Recent content by thunderider

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    Bugera 1960 for bass

    i can get quite a good low vol tone with an eq at bed room level,take it to our rehersal room plug my 15s in turn it up but it looses the bassness and breaks up quite early,ok if u do thrash,i do like abit of grit but not that!!
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    Bugera 1960 for bass

    i have got hold of a jcm 900 higain but too distorted, how would a 1960 sound with an eq pedel in the fx loop? hows it sound between half and one on the vol??
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    Official Marshall Amp Club!

    I see a few have mb 450h i have one these and about to put it up for sale as i hate the sound its to harsh and bright i cant get sound i like.i also have a jcm 900 with an eq pedal in the loop i was playing bass thro but theres not enough bottom end for me and distrots to early im in to clean...
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    Geezer Butler's tone on the album "Paranoid"

    this shows his right hand quite well...
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    How Would Someone Build a "Fenderbird"?

    im looking to do this but keeping the original bridge in its original place this should be ok?
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    Fender Super Twin Bass Head

    ive just missed 2 heads 1x100 1x135 on ebay cuz i bought a marshall couple of weeks ago!! both gone for the 350£ mark
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    Fender Super Twin Bass Head

    check out a bassest called Alan Davey ex hawkwind now has a band called gunslinger he uses a 50 watt bassman ,either thro 215 on its own,or 212 +115,he uses a ric has the thing running full,0 bass,middle n treb full the thing really grinds,but with hawkwind got some nice bass tones,or bi amps...
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    Up close and personal: Lemmy's bass

    lemmys main bass in hawkwind was the hopf,that got nicked and he used the tbird for a while (the one in the videos) its the last year with hawkwind he used the ric after deciding the tbird neck was too long. heres my fave ric......another ex hawks bassest alan davey...made in the 80s out of...
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    How do I replicate Lemmy tone?

    The secret to lemmys sound,i got a ric and a tbird is fact he uses a 100 watt valve cranked right up the settings are as above, natural distortion i can get same sound with an active ibanez,so its treble, no bass, amp full chat off u go!! He dont use any pedles,another ex hawks bass player...
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    Bassist that made Ric famous:

    alan davey!!! who was influenced by.....LEMMY....lemmy is the ric icon he was on totp more than the others also its lucky that ric made thin necks as if he found his gibsons comfetable ....the rest as they say is history!!
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    Lemmy Kilmister...

    stay clean is a crackin song his bass solo in it a great, but also check out another ex hawkwind bassest alan davey lemmy influenced!!
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    Lemmy Kilmister...

    lemmy didnt play guitar in hawkwind he went to replace huw lloyd langton who had a bad trip n disapeared in smoke!! he started with a fender bodied thing...hernadez or some thing!!that was left in the van as he was a guitarest so didnt own a bass....then he went to gibsons thunderbird,wich he...
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    Today i saw Cliff Burtons ric! (pics)

    im not a cliff fan,or a metallica fan,my guitarist used to work for em late 80s early 90s and for a while stored there uk gear in his moms garage in tamworth!!,but asfor see the instrument that music u love,i did stand in awe friday,as my band supported gunslinger,who is ex hawkwind bassest alan...
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    Zoot Horn

    so was kerb crawler played thro this amp???
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    Hearing Loss and Ear Plugs

    tbh i last had hearing tests when i was about 6 but i think u maybe right bout earwax build up,think ill go check it out.