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[quote name='Chris2112' post='238987' date='Jul 14 2008, 10:49 AM']Everything in moderation. A good bit of slap work from the likes of Mark King and Stuart Hamm can be wildly satisfying. When it's overused and played out of context, it does sound bad. Similarly, fretless is not free from the cheese, and can sound as corny and out of place as an over-enthusiastic thumb.[/quote] Speaking of Mark King and slapping, here's a sample of Mark King not slapping: [url="http://www.status-graphite.com/status/carts3/sounds/waltz.m3u"]http://www.status-graphite.com/status/cart...ounds/waltz.m3u[/url]

[quote name='cheddatom' post='239135' date='Jul 14 2008, 01:32 PM']I hardly ever slap in my band, but there is the odd occasion where that extra percussive element really helps.[/quote] Well you *are* a drummer, after all...

[quote name='Toasted' post='239069' date='Jul 14 2008, 12:24 PM']To really answer the question: A good amp can make an average guitar sound better. I don't believe a good guitar makes an average amp sound better.[/quote] Possibly, but there's more to the bass than the sound - it's got to be fun to play, stay in tune, not be uncomfortable (thinking about weight, neck dive)...

[quote name='Mike' post='238979' date='Jul 14 2008, 10:38 AM']£25,000 worth of unusual, though? Wow.[/quote] I think that was the total value of the goods nicked, not just the MM. So he had an Alembic as well ;-)

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='238491' date='Jul 13 2008, 01:05 PM']We tend to shelve. Specials - Much Too Young ("...you've done too much, much too young. Married with a kid when you should be having fun with me...") [/quote] That was my first thought when I saw the thread! 'No, no, we don't want no more pickney...'

[quote name='spinynorman' post='238937' date='Jul 14 2008, 09:30 AM']I remember a thread on another forum a while back, guy had been to an audition with his SVT rig and a Wal Custom. So he sets this all up, just ready to play when the guitarist wanders over, looks this all up and down and says "Hmm. I suppose you spent so much on the rig, you couldn't afford a Fender."[/quote] <snigger> +1 for a nice bass, and a preamp so you can add power amps and speakers depending what sort of work you do.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='237833' date='Jul 12 2008, 10:35 AM']First coat is applied, loving the colour so far.[/quote] That's almost exactly the same colour paint as I stripped off my 79 Precision a few years back! I thought it hideous at the time (probably the reason I got it for peanuts) but looks great through the retrospectroscope. good luck with the weather :-)

[quote name='Jesus' post='237927' date='Jul 12 2008, 01:40 PM']Its good to be here...[/quote] That's a particularly inappropriate sentence to put next to your (excellent) avatar!

[quote name='silddx' post='237651' date='Jul 11 2008, 09:59 PM']I think the best person for the job is Victor Wooten.[/quote] +1 for thinking outside the box. For pushing the envelope. For getting the ducks in a row. wtf am I on about. Time for bed. [ALL]: Bed? If you were a real bass player, one worthy of the Faces, you'd just be waking up!

[quote name='escholl' post='237439' date='Jul 11 2008, 04:44 PM']haha ok thanks, you've saved me from going to flighpath! mulletboy is not amazing, actually its terrible, and the most expensive of all the places i've been. they're not very nice either, and they stole one of our really nice (although old) double-braced pearl cymbal stands and won't give it back. cause you know, drum hardware is sooo cheap. NOT. they are however, at least a proper recording studio and not a garage, even if all of their equipment is not so great and their rooms not particularly amazing either. lockup sounds a little scary at night, we were supposed to go wednesday but then one of the guitarists and the drummer decided they cba, so there was no point in me and the other guitarist going, esp since we'd have to walk there. definitely will be planning to go back now though, based on your recommendation [/quote] yes, the sound is good at the lockup. [quote]the uni i go to is ARU, there's rooms there that are empty like, all the time but the admin is a joke so actually getting something organized is going to take a while. maybe if ARU spent a little less money on advertising EVERYWHERE and more on its students, it'd be a much better place haha [/quote] I know a few ARU students/grads and they ALL say the same about the admin. They used to be called Anglia Polytechnic University and had a poster campaign: Make It APU In 2002. I really looked forward to the following year's version: Have A Wee In 2003.

[quote name='chris_b' post='237570' date='Jul 11 2008, 08:16 PM']Times are getting tougher than tough. Three great local gigs have folded in the last two months, The Globe in Brentford, The Red Lion in Teddington and The Forresters in Catford. What's happening where you are?[/quote] Cambridge's only decent small venue (good enough for Oasis), the Boatrace, turned into a f***ing *wine bar* a few years back. And our Barfly is about to close. Dire. (edited for awful English)

[quote name='mxm' post='237577' date='Jul 11 2008, 08:26 PM']According to Ian MacLagan and a few other sources Rod, Ron and Kenney are likely to reform The Faces. Anyone got any ideas/suggestions who is fit to fill the role of Ronnie Lane ??!!! Rick Wills ? a sober Tetsu ? Bill Wyman (erm ! - see the Brit awards '93) ??[/quote] Is Tetsu sober these days? I dunno what they'd be like without the excess. Maybe they need a shambolic young pisshead on bass to make up for their new healthy and moderate lifestyles.

