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[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1424804340' post='2700674'] It's in your profile. Manage attachments or summat. Can't understand why anyone would bother using it though, it's rather clunky. Much better to use photobucket or Facebook and paste the link into the image module of your post. [/quote] I like that

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1424796717' post='2700573'] Good evening, ambient... The photos aren't stored in the ad, they're in your Profile. Try this ... Go to your 'My Profile' (your pseudo, top right...). Select 'Edit my Profile' (black button a bit below...). Select 'Manage Attachments' (in the list on the left...). They are listed in date order. Navigate to oldest, select those to be deleted (tick boxes on the right...). Select 'Delete Selected' (grey button at bottom right of list...). Repeat, page by page, until all unwanted attachments are deleted. An external photo account such as PhotoBucket or ImageShack is a good idea, of course, if using higher resolution photos. Hope this helps. Any problems, get back and we'll see what's up. Good luck with the sale. [/quote] Brilliant, thank you All now done.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1424796626' post='2700569'] Easiest way would be to send me a list of them and I'll unlock them for you. [/quote] Thanks, you'll be sorry you said that, there's quite a few I'll remember to delete any at the time of marking stuff sold next time

I'm trying to post some photos in a sale advert, but I'm getting the message that I've exceeded my global upload thingy I'm guessing I have too many photos already. How do I delete them in locked sales threads ?

Would definitely be interested in hearing any recordings. As I said in my PM, I'm sorry I couldn't make it to this, I'd dearly have loved to, this last week has been a nightmare with exams and hand-ins. I will definitely come along to at least one of your other gigs though.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424562532' post='2697860'] Errmm... quite a few, I'm guessing? Unless I've misunderstood the whole purpose of the forum and it's not really for bass players? Maybe it's actually for guitarists who just pick up the bass occasionally - for a laugh. [/quote] I mean note wise What note on the bass, and how it works with and against the harmony of the song.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1424561744' post='2697843'] I agree and still read it as you not having to be a die hard bassist to join, a guitarist knocking out root notes could be just what is needed. The fact remains that bass is probably the easiest instrument to get to gig level on imo. [/quote] I would say that was correct. How many members on here actually know what they're playing ? There was a guy on here posted a year or so ago, that when coming up with a part for a new song, he just plays all the notes over a chord, until he finds the one that fits. Then repeats the exercise for the next chord, and so on, and so on. So bass doesn't necessarily require a great knowledge, if your guitarist tells you what note to play over a chord, and you stick to the root notes, then that's it, you've got the gig

Great, I use a metronome quite a lot, and encourage students to use them too. I think you'll get a mixed reaction on here to them though, a lot of guys think them the work of the devil.

Mark King played bass because Level 42 already had a drummer. Paul McCartney was a guitar player, he reluctantly took up bass when Stuart Sutcliffe left. This is maybe a bunch of kids looking to form a band, that's great, it should be applauded, not ridiculed.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1424551795' post='2697696'] I havd to say, I think the whole 'tone is in the fingers' argument is for thd most part utter bollocks. The playing style is, but the tone itself? For example - give Chris Squire a Hofner violin bass with flatwounds through a vox amp. Would it sound like him? Not a jot. The reason being his preferred basses and complex amp system are what gets his sound. Not his fingers. With regard to the Ampeg example above, of course all those players sound different. Countless variables in action. However if they all used the same amp setting and were recorded in the same studio with the same producer etc... [/quote] So if you picked up Chris Squire's bass at one of his gigs, and played one of his bass lines, would you sound like him ?

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1424546111' post='2697623'] So the best way to change your tone is go on a diet? [/quote] Well maybe I'm just talking crap . But think about it for a moment. Tap on a desk or table with your finger, and experiment using different parts of your fingertip, move from the point to the flat pad, and see how the sound changes, it's going to be the same on a string.

