Conan

Check out the solo from 1:48 onwards... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov2Z7LCIBqA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov2Z7LCIBqA[/url]

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1025660' date='Nov 16 2010, 11:32 AM']Well, the Compact is £450... not sure if that's in or near your budget...[/quote] A couple have gone for around £300 in the used section on here in the last few months.... seems very quiet at the moment though.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1025587' date='Nov 16 2010, 10:14 AM']Sometimes though, the extra weight is worth it if you want that Trace sound![/quote] Ah, but what [i]is[/i] "that Trace sound"? With a 7/11/12 band graphic at the very least (not to mention various combinations of compressors, valves and so on...) the sound-shaping capabilities are enormous. So how can a whole range of amps/cabs/combos have "a sound"? Having said that, I know exactly what you mean! Is it all about suggestibility? Do we hear what we want/expect to hear?

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1025453' date='Nov 16 2010, 03:51 AM']Not better, different. Whether that different is better or worse for you only you can judge.[/quote] Sounds like agreement to me! That's the key isn't it. At the end of the day, it's the individual who pays the money that decides on what they want and why. There will always be others who say "you should have bought X or Y instead, and let me tell you why...". There is plenty of choice and if the purchaser like the choice they made and can live with it then surely that's enough. Just to clarify by further muddying the waters - I now possess two 2x15 cabinets. They sound (to me) [i]totally[/i] different. Both are regarded as good quality items. Both are large, but quite different in shape. The speakers they contain have a diameter of fifteen inches (I assume, I haven't measured them) but there the similarity ends. Anyone who suggests that fifteens (or tens, twelves or whatever) have a "sound", should try making such a direct comparison. It was pretty enlightening! Problem is that I can't afford to keep both, so I need to decide which one I prefer the sound of! Apples and pears...

In many cases, isn't it simply that people prefer what they are used to? Anything that sounds different - even if it is technically "better" - sounds "wrong" to their ears?

[quote name='lojo' post='1021469' date='Nov 12 2010, 02:25 PM']perhaps they got offended by some of the avatars[/quote] I already suggested that, but apparently they didn't.

[quote name='SaxxyBass' post='1021314' date='Nov 12 2010, 12:49 PM']Okay...shall I write "I am a girl" in my sig? Edit - done! >>>>[/quote]

[quote name='SaxxyBass' post='1021304' date='Nov 12 2010, 12:43 PM']Don't I count? [/quote] You're a girl then? That fact is not immediately apparent. Maybe it needn't be? Discuss...

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1021152' date='Nov 12 2010, 11:09 AM']Mrs T and Endorka seems to be the only female posters. What happened to Zoe BillySheehan and Sarah 5 String? Was it something we said? [/quote] Without going over old ground, is it just a teensy-weensy bit possible that their disappearance coincided with a sudden increase in avatars featuring semi-naked women? Naaah. Couldn't be that.

Joking aside, it's a serious point. This is turning into a version of the old "master's staff room" in here. Pipe and slippers anyone? Pass the brandy Colonel!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1019951' date='Nov 11 2010, 12:41 PM']But what bugs me is the countless "I paid ££ for it and I'd like to get that back." threads. Why aren't people happy to take a small hit seeing as they've used it and now posses the first hand experience/knowledge of owning it not to mention having notched up an extra owner to it's history? Bah humbug! [/quote] Agreed. The market is as much about what buyers are prepared to pay as about what sellers would "ideally" like to get for the item. Why do we need to know how much they paid for it? It's irrelevant and seems to be an attempt to say "this is worth a lot more than you skinflints are prepared to pay - so cough up!".

I completely misread the title of this thread and thought it must be about uninteresting bars where military personnel hang out....

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1018432' date='Nov 10 2010, 09:53 AM']Danny Thompson Pino Palladino John Giblin[/quote] Tasty! Do you have an allergy to frets or something Owain?

[quote name='3V17C' post='1018556' date='Nov 10 2010, 11:03 AM']which all goes to show that one gig is worth a hundred rehearsals![/quote] Spot on. Or, at least, one [i]good[/i] gig is worth a hundred rehearsals!

Just to reinforce the patronising stereotype that everyone in Newcastle knows everyone else... I used to teach Alex Butler! He left our school last year...

Geddy Lee, Stanley Clarke and David Margen. Just wish I sounded like any of them!

So how'd it go?

I just sit down (or sometimes, if I'm feeling raunchy, stand up!) and play what I feel like playing until I am bored. It could be an entire Rush bass line, or a single lick from a lesser known Level 42 track. Sometimes I try to pick out the vocal melody on the bass and other times it might be the drum part! Variety is the key for me. If practicing was a chore I wouldn't do it. Sometimes it is, and I don't. Other times I love it. It's my bass and my house (where I do most of my practicing) so who else really cares?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1017513' date='Nov 9 2010, 01:44 PM']I prefer to play higher up. In fact, I tend to avoid playing below 4th position (or thereabouts). It's just more comfortable up there, and my little hands can stick to one-finger-per-fret without too much fannying about.[/quote] Fair enough. Being quite tall and having big hands I much prefer to play low down and take advantage of any open strings that might be available... I tend to find that the combination of the thicker strings and the smaller fret spacing makes intonation difficult up at the dusty end. Then again, I do have quite a heavy touch! Horses and courses again!

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' post='1017339' date='Nov 9 2010, 11:34 AM']... the extra string is very usefull when youre playing in that far and uncharted region near the end of the fretboard![/quote] You play the B string high up the neck?! I don't understand... Unless you're talking about a fiver strung EADGC??

[quote name='Alfie' post='1017145' date='Nov 9 2010, 08:01 AM']I have always wondered whether I should be plugged into the active or passive input when using pedals.[/quote] I guess it depends on how high you have the gain set on your pedals?