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[quote name='JTUK' post='1257638' date='Jun 5 2011, 07:20 PM']The drums have to be hit constantly... unless you have an engr attending to the levels all the time..ie, wehn the drum and the track goes a bit wild..he may blew the levels if nobody is attending them... and that will blow the band sound as it will likely be over-driven.[/quote] Not if you are after that tight,. compressed drum sound. If you use compressors on inserts with a high ratio, thresholded so they come on quite low you can just 'set and forget' - the harder he hits the funkier it sounds but it doesn't get any louder through the PA. You need to know what you're doing though, with the comps, the mics and the drums themselves.

[quote name='icastle' post='1257614' date='Jun 5 2011, 07:07 PM']there's no way anyone is going to know you did it. [/quote] +1

[quote name='crez5150' post='1257427' date='Jun 5 2011, 04:12 PM']To be honest... I'm really disappointed with this pedal. I mostly use a couple of Akai SB-1 (deep impact) and thought the Mark Bass unit would be a good unit to bolster with but the sounds are no-where in the same league. I'm looking to offload my one[/quote] I'm really surprised by this, and disappointed Markbass haven't done better. I had a Deep Impact - it tracked quite well and had a couple of decent presets, but was very limited compared to even the most basic monophonic keyboard/rack-based synth, and a lot of basic synth sounds that it should in theory have been capable of were frustratingly out of reach due to limited editing capability. It should be very easy to do better than that nowadays.

A badass 2 or a Gotoh 201 will use the same screw holes as a Fender 5-screw bridge. Some other bridges you can still use the centre screwhole for bridge placement.

The front/rear placement is not so critical since you will adjust the intonation anyway, as long as it's within the bridge saddle screw range. More important to get the bridge centred reasonably accurately relative to the neck (and pickups). What replacement bridge are you thinking of using?

[quote name='Alec' post='1255111' date='Jun 3 2011, 10:03 AM']Though the real stars of the series are the 12" + 2" ART 722As - absolutely glorious.[/quote] They're also a grand each! High end kit is better, but you pay for it.

I love cream pickup covers...but for some reason not for that - a right dog's breakfast, especially with the tort guard as well. Black'll see you right.

Because they are fugly beyond all imagining.

[quote name='Lozz196' post='1254384' date='Jun 2 2011, 06:30 PM']And there`s a really nice, non-export Aerodyne for sale on here at the moment.[/quote] They are lush. My number one bass now, if it got nicked I'd have another in a heartbeat.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1254320' date='Jun 2 2011, 05:35 PM']You're not winning me over yet. There are a lot of players who pick up a bass and join a band (or the other way around),doesn't make them good.[/quote] Doddy, are you saying that Jared Followill wasn't a genre-spanning bass behemoth after a whole month of practice?

It's a nice idea but if I was a mod I'd be concerned about the legal issues. I do think you should get on to trading standards about your case though, charging extra for sorting out his mistakes is effing ridiculous - and then making it worse woulo be a total joke if it wasn't so irritating!

If the crossover is well-designed and the drivers are of decent quality (those are big ifs) then there's no real difference between a full-range bass cab and a PA cab other than marketing. Both will use PA drivers in a reflex box. It probably won't sound as good as a true high-end PA with systems controller etc but cost-wise it's not a fair comparison.

[quote name='scottkincaid' post='1254103' date='Jun 2 2011, 03:06 PM']Dude, go and check Jared Followill's Wikipedia. He learned the bass a few weeks before recording and have a look at his basslines!? And there are a few styles i can't fully do. [/quote] Ah yes, I see now.

Declaring on an internet forum that you're up to pro gigging standard on an instrument after 2 weeks, playing any style...if that doesn't count as trolling, what does?!

[quote name='scottkincaid' post='1253441' date='Jun 2 2011, 04:34 AM']Some people are better or more naturally talented than others. For example, i have learned to play bass within two weeks, and i could now, pretty much play whatever you wanted; Funk, Indie, Rock, Metal ect. Whereas my friend has never had drum lessons, and he can play them better than most drummers i have seen. It just depends how musically inclined people are.[/quote] All hail the troll king!

