Happy Jack

By headcount, or by volume? Bwahahahahaha!!!

I use a 60" chest to store some of my basses. Just saying ...

I never saw this back in 1989 ... just stumbled across it. http://youtu.be/1tsw3nKDlBE

And it needs a p/g in tort ...

[quote name='Hellzero' timestamp='1495535431' post='3304479'] I also think he knows nothing about Picasso as it's more Bauhaus minded, but I quite like it too... Fortunately for me, it's missing one string. ;-) [/quote] Picasso? Bauhaus? That's pure Piet Mondrian ...

Well worth 35 minutes of your time. http://youtu.be/_Q-scxybnp0 Yes, I know there's a special section for 'Recording'. I felt this deserved a wider audience.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1958-Fender-Precision-bass-/252938012728?hash=item3ae447c838:g:lckAAOSwhOVXdxQi In all fairness, the listing seems both honest and comprehensive - no one is trying to mislead anyone here. It's just that I struggle to think of this as a 1958 Fender Precision ...

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1495463073' post='3303910'] Looking back makes me realise how boring and stuffy the 2010s look is... whatever that is! [/quote] [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/NakedGuitars.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/NakedGuitars.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Big, hard, shiny floor? Check. Conservatory-style roof made of hard, shiny glass? Check. Disco-ball from Hell suspended in front of the PA tops? Check. I really wouldn't want to play that place unless it was pretty full. The acoustics must be horrendous. Looks great, mind ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/b5e0afe7-e688-4456-a89d-b2945dd1ffe9?intc_type=singletheme&intc_location=bbcmusic&intc_campaign=bbcmusic&intc_linkname=article_4080sphotos_contentcard2 I rest my case.

Nope - although a duo that were on earlier had a pair of bongos ...

Would that be a Snapback, Paul? Bwahahahahaha!!!

I played bass last night at a low-volume open mic where the PA was a single Bose L1, operated by a guy who knows what he's doing. No bass rig was supplied. There were two small combos for the guitarists so all that went through the PA were the vocals. And my bass, a Takamine TB10. Played very quietly, the Bose L1 sounded fine. As soon as I started to push it the sound went horribly wrong, all farty and grim. My Fishman SA220 is WAY better than that.

Mick, if you do a try-out with Paul, just make sure he wears the hat, OK? The hat matters.

[quote name='markdavid' timestamp='1495444051' post='3303683'] 1. Why is the intonation on these type of bridges funky? I understand you cannot individually move saddles but as you can move the bridge this should not matter. [color=#0000ff]Actually you can move individual saddles - just remove the piece of fret wire (for, dear reader, that is what the saddle is) and place it in another slot. Trying to intonate four strings simultaneously by tapping the entire bridge to move it in fractions of a millimetre is pretty much a guarantee of "funky".[/color] 2. Why are the measurements for the position of the bridge so different, to illustrate what I mean by this a typical Fender bridge has the saddles maybe approx 1-1.5 cm from the ball ends of the strings, the violin bass often has the bridge (and corresponding saddles much further forward, surely the fact that the bridge is floating shouldn't really have much of an impact. [color=#0000ff]Not entirely sure this is relevant? Trying to picture what you mean, and failing. [/color] 3. The scale length thing confuses me, a violin bass has a 30" scale but surely the fact that the bridge is much further forward than say a Fender mustang (another 30" scale bass) means that the scale length is actually shorter than the 30" ??? [color=#0000ff]The scale length is actually 30.5" and the bridge should be no "further forward" than is required to meet that length.[/color] 4. String tension should be lower on a violin bass than most 30" scale basses as the speaking length of the string is shorter due to the bridge being further forward, am I correct in this assumption? [color=#0000ff]Not as far as I am aware, but someone who knows that they're talking about will be with you in a minute.[/color] 5. How far forward is the norm for the bridge on these basses? [color=#0000ff]Sufficient to give a 30.5" scale length.[/color] 6. What is the best way to intonate these basses? [color=#0000ff]If I say "trial and error" you may think I'm taking the piss, but actually I'm not.[/color] [/quote]

If it was just you (on the bass) we were talking about, then this would be easy. Take along a 4-string bass strung BEAD for the AC/DC songs. If you have to carry two guitarists with you, then best just walk on by and find some other material.

What happened to the old Rickenfaker thread?

Is it too late to point out that this is, in fact, a twin-blade razor? It's just that you use one blade at a time ...

Right you are sir ... chilling as we speak sir ...

Oh no, Barefaced is not off limits. It's just witch-hunts that I find tiresome. Alex isn't a childhood friend of mine, and I don't own shares in his company, so I have no personal axe to grind here. I'd be equally as disappointed in "the community" if it chose to hound remorselessly Warwick Basses or Eden Amplification for perceived reliance on ... yuk ... marketing speak. But you don't, do you? You don't try to start a fight with Warwick or Eden, or Fender or Markbass or whoever because they're not Basschatters, they don't waste their time trying to engage with Basschatters, and frankly they couldn't give a rat's derrière what you think. Can you imagine Stevie sending his graphs to Aguilar and Bergantino and trying to point out the errors in their marketing claims? Actually, I can. And I can easily imagine the response he'd get from those companies. Alex is a Basschatter who actually put his money where his mouth is. He reckoned he could make a better bass cab than most on the market, got criticised to hell and back for daring to make that claim, so he just went off and succeeded. Were you one of those who mocked him back in 2007? Was Stevie? I neither know nor care, but if you really want to "take on" Alex then all you need to do is to design your own cabs, start your own businesses, and compete with him. Wouldn't that be a much fairer fight? Then, instead of challenging him for his snake oil and false claims, you could prove him wrong by out-selling him in the market place. Or not, as the case might be. But if you really think it all works better if you sit back in your chair accusing him of daring to change his mind occasionally (are you and Stevie particularly proud of having never once changed your minds on any topic, I wonder?), and if you genuinely believe that you are making a valuable contribution to the Basschat community by trying to drive Alex away, then you must do whatever you think appropriate. I shall now give you back your playground.

Well you'd best dig out the history of the Barefaced 410 while you're at it then ...

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/08/writing-about-music/

Oh no, you've gone and started them up all over again Pete! Maybe the solution is to print out all the bickering, scrunch it up really small and stuff it in our ears. Then we wouldn't need to worry about trivia like how these cabs (Barefaced or any other) actually sound.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1495023333' post='3300527'] Is that even legal? [/quote] It's a Barbie Fairytale Castle - can't you tell?