Rich

[quote name='henry norton' post='579286' date='Aug 24 2009, 05:31 PM']I thought the whole point of having an eq was to use it....[/quote][quote name='chris_b' post='580078' date='Aug 25 2009, 12:23 PM']No. The point of an EQ is that you can use it if you need to. If you don't need to then you don't use it![/quote] Thank you. Yes. A good amp should give you a useable basic tone without having to crank the sh!t out of all the EQ knobs, sliders, buttons, whatever. Especially when you don't have the brain power to figure out a mix of sliders and rotary controls, apparently.

[quote name='Machines' post='578367' date='Aug 23 2009, 05:55 PM']Marmite.[/quote] Very definitely. I have never managed to get a good sound from an Ashdown rig without EQing the hell out of it.

Bump. I can't believe that nobody else wants a read of this! It's well worth a look. Especially when it's not going to cost you owt.

Aha, another member for the I Pull A Slightly Daft Face When I Play Club not as daft as mine though. Nice bass BTW

Hey Nick, what's John doing to my old fretless Roadie 1? Just a refurb, or an upgrade, or whatever? And has he found the ultra-hi-tech precision-engineered pickup mounting system under the EMG yet?? :lol:

Either the blue J or the Aria.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='578901' date='Aug 24 2009, 11:42 AM']Line 6 Bass Pod[/quote] I hear ya. I had a Pod Pro for a while, back when they were fairly new. It was arse, to be honest. Couldn't understand the fuss.

Doc, you forgot to add "and I have no imagination or creativity and cannot be arsed to write my own songs".

[quote name='Linus27' post='576607' date='Aug 21 2009, 12:31 PM']Where as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Kagagoogoo looked more like my sisters who had girls hair, hairspray, skirts and makeup which did not appeal to me. [/quote] True, they looked like big girls' blouses, but damn there was some fine bass going on in there! Too Shy and Rio, anybody?

A bit like the good Doc... a sunburst Fender in the hands of a big-band player back in 1970ish was the first to make me really notice the bass. Horace Panter of The Specials and Dave Steele of The Beat made me want to play it, so I did. And then Mark King made me want to really have fun with it.

Finished it on the plane last night. Bloody funny, very definitely recommended. So Who wants it next?

On the Warwick ad, that custom 5 string with the Kahler trem is the first W bass in years that has made me go "phwoarr" I have yet to read it in any detail, but the renaissance appears to be continuing. A good mix of reviews and some decent i/views. [quote name='sk8' post='573825' date='Aug 19 2009, 09:38 AM']i agree both have adverts but i've enjoyed reading Bass Player and not BGM. My choice, my opinion.[/quote] I agree, and I would deny you neither. My point was that you appeared to be criticising BGM for having 'a lot of adverts'.

[quote name='Ba55me15ter' post='572742' date='Aug 18 2009, 11:37 AM']Maybe it was a harder for me as I'm used to the drop-D on a Kubicki Factor where everything stays the same. A much better system in my opinion![/quote] But not quite so easy to retrofit...

Bloody marvellous things.

Who's next?

[quote name='OldGit' post='569139' date='Aug 14 2009, 03:28 PM']So after that we'd ask for more clarity or upper mids or 2k on a particular instrument in the monitors rather than just "louder"[/quote] What, as in "Can I have more clarity/upper mids/2k on the baritone in the monitors please?"..?

She told me that she'd played on the RHCP albums.

Dear Mr. Sound Engineer, Have a word with our own joegarcia. He'll show you how to get a really good bass sound. [quote name='BurritoBass' post='568677' date='Aug 14 2009, 09:34 AM']Adding to Bassace's comments it's dead easy to confuse a soun engineer - just show up with traditional acoustic instruments (even with fitted expensive pickups). Most variations of guitar / bass / drums seem to cause blind panic.[/quote] We had one bloke a few weeks back who had never worked with horns before. We have six of them...

[quote name='leschirons' post='568588' date='Aug 14 2009, 01:01 AM']Have you ever been in that situation where, after setting up, you stick on a really quiet background CD and "uncle Sidney" then asks you if it's going to be that loud all night?[/quote] I had that in a social club gig once. Drummer set up his kit, sat down, hit his (unamplified) snare [i]once[/i]... and an old dear's voice from the darkness said "Ooh, it's a bit loud...".

How about one of the more absurdly shaped Dean metal basses? [quote name='BottomEndian' post='566951' date='Aug 12 2009, 04:36 PM']There's a band called [url="http://www.myspace.com/52pickuphateyou"]52 Pick-Up[/url] in Newcastle who do just that. Well, they're apparently "psychobilly", but the ethos and image seems to be fairly punk: [/quote] That guitarist is neither psycho nor billy enough. He needs a huge Gretsch or something, and some silly hair*. Perhaps his mum won't let him have a daft haircut? [size=1]* He needs to be Brian Setzer, really.[/size]

[quote name='Hit&Run' post='567092' date='Aug 12 2009, 06:26 PM']Peavey do have a reputation for building stuff with 'bombproof' constuction. Which probably explains why you always see loads of peavey gear out & about. It simply won't die.[/quote] After WW3, all that will be left on the scorched earth is grass, cockroaches, and Peavey bass gear [quote name='EdwardHimself' post='567217' date='Aug 12 2009, 07:47 PM']One tiny issue though is that i don't think having screw on knobs on split shaft pots was the best of ideas, some of mine have fallen off. Might get some new ones but really it's just a case of making sure they're screwed on tight![/quote] No you're right, not a good idea at all. Splined pot shafts really need push-on knobs. If you have to have screw ones, try to make sure the screw lines up with the split in the shaft. That way, the shaft won't bend when you tighten it up.

My thoughts exactly. If it is a yarn, he could have come up with something that didn't make him out to be such a miserable git.

Dun

I'll have a punt please -- don't know if that makes me next or what?

I think we all are, really.