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On Ebay they are coming in at £29 a set and DRs are £31 a set. At that difference I'd chose the DRs every time. If you want cheap then how about these: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COLORFUL-ELECTRIC-BASS-Guitar-Strings-Includes-12-pic-/380295365387?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item588b5ec30b"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/COLORFUL-ELECTRIC-BA...=item588b5ec30b[/url] Less than £12 delivered if you use buy it now

The Trooper by Iron Maiden is simple in theory as its only 4 notes most of the way through, G E D & C, you just need to get your right hand moving with those triplets If you're looking for something slower then Nothing Else Matters by Metallica is quite straightforward A lot of AC/DC is straight root notes, how about Let There be Rock? Saxon, Ride Like the Wind UFO, Doctor Doctor Free, Wishing Well Thin Lizzy, Don't Believe a Word If you're looking for something a bit more modern. I'm trying to get the band to do Saturday Superhouse by Biffy Clyro

A big +1 on the waitresses. The best bass line for me and I have to agree that its slightly annoying. When it was still acceptable, Paul Gadd's Christmas song was good fun to play

Best present I have ever received was my Leatherman Wave. I use it every day and it lives in my gig bag

I bought mine from Flightcase Warehouse through Ebay. Really cheap and will hold 4 Boss size pedals. Can't see any listed for sale at the moment This is the only pic I have of it with 3 Boss and my Korg DT10 tuner [url="http://img694.imageshack.us/i/dsc06060large.jpg/"][/url] I've just had a look back at my feedback and it was £14.99 plus delivery. They may have more, it was listed as "Pedalboard Case Small"

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='1045767' date='Dec 2 2010, 10:37 PM']Even fewer demos are done with a plectrum.[/quote] You've obviously never been in the market for either a Violin bass, Thunderbird or Explorer. PITA trying to find demos of these basses played fingerstyle Totally agree about the slap thing on demos. Personally I find that it sounds pretty much the same regardless of what bass you play so its not really fitting when you are trying to extole the virtues of the bass you are demoing.

If you practice, change strings or setup your bass in front of the computer and your tuner is either downstairs or stored in the band's van/lockup then I find this very useful: [url="http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/"]http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/utilities/tuner/[/url]

I had one there on my first '51 reissue P bass for an entirely different reason - I had recently gone from playing 5s and 6s for the past 10-15 years back to 4 and I missed the feeling of having the B string to stop my fingers so I put one there for that reason, just so my fingers would hit against it when I played on the E string

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1043477' date='Dec 1 2010, 10:33 AM']It's a perennial topic, but we don't seem to have a place for pointing each other in the direction of software we have found particularly useful. Just to see if others find this useful, here's a brief heads-up on THE AMAZING SLOW DOWNER You can download ASD from the InterNet ( [url="http://www.ronimusic.com/"]http://www.ronimusic.com/[/url] ) as a free demo, which will give you (IIRC) full functionality but only let you play the first 30 seconds of each track. For about $50 you can buy the product. I consider it one of the better $50 purchases I've made. I use it to: * slow down tracks, or bits of tracks, where I can't work out what the bassist is playing at full speed. * loop tricky bits of tracks so that I can play them again & again. * change the pitch of tracks which have either been Vari-speeded or which are in awkward keys (e.g. Eb to E). * change the key of tracks which I want to sing but which are outside my range in their original key. * minimise the low frequencies on the track so that I can play along without being distracted by the original bassline. All these changes can be made 'on the fly' and in real time. There's no need to "re-process" the file after each change. Once you have the settings you want for a track, you can save it (separately from the original, of course) with those settings and come back to it later. Just about the only gripe I have with ASD is that it won't save files in mp3 format, only as WAV. If Roni Music could somehow combine this with an mp3 editor, they'd have an absolute killer product on their hands. Despite being priced in $ the product is actually Scandinavian (Danish, I think). Despite the low price, on both occasions when I've needed support I've had immediate and very helpful responses. Highly recommended.[/quote] I use Best Practice for this. Its free and appears to do everything your one does except from removing the low frequencies - you can change the pitch, tuning if what you are listening to isn;t quite to pitch without having to retune the bass to compensate, change the speed and loop. You just adjust any parameter you need to and it does it almost right away

