Dave Vader

[quote name='Badass' post='822775' date='Apr 29 2010, 10:17 AM']I have been looking at some of the new neo speaker cabs / combos on offer, and I came across this snippet from a GK manual...Preamp headroom maybe? I have always, in 40 years of playing, set the gain then the master. Anyone else do it the way described by GK?[/quote] I just got a GK, and started doing it the way they say, and yeah, it seems to work. The clip light on my BL600 goes even when the gain is right down, same with the EQ, it just tells you your Bass is too damn loud before it hits anything. The boost does all the gainy overdrivey fun, and the levels and master, are more of a mix thing. I like doing it this way, better than what I used to do with my ashdown..... (not be heard through the mud )

+lots If glasto don't make you pay, then nobody should.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='820982' date='Apr 27 2010, 06:59 PM']Here's my GS LP[/quote] Damn, I had one just like that that I had to sell to pay the rent back in '98. Seriously regret getting shot of that thing. Though I did buy it for 150 off a guy who also needed to pay the rent, and sold for 175 4 years later. SO profit! Though I do believe they go for a lot more than that now.

I have the Tokai Rickenfaker, and unless you're prepared to spend a lot of time and money on set-up and replacement parts, don't bother. It cost me about £500 new, and then I had to spend a good 350 on pickups and bridge, plus routing and messing about. Ibbys are really good though, friend of mine has one. Pickups in the Tokai are just wrong, really wrong.

I call my Tokai RIc copy the Rickenf***er, and the Mighty Mighty Dave bass, will always be called that (frankenstein job from an old Ibanez Roadstar). Also have an ancient strat that long ago got nicknamed the sh*tocaster, the name seems to have stuck.

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='820759' date='Apr 27 2010, 03:53 PM']But if it's a classic bass then get an expert to do it, whoever had my old Jazz bass before me has taken off everything but a millimetre or two of the rosewood fingerboard, I'm expecting the truss rod to burst through the front any minute like in the Alien movies. On the plus side, it's the slimmest Jazz neck in history![/quote] My frankenJazz bass currently has a neck from a no-name POS I got from hatherleigh car boot for £15. Killing it will not make me cry, in fact it will be a nice excuse to get a new one. Do you need a radius block to do it properly, or can you skim by eye with some heavy grit, and then smooth it off?

Hey, did you guys play at the Tally Ho in Hatherleigh last year? I recognise the name and the gear (not that I was gear stalking....) Welcome to BC.

[quote name='hubrad' post='820576' date='Apr 27 2010, 01:01 PM']You can always learn to do your own skimming![/quote] Now this is probably where I'll end up, I do pretty much all my own maintenance on my instruments, done fret dressing enough times, will probably read up on it when the time comes and have a go. A friend of mine is a furniture maker and often comes up with ingenious fixes for basses, I think he'll help.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='820552' date='Apr 27 2010, 12:49 PM']My old Jazz got churned up pretty quick, i imagine it'd take a few years of regular use to get really bad. If it's just a cheapy then a new Mighty Mite neck would be economical[/quote] This was what I was thinking I'd do, it is very cheap and nasty, and slowly every part of it is being replaced with good bits, so new neck is on the list, but I don't want to have to get it too quick, as money is ridiculously tight at the moment, and I may have just got myself a gig where fretless would be a must have. If money was no object I'd like one of them maple boarded 70s fretless Ps, like out of the bad company videos... I just wondered if anyone had let it go down all the way, and if it buzzed and clacked and choked like a set of eaten up frets do.

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='820522' date='Apr 27 2010, 12:28 PM']If you're REALLY heavy-handed you could play through to the maple! Apparently Pino did, according to one of his early interviews. I imagine he had it skimmed a few times.[/quote] That sounds like the sort of thing I might end up doing, I do squeeze the heck out strings when I get over excited (see the maple board of my Stratocaster for proof of this sort of thing). Might go Flatwound then.

If I were to continue using roundwounds on my rosewood fretless neck, without bothering to epoxy it or anything, what will eventually happen? Cos after just a year or so of being played a bit here and there (haven't even gigged it yet) it's got wormy trails on it. Now, let me make it clear, if the problems are only cosmetic, I am fine with that, but will it become unplayable after a while and need sanding down, and all that Jazz (see what I did there? hysterical) because I'm not so happy with that, it was only cheap, and I begrudge spending any money on it which coulc be spent on a better neck. Any experience with pushing it waaaaaay too far with a rosewood board? Let me know.

Serious bargain, well done.

