Paul S

Where from, please?

Another endorsement for OBMM. Great product, price and service. Like Bolo said above - I went through a phase of making my own using Neutrik and good cable, purely for the soldering practice and to tailor the exact lengths, but they aren't as good as OBMM and probably not a lot cheaper. I won't bother next time!

Guy, I'd just like to say that I think you have handled this whole episode, which I read from start to finish, with dignity and restraint. It speaks volumes about the type of person you are. Much respect.

I personally don't get the animosity towards the Eagles. I am a huge fan and hope I can afford to get tickets when they tour here. I will certainly get the DVD.

I favour basses with narrow and shallow necks and have found a few, some already mentioned. These are all 38mm at the nut AND shallow - exceptional necks all of them. Fender Jaguar (and so Fender Geddy Lee) Fender Precision Lyte Peavey Fury and Fury II (Milestone III also, but that was more of a budget thing) Then come standard Jazz bass type necks - 38mm at the nut and a little deeper Fender Jazz. SBMM SB-14 Yamaha SX800A Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV Epiphone EB0 (nicre shallow neck to grab and stop it diving) Fender Musicmaster Slightly chunkier but still 38mm-40mm Westone Thunder Hohner B Bass Hohner B2A Some P-Basses - MIJ Squier Silver Series has a 40mm and shallow neck.

We do Hysteria and I just use a Boss ODB-3! Not had anyone come up to me and say it sounds nothing like the real thing. So far.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1367672609' post='2068221'] Get some sweat bands - double duty ones. You can pick them up easy enough, and they really do make a difference. I`ve found that although I thought it was my hands getting sweaty when playing, it was in fact all of me - urrgh, but it`s what happens with punk I spose - but putting the bands on prevents it running down your arms onto your hands. [/quote] ^^This^^. I use a double size one on my right arm which, the way I play, also stops rubbing on the edge of the bass. Single size on my left arm. Sweaty brow mid-song, it is easy to mop up, too.

The second sound clip is called 'O Jesus King' - something spooky going on here! Turin-burst finish?

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1367399768' post='2065032'] As an aside, I came across this the other day. Brilliant! [/quote] Like that lots. A bit different. Thanks for the link!

Unless you are absolutely desperate for the money or the sapce the instrument takes up I really wouldn't bother. They go for peanuts - no-one wants or likes them. Mine was a timewarp beauty with almost no wear and I think I sold it for around £150. Imagine if it were a Fender in showroom condition of that age!

Only if you use hammerite. It flakes off too easily otherwise.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1367228403' post='2062689'] Finally! After four pages, we come to what's important about bass guitars. My view is this: Bass guitars, particularly P-Basses, should be WHITE - or a variation thereof. That is all. They just don't sound proper otherwise. [/quote] Black, surely?

It was those little runs that had me flummoxed, so the tab for those was exactly what I needed. Didn't help that I started off playing along in E then got in a right old muddle. Great track! Shame we don't have Michael Mcdonald doing BVs, not sure it will sound quite so haunting without.

Hmm, that doesn't sound promising. I had the Zoom B2 multi and the poor chorus was one reason I got rid of that. I was hoping that the chorus in this might be different.

Absolutely fantastic stuff, chaps. Thanks a million. I just couldn't hear it, but now it makes sense. Gotta love Basschat!

Plea for help. I am trying to learn these. I usually pick up things by ear but increasingly my ears are letting me down. Doesn't help that the recording of Red Streamliner I have seems picthed somewhere bewteen E and F, so working out some of the runs is pretty much hit or miss! Does anyone have any kind of tab for these two tracks? ta.

I have DI out from the amp so that won't be an issue for me. I don't really like effects and don't use them much - I think this is why this appeals so much. But, yes, will I actually like the effects it has? Difficult to say. I tried a lot of chorus pedals which i didn't like before I settled on the EBS Unichorus, which I do like. Hopefully this will be somewhere near it. Anyway, thanks!

Bought a Badass II from Samuel. Relatively straight forward transaction. I'd buy from him again.

So it doesn't have to scroll through everything, only the ones you have saved? This is where my 'dim' bit comes in, as I couldn't work that out. Edit - just seen the diagram. Makes sense now!! You must have children - patiently explaining things like that. Another edit - I currently use a bit of overdrive,chorus very occasionally, fuzz even less occasionally, and have a tuner. I was going to buy one of the programmable DI pedals, too - I could bin all of those and just use this one pedal by the looks of it.