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  1. Woodinblack
    There are at least three bass players on youtube that play bass with no hands, so I don't think a missing finger is that much of an issue. Heres one
  2. Woodinblack
    There are quite a few professional left handed violin players (ie, playing a left handed violin). Easier than a guitar or bass, a voilin is pretty symetrical so you only have to redo the nut and bridge and they are pretty low tech. For most wind instruments I dont think the handedness really matters. I guess it does for brass as the valves are one sided, but anything Clarinet / recorder type both hands get an equal part of the action.
  3. Woodinblack
    Trying to work out what knob does what on an ashdown amplifier, trying to read the white text on baby blue background
  4. Woodinblack
    They had one for sale in Mansons last year, but they are not common!
  5. Woodinblack
    Take the spring out then
  6. Woodinblack
    Yep, exactly the same. He cut up a piece of brass tube he had and used it to drill round the remaining part of the screw, then when it was out put a dowel in, chisel it down and smooth it, colour it black (although it was smaller than the area covered by the straplock, so it didn't show). I say awkward because I don't think I could have done it. He did it, if he hadn't I would have had to pay someone to do it. First thing I did when we finished was take the other strap out, and use a proper screw for the other straplock! It took the new bass feel off the bass, and coloured my opinion of them. I still love that bass (and I still have it), but it tainted it a bit
  7. Woodinblack
    I guess thats true, its normally the amp they use. Apart from the time the guy run the output of the HOD into the ABM. But either way, its normally an ashdown
  8. Woodinblack
    It was awful because geddy can't sing those songs any more, and hasn't been able to for a while. And I say that with Rush being my favourite group, but why I haven't gone and seen them in the last 10 years.
  9. Woodinblack
    Its very surprising how many B stock ABM Evo IV 600 heads PMT end up with?!
  10. Woodinblack
    Not in this post, although I have mentioned it quite a bit that I use an XVive U4 (or whatever it is called). If there was something in stereo that was affordable and worked as easily as that, then I would use it. I do only have the 4 ports but as the singer doens't like IEMs and the guitarist says he can't use them and doesn't seem to be in a hurry to buy himself a monitor, and the drummer will never need more than 1 channel, I would be happy to use it. Although as there is only a guitar and a sax and vocals, not sure how much use it would be.
  11. Woodinblack
    Hopefully they decided to buy some decent screws now after complaints, they don't cost much in the grand scheme of a bass
  12. Woodinblack
    Whats this got to do with spending nothing? I already have IEMs, this is your assertion about stereo is a must I have a P2 (although the drummer uses it). I have an X18, so I have 4 aux busses. The drummer uses one (with my P2 - he doesn't want stereo, all he wants is his vocal in ears). I could use 2 of the other 3, as noone has bothered with inears in the rest of the group, but then I have to get it to me. I don't want to use a p2, as I am fully wireless, so it would break the purpose of that, si I would have have to get a stereo wireless as well. If I used a P16M, where would I put that? another box to power and connect as well as the mixer, the PA, the lights, the IEM, the bass, the speakers, the X Touch etc.
  13. Woodinblack
    Well, although I love my Maruszczyk, the screws they use are made of cheese, and I am guessing the weakest of the weak, and sometimes it is easy for things to get 'lost in translation' and not meet spec - seems their config checking is fairly poor. The screw on the strap button on mine also broke when I tried to replace it for strap locks and if I didn't have a friend who was good at woodwork who got it out perfectly it would have been awkward to get out, and Adrians response was.. shall I say less than helpful or sympathetic, which is why I said in another thread if you can get it through bass direct do so, as it is a layer of protection.
  14. Woodinblack
    Indeed - and I guess at that point it shows where the difference in 'budget friendly' is for different people!
  15. Woodinblack
    I think that it is that there are hundreds of ashdown cabs - I don't know what are good ones and what aren't
  16. Woodinblack
    Unfortunately just the way now that things that were cheap things now become expensive just because they were old. To be fair, the westones were amount the first actually good basic basses, as good as something costing £300 today, but older, so it not like people paying silly money for one of those old firewood instruments, like a kay or equivalent (where silly money is something over a fiver)
  17. Woodinblack
    Yeh, I looked and only found it on two american sites. not even ebay
  18. Woodinblack
    Oi.. who let this nutter in here?
  19. Woodinblack
    Not last night, but last week, I just hadn't got round to saying about it! Last week was another double gig week. Did an hour at Festival on the Hill in Honiton, quite a large well done stage, with stalls, games and camping etc - it was very hot (luckily not like this week though) There was a PA outage during one song where they had to reboot their rig aparently but not much of an issue. Seemed a bit remote and although was good to do, I think it is hard for the singer to be away from the people that much! Also with the heat, a few songs sort of lacked a bit of life. The Spector sounded ok on stage though with the BC cab and the ABM600. Then a drive from there, where the drummer almost totalled himself by failing to notice a crossroads, luckily empty, to a local working mens club for a normal 2.5-3 hour set. I picked up the PA and was frankly knackered by the time I got there. I was wandering around in a bit of a daze wondering what to connect and do next. It was the first time we were using the Evox 8, so we had an unbalanced PA, but didn't really have time to sort it out. By the time we were done it was 5 to 9, almost ready to go so we went out the front, sounded good but too loud, turned it down a bit and off we went., For the first 3 or 4 songs (admittadly bluesy old ones) I was feeling like falling asleep but once the more upbeat songs started I got into it, but it was hot. about 8 songs in I realised that my amp was quite a way down and as I had used the PA at a practice, the bass was mostly going through the PA, which is not something I do. Turned it down a bit but didn't seem so good so put it back up. After the half way I got a new lease of life and finished at about ¼ to 12.
  20. Woodinblack
    Yeh, I have a paulownia P bass body in the shed, it dents if you stare at it hard, its an odd wood to work!
  21. Woodinblack
    I put fender flats on mine, they seem pretty good for flats, although still not a convert. Seem better on the mustang than a full scale bass
  22. Woodinblack
    53.5mm on a Squier CV Mustang.
  23. Woodinblack
    He (CB) has a couple of lessons on scotts bass lessons which are well worth looking at on creative tapping.
  24. Woodinblack
    Heard better...
  25. Woodinblack
    I use mine, but I am sure it is easy enough to adjust to not using it, I am always spraining it when playing, especially if you don't have it. I think I probably only use 3 fingers anyway.
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