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[quote name='Marky L' post='426008' date='Mar 5 2009, 12:02 PM']+1 Gotta have the big logo and a dodgy Ebay one (or do your own) is a great option.[/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=30309&hl=fecker+jizz"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...;hl=fecker+jizz[/url]

[quote name='grimbeaver' post='425981' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:41 AM']Just to put all of this to bed I am going to get a squier vintage modified P that second hand will cost me about£150.00 and will change the pickup. If the dep job goes on a little longer and I am into it I will look again at possibly the fender delux or something. Thanks to everyone that chipped in and to the people that started having a go about gear snobbery. As Steve Jones said to Bill Grundy f£$k off you dirty f£$%&rs, you c£$t[/quote] Good plan. Are you looking for a tribute Bill Grundy to complement the act? I'll see you later. I hope not to see *you* again ;-)

[quote name='stunbass' post='425950' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:25 AM']Will the audience care ?.[/quote] Indeed - and can anyone except a bass player tell the difference between a white Precision and a white Jazz?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='425919' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:05 AM']I think plastic means all style no substance.[/quote] Yes. NMTB has style *and* substance.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='425915' date='Mar 5 2009, 10:59 AM']The brilliant production? The meticulously layered guitars? It sounds great, but it's not the sound of four scrotes playing in a garage.[/quote] That's not what I thought was meant by 'plastic'. Yes, it's as produced as Dark Side of the Moon. To me 'plastic' means 'imitation'.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='425910' date='Mar 5 2009, 10:55 AM']Most UK bands from the 70's were more about look than substance.[/quote] I agree, but to me the Pistols were one of the few that had a f*** of a lot of substance and still sound exciting and dangerous, while most punk albums of the era just sound silly.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='425895' date='Mar 5 2009, 10:44 AM']The Pistols were one of the most plastic punk bands of all. I still like 'em, though.[/quote] They were? I thought they invented [the UK version of] it...they certainly didn't dress fashionably at the start, it was the audiences that created the uniform of mohawk and leather. What's plastic about Never Mind the Bollocks? Plastic punks: UK subs, The Clash, Discharge... (runs for cover...)

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='425885' date='Mar 5 2009, 10:38 AM']It's a moot point. Punk was *all* about fitting in.[/quote] Being a postcard punk was all about fitting in. John Lydon *hated* the 'uniform'

[quote name='silddx' post='425874' date='Mar 5 2009, 10:32 AM']Strange attitude, I must say. You are in a punk tribute band (god knows why such a thing would exist, it would be anathema to a real punk). You want to look like Sid Vicious but sound like Victor Wootten? Ain't gonna work, bud. Can you imagine Victor Wootten sounding like Sid Vicious? It would be ridiculous. You don't need to upgrade anything. Do the job properly. Get a new USA Standard Fender P or an old Jap Squier P - they both play great and sound the part. Bin the Eden too and get a dirty old Marshall. Your playing style will need to change too. No fingerstyle for you, pick only.[/quote] Sid wasn't the Pistols' bass player. Glen Matlock was, and he played fingerstyle on Precisions and Rickenbackers.

[quote name='Shockwave' post='424047' date='Mar 3 2009, 12:35 PM']I actually see myself being that guy. I am a pretty abrasive person in real life and i am not sure whether i want to become that guy or not! He makes sense to me.[/quote] Me also - the bit about never getting asked back to a group he's left is pretty familiar too :-)

[quote name='OldGit' post='423952' date='Mar 3 2009, 10:33 AM']I'll forgive him all the dissing of the bass player for the bass on Valley Girl.[/quote] They should sell that sound in a bottle. No, wait; they should issue it in primary school, like they used to do milk.

[quote name='WarPig' post='424007' date='Mar 3 2009, 11:52 AM']Whats the tone difference between 0.22 and 0.47 caps?[/quote] What they have in common is that they're 10 times bigger than what's required. 0.047 is usual. 0.022 will have less treble attenuation than 0.047.

It certainly is.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='422923' date='Mar 2 2009, 09:45 AM']...like buying a house next to a football ground and being upset that you can't park on a Saturday afternoon.[/quote] Cambridge City supporters have been banned from taking drums to games following complaints from sensitive souls in nearby flats. They'll be banning them from kicking a ball lest it breaks a window next.

