WalMan

Arrived late, as I couldn't find a way out of town due to the carnival, but in plenty of time to get ready. First set average, but a few 'mares for me, and what the hell I was playing on the fretless in a couple of numbers heaven only knows. Loads of kiddiwinks in the club doing the knee slide dance, which was a bit odd for our gigs Second set went better, despite someone asking for "There Is A House In New Orleans" a couple of times ("No. Sorry"). People up dancing. which was nice but an odd moment for me on the penultimate "encore" when the bass went down at the start & I scrabbled through pretty much everything (but not flicking to passice to seet if it was the actives battery dying which I must do tomorrow) unthil part way through the second verse when I bypassed the pedals (all of which seem to be fine) and went straight to the front of the amp. Some invesstigation to do tomorrow methinks

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='1296827' date='Jul 8 2011, 09:29 AM']Sorry to hear that Al, I hope Pam's OK? I'm in Manchester myself for a funeral today; they come round too often these days i'm sad to say.. I'm aware the main thread needs updating and i'll do all that plus update the workshops list when i get back at the weekend. Great responses so far though and thanks for all support to date.. Nik[/quote] Thanks Nik. She's holding up reasonably well, a couple of little wavers but OK. No doubt there will be a crash at some point.

[quote name='Arco' post='1296501' date='Jul 7 2011, 09:40 PM']I'd like to do this - but I'm a bit nervous about it. Not done anything like this before, like to spend my time hding behind the rest of the band. S'funny - when I started I didn't read and always busked, now after 5 years of having to read /sight read because of the standard of the band, improv etc seems hard! A lot of my playing is of the Eric Morecambe variety "All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order". Hopefull I will learn some and not embarrass myself too much..... Anyway, sign me up. I'll bring the Yamaha SLB200 / Precision / Markbass 121P combo.[/quote] [quote name='51m0n' post='1296615' date='Jul 7 2011, 11:27 PM']No need to be intimidated, really, all levels, all styles completely cool. It is not in any way competitive, quite the opposite. The worst that can happen is you spend a day looking at, listening to, talking about, and trying, lovely gear that you would may or may not want to own from that point onwards.... ...sometimes more than your arms and legs. In all likelihood you will also learn some interesting stuff, meet some lovely people, and go away thoroughly happy.[/quote] This. Really don't worry, it's a good day out with a load of others who also lurk at the back and hold the band together I'll be there with the current rig (per sig) which I shall add to the list when the current family bereavement problems have settled down (or I sneak off for a quiet 5 mins on my own)... it was mother in law who had had a good life and been poorly for a while now, but thankfully was allowed to slip quickly & peacefully this (well yesterday now) morning. Sad, but really kinder and for the best all round.

Today I have been mostly listening to: [list] [*]Exhibit A - Make mine a Lobster [*]Extreme - Take Us Alive [*]Chroma Key - You Go Now; and latterly [*]Touchstone - Wintercoast [/list] I LOVE WORKING FROM HOME Coming up I think will be either Stevie Salas - Be What It Is, or Glen Burtni©k - Welcome To Palookaville

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1290781' date='Jul 3 2011, 09:35 AM']I'd have told him where to get off unless he was offering a new bass as a gift.[/quote] Indeed. Never been in the situation & don't expect to be either. Picked up the fretless for the proggy gig, but otherwise I have three good basses that cover pretty much all situations for what I do so you get what you get (famous last words!!)

[quote name='superjx10' post='1288096' date='Jun 30 2011, 06:57 PM']Wallman, we're actually in Southampton, Portsmouth, Romsey and London. Where are you? - I see you posted in the original thread? DBP[/quote] I live in Littlehampton, work in Guildford & gig mainly Portsmouth/Southampton/Gosport. And as well as It Bites you mentioned the mighty Spock's possibly my favourite band at the mo Will PM later

Oooooh now there's interesting Might PM when I am back darn Sarf at the weekend

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1274782' date='Jun 19 2011, 02:55 PM']You cant grumble at £299 can you, nice one![/quote] Now that's interesting (as is the 350 for smaller gigs). Shame I'm not in the office for 10 days now to be able to shamble up at lunchtime

[quote name='silddx' post='1275635' date='Jun 20 2011, 10:31 AM']Sansamp and monitors?[/quote]Did that with a BOD xT Pro but somehow the rest of the band could not get on with the bass through the monitors so I slid back to the MB combo (small light and loud) [quote name='wateroftyne' post='1275636' date='Jun 20 2011, 10:32 AM']I've got a 900w amp that weighs next to nowt and has a lovely DI. I have two nice cabs that are an easy lift, but I usually only use one. And I quite often get mic'd up. More importantly, the amp has a volume knob that goes down as well as up. I'm a while away from going down the Pod + in-ears route.[/quote]Now got my MB LM Tube and Barefaced Super Twelve which is a bit bigger, and potentially somewhat louder than the combo was (as it uses the full power of the amp @ 4 ohms) but I have had a little less grief about the volume from the boys at gigs since the rig was completed - though sadly not the sound guy on Saturday I think that is down to the fact that is is a warmer fundamental that sits a bit better than the combo did (IMO). My main problem now is that both the G&L's and Wal are high output so the input is below 9 o'clock, the master around 9 o'clock and the basses rolled back (the Wal has been down to only 1 or 2 at times. Still the current rig is [i][b][u]the[/u][/b][/i] one for me (until the next GAS attack which may be a Genz Benz - I need a Bass Bash to have a listen/compare)