It's really brilliant, thoughI've not really had time to use it this last week unfortunately, but I'm off this coming week, so it's gonna be in for a lot of use This is a very recent track that I've analogised this evening. Obviously it's now been re-digitalised for uploading, but it has still retained some of the warmth of sound captured from the tape. It sounds amazing played straight from the tape through my Genelecs. [url="https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/09022015a"]https://soundcloud.com/an-ending-ascend/09022015a [/url]

Well, following on from a post a made last December, I've just bought this amazing machine. [attachment=184552:IMG_0323.JPG] I'm just spending time acquainting myself with it, but so far I'm extremely happy with it. I spent a bit of time yesterday setting it up into my set-up. I also had a play with bouncing some of my finished tracks over onto it, then back over onto my laptop. You get a really nice kind of warmth added to the track, along with some nice natural sounding compression. I'm going to be doing some recording with it over the next few days, looking forward to lots of experimenting with it

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1424538664' post='2697490'] right, if that's what he meant fair enough, perhaps something was lost in the translation from our American cousin lol, if you substitute 'playing style' for 'tone' it would make more sense, i.e. my playing style will be the same whatever bass I play. as for Burnell's 'tone' you need to play with a nice thick pick as a starting point IMO [/quote] Yeah, but I think individual players have a 'tone' of their own too. For instance, I'm very skinny, and have skinny fingers, I play only finger style, and have a light touch. My inherent 'tone' won't be the same as someone who weighs 16 stone, and has sausages for fingers . I mean think of the number of guys who play, or the number of guys over the last 50 years, who have played a Fender Precision bass through an Ampeg rig. Do they all sound the same ? No, they don't because part of their sound is them. You can hear that it's a P bass, and you can maybe hear that it's played through an Ampeg, but then there's something else that's particular to them. That's their 'tone', and that's something that you need to study if you want to emulate their sound. It comes from where about on the instrument they play, how they play, all of the nuances and articulation in their playing.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1424536075' post='2697444'] so we're wasting our money by buying say an MIA precision over a Squire affinity or there's no difference in sound between a precision and a Jazz or a Stingray? or have I misunderstood your post? edit, btw we're going way off topic here [/quote] What he's trying to say (I think), is that if you play a song using a Stingray, then swap and play the same song on a Jazz. You'll sound like you, playing either a Jazz or a Stingray. Either way, you'll sound like you. There's a lot more to getting someone's sound, than just going out and buying the same gear. You need to look at how they played, and what. You can (and lots of guys have), go out and buy exactly the same gear as someone you like, and still not sound anything like the person you were trying to emulate. See my earlier post where I stay that 2 guys can play exactly the same bass, and sound completely different. Try it next time at a gig or rehearsal, give your bass to another play, and have them play something on it. If I wanted to emulate someones sound, then I'd sit down and maybe watch them play on Youtube, see where they play, and how hard they attack, finger style or pick etc. Then use what I've got to try and get close. I've just actually taken on a new student, he's really into The Stranglers, so I need to check out some of Burnell's playing over the weekend, so I've got something to work on with him.

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1424525021' post='2697298'] Funnily enough, I got an LM III and a Bergantino HD112 the other day. Set it up, plugged in my JV maple neck Precision and hey presto - instant JJ sound! Everything was set flat too... Well, thats not a bad thing! I seem to remember something about him using Marshall and then later Trace.. [/quote] And I bet he still sounded like J. J Burnell.

[quote name='paul j h' timestamp='1424420914' post='2696056'] Thanks everyone for your helpful and encouraging replies. HOWEVER, BLUE as seems to be the norm in your posts, thanks for your condescending and arrogant reply I said In my original post that I realised I was not JJ Brunel, all I wanted was some pointers on how he achieved the tone, what equipment used etc I have since watched loads of stuff on you tube etc. But the answer from you was one of conceit at someone who is clearly beneath your lofty heights in both ability and knowledge/talent! I really think you should "check the attitude" there rant over and breathe [/quote] I gotta say, having read Blue's post, it doesn't really strike me as being particularly arrogant or condescending. He has got a point too, player [b][i]do[/i][/b] tend to sound pretty much the same regardless of what the instrument is they're using. That's maybe why guys like players, it's their playing that they like, not the bass, amp or strings. Two players can play exactly the same bass, through exactly the same amp, with exactly the same settings, and sound different.

I offered £1.50 but it was declined. Why is the buy it now £9 million ?

Isn't this kind of like saying kids in the 70s had it easy because they had cassettes? It was easier in the 80/90 because of CDs ? It's just media, you still need to listen to check it's right.