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[quote name='bassjamm' post='244333' date='Jul 21 2008, 11:19 AM']I guess i just need to play one to get a feel for them and to let my ears do the judging, not my eyes [/quote] If you can find one other than at a Bass Bash!!!. There will definitely be two at the SE Bash, Niks Pro2 and my converted Pro1 that now has Custom electrics. There could also be the one I walked away from on Saturday - WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING!!!! - I have been in sack cloth with a big KICK ME sign on my back ever since. It is still owned by a 'Chatter from Pompey who did the sensible thing and snapped it up. That was probably a transitional Pro/Custom by Niks reckoning and I would tend to agree. I do have at home an A4 Wal sales flyer that I shall try to scan and post up sometime this week - doesn't tell you what they sound like though. My Pro1 originally had a single pup, vol, tone & a coil tap switch & was passive. In 96 Pete installed the full Custom electrics and told me that Pro1's like mine were designed as a "starter" bass in the range with the option to add actives etc later. Mine only got upgraded because there was another in being done when I took mine in for an overhaul. It always sounded good passive but the actives really opened it up.

New eSoundz Group Buy started [quote]Option 1: SampleTank 2.5 engine (software only, without the XL sounds, downloadable) + Squid Tron Extras (the outtakes that weren t used for SampleTron in SampleTank format to use with the ST2.5 engine) -OR- Option 2: Brand New previously unreleased RAW 2 Special Edition (downloadable) featuring over 4,500 loops in Rex, Apple Loops and Acidized Wave (1,500 loops in each format). 3,000 of those loops (1,000 in each format) have never been released and they cover new styles such as Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Reggaeton, Reggae, House, Techno, Trance, More Dirty South Hip Hop, Jazz, Progressive Rock and various Ethnic World Rhythms! There s even some cool TRON grooves in there as well![/quote] Option 1 is a soft sampler with assorted mellotron type sounds, though not the full set of universal sounds that I got when I bought the engine originally. I really like it as a sample player. If you are looking for loops to use, apparently roughly 50:50 drums percussion : beats & sounds on top then Option 2. Join in the first 100 & they throw in $20 of "ePointz" that you can use to buy other downloadable sounds. If more than 100 join the GB the price gets down to $99 - so around £50. Should you happen to join up feel free to add me as referrer & we both get a few more "ePointz". If you do my member name is AlEebee

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='243684' date='Jul 20 2008, 10:54 AM'] Hi Al, That little edit of your post-gig conversations made me laugh, but it also sounded painfully familiar... Shall we have that pint soon and get some therapy in quickly so you can keep the pump action shotgun at bay? Nik[/quote] PM'd

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='244063' date='Jul 20 2008, 09:27 PM']I'd like to jam to a drum track, paticularly something funky, but can't find anything instantly playable online. A search of topics on BC lead me to look up Hammerhead (http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml) but that's more for rave type stuff. My son put me on to jamstudio.com but that wasn't what I wanted. Can anyone suggest a source please? If not streaming, then downloadable. Ta. B2BM[/quote] What sort of tempo? Might be able to put a few together and up to the [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=41"]Groove Library[/url] In [url="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"]Audacity[/url] you can get a section to loop better than Windows Media Player by holding Shift when you click play

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='243599' date='Jul 20 2008, 01:44 AM']Wish I'd been there for that Al ! Sounds like a good gig and hopefully The Fountain will have been a good one as well? I would have made it along to The Crown as I'm always keen to see you guys play and it would be nice to see what they've done to the place with the refurb.. But I had a couple of gigs myself; one at The Kings Head in Burgess Hill on Friday and a private party, Saturday night in Hove.. It was my first 2 gigs with the Peavey T-max and I've got to admit, I was worried after Friday's gig because i couldn't get my sound right at all.. But I spent a bit of time Saturday afternoon sussing it out and as a result, had a great sound last night! Amazing how different using a tube pre-amp is to solid state?[/quote] Nik glad to hear you got to grips with the T Max. I'm sure you had a couple of good nights. I should possibly scope of Burgess Hill, but I suspect it may be a gig too far for the others. As for The Crown refurb, well you would be hard pushed to tell what the brewery have been up to while it was closed as I can't see much difference - possibly a lick of paint. I suspect it had more to do with the joint tenants falling out at the beginning of the year actually Just back from Chichester myself after a second set & encores that seemed never ending. The landlord turned the clock behind the bar round and just kept saying "no it's alright you can do another" We don't mind he's a nice guy & pays well. A bit quieter than usual to start with tonight, everyone was outside on a nice evening (that's what we told ourselves anyway), but it got going quite nicely as things progressed. If the sign of a hot gig is water consumption then tonight was a hot one as I went through 2.5 litres plus a couple of pints of unleaded Coke. I think tonight [i]may [/i]have been recorded. The ADAT was in the rack, but I didn't ask at the end of the evening as, if it was, it was being done surreptitiously to keep certain parties happy Unfortunately if it was I had too many horrible moments, which though not noticed by pretty much all of the crowd I suspect, will mean I shall probably have to cheat & redo bits to get anything out of it. G&L was sounding lovely again. I put on a new set of strings this morning as last night they were sounding a bit tired (could have just been the venue) and the newer ones seemed to have a bit more tone tonight. It could well have been that last night I didn't use the IEM & tonight I did, but the coating was starting to shed quite a bit on the old Elixirs so it was probably getting on for time. Got to the end of the night & got chatting to a few people who'd not seen us before. "Do you do this for a living?" she says. "Sadly no" I reply. "Still trying?" "Probably given up on even that" says I "It's just for enjoyment and to stop me turning up at the office one day with a pump action shotgun" "Been together long?" [Thinks][i]Bu99er!![/i]{/Thinks] & I have to admit that I have been playing with the drummer so long we most certainly started out before any of them were thought of So one more next Friday, then the summer layoff until mid Sept. I believe I may go quietly mad in the meantime!!!

Welcome, and don't let the gear worry you. Everyone has to start somewhere, and when I think back to what I started out with that's a nice set-up you've got there. You don't need zillion £ gear to get get going, or even to continue further up the chain. You'll probably end up with the worst GAS on here - I know I have since I joined - but before that I had been quite happy with my set up for nearly twice as long as you've been on this earth. So if you find something you are happy with don't be in too big a hurry to trade on to the next big thing. A few years back I spent a day going round music shops looking at basses, and in the whole day the best sounding / most playable was a Squier Jazz

Welcome indeed. It's only taken me 32 years so far & I'm still learning, so don't let that put you off

Good one last night (Friday) and hopefully tonight will be as well. I'm hoping the sound guy will surreptitiously record it so I can have a go at mixing the current twin guitar line up. Friday at the Crown in LA was good. Only reopened fairly recently, but there was a good responsive crowd there all night. We started the first set and sound guy was looking confused as he was getting no signal from me, and I was sure I had run the cable. Turned out in the break that I had forgotten to plug it into the MB combo. DOH!! Didn't really matter though. It was on 9 o'clock input and same output with the tone pretty much flat, but I was barely tickling the bass and it was thundering out. That combo is so good. Light, loud, and a great tone that easily holds its own in a classic rock covers outfit. Fitted the PA feed in the break and turned the master down AGAIN, and SG was still muttering at the end that he had been mixing up to me A couple of alien abduction moments for each of us, in particular vocalist starting a second verse early over the verse intro (that's the same as the verse anyway - can't remember what now ). Guitarist, drummer & I just smiled at each other & dropped a line from the verse. I'm sure no one noticed at all A couple of encores and some nice compliments after - always help to bring the evening to a merry close, even if we do have to pack away & hump the gear out & home. Roll on The Fountain in Chichester South Street tonight (19 Jul)

[quote name='Shaggy' post='239980' date='Jul 15 2008, 01:08 PM']Try; [url="http://www.harrowaudiohifi.co.uk/products.asp?Make=WAL"]http://www.harrowaudiohifi.co.uk/products.asp?Make=WAL[/url][/quote] You beat me to it. Also try the Wal Yahoo Group - Walbassesnaturally

Hmmmm - I keep looking at this and thinking for 1 or 2 gigs a month it might be something else for me to do, particularly as it is quite close to me, but they're probably not after an old fart and all the time my current band is going that would have to take main priority in clashes, so probably best not.

