stingrayPete1977

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1355234944' post='1895709'] The gigs sound soul-destroying to me... If you don't play to a crowd, I don't see the point, so this sounds like the death-knell of a band . [/quote] And how do you know that's going to happen, how are a bunch of youngsters going to get experience of playing live, how many massive bands had to do these gigs before they got to be in your position where you have this guaranteed crowd?

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1355308408' post='1896589'] That's because everybody is else is knocking them out instead... [/quote] I wouldn't buy one however cheap they made them

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1355301854' post='1896459'] Stack 'em vertically - then the badges look right! And when you get the other two, stack 'em on top. Use stepladders to adjust your amp. [/quote] Correct, ratchet strap round the lot

I love my mutes! Never recorded anything with them engaged but used them plenty of times, love cats by the cure for example.

They look sh*t on the side and that is the most important bit imo the badges are the right way up and the cabs are the same width as the head too, why would it come crashing down people have been stacking two 4x10's for years!

I dont know, i remember when the fake rolex watch thing kicked off years ago and someone asked the boss at rolex what he thought, he said the sales have gone through the roof as people that can afford (or cant even) now want the real version, two years ago no one knew what a rolex was! Same happens here i bought my first ray in 2002 within a few years i wanted a pre eb. I bought a yamaha virago years ago and got so sick of people asking me if it was a harley davidson i ended up buying one! Ebmm were one of the very last companies to introduce budget versions, squier,epiphone,warwick rock bass, cheap ibanez and yammys,charvel, charvette etc all predate the olp,sterling range and the sub basses in most cases.

Verticle for the win

I could do most of my gigs with the shuttle 3.0 and my 1x12 but the big amp is still easier to carry and set up than a trace combo with a sixth of the power so its no issue really,if i did get a massive gig its only a matter of hiring/buying/stealing the cabs to suit

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1355200986' post='1895300'] Especially if it's a non-mega design . . . i.e. a regular cab not a fEARful or Big Twin etc. Thankfully for most moderately loud applications you can lose a fair amount of the lows and get by without blowing drivers . . . . [/quote] Even sir alex of claber rates my neoxT 2x12 cab quite highly

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1355195918' post='1895296'] Chances of the cab being able to use double watts is pretty slim too. [/quote] Where do you draw the line with your argument though? If your telling me to run my 9.2 at 8 ohms and 500 watts as it will make no difference will you tell the guy using a 6.2 to use an 8 ohm cab at 375 watts as it makes no difference, the guy with a shuttle 3.0 to use an 8 ohