dave_bass5

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1330439380' post='1557479'] And kudos (and big thanks) to you for the hard work. [/quote] Agreed. In a way we are all Ped's little children

That reminds me, i still have a Smugmug account. Ill do it through that tonight. Shirt ordered, gone for boring black again :-). Once the summer arrives ill get a lighter colour. These polo shirts make me look important at work lol.

Good work Ped. Thats a fantastic way to spend money, hope he does well in life, thanks to you. Sounds like you are working on your retirement plan ;-) I might hold off on the pic posting until i can find a new hosting site that i dont plan on using much. I'll place an order for another shirt now though.

I know what you mean. Although i have a P i dont think i have ever achieved those moments where the bass just sounds unmistakeably like the perfect P tone, which for me is when its played up the neck a bit.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1330431271' post='1557270'] To my ears a lot of these examples could be just about almost any muddy bucker bass. [/quote] There you go, the perfect P tone description ;-) The thing is "traditional" will mean different things to different people. There is no "one, traditional P tone" as far as i can see, and its even harder to hear in a band context. As we all say, its not the bass but the player who makes the tone. Pick up a P bass and play a few notes, there you go, the P tone. What you make of it is up to you and as we have seen, a lot of people can come up with vastly different tones, all from the same bass.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1330430226' post='1557244'] theres a thread I started not too far away where I asked pretty much the same questions. Follow it and you will be on the road top enlightenment. [/quote] ....and within that there's my thread lol. Lots of great info, mostly from Mr icastle IIR.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1330428449' post='1557189'] Christ, that recording has got a shedful of bottom end on it! It's rattling the cutlery drawer downstairs! [/quote] LOL, its even better in DD5.1 :-)

There is also some nice P bass, courtesy of Duck Dunn in the Blues Brothers film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis

[quote name='S9_S12_Bass' timestamp='1330349147' post='1555960'] Haha I'm sure they did! Did the first gen Highways have a nitro finish as well then? As I always thought they were poly? There has got to be more Highways on this forum than this! [/quote] To be honest i cant remember what the finish was on the HW1, your probably right though.

Some more up to date, better recorded live P bass tone in the Standing in the Shadows of Motown film. Classic film IMO. This wont play here, it will open a YT link. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO4bqyTWHdA&feature=related[/media]

Ill post mine up tonight. Ill have to post it directly here as although she doesn't mine me posting it (its really not rude) she doesn't want it on my Flickr site.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1330363106' post='1556264'] You should only replace the bridge for cosmetic reasons. Any other differences will be imaginary. IMHO. [/quote] Although i didnt do a scientific test i've gone through 3 different bridges on my CVP and didnt notice any tonal differences between the Squier CV HB bridge (with brass saddles), a Gotoh 201 and a Fender vintage (BBOT) I did notice a slightly brighter tone when i put a BAII on my old HW-1 Jazz. Maybe the thin finish helped with this.

[quote name='tommorichards' timestamp='1330411272' post='1556893'] I totally agree with the above. especially the 60/40 solder. It is a lot easier to use than the 99% tin stuff. [/quote] Yep, same here. I was using some Maplins 99% stuff and not getting good results, went to a local hardware shop and got some 60/40 and never looked back.

I wasnt really sure i would wear a polo shirt out in public but as i ran out of clean tops ive got mine on today and ive had two nice compliments and it feels nice so im going to be ordering another one or two. I got a shot of my GF with mine on yesterday but not sure if i should post it :-) I think i might actually go for the black non custom version next. I dont suppose there is any chance of getting a black with orange is there?

wow, i didnt realise Yoda needed used any FX pedals.

You know, i find the "traditional" P tone to be pretty dull, and a lot of P owners love putting flats on them to make them even duller, but there are many examples of P tone working in Punk (Clash, Stranglers etc) that sound completely the opposite. Plenty of modern bands also use a P bass. Maybe im missing something but when old Motown recordnigs are referenced for certain tones i've always thought that we are hearing a lot more than just a bass tone. Low fi recordings with a lot of compression etc, probably old (guitar?) cabs, all add up to that Motown sound but i doubt that gives an accurate representation of how the Bass actually sounded in the studio EDIT: How could i forget Bruce Foxton, doh.

