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Tonight's gig was brought to you by Lemsip, Ibuprofen and high strength Vitamin C, washed down with Shipyard Low Tide Pale Ale. I seriously had to dig deep tonight. New venue for us, The Pub on China St in Lancaster, a legendary venue locally. The setup was complicated by the fact that we haven't been there before and they have a house Bose PA system, or rather powered speakers (subs and tops) and we ran our desk into them and brought our own monitors. Once we were setup I could relax a bit and concentrate on actually being able to play and sing. Well, we managed it. Great crowd, very appreciative, some dancing, some singing along. The stage area was tight and Covid appears to have robbed me of any spatial awareness I may have had before, so I must have bumped my mic stand or the guitarists mic stand half a dozen times with my bass! Lots of positive comments after, so I think we'll be back there in the future. Two weeks until the next gig, so that's a blessed relief, I may be starting to feel human again by then. I used my new to me '70 P bass for the first time tonight, through the Bergantino Forte D and the Barefaced 3x10. It sounded just right, I cannot think how it could sound better. Rob15 points
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40th birthday party for a friend last night. Said friend runs a livery yard and decided to have the party in the school. It’s a very sandy outside school a good 500m+ from any power, so thankfully her partner had two 3kW generators. We only used one, the second as a backup, as we never went beyond a load of about 0.7kW. I have to say I was dubious about the plans but we got by without a hitch pretty much. The guitarist’s pedal board was being dicky and I’m not sure how much of that was power-related vs just having a few soft connections. I’d spent the morning putting down the “staging” and building a gazebo to cover the band, then the afternoon dismantling my music room and transporting it over there. Why? Because our normal roster of drummers were all unavailable and so we came up with the novel solution of using both my son (15) and the keyboard player’s son (also 15). Therefore not only did I need my basses and HX Effects but all of Theo’s kit, which is normally planted in the music room. Both boys did brilliantly and it’s fair to say I had a bit of a proud dad moment going on throughout the parts of the sets my son played. Feedback from the crowd was that, if we’d not said anything about it, no-one would have noticed. Can’t get better than that. MiniMert now gets to say he earned some of his money for a school Ecuador trip next summer by playing drums for money. I hope it spurs him on to do more! 9e5deeec-ffa0-46f5-831d-796653746465.mov14 points
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BLOCKBUSTARZ Glam covers last night in our fav venue The Dreadnought in Bathgate. Has to be the best run venue i've ever known with the best owner, manager, Sound Engineer and even the bar and door staff are all just really nice, helpful people. Decent audience circa 100+ based on what we got paid at the end of the night so that was good. (ticket deal) Very hot even with the venue's large fans going on the stage. 2 litres of water over the full set. Sound guy Pete said that's the tightest the band have been and we had people dancing from the stage barrier all the way back to the bar area. Audience were brilliant and really into from the first song. We requested the stage barriers this time as last time a rather drunk guy fell onto the stage and damaged the singers wireless unit and knocking her mic stand and giving her a burst nose and black eye. Had 3 new songs added to the set for last night with a little bit of nerves on them when we played. Few minor fluffs that no-one else noticed but the band and were well covered by the band. As guitarist pointed out at the end "you know you are doing well when the front row are all women and girls dancing away all night or hanging over the barrier to watch." Used my Sandberg VM4 thru Shure wireless into Ampeg SVT7 and Mesa SW210/115 rig. On stage sound was a bit odd almost like a touch of bass boom / rumble and i was tweaking for a bit to sort it out only to find it was the guitarist's cab that was booming on stage as i use a gramma pad. Full PA support and FOH was spot on as always in this venue. Home for 2am, bed for 3am. Dave13 points
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Our Mexican band played in my favourite old dive last night , not a huge crowd , but a great night. We had an opening band and it was a good thing I arrived early as their bassist just assumed there would be a bass amp there. It did make the transition much easier. I used the big orange Gretsch all night , gorgeous big deep woody thump.12 points