[quote name='mcnach' post='1252291' date='Jun 1 2011, 01:28 AM']The P-bass sounded huge!!![/quote] That'll be the DiMarzio!

Another vote for a Yamaha RBX170 or 270. Great all-round starter instruments. The 270 has better body wood than the 170 (alder versus agathis which is a bit cheap). I think they're easier to start on than the Squiers.

[quote name='thodrik' post='1253306' date='Jun 1 2011, 11:07 PM']I'm not dismissing the merits of Queen, Led Zep, Deep Purple and in all honesty prefer them to many of the bands I listed. I just find that the BBC take a very narrow view when it comes to 'rock' music documentaries. Most of them are great admittedly, but usually we've seen most of the stories and talking heads before. I just think that as a public service broadcaster BBC should be providing a bit more.[/quote] I think Queen's fan base on a global scale is a lot broader than something like the Smiths - in fact pretty much all those bands listed. But a lot of them have been the subject of features or similar on 6 Music. Blur are an interesting one, their sound evolved an awful lot from mediocre indie beginnings. Queen were far better all-round musical performers than most of the others though IMO, the fact they did pop is neither here nor there (I don't remember who made the Abba comparison but Queen were far more versatile with more complex song structures).

I love a bit of tape saturation on bass, even just from crappy cassette it is incredibly effective.

[quote name='bigbottomend' post='1251885' date='May 31 2011, 06:51 PM']Each to their own and is it just me because personally i think these sound awful.[/quote] Me too, but perhaps it's better if you swap out the valves like HJ suggests? There's valve warmth and then there's valve burnt-out black lifeless husk.

[quote name='Beedster' post='1251706' date='May 31 2011, 04:15 PM']A decent set of machines is a surprisingly effective upgrade.[/quote] You find a tonal difference then? I must say the bridge upgrade is probably worth it to some, not others. It makes a difference to sound, but whether that's good or bad depends what you're after! I'd always go pickups first.

Really enjoying watching these on iplayer, thanks for the heads up bassace. A shame John Deacon is quite so reclusive, I'd love to hear him talk about his approach to bass playing. But I suppose the documentary was more about the biog than the music anyway! I wonder if he ever plays for fun these days, I can't imagine walking away from it so completely.

[quote name='seb' post='1251011' date='May 31 2011, 01:18 AM']yeah, same as in the picture...so if it is like that i just need to buy a strap button and thats it>[/quote] Fitting a regular strap button instead of this will involve unscrewing this one, taking it out, then filling the hole with toothpicks and woodglue or (better) a piece of dowel. If you want to keep the locking strap you need the right kind of button for whatever make it is - Dunlop make them, maybe Schaller as well?

Really hard to tell from that picture but looks like you might have actual strap locks rather than regular strap buttons. Some of them are recessed into the body like this [url="http://www3.alembic.com/img/uni_lock.jpg"]http://www3.alembic.com/img/uni_lock.jpg[/url] If so you need to know what make it is to get the appropriate bit for the strap which then locks into the hole, or replace with regular strap buttons. If not, then ignore my post! PS this should really go into the 'repairs and technical issues' forum

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1250032' date='May 30 2011, 11:01 AM']The thing is that you will never be able to convey correctly what any bass sounds like over YouTube. For 1 YouTube compress videos terribly, another thing is that you will either be listening to the bid through tiny cheap monitors or your headphones. You can only really get a sense of bass sound when next to a full ranged cab. I like ed friedland but I don't like how he will always boost mids and bass(if he can) which to me just chokes the sound. At the end of the day you should base your opinions on a bass on some douche on YouTube, you will only know what a bass is like when it's in your own hands.[/quote] True enough about youtube compression, but there are some videos on there that get a lot closer. I listen on decent headphones, which are the same as the ones I practice with at home, so I know how they translate to a rig pretty well. Plus I like the bass tone on a lot of recordings, which I always listen to via 'phones or hifi speakers, my aim is always for my rig to sound like that but 'bigger'! But if he boosts the bass routinely that explains a lot, that'll eat up most of the headroom on the video. I can't see the sense in demoing a bass through anything other than a completely flat, clean DI (maybe a very transparent compressor if converting to a lossy format).