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Oh yeah, and Colin Edwin from Porcupine Tree too.

Saw the late Randy Coven playing with the Norwegian prog band Ark about 10 or so years ago. Rocked out on fretless all night - sounded amazing. Worth checking out...

That configuration has a really great look to it. Nicely proportioned - which given how far the pickup has moved is a real surprise. Nice!

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1483302424' post='3206085'] Listening. Well IMO thats one of the best starts. Its whats its all about. Its innocent, and thats where i think music always comes from. [/quote] Funny, as I was clicking the link I was thinking... "Hmm, for me it would be listening." I guess we hear each other!

Strikes me as being a bit of over engineering for the sake of it. For many years (until I got a Pedaltrain and stuck a Fuel Tank on it a year or so ago) I got on perfectly well using either a Boss TU or Polytune pedal and a daisy chain cable from the 9v out. Sure, won't easily power heavy draw and 18v pedals but if you have a few of those on the board then you probably want to be looking a a better power supply than those ones...

I use the Lehle 3@1 pedal to do exactly what you are describing. Live I used a Custom and a Pro Series Wal which had slightly different outputs. The Lehle allows you to reduce the hotter signals to match the least powerful. Switching is silent and it's electronically transparent with no loading across the channels. Bomb proof construction. Quality bit of kit! Strange to say about a line switcher but I love that pedal! https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/signal-splitter-router/lehle-3at1-sgos-switch-pedal?gclid=Cj0KEQiAy53DBRCo4en29Zvcla0BEiQAVIDccyUkqgtwZkdsHurQWZvkzYXpto4nWH8-wumXyUq8Sc8aAjWh8P8HAQ

Two more fave covers I forgot earlier... http://youtu.be/lcWVL4B-4pI http://youtu.be/cSo9CC2wKVI Both significantly better than the originals... And it's a bit cheesy but I love this version of this song too. Great bass from Mr Murray... http://youtu.be/ub8rPHBXd20

Well, I think that Bubinga's Maruzawotzit would be the one for me. Lovely looking bass... if only that was a rosewood fingerboard. Really nice. Mind you, Norwood's Sandberg runs it a close second... maple board too, though.

[quote name='funkgod' timestamp='1482974726' post='3203900'] . Now that was Cooler than an Eskimos lunch box, [/quote] Isn't it just. And want to see a photo of who I really singing, rather than just miming for the video? I tell no lie... Winchester's finest... Jon Allen!

My votes go to... http://youtu.be/YU12FrWWVqA http://youtu.be/vNc5o9TU0t0 And http://youtu.be/9zq4MrctxZM

[quote name='Jecklin' timestamp='1482911470' post='3203406'] I'm not sure where the term fiddle originates, I suspect it's a more modern term (late18th century plus) but the double bass comes from a slightly different lineage to the violin family of instruments of which the cello is the bass. [/quote] That got me intrigued... a bit of research suggests fiddle comes from some old English and Germanic... possibly/probably travelling from the same etymological root as the more classical music viol... and it looks like to fiddle (about) came from the actions of playing fiddle rather than vice versa... [quote] fiddle (n.) "stringed musical instrument, violin," late 14c., fedele, fydyll, fidel, earlier fithele, from Old English fiðele "fiddle," which is related to Old Norse fiðla, Middle Dutch vedele, Dutch vedel, Old High German fidula, German Fiedel "a fiddle;" all of uncertain origin. The usual suggestion, based on resemblance in sound and sense, is that it is from Medieval Latin vitula "stringed instrument" (source of Old French viole, Italian viola), which perhaps is related to Latin vitularia "celebrate joyfully," from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory, who probably, like her name, originated among the Sabines [Klein, Barnhart]. Unless the Medieval Latin word is from the Germanic ones. FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. [Ambrose Bierce, "The Cynic's Word Book," 1906] Fiddle has been relegated to colloquial usage by its more proper cousin, violin, a process encouraged by phraseology such as fiddlesticks (1620s), contemptuous nonsense word fiddle-de-dee (1784), and fiddle-faddle. Century Dictionary reports that fiddle "in popular use carries with it a suggestion of contempt and ridicule." Fit as a fiddle is from 1610s. fiddle (v.) late 14c., "play upon a fiddle," from fiddle (n.); the figurative sense of "to act nervously, make idle movements, move the hands or something held in them in an idle, ineffective way" is from 1520s. Related: Fiddled; fiddling. [/quote]

Always kinda fancied a G&L. Not enough to do anything about it but always liked the look and one of he better non Fender 4 a side headstocks

Walking back to the station on Thursday there was a charity thing outside Charing Cross" . The bass player had a Micromark like this https://www.gak.co.uk/en/markbass-micromark-801/56360?gclid=Cj0KEQiAnIPDBRC7t5zJs4uQu5UBEiQA7u5NeyR5vdS840VVDW5mIS1E2iLAPvA8qNGf7KgGIUKdrj8aAswu8P8HAQ going into the PA. sounded amazing and probably good enough for any teenage practice, and probably a darn sight better than the 75w Laney I started out on...

