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[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='891665' date='Jul 10 2010, 11:07 PM']vuvuzela & didjeridu[/quote] Needs MORE COWBELL!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='891368' date='Jul 10 2010, 03:57 PM']Hi mate. I knocked up a few quick samples just now...[/quote] Oh boy. Niiiiice. If you can do a clip of you playing the Super Mario theme tune through the Bugcrusher, I'll make it my boot-up sound, my ringtone and my wife.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='890390' date='Jul 9 2010, 01:43 PM']I clicked on the link but can't see the bass. Am I missing something?[/quote] Looks like it's been taken down. Shame. Uncharacteristically for me, I was up for the baiting.

[quote name='Spoombung' post='890374' date='Jul 9 2010, 01:29 PM']........anyone tried this yet? [/quote] No, but having just read [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/markbass.shtml"]the review on the Ovnilab site[/url], I really want to try one!

[quote]What you see is the actual bass, my wallpaper is a lime green (don't ask, please) so i got rid of the background using some photoshop program If i didn't it'd be pretty hard to spot the guitar![/quote] Just send him a link to [url="http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0131810340"]Fender's page for the Roadworn Jazz[/url] and ask if he realises that Fender have stolen his image and are using it to promote an instrument. Say something like, "Look, the wear patterns are exactly the same, and even the angle of the shadows of the tuning posts is the same." Suggest to him that he should sue Fender for unauthorised use of his image.

I've always got a compressor in my chain (Maxon CP-9 Pro+ in my case), but it's set to be pretty subtle, with a high threshold and low ratio. If I'm playing "normally", it's not even doing anything. It just helps to rein me in when I get overexcited and dig in too hard.

I do it in my head. Can we have that as an option on the poll?

[quote name='Toasted' post='889614' date='Jul 8 2010, 03:48 PM']Personally I'd go for "no".[/quote] To the thread title, or to the question which ends the original post? As to the OP, if it's the "perfect bass" in active mode... don't switch to passive. Problem solved.

[quote name='eude' post='889538' date='Jul 8 2010, 02:22 PM']...and back to the original thread - lovely looking bass there Steve![/quote] Oh yeah, we were talking about a Stingray, weren't we! Indeed, it's a lovely looker. Quite a catch.

Neck width doesn't bother me too much (and I've got fairly small hands), and neither does string spacing at the nut, but neck profile does. The depth and shape of the back of the neck makes a big difference to me. The most comfortable neck I've tried so far is the ACG asymmetrical profile. Quite chunky on the bass side, but much slimmer under the thinner strings. The "wedge" shape helps to keep the thumb a bit straighter, so everything feels just a bit more... "natural". For want of a better word. It just feels "right". Weirdest profile I've tried... Warwickhunt had a black Zon (I forget the model... maybe a Sonus?) with a neck that was essentially flat on the back, top to bottom, like a wood batten (except, presumably, graphite or composite ). Genuinely odd. I'd like to think I could adapt pretty easily to any neck, but that one would probably take a good while. EDIT: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=71184"]It was indeed a Sonus[/url]. Looking at the light reflected on the back of the neck, it's obvious that it [i]wasn't[/i] completely flat. Very shallow, but not flat. But by 'eck it felt it. Odd.

[quote name='Doctor J' post='889498' date='Jul 8 2010, 01:42 PM'][i]Psssssst... it's tomorrow. Are you back yet?[/i] [/quote] With all those buttons and knobs, it's going to take him a couple of weeks to try every combination and get back to us.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='888984' date='Jul 7 2010, 09:47 PM']Easier to read[/quote] At the end of the day, this counts for a hell of a lot IMO.

I think that's just awesome. (Then again, I'm a computer monkey most of the day, breaking off occasionally to take money from people in exchange for goods, so I'd probably think being a binman would be really cool. But still... awesome.)