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This sale is for my Ampeg PF50t and matching flip top 15" cab PF115he. 50 watts of valve power. Amp has no hum. Comes with casters, manual, speaker cable, power cable and spare power valves. Preamp tubes are NEW JJs. Power valves are either matched NEW JJ or matched NEW Tube Amp Doctor. Both are included. Collection only from Torquay. Also on eBay...... Be quick.🎸10 points -
We don't do many gigs compared to some here, and don't do prestigious ones, just plain pub gigs, so I rarely bother to relate the experience. This was a bit different to the normal though. We had a rather last minute booking on Friday night at the Bridge In in Worcester - I think number 2 guitarist found the request on Tuesday and arranged it (after checking with us). He sent a rather panicked message to us saying he thought he'd blown it as he had two windows open on his computer and sent a message saying he was going to chase them as he hadn't had a reply and hoped they weren't screwing us, only he sent it to them and not to us. Anyroadup, they still booked us in. Apparently the pub had a reputation as somewhat rough, so I decided to take replaceable instruments. No car park so we parked on the double yellows outside to unload. Accosted by one elderly pissed up female who wanted to know what I did and was disappointed to find out I wasn't the drummer. Then a couple of the pub denizens offered to help carrying stuff in, so (slightly reluctantly) we gave them things to carry and everything was brought in. The pub has a section with a pool table in and the main bar, which have quite a big opening between them, and we were in the pool table bit. At the other end of the room was the gaffer doing a disco and karaoke and bingo (not simultaneously). Acoustics were rather dodgy but I just leave stuff set up the same everywhere and simply adjust monitor and FOH levels. Although it was, let us say, a somewhat rough-looking crowd, they were all really friendly and the music (assorted classic rock from late 60s to early part of this century) went down well. It was a rather strange hybrid evening, disco going when we did the load in and setting up, then some karaoke, then some bingo, then our first half, a tad more disco and bingo, and our second half. The only minor glitch (other than the normal getting lost somewhere in songs which we always managed to recover from) was that (a) I'd forgotten my Helix and the Lekato WS70 but that's more for my desire to have certain sounds than being essential, (b) though I checked the batteries on my backup Zoom MS60B that I always carry, they ran out partway through the first set, and (c) I'd only got a switched jack lead with me to run from the effects to the amp and it packed up when the batteries ran flat so I finished up with the backup Lekato WS50 wireless plugged straight in to the amp. And they want us back.10 points
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Well, the pub that didn’t want us to play anything too heavy….. We ended up playing Rage against the machine, Limp Bizkit and others, because the punters loved it. The landlady told us that it’s not her cup of tea, but we went down a storm and she wants us back. There was also a chap who hosts a podcast, who wants to have us on to talk about the band and the local scene. One of those nights where the money is a nice bonus. Handshakes all round, and lots of compliments. Pretty stoked right now! The only complaint was that it was a *very* tight squeeze!10 points
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Hi all, So this is a happy post that is tinged with sadness. During lockdown my father passed away. He was my inspiration for learning to play guitar and I have got to the stage of being pretty competent at both guitar and bass and have thousands of gigs under my belt, the gift of music was literally the best gift he could ever give! Fast forward to today and I am delighted to be very soon reunited with his bass, all the way from South Africa. I will post pictures when it arrives, but it truly is a special instrument as I was there when it was measured up for him, in the basement of The Music Department, St Albans, by its maker, Patrick Eggle! I still very clearly remember Patrick getting out of the tape measure and measuring my dad‘s stomach so he could get the belly carve just right (cue many jokes about beer guts and late night post-gig takeaways!). A good few months after that and the bass was ready, going on to gig hundreds of times with me on guitar alongside for many shows. So now I have it in my possession (or at least I will soon) I need to set myself to the task of learning how to play again… Left-handed! It is going to be a really interesting challenge but one that I’m really looking forward to. Has anyone else ever had to do this and if so does anyone have any particular tips? apologies for the long post and thanks for reading! James9 points
