mikebass456

The discussion in general on basschat seems to be either badgers or bog roll currently.......

Yep - I modelled it on lemmys ric. I was going to have a crack at carving the oak leaves into it as well, but bottled it and went for the pickguard instead......😎

Looking like a superb job! Here's the even shorter ukulele bass i finished making last year. i can add all the 'during construction' pics as well if anyone's interested in them.........

We were about 3 months apart on the gigs, not as if it was the week before, and i have had to move gigs before in other venues for this purpose, so i do appreciate the thinking behind a request not to book too close in another venue. I'm in another band now that doesn't play in the same town, so might grow a tache and see if I can sneak in under the radar.......😜

Fully agree with the above - the jar is a great way to help the smaller venues to put live music on regularly, which at the end of the day is the main point. The 'LL is very nice and good at getting the PA sorted for bands - I've been to see quite a few there over the years. It was just bizarre that my old band got all their gigs cancelled and barred from the place for playing elsewhere in the town though.........

Classy looking rig you got there now!😀👍😎

I've got all of those, plus drummer-related tourettes..........

Slap or fingerstyle binky?!😆😆

Plenty off time for him to sort out some backing tracks then.......😀👍

Previously a quality manager in various packaging companies around the area. Now working two days a week as a systems coordinator for a small printing company, largely on the quality and health and safety documentation. As with kiwi, the missus is self employed working from home, earning about twice as much as me. No kids, mortgage or loans to pay, so I've decided to take a sabbatical year out of work when i get to 55 (next year) and take an equivalent years salary as a lump sum out of one of my pensions to just play in as many different music opportunities as come up, while looking for something completely different to retrain in for the remaining few years before the state pension kicks in.......all suggestions welcomed!

Having said that,we did have some great gigs in the place I'm thinking of, up to the point where the whole band was barred for daring to play gigs at another pub in the town...........😜😂😂

This money jar sounds familiar to me from a few years ago, along with the 'LL who set the house PA up - the pub in question wouldn't happen to be in Lincolnshire would it?😐

My band is a four piece, playing all the 76 to 82 classic punk, so I've been mainly using precisions despite also having a ric which occasionally made an appearence. While the precisions seemed to give me more of the sound required for the band ( bass, guitar, drums and singer), I was yearning to use the ric more because of the look, feel and sound. Couldn't quite get the ric sound i was after until I got a sansamp yyz pedal last week. Used it right out the box for the domestic last friday, and the ric is now going to be my first choice! Incidentally, the singer always moaned if I used anything other than one particular precision , which did seem to have the sound over the others............

You're not by any chance related to a drummer called Tim are you? All seems strangely familiar.......😕

My backs started hurting just looking at it!

Must admit I wasn't aware of this unit, but to be honest I'd already decided the YYZ having seen it on YouTube and in various online reviews, the sound range it was offering was right where I wanted to be. I'm very much a grab and go with such things, I can't sit down and work things out, so midi is far beyond me! Also, it fitted in the spare gap in the pedal board, the dp3x looks like a board on its own. Getting the coffee and hobnobs prepared now, ready for a full checking out of the YYZ .........😜👍

I seem to have the opposite problem on some songs. As I don't read music, I rely on a good memory and the muscle memory of playing the songs. When it's all going really well around me, I get caught up in the atmosphere and it all goes fine until I suddenly realise I should be concentrating more on what I'm playing. It's at that point that it can go a bit off piste, through over thinking stuff i normally do automatically!😟😖😖

Absolutely! The main reason why I moved the sansamp rack unit on was because of my shortcomings in being able to use it to its full advantag e - tech 21 is definitely the business !

Last night at the county hotel in Grimsby. an evening of classic 1976 - 1982 British punk, pub was pretty full all evening, never fails to bring out the teenager in folks! Bloody hurts the next day though, as we're all getting on a bit - which is why we only try and do about half dozen gigs a year!

I used to have the sansamp rack unit, which used to give me better clarity of top end while still keeping the bottom end full. with regard to the YYZ pedal, it seems to be the ability to be able to blend the drive and clean sounds, plus the 'tight' button to give more definition to the sound. As I mentioned above, I pretty much set it to one of the recommended combinations and just plugged in and went with it for last night's gig, with superb results straight away. there are quite a few YouTube videos out there demonstrating the pedal, which I did have a quick look at, which show the range of sounds available, compared to the straight signal in. as with all pedals, it gives the basic platform for you to make your own sound, and as I play fingers not plectrum, it sounds great when you dig in a bit more. I'm no expert on effects, but this really did give me the sort of bass sound that I wanted from around the Moving Pictures/permanent waves era, but as it's a new pedal, allows for the dirtier sounds that have developed over the later albums. Overall, I love it, and wish I'd had it 20 years ago!!!

On a similar 'Rush' based theme, I've just added the Geddy Lee YYZ pedal to my board. It arrived yesterday, set it up with one of the suggested configurations from the handbook, stuck it on the board and went out gigging last night with my R**kenbacker 4003 going through it. All i can say is i have finally found the sound I've been looking for our of my 4003 all these years! The only other pedals in the chain are a boss chromatic tuner, digitech compressor and a boss noise limiter. Anyone else had a life changing pedal related moment?

Hi chaps! Just bought myself an ibanez artcore agb200 bass and am now looking for a suitable case. It appears that it's JUST short enough to fit into a 335 style guitar case, or failing that probably the Jack Casady epiphone case. Does anyone have any advice on what case will actually fit this bass please, as I'm nowhere near a music shop to go and 'try before you buy' 😕😕

Ooh - smooth as a polished knob of butter!!! Great track, never heard it covered before. Nice work everyone!! 😉😊

No, bought it the old school way by word of mouth. Someone got it for their son for birthday present, but he ended up being a guitarist instead,so it sat under the bed in its case for a year. I only paid £180 for it as well, including the hard case! Ha ha ha ( said in a gravelly Sid James voice)😀😀😀