stingrayPete1977

Won't sound like a p bass or musicman or a soap bar super jazz though will it?

I've just got in from the harbour festival, did anyone else go? I see the thekla is only just in the dock here so should be back soon, goes in every few years my mate says so nothing to worry about Time to sleep then off to the galley in hotwells for breakfast

The public will always want summer of 69, and sex on fire over lesser known great tunes, the best songs are often not an act's best seller or even released, soul to squeeze by the red hot chilli peppers must be their best record for example, worthy of a listen if your not a flea fan and never looked past the idiot battering a modulus bass.

Excellent

I have a single 10" cab (eminence gamma loaded) and a 300watt Genz head (175 watt at 8 ohm), its ok for acoustic jams or maybe with a small cocktail drum kit but it would struggle in a rowdy pub with a proper drummer giving it some, add another 10" and it would be fine, very similar to my usual 1x12 and Genz 600 watt head I suspect but a single 10" is going to struggle IMO and with the portability of a nice 2x10 or 1x12 and a choice of great small yet powerful heads I am still failing to see the point of an expensive combo? Here is my back line set up, all purchased over time so the cost was spread out Genz Shuttle 3.0 300 watt tiny head gets used at home or for an open mic style jam or practice at someones house with an 8ohm 1x10 but can run the 4ohm 2x12 if needed easily, sounds really tight and I prefer the FET tone now. Genz Shuttle 6.0 600 watt valve pre gets used either in the cradle on the 8ohm 1x12 to make a proper Genz combo or on top of the 4 ohm 2x12 to give 600 watts which is plenty at any venue, used like that at the Robin in Bilston hardly off tickover. Genz Shuttlemax 9.2 900 watt twin channel which combines both of the above, one FET channel one valve channel, blendable or on their own, loads of FX loop options and ways of putting things before or after the preamps or a global option for the whole shooting match, loads of EQ variables for each channel and and global 3 band EQ in front of the master out, can power anything you would ever need really and has the last version .2 extra bottom end compared to my .0 heads. 1x10 cab made by a friend to the same dimensions as a Genz 1x10, used as a small home practice amp that would destroy your average cheap combo and for jam nights with acoustic guitars etc. Genz NEOX 1x12T proper combo cab with the fitted aluminium cradle to hold the 6.0 or 6.2 heads, tilt back foot perfect for the situations talked about in this thread, keeps up with a full drumkit but starts to faulter on an open air stage without a monitor for support and would not be good as the only backline. Genz NEOX 2x12T loads of basschatters have these or the newer version, a single 4 ohm cab solution rather than a pair of 12's, I probably would have bought an extra 12 to go under my existing one but I bought this first as my main function band rig to replace a faulty Ashdown. That said the Shuttlemax head fits on top of this but not the 1x12 becasuse of the cradle. I can't think of a gig where this would not be able to keep up when used with the Max head? The above gear gives a mix and match for any gig from my bedroom to the largest outdoor festival sort of gigs I will ever play, I cant see where a large combo would benifit me other than maybe a Markbass with an extra cab (total cost?) or my own Genz combo with an extra cab (no longer available and way over the £1000 quoted) or any similar version with a removable head and extra cab all will be over budget new I guess. A combo is fine for less than a few hundred quid especially if it is staying in one place but for a jobbing bassist I really can't see the point in ones costing up to £1000 when you can buy a nice head and a 2x10 or 1x12 now giving the option to buy an extra matching identicle cab later or swap speaker brands/configuration as your needs or GAS require.

I think there would be very few people making a living purely from their own material unless they are in a mainstream band or class living as 'being alive, eating most days and lots of sofas to sleep on'. Most people I know of have at least one other job often music related but not always.

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Blimey, Doddy! I had a year off myself but I came back just to piss everyone off

Rare but possible? http://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/bongo-6.html

Bueno I thought they looked cheap and plasticky until I saw one up close, arent they well built!?

That's how you play an F# punk style, saves having to learn what the notes are on the other strings are, or tuning them

That only works if the neck can take the extra tension though,as brx says the construction needs to be good first and foremost, most basses over a grand have a pretty good neck, some cheaper basses have a great B with 34" but naturally the better necked basses tend to be expensive, this also helps as the electronics are often good too. My double bass is around 39" 105cms?, the neck is stronger than any electric bass but the E string sounds just like an e string to me I like my rays because they are a halfway house IMO, on one hand the B won't bother a dingwall or a Roscoe etc but on the other hand I quite like the timbre of the E on the B string and now favour it over the open e.

The B string myth is self perpetuating because most cheap five string basses are less than 35 inches, most expensive 35" or more have a good B string as they quite rightly should. I tried a dingwall directly against a GB rumour, to my ears the GB just had the edge but by an irrelevant amount, they were both great so it would not have been the deciding factor over other differences between them if I was seriously in the market for one.

I don't tend to rely on pickup configurations or settings, it's all in the fingers, it really is. With double bass having a massive come back a lot of innovation has gone into electric upright, most people still want a full size DB though.

Musicman made "the game changer" it mostly got slagged off on here, it matches your needs quite closely and better still you can save pre set settings too. To many knobs for me I'll stick with the single switch on my stingrays thanks.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1405545561' post='2502990'] Leo Fender made up this testbed during the G&L phase (if the headstock is anything to go by). I think he must have had a few of these 'sweetspot finders'. [/quote] Even with that test bed body Leo has spent more time making the sharp edges more rounded than a Rickenbacker!

He actually made the first few stingrays wrong with the bridge too far away not allowing enough saddle length to intonate them!

Yes I think they are threaded rather than sprung, so the pads are like being on top of what we now know as the thumb screws.

Accidently invented the Lakland bridge while he was at it too

For the purposes of a balanced thread , Because of my family on the wifes side I regularly attend various Jewish doos and you can be certain any bands involved will be top notch!!, if I was in London or Manchester rather than the midlands I'd be looking to join a klezmer/ Simcha band but I doubt I'd be good enough

I'm neither for or against, if I found one I liked id buy it but I havent found the B string to be particularly any better than on a well built 5 of 34", id say they have a better B than my stingrays but no better than some 35" high end stuff without the wonky frets, GB and Alleva etc have nothing to worry about ime/o, like I say neither good nor bad for me overall.

Nice work and welcome

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1382783317' post='2256479'] OK, time for this pic of his & hers again [/quote] The one on the left, not the lefty is identical to my old right down to the grain,I do wonder where it is now