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OK why is it i keep getting hit with;'why do you have a fretless?' are you playing jazz? ya know my dad was a session bassist andblahblah or;no! bring your P bass i want you to be on tone(while the 325lb blues harp man blows the hair off your face doing 64th notes thru his bullet mic i like my...

ok,my SX J with a Gotoh bridge and DiMarzio pup mods has arrived via Fedex,i'm quite happy with the purchase adding a new dimensional pal to my mexi p with half rounds and fretless j with chromes the girl is Bright:bassist:,probably keep rounds on this one*verifying that i been using same...

the scoop= after not having so much as a cold for 5-6 years during a trip to a dentists office it was discovered i had`stroke level blood pressure' i didn't even know what it was supposed to be,had to ask,dentist was all about getting me into an urgent care facility NOW,so next thing there i was...

ok wrote a huge longa!! post stating what i had going,going to have to come back on this on my laptop after doing some editing,,moderaters feel free to delete this i can come back on when i'm settled(just got a laptop 'updates' from deep hell have been the program around here lateley and my...

not my dream cab by any stretch of the imagination,but there is a used one to be had at a pawn shop for about 200 cash(cash talks and all that) how hard has anyone driven one of these is my question:confused: looking at the ohms rating versus my head i can prolly do 700-750 watts...

ok just got my first laptop(HP dv67000) i'm not the`computer person' in the household that's my wife so to be sure we buy what i can utilise for my'music' as much as possible what's the best bang for the buck? wife will buy based upon price witch is fine but after using her PC for years it's...

due to ALL sorts of family schtuff going on i only practice mechanically now(while my mind catagorises all the issues) kids are grown but they split from hubbys move back home(with GKids witch i love for shure but hey!; 2 of them came home this year=hasn't been the same `groove thang")...

i like to go back to the old schools stuff every so often in between five finger death punch and the chilis,,wow! 1968 and here's this band Booker T and the MG's,,heavy on the bass,great tone and killer licks(hope i didn't lose it here let's load this vid=)YouTube - ‪Booker T. & The MG's...

ok my mighty Peavey Kilobass head has developed an issue,seemed like a minor`snap'(aka light pop or even 2 during startup,sort of happened quickly twiceEDIT=recently like this last week only but i start with all master volume knobs off,the tube side has always been slow warming up<)tonight she...

ok i'll go fast; lifelong pro.guitar slinger who lived in Reno for 30 years says he has a special pedal he's going to lend me for an evening. story goes the inventor`spend all his money on R/D then went thru a divorce,went nuts and only a 100 or so were produced. what does it do?,well...

ok did the search thing,running on diminished capacity(computer died yesterday,this is an old one the wife lashed together),i'll go fast=bought boss pedal,have yamaha ac adaptor,looks like it should work but doesn't,no markings on pedal,box or paperwork(manual),,so what IS the polarity Boss?

ok yeah i know ya just HAD to open this even tho' it's been beat to death(and i'm in a hurry tonight)>--=)> i love my 2001 Agave Blue fretless Jazz,the girl is just the shiznitz hooked to my Peavey Combo 300,pedal or 2 in between i can do a TON of tones with HER,love HER,it's all great good...

quick story is; bought a copy of the mini strat,buddy needed money for a les paul copy,figured i'd give it to a grandkid when they get big enough soooo,i'd like to do an open tuning or drop tuning ANY kind of dif than standard tuning and use it for rythym,just jamming with pals but it's nice to...

i understand the principal(s) of what these do and they appear similar(on paper),any clues/recomendations?

walked thru GC the other day,guy was thumping on a Stingray fiver thru a Marbass,i said `thumpy man!,he said `it needs tapewounds',,so of course we BS'd a wee bit and i noticed it was fitted with Chromes(witch i commented)`i play reggae so i need tapewounds' he replied so,any lowdown;) scoop...

ok about a week ago my middle finger/right hand sort of locked up when strait,just a minor pop/crackle when i bent it,it's gotten worse so that like last night after sitting here and having to bend it(and it popping),,i was afraid to straighten it out:eek: it's like the joint is worn...

Stones and Chuck Berry for me,got onto a couple Stones cuts and havent let go,every week i'm studying someone new checking out Stones i see a dif. bassman every vid on You-Tube,anybody have a story to tell about Bill Wyman?,,it's like he wasn't aboard all the time for studio OR live gigs?,and...

ok my tech had a cab i picked up for a really nice low price,appears to be a custom build cab,niceley done IMHO,something to build upon at least OK here's my question;has 5 ports that were drilled in the baffle,they have been`plugged' with what is basically a backing board behind each...

ok i saw one,right here on TB,a header ad showed it,20 inch scale acoustic electric,about the size of a uke,,heard one tonight back to back with the bassman's Sadowsky 5'r at a gig he only flipped one switch on his head so it's not like he had to`dime out' his equipment to lay down the...

ok i have a peavey combo 300 that i sold and bought back about 2 weeks ago(also have a Kilobass head,this is for practising) ok so my weird issue is:sometimes it doesn't JUST turn on,it might and it might not,wierdness is=sometimes(emphasis on sometimes)if you turn the instrument volume...