My 6p - Markbass, but then as mentioned they are very yellow and not the cheapest of amps. My CMD121H combo is small, light and loud (very, I often get told to turn down at r/h when I am only at 9 o'clock). Sounds good too. For small rock gigs it handles itself admirably. Larger gigs it has PA support.

Thursday before for me and a damn fine night it was. Worked at home the following day (as I didn't get in 'til 2 am) and eventually got started around midday - though I did catch up over the weekend, promise!! Had a bit of a Spockfest all day Friday whilst working Shame such a good band has to struggle to pull in the punters. Europes a bit better I think, but from numbers I saw of for a couple of US gigs it looked like they were almost in bars to small numbers From the picture of the amp it looks to be set pretty much flat (if I am reading it right, don't really know Eden's)

Another "slight" return this weekend before the desert of gigs in August & September when everyone else buggers off on holiday. The Crown - Littlehampton Friday 18/7 The Fountain - Chichester Saturday 19/7 Might try & get the soundguy to run the multi track both nights & see if we can get something out of the two. That'll probably put the kybosh on both then Almost certainly 2 guitars again this weekend, which works nicely with the newer material. I did see the keyboard player at Spock's Beard last week and it sounds as if he may manage one or two later in the year. Trouble is he has a LOT of new stuff to learn

Yup welcome back to the fold, and you will be AMAZED by the quality, volume and portability of some of the new breed of combos - I know I have been

This is a good funky one that its probably best to leave out of your wedding set

All the above. I find I need to get comfortable with the song on the bass first and only then worry about b vox. Sing with confidence and make sure you keep within range. I've not done this myself (though I have considered using eMusic downloads for this in months when it is difficult to find other stuff I want) but you might want to get hold of some karaoke CD's and sing out loud in the car, or even just sing harmonies to your usual CD's

[quote name='mr.sibs' post='234586' date='Jul 7 2008, 11:04 PM']i found both of those okay, as mentioned above, dont warm up in 1st position, thats a big no no, try 1234 starting 7th fret up[/quote] You beat me too it. I tend to start warmups around the 10 or 12 fret and work down, having read an article years ago suggesting this as you are starting with smaller stretches and working up to larger, by which time you should be better warmed up

Nice when it works out for you. Until last summer I had had my Wal for 20+ years and TE combo for about 8 or 9. The TE got sidelined for a BOD Pro xt a couple of years back. And then last summer I joined BassChat and whoops the TE went (to be fair that had been on the cards as it wasn't getting used) to be replaced by the MB combo & at the same time I bought a SUB5 on here that lasted 6 months to be replaced by the G&L L2500. So a brief hiatus in a fairly static GAS free bass journey for me, but I could actually quite easily see the Wal, G&L L2500 & MB CMD121H seeing me out now. If you find a good'un why break something that doesn't need fixing. Then again I'm no pro

Just back from tonight's (well last nights now) foray to Stubbington. Down to a four piece as our second guitarist couldn't make it and keys (who the drummer & I met up with at Spock's Beard on Thursday night) was again unavailable. Still Kev, Max & I have played together as a three piece (plus vocalist) for a good many years now so it was no great problem, just a bit more sonic space to fill without going too over the top. Steve got the crowd chivvied along and generally a good night was had by all. Looked like at least a couple of other bands in taking notes And once again I have to say that the L2500 was just massive Lovely rich rocky tone with just the right amount of treble. I love my Wal, but I really wish I had found out about G&L's sooner. I was a bit worried that my shoulder was going to give out during the evening as the (legal) drugs did not seem to have had any effect at the start of the night, so I had a bar stool tucked away on stage, which of course led to a huge amount of pee taking. Thankfully it was not required. Adrenaline is a marvellous thing!!