stingrayPete1977

I think the trouble with rotos is I see the same people saying they are plenty bright enough, those people usually use a P bass with foam behind the strings and a 1x18 cab with no tweeter! Getting all the goodness from your new bass needs some sparkle IMO, you can always cut the treble but never create it with eq successfully, give them a go

I'm in the house band last Friday of the month, we have a mixture of folky one person with a guitar to full bands doing a short set and a jumble of acts made of whoever is there on the night, it's mostly terrible to watch but it's good fun, lol.

I have nothing better to do than waste my TIM.

I'm not a fan of rotosounds, they just go dull really quickly I don't care what anyone says it's the truth, the dean markley blue steel have been good,I suppose a bit like a free meal always tastes better than when you pay for one my judgement could be clouded but I'm happy with them, similar to eb ones I'd say but I'm not overly fussy about strings or amps or anything really, lol

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1418245844' post='2628492'] Only if you make the bass stuff in the wire go uphill. You need to stand on the amp so it always flows downhill, or put your amp on the floor rather than on top of the cab. [/quote] Would thrusting help?

I like the curly ones but it takes a long time for the sound to come out of the amp...

Modern data cables are purple, older ones grey and older still orange, I doubt its for anything other than identification, lol

I do like eb strings on an eb bass even though I haven't at the moment due to a pro mate being friends of a certain bass tech for a certain player that uses dean markley ones hence so do I

Almost every band I have been involved with has a connection to one jam night or another, if you can learn a few popular jam night songs and make a little list you can approach the person running it and they should put you with the appropriate people to do those, one of them will probably ask you to learn a few simple songs for the next time you go, the list just gets bigger and you are away, good luck

I just dont see visual things like bindings, blocks etc as making a bass "110% better", fwiw I would buy one but not with any belief of it being any better during a gig than my others, my worst quality Ray is my black and white one, its also my favourite, go figure, lol

Oh and happy birthday

I haven't even seen a pic of one of these for years, I played one exclusively from 89 to 93!

And only 139 quid

That might be so but I still see no reason for this signature bass, he has used every brand going, its not as if anyone would say ooh thats a AC bass before this model came out in the same way everyone knows what a Brian May guitar is. You are welcome to have a dig as an AC fan but it still wont make me like him, judging ability by success is for primary school children imo

3 gigs!? You are either a banker or you are using Rotosound strings?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1418204064' post='2627848'] A £3k bass direct from the luthier should be one hell of a bass, as you aren't having to pay retail costs... The luthier should make a profit but he doesn't have to factor in 30% or so to a shop/distributor. If that bass isn't waaaay better than some production bass you've brought for the same ballpark money, you have really gone to the wrong guy...and badly, IMO. When I had my first bass made, I told the luthier what I had looked at, and he said there was no doubt he would make me a better bass..and he was 110% right. Now, these could only just be words from some makers and that is where your homework comes in. [/quote] TBH I have played almost everybrand of bass at some point and as good as they have been I have never felt them to be that much better if at all really, fancy tops are one thing but a solid topped bass plays or sounds no worse so that is just a cost if it floats your boat, I use a SR505 some weeks and its more than good enough to cover any gig and capable of a super low action if required, good preamp, tidy build quality, good B string (no idea what scale it is?), If it makes the buyer happy so be it but I have never found them to be massively better than a good quality mass produced one, my Fender Jazz V has a great B, nicely finished and no dodgy build quality issues, my Stingray Classic5 is a minter too.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1418204250' post='2627850'] Keep it, for when we put a preamp on the Fenders [/quote] Ha you just know the East circuit is going to happen!

Have the drugs worn off yet BeardyBob?

[quote name='BeardyBob' timestamp='1418209571' post='2627920'] I'm hardly going to stay up all night without making it scientific, chaps! Same stripped van damnit cable with neutrik connectors, same stands, position & test equip, different sheathing. The differences in a darkened room were negligible versus colour. The differences with daylight lamp @ 2m were plotted. Thinking about it I need to check the weight of sheathings & guess plot each one versus its darkened state. #nonbelievers [/quote] I think you might find you will end up in a darkened room at this rate, probably with padded walls You do realise there is a massive floor in your test? Heat. Temperature has a direct relation to the conductivity of the cables so the whole test needs to be done with the cables at the same temperature with and without the light source.

[quote name='Simon.' timestamp='1418205593' post='2627869'] [color=#222222]Used to happen at a place I previously worked at. A lot. The store man eventually took pity on one poor lad who was sent round to get a replacement bubble for a spirit level - disassembled a spare level and gave him the glass bulb to take back. Was the last time that lad was sent on an errand.[/color] [/quote] I've heard a similar tale where the bloke sent the lad for a pound of glass nails from the hardware shop, he gave him a pound in money (this is the seventies) but it totally backfired when the lad returned with a pound in cost of tacks for holding in glass pains as the shop keeper thought that was probably what he wanted! Served him right, lol

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1418162729' post='2627652'] Nice rig! Your prepared. Blue [/quote] Ta mate, looking at it now I actually have three di outputs to choose from there as the Fishman plat pro for the double bass has a di too and actually sounds great with electric bass anyway.

[quote name='BeardyBob' timestamp='1418194323' post='2627772'] oh, so you're not interested in my results? [/quote] No Are they all the same brand of cable and the same cross sectional area of core and identical shielding, all exactly the same length with identical connectors on both ends?

That's just crazy and also not going to work if you get a gig that requires volume because of the feed back from his mic, bizarre as you say!

The green upvc molecules allow oxygen to enter the cable easier than the chemicals used in red coatings, the oxygen saturated cable then has a higher resistance than the red ones, black cables tend to allow more bass frequencies to pass which is ideal for dub or reggae.......only joking its bollocks

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1418160999' post='2627618'] While I have that spare GK 1001rb, I still wonder if it would be worth it to ad either an MXR or Sans Amp DI to my pedal board? Blue [/quote] This is my setup Blue to give me 3 separate eq settings for DB, active bass and passive bass via the behringer on top, bit of a contraption but I could put my lead into the di box and put the xlr from the amp to the xlr out of it and finish the gig with just a bit of extra volume in my monitor. [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141113_215636_zpsmmhtlanx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141113_215636_zpsmmhtlanx.jpg[/IMG][/URL]