Happy Jack

Last I heard, Aerosmith kept all their toys up there.

I've stored basses all over the place. What they HATE is rapid change, in temperature or in humidity or in both. If your loft is well insulated (i.e. externally against the roof, not internally against the rest of the house) so things only change slowly, then you should have no trouble, especially if all the basses are in hard cases. If your loft changes with the weather, then I wouldn't even consider storing instruments there.

Presumably they need the crates for the Bierkeller?

Surely that should be [i]genre bendre[/i]?

[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1450164502' post='2930080'] Never mind grammer. [/quote] Being of a generous disposition, I'm going to imagine a virtual smiley face after that speeling misteak.

By God! That set of four rigs would just look SOOOOOO good at the Dog & Duck ...

Where's Mr. Weasley when you need him?

Either that, or surreal.

I've just had a heads-up from Clarky that Innovation have [i][b]ceased production[/b][/i] of these strings. Once existing stocks have gone, as things stand at present that's it ... there won't be any more. These are my favourite strings and I have them on both my DB and my KK Baby Bass. At £105 a set they ain't cheap, but even so I have immediately ordered another set against the day when I need them and they can no longer be found.

Two years after this thread faded away gracefully, I found myself playing DB with a singer-songwriter whose previous band had been good-quality session guys. He'd fallen enough on relative hard times that he preferred to use me on bass since I was free. At the audition and the early rehearsals he loved what I was playing, but my intonation was all over the shop. No matter how carefully I played, I was routinely 'off' the note. It was pretty sickening. Played our first gig (The Troubadour in Earl's Court) and went down fine with the crowd, but I was still unhappy with my intonation. Next rehearsal, different day but same old sh*t. I stopped the rehearsal and said we weren't going to play another note until we got the problem sorted out. After 10 minutes of going in circles, the drummer (a very fine pro musician) asked the guitarist what he had his tuner set to. "[i][b]445 of course, it's supposed to be 445, right?[/b][/i]".

Anything more than a Telecaster is just showing off.

Shame that Cort couldn't have found a healthy tree to use ...

What has long-lost youthful exuberance got to do with illiteracy? I can cope with the brain dead "weez gonna do bandz stuff n b da graytast" conceptual nonsense, but the complete inability to spell, use grammar, or form a coherent sentence before spraying this stream-of-consciousness sh*t all over t'Internet is just plain irritating.

It's worrying that the photo prevents you seeing from his knees down. The vendor may be trying to hide damage to the feet. Best avoid this one I'm afraid.

What you really want is for your bass to sound passive and exactly as it was before until you decide otherwise and start either changing the level (boost and/or cut) or changing the sound (tone-shaping). In theory (and usually in practice too) it is possible to set the controls of an on-board preamp so that they effectively "do nothing". That gives you a reliable, flat platform from which to start using the preamp. If I were you, I'd set the preamp knobs to as flat as you can, then set the trim knobs to produce exactly the same volume as if there was no preamp fitted.

Almost certainly this is to do with converting your bass to active. Have you tried starting with all the knobs set to "neutral", i.e. no boost or cut at all? If that's still giving you a sharp increase in gain, then see whether there are trim pots you can tame it with. A good preamp should be capable of providing complete transparency as well as loads of boost and shaping, and John East makes exceedingly good preamps.

Keyboard players are only allowed to become Basschat members if they have their left arm amputated.

Well at least he did it his way ... erm ... no, wait ...

This thread means nothing without the soundtrack ...

I'll take any excuse to re-post this link: http://youtu.be/5YGc4zOqozo?list=PL03A7B9DEEACF7E35

... from this: http://youtu.be/8Wh6L3axxWc to this: http://youtu.be/fhsZE5E3RFU

http://youtu.be/kcyB1tfrjkc In all fairness, you should really listen to the actual single which is way better than this performance. http://youtu.be/S_JQWKcEoP4

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1449658353' post='2925579'] They all sound the same. [/quote] Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Problem solved then. Isn't freedom of choice wonderful?

You are SO not going to play this sitting down. I have to say that I love the over-sized cogs on the tuners ... that's an idea with some mileage in it.