Recent content by frozenbolt

Although, you can get an instrument like this one, minus the matching headstock and extra active J pup for only $809 (although the matching headstock only adds $35 more). Made in America and shipped to your door. :) [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Carvin makes their basses in surf green, as well. Unfortunately, they don't offer their kit bass in P configuration, yet, or you could get as custom as you wanted, yet still build it yourself. [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

Just a quick check in as I've been recovering from surgery the past five months and haven't had much playing time. Not being in a band after the winter one crashed in February, right after I got the 'new' bass for it, I've just been working on fill-in gigs, lately. Luckily (or unluckily, I...

As usual with a lot of country music, the bass is buried in the mix and hard to pick up what he's up to. I need to learn this song for a gig in a little over a week. Any help with it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, 'Bolt

It sounds like Daniel will have to play it to make his final decision, but this is what my buddy did (his first bass and he was a beginner player, then, so him playing wouldn't have helped) when he went to choose between MIM and Squier for his first bass: He went to the store, had the salesman...

I use the Behringer Eurolive 1220's for both my karaoke shows and for band performances. 125 W, 12" speaker with horn, good controls and they come with a feedback control loop, but I rarely use that. They're a nice wedge and you can daisy-chain them with either 1/4" or XLR cables. I actually...

I'm gathering that you can't hear yourself when playing along with the other instruments during live performance. The reason I say this is that you state you use the amp as a monitor and let the sound guy mix the rest. If you haven't heard complaints from him, I'm guessing you don't hear...

When I can't find anything, the first thing I do is go to the guitar tab sites and get the chords. If nothing else, it gives you the roots to get started with. Listening to the video (and the song on iTunes), he uses a lot of passing notes between roots and does some running at the end of...

That looks awesome.

I have the footswitch/controller and two mini-strips and I must say, the foot controller is a piece of crap. I bought it, tried it out during evaluation of the strips and for one show. After that, I boxed it up and it's sat on the shelf ever since. Now, I just go behind one of the strips...

The very first forum I signed up to was a SD Chargers forum and the team nickname is Da Bolts. I signed up in the middle of February in Wisconsin while I was freezing my arse off, hence, frozen+bolt. It carried over well to the surfing forums (Lighting Bolt is a surf product line nicknamed...

Those two features (frets and neck) are what basically sold me on the bass. The tones sealed the deal. By 'classic', I just meant that by splitting the humbucker, you end up with just the P and single coil 'J' at the bridge...prolly could have called it 'the standard P/J setup'. :)...

Well, it is a small world, after all... I stopped into Monument Music a week or so ago and saw a bass on the wall that piqued my interest. It was/is a Schecter Diamond P Custom IV in Metallic Blue. The split-coil humbucker at the bridge sounded like an interesting take on the classic P/J...

First off, thanks jeepin jer for these tabs, they are awesome and have helped me with a few songs my new band is doing. Second, you are right, obimark, but it makes it a little tough for us 'still stuck with 4 strings' players. I had to totally rewrite one of the tabs (Kerosene) to...

That was/is one awesome bass. A bit out of my league, though, at the time, a budget is a budget. :( Thanks for letting me play it and helping me understand the G&L line, a bit more. Also thanks to everyone there, I'm glad I made the trek, even if it was a bit late when I got there. I...