Rich

That PJB amp looks very impressive... until you find the bit that says: [quote]Weight: 110 lbs[/quote] It made my back hurt just reading it.

I lost my Akai PSU in my last house move, so I've been using the PSU from my old Digitech BP80, which seems to work fine. It doesn't like any of my other 9v PSUs though. Verrry strange.

[quote name='YouMa' post='399157' date='Feb 3 2009, 05:14 PM']i wouldnt class neil diamond as jazz myself.[/quote] [quote name='BigBeefChief' post='399271' date='Feb 3 2009, 07:02 PM']Agreed. Neil Diamond has done some good stuff and plays to large audiences.[/quote]

[quote name='Wil' post='398914' date='Feb 3 2009, 01:42 PM']I actually preferred the tone of my old wood necked Series 1 to my graphite necked S2, however, so I'd agree its very subjective![/quote] Yup. I have an old wood-necked Series 1 and prefer it to most of the [s]plastic[/s] graphite Status necks I've tried.

[quote name='Rayman' post='399044' date='Feb 3 2009, 03:32 PM']Everything is [i]your[/i] personal taste. You like it = it's great You hate it = it's sh*t Pretty straight forward to me. I love [i]some[/i] jazz, Metal, Dub, Country, Pop...etc....etc I also equally hate [i]some[/i] jazz. metal.....etc.....etc Music is great, embrace it [i]all[/i] my brothers (and sisters).[/quote] Every other post in this thread is now meaningless.

[quote name='William James Easton' post='398893' date='Feb 3 2009, 01:25 PM']i'm not having a 'pop', tut tut.[/quote] Ahem... [quote name='William James Easton' post='398731' date='Feb 3 2009, 11:29 AM']now i'm in the mood for poking at something so this mornign i've chosen the Chapmanstick.[/quote]

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='398849' date='Feb 3 2009, 12:57 PM']Aww! Just literally (or is that litearally!) got back from hospital - still alive! The surgery was actually undertaken from the outer ear so the removal of the mastoid infection was done without having to drill loads of it out from behind the ear - the new `temple-skin graft' eardrum is in place and packed so should have a better clue as to whether the hearing comes back in 3 weeks time! Thanks for all the wishes - really appreciate them! Am staying with relatives for a few days but will be back online later this week! Stay tuned! Nick[/quote] Ah yes, now I remember what you were suffering from..! My son had mastoiditis when he was younger, although his was sorted out fairly quickly he had the added complication of a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesteatoma"]cholesteatoma[/url] growth too. Thankfully he has recovered fully from both and his hearing is still good -- he's only lost 10% or so in that ear, but that is apparently entirely down to the cholthingy, not the mastoiditis. So you should be fine!

Well, some of its strings are in the bass register. So in part it could be viewed as a bass, yes. But is it a bass [i]guitar[/i]? No, it's a Chapman Stick. It essentially performs the same sort of task as an ERB, it's just played differently, that's all. Yes, Tony Levin plays one, and so does Nick Beggs. They are bass players who also happen to play the Stick. [quote name='William James Easton' post='398731' date='Feb 3 2009, 11:29 AM']I am ( a little narrow minded) of the school of thought that a bass is... [b]a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers[/b] or thumb (either by plucking, slapping, popping, [b]tapping[/b], or thumping), or by using a pick.[/quote]Check. [quote]The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body[/quote]Errm, Steinberger anybody..? [quote]the electric bass guitar is usually plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances.[/quote]Check [quote]Surley a multi stringed instrument of higher register is not a bass?[/quote]But it's not an instrument of purely higher register, any more than an ERB is. If you're going to take issue with the Stick, you should be having a pop at 7/8/9/+ string bass guitars too.

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='398643' date='Feb 3 2009, 10:04 AM']he could have double vision and think he's got 134 bass guitars![/quote]But he has, hasn't he..? Best wishes Nick O'Larse, hope you get betterer soon.

Gotta love that Fafner

Absolutely and utterly gorgeous and welcome to the Shuker Club's Maple Board Chapter

I've started a rig evolution thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39828"]here[/url], I thought it might be fun to share experiences of how we've got to where we are This is my current setup: [attachment=19479:my_rig_02_09.JPG] The compressor on the Focusrite preamp/channel strip is simply the best I've ever heard or used. I adore the sound of this rig. :wub:

