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Advice for people with new guitars

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  • 29-10-2004 6:13pm
    #1
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Play with the knobs. Seriously, play around with the knobs. I was playing a member of this boards 5 string bass recently and he didn't even know it had an active eq...


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    #2
    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    dude... seriously what are you smoking???

    whatever it is... i want some ;)


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    #3
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    It's a pisstake. I was out playing someone's bass, asked them what the battery was for and then informed them that their bass was active. He had it for two years and had no idea.

    Also, I've been smoking turf.


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    #4
    Third_Echelon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    show me the turf.... :p


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    #5
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Bloody Mexicans <_<


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    #6
    NeMiSiS
    Registered Users Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭NeMiSiS


    Sorry but..

    feyla_member.jpg

    It aint about those kinda instruments mate..

    Tom


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    #7
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    And the message has gotten across...


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    #8
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Tee Hee......
    That is all.


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    #9
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Rtfm! :d


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    #10
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    When was the last time you got a manual with a guitar though?


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    #11
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Emmm... honestly, the last time I bought a guitar... or rather the Ibanez bass. It had a wee manual which explained what every knob does. So I read it and the fog cleared and a miriad of tone lay 'neath my fingertips and the heavens roared and the mountains did quake and Poseidon himself did tremble in the deep...

    Damn, wish I never did acid...


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    #12
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Mmm, acid. Something that's always intruiged me.

    I may be purchasing another HB soon. 5 string bass this time...


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    #13
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    5 strings are for pussies. Get a 6.


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    #14
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    I was actually thinking about it. But it's more :( Throw me €50 and I will though :P

    harley_benton_hbb600tbk_6string_ebass_pimx_155043.jpg


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    #15
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Sell yourself. Get €50. Get a 6. They are the way forward. Then rip the frets outta that thing a really hurt the neighbours. 5 strings? What's the point? It's like a mullet. Not quite short hair, not quite long hair... just wrong. 6 strings, my friend, walk towards the light.


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    #16
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    I'm already in the light. I'm a guitarist :D

    Well, I'm planning on selling my current bass and case for €130 which leaves me €70 short for that fecker (€177 plus €23 shipping)

    Anyone want a kidney or a few pints of blood?


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    #17
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Ahhhhh dear Feylya, you are in the glow of a My Little Pony torch, soon will come the true enlightenment of the bassist and then your life can really begin :cool:


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    #18
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Jesus dude, you really need to step away from all that acid...

    Of course, I need a fecking bass amp too :(


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    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    And if you go for something with a low B, you gotta be looking at a 15" speaker, but if you want to play up high, gotta have a 10" and a tweeter too.

    As Jay Z said so righteously, It's A Hard Knock Life... y'all :cool:


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    #20
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Hmmm, mate's father got a peavey bass amp for €120 a while back. It is nice. :D

    harley_benton_hbb6000_6string_ebass_pimx_164295.jpg Guess the price.

    Hard knock life indeed.


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    #21
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    About €300?


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    #22
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    €420...


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    #23
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Nice. You just wonder where they're saving the money.


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    #24
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Cheap labour, slightly sub par hardware.

    Especially considering the plywood spacer on my fretboard....


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    #25
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    feylya wrote:
    Especially considering the plywood spacer on my fretboard....

    Ay Caramba! That's nasty.


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    #26
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Tis. But it just gives me reason to get a nice ebony board with no face markers and blue led side markers :D


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    #27
    mr_angry
    Registered Users Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    Or chop rediculous amounts of mahogony. :rolleyes:


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    #28
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    feylya wrote:
    blue led side markers

    ahhh no. In the name of Limp Bizkit NO!


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    #29
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Side markers you fool! Only I'll be able to see them when I'm playing. Although, I did see a Sims Custom bass the other night. Looked pretty good.

    image046.jpg

    And leave my mahogany out of this.


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    #30
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    And in case anyone is wondering about what I'm talking about with cutting the guitar in half, it's to do this:

    elec_cutout2.jpg


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    #31
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    feylya wrote:
    Side markers you fool!

    I know, I know. Me no likee. They become irrelevant if there is a blue light shining on you onstage. Then you can see nothing. What are you gonna do then? Huh? Well? ;)


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