this tone herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFfRf81dHkI&feature=related now (to me) this is the dif in 200 watts and 500/1000,hey! just bought my Peavey combo 300 back and am glam dad i did!:cool:=the thing rocks,but,that?,that burning low-down:eek: 200 watts don't DO THAT:eek:,SORRY!,my...

we've had Norton for the last year,i've hated it all the way,slowed this PC down,like a battle really=park cursor over their icon/wait for the screen to catch up,wife bought it to protect the various family members laptops(including hers,only ME uses this PC=wah!),,,i just wanna surf fast hard...

just HAD to let it out=LOVE the head i bought over a week ago,finally stuck it to a Peavey BW/15 just to see if it works,,,the TUBE pre=amp side is lucious,add a DOD fuzz and i'm getting the `Mountain'(Papalardi) distortion thang:D,greezy,sweaty,juicy,the`clean side' is awesome too(i just didn't...

ok tried the search function for this question,old guitar slinger(western swing hall of fame member)told me yesterday something to the effect;`don't buy cables longer than 18 ft' and i have seen 18's listed FSale (and my) question of;why not just make em an even 20?,so of course that was my...

ok i've done some searching here,,could sit all day,my question is> i just bought a Kilobass head,when it arrives MAY i plug it in to one Black Widow 15/4 ohm speaker for a test run and not worry about any problems?,,you know how it is:hyper:,i'll keep it under the radar:D also a second...

ok did the search,,but i'm out of time(having gotten lost posting on ~OTHER~ threads logging in:bawl:,dinner is DONE been done wife's giving me the eviehl eye all thatblahblah so can i buy an otaver pedal that will make my higher registers sound more guitarish if i want to`jump down there' on...

is there a rule of thumb on pedals?,,how many can you(safely) use in line at one time? ok have to run any help is appreciated/dang neighbors calling me up while making this post=bunch of DRUNKS!:D;)

ok stumbled upon a mini or micro? pa system yesterday at a pawn shop,2 speaks that close up into a sort of case,,and there's a box next to it with a rackmounted(in the carpeted box) 2-channel power amp,,,it's like some odd beer collectible type deal(yeah well not everybody can use a 2600 watt PA...

ok so here's my scoop,looking to add a bass that will increase my pallet,have P with halfrounds witch is just a great instrument with some awesome tones(like i hate to go to labellas or whatever and give up that availlable brightness, SIT Silencers are loaded:D) and a fretless J with...

ok apparently my splitting cuticles has become a seasonal deal=dec.=expect fingertips squeeling in agony with splits from 2-3 cuticles on the right hand i work with my hands i'm a auto painter guy(yeah i've done all of it in 30 years worth of working in the biz and it's not like i'm not ready...

now that i'm 55 i qualify for`senior citizens discount' on tuesdays:hyper:,,,at least at the local Krogers(Fred Myers here in the northwest) so that means i'll be saving a ton of money on hypertension pills,reading glasses,attends,advil and,,uh?,:confused:,oh yeah those memory pills the doc...

ok been wanting to go over the pots on my MIM P i bought last summer,has a 500K volume pot with an obviously longer shaft than the tone pot(knob has a large gap between it and the PGuard and when i put that on(the PGuard) it looked obvious that the volume pot had been replaced by looking at...

quick answer is>one of the 2,,,,,,,,,you can feel free to add the`why' answer at free will:D i'll state that;i've been thru all sorts of combos i might even keep one around,looking at micro-cubes for many reasons,not ANY of witch are`playing out',a grand or so is a lot for 5-15lbs...

ok since the local GC doesn't stock all the sansamp pedals i'm looking/listening to clips when i can and,,i see the `red ripper',sounds interesting,,,:hyper: so i guess my question is if you had to buy ONE sansamp/tech21 pedal to give me as much tubey character and fuzzy gritty options to my...

anybody ever bi-amp 2 Peavey TNT(style) 1/15 combos? only`because i can',:D,i have access to a late version of the`combo 115' witch is nearly the same as my `89`combo 300'(both have the bi-ampability but peavey recomends an amp i can't seem to find) a customer of mine manages a pawn shop...

ok so here's the scoop,strung my P with some SIT Silencers 50/105's,,put my fretless away for a month(plus);now i hate the brightness of the P/SITs as well as the feel versus the chromes on the fretless(in fact i don't want to play it now) then i proceded to type my way thru five chapters of...

i'm seeing huge stacks of Peavey speaker cabs and what appears to be Peavey branded heads stacked upon them in SRV and Skynyrd vids on you-tube,,yes i realise`that's all they had back then' etc etc. but i'm curious as to what the heads were? i'm all about going small class D power like an svt...

ok i'm looking for a club giggable rig now,i've hit the search function and found a few threads concerning this head,and of course there are those haters and lovers(no surprise there:D) couple great revues online(but they are old revues) and there is also a used one 2 hours down the...

quick question here,i know it's been talked about. i just hung a dif PGuard on my MIM P and noticed the volume pot is 250K and larger and the tone pot. is a 500K and smaller diam.,it's a 90's built bass,it looks like someones `been in there' and swapped one anyway(looks like volume has been...

ok so let's say you suddenly found a thousand bucks to invest in your tone:D,and even tho' you desire to keep it tidy(small) and actually like combos(shame on me;)),since you may move to Montana or New Orleans or Reno(get the pic here?),,, i can buy old used stuff and go nuts trying to be...