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  1. Item recovered guys......Xmas is back on!!!
    10 points
  2. It involved Cash in a Dash (local cash converters type place).- half a mile from my house....FFS....total Moriarty!!! Learning.... - insure your stuff (don’t forget you need to ‘activate’ your free MU insurance if you have it) - don’t leave it in the car....erk - phone the police straight away if owt gets nicked - the crime number is super important in getting your stuff back - try the “they can’t be that stupid” really obvious places early xxxxx
    7 points
  3. So in an effort to sit firmly on the fence of Killing Rock N Roll (see several other threads), alongside my DI/In-ears setup, I sometimes have need of backline for the Rawk band I play in. I'd been using my Walkabout into my Barefaced Super Twin to very satisfactory results, but a while back I picked up a Compact, just to get all modular for smaller gigs and a slightly (15lbs or so) lighter load. I'm sure you can guess what happened next, on an idle afternoon while everyone else was out... Soooo, it's got the best thing about a proper stack, in that it's much, much nearer my ears, but sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg, what a noiiiiiiiise...ok, I've not gigged it yet, but I nearly dismantled the back half of the house with it. I used to have an SVT/810, and I'd put this up against one for sheer thunder. The WA will be putting out a fair bit more than 300w into the 2.67 ohm load (and it was loud enough anyway), but those cabs get every db out of every watt... And the whole thing weighs 80lb or so. 😀
    5 points
  4. My Mrs. has always been a big Pink Floyd fan. She'll happily tell anyone who will listen how she used to sit on the stage or wander around half empty pubs listening to them back in the 60s. She'll also happily tell you that the sound was always crap, they would shuffle on and play meandering pshycedelic nonsense for ages and then wander off again with no audience interaction whatsoever and that they would spend the whole time staring at their feet. It would often be 20 minutes in that it would dawn on you that this was actually the gig and they weren't still tuning up.
    5 points
  5. Musical genius. Wonderful...!
    3 points
  6. Bandmates so often just don't get us bass players and certainly not our gear! Thank goodness for BC eh?! 😂 I turned up to a rehearsal earlier in the year with a completely new bass and 2 hours into the rehearsal I asked my bandmates what was different about my bass? After a little hesitation one of them noticed it was a 5er (me having only ever played 4 strings with them up to that point)!!
    3 points
  7. Thou shalt not diss the One True Kylie... I have a whole thesis on 'Kylie is more punk than the sex pistols' - short version. They were basically a manufactured boy band, the Bay City Rollers in Vivienne Westwood. Kylie does what she wants (which is pure joyful pop) and is definitely very much the boss of Kylie.inc. And is awesome. I love her.
    3 points
  8. Yeah, I've had my 64 Ears V8s for about 4 years now. Still absolutely fantastic, always bring a smile to my face when using them, especially when I finished paying off the crippling debt that @EBS_freak put me in when he convinced me to take the plunge!
    3 points
  9. What's the story in terms of getting it back? Always nice to hear about a good ending!
    3 points
  10. Did her and Peter Gabriel ever hook up (as in romantically)? Artistically they've always struck me as counterparts of eachother. Kate is a very rare example of a mainstream female artist I take seriously and respect...for Hounds of Love if nothing else. Give me her worst effort any day over today's autotuned airbrushed hoes gyrating their way through ghost-written "club bangers". Urgh.
    3 points
  11. IBANEZ SR500 - £250 I've had this bass for around a year and have loved it. So much so, that I've just splashed out on one of their Premium range of basses. Although I'm not totally convinced that the new one is noticeably better, I'm following my one-in-one-out policy and putting the SR500 up for sale. The first thing to mention is this is a *really* lightweight bass. It's actually quite a bit lighter than my new Premium model. Clip a Comfort strap on it and you hardly know it's there. Second, this bass has been cared for and is *as new*. There isn't a mark or a scratch on it - and absolutely no fret wear. I'd certainly not be able to tell this bass from a brand new one in a shop. The action has been nicely set up to be fairly low - but no buzzes. The strings are TI Flats, which would cost you £40 to fit, and judging by my last set have another 10 years of life in them. The strings, action and slim neck make this a very comfortable bass to play. And it has stayed perfectly in tune for me throughout 3-hour gigs. For anyone who needs me to ship, I'm including the option of buying the Ibanez Premium shell case shown in the photos, as I don't have any other suitable packing. It will be wrapped in cardboard and sent with a reliable carrier. Does £40 sound all right for the case? Andertons video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdpqYC8Vw2c
    2 points
  12. Mine turned up today. Safe to say it’s an excellent bit of kit! Will be using it live for the first time at my next gig just after Christmas, so i’ll report back on how it fairs in a gig situation. Initial testing at home using just some iPhone headphones and no amp has been VERY cool! Getting my new IEMs on Monday too so I think that will be a drastic improvement on what is already pretty awesome!
    2 points
  13. Now I'm worried, I'm finding this slightly attractive in a "give me that and a guitarist who only knows 3 chords and we'll form a punk band" kind of way
    2 points
  14. 2 points
  15. I've moved this topic to GD so I can link to it on Twitter to spread the word and be sure everybody can see it. Good luck, hope you recover it.
    2 points
  16. Oh my god, it has a look that reminds me of 70s furniture, and I mean that in that’s the highest aesthetic praise I could possibly give to an object. That is my idea of a thing of absolute beauty...
    2 points
  17. Yep, just you. One of my favourite artists. +1.
    2 points
  18. Best: I bought a Fender neck (from a MIM Blacktop Precision) from @rubis on this very forum, and put it on my Squier VM P bass. I love this bass now, I really love it. I shouldn't because it's the wrong colour and stuff, but it just looks so good and sounds lurrrrrrrrrrvly. Despite having played the Squier at the my band's previous gig when it had the maple neck, my band thought I'd bought a brand new US Fender Worst: 2 pack of naff 9v batteries from a £ shop...it's been a quiet year for gear tbh.
    2 points
  19. The worst thing is when the organiser hogs the best musicians for himself (it’s invariably a him) and you end up playing with the ‘C’ team...😞
    2 points
  20. Jam nights are, in my experience, just self indulgent boredom. Endless guitar solos, sax solos, piano solos etc etc. Most of it seems to be 12 bar, some 8 bar if someone's feeling adventurous. Other than that if anyone tries anything outside that it all starts to fall apart because no one knows what the hell is going on. EDIT: even supposedly well known songs get completely smashed to bits. Someone, I think, suggested Stormy Monday. I don't know it, but the number of people who think it's a 12 bar. It does make for some funny moments when the one person who knows and probably suggested it is playing it right and everyone else is 12 barring it.
    2 points
  21. Looks like an 'Oops' moment on the part of Amazon, but fair do's to them if they are honouring their mistake. Reading the apparent reduction above, I went to Amazon.fr last night, to see it at just under 70€. Swapping over to Amazon.co.uk, I saw the £18.19, and ordered one from there. Once postage (to France...) added on, it comes to 30€, less than half the French Amazon price. It's now back to the 'real' price everywhere, so probably a 'glitch', but I'm still invoiced for yesterday's lower price. Available whenever, I'm not bothered; I'm not even a Geddy fan, either..! It'll do nicely to prop up a wonky table, though.
    2 points
  22. Did it involve cash convertors or a piece of wood with rusty nails? I'm hoping both!
    2 points
  23. Here you go : https://www.facebook.com/LugsCustomIEM/ speak to Rob, he’s a very helpful chap. I’ve got some LUGS quads and some UE6 Pros - sound-wise there isn’t anything in it but that’s totally subjective of course. Either way, they’ll be light-years ahead of the universal ZS10s (I’ve got a set of those as well and I like them 😄) from a sound, fit and isolation point of view.
    2 points
  24. Hm. While I'm not a big fan of either Minogue, I believe Kylie has worked hard throughout her career, and thoroughly deserves being called a pop legend. (Pop, that is, memorable, lightweight, singalong stuff.) I wonder whether some of you would have the same dismissive attitude if Justin Timberlake - or some other comparable male artist - had been offered the slot. Including the mention of his derrière 'trousersnake' I think it was, in his case.
    2 points
  25. Went to an open mic last night that turned into a Jam session, various blues turnarounds, Rocking in the Free world and Lay Lady Lay, twice. A couple of things struck me, the songs last a long time because nobody knows how to finish them and apart from the people actually playing it's boring drivel, I've come to the conclusion that Jam sessions should not be done in the public domain
    2 points
  26. Yeah, I was thinking Mastodon as well; the modern stuff is okay, but when listening to it I can't help but remember this band wrote Leviathan and Remission and then feel disappointed
    2 points
  27. I know everyone wants a Helix but they're very expensive, so here's my thoughts on a pedal released in 2008 that you can find second hand. My last multi FX was bought in 2000 so I know tech has moved on. I took a punt on a Boss GT10B sold for a great price on this forum. For a multi FX idiot like me it's a bit overwhelming the sheer amount of stuff this can do in terms of programming and assigning pedals to do different tasks. However, it's well set out and there's Windows based software that can help. Also the 159 page manual (that doesn't include the four page list of presets) is very easy to follow. So, on reading reviews I head "the presets are unusable". That's not true. There are unusable presets, yes, but there are many EQ and amp SIM effects that are very useable. I played a five string jazz for some funky stuff at the opening of an ice rink using the "level 24 slap" preset, great. I played fretless on a gig the other night and used some "British pop fretless" preset and it was great. With each preset you can bring in two extra effects, e.g. add drive and or chorus by pressing the CTRL1 and CTRL2 pedals and also use the expression pedal as either a volume or wah. Very handy. You can have two parallel effects chains that you can switch between or blend. You can put the effects in any order in the chain. There's a lot going on and the display makes seeing what is happening where very easy. I've still not dedicated the full amount of time I need to yet but I feel comfortable with the unit. I've already programmed the tuner how I want it, so I have the tuner come on by tapping the pedal that denotes which patch I'm on for a second time and I get bypassed tuner, then I mute with the expression pedal. But you can programme the tuner in different ways if you don't think that's logical for you. Impressive that they have put in that kind of thought. What I need to learn next is creating my own effects. There's a few ways to do this: edit a preset, use "ez tone", create from scratch without ez tone, or download from an online resource. People say the synth effects are unusable. I agree. I've never had a pedal with a decent bass synth sound, to my liking anyway. The pedal is BIG. Very BIG. But it's a lot of tech in one place. It can do so much more than I will ever need but it's good to know that the options are there. It can do crazy stuff like make your single coil bass sound like a Stingray etc. Allegedly but I've never got in to it that deeply. Overall if you can't afford a Helix and you're not sold on the Zoom then these are an excellent option. I'm glad I got this over the ME250B. Like most of these things though the more time you put in to learning what it can do the more you will get from it. The tech may be ten years old but 10yrs old and Windows based is pretty much where I stopped learning about tech myself so it has a very familiar feel to it.
    2 points
  28. Emperor Standard 5 Ash body Satin oil finish Maple neck Ebony fretboard Mike Pope Preamp 34” scale 19mm String spacing 10.6lbs Duncan dual coils Original hardshell case
    2 points
  29. you would be surprised, the difference between 25 and 37 is more than it sounds. 25 is ok for short basslines, but the problem is you have basically 2 octaves if you are in c. with 37 you have 2 octaves in any key, so you don't get that bit where you run out of notes often. I would agree the launchkeys look good. I have a Axiom 61, and a mid-air 25, but I don't really use either of them, I tend to use what is already up, so the piano or the DS61 keyboard. Or my new Roli 49. I recommend that heartily as the best keyboard I have ever used. It almost fits the criteria of what you want, apart from the pads, the keys and the 'not breaking the bank' part
    2 points
  30. That is because we are all far too sensible at Basschat.
    2 points
  31. Two things... So I succumbed in the end. And delighted I did so!
    2 points
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  33. I certainly know a few guitarists who have gone through over 100 guitars without realising that the problem is simply that they can't play.
    2 points
  34. Just bought an Ibanez SRC6 from Frank. Very pleased with it and the whole transaction. Communication was excellent throughout and Frank's packaging was beyond bombproof! Wouldn't hesitate to deal with Frank again.
    1 point
  35. Not that I'm looking, but my mate was trying some stuff out at andertons so we had a fiddle with about a dozen basses in the throne room. Lots of nice basses but nothing really grabbed me apart from the Dingwall, it's a fricken monster! Super playable, lightweight and killer punchy tone. Reminded me of a bongo, so I wasn't surprised when I found out it was basswood. Anyone got one of these beasts?!? Let's see some pics!
    1 point
  36. Having been messing about on my acoustic guitar for a few weeks, I picked one my basses up last night and you know what I actually enjoyed playing for me and playing stuff I enjoy it was great with a drum machine and lot of different effects
    1 point
  37. This set will pretty accurately give you a classic 70's stingray sound. John East preamp in very good condition. With knobs but not the mounting plate. All the connecting wires have been replaced with a set directly from John East. Can include a battery clip if required. "The MMSR 4 Knob 3 Band has been designed with characteristics very similar to the original MM Stingray© 2 Band EQ, in order to retain the same interaction between the MM pickup and the electronics, crucial in creating the original pre EB sound colours. A Mid Sweep, is included along with original MM style Bass and Treble. When the Mid boost/cut is centred, its effect is neutral and the EQ is purely late 70s MM style." https://www.east-uk.com/index.php/bass/mmsr-4-knob-3-band.html £110 delivered Pickup is Seymour Duncan's replica of the 1976 classic Music Man alnico pickup https://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/music-man-alnico-v £60 Delivered If you take both, I'll do it for £155 posted. You can also collect for a further discount. I'm based in Hertfordshire.
    1 point
  38. @probonopublico you are one sick puppy
    1 point
  39. Great basses! I have 80s era SB1000 & SB700 basses, both extremely playable!! 😀
    1 point
  40. Just you... Never mind her wider musical achievements, she's brought so much to bass players through the wonderful John Giblin and Eberhard Weber. Song could be 'December will be magic again' or 'Home for Christmas'. Both great seasonal tunes to my mind...
    1 point
  41. Got Kick Inside and Lionheart, both treasures, but after that ...just particular tracks. The duet with Gabriel was appallingly sickly sweet
    1 point
  42. Couldn't help but laugh at that one. Brilliant.
    1 point
  43. Of course, Tears For Fears “Mad World” has been known to work well in a more acoustic mood... and in a depressing, “It’s Christmas, think I’ll just go and top myself” mood. These arrangements may not be mutually exclusive.
    1 point
  44. I think it was the other way round, he created a good quality instrument, at a decent price with consistently high quality so they became prevalent amongst players. Engineering and production techniques then developed around recording and mixing these basses (as well as Strats and Les Pauls), so a P bass sits really well in the mixes we're used to hearing.
    1 point
  45. Not quite ready to sacrifice my Hohner Jack just yet And your Peavey is too nice to take a saw (or axe?) to either the headstock or the lower horn (cosmetic challenges or not)!
    1 point
  46. Monopolies commission would be called in these days lol !
    1 point
  47. What these guys said! ^^^ Frank is an utter pleasure to deal with and his packaging skills are top notch. Do not hesitate to deal with him.
    1 point
  48. I bought a 5 string set of TI flats about 2 years ago. I'm hoping to get at least another 10 years out of them!
    1 point
  49. If you're going to do this at a parents evening you should finish with 'I Will Always Love You'. Skip the 'bittersweet memories' verse then right at the end get the winsome, smiling 11 year-olds to stretch out their little arms to the audience and tilt their heads to one side. Outcome: doting parents in floods, roof-raising applause. Ker-ching!
    1 point
  50. The perfect thing to leave out for Santa or his reindeer this Christmas. Here we have an all original 1975 Precision fretless. In addition, the bridge cover and original case are included. The bass is in very good condition although you will see there is a split in the scratch-plate near the jack socket (as these plates are prone to shrinkage after a while). Everything works as it should and there is plenty of mwah!! It is shown on the scales at 9lbs. Collection/trying obviously preferable but I am also happy to meet at a reasonable distance from home (Portsmouth).
    1 point
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