Last night pretty good. Landlady was happy at the end of the night saying that they are finding the third week of every moth a struggle as everyone has run out of money abnd stays home, but it did fill up nicely. Third outing for Ready & Willing and it's getting a nice swing/move to it - not in a Paul Anka big band swing way but it's sounding good IMO. B vox sounded pretty good, the guitars duelling nicely, and got the stabs (well ok I missed one at the very beginning but better that than be miles out) I bought a couple of LED panels to add a bit of moving light rather than the static boxes with some 150W garden floodlight & make shift gel holders, and last night the vocalist said he'd been talking with the sound guy about fixing for them and two more he intends to get as finding womewhere to hang them has been a trial. Now all we need to do is work out exactly which piece of one of the guitarists gear is picking up interference from the boxes and work out how to stop that Been messing with a video and some external sound this evening, but as it was a digital camera in video mode, and sat on one of the mid bins, coupled with a lot of the house lights not working it shows [list] [*]my left hand [*]vocalist in silhouette [*]the guitarists in the spotlight - TCHA!! [/list] so I'll probably only share that with the band

[quote name='nick' post='1273598' date='Jun 18 2011, 11:40 AM']Wouldn't go near it myself [/quote] You beat me to it

Last nights sets Comin’ Back For More - Lynyrd Skynyrd Wishing Well - Free Tonight - The Answer (?) Wayward Son - Kansas Foxy Lady - Hendrix Burlesque - Family Good Times Bad Times - Led Zep Loading Up - Street Legal Learn To Fly - Foo's Black Rose - Lizzy LA Woman - Doors My Kind Of Girl - Chickenfoot Waiting For An Alibi - Lizzy Unconditional Love - Street Legal Fire - Hendrix I Want It All - Queen Are You Ready To Rock? - Lizzy Maniac - Hall & Oates / Sembello / Flashdance Ready and Willing - Whitesnake Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Jet Don’t Believe A Word - Lizzy Boys Are Back In Town - Lizzy Gimme All Your Lovin’ - ZZ Top Whole Lotta Love - Zep ENCS: REBEL YELL - Idol WORD UP - Cameo/Gun Don't know why I bothered to name the bands for 99% of those Funny how we seem to go through large blocks of bands songs to cover. Did a lot of Aerosmith a while back, then Whitesnake, Gary Moore currently Lizzy with more in the pipeline

Twas OK for a first one there. Quiet but a few people who came to see us but we haven't seen for a while (my technical FUBAR on the site ahs a lot to do with that I think) and the "regulars" seemed to enjoy. Still got the usual "we're all booked up this year I'll ring you about next year" but perhaps it's that time of year...or perhaps we're just sh1t, but I don't think so. The raised area was all carpetted and sucked the life out of everything. New rig sounded good when I was nearer it, and ther when further forwards, but... First set the level stayed down as noone wanted to push it in a large, high space with only a few bodies in. Second set sounded a bit better to me after the levels all crept up a bit in the break. On arrival landlord said (or how we understood it anyway) plug into the socket at the front of the raised "stage" area. Got to the break and suddenly the power goes out on the "stage". Landlord appears muttering about having told us where to plug in and having been ignored Now I was going to take photos of the two sockets on offer but it might have been a bit obvious, so anyway there was a choice of a socket with a built in RCD, and another that appeared to be hanging off the wall. Guess which one we [u][i]should[/i][/u] have plugged into!? Hey ho. Onwards & upwards to the Swan at Woolston tomorrow

Read the first few pages then decided life was probably too short, however in his defence re the shipping it is much the same to international ship a part from G&L US where IIRC a pot for the L2500 was $6 with $75 shipping, so not just KS

Just got a double Mono bag to take the G&L's. Makes life so much easier loading the car and in & out of gigs and it offers pretty good protection

Should be another SE Bash after the summer I think

Only had my S12T a short while, so far 3 gigs & a rehearsal, but it gets a HUGE [size=7]+1[/size] from me. I said it in a couple of other threads ('cos I am so happy with it) but coupled with the LMT it is light, loud, brilliant in the mix for both my twin guitar classic rock covers, and prog covers bands, really good dispersion and just sits in all the right places IMHO