[quote name='HMX' post='816588' date='Apr 23 2010, 07:19 PM']Oh, good stuff. What band do you play in, and is that Exeter - I'm not too familiar with local venues (I'm a northerner at heart). I'd drop by but I only finish work at 8:30PM.[/quote] It is in Exeter (not sure exactly where yet, haven't looked at a map yet) starting about 9ish I think, called Spaced Invaders, it's an 80s electro/new romantic tribute thing, not my cup of tea to be honest, but the basslines are surprisingly fun to play, and it pays.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130357707149&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT[/url] Yeah, sounds pretty good, check out the american ebay link guy! I can't believe these will sell, so I am watching them avidly.

After losing the coin toss with my friend, I went off to learn guitar, while he got to play bass. He got a Sunn Mustang P-bass copy for Xmas, out of an Argos catalogue in 1988/9ish. I used to play on it quite a lot, in 1996 I got to reposses it from him as he owed me £30 beer money, and was skint (he'd got an Aria since then anyway). I still have that Mustang, it's my main player, I love it (many may have terrible memories of them). We did once use it for a game of cricket with an mxr flanger as the ball, back in about 92 if I remember right. 1st bass amp was a Laney Mighty Bass that got left in my old pub by some kid practising in our function room. I still have that as well, it is not good. But that Sunn, I'm playing it tonight, played it last night, and I'm playing it tomorrow night, can't seem to put it down...

Good man, the sad thing is I'll be rooting for you to get it cheap.

Tell you what, I'm going to throw them to the ebay lions, I'll send you the link to the auction when they're up, and when they end up going for 2 quid (like these things always do for me) you'll be quids in. I'd hate to auction them cheap and you miss out, but I would like to get something for nothing as well. What do you reckon? It'll be a 99p no reserve job.

I wish I'd seen those pickup ring adapters before I drilled my old ones to take dimarzios.... One of the bands is snapped, will need a bit of glue, and the inside of one is chipped, stays on the pot though. Only got 3, and you need 4, I was hoping to rip off some unsuspecting muppet with them, but I hate to see a fellow in need. Will post pics, when I get a camera...

My main player is a polished Turd. 1989 Sunn Mustang P-bass copy, from an Argos catalogue. I scraped off all the nasty poly finish, and crappy veneer I found under that, put in new pups, refinished it in Danish oil, and I've never heard sustain like it. Sounds flipping brilliant, plays fantastically, but still looks like a turd, thus stopping people stealing it, hoorah! (the 70s F*nder decal on the headstock ain't fooling anyone).

Constantly, that's how I ended up in 3 bands, none of which play anything I really like... good to see another Devon based bassist round. I'm playing in the bowling green tomorrow night.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='815239' date='Apr 22 2010, 05:32 PM']Yes - they do. I've currently got a 1981 Ibanez Musician guitar I'm restoring, and it's missing a lot of its original parts - 4x Sure-Grip 1s, Gibraltar bridge, Quik-Change tailpiece, brass trc and Velve-Tune tuners. So I've been pricing parts up - on Ebay I'd pay more for a set of plastic knobs than I did for the bloody guitar! How much do you want for your SG1s, then? Serious question, btw. Jon.[/quote] Now there's an interesting question, I'll have a look and get back to you. Seriously though, there was another guy on ebay selling knobs that look identical, they're not original, but they're only a fiver a set. Except it's gone now... I can still see this one, it's not the same as mine, but it is a sure grip, and it is cheaper. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBANEZ-Sure-Grip-2-Genuine-Control-Knob-fits-Artist-etc_W0QQitemZ200433699922QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item2eaac78c52"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IBANEZ-Sure-Grip-2-G...=item2eaac78c52[/url] Seriously, I'll have a think, and send you a pic of them, they're not mint by a long shot.

[quote name='Marvin' post='815275' date='Apr 22 2010, 06:12 PM']Haze of smoke? I can't imagine what you mean by that. Oh, unless of course you mean when they used to open the fire exit doors at the Anchor and all the 'steam' billowed out, always looked like it was on fire. Enjoy the forum, I'm officially an addict. [/quote] Yeah, I remember falling out in that "steam" and lying in a puddle to cool off, good times. And it's already replaced that "other" bass forum as the first place I come to waste time at work.

'nother Devonshire here, also not by birth....

Does anyone out there know if it's true that these old knobs go for loads on ebay? You remember them, looked like gibson top hats, but with elastic bands round them? I heard somewhere that a set went for $100 on ebay, and there's a bloke in the USA selling them for that as well. On buy it now! I only ask cos somewhere in my house are 3 that I took off my old SB-70 guitar a long time ago, cos I preferred the weird ones I took off a teisco instead, and I'd rather have money than original 1982 Ibanez knobs if it's all the same.

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637384"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637384[/url] there's that thread, and I have a set of these on my P-bass, love them, feel and sound perfect for what I'm doing, whatever band it is. Worth a go as they're nice and cheap, just put a set on my rickenfaker last night, felt a little tense, will check later that the neck hasn't snapped... Leave them on for a month before judging them, and don't worry how they sound solo, play them in a band and you'll work out what they're for.