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I had to use a lace out of a pair of converse all stars because my strap I got for my semi never had the bootlace. Makes wearing those connies a bit of a pain now!

I had a listen to the different EH Qtrons & didn't like the whishy whisper sound that they seem to give everything. I love my mf101 & although the filter amount only works upwards, can be gotten around by taking a patch cable from the env out & back into cutoff in. Or use an expression pedal (or 4). I also find it adds more bass to the sound & you can even add analogue overdrive to the sound. Downsides to the pedal (if you wanna call em that): If you turn the drive up to give you some OD, it can't be turned off with the bypass (not true bypass) or linked to an exp pedal. It's big. & with a couple of exp pedals it could take up most of your board. None of these are negitaves to me tho as I usually use the mf105b for OD (& other things) & only have those 2 pedals, 1 exp pedal ( but gonna get another soonish), a tap tempo for the 105b (which sits in front of the corner of the board) and a boss chorus (which I have borrowed to try some swishy pad like sounds in conjunction with the moogs).

I think the one thing I would change is the top horn so it doesn't look like a butternut squash. It's the only thing that puts me right off Fenders.

I'm another for the Dunlop .73 yellow tortex picks, tho I only use pick on a couple of songs. I've tried countless picks & find these the best for me & can easily be seen when you drop one.

I regularly put my semi acoustic guitar & a female vocalist into a mixer & then into my MB combo & has no muddiness whatsoever. Freshman make good semis at all sorts of prices btw.

The MB LMII has 1 speakon & 1 jack also. All you would need is another Bearfaced & a speakon to speakon.

I'd get a DiscumBoBulator just for the name alone, but I'm happy with the moogerfooger LPF & exp pedal.

I believe all the combos don't have a dial for the piezo. However, I only ever hear the piezo at gigging volume if I don't use the VLE, but I usually have it set to @ 10 o'clock & never hear the piezo (I don't think I've typed piezo this many times all year, let alone one post!).

I work with a girl (I play g***ar, she sings) & she knows very little about music. If she can't sing the key it's in she always gets the direction backwards, eg: if she wants me to go down a key she asks me to go up & knows ziltch about theory in any form whatsoever. But she's got a good voice & is a nice girl so I usually just ask her to sing & then I find her key (which 8 times out of 10 is Eb).

Or you could get yourself a B string & tune your bass BEAD. This way if you don't like it, you can go back to what you had & if you do like it & want the G string back then go for the 5er.

Don't be fooled by the word punchy. The 2X10 combo has plenty of depth & bassiness to shake things with. Next door to the rehearsal rooms that we practice in there is an arts & crafts room. I've moved things off of the shelves many times without having to go into the A&C room (they hate me apparently).

Oh dear. Makes me feel better for the times I've hit wrong notes at gigs!

I kinda learned by accident. I tried it a couple of times when I was a kid & couldn't really do it too well (Higher Ground played slowly) so kinda concentrated more on tapping & other finger styles. I was messing about doing a groove finger style & then the thumb got twitchy & that was it. I'm not great at it, but I'm comfy playing slap in a song to an audience. It's the dead notes that get me too often.

I'm pretty sure the original song is in D, so you wouldn't need to detune. I used to play along to the entire album on bass when it first came out (I bought the bass tab book, but no idea where that's gone). It's a simple straight forward song to play & I like the bass in the intro part too. My faves to play off that album were My Michelle, Mr Brownstone & of course Paradise City. I've never played any for some 10+ years now!

True, but I thought he had a Laney combo (the use of amp (cab) led me this way). If it's not a combo, then don't listen to my old advice. Instead, sell your line 6 & buy an amp (head) to stick in to your 15" cab.

That's something I'd like to do with my combo in a few years time (after the carpet has seen too many gigs/cats).

What string is it on? Like the Funk say's, do it on the 9th or the 14th of a lower string. If it's on your lowest then I'd ask the guitard to show you what he means on the bass. This will result in one of two outcomes, he'll either not be able to do it (& you have a reason not to play it) or he'll be able to do it (which means you need to get practising as the guitarist has just shown you up!).

I tend to use them & hammer ons quite often. The first bass book I bought was Billy Sheehan - the Talas years some 20 years ago & I still struggle to play most of it! It was a good purchase as it taught me lots of techniques.

You could run an XLR to 1/4 jack cable (not a mic cable as you would need a male XLR) from your line 6 to the Laney. But I would save & get a more powerful combo or amp & cab.

+1 on the meths. Good hobby shops sell mega heavy duty Velcro that has the stickyest glue ever.

There's a good video tutorial on YouTube for defretting a bass. I'll try get the link when I get up. MoonBassAlpha, could I ask what you did with the neck after defret, did you laquer it or oil it or anything? I have a Vox Standard that's in pieces just now.

I'm gonna do it to my Vox. It's a maple board, which is easier to defret apparantly as rosewood is easy to damage.

I've only ever had the one expression pedal & that's the Moog EP2. It has a knob at the side to adjust the amount needed to move the pedal. Solid build & costs about £30.

GuitarGuitar is in Corstorphine. I've never been in but passed it many times. Come to think of it, I haven't been to any music shops in Edinburgh. I usually go to Glasgow or Dundee.

Basses are for playing! The wife doesn't buy a really nice pair of shoes & then say "oh, they're too nice to wear on a night out", same difference. If it's precious, pop it in a hard case as soon as you're done playing. My Ibby is worth loads to me, but it's got more chips than the Golden Fry.