Paul S

Steve bought my Dare Strap in what has to be one of the quickest and easiest transactions I have made. Anyone thinking of dealing with him should not hesitate. Thanks - hope you get on with it.

Excellent. Many thanks. Maybe I should spend some time twiddle with my knobs.

I have a Zoom BFX-708 which seems ok as far as it goes but I am not sure I am using it properly - it seems rather complicated once you move away from the presets. I've been taking a quick look at others that are around - the Boss units, Line 6 Bass PODs etc - and wonder if any are significantly better/easier to use etc? I have only ever used my Zoom so have no means of comparison but feel I could be getting more from it. Maybe, if it is ok, I should just stick with that and learn to use it better! I am confused and would appreciate advice/experiences. Ta.

I have recently become a fan of these Westone basses - superb build quality for very little outlay. I now have a Thunder 1A and a Thunder Jet, neither of which cost me very much. You could possibly keep your eyes peeled for a Thunder 1A bass, which crop up frequently on eBay and Gumtree, and cannibalise it for bits?

In case anyone is remotely interested I resolved this. To learn it I tuned a bass up a tone except the low string which is down a tone. Can do all that octave juggling a treat now. When we play it we'll do it in A and I'll just drop the E to D.

If you listen here it is quite clear, around 30 secs in, it goes up to Db then down an octave - it does this whenever this chord change comes along in the verses. But I am not sure what his tuning is to do that. I guess it isn't important.

One of my bands has decided they want to cover 'Somebody Told Me'. Every now and then he seems to pay a low D. I've watched vids of them playing live and he uses a 4 string but I can't quite get my head around whether he has just dropped the E to D or detuned the lot. I suspect the first but can't really tell. Any tips from anyone who plays it? Ta. Edit - I'm not sure he does now... I think what I was hearing as a D was just an E... anyone know for sure?

This was taken at the Stanford-Le-Hope Music Festival on Saturday. I think it was just when the UFO landed to the side of the stage but our singer hadn't noticed. [attachment=53590:Stanford...030710ra.jpg]

Hi Paul Interesting. Pics would be great but, meanwhile, colour? Condition? Price you are looking at? And, again,mildly off topic but I ended up getting myself a matching Washburn Raven in black as a little brother for the Scavenger. Nice!

Eyes left - my Washburn Scavenger.

I am a dunce. I just looked at the calendar and some work I thought wasn't due until the week after next is due next week, so that's the rest of my weekend accounted for. Hope you have a good 'un, chaps - after going to the SE bash last year and finding it such a great experience I was really looking forward to coming (North Circular Road notwithstanding...).

Sold my Squier Strat to Keith - a complete gent and a pleasure to do business (and chat) with.

Brilliant. Ta. I had always used the two outputs but when using a pair of supplied cabs at a new rehearsal place the other week the guy said to daisy chain them, as if using both outputs was wrong in some way.

I am almost embarrassed to ask but, well, I don't know . My Trace Elliot amp has two speaker outputs. What is the difference between plugging one cabinet into each or using one then daisy-chaining the speakers together? Or is there no difference?

Does anyone coming have one of those Ibanez Promethean combos they could bring along? They seem too good to be true.

[quote name='Paul S' post='866201' date='Jun 13 2010, 05:39 PM']Edit - hold on... I may have just sold it!![/quote] Well, would you believe it - this guitar has been sat in the for sale section for weeks and, as soon as I have posted this, someone has bought it. I have drawn a happy medium though, whilst feeling altruistic, and asked for £100 for the guitar plus whatever donation the purchaser wants to make to the Basschat pot. Still look forward to coming, anyway.

I'm hoping to come long on the day, I really enjoyed last year's SE bash. I have a Squier Strat [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=83403&hl=squier+strat"]here in the for sale section[/url] that I will bring along to 'auction'. If I set a reserve for £75, which is what I'll take, then anything it fetches above that can go to Basschat funds. [attachment=52137:STRAT1.jpg] Edit - hold on... I may have just sold it!!

The Railway Hotel in Southend (near the railway station ) 8pm onwards Wednesday 30th June - I play in two bands and both are on at the same night. 'May Contain Nuts' is kind of light pub rock - 8'til 9, then the first public airing of my new band 'Xerocks' which plays classic heavy rock. If anyone is local, free, interested, curious or sick of footy why not come along and have a laugh at me paddling root notes.

As the proud owner of a real black Fender Jaguar I reckon that, purely in terms of aesthetics, these look pretty hot - those extra Wallace and Grommitt-esque chrome plates for the pre-amp gubbins and all that complicated pup selection on mine do distract the eye a bit, IMHO. Stick a black scratch plate on it and you are in business, especially if the build quality is like the rest of the VM range.

[quote name='silddx' post='855496' date='Jun 2 2010, 10:34 PM']....play very fast riffs with total accuracy.[/quote] Hell, I gonna get me some if that happens.