EdwardHimself

That's cool that you've owned your bass for the last 30 years. Must be a good un.

[quote name='Stockholm Syndrome' post='624948' date='Oct 13 2009, 01:36 PM']Lol, thanks! It's [url="http://www.filippa-k.com/fw09/"]Filippa K[/url], a well known Swedish brand.[/quote] what an odd website. I preferred the unicornbass one to be honest.

They're all very nice. [size=1][spoiler]even if they are the wrong way round[/spoiler][/size]

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='619492' date='Oct 7 2009, 12:42 PM']Oooh. Misrepresentation abounds![/quote] Well, what can i say? I guess a lot of people (including me) like to think they're experts when in fact they know nothing whatsoever.

[quote name='Gust0o' post='619497' date='Oct 7 2009, 12:46 PM']As per usual, I received the typical patter - how's the day; business good; is that yet another tie; cold out - and the lad got to chatting about what he'd had in on the last delivery. MIM Ps, MIM Js... including a stunner in white. Tempted? No thanks. I can't imagine myself playing Anthrax covers in my games room on that thing. It'd be like like marrying Keeley Hawes. It'd be great, she's beautiful... but, sooner or later, she's going to find out I'm an idiot.[/quote] This is going to find itself in the basschat famous quotes thread!

nice. That's an "interesting" pickup position for the G+L. I would have thought that a humbucker in the front position would have sounded a bit too "full on" for a bass on it's own. But i dunno, bet it sounds great

the best way to get good acoustics is to minimise parallel surfaces, which might be difficult inside a garage. The first thing you should do is to stick bass traps in. These are basically trianglular prism shaped blocks of acoustic foam that you stick in the corners of the room, this absorbs low frequency buildup in the corners of your room which will make the bass sound immensely tighter. The next thing to do is to sort out diffusers. This consists of sticking things on the walls that have a lot of surfaces which scatter the soundwaves in different directions which sorts out getting rid of frequency buildups in various places around the room. These can be bought but as 51m0n says it's also not too difficult to make by putting up bookcases or shelving and just stick stuff on them. Whether you want to put foam sound absorption up on the walls really depends on whether you're looking for a controlled "dead" sounding space or a more "live" sort of thing. You might decide you want something between the 2 and stick a bit of foam in various places. I have a carpet down so my room doesn't sound too bad.

[quote name='soopercrip' post='617104' date='Oct 5 2009, 08:34 AM']Don't get down if you're not happy with it Eddie, I had to take all the laquer off my project and do it again when I spotted a ding I'd missed. Spend some time finishing it, I like the way it's going, really 60's style I think. Like a burns or a Vox. Andy[/quote] Haha 60s style, with EMG electronics and black hardware . Yes i'm sure i can sort it out but it'll take a lot of filler and i'll probably have to order new screws as well because i have a feeling these ones aren't going to take much more screwing and unscrewing. That's the other terrible problem, 2 of the pickup screws actually snapped off in the cavity, not the heads, the f***ing shafts! Really annoying because now there's no chance of sticking new screws down there at all.

[quote name='lowdown' post='616791' date='Oct 4 2009, 08:03 PM']Or just a Musicman... [/quote] Don't say that! I would have had £775 at one point... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59983"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59983[/url] D: I think i'm going to have a breakdown.

[quote name='Sibob' post='616710' date='Oct 4 2009, 06:37 PM']Why not just drop tune the K5?! Pretty sure Fieldy is down to A anyway.[/quote] I would have said. The ESP surveyor will probably sound great with the bottom set of strings from a 5 set. The pickups and electronics are really very meaty.

[quote name='yorick' post='616592' date='Oct 4 2009, 04:43 PM']Sir.. you insult me!!! I've been wearing beards and caps since before America was discoved by the vikings!!! I also have the sandberg mj, so [/quote] ahh nice one. Also i have a beard and a jd t-shirt so i'm not really one to talk anyway XD

Nice bass mate, although i would have gone with the MM bridge pu if it were me. Nice beard as well, is it just me or does everyone in birmingham look (or at least want to look) like an american?

i think i've come to realise that i should have just bought a body off f***ing warmoth for all the good this has ended up being.

[quote name='lanark' post='616240' date='Oct 4 2009, 09:09 AM']Cheddatom, I wouldn't mind that advice on removing as much latency as possible from PC recording. I'm wanting to use Cubase to put together midi files to help separate band parts for practice and I'm finding the lag on the midi controller is making it impossible to get any accuracy whatsoever. Plus, (and this is a real dumbass question) how do I connect the bass to the PC / Laptop to record? Out of the amp? Straight in? I feel so stoopid (but then I thought I was stupid when I couldn't get the midi controller to work at all and it turned out that a logitech webcam driver was ensuring that all midi attachments were well and truly scuppered until it was disabled).[/quote] If your amp has a direct out like an XLR output then that through an xlr-6.3mm then convert the 6.3mm to 3.5mm jack and stick that in your line in port should probably be your best bet i'd imagine. If you're feeling adventerous and want a bit more charachter from the tone then you could try using a microphone, like an inexpensive dynamic jobbie which should in theory just plug straight into your mic input on the PC.

[quote name='iamapirate' post='603691' date='Sep 20 2009, 05:02 PM']ok, thanks for clearing that up for me [/quote] Yeah i mean specs are only a big problem if you're recording a lot of tracks at the same time, if you just want to do 1 or 2 it should be fine.

Right well here's a picture of it with some filler primer on and everything pretty much in. Whether i decide to actually finish it properly remains to be seen but really i think it looks alright as it is. Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to stick some grey primer on it to make it look a bit nicer.

i loled at the fact that apparently you're not allowed to say "wut" on the UG website.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='614644' date='Oct 2 2009, 11:39 AM']If it done expertly and in a desirable colour (Daphne Blue, Surf Green, Placid Blue etc.) then you will arguably increase it's value. You most likely won't get your hypothetical 300 back but you should return more than book price if offered to the right market because of it's uniqueness and desirability... this obviously excludes vintage and rare guitars which are in a pricing league of their own.[/quote] sadly in more cases then not if you "upgrade" your bass or modify it in any way it's going to be worth less than if you left it alone.

you could just make one in tuxguitar? Seems to work pretty well for me. How good it sounds depends on your midi synth.

[quote name='Gust0o' post='612990' date='Sep 30 2009, 02:28 PM']Kudos for attempting this - experiential learning in action![/quote] What are you trying to say!? only joking yeah this is pretty much just me learning as i go along. I've done a bit of woodwork before but not this sort of scale, i do have some idea of what i'm supposed to be doing though.