[quote name='Jamesemt' post='237590' date='Jul 11 2008, 08:41 PM']That would only work if I was using the V-Amp for just one sound, I need to use it for multiple guitars![/quote] Very true. Hope it's going well.

[quote name='escholl' post='235773' date='Jul 9 2008, 03:11 PM']do you mean the lockup? we've got a rehearsal there tonight, i think, but i've not been yet so i don't know how big the rooms are, cheap though. may have something sorted with the uni i go to, but they've been taking almost two weeks to get back to us now so who knows. not looking good. has anyone tried flightpath or halfton studios? just looking for alternative, really. been to mulletboy a few times but it's too expensive and very much less-than-amazing.[/quote] The lockup sounds pretty good, and plenty spacious for a five-piece with keyboards and big drumkit. Last time I was there a year ago the vocal PA was a bit crap. Bit scary leaving at midnight (mate was mugged for the ladder on top of his van!) Flightpath is truly horrible; terrible acoustics for bass (basically it's a garage) and smells of mould. Vocal PA is laughable (two cheapo 'wedges' nailed to the wall and an underpowered mixer-amp). I don't know halfton. I've heard that mulletboy has two rooms with no soundproofing between them. Which uni? There are a couple of rooms at Churchill. Maybe recruit a tambourine player who just happens to be a grad there?

[quote name='cheddatom' post='237405' date='Jul 11 2008, 03:55 PM']Why is it that loads of BCers think a youtube link is just as acceptable as finishing a sentence? I'm at work! I can't watch videos! (no hard feelings).[/quote] Sorry mate! I know I'm particularly bad at that. That one was the clip from The Big Lebowski, introducing Jesus the sleazy Latino bowler. The previous one was from Jam, in which an unhappy big redheaded woman in a tree sings Loving You while being spanked with a space-hopper by Mark Heap.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='237332' date='Jul 11 2008, 02:27 PM']Can you turn 0s and 1s into cold beer? I'm in dire need.[/quote] Wrong Jesus... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26nT7J7rMs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26nT7J7rMs[/url]

[quote name='Jesus' post='237273' date='Jul 11 2008, 01:10 PM']Hey... I'm just preparing myself for many many years spent learning and perfecting the art of Bass. I've been a frequent visitor to TalkBass fro a few months now and i've just seen this place exists so here i am. Im 26, from Essex, and my perfect girl is any redhead[/quote] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRz_eSvc_I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVRz_eSvc_I[/url] Let's all welcome Jesus into our hearts :-)

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='232999' date='Jul 5 2008, 02:07 AM']I didn't get as far as sending monies[/quote] Wise man, as it turns out.

[quote name='Jase' post='237117' date='Jul 11 2008, 10:16 AM']Cheers bremen, it can get awkward, as you well know....sometimes you feel as if you're letting the side down....but support slots like the one mentioned....surely there's a few quid being made by the big boys?[/quote] I'm still grumpy following last New Years Eve gig - the pub charged £10 to get in, was packed solid, and we were grudgingly allowed one guest per band member. We must have drunk 200 quidsworth of beer between us, and we got f*** all for our trouble. Because if the landlord liked us he might give us another gig. Which we're still waiting for. I found a tenner on the floor though :-)

[quote name='Jase' post='237090' date='Jul 11 2008, 09:38 AM']Same here, I WILL NOT play for nothing. My latest pass on a gig is a support slot for Status Quo in Merthyr Tydfil, my band will carry on with the gig but they'll use another bass player for the day, simply because who ever runs the QUO event doesn't see fit to pay local support, I imagine Stuart Cable's band Killing for Company and Hixie Dixie are getting paid for the gig....so why not us? They can shove it! .......Bands/musicians deserve payment.[/quote] Good man, I keep promising myself I won't play for sod all but I keep getting suckered by bullsh1t like 'it'll be a laugh' or 'they'll get us loads of paying gigs if they like us'. Hope your stand-in breaks a string ;-)

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='236796' date='Jul 10 2008, 07:15 PM'][url="http://www.status-graphite.com/status/carts3/frames/frame1.htm"]http://www.status-graphite.com/status/cart...ames/frame1.htm[/url][/quote] Cheers me dear! Are the round core noticeably different from 'normal' strings?

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='236696' date='Jul 10 2008, 05:10 PM']And thats the most important thing. As long as you appreciate that the nice gear is mostly for your benefit.[/quote] I've always found that the louder the bass the greater the proportion of the audience that think I'm a godlike genius. So if nice=loud then, yes, it is for my benefit!

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='236030' date='Jul 9 2008, 07:54 PM']why is the R&B section full of spoken word/drum machine nonsense[/quote] Because when the Yoof say 'R&B' they mean 'Rhythm and Bass' (which is the term for a certain area of spoken word/drum machine nonsense) not 'Rhythm and Blues'. I only know that because my kid (who listens almost exclusively to spoken word/drum machine nonsense) wasn't born til well after what we old farts call R&B became the fare of Radio 2.

[quote name='6stringbassist' post='223871' date='Jun 21 2008, 10:35 PM']They're available from stringbusters and stringsdirect from the end of the month. Only available as a 4 string set though unfortunately.[/quote] Neither are listing Jonas Hellborg yet...anywhere else?