Conan

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1322050983' post='1445799'] Yeah it's a funny old thing this rep system... you make quips all day long and you earn a massive rep score yet if you take time out from your day job to assist people to get their basses working or impart actual knowledge you don't get nowt. [/quote] My concerns in a nutshell. Well put indeed by the man whose name combines letters and numbers.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1321950345' post='1444619'] I've boiled my dead strings for years,[/quote] I normally find that ten minutes does the trick. BTW, stupid question maybe, but what the heck. Why bother with the "string cleaning tube" [sup][size=1]TM[/size][/sup]? Surely it's the meths/IPA/white spirit that does the cleaning, so what effect does the shape of the container have? Has it been proven to be better to have the strings straight rather than coiled loosely?

I love the carrying handle!!

Stuart recently bought my Squier Telecaster. Great communications and very prompt payment made in faith. Thoroughly recommended!!

I was about to post a similar question! Alan Menken also did the soundtrack for "Little shop of horrors". The bass style sounds similar to the Herc soundtrack. To my ears it sounds a bit like a Stingray...? Doesn't sound like Abe to me... but does sound a bit like Stubenhaus. Surely someone must know?! [youtube][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRh-g-CC8g"]6RRh-g-CC8g[/url][youtube/]

If boiling doesn't produce the results you seek, you could always try frying them.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1321874547' post='1443850'] It's only a covers band... [/quote] As opposed to....? If it was an originals band would the answers and suggestions be different? If so, why?

My brain hurts...

I would definitely go second-hand with that budget. It's definitely a buyer's market at the moment, especially if you have cash. Trace Elliot gear is always available at a good price and delivers a huge amount of 'bang for your buck'. here is an example... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/160619-trace-elliot-gp7-sm-300-4x10-for-sale/"]http://basschat.co.u...-4x10-for-sale/[/url] Great tone (IMO) from an iconic brand. Built like a tank. Heavy as a bugger, but easily powerful enough to gig with. You can't go far wrong at this sort of price. You don't say where you are, but you need to bear shipping costs in mind if the amp of your choice is not just round the corner.

Nice playing and nice recording! I must get out and see Russ next time he's local...

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1321636234' post='1441542']It did annoy me quite a bit as it questions my ability and i just feel that if they wanted a pick player they should have auditoned that fact and not taken a fingerstyle bassist. Dave [/quote] Try not to think of it like that. Everyone has that certain "sound" in their head on a certain track. It's even worse when it's in a covers band scenario. Yes, you are the bass player. But you are also a band member. How many times have you bitten your tongue at the way the singer phrases a particular line? Or the sound that the keyboard player selects? Of the volume of the guitarist? In the same way, they might all have different ideas about what the bass should be playing or how it "should" sound. They are entitled to their opinions, but equally that doesn't make them right! What's to be lost by giving the pick a try? At least it shows that they are listening to the bass part in the first place!! I'm predominantly a fingers player, but in a cover band there are certain tracks that you need a pick for. IMO of course.