BottomEndian

[quote name='Zoe_BillySheehan' post='511369' date='Jun 11 2009, 04:19 PM']loop sessions can be very impressive [/quote] Or they can be an unmitigated f**k-up. I speak from experience.

[quote name='4000' post='509677' date='Jun 9 2009, 10:41 PM'][/quote] BTW, that is a really lovely looking instrument. I love the two-tone finish, and the way it extends onto the fretboard. It just kinda looks like the upper horn had an allergic reaction to shellfish or something...

[quote name='dood' post='509730' date='Jun 9 2009, 11:21 PM']maybe after I have arranged my stamp collection in to alphabetical order. [/quote] I thought I was the only one...

[quote name='Aaren J' post='509171' date='Jun 9 2009, 03:55 PM']Heh, Interesting point about the neck dive though. I was considering buying a squire telecaster, hadn't thought about the balance issue. [/quote] You could probably mitigate the neck dive a touch by installing really light tuners. And replacing the body with a solid brass one. And tying some helium balloons to the headstock. Nah, my mate's Tele was particularly bad because it was a hollow-body. Hollow body + heavy neck + cheap, heavy tuners = trouble.

[quote name='Aaren J' post='509100' date='Jun 9 2009, 03:01 PM']Splitting hairs a little, aren't we? [/quote] That's what I do best.

[quote name='simon1964' post='508860' date='Jun 9 2009, 10:27 AM']Definitely singlecuts - no concavity there![/quote] Arrow points to concavity: [attachment=26775:ASAT_arrow.jpg] And I've roughly marked in red what they've had to [u]cut[/u] out to make it that shape: [attachment=26776:ASAT_cutaway.jpg] That's a cutaway if ever I saw one. A bit of a pointless one, granted, but a cutaway nonetheless. I've never played a Tele bass, but I've noodled on my mate's hollow-bodied Tele-copy guitar. You have to put noticeable physical effort into holding the neck up, to the extent that it affects your fretting-hand technique.

[quote name='Aaren J' post='508402' date='Jun 8 2009, 06:16 PM']ASAT basses are mana from heaven. [/quote] Maybe so, but they're not single-cuts, are they? There's a definite concavity where the top 'horn' joins the neck joint. Double-cut! [/controversy]

[quote name='chris_pokkuri' post='508337' date='Jun 8 2009, 05:03 PM']What about the hartke LH1000? I bought mine new last week for £349. Its 1100 watts at 4 ohms![/quote] GAAAHHHH! WHERE FROM?!?! Ahem... [breathes deeply] ...the new RRP on those is £689. If they're still around for £349, I'm sorely tempted.

They're so ready he said it twice!

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='508161' date='Jun 8 2009, 12:50 PM']2+2, 4 a-side, 3+1, reverse, slotted; the mind boggles.[/quote] Good thing BigBeefChief's not here for that sentence! :brow:

I've got one of these, in solid black with B/W/B pickguard and maple neck & board. I don't play it that much, but every time I dig it out I'm pleasantly surprised by how well it plays. It had a little too much mid "honk" for me, so I stuck an EMG-P in it and now it's sweeeeeet. I'd say it was worth a punt, but the shipping to the UK pretty much rules that out. Not to mention customs and VAT...

Like sgt-pluck said once about [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=30720"]a Jim Fleeting single-cut 9-string[/url]: [quote name='sgt-pluck' post='318390' date='Oct 30 2008, 03:30 PM']whenever I see a singlecut I just think 'John Merrick' for some reason.[/quote] Couldn't agree more.

[quote name='swlaschin' post='507292' date='Jun 6 2009, 10:56 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/csl-vintage-precision-bass-made-in-japan_W0QQitemZ140325407370QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item20ac0bca8a&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A2|39%3A1|72%3A1688|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A2|294%3A50"]Defretted CSL P Bass[/url] from Ibanez factory? Don't like the defret job much...[/quote] I've played a CSL Jazz on a few occasions. Looked like a heap of s**t, but played [i]really[/i] nicely. Sounded ace too -- really lively. Still had its frets, though.