I came to the conclusion years ago that unless you are playing songs that require slap then there is little need for it. I may add a little slap or pop here and there but never really found any use for it. Recently began learning to play using a pick. It was something that I'd never really stuck at before but I'm finding it increasingly useful for quite a lot of songs we play Tried my hand at 2 handed tapping but find myself in a similar position to that of slap, ie limited potential to use it. The latest thing I am learning is Steve Harris triplets. I had absolutely no idea how much of a monster player he was until I started listening to Maiden properly. Still using my own technique to execute it though, looks far to uncomfortable to play it like him. I'd like to learn to play like Sting with the thumb and index finger. Don't know why, it just looks cool.

you may struggle with the weather. My new bass cab's been sitting at the local depot since yesterday morning - its still 30 miles away from me. I've been told it may be delivered tomorrow. If it isn;t here by thursday then I'm boned. oh yes, I haven't had a mail delivery since Friday

Quite apt at this time of year - funny thing is I had the wee writy bit below my avatar before I changed it to Mr Plow

been and gone [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?act=Search&CODE=show&searchid=706162fb2ea1792cb08bf5ffd8d5b5c6&search_in=titles&result_type=topics&highlite=%2Bwarmoth"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?act=Search...lite=%2Bwarmoth[/url] everything you'll need from picking woods and pickups, installing and building and so on

Do a search, there are quite a few threads already that will give you all the info you need. I've built two and a couple of others have as well - same reason as you, there wasn't a bass like I wanted at the time

go into great detail about the item you are selling and list all flaws and faults as mentioned previously. If you want to let someone know how much of an amazing deal they are getting, go online and find the most expensive online price so that there seems a greater difference between what you are selling it for and what they are buying it for. Cheeky but it does work. Lots of pictures - use photobucket or similar and insert them using the HTML editor. Its a wee bit tricky the first time you do it but you soon get the hang of it. That way you're not giving Ebay any more money than you have to. List the brand, model and anything important in the title: "1982 Squier JV Precision MIJ Bass" is going to attract a lot more people than "base guiter" The previous two are my main bugbears. If you're trying to sell your car you wouldn;t make a potential buyer view it from round the corner at a distance with some grit in his eye cos that's what they both equate to: ie not knowing exactly what you are going to get. Quote facts about the item you are selling but don't just copy and paste from the manufacturer's website - that Rickenbacker description does my head in every time I see it "famous for its bell like blah blah blah blah". Use your own words and maybe explain why each feature is going to help them. Invite questions but only post certain ones if they are going to help your sale like things you may have forgotten to put in the description If you sell your item elsewhere, like here, simply end the auction. Don't write in the title "sold, please do not bid". Its in My Ebay at the right hand side. I automatically block users with negative feedback or unpaid item strikes etc and anyone from Italy. Nothing against them but their mail system is a shambles and a lot of stuff goes walkies. If you are selling something here as well and its really what you want to get for it then add money onto the Ebay listing to cover the fees you're likely to get if you sell it there. Be prepared for dicks. They're in every walk of life. They'll not pay you, say something's damaged when it isn;t, give you grief and do your box in. One thing to rmember is that if someone sends you a message saying that the item you are listing is overpriced and what are you thinking about, don;t reply to it when you're drunk and then post it cos that's exactly what I did a couple of years ago when I was selling a Rickenbacker 4000. Amazed I didn't have my account suspended as I completely tore in about the guy. And remember, you're trying to sell something to as many people as you can. The more people you interest, the greater the chances are of achieving a good price as they all fall in love with the item you are selling because you described it so well and made them believe that they could not live without it. Corny but that's what selling is all about. 439 positive feedback points and 100% so I must be doing something right

Never thought about checking out a guitar schematic. That looks like the ticket. Cheers Keen to get it wired up so I'm still going to use the Fender Jazz wiring diagram until i can get a switch. On second thoughts I seem to have run out of pots so I've bought a batch of 500k ones and a switch.

Bought my 8x10" last year when the weather was really bad. The shop that I was buying from couldn't get a courier to collect so they contacted Ashdown who were able to get a courier. Ended up getting one of the first of the Evo II cabs, in fact probably the first one. After a week or so the grill was taken off to reveal big splits in the front between a few of the speakers. A quick email to the shop I bought the cab from and they had Ashdown send me out one immediately and since I had already got rid of the box they actually waited until I had taken the new one out and put the damaged one in before arranging collection

I can't see one on there that would do it. Think I may wire it the same as the thunderbird in the meantime just to bring it back to life.