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This was mine last night, depping with a five-piece in the New Forest. Don’t think I moved a muscle all night… Somewhere in the background is two Barefaced One10s and an Elf. Flea Jazz in front. Thankfully they turned the Olympics off!9 points
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We were at the Corners Inn, Kingsland, Herefordshire with the 5 piece line up. New dep keyboards tonight who was still getting up to spec with the tech, so the first half he struggled with the in-ears mix but it was an easy fix at the interval. Crowd were a 70th birthday party so we took it easy on the volume and got them dancing (Sex on Fire was a sight…) New toy for me, finally got around to getting a hx stomp. Need to learn more about it and tweak some of my programming but on the whole a good laugh using it.9 points
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Not sure this counts as a proper gig but the covers band I’m in played at my partner’s 70th birthday bash. We had 50 plus folks, a pizza van and enough booze to have bought a very decent medium priced bass, plus marquee and gazebo. Well you are only 70 once. I have yet to catch her up on that but some of our band members are well passed that milestone. Anyway, I spent all morning rigging the PA so band members could just turn up, plug amps into the DI lead provided (drummer uses an electronic kit) and connect their mics: job done. Drummer and rhythm guitarist were there at the start of the event (1pm) had tested their set up and were able to enjoy a few drinks, eat some pizza, etc and chill. We had agreed to play from 3-4:30, leaving the lead guitarist enough time to pack up and rush off to a gig with another outfit starting at 7pm. Two o’clock no sign of lead guitarist. Two thirty still no sign. All of us sending WhatsApp messages like: “Get here quick pizzas running out” and “ we left a space for you to park on the drive”. 10 to 3 lead guitarist arrives and has brought an amp without a DI and we can’t connect his monitor (he brought a street cube instead of his normal Laney wedge). I have to frantically search to find a DI box buried at the bottom of some kit box. I get that running but the “monitor” defies all my attempts, so I move mine over. By this time some guests are drifting off. We eventually get going at 3:30. To make up for lost time he seems to be playing everything at about 20 BPM faster than the original. Fortunately, faced with doing the solo in Sultans of Swing he slows down to just 10 BPM faster than the original. I don’t think I have ever done as many songs in an hour before! About half way through his monitor sparks into life: Sod’s Law! Anyway, apparently the guests liked it but then most of them were around our age and probably not used to liberal lunchtime drinking 😀. One or two did say “that was a bit frantic”! Fortunately the birthday girl (actually her birthday was in February but that’s not the greatest time for a garden party) was well pleased. Won’t bore you with the full equipment list but I used my LFSys Monza with Blackstar U700 and custom made P/J shorty from Tony Edwards Guitars who lives round the corner from us. I can’t get over how good the Monza is. It’s not just me: some friends did a spontaneous gig after us at much reduced pace: very chilled. Bob the bassist loved it and his fretless Ibanez Aerium sounded amazing through it.8 points
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Hi folks, Up for grabs is my Fender Reggie Hamilton Standard (i.e. mexican) Jazz Bass. Its a really cool bass but 1) I'm very much a passive bass fan and 2) my wife's car just died and I'd prefer to sell a bass than put a dent in my holiday fund so here we are. Bass is in good used condition and these seem to be very popular on this forum so hopefully you all know what it is! My asking price is £575. ***SOLD*** I am initially offering this as collection only from Burntisland, Fife, or I can meet near Haymarket in Edinburgh during the working week. Trade wise: I'd prefer a straight sale but I'm also a realist about my GAS levels---things that will really tempt me are a Bass VI, Danelectro of some flavour, or something P flavoured---four strings, passive models only, maximum nut width 41mm. Pinching a description from elsewhere: When you back up as many different kinds of musicians as Reggie Hamilton, you need a bass that can adjust. Reggie's Jazz model is set up to cover the spread. It combines a Noiseless Jazz pickup in the bridge position, and an American Series Precision pickup at the neck. The pickups can be switched to passive or active mode via a mini-toggle. Active mode has a 3-band EQ with boost/cut on each band. In passive mode you get master volume and a pan control between the pickups. Another custom feature