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    When is a bass considered a "high end" bass?

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1399985870' post='2449589']
    Yes, there is plenty of reverse snobbery and resentment about owning relatively expensive instruments. How much it is motivated by jealousy, I wouldn't even want to speculate, but let's call a spade a spade.
    [/quote]
    Yes. On this thread in particluar, and the forum in general, it strikes me that the inverse snobbery outweighs the actual snobbery by quite a long way. I've never managed to work out why some people get so wound up by the idea of a quilted top or whatever that they feel compelled to pour scorn not only on the basses themselves but also their 'typical' owners.

    Status Half Rounds

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    [quote name='Greggo' timestamp='1399031773' post='2440188']
    What are peoples thoughts on these? Ive ordered a set, seeing as they are inexpensive, to replace a set of Fender 9050CL flats. Reason is that my g-string snapped and I've been intrigued by these Half Wounds for a while.

    I've read that this particular brand feels very similiar to flats, but are they as brighter as a Fender flat but without the tension?

    Any love for them?
    [/quote]
    Are they Staytus or Stattus Half Wounds? :ph34r:

    DIY Looper Project

    in Effects

    Posted · Edited by UglyDog

    [quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1383901815' post='2270483']
    Not sure there's much interest in this thread.
    [/quote][i]Au contraire[/i], my friend. It's fascinating, even if my poor analogue brain only understands about one word in three. :lol: 'lack of replies' doesn't mean 'lack of interest'..!

    NBD Limelight Guitars

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1399551107' post='2445209']
    Anyone know if they do block/bound necks?
    [/quote]
    I sincerely hope they don't. Otherwise my GAS for a CAR Jazz with blocks/binding & matching headstock may become too great to withstand.

    They're havin' a laff.

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='lonestar' timestamp='1399465184' post='2444459']
    In the 80s i worked for a couple of hi fi mags.
    There was a guy called peter belt who sold some interesting, err improvements for your system.
    Try googling him. I recall one involve a piece of wire a couple of inches long with croc clips that you attached to your power cord.
    Another was sticking bluetack in all your 13amp plugs.
    Try this for example [url="http://pwbelectronics.co.uk/product/quantum/quantum.html"]http://pwbelectronic...um/quantum.html[/url]
    [/quote]
    Wow. I'll have an eighth of whatever he's been smoking please. It's obviously incredible stuff. :lol:

    please delete due to general lack of interest

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='allighatt0r' timestamp='1398960320' post='2439481']
    This is a great idea for the marketplace!

    - £1000 and up
    - £500 to £1000
    - £350 to £500
    - £200 to £350
    - The grotty bargain bin.

    Saves trawling through all that posh crap....!!! :)
    [/quote]

    Christ, would you want to have to be moderator for that lot?? Cos I'm blowed if I would.

    Letts thread..........?

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1398926506' post='2439004']
    Closing the original thread (along with closing this one soon I'd imagine) leaves no avenue for me to comment on what I feel is a relevent subject for many on BC.
    [/quote]
    AFAIK there is still at least one Letts thread running in the Affiliates section. The other thread here was just starting to look like a man in the stocks being pelted with rotten fruit. The right decision was made IMHO.

    DIY Effects

    in Effects

    Posted

    [quote name='d-basser' timestamp='1398704860' post='2436781']
    haven't ordered from here myself yet but these guys seem to do a few colours:

    [url="http://www.bluebellaudio.com/"]http://www.bluebellaudio.com/[/url]
    [/quote]
    They look good. A hell of a lot cheaper than Rapid and RSH too. The orange B would be perfect for that modified Phase 45 clone I've been toying with building...

    Bgm! is pants or is just me?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    [quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1398685912' post='2436488']
    These threads never get too far before someone mentions the early 90s when Bassist magazine broke off from Guitarist.... so I will, what a great magazine![/quote]
    Really? I don't remember it being all that much better than BGM is now. It too had its share of editorial bloopers and smelling pistakes, and fixations with certain manufacturers.
    I still remember the heady days of 'International Musician & Recording World', now that was a belting read. And then there was the ridiculously metal-biased 'Music UK', which was firmly in the so-bad-it's-good category -- I remember they had one features writer in particular who went by the name of 'Katy 88' (geddit??!?!!?!???!!?!), who felt that no article! was complete without! a huge smattering! of! exclamation marks in random! places!! It made Kerrang look like the Spectator.

    The Show Must Go On?...

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Not quite in your league Pete but I played a gig with raging flu back in 87, I mean the real thing and not just a bad cold. I had a temperature of 101 and should have been in bed, but it was a Saturday night headline in London and there's no way I was going to see the band pulled. I got through that gig on the power of lemsip and adrenaline, walked off stage and virtually passed out into the arms of my roadie :) spent the next 4 days welded to my mattress.

    Jolene @ 33.333333

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    For my money, this is loads better than the 'proper' version. Suddenly it's a bittersweet ballad rather than slightly clichéd C&W. And the harmonies in the chorus sound glorious at this speed too. See what you think.
    http://youtu.be/doz1QJ7LwjA

    A change in band genre

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You're being asked to play nothing but root notes for a musical style you don't like?
    Lozz is right, if you stick with it it'll just get on your nerves and it will show, and you'll just end up falling out with everyone. Leave before you start hating it/them.

    The BS of Guitar Companies

    in Lefties!

    Posted

    [quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1397653462' post='2426079']
    OK, so here we have people who say the plucking hand should not be perceived as the dominant one; therefore lefties can play a righty instrument with their "better" hand in the correct place. Yay. So,why isn't that true of righties then? Why isn't there an absolutely massive demand for lefty instruments, if you guys' "better" hand, the right, is more suited to the fretboard?
    [/quote]
    To be honest, this has long mystefied me. I mean, when you think about it logically, it does follow that one's most sensitive and for want of a better word 'dexterous' hand should be the one doing the fretting. So why is this not the case for 99.9% of us? How do we end up doing the comparitively ploddy plucking stuff with the same hand we write with, and doing the intricate notey stuff with our weaker limb? Why is it that it feels so natural to be doing it, effectively, arse about face?

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