Rich

All my basses do very different jobs, i.e. individual sounds or tasks. I have a contemporary hi-fi sounding bass (Shuker), a Jazz (Sire), a P bass (bitsa), a 'Ray (OLP), fretless (Yamaha), 6-string (Ibanez), and acoustic (Tanglewood). I also have my first ever bass (Höfner) and my beloved Wal. Dr Dave once complimented my collection as "workmanlike" and I think he was bang on the money.

Ok blue we get it, you do it for a living. Good on you. Most of us don't and it's a bit different for us. When one does this as a hobby, i.e. for the fun of it, one is rather less inclined to just put up and shut up as long as there are plenty of gigs in the calendar.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1455801934' post='2982552'] Pun intended? [/quote] Jimmy Carr was on the telly the other night, I don't like him but I watched him tell 10 jokes to see if any of them would make me laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455740068' post='2982046'] I was not hired to critique or correct other members playing ability. As long as our calender is filled with good gigs I keep quiet. [/quote] I would not be remotely interested in being in a band where I felt I had to keep my gob shut, especially if a bandmate's playing/behaviour was causing discord.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1455571820' post='2980410'] far too many members adopt a patronising attitude towards young members in a way that would not be tolerated by the moderators were the recipients of the comments, for example, female. [/quote] Works both ways. There have been numerous comments of a "you couldn't possibly understand, you're old" nature lately too.

Show him the door. If the rest of the band won't fire him, walk. Seriously, it'll drive you bonkers otherwise.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1455721190' post='2981812'] I used the grey foam stuff from b and q that you use for insulating 22mm copper pipes [/quote] Likewise. It's hardwearing and hasn't reacted with anything yet.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1455575792' post='2980463'] There's not a lot in it to my ears, apart from the SMX which I always felt sounded restricted somehow compared to earlier models. The series 6 came as either 7 or 12 band, mine is the latter. The SM is 7 band, with the brilliant eq balance control, and two preshapes if that's your bag. Sound wise my Series 6 is harmonically richer than my SM. It just has that edge for me. I'm generally rubbish at explaining these things, I'm afraid. [/quote] The SMX didn't feel restricted to me, but having said that it's the only Trace I ever owned so I've got no AH or S6 experience to compare it to. What I did really like about the SMX was its flexibility, with the two preshape errm shapes and the superb dual band compressor with eq balance. I loved it. A lightweight amp with an SMX front end would go straight to #1 on my GAS list, in fact I'd buy one without hesitation.

[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1455657290' post='2981291'] To be fair, the only things in Plymouth that aren't called 'The Drake [something]' are called 'The armada [something]'. Except for the things that are called 'The mayflower [something]'. And i come from Thetford in norfolk originally, where everything is called 'The Thomas Payne [something]'... And only people from thetford, or the USA, remember who he was... [/quote] Likewise, Bristol is crammed full of Brunel this and Cabot that. I suppose it's natural to want to celebrate a local hero if there is one. Or four.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1455648535' post='2981146'] How many white, working/middle class men listen to Kanye or any hip hop? Don't come out with 'I heard College Dropout X years ago'. Of course you don't get it. Therefore, you don't listen to it. How can you diss something you've never heard before? Morons. [/quote] I would respectfully suggest that you don't have a clue what I or anyone else here listens to, and that you are leaping to some fairly massive conclusions. I would also suggest that you don't start calling people morons.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1455643187' post='2981049'] What's going on at 16th - 20th frets? [/quote] Scallops. The red painted areas have been carved out.

He was a bloke in Jimmy Tarbuck's class at school.

Must admit it's a name I've only come across a couple of times in the dim distant past. Never actually seen one in the flesh/wood/whatever, but from what I've seen via google they look good.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455593065' post='2980530'] At this point in time I guess I don't care who gets it or doesn't get it. [/quote] 11 back-to-back comments in the space of 45 minutes and calling another member's post "rubbish" would tend to suggest otherwise. This subject, or specifically this particular argument has been done to death and I'm sure I speak for others when I say that I'm sick of the sight of it. The topic is "how the Beatles grip Liverpool" and this particular argument is waaaay OT. Back on track please, or I will lock the thread.

Surely the whole point in getting people talking about you is to pique their curiosity, not to make them all think you're a monumental helmet-flake.

[quote name='Yogi Berra'] It's like déjà vu all over again. [/quote]

[quote name='vbance' timestamp='1452252982' post='2948036'] [url="https://flic.kr/p/CUtwab"][/url] [/quote] What's that? I presume a bitsa, so what's the spec? Looks superb.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1455464684' post='2979299'] I'm just curious as to why people start threads like these then ignore everything said in it. [/quote] Must admit the same thought had occurred to me too

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1455448391' post='2979108'] I concur! [/quote] Me too. I recall reading an interview with Eddie Jackson once where he said a key part of his recorded sound was a thing he called The Trunk -- basically a flightcase containing a mic and a 12" speaker that was cranked to the very edge of destruction and the sound mixed in alongside the clean tone.

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1455266776' post='2977553'] Somebody who loads[b] £5000 [/b]of equipment into the back of a [b]£500[/b] car to travel [b]50 miles [/b]to be grudgingly paid [b]£5[/b] by a landlord who reckons you should have done it for "exposure" and seems to think he's running Carnegie Hall rather than the Dog & Duck [/quote] Fixed again.

[quote name='Daz39' timestamp='1454328269' post='2968557'] Harp? That's what all the whingy emo-rockers call anything with more than 6 (sometimes 4)strings posted on a facebook Bass page. Anyone who's seen it will know what I mean. [/quote] Those feckers wind me right up. "It's a harp", "just get a piano", "Jaco only needed four", etc etc etc ad feckin nauseum. And they always seem to think they're the first person ever to say it, ooh look at clever old me with my original cutting edge humour. Luddite twerps. The sort of people who wish bass R&D had stopped dead in 1954. Yes I know everyone's entitled to an opinion. Well this is mine. Sorry. [/rant]

[quote name='Chownybass' timestamp='1455197883' post='2976933'] That's what I've been told. Personally I like to think they sound like "Chowny Basses". They definitely have a distinctive tone. [/quote] It's the variety of tones available that gets me. There's even a video of a guy slapping it on the website, and it sounds great. It's not just a one-trick woofy Hofneralike, faaar from it, although it'll do that if it's what you're after. Sorry if I'm coming across like an advert here but I really like these instruments. Especially the blue

If you take out the existing preamp, you're left with what is effectively a knobless passive Jazz bass that happens to have a battery box already fitted. In theory, it will take any preamp that will fit in a standard Jazz cavity.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1455222214' post='2977270'] Awlrite Rich, you were first, don't be an archhole about it [/quote] Oh fudge off you wander 😄

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