My first ever rig was a Custom Sound 4x12 cab with a Phoenix PHA-1 head... a 100w 2-channel hybrid thing in a really tacky plastic case. Sounded OK but the cab was huuge and weighed a ton. I've got a pic of the amp lurking somewhere, but I've looked on the net and can find now't. Anybody remember the Phoenix amps? Thanks to brilliant parents, I moved up from this to a Laney Pro-Bass 4x10 combo, a bit of a Trace-alike unit. Got this as a 21st b'day prez and it was superb, loved it utterly. No pics to hand unfortunately. 10 years later I replaced the Laney with a Carlsboro 'Delta' rig, a big mistake as it turned out. Didn't like it much and the 1x18 cab was soooooo heavy... Next up was a Trace GP12 preamp with a Soundtech 2x400w power amp driving a pair of Peavey 4x10s... glorious massive sound, but those cabs at 100lbs each soon got too much... So the Peaveys went and were replaced with an SWR Triad cab (bought from CK, more years ago than I care to think about ). Wonderful cab, fantastic thing. Loved it. The Trace pre and Soundtech power combination went, replaced with an Eden WT400 head. [attachment=19474:rig_cainscross2005.JPG] I used this for some time, until the 90+lb weight of the Triad began to trouble me, so very very reluctantly I sold it and replaced it with a pair of Eden Nemesis cabs, a 2x10 and a 1x15. [attachment=19473:my_rig_1.JPG] These and the Eden head made for a great combination, but pretty soon I was fancying a change again... oh the call of the GAS So a straight swap with Rich Bowman later, I now had an EA iAmp350 combo. I took the amp out of the combo and used it with the Nem cabs. Until yes, another change beckoned I swapped the 2x10 cab for another 1x15, and flogged the iAmp combo in favour of a Focusrite preamp and Crown power amp combination. [attachment=19475:my_rig_08_08.JPG] This combination actually saw very little live action as it turned out... not because I didn't like it, I hasten to add, but because at the end of last year I managed to get my hands on an amp I have lusted after for many years, an SWR SM-900. Using this with the Focusrite's simply brilliant compressor, the sound is to die for. Well I like it anyway. I reckon I finally have a keeper. [attachment=19476:my_rig_02_09.JPG] The only changes I can see me making now are perhaps some neo cabs -- maybe some of the new lightweight SWR ones? When I can afford it anyway. But there's nothing wrong with the sound of the Nemesis ones, so as it stands I am a happy bunny So... anyone else got a rig life-story?

Heh, yeah that'll look the dog's danglies. All you need now are black anodised frets...

My gig bag/case contains: Tuner Cable Wireless transmitter PP3s FastFret Strings Music & set lists Earplugs Strap oh, and a bass. The tools and stuff live in my toolbox. Too much to list here

Firmly in "phwoarr" territory, that

[quote name='qed' post='389035' date='Jan 22 2009, 09:33 PM']why did some of from that era take up bass then.. was it because there was this french guy in this band with the 'most' attitude that rode a triumph bonneville.. black belt in karate and was fighting women off with a stick and was rated by all and sundry as the best bass player in the land.. yeah me too.. [/quote] Not me

If it sounds even half as good as the SWR SM-900 I've just acquired, it'll be a belter I'd love to try the M² preamp, but I fear the GAS would be hard to bear

[quote name='lozbass' post='385037' date='Jan 19 2009, 03:11 PM']I've had a few Seis with the Bart-Schack combination and haven't been wildly impressed (apart from stunning aesthetics and fabulous playability!)[/quote]+1 on the last bit. I had a gorgeous Sei Flamboyant for a while, this had the Bart-Schack Combination (isn't that a strategic move in Mornington Crescent..?) and like others I was v.underwhelmed by the Barts. The saving grace was the Schack eq which I did like a lot, plus the bass had an ABM piezo bridge which improved the sound of the Barts no end. If I'd kept the bass, I'd have lost the Barts in favour of EMGs. Although nowadays, I'd probably think in terms of Delanos rather than EMGs -- I tried a Shuker with Delanos a while back and the sound was god-like.

Robert Cray has some cracking stuff in his back catalogue too. 'The Forecast Calls For Pain' is a belter.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='391730' date='Jan 26 2009, 01:39 PM']'Simple', thuggish music (in the broadest sense) started boring me about 28 years ago. 'Pub rock' is to music what Eastenders is to drama, American Pie is to cinema or Mills and Boon to Literature. Superficial, predicatable, uninspiring and little more than fodder designed to take money off the great unwashed. I play music for fun.[/quote] Yes, and a hell of a lot of people play simple thuggish music for the unwashed masses, for fun. I used to be in a pub blues-rock trio and had a whale of a time. Loved it. And I love jazz too. Please tell me you weren't serious when you wrote that, Bilbo..?

Or more accurately, any genre that you don't like.

Ah excellent, the old "jazz is sh*t" thing again. Just what we need. I was starting to miss it.

In my case, my loudly clicking right knee turned out to be arthritic damage when they went in and had a look via an arthroscopy. Definitely get your wrist checked out.