar and retune as needed I think the multi guitar policy for gigs is the right way to go I hope that helps

I wipe the strings after every gig, I also really hate grubby finger marks all over a pristine bass so it will get a thorough wipe down after every gig

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATC-CO-AXIAL-SPEAKERS-12-4-OF-JBL-EV-RCF-/161024968275?pt=UK_ConElec_SpeakersPASystems_RL&hash=item257dd60653"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATC-CO-AXIAL-SPEAKERS-12-4-OF-JBL-EV-RCF-/161024968275?pt=UK_ConElec_SpeakersPASystems_RL&hash=item257dd60653[/url] Very naughty, these speakers are out of the Martin Audio CX2 range and, as the seller knows full well by now, the HF diaphragms went out of production some years back and replacement diaphragms are quite simply not available anywhere in the world. I may be doing him a dis-service as he does have 100% feedback, I have emailed him and asked him to add to the listing where you can buy the diaphragms from...I will wait to see if he adds anything I had to have separate horn boxes built to get round the same problem with some CX2 I brought after the guarantee from the buyer that the diaphragms were easily available. They are fantastic speakers but I wouldn't give more than £50 for the lot of them as they stand

I spent £20 on a "guarenteed for life" American cable some 15 years ago, can't remember any details about it or even where I brought it so couldn't claim anything if it did fail but to be fair 15 years on and it still works perfectly I think I got my monies worth out of it and it did exactly what it said on the tin

I guess that if it is good enough for my hero's it's probably going to be good enough for me,