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Not exactly the same but kind of related, my bassman tube head is giving off a fair bit of hum. Im going to have it looked at and will post back what the score is.

Caught them in Swansea. Criminally, the place was so far from rammed that i was having a hard time counting the people there to watch from those who were in the support bands. F**king shame though they were beyond amazing.

[quote name='Ant' post='58022' date='Sep 10 2007, 08:45 AM']Right, i've been away for a bit finishing off my new board, and here it is: [/quote] Hows the headush working out for you?

Good sir...I stand and salute thee!

Im sure that unless they are musical dictators theyll be keen for you to influence them as much as theyll inevitably influence you.

FIT

I dont change my board when i switch between guitar and bass. In saying that, ive been through a lot of pedals because you do only learn from experience with gear IMO. Harmony central etc is only useful to a point.

Holy grail is awesome. Its pretty limited comparatively, but in a less can be more sense, aside from soundng great, its simplicity beats reverb units that have far too much to tweak IMO.

Anyone have any of these fabled grolsch gaskets going spare? Im a lover, not a drinker. My god im a cheapskate.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='40794' date='Aug 3 2007, 09:53 AM']personally speaking, if you want good service, low prices and freindly staff- DON'T LIVE IN LONDON![/quote] Fantastic advice.

I ordered a CIJ 57 reissue with the US pups and all that jazz. I can agree with dood on the neck profile...wide and flat, which with small kid hands like me was a challenge at first but now i dont really think about it. If im honest, i really couldnt tell you that the wood makes a hell of a difference to the bass' sound or not since this was my first real 'big' bass outside of copies and no name basses. Im sure some with more travelled ears and bigger wallets will attest to the differences between woods used though. The pups were actually a lot better than i was expecting. Im not sure if they are actual US spec or just branded as such to suck in mugs with more money than sense, but i found them to be pretty warm sounding pups with plenty of clarity and thud (as you would expect from a P bass. Personally i had mine switched to SD quarter pounders as i play with more than a lot of OD/dist and the SD's carry a lot more mids to my ears. Thats not to say i disliked the stock US pups, They just didnt have the volume i needed. One thing i cannot stress though is to buy a badass bridge for it. It might be japanese but the bridge is still sh*t.

Im sure ill be corrected by someone more in the know but i always thought the muse sound was the result of a lot of tinkering with bass, amp and effects. So yeah, suppose its not something youre going to get exact from your own set up so just kind of run with it and try as many stompboxes as you can, youll probably come to find something (or a combination of pedals) thats right for you. Though if you do get picky about the sound, ive always gotten along with an EQ pedal to tweak to my hearts content.

I wouldnt even go for something like that, id go for something really dirty and cheap then youve lost nothing if its stolen/broken. You could just have a break from bass though. I had a couple of months break from it recently and found a lot of new ideas and inspirations came when i got back to it.

Fantastic pedal.

I used to run a US muff with EMG pups, didnt sound bad at all.

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='22224' date='Jun 23 2007, 12:08 AM']Too much of anything is too much.[/quote] NEVER!!! [quote name='Muppet' post='22229' date='Jun 23 2007, 12:35 AM']What's your interpretation of gain? Volume?[/quote] Dirty, balls to the wall death. There has to be more out there that get a kick out of unleashing hell on a 4 string.

Just out of curiosity really...the pedal board thread isnt doing it for me in this respect. What pedals do you folks use for GAIN!? What would you recommend? Whether its sonic death terror or a bit of smooth warmy goodness. Currently running a chain of death with a sans amp BDDI, fulltone bassdrive and a maxon ROD880. The last sound man who engineered my band shook his head when i sound checked. My guitarists sounded like they were playing mandalins.

I love the BDDI but i really wish it had a dedicated mid range control. It does really nail that scooped mid growl with a pbass though. tasty.

Im after some new g**tar tuners for my 72 telecaster deluxe. Aside from allparts, can anyone give me any web[Fly a Kite]s that sell spares and replacements. Thanks in advance.

Id love to get ahold of one of these. Thanks for the review.

Sounds like a neat little toy.

Cheers toasted. Looking for ways out of playing 'music' so the wierder the better. Maybe some pitchshifters needed to.