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  1. SteveXFR
    But we're not American are we? We are civilised, tea drinking, English spelling, sarcasm using, human beans
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    That's not right. Tempering is a treatment used after hardening to remove some of the hardness and increase toughness. It makes it less brittle, not more.
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    Repeatedly fitting and removing strings is not normal behaviour and will lead to failure occasionally. Bass strings don't need pre-stretching, that's more of a guitar thing. Just fit them, tune up and play them until they've lost too much brightness for you then bin them. If you want to vary the tone a bit then try some different playing techniques (fingers, slap, pick or try picking harder or lighter etc) or get some effects pedals.
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    The Bristol shop used to be pretty decent but last time I went in to try basses, I waited ages for one to be taken off the wall then got given a tiny practice amp a few feet from a guitarist trying out a big valve amp so couldn't hear what the bass sounded like. I asked to try it where I can hear it and was told to come back another time. I bought one elsewhere. It's even worse since they moved to a shop where there's no parking.
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    It's similar to the bass strap height discussions. What works for a finger style tech wizard or slapper isn't going to be right for a super fast down picking punk using a plectrum
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    I love his isolated sound as well but most normal humans hate it!
  7. SteveXFR
    There's always someone who says clean is best and bass doesn't need or shouldn't have any distortion. They seem to forget music isn't right or wrong. What works for one person may not work for another. For every bassist who loves a crystal clear clean sound, there's another in a metal band who needs a heavily overdriven sound to work with the filthy guitars. In a band you have to abandon your ideal isolated tone in favour of what works best with your band. Lemmy is a perfect example of this, his bass sounds awful in isolation but in the mix it's spot on.
  8. SteveXFR
    My clean sound had the valve drive on my Ashdown ABM600 at near max plus the clean/dirty channels blended on my le bass preamp pedal but with the gain pretty high on both channels. My dirty sound added a Darkglass B3K or Vintage Microtubes on to of that.
  9. SteveXFR
    Hanging Tree - Mark Lanegan
  10. SteveXFR
    Im Bored - The Stooges
  11. SteveXFR
    Grade 2's new self titled album and its an absolute blinder. Some of the bass playing is really good. Highly recommended
  12. SteveXFR
    Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
  13. SteveXFR
    Bulls On Parade - Rage Against The Machine
  14. SteveXFR
    Brean Down - Beak>
  15. SteveXFR
    Holy Mountain - Sleep
  16. SteveXFR
    The Decline - NOFX
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    Planet's Collide - Crowbar Heavy metal genius
  18. SteveXFR
    It's worth bugger all, maybe even less but my daughter has an early 90's Peavey international. I was just curious as to whether that would be considered vintage. It's around 30 years old now. It's actually quite nice to play but pretty much worthless to anyone but my daughter.
  19. SteveXFR
    What would define a bass as vintage? Is it purely age or is there more to it than that?
  20. SteveXFR
    What amp are you using? I'm just thinking if you found both instruments underwhelming, it could be the amp that's the problem.
  21. SteveXFR
    IEAIAIO - System Of A Down
  22. SteveXFR
    Still Born - Eagulls
  23. SteveXFR
    I'd tune the 5 string down as well. I assume you're playing metal and there will be lots of playing riffs off open string which gets really tricky if you're not in the right tuning. Playing something like Reign In Blood would probably be impossible if you aren't in the same tuning as the guitar or have 8 fingers 10 inches long
  24. SteveXFR
    Head and cab
  25. SteveXFR
    A little of each. I only have one bass and one amp but the amp is 600w with a 4x10 so maybe I should downsize although smaller cabs seem to be more expensive than big ones
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