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[quote name='jnoinkeis' timestamp='1326706679' post='1500607'] A friend of mine recently turned me on to a band called Scissorfight. Now I can't stop listening to them. They sound like Clutch played by hairy mountain men! [/quote] Sounds like a band to check out...

Silverfish [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW_JmR3xm7o[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnY26J9FuHo[/media]

You basically program a single bar with the drum pattern, then create a song with the programmed beat repeated 3 times followed by an empty pattern. Having never seen the dvd I can't say what drum machine he used. This is the best shot of what he uses, Just next to his right hand. I can't identify it at the moment. [attachment=97409:Screen Shot 2012-01-15 at 19.07.11.png][attachment=97410:Screen Shot 2012-01-15 at 19.09.24.png]

He'll have just programmed the drum machine to do that. They'll all do it.

[quote name='goblin' timestamp='1326564637' post='1498970'] For the strings, if you're keeping it fretless I'd suggest D'Addario ECB80 XL Chromes. Got them on mine and they sound absolutely epic! Gauge is 40 - 95 flats. And I reckon with some elbow grease with a pot of Warwick Beeswax, that grain'll pop. [/quote] I've switched from Roto's roundwounds to D'Addario, so I may as well swap the flats too. The Steve Harris flats lovely, but I just can't get on with such high tension these days. Is there anything different between Warwick Beeswax and normal beeswax? Your bass looks lovely!! When I first got mine and defretted it I gave it a good oiling as it was totally dull and felt nasty. I wish I could get it to look like it did when the oil was soaking in.

So, Apart from the battery box and neck screws it's pretty much done. I did manager to forget which order the wires for the treble control were in, in the space of 6 seconds. So it boosts when it should cut. I shall swap them around when I have to fit the battery box. I think I shall keep it defretted for a while. It sounds bloody lovely now, much nicer than I thought it would. Needs to have a good polish in the near future and some lower tension strings would be good.

Stacked pot and knob just arrived, along with new fret wire (surprised at how heavy fret wire is!). Soldering will be happening fairly shortly. Also ordered a battery box, gold neck screws and bushings.

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1326531326' post='1498392'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9cWWW96L8U[/media] [/quote] Awesome!! I'll follow that with: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSezVb2tQug[/media]

I agree with John, the LMII works very well with the 4x8 and 1x15 cabs.

Had this song going around my head all day: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvlL8o3lPY[/media]

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1326474868' post='1497804'] I am torn between black and gold on mine. [/quote] I'm generally not a fan of gold hardware, but it looks really nice against the bubinga.

Here's a phone pic

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRkLUQknXeM[/media] Great bit of skateboarding from Natas and music by fIREHOSE

It's typical. I thought I'd have a month or so before this was released. So I spent the money I had saved for it on the bits for my Warwick refurb.

When I'm not running around after the daughter I'll post a full bass shot.

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1326377760' post='1496313'] That's a lovely bit of bubinga there - how heavy is it? When you wired it up with "some simple passive controls", were you still powering the pickups? As best as I can tell from the photo, they are active. So if you didn't power them, then that would explain why you didn't get much volume out of them. Oh, and do you know what happened to the jack socket on the rim? If you could move the socket back to the rim then you'd have three pot-holes to work with. By the time you've finished, you should have something that you can sell for at least 2 or 3 times what you paid for it! [/quote] The first photo is how it came to me. I did get a proper socket for it. It spent a while looking like this: The new preamp is a 3 band (vol/blend stacked pot then bass, mid & treble pots) so needs 4 holes. Sticking in a stacked bass/treble pot means I can use the 3 hole in the body and the 3 band eq. There's quite a bit of damage to the bass in general to be able to make much money from it. The fretboard had chunks missing (collision with cymbals) and a few lifted frets. The body has a crack from the jack socket to the electronics cavity and the headstock had to have several extra screw holes filled (where the machine heads were moved by Dan when screws broke) Weight wise: an ounce or 2 over 11lbs

A while back I decided to try something quite extreme. My intention was to track down some [url="http://www.q-tuner.com/bs.shtml"]Q-Tuners[/url] and create a steam punk looking bass, seeing as my missus thinks the Warwick looks like a sideboard. So I took to the hardware with some abrasive tape to remove some of the nickel and chrome. Unfortunately Q-tuners are impossible to find. So I've gone with plan B: Gold hardware. Before: After: I've yet to give it a set up, but I gave it a quick play and it does sound really nice. I've still got a fair amount of work to do.

New hardware from Thomann arrived this morning. Still waiting for new stacked pot. It's nice being able to tune to EADG again. The bent machineheads would only allow DGCF.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olk8rZmlhY4[/media]

My mate used to do visuals stuff (might still do it) he used [url="http://www.vidvox.net/"]VDMX[/url]. He created a lot of his own plugins using Apple's Quartz Composer (one of his plugins was used by the guy who does Richie Hawtins visuals).

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1326282907' post='1494824'] The back plates are magnetic - the holes are so you can pull it off! [/quote] Ta, I knew there'd be a sensible reason.

They're both nice looking! Like the Z3 lots!! Stupid question time, what's with the holes in the smaller back plate?

I'll just set up the computer to record, into Audacity, and just noodle away for 15-20 mins. Listen back, see if there are any interesting bits. Copy and paste parts into Reason, add simple drums, add simple guitar and then mess about with the structure. Maybe add or change parts. Then export it as an mp3 and email to the other members of the band. The drummer and guitarist can then work out their parts properly. Very occasionally I'll think of something during the day and can get to my bass and computer in time, before I forget it.

The video looks like every other video for Van Halen and the song is just dull.

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1326228648' post='1494218'] Oh also... The string spacing is much narrower on the 5. And, finally, you can rock out better on a 4 [/quote] Unless, of course, you use something like an Ibanez BTB that has 19mm spacing.