If I had listened to what my ears were telling me, and not getting caught up in the "hype" I wouldn't have got my Streamliner. None of the clips really impressed me, but I figured this was just because of the way they were recorded and how I was watching them. Truth was most were pretty accurate :-( I did like it but not as much as I hoped and it seemed that I couldn't always get a good tone out of it, depending on the venue, whereas I rarely had that problem with my MB heads. The new Ashdown heads are getting some good reviews but there are also a couple of owners that are going from ABM to these and have said they seem to be missing something. I did feel that my SA450 was pretty close to my ABM, but the Streamliner is quite a bit different to the MB tone.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1330115399' post='1553109'] Been using one of these for well over a year now and wouldn't be without it. Significant reduction in booming on hollow stages, and I get a much nicer defined bottom end. I was incredibly dubious about the difference it was claimed that these pads had, but I'm completely sold now and wouldn't be without one. [/quote] Same here. We play the same boomy stages a few times a year but since getting my GP I've definitely noticed a clearer tone on stage.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1330089640' post='1552543'] That's fine. I think we'll just have to live with this - unless one of the admins knows of a solution? [/quote] Yep, it could well be that this is normal.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1330089320' post='1552530'] But my photo above looks OK, so the trouble has probably got to do with the individual photo sharing site each of us uses, as well as how this site handles the external link codes. Sigh. [/quote] I think your missing the point. This thread is only about posting an image on here without using any web hosting, other than Bass chat.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1330089139' post='1552522'] Dave, I think these copy and paste urls etc. are a bit dodgy, because on occasion I've done the same as you and only managed to get a link to the photo, and people needed to click on it to see the image, and then had access to my other public images on Flickr's slideshow. Not sure if it's each website's codes that clash, or what. Feel free to delete my image from your collection, of course! [/quote] I cant say ive ever had this trouble, although i know its better now than it was a few years ago on Flickr. In the past you would use the HTML code option, and need to delete a lot of the code, only leaving the relevant image location but these days you just copy the whole BBCode and it works perfectly IME. You can even delete the link and title underneath it. I haven't uploaded your image to Flickr, ill just leave it as a thumbnail on BC. Its there if anyone wants ot see it but not standing out and confusing people.

Im pretty sure the past they would be resized to about 81%, or so they would fit in a certain area. They would have a black bar along the top that you could click and this would thne open the full size image up in a new window, unless this was just from linked images and my mind has become scrambled.

Thanks for the reply. As you can see from our photocomp thats excalty what im already doing. The reason i posted this was because i dont want your image on my gallery (no offence, im sure you know what i mean), i just wanted it post it directly here, and i know in the past this has worked perfectly. Actually, i use the Share BBcode and just paste this in, as this then also puts the title and a link to the flickr image's page as well. Im fact this is a better way of doing it as the rules state we should either post the Exif or have it available, posting the BBcode makes it easier to people to see the Exif if needed (not that any of us cheat of course).

Im sure this has been covered somewhere but i though ti would ask again as i cant find any reference to it. Ive uploaded a few images in various posts but they all show up as thumbnails. In the past they would be resized down a bit but still big enough to view without having to click on them. Here's an example of what im getting now [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/167216-february-2012-photo-comp/page__view__findpost__p__1552426"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/167216-february-2012-photo-comp/page__view__findpost__p__1552426[/url] I would normally just link from a image hosting site but sometimes, as in this case, i dont want someone else's image in my gallery. Thanks and sorry for wasting anyone's time if this is the norm.

I remember a couple of years ago OHM had what i would call my almost perfect Sandberg (100% would be Blackburst). It was a custom Cali PM4 with block inlays and it was very, very cheap. The one thing that put me off was it was a relic model. It was only lightly distressed but as it was white i felt it looked horrible. I do now wish i had brought it :-(