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[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='268367' date='Aug 23 2008, 10:58 AM']Well he’s really f***ed up with Virgin Media then [/quote] +1

Interesting looking bass He's playing. It looks like a cross between a Ricky and a Precision

[quote name='noisedude' post='267334' date='Aug 21 2008, 08:09 PM']Oh well, that's my mind made up - no more money going into Music Ground's coffers. Shame as I bought my very first guitar from Music Ground in Leeds, my very first FX pedal not so long after that, but unless their prices drop through the floor I'd rather go somewhere I can get friendly service for less money.[/quote] I'm very pleased that I've never given that miserable lot one penny and if this is the best they can do I never will. I'm going up to London to look for a Jazz at the weekend and I know where I won't be looking

WElcome to BC

Welcome to BC and good luck with earning a living playing music. There are a few bass pros on here who may give you some good advice.

Welcome to BC Interesting question. You're looking for the fat round sound of of the E string when you're playing the G if I understand correctly. I wish I had the answer. I would think it is something you have to put up with because that's the way bass guitars are voiced, but trying a few different pickup configs and makes may help. Post your question in one of the other forums and most likely you'll get an answer. Not everyone visits the intro forum

Welcome to BC. [quote name='hitchy64' post='266321' date='Aug 20 2008, 02:38 PM']I have been having lessons for a while now and would love to get in a band, but fear i may have left it too late, i'm 44 now. Anyway, enough rambling, i hope to get some tips off you guys on here . Cheers Hitchy[/quote] Maybe for some originals bands, the ones still daydreaming about TOTP anyway, can be be incredibly ageist, but for covers and functions bands age is mostly irrelevant. Get with some guys around your age who just want to jam. They may be crap, they may be not, you never know who is gonna contact you if you put an ad in the right place.

[quote name='Ant' post='265708' date='Aug 19 2008, 05:23 PM']One of the main annoyances is that certain members of their staff have always come across as automatically assuming that i know less than them, and when they're telling me that certain things dont exist (when i have it at home!!!) is ridiculous.[/quote] Quite a common experience in music shops. Even more annoying if you're an old fart like me and the spotty oik doing the patronising looks about 12

Reading through this thread, it all seems horribly familiar My first experience of the Bass Cellar would have been sometime in the 1990s. This was pre internet so I guess I would have heard of them through printed advertising, probably Bassist Magazine. I phoned them on several times probably over a period of a couple of years enquiring whether they had something in stock. The response on every occasion ranged from indifferent lack of interest to outright rudeness and I vowed never to set foot in the place. I reckon I've spent probably £15,000 to £20,000 on bass gear over that period so it's a hell of a lot of business to lose. I would have thought that with the Bass Centre only doing mail order there would be an opportunity to raise the profile of the Bass Cellar into something like the bass mecca that The Bass Centre used to be in the 1990s, the only other well known shop in London now being The Gallery. With all the bad PR they get from such a large part of their potential customer bass it seems like a missed opportunity to me.

[quote name='Tom Bowlus' post='263613' date='Aug 16 2008, 02:53 PM']Howdy, folks! Tom, here. I just wanted to confirm that we do offer international shipping on print subscriptions ($50/year). While I am happy about being able to offer the digital version for free, I am even more excited about the print version. It will be of very high quality, and the paper is a much better grade than what is typically used on most magazines. The print editions mail out next Wednesday (August 20th), but any paid subscriptions processed before issue #2 comes out (first of October) will still start with issue #1. Thanks for the kind words! This being our first effort, we hope to improve with age, so we will keep an eye out for any suggestions you might offer as to how to make Bass Gear Magazine better. Take care, Tom.[/quote] Thanks for coming on to explain Tom As far as I can remember I paid the $50 for the paper subscription so I'll be looking forward to receiving the first issue

You could try Tuffcab, which is a special purpose cabinet coating. You put it on with a normal DIY paint roller. The finish you end up with depends on the texture of roller you use but it's pretty easy to do and produces professional looking results. It's the coating of choice for most BFM builders. Available from Blue Aran

[quote name='Stag' post='261429' date='Aug 13 2008, 10:58 AM']Yes mate. Strange they didnt like, dust it or anything....[/quote] That's not dust...It's mojo

It certainly does help. Thanks very much.