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='888633' date='Jul 7 2010, 04:43 PM']Yeah well you wish, but they run shifts so when 12 are manning the engine room for example, other are resting there is a workshop constantly reboring cylinders, swapping pistons, and that is also manned 24/7, other or on bridge duty, mooring stations, bunker stations, repainting decks, lashing cargo, maintaining hoistable decks and hydraulic pumps, scraping ballast tanks, need I go on?[/quote] I'd honestly love you to do a thread about what your day-to-day life is like on that seafaring beast. Pleeeeease? Seriously. That would probably be the most interesting thing ever on Basschat. Ever. EVER.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' post='888350' date='Jul 7 2010, 01:01 PM'][/quote] This image just reminds me of series 2 of The Wire, what with it being my only exposure to the world of international shipping. Awesome. Not suggesting you've got dead hookers in any of the containers on your ship, mind.

And here's the tune, for those (like me) who've never heard it: Groooovy. A quick question, though, Bilbo: why quavers rather than semiquavers? I hear it as 4/4 with four notes per beat, and that's borne out by the rest of the groove. (Obviously, you could write it as 4/2 with four quavers per beat, but that's not really the norm these days...)

I've seen people moaning that they could fit a business card down the sides of their neck pocket. You could get a frigging novel into that one.

[quote name='Doddy' post='887492' date='Jul 6 2010, 04:32 PM']Yeah pretty much. Normally it's a case of playing the head before 'blowing' over the changes so that the 'cats' can show off their 'chops' that they spent many hours 'shedding',then back to the head.[/quote] Maybe we should have "head" and "changes" in quote marks too. (I'm getting used to "changes", but I still naturally prefer "chord progression".)

[quote name='Doddy' post='887478' date='Jul 6 2010, 04:22 PM']I've also noticed a trend amongst players to refer to soloing as 'blowing',even if the instrument doesn't require it.[/quote] Oh yeah, I've seen the term "blowing section", as if it's part of the structure of a piece. What's that about then? Is it where the players... sorry, the cats ( )... take turns soloing? Head - Blowing section - Head - Coda?

[quote name='bassace' post='887446' date='Jul 6 2010, 03:56 PM']A lot of jazz stuff came across to the UK in the late 50s/60's tied into the beatnik movement. Some has stayed in our language and some has disappeared. Dad was used a lot, more than the US Daddio. Jobsworth appeared in Humph's first autobiograpy Gig was a lot more specific. It referred to a musician picking up a freelance job. It was not a performance by a band, as it is now. Ridiculous was a term of approval - as in 'that was a ridiculous solo'. Dig. There was a joke going round about the beatnik who saw a duck quacking and said 'I don't know the tune but dig those crazy shoes - man.' Riff Way out - as in 'my name's exit because I'm way out' (sorry about that) Hip. Try and find a great song by Dave Frishburg, sung amongst others by Blossom Dearie called 'I'm Hip'. Sums it all up. Chops was specific to blowers, as in 'great chops' derived from cheek muscles (embochure) and has only recently spread across all players I'm sure there were a lot of others but my memory's a bit fragile these days.[/quote] Really interesting stuff, thanks. Oddly enough, I use "ridiculous" in much the same way when it comes to outrageously good displays of musicianship. Here's the Blossom Dearie song: I love the line "When it was hip to be hep, I was hep". Like you say, it sums it all up.

[quote name='urb' post='887363' date='Jul 6 2010, 02:59 PM']I think 'shedding' is perfectly OK - it certainly accurately describes the process of trying stuff 'behind closed doors' you'd rather not let other people hear[/quote] In my case, that would be "bomb-sheltering", or possibly "nuclear-bunkering".

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='887354' date='Jul 6 2010, 02:49 PM']Thankfully I've just about stopped calling people 'dude' all the time.[/quote] I've just started, at the age of 30. I quite like "cat" as a negative term. Almost as a bowdlerised version of "the other C-word". <mrsdoyle> You know the one, Father. The [b]bad[/b] one. </mrsdoyle>