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*Seinfeld bass riff* Hello from Belfast!


Humph
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Hi chaps and chapettes,

I'm Adam, and I'm from Belfast. I've played bass for around 14 years now, and I suppose I could say I've played semi-professionally for the past 6 (insofar as gigging once a month or so and recording one album is semi-pro... I'll let you decide). I've lurked around here for a while but never got into posting. I used to frequent a forum for years back in my early teens, I'm a little out of practice but I'm sure it'll all come back to me.

I work in software engineering, but honestly I'd much rather play bass for a living (a man can dream). This year I have a production of Evita coming up in April and a week-long Christian conference in August, both to pretty large audiences so I'm looking forward to that :)

My (current) setup:
Main workhorse bass - MM Stingray 5H 20th Anniversary Edition [url="http://imgur.com/y0L635h"]http://imgur.com/y0L635h[/url]
Backup bass - MM Stingray 4H [url="http://imgur.com/oZOLiX9"]http://imgur.com/oZOLiX9[/url]
Gallien Krueger 700RB-II + GK 4x10 RBX (also a GK 2x10 BLX for small gigs/practices)
Boss TU-2 (a must)
MXR Bass Compressor
MXR Bass Envelope Filter

And also a few guitars:
Martin DM [url="http://imgur.com/atlyzdk"]http://imgur.com/atlyzdk[/url]
Fender Jaguar '75 [url="http://imgur.com/Pw29wqT"]http://imgur.com/Pw29wqT[/url]

At the moment I'm really struggling with my desire for a nice Fender Jazz Deluxe V, or even worse, an F Bass BN5. Temptations abound.

Nice to meet you all!

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Music shops are woeful here in general. They don't even stock good bass strings half the time... hello Thomann!

Matchett's in particular winds me up every time I'm in. They used to stock a Warwick Thumb and Jazzman, but now it's all Fenders/Squires/Ibanez. Mehhhh.

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[quote name='Humph' timestamp='1427709538' post='2733184']
Music shops are woeful here in general. They don't even stock good bass strings half the time... hello Thomann!

Matchett's in particular winds me up every time I'm in. They used to stock a Warwick Thumb and Jazzman, but now it's all Fenders/Squires/Ibanez. Mehhhh.
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Welcome to the forum.

I'm also from Ballymena area, and yes the music shops aren't great. Two new ones have opened recently though in the ballymena town centre.

As for Matchetts, I bought the last warwick thumb I remember seeing in matchetts. It was about a week after they sold the jazzman you are talking about, and I won't say how little I paid for it, but it was so very stupid cheap. Sold it for what I definitely won't disclose about a month later.

Enjoy the conference in August, new horizon I presume ?

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