is a Hipshot Bass Xtender drop D key on the E string to give you the low D without going to a 5-string. Alder body Maple neck Rosewood fingerboard 20 frets 1 American Series Precision Bass pickup (neck) 1 Custom Noiseless Jazz Bass pickup (bridge) Mini-toggle active/passive switch Active mode: master volume, pickup pan, 3-band EQ with bass, mid, and treble boost/cut Passive mode: master volume, pickup pan Black/white/black 3-ply pickguard on black version American Vintage Jazz bridge Open gear tuning machines Hipshot Bass Xtender drop D key on the E string 34" scale Fingerboard: Rosewood, 9.5 in. Radius Width at Nut: 1.50 in. (38mm) I am not sure of the exact weight, its a bit heavier than my other Jazz basses, definitely more than 4kg. If I don't get any local interest I will be able to post it, so please shout. Complete gallery of pictures is here: https://imgur.com/a/fender-reggie-hamilton-yhIokMn Selected highlights below. Please shout if there's a particular picture you want. Photographing a gloss black bass isn't easy - apologies for all the reflections! NB There is a slight ding to the very tip of the headstock front and back --- please see the pictures. This happened during transit to me when I bought it (I think the top of the headstock got "squashed") and is purely cosmetic. It came to me in a (now damaged) hard case which I will throw in with the sale.7 points -
Found this 2001 Musicman Stingray bass in Blue Pearl 3EQ and I’m very pleased with the condition for a 23yr old bass ! Neck, frets, rosewood fingerboard all in a near new condition ! Fresh 45-100 strings fitted and truss rod tweeked and intonation checked and she’s good to go as my main gigging bass Plays and sounds amazing and it was a sensible price too No EB Musicman case but such is life but it came with a serviceable gig bag ( and since typing this case has arrived too .. thank you GAK )7 points
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Wild Hogs played The Cave in Paisley last night, not a bad wee gig, great venue. Bit of a trek as most of us are based over the east and there's horrible roadworks. Our sound was a bit off, not much time to get set up after the previous band (who were excellent) and guitarists being too loud as usual. Bit rusty in the first set, managed to absolutely mangle Poison somehow. The had a comedy of errors - my bass strap snapping halfway thru a song, drummer losing a drumstick mid-song, drunk dancing guy accidentally kicking over the singers water and almost frying the mixer and a pedalboard. All that aside, crowd got right into it, so all good. Until...not for the first time recently, I made a slight wee error. Had parked the car in a nearby multi-storey...not realising it shut at 9pm! Ooops. Logistics meant a couple of us were stuck, so ended up shelling out for a hotel and racing to get there before check-in closed. I'm such an idiot, I'll never hear the end of this one. Venue staff let me leave the PA and my gear there overnight, so picked it all up today and got home eventually, about 14 hours later than expected.6 points
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This is NOT the Basschat way!6 points
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Barring an avalanche of cash falling on my head and a 10lbs Ken Smith turning up, I think my six string search is over. I've increasingly become a "Yamaha Man" of late with an FG180 (acoustic guitar), TX802 (synth) and a selection of Broad Basses passing through my hands. I've also owned a TRB6P and a TRBJP (MkI). I've always regretted moving on those sixers. They were both so playable and they sounded great but they were both too heavy to be 100% fun. The TRB6P was too close to 11lbs for comfort and the JP MkI was a bit chunky as well (and a weird orange colour). Anyway, I came across this MIJ 1994 TRB6 in a gorgeous cherry burst recently; it's in the Goldilocks zone for weight at about 9.75 lbs and has all the good things that the TRBJPI had without the unwanted bling. I'm pretty sure it's the 'version II' so brilliantly detailed elsewhere on the forum as it has a dyed blue laminate layer in the very pretty headstock. The key thing, of course, is that it's also an incredibly good bass. It has that wide TRB neck that's thin and perfectly carved to be very playable, great balance and a growly tone from the preamp that I'm pretty sure it shares with the JP1... sooooo (drumroll) it might well be 'the one'. It's the only bass I own at the moment and it's just asking to be played day in, day out which is a really good sign. It also has that special something that makes me play 10% better than usual. It's awesome. It's also near mint; I'm usually suss about minty 30yr old basses as they either sound weird, have horrible balance or are boat anchors. None of these apply to this one so I can only assume the previous owner took care of it and used it sparingly. Even the case is unmarked....it looks new. Anyway - no sound or movies as yet but the pics are testament to a seriously well made, simply beautiful instrument. It's killer! Anyway....PICS5 points
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Seen at a beer festival this afternoon ...5 points
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That's an abysmal state of affairs. To expect bands to play for nothing is shocking. You did the right thing. We would have pulled out too. Dave5 points
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Finally got off my arris and processed some video from last week. I know, the thread's not called "How was your gig last week?"5 points
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The Bass show has been confirmed for March 1st and 2nd in a dedicated hall along side the Guitar show in Birmingham. I spoke to Jason the organiser last year and asked him if he had thought about hosting the show, he told me he wasn't sure on if there was a want for one. I carried out some market research for him with polls on Insta and some Facebook groups and the feeling was that we 110% wanted the return of a bass show, but not just stalls. So I reached out to Jason with this information and also Scott from SBL. It looks like (hopefully) the SBL team will be putting on some clinics and stuff as well (But don't quote me on that as I just passed Scott onto Jason) In summary, there will be booths showcasing some great bass gear and clinics. Who would you like to see do clinics? I'm thinking of asking Cici about doing something, InThePocket Podcast for a live Q&A, anything else? Also, for those that have been disappointed with guitar shows not show casing more bass gear, ya better be at this one https://www.theguitarshow.co.uk/ - tickets are £164 points
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I've just today put a set (B->G .130->.050) on my Ibanez GSRM25 (5 String 28.6 inch scale) to replace the stock set and they seem very nice with a perfect wrap length (The main problem I've found in restringing), they are a 'special' set that Newtone have yet to list on their website ... but an email to Neil at [email protected] and you can have yours for £37.52 (including UK postage). Sam x4 points
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Looking forward to getting this on my secondary ‘fly’ board, essentially doing a similar job as the Noble on my main board (ie Preamp/DI at the end of the chain): Si4 points
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Well, that was a LOT of bass!!! First proper gig pushing this amp, scrap that, it never felt pushed at all. Sounded phenomenal.4 points
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This. USA Lakland 5594 Deluxe....But with Lakland pickups and pre.. tone wise its just a monster, can do most, fat, punchy. You can dial in so much., the neck is the best on any bass ever made period.. very flat front to back then gets flatter towards the body. If you havent picked up a 5594 you must. I remember picking up my first 5594 and you could just feel its vibration. Sounds like bs but it aint. They are phenomenal electric basses.4 points
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By way of experiment... from last night. Bass isn't very audible, fortunately. VID-20240727-WA0007.mp44 points
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PRICE DROPPED TO £450 Vintage Hohner B2A Fl factory unlined fretless headless bass with a Gloss Black finish, in Very Good condition (especially for its age). A few small dings, as expected (see last few photographs). You don't see fretless versions of these too often now. The perfect travel bass: this one’s nice and light. Plenty of wear left on fingerboard. Strung with LaBella flatwounds. Manufactured by Hohner under the Steinberger license with the full Steinberger headless tuning system, through-neck maple construction, active electronics and 2 EMG Select pickups. Controls: Neck volume Bridge volume Active tone (works only in active mode) Active/Passive mode switch Active mode LED indicator Now only £450. Collection from East London preferred, but may ship at buyer cost.3 points -
Not sure where to start with this. Let's go with the specs from the glock site: Technical Data: Outfit: 19", 3 rackspaces Built-in depth: 300 mm (12") Output power: 1000 watts @ 2,7 ohms (3x8 ohms), 750 watts @ 4 ohms, 400 watts @ 8 ohms Technology:Solid state opamp stages in the preamp, mosfet poweramp with extra strong power supply unit Inputs:2x 1/4" jacks for instruments, 1/4" jack for Poweramp In, on switachable Controls:Trim-pot for Input B, Gain, Master Volume, DI Level, Effect Level for Loop Equalizer:Bass, Low Mid, Mid, High Mid, Treble, on switchable Effects loops: 1x serial mono, on switchable; 1x parallel adjustable on front, on switchable Outputs:Balanced DI XLR switchable pre/post EQ, adjustable; Line Out 1/4" jack, Tuner Out 1/4" jack, 2xSpeakon Speaker Out Other features:Ground-Lift-switch, footswitch-1/4" jacks for Loop and Tune Dimensions:483 x 132 x 330 mm, 19" x 5.2" x 13" Weight:ca. 18,6 kg; 41 lbs. https://www.glockenklang.de/pdf/en/GL Heart-Rock II Top Technical Data %2B Garantie.pdf Wonderful amp and I don't really have the words to do it justice. Clean, powerful, warm - driving it a little gives great results, and can be felt as well as heard, even at low volumes. I've always found it impressive that as you increase the volume all that changes is the volume, the character and tone of the amp remain the same. Never had that on anything else. The 2.67 ohm load gives you lots of options to - 3 8 ohm cabs if needed. Here is a BC review by TheGreek from a few years back: I've listed the amp before but then changed my mind. I've had quite a few years and many great gigs with it since then but reality is I'm doing less work where I need an amp of this size, most of the time I take my other Glock Blue Sky instead. It's not as epic as the HR2 but it's close enough for me. I guess these days larger heavier amps are no longer in fashion. I do get it and I guess that's the reason I'm now considering moving it on, it sounds epic though and for someone with the right type of work it's an awesome amp. Equal (IMO) to the big Aguilars or Mesas..... Interestingly one also FS down in the Gallery: https://thebassgallery.com/products/glockenklang-heart-rock-2 So there you go. Feel free to get in touch with questions. Collection is best but postage is possible. I have the packaging for the SKB rack case which I think will work well, UK costs don't look excessive from a quick check this morning. Cheers Abd3 points -
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So, the day has come… I’m selling my 1930s Alcoa Aluminium Double Bass. The bass is from the 1930s and was built in the States. Fewer than 500 were made and only a handful survive. Rare in the States, this is possibly the only one in the UK. (Apparently not - see below!) I bought it last year and have loved owning it. The bass was set up by Thomas & George Martin with a new adjustable bridge. It was restrung and further fettled by Martin Penning. This has been worked on by the UK’s leading luthiers and it’s in wonderful playing condition. Currently set-up with D’addario strings. Size-wise it’s a *big* 3/4. Dimensions are listed below. It fits in a 3/4 bass case. The measurement from the nut to the bridge is 108cm - so firmly in 4/4 territory here. It’s not laser accurate but it’s not a typical 3/4 by any means of the imagination. Body length is 112cm, bottom bout about 68.5 (width) and top 53 width. Sound wise it’s an odd thing. There’s a metallic thump to it and it amplifies amazingly well (especially if you use a magnetic pickup). A piezo can lead to feedback. There are dents, marks and more on this bass. It’s 97 years old. The bass is structurally sound, stunningly set up and is unique. I’m selling because the gigs I have demand a wood bass and the Czech Ease does what I need it to. This is for sale at £3500 which reflects the purchase price, work and new strings. It will come with a used 3/4 bag. The pickup will be removed (or can be purchased with negotiation). I am interested in trades. A smaller 3/4 (wood, obviously) would be of interest. This is pickup only. No couriers, postage, pickup by a man with a van etc. It’s simply too valuable and downright cool to risk being damaged.3 points -
This is good single cab solution. Me (DB), guitar and vocals go through it and loud enough for a decent size crowd dispersed over a reasonable area. https://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Mackie-Thump-GO-Portable-Battery-Powered-Speaker/41RC?origin=product-ads&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_kjLSaxkP62DvC4h1mplbB1_NhR&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IXPhqbKhwMVU5JQBh2SQRS_EAQYASABEgIRofD_BwE3 points
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Floor pedals are configured to operate with the low voltage output of pickups. The voltage at the effects loop is much higher, at what's called line level, which is what rack mount processors operate at. Using floor pedals at line level can cause distortion.3 points
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the burgundy is stunning3 points
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You could think of this as evolution in action. Sadly you get stuffed by it, and for that I'm sorry. I think you did the right thing and pulled out. Hopefully every other band pulled out as well and she had a ended up with an empty tent. Once you set the precedent of playing for nothing, that's what they'll expect from now on. At least she didn't say you could play for "exposure". Best wishes Rob3 points
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Wow, that is tight. This is where an Ibanez Mikro comes into its own. Not sure you could even turn round with a normal bass. Well done. Dead impressed3 points
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Double duty today at a Country Music Festival at the Windmill in Peterborough. Kicked off the festivities with Stevie Daniels using my Spectracore fretless, trusty Trace head and the GB 12’s. Then on with The Praries 2hrs later using my Yamaha BNNE2 with the same amp. No provided PA, so each group had to lug that in. I provided the PA for the second group, hard to get right without a sound engineer outdoors, but it worked out ok.3 points
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Mexican Fender Precision Bass from 2017/18 in beautiful Lake Placid Blue (now discontinued). This bass has been upgraded with Seymour Duncan SPB1 pickups and a mirror scratchplate for full 'Steve Harris vibes'. I have also added a Badass II bridge. Excellent condition apart from an unfortunate ding behind the top back edge of the bass (can't be seen from front).... see pic. I can swap pickguard to white if preferred. I can also swap bridge back to Fender bridge. Looking for a very reasonable £450 for this. Cash on collection, Paypal (you pay fees) or direct Bank transfer. Postage likely to be approx £30. Please see my extensive, positive feedback thread for assurance of a clean, honest transaction.3 points -
Last night Bluesfire finally played my local, the Park Hotel. For some reason they had decided to squeeze us into the main bar, instead of the big room upstairs. At least it meant an easy load in. We expected a good crowd as we are well known in Barry and the gig was shared well on FB. We also had several people come from Cardiff and Penarth, good to know we can pull a audience in. Someone from Cwmbran who saw us at Borough Blues festival a few weeks ago brough friends, including a frend of my partner who hasn't seen her for 4 years! Also some very good local musicians turned up. So lots of people crammed into a medium size bar gave an excellent atmosphere. From the star there was cheering rather than applause, although virtually no dancing with the lack of space. We were very tight, although on two songs I felt convinced I was out of key, but it mah have been a weird effect of standing in a tiny space between my cab and the Pa... after a verse it sounded ok. A couple of songs people probably thought I was really creative as I flailed around trying different lines searching for the rig. Got bludgeoned into some extra songs so despite my defence of 45+45 elsewhere we ended up doing 50 + 60. Alex got loads of praise for his guitar work, including from a guy who is a brilliant player and has been a figure on the south Wales scene since the 70s. So, a really awesome evening, plus I was able to carry my gear as it was only a minutes walk away3 points
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Over 60? That don't impress me much - in my band three of us are 70, 74 and 78 but still rockin'!3 points
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Not an entirely fair comparison but I’m just comparing the sounds from their respective octave outputs as opposed to the Dod’s sub synth. So, on a whim I bought a reissue Meatbox pedal (Bass Bros just happened to have one when I visited the other day). Ignoring the sub synth output (which I don’t think I’d want to put through my own rig for fear of destroying the speaker!) I compared the octave sound to that of the Octamizer. The issue I have with the Octamizer is that the octave sound is very ‘synthy’ as soon as you turn the octave level even a fraction (and that’s with the filter setting on it’s smoothest). Consequently I use the Octamizer in conjunction with a Fwonkbeta to create heavy synth sounds, stuff that’s not even remotely organic sounding. The Meatbox however doesn’t instantly jump out the gate as soon as you turn the octave level. Below 10 o’clock there’s a nice increase in the low frequencies without it sounding in the least synthy. Almost like just boosting the bass but underneath the octave signal is very organic sounding. Once you push the level it gets very like the Octamizer but almost like the filter is towards the sawtooth end. Set to 9 o’clock it’s such a nice organic sound it might become an always on pedal (early days yet tho). The sub synth I think is a little too much for me but I might try cranking it up when I’m going through someone else’s PA! Anyone else feel the same way about these pedals? I’ll do a full comparison review in a week or so when I’ve had more playtime with them.2 points
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Custom made for me a few years back, this is a superb neck through Les Paul version of a Bass 6, 30" scale, wenge neck and body, flame maple top under a nitro gold top. As it wears, that flame will reveal itself and it will look even more incredible. Seymour Duncan p90 stacked humbucker with coil tap on the volume control (pull up). Sounds immense - but it is heavy. 5kg...it used to be heavier if you can believe that! It went back to John for some additional weight relief (hence the different grained sections on the back, this is where the weight relief happened and then John made wooden covers to fill the weight relief pockets). Definitely more of a studio than stage instrument unless you have stronger shoulders than me. Some very minor marks but overall in very good condition. I love this thing but since getting an even more special bass 6 (EB2 converted to EB6...) I just don't use this enough and I need the space. Comes with old but high quality padded gig bag. Can be collected or can be posted at cost.2 points -
Thanks HZ 👍2 points
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For sale (or trade) is my Markbass tube compressor bought on here for £100 a couple of months ago Really versatile & great sounding compressor with the actual compression done via the Tube - only reason I’m selling is that I’ve minimised and gone back to the Lusithand Alma comp Works great, takes 12v power supply (not included - pedal board 12v slot on TruTone, Caline and generic Universal power supply plug from Amazon all worked for me) Check the reviews of it here from the two absolute best Bass comp aficionados on the net: http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/markbass.shtml https://www.compressorpedalreviews.com/post/markbass-compressore-review I need an octave pedal asap so happy to trade for that, but I’d rather someone got to use it and I got it shifted quickly rather than sitting on it weeks waiting for it to sell so I don’t mind taking the hit £70 inc postage - which is an absolute steal in anyone’s book!2 points -
Yep I tried hard with my PBass and switched from fingers ( reduced clarity ) to pick ( reduced fullness ) The Ray just gives me the depth and clarity with fingers to be my perfect fit2 points
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Thankfully not! I did peer at the audience through a window-shaped hole in a wooden screen, however. Live music, the glamour eh?😁2 points
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My dream bass has always been a Stanley Clarke style Alembic, and fortunately I was able to save up enough pennies to get one and it's lived up to all my expectations.2 points
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Headlined the Friday night of the Summer Sounds festival in Guisborough with the Elton tribute. Quite a hike from Leicestershire (not helped by closure of section of the M1 due to an accident plus general Friday afternoon traffic). Good gig tho, and a proper summer’s evening there. Decent sized crowd, friendly chilled atmosphere and a good blast to play. Dug out my P bass with flats which I haven’t used for a while and really enjoyed playing.2 points
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Just got back from The Bull in Braintree - a venue that apparently hasn’t been putting bands on for long, but they have a nice area and very friendly staff. The gig itself was a mixed bag - halfway through the first set we had a few dancers/singers up and moving about, but with one song to go in the first half a *really* drunk guy came to the floor and was acting up. We hit the break, he continued to play up, there was a scuffle and he was thrown out. It killed the atmosphere and we didn’t get anyone back up until 3-4 songs to go in the second set. It is what it is. Back out again tomorrow, playing a social club where they’ve asked us not to play anything ‘too heavy’ - so we’re intrigued by what crowd we’ll have!2 points
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I've tried and use Newtone short scale strings. Just as good as their long scale. They are excellent! Just remember to go up a gauge if you don't want a floppy E string, because nobody wants that.2 points
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I left this comment on the video - hopefully it will encourage an alternative viewpoint: "You could have made all your points in 1968 when the Beatles were replacing string sections with Mellotron samples. Exactly the same as your example of drummers being replaced with drum machines - nearly 60 years later. The 1940s Big Band swing musicians HATED the Beatles for this very reason. Music moves on man, and if you aren't supportive of change then you are against it. If you work hard enough you will be a success. To criticise the current musical climate or social media just makes you sound like a dinosaur and automatically consigns you to the scrapheap. Also, if you are relying on God to give you gigs - good luck."2 points