I had a CMD121H combo until about a month ago, when I sold it and got an LM Tube (not the 800) and a Barefaced Super Twelve T. Tried a Rocker at the bass show and the tube feed in on that just went too dirty too soon for me. I have the LMT set flat EQ, no filters, and around 1 o'clock on the SS/Tube mix. Together with the S12T and using both the Wal & the L2500's it sounds awesome. Sits perfectly in the mix and gets a good wide dispersion. I am using it in a twin guitar rock covers band - Lizzy, Whitesnake, that type of thing - and a prog covers back - Yes, Floyd, Crimson, etc - and it handles both beautifully, solid as a rock right down to the Low Bb (we detune a semitone) My biggest problem, as ever with the MB heads, is keeping it in check volume wise and not getting grief from the rest of the band & sound guy for being a noisy boy What sort of material are you doing? For me in the classic rock/prog scenarios what I have is perfect and plenty loud enough whilst being light as a feather

[quote name='Beedster' post='1264254' date='Jun 10 2011, 06:48 PM']£500 lowest and £650 highest depending on how lucky you get, that is, does someone who wants one have the money at the time you don't want one [/quote] I recently sold my CMD121H along with a Roqsolid cover, bass keeper & stand with delivery around the middle of that range so that seems fair. Went in a couple of days too so either I underpriced it, or got it spot on first time Probably the latter, & it went to another 'chatter and put me in funds for the new LMT & Barefaced Super Twelve T rig (which is awesome BTW ) so alls good as far as I'm concerned

Interesting evening that went pretty well. BUT [list] [*]One of the new LED panels I got recently seems to have a problem and is chucking out loads of interference that really screws with one of the guitarists gear [*]My radio seems to be playing up. Bass seemed to be coming & going in the first set, much better with a lead in the second [*]one of the filters in my brand new ACS moulded plugs has disappeared [*]The pain at the back of my knee that started as I finished my session at the gym Wednesday, but had eased off, came back with a vengence as I was running trying to dodge raindrops at lunchtime and has stayed this time. Damn painful to put weight on, and stiffens on a long drive [/list]On the plus side[list] [*]Once I moved to a lead in the second set the sound was very much better, at least where I was [*]the new rig was sounding awesome IMO. Barefaced Super Twelve T living up to its promise of loud, solid, good dispersion, rolls down to the low B (well Bb as we detune a semitone) effortlessly & the sound sitting really well with everything else [*]There were a reasonable number of people there and they were in fine voise and pretty noisy throughout [/list] Whilst I have gone from a 1x12 MB combo that was great to a MB LMT plus the 2x12 - so it is not an entirely fair comparison the new system acts as above & I was very happy with that at least. We played pretty well & were tight but the level did creep up. Now part of that may be down to me moving to the lead for the second set and IMO getting a far better sound, but though I was barely tickling the bass a lot of the time to try to keep things even I did catch one guitarist sneaking back and tweaking his master volume - something he swears blind he never does - so by the end of the night it had got quite l;oud. Still it was going down well, so never mind, but.......

[quote name='paul h' post='1262107' date='Jun 8 2011, 11:35 PM']0. I'm just a blagger I'm afraid. I learn the song (ish) and then make it up as I go along.[/quote] that'll be me largely

Going back over the years my amp history runs something like [list] [*]Selmer T&B - why worry sling it in the van [*]Marshall Superbass 100 - do I really want to add MORE weight, it only cost £50 secondhand IIRC, sling it in the van [*]Carlsbro 1x15 combo - it's a combo (and a pretty cheap & cheerful one at that) sling it in the boot with its plastic cover / leave it in the band bus [*]Laney 4x10 combo - ditto [*]GK MB150 combo - ditto (though not the cheap & cheerful!) [*]TE GP11 4x10 combo - ditto [*]TE 2x10 combo - got a good padded cover, in the boot [*]MB CMD121H - Roqsolid cover, in the boot [*]MB LM Tube - Gigskinz small mixer bag & on the back seat [/list] Despite some of the comments above all have been bought with my money and I have always tried to look after them, though the times when we had a band bus & all the gear lived in a cage in the back, or we went to gigs in the band van rather than a convoy of cars they probably saw a bit more of a hard time End of the day I suppose it depends if you are your own roadie/driver and so will treat it with kid gloves, or you're relying on someone else humping the gear for you with perhaps less interest/investment in your pride & joy

[quote name='Finbar' post='1258745' date='Jun 6 2011, 06:48 PM']If you're happy to have a footswitch anyway, you may was well just stick a tuner pedal on the floor by your amp.[/quote] The problem with that is that in small gigs access to the mute pull on the LMT Master vol can be inaccessible, so a lead out of the tuner out to the tuner is fine EXCEPT you have no way of silent tuning. With the TE system I had the TE pedal board, tuner feed & mute pedal lead loomed up in a sleeve and it didn't matter how burried behind the keys rig the Trace was I could switch on the tuner and mute the amp between or even during songs for a quick check without a sound