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Balsa? Well, that puts its value up a bit!

I use the 12 step but i just do backing chords rather than low notes.

I think so! To be honest, I needed something I could access the batteries better anyway

Slippery slope...

Yeh, I would have thought that.

Well, looks like I am looking for something new today. The hinge on this had always been a bit loose, which is why it was in a harness thing with a reversed jack to jack, but didn't stop it falling apart mid gig (but luckily, at the end of a song)

After all that though, its still not very... thunderbirdy.. though is it?

Very rare to get active pickups. Most active basses are just passive pickups with a preamp. So all the preamp does is buffer the signal from the passive pickups so it can drive it down the wire. Except once you have a passive preamp, you might as well put tone controls on it as you have the ability to do it, but not essential.

Well, they are marked as 'emg designed passive pickups', so there should be no problem just pulling the preamp out and just wiring it like a gibson.

Maybe your pedal is not the right type? i tried to use my zoom pedal but it didn't work, I assumed it was the wrong sort of pedal

I agree, the tone controls on a the legend 8 were unnecessarily faffy. I am used to something a bit more simple, like bass / treble with a centre indent when they are flat. For all my ibanezes with bass, mid and treble, I almost always have them flat all the time unless something happens in the middle of a gig. in a way, the G&L tone controls are good for that. It has bass cut and tone (ie treble cut). Flat out is completely flat, anything else reduces. let the amp do the shaping, and the controls on the bass remove a problem

I guess there is enough to keep the musical box going then. I won't bother seeing them again, but maybe there are some other tributes (or covers) I can see at some point. I am not going to get to see Hacket this time, for some reason they have removed Bath from their list of venues, so there is nothing really close enough for a midweek gig.

Are you sure that removing the preamp will make the difference to changing your amp settings? Isn't the tonepump on those a boost only thing, so if you turn them all off they should be flat?

The more power and emotion thing was why I prefered the hacket version. Musical Box were certainly doing the authentic thing, they dressed and acted the same and had old instruments that undoubtedly were authentic, and I guess if I cared about that sort of thing, that would have swayed it for me. Just the music left me a bit cold.

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Thanks for that, I hadn't seen the 6 string one. And now for some reason which has nothing to do with sense, it is quite compelling!

Don't get me wrong, they weren't specifically bad or anything and I am sure they were a recreation of a band in the 70s, but it seemed like they were more trying to be a recreation of a thing than to really bring the music to life. I guess Steve Hackett has the advantage that he wasn't trying to be anything but does the music as well as he can. And let's face it, he probably has a lot more practice

TBH, I saw musical box a couple of years ago and expected great things, as everyone raved and I wasn't blown away. Steve hacket was a lot better for me when I saw him so I probably wouldn't go again. My friend I was with really liked it though.

Richard cheese has covered most things, pretty well! I think my favourite is down with the sickness

If you say so. I guess like anything, if you are into that sort of stuff you might notice a difference. And as I said, sorry if I have offended someones group (or idol) - but it literally builds up a rage in me

Well, yes I assumed someone liked that stuff, or they wouldn't use it for selling life insurance or holidays.

That is the very epitome of my current rage against the music industry. Its music like that that makes me really angry and weep for music. People taking songs that were fine on their own and slowing them down and doing them in a soulful and meaningful way, and thus totally destroying the feeling in the song. Its normally bank or building society adverts to be fair, and there are a few who have actually managed to covey something, but that is a rarity. Sorry if it is anyones group, but no, that is a 'leaving the venue' song.

Hasn't everyone covered that song. Is there anyone who has been in more than one cover band who hasn't done teenage kicks? In my book it is an average song of the period, neither great or bad, never was sure why it was so popular. This I agree with. There is a total ban on any oasis songs in my group. And do you know how much trouble that causes? The answer is, quite a lot. Still, it does mean that when drunk people want oasis at the end of the night the others can say 'we want to but he won't let us'. And I have had more than one drunk guy have a go at me about it.

In that case I would get a cheap multieffects, like the B4-one or a MS60B, that way it isn't a big outlay and it gives you options to experiment to get the right sound.