haha i know! get an aguilar tone hammer! 100% guaranteed u wont regret, hehe.

wah lordie, good advert wei, hehe. but i agree, the zoom is like a swiss army knife on a budget. and doesn't sound shabby even for a little bit. alda tan wud agree also.

yeah, forgot about microbass, stanley clarke tone wei. thalmes, consider dat also. btw, stanley clarke uses wat bass leh? why looks like semi hollow 1?

thalmes: the tone hammer is basically a tone shaper direct input box. erm, i dunno hw to explain, but here is a link: http://www.aguilaramp.com/tonehammer_settings.htm

basically all u need between ur bass and ur amp. but lordie might nt agree wit dat, of course, hehe.

lordie: darn, dude, u are having serious GAS issues wei. cool down a bit, dont be tempted by the evil ones

or u can just get ur girlfriend a louis vuitton bag, hehe. easiest way to end ur GAS

my gf plays bass, so she understands la, hehehe . especially if i have no money to buy her anything after a bass related purchase.

girls can never have enough bags...

tonehammer is used by a lot of major artistes, mainly coz it's much cleaner than sansamp's bass driver. but still sansamp is used by flea of red hot chili. sansamp is definitely much cheaper, as of nw tonehammer is like rm1200 (forecast) compared to rm800 of the sansamp. did u listen to the sound samples on the link i posted? listen to vivi rama, her grooves are amazing.

Definitely smth u shudnt pass, must have at least an outboard preamp before u consider multi effects . che wah...
But u can try looking up EBS's microbass II, might be better than the tone hammer in terms of variety of sounds, nt so sure about that. but the endorser is stanley clarke la, haha, so tells u a lot of story adee

lordie: hw to maintain the passive goodness of a passive bass while having an outboard preamp? besides bypass, haha.

thalmes: the tone hammer, ebs microbass, sansamp, etc. is essentially an outboard preamp. so u can shape ur tone pre-amplified without changing ur bass's electronics.

onboard preamps, like audere, bartolini, or aguilar obp are meant to be fitted into ur bass. and lordie said dat the audere has an active to passive switch.

out and onboard preamps as a whole, has active circuitry (correct me if im wrong, not really sure), so if u take an active bass, plug into a preamp like tonehammer, the change in tone is nt as drastic as when u plug a passive bass into a similar preamp. But there is a con to dat; the passive tone dat is so yummy frm ur passive bass might be gone and replaced with an active signal; shud i say modern sound? very useful if u play slap pop (but i still like traditional slap pop tone, hehe). so the audere is great, coz let u switch between active and passive, so u can do dat on stage easily, between fingerstyle and slap pop, etc.

But dat's wat i think la, no source frm anywhere, dun take my word for it. Lordie, the active or passive switch can be replicated by the bypass on an outboard preamp, no? does the audere shape the tone of the passive bass while in passive mode?

wa, coz i dun think i can live without the passive jazz bass tone.. Big fan.
But at times, i do yearn to switch between a modern sound and a traditional sound midway on stage without having to change gears, etc. especially when a song involves some progressive lines coupled with jazz bridges, etc. (hw to play jazz with modern sound? haha). so yeah..

wah, wicked bass. congrats thalmes! enjoy ur whole nite nt sleeping yea . record some vids while u're at it please!


This post has been edited by foogie: Aug 12 2009, 10:36 PM

thalmes: the nut part? u mean, as in the plastic / bone thingy near the headstock? i thought bacchus' tuners and all follows the standard fender jazz bass's template? if it is, should be rather simple, dun care about the nut first, measure about 15cm from ur fretboard (of course, ur string has to go thru the bridge first la, hehe) to your string (using ur hand) then pull the end to somewhere near the hole of the machine head and cut any excess string, then put the cut end into the hole, then bend it so that it's about 100degrees between the string in the hole and the string to be wound up. then just start winding! hehe. dun bother using a peg. Oh yea, dun forget to make sure the string is held properly on the nut. Also, make sure u dun tune each string to pitch one by one. put all the strings in place first, about just taut (not too tight) and then only start tuning the strings to pitch, coz tuning one by one to pitch might be harmful to the bass's neck.

mysterious dr.x, get the marshall mb-15

This post has been edited by foogie: Aug 14 2009, 08:59 AM

I remember my vocalist once told me to stop playing like kayu, haha. I realize showmanship is equally important on stage, our purpose is to entertain ma. nt much entertaining if just stand one spot like bamboo stick . Jaco pastorius' showmanship is smth worth checking out.. so eccentric!



Sorry if i everything also jaco yea, but cant deny the fact that he's amazing

This post has been edited by foogie: Aug 19 2009, 02:15 PM

dlwl: boost ur line in volume, or get a software like audacity or smth dat can boost the signal.

haha thalmes, see? wat did i tell u . just make sure u wipe the strings after u play la, if nt the brightness cepat hilang. sakit hati wei.

nw time to play slap pop! . coz dat's wat high beams are for

Fast Fret is good, lemon oil? never tried before, but i thought lemon oil are used to condition the rosewood fretboard?

gbone: thanks for the heads up, been apart from bass for far too long, i forgot about the main ingredient in fast fret, hehe.

wah lordie, that has to go down as the lamest lowball ever wei. lol.

wat are u doing nw? working ar?