The question is, how much does giving you the Piano mean to your dad. Is he giving you a bit of unused stuff (in which case realise the value and hit the marketplace)? Or is he giving you something special to him as a gesture of his love for you, in which case turning round and asking him, "Great, how much can I flog it for?" could seem a touch callous. From your description the gift sounds a bit more like the latter. Also, ask yourself, is the Pensa or Celinder THE BASS you will play for the rest of your life, or just another piece of future marketplace fodder? Then, depending on the answer you are maybe in the territory of "Gee Dad, now I can afford to buy the bass I have always dreamed of owning...!" But be honest, ruthlessly honest, about that question because if he is in the territory of scenario two above and you've moved the bass on in a couple of years...

Hmmm... "...He would like me to continue my piano practice and I do love playing..." My thought FWIW is there are a load great basses out there that you could save up for. There's only one Piano your dad gave you...

I wish you a hopeful Christmas I wish you a brave new year All anguish, pain and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear And I'll just leave the lyric there... have a great Christmas my fellow Basschatters! And a happy New Year!

I wish you a hopeful Christmas I wish you a brave new year All anguish, pain and sadness Leave your heart and let your road be clear And I'll just leave the lyric there... have a great Christmas my fellow Basschatters! And a happy New Year!

I hate to be cynical but let's see if a fully functioning SB700 goes up for sale fro £200 more in the New Year?

My wife and I bought each other a Roland Digital Piano for Christmas so I guess that counts. But my real indulgence each Christmas is to buy the double Crimble editions of Private Eye and New Scientist and find myself some space over Christmas to read them.

My learning was nothing to do with music. First thing I learned was that when I said towards the end of 2015, "Well roll on 2016. At least it can't possibly be worse than 2015 was!" I was being terribly, horrendously presumptuous. This has been a bl@*dy hard year in just about every way - and I'm not thinking about celeb deaths and the like. I've buried a brother and seen another debilitated by a terrible heart attack, I've had a new boss that I thoroughly didn't like or really get on with, I've struggled to understand my little boy's diagnosis of ASD and worked to access the educational support he needs, I've seen his best friend horribly injured in a horrendous car crash and the toll it has taken on the whole family and struggled daily with my own health... The second thing I learned? Sometimes the most important things are just putting one foot in front of the other, keep on going and concentrating on those you love and whom love you.

In the bleak midwinter is a bit maudlin at the best of times. But done by Bert Jansch it's also a bit sublime too... http://youtu.be/yRQ_FoeFO3Q Not all miserable but here is an alternative Christmas playlist I did for our work Mixtape Friday last year (no Bing, no Noddy, no Nat, no Roy...) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGIYNBxcSZ3ulEh_6hUrfomkvT5AUqdWt

[quote name='SpondonBassed' timestamp='1482360756' post='3199970'] @ Fleabag, it seems that Univibe is more appropriate since there is a proprietory effect that does all of what we're talking about. Excellent yooboob clips thanks. @ Beer of the Bass, I can accept that there is a pitch change which although barely perceptible, would have a noticeable effect. Sort of like low level "wow-and flutter" as we called it in days of vinyl and affordable turntables. [/quote] [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1482431945' post='3200586'] Because the doppler effect of the Leslie cabinet is created by moving the sound source (the speaker) relative to the listener, you get both vibrato and tremolo in equal measures as can be heard on any of the Hammond and Leslie clips available on YouTube. [/quote] A couple of further thoughts on the changes in pitch and timing. Don't under estimate the effects that these can have on the sound even if the differences are minute. Think of how a chorus or a flanger works... see here for an accessible and hilarious guide to how effects work... http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/fxguide.html In a chorus the differences in timing are pretty minuscule and in a flanger the pitch variation is pretty minuscule but you can still definitely hear the modulations in the effect. Also, in terms of changes of pitch, it's not so much the ACTUAL changes in pitch you're hearing, it's is the interaction between the pitches. Think back to school physics lessons and the diffraction fringes you get with waves and how when you have two similar but different frequencies you get "beating" between the two frequencies. This is how tuning with harmonics works. So all that is going on in a Leslie cab too because of those micro pitch and timing differences.

Saw C&D as the culmination to my nephew's stag weekend a couple of years ago and was a cracking gig. Amazed by how tight they were and DP is, as others have attested, a properly good, understated but still inventive player. Chas is no slouch either and we tend to forget that he was right there at the birth of British rock and roll and rock music back in the 60s.

[quote name='Harryburke14' timestamp='1482259418' post='3199039'] So my cheap(ish) cable from amazon (£4) has just died on me, all my other leads work. Does anybody know of any cheapish cables that are decent and actually stand the test of time? [/quote] Four quid? No "ish" involved. [quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1482312099' post='3199354'] cheap cables are a bad bad bad idea, especially when a good one doesn't cost so much! Cables by OBMM are a great choice. Similar can be obtained from Award-Session. Good quality cable and Neutrik plugs, in a wide range of sizes and plug configurations. My oldest cables are about 16 years (from Award Session "Cleartone"). They will probably last another 16... not expensive for around £20 or a tiny bit more. [/quote] Could have written that post word for word!