[quote name='Brother Jones' post='507007' date='Jun 6 2009, 02:52 PM']I'm sick to death of flats. They have been flavour of the month for a little while, probably because the sounds people are after are increasingly nostalgic. It's gone too far in my part of the world. Last week I tried a second hand five string (a [i]five[/i] string people!) that had been strung with flats.[/quote] My Ibanez 5's got Chromes on it. I think it sounds great! Definitely not nostalgia for me. It just fits in better with what I want to do, and feels so much easier under the fingers.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='506190' date='Jun 5 2009, 10:56 AM']Mrs Endian took the call, so she can't remember which string it was... "either E or D... or G"[/quote] It transpires they left a message, so I had a listen. Definitely the D that's the problem.

Just as a related note, I ordered some TI Jazz Flats (43-100) from Stringbusters yesterday. They've contacted me today to let me know that there's been a manufacturing problem with a recent batch (one string in every set is dead... Mrs Endian took the call, so she can't remember which string it was... "either E or D... or G"), so they're sending them all back to Thomastik and getting replacements in about a week. So if anyone's had a duff TI set recently, this could be the problem. Kudos to Stringbusters for actually sorting it out. A lesser retailer might have just sent them out and hoped I wouldn't notice!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='505731' date='Jun 4 2009, 07:13 PM']...but the crossover on the Big One is far too big and heavy to go on such a plate.[/quote] Seriously, you can't say that and [i]not[/i] give us pictures of the über-behemoth crossover. PICS! WE DEMAND PICS!

A quick search brings up... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=116"]Some general Wizard love[/url] and [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=35469"]A thread with a video of WoT's Thumper-equipped P[/url] I'm sure there'll be some more threads somewhere on here, but it's a start.

And I'm pretty sure I've heard it in an episode of the Simpsons.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='505370' date='Jun 4 2009, 11:50 AM']ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! (points awarded for origin of the chant)[/quote] Tod Browning's [i]Freaks[/i]? Have to admit: never seen it... but Wikipedia is my friend!

I'd forgotten about this thread. How'd it go, Funk?

Thing is, everyone will have been sitting in the control room thinking, "I wish he'd tune that f**king thing!"

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='504747' date='Jun 3 2009, 03:23 PM']Same as a recording - whenever I record myself, my intonation on the playback is out. It sounded perfectly good when I was playing the tune but, when I listen to it played back, there is something about the recording process that makes it sound out of tune... What? [/quote] Indeed. That's plain weird. Ooooh, unless you were tracking with headphones on, in which case your ears could be subjected to quite high SPLs in a pair of closed-back cans. Then my guess about tuning perception at high SPLs comes into play. When you listen to playback at a sensible level, you suddenly hear it differently. Hmmmmm. Intriguing... Anybody got any answers?

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='504750' date='Jun 3 2009, 03:29 PM']Alex's posts pretty much reiterates some of the comments I made earlier in the thread (http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=45316&view=findpost&p=500955 and [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=45316&view=findpost&p=501100)"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...t&p=501100)[/url] BGMs review for me, just are not credible. The problem with the guys that chose to provide a testimony are not a good sample either... read my earlier posts.[/quote] Yup, point taken. I hadn't seen the mag yet when you posted that, so it hadn't meant anything to me at the time. And I don't really know anything about Ben Epstein and Janek Gwaz... Gwezz... Gwizzleybear... yeah, him. Note to self: re-read relevant posts before posting...

[quote name='hubrad' post='504734' date='Jun 3 2009, 03:04 PM']So if the whole band, including a fretless bass player, runs towards you at speed carrying the backline and drummer on a big trolley.. what then?[attachment=26479:POW_.jpg][/quote] Dunno, but if they do it at 1,521 miles per hour, they'll sound an octave higher. I think that's how they record Alvin & The Chipmunks...