Doctor J

Nice one, all the best with the gigs!

Yep, very common. Though to be fair, I went through the opposite when recording a few bands "That'd sound great dirtied up a bit" [i]"The bass?"[/i] "Yeah" [i]"Overdriven, you mean?"[/i] "Yeah" [i] "Really? Are you sure?"[/i]

Piggy from Voivod used the guitar version of that in his latter days, it's a very clever design indeed.

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1335797' date='Aug 10 2011, 10:10 PM'][/quote] Holy crap that is stunning!

Having only heard of them through this thread a couple of weeks ago, I am now absolutely dying to hear this album.

Cool.

Yep, did it and love it. I'm going to defret the bass too to really get the most out of it. Didn't need to do anything to the nut but action and truss rod tweaks are a part of life and shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. Get stuck in.

[quote name='ZMech' post='1328156' date='Aug 5 2011, 01:42 AM']Sounds like the bass guitar equivalent of eating a veggie burger with cutlery carved from the bones of innocent lambs. One just defeats the point of the other.[/quote] What if the lambs were guilty, would that be ok? I don't see the problem, personally, it's a different sound again. Not everyone says "three bags full, Jaco!"

Cheers. This id closer to the real colour again but I can't seem to capture the wierd orange glow from it. It's really very orange indeed.

You should see it in real life, man, you'll need some goggles to protect your eyes It sounds really nice, I'm genuinely delighted with how it turned out. Got an old set of strings on it while it all settles down, will string it up with new ones soon and really see what it can do. The neck is pretty decent, seems stable enough and it's taken a good setup so it's all good so far.

This took a while, I think I got the body seven or eight years ago. Between one thing and another I finally got to get stuck in a few weeks ago and here it is in all it's orange glory. The pic doesn't do it justice at all, if you imagine what radioactive fanta would look like... there you go. I'll take better pics tomorrow in daylight. The specs: one piece ash body painted migraine inducing orange Mightymite one piece maple neck which I spent a lot of time rolling the fretboard edges and got the frets nice and level so it sets up really well, it's very comfy indeed Dimarzio ultra jazzz pickups, bridge pickup in the 70's position Noll TCM3 pre - controls are vol & blend on knob 1, bass & treble cut and boost on knob 2 and mid cut and boost and passive tone control on knob 3, which is activated by push/pull on knob 1. There's a lot going on under the plate. I'm quite chuffed, it plays very nicely indeed and sounds just right.

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1318720' date='Jul 27 2011, 09:21 PM']Sounds like you've done everything from Rock to Rock [/quote] Bravo!

My earliest memory in life is listening to my mum's Mothers Of Invention LPs, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money so, musically, anything goes and that's the way it has always been. I still primarily love rock and Metal and that's a large part of my playing time, but I've never had a change of direction as such, more like having a wander through a different door for a while.

One of the more interesting backgrounds Nice bass too!

There are not enough green basses. They're really a great looking pair.

It looked like great craic altogether. I would totally fit in at this

A buddy of mine is making a video of this year's Dublin Zombie Walk and asked me to record a tune for the soundtrack. It looked like this [url="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1666858049696.69430.1784659973&type=1"]http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...9973&type=1[/url] and the tune... [url="http://www.justinmaloney.com/awwjo/cchrist.mp3"]http://www.justinmaloney.com/awwjo/cchrist.mp3[/url] All recorded in my little room in the house, Godlyke 5 string bass into a DOD FX59 distortion, into the Ashdown mic'd, not' DI'd. Don't know what else to say other than this is what I heard in my head when I thought of an army of the undead walking down Grafton Street

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1314515' date='Jul 24 2011, 10:35 AM']What is it that you don't like about the current pick ups?[/quote] This. There is very little wrong with the pickups in the bass. I can't really think of putting anything else in as an upgrade per se. What are they missing, tonally, that you want to bring in? If you put in EMGs you'll need to replace all the pots anyway, so the S1 switch isn't going to be a factor unless you stay with passive pickups. Have you considered leaving the bass as is and getting the likes of an external Sadowsky preamp? If you're just looking for a little more high end zing for slap, that'll do it and you won't have to break out the soldering iron.

Redo your soldering, sounds like some bad joints in there.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1314021' date='Jul 23 2011, 06:02 PM']Most people will still be playing Fenders and moaning the new ones don't have the same vibe as those made before 2000...[/quote] This gentleman wins! I think Fender will finally have used up all the combinations of parts from the basses of the 50's to the 70's and will be re-issuing reissues, such as the soon to be legendary "'82 '62 P", having jumped the shark with the "54 77 classic", a 50's P with the single P pickup where a 70's J bridge pickup should be, but with the chrome cover still where the pickup used to be on the original. It will still sell like hot cakes, although many will lament the lack of a bound rosewood board with block inlays like the future 50's Porn Shop reissues. All in fashionable polyurethane, of course, whose time will come again.

I tried the D'Addario EXP and thought they were awful, nowhere near as bright or long lasting as the Elixirs. The coating of the Elixirs stops grease and crap from your fingers getting into the winds of the string, which is why they stay bright. The design of the EXP doesn't do this and strikes me as pointless. I tried them on two different basses and they both went incredibly dull after a short enough time. I replaced them with Elixirs which I now have on all my basses. I still have the original set which came stock on my Bacchus P almost three years later. The coating is starting to come undone now but I think I've got a good run out of them.

Great post, thanks! [quote name='Soliloquy' post='1309677' date='Jul 19 2011, 09:19 PM']The best, is the Turbotuner, but it's not readily available over here. It's true bypass too.[/quote] Yeah, been looking at them. My trusty old TU-2 is possibly on its way out after many years. [url="http://www.turbo-tuner.com/"]http://www.turbo-tuner.com/[/url] I'd be keen to hear some first hand experience of how it does with low notes.

A mate called down at the weekend with a THD univalve and we had some fun trying different valves in the thing. I took this image of a KT77 which was visually almost as spectacular as it sounded.