What were you thinking of covering it with? Carpet is fairly easy to do, although it takes a bit of practise and you may find yourself wanting to re-do the job once you've finished. Carpet and glue are available from Blue Aran or CPC. Alternatively you can use Duratex (also known as Tuffcab) which is a special textured cabinet paint, also available from Blue Aran. You just put it on with a normal paint roller, but the cabinet will need a lot of preparation and sanding first because imperfections tend to show through it unless you put it on really thick. For loads of advice about covering cabs try the Bill Fitzmaurice forum. It's full of amateur cab builders who do that sort of thing all the time.

I've got to learn this but I just can't figure out the second part of each riff, where it runs back up to the D. Notes and finguring has got me totally baffled so any help would be appreciated. I've searched on the net for the tab but what's available seems to be wrong.

[quote name='dabootsy' post='258212' date='Aug 8 2008, 03:30 PM']just because something is made in the uk doesnt make it better to me remember the austin maxi,metro, montego all sh*te and gone to the wall[/quote] So that settles that then

Top bloke to deal with. Recommended

[quote name='AndyMartin' post='258081' date='Aug 8 2008, 01:45 PM']I'm not that bothered either but the point I'm trying to make is that what you regard as just "assembly" is probably the most important part of the whole process.[/quote] There. Fixed it

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='258091' date='Aug 8 2008, 01:57 PM']I wasnt aware i was dismissing anything. I was just trying to define the difference between Made in and Assembled in. I dont think i ever said it wasn't important did i? We seem to be agreeing on everything else, just disagreeing over the use of these words.[/quote] I don't think there is a definitive difference between "Made In" or "Assembled In", It's just what the guy who designs the labelling on the panel feels like putting on there and we could probably discuss it all day without ever agreeing. My ABM has a Union Jack on it so that's good enough for me. I can feel good about buying UK made On another note, I use mine with a 1212L and it sounds damn good.

I'm not that bothered either but the point I'm trying to make is that what you dismiss as just "assembly" is probably the most important part of the whole process.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='257821' date='Aug 8 2008, 09:42 AM']Hmmm, some companies use the phrase "assembled in" rather than made in. I wouldn't expect many companies to make the components themselves anyway but im talking about practically ever thing inside the amp. Its just all screwed together over here.[/quote] An amplifier isn't something that's "just screwed together". Whether you call the manufacturing process "making" or "assembling" it's pretty much the same thing. Assembly (or making), testing and QC are the most time consuming and expensive part of making a product like an amplifier if using western labour. There is very limited scope for building sub-assemblies, maybe the PCBs and front panel, not much else, and they would still go through the same QC process in the UK plant even if they were bought in from China. I doubt if you could pinpoint a time when the majority of an ABM became Chinese rather than UK made and without examining every component I doubt if you could state accurately whether any of it was made in China. The reliability problems Ashdown had for a while (and now overcome AFAIK) are a result of a failure of Ashdown's Quality Control rather than a problem caused by the country of manufacture.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='257785' date='Aug 8 2008, 08:58 AM']Im pretty sure they are now only put together in England but all the components like circuit boards, PSU etc come from China.[/quote] Maybe, but that's nothing new. When a product has Made in XXXXX written on it, it is referring to the country where final assembly takes place and most value is added. When Ashdown started up in the 1990s most of the internal components would have been made overseas even then. Manufacturers buy components from the cheapest source, and since the 1970s that would most likely have been from a factory somewhere in Asia. They will only make themselves what they can't source off the shelf, and an amplifier is not exactly cutting edge technology.

[quote name='beastie' post='257742' date='Aug 8 2008, 02:04 AM']the origanial abm was made in the uk the other two made abroad the original abm was very close to sounding like the best years of the trace elliot range of amps made in romford in essex back in the late 70s and early eighties which if you did not know where made by mark who went on to form the ashdown range the klystron is made in the uk to order and is very close to the original abm models which are the best of the amps to date and are quite rare so if you have got one dont sell it that was the advice i was given by the enginers at ashdown[/quote] Here we go again. If it's older it must be better. That old chestnut again. Makes you wonder why any manufacturer bothers spending money on R & D. I'm not sure who you were speaking to at Ashdown, but I've got an EVO II which is quite clearly marked Made in England.