Twigman

24/11/11 Pickups arrived and the stacked concentric pot and a couple of other odds and sods. PUPs are: Fender original '62 USA precision pup + Allparts Jazz bridge pick up. The stacked concentric pot which came with 500k on top and 250k on bottom now has 250k top and bottom thanks to my man down in the electronics repair room who butchered another 250k to swap the wiper over. ....so now only waiting for the body and neck.......tick tock

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1322066648' post='1446132'] From a PM exchange this afternoon: [/quote] and here's me thinking the P in PM stood for Private DOH!

Kilo in stock at DV [url="http://www.dv247.com/guitars/hartke-kilo-bass-guitar-amp-head--49124"]http://www.dv247.com/guitars/hartke-kilo-bass-guitar-amp-head--49124[/url]

I use a car not the tube.

22/11/11 Bridge and Tuners arrived today.......and a few other bits of hardware....it's beginning to feel real.... That up there ^^^^ does look VERY green...I know green is not a popular colour on a bass - at least nobody'll want to nick it. I work with Steve Greetham (formerly bass with Annabel Lamb and Happhead (Shriekback side project)) and told him about my little project, the first question he asked was "What colour will it be?", I said nothing so he follows up with "So long as it's not green..." I remained silent....LOL

As I have got older and thus more portly, I have worn my bass lower and lower so that the top curve of my precision curves under my overhanging belly..... A couple more years and I'll need new arms.

Would that I could use a pick again...there are some songs in our catalogue (at least one of which is in our current live set) that work much better with a pick ( those digdiggadig rhythms ) but since damaging the nerve to my right hand a couple of years ago I don't have enough grip strength to use a pick...and keep dropping it.

I have this problem...and i use EB flats 45/65/80/100 and a BBE optostomp compressor is always between me and the amp. it is far more noticeable using my HA3500 than it is through the rehearsal studio's TNT130, so perhaps the EQ on my amp is a contributing factor. It is also more noticeable with new strings than old.

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1321522174' post='1440039'] The ex Clash members are doing well. [/quote] Apart from Joe

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1321466308' post='1439572'] You wan't to try a 9 month build... [/quote] i could handle a 9 month build if I had the parts.....it might well take me 9 months when I do get them, who knows? it's the waiting for the parts that's doing my head in....

[quote name='umcoo' timestamp='1321184633' post='1436126']. If it were me, I'd wait and be surprised. That's part of the fun for Warmoth IMO. [/quote] This waiting's killing me and we're only 1 week in to a 5 week wait.......

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1321436131' post='1438995'] I think the moral is, don't buy stings in dribs and drabs, get a full set at a time then there won't be any confusion. [/quote] Not necessarily - I recently bought a 'set' of strings which were supposed to be 100/80/65/45 but in the bag were 100/65/65/45 A packing error

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1321293838' post='1437449'] If you are using a DAW that is known to have something outrageous like a 64bit internal audio system (Reaper for instance) [/quote] Outrageous? Don't they all have a 64bit mix engine these days? I have run Sonar 5 / 6 / 7 / 8.5 and X1 and they've had 64bit mix engine since v6 I think all a 64bit mix engine does is not truncate tha data when summing until the final sum is achieved ( thus getting fewer rounding errors when adding all those 16bit or 24bit numbers together ( being the original bit depth of the recorded audio)) There's nothing outrageous about 64bit mix engines.

[url="http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordost%20ODIN%20Power%20Cords.htm"]http://www.highendcable.co.uk/Nordost%20ODIN%20Power%20Cords.htm[/url] 1.25m £8,495 2.5m £12,625 5m £20,495 [b][size=5]FREE P& P [/size][/b] Money for old rope

and so began the smite wars.....................................

[quote name='Higgie' timestamp='1321278945' post='1437218'] Analogman with the Deep Mod. No better bass chorus out there. Usually come up for about ~£130. I've had 3 of them, because every time I sell one thinking I don't need a Chorus, I just HAVE to buy another one! [/quote] Liking the idea of this: [url="http://www.buyanalogman.com/Analog_Man_Standard_Chorus_p/am-standard-chorus.htm"]http://www.buyanalogman.com/Analog_Man_Standard_Chorus_p/am-standard-chorus.htm[/url]

I'm after an analog bass chorus pedal. I liked my old Boss CE-2B (the brown one) but it seems to have got lost somewhere along the line... So what analog chorus do you guys use and recommend? I like the quality of BBE pedals but I don't believe they have a dedicated bass chorus. I don't like the CE-3B from Boss - it's just not as nice as the old analog one....

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1320939963' post='1433508'] like many a scientist (and I count myself as one for these purposes) he can come across as brutally direct, i.e., rude and insulting! [/quote] yeah but the other guy (Florin) was a "[i]Profanity removed"[/i] - he deserved it

Warmoth are painting mine in their solid 'Charger Green' colour.....now I'm not sure I've ever seen a bass (or even a guitar) finished in that colour, apart from the one I think I saw when I was very very young back in the late 60s....has anyone else? If so has anyone got any pics so I might see what I've let myself in for? Every monitor I look at the Warmoth body finish page on gives the body a different shade - each monitor must be calibrated differently but if I were to see it next to some 'known' colour (grass/sky/skin etc) and in normal daylight or under flash I might get a better idea. Or should I wait and be surprised by the reality?

I know very little about valves. While my HA3500 was open the other day I spotted there was a 12AX7 in the preamp circuit.... It seems to have a very high noise floor (compared to SS amps) and I was wondering if changing the valve might lower this noise floor so I get less hiss at higher tube-pre volumes? Are all 12AX7 valves the same? Will any 12AX7 valve plug'n'play? Is it as simple as changing a lightbulb or is there soldering required? 'scuse the ignorant questions

first parts arrived today: A couple of pots and some cloth wire from Allparts - LOL - the stacked concentric that I am going to have transplant surgery with one of these pots is on backorder....what's the betting that won't arrive until all the rest of the bass has arrived and is assembled already? Spoke to Warmoth last night as I had screwed up on the rout instructions and luckily they caught the wood before it went to the machine shop. Apparently mine was the next body on the router!! anyway chap there said it should ship in 4 or 5 weeks.....I wonder if it'll be here for Xmas?

I love it She always blows me off BUT NOT IN THAT WAY!!!! pmsl

[quote name='gilmour' timestamp='1320878492' post='1432801'] you can hear it [url="http://soundcloud.com/rob-the-bass/01-last-goodbye-mix-1"]here[/url] if you're interested. Although my Stingray sounds too much like a stingray so I may re track the bass when I have a weekend free. [/quote] That is remarkably polished for a home recording, personally I think your bass sounds fine. Good job!

[quote name='Dave D' timestamp='1320871948' post='1432682'] Does your band include certain songs on the set list that they like to play, but not that really popular or well know by the audience? [/quote] I'll wager you don't know any of the songs in our set. Our audience probably know a few but our records are quite rare and not many have all of them.