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='419805' date='Feb 26 2009, 08:13 AM']I think it's slightly more complicated than that. I remember being told that bass amps store up some charge in the capacitors (?) so there's a bit more juice there for the occasional accented note or whatever, hence the higher peak ratings. I may be wrong though![/quote] That's correct. But Bill's right too, in that RMS ratings are far more descriptive.

Valves have a high input impedance so it seems a shame to interpose something like a transistor DI box. I'm sure it would be an easy matter to change one or two components to restore the 'natural' high impedance. PM me the model number and I'll hunt out a schematic and see how easy it would be. Could be that the input stages have transformers to convert the low impedance of the mic to the high impedance of the valve, and all it would take is to bypass the transformer.

[quote name='Jase' post='417757' date='Feb 23 2009, 07:38 PM']Simple design for me.....1 hot bridge pup, one volume, no tone, ebony board[/quote] What he said. Musicman type pickup.

[quote name='qed' post='416942' date='Feb 22 2009, 09:10 PM']i've found that my specialist (expensive) bike cable cutters are mint for this kind of thing.[/quote] Gear cables make good G strings in an emergency. fnarr, I said 'g string'

[quote name='rbatts2000' post='417182' date='Feb 23 2009, 09:31 AM']I would agree with those suggestions. I love Pino's recent work with John Mayer. How about: James Jamerson Bernard Edwards Paul McCartney ?[/quote] All the players listed so far have been criticised at one time or another here with the possible exception of Jamerson. Oh, Duck Dunn, too. Good call, Wayne.

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='414474' date='Feb 19 2009, 04:36 PM']Check out his negative feedback... [url="http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=music-outlet-shop&iid=120367652929&de=off&items=25&which=negative&interval=365"]http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...mp;interval=365[/url][/quote] f*** me, what a foul-tempered c***.

[quote name='harryharold' post='414466' date='Feb 19 2009, 04:30 PM']yeh i know, its not until you walk with it that you realise, unless its on a compilation and its called 7/4 shoreline, i hate that they do that, i missed the joy of discovering a weird time signature.[/quote] I was referring to the Birthday Party tune. Anyway, who cares. How do I get that bass sound?

[quote name='harryharold' post='414447' date='Feb 19 2009, 04:16 PM']shoreline by broken social scene is really good, in 7/4 but it takes you a while to realise. another classic is take 5 by dave brubeck, obviously in 5/4. quite a few of the tunes previously mentioned are in 4 but have a slightly wierd pulse - the birthday party one is actually in 4.[/quote] It is? I tried counting it in 4 and it just wouldn't fit. Stick it on your ipod and go for a walk, the 'one' is alternately on left and right foot. Maybe i have odd feet...

[quote name='gafbass02' post='412181' date='Feb 17 2009, 04:43 PM']I want to fit an anodised gold pickguard but I cant seem to find one, anyone either got one going or know where i can get one at a decent price?[/quote] [url="http://shop.ebay.com/items/__gold-anodized-pickguard_W0QQ_nkwZgoldQ20anodizedQ20pickguardQ20QQ_cqrZtrueQQ_nkwuscZgoldQQ_nkwuscZanodisedQQ_nkwuscZpickguard"]http://shop.ebay.com/items/__gold-anodized...kwuscZpickguard[/url]

[quote name='WHUFC BASS' post='414280' date='Feb 19 2009, 02:16 PM']He's living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks he's going to sell that. In fact, if he does I will fry, season and eat my own bollocks off a plate.[/quote] This guy's ridiculously-priced auctions have often been quoted here, and the current theory is that he doesn't expect to sell any of them (they might not even be authentic, so he's pricing them so no-one bids and no-one gets ripped off) but is using them as a publicity stunt. I just checked out his shop and found something useful and (relatively) sensibly priced: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NECK-PLATE-CUSHION-PREVENTS-LAQUER-DAMAGE_W0QQitemZ120367652929QQihZ002QQcategoryZ148646QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NECK-PLATE-CUSHION-P...1742.m153.l1262[/url]

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='413942' date='Feb 19 2009, 10:11 AM']One pickup, one tone, four strings, the music and you. Simple![/quote] My heart totally agrees with that, but my head keeps trying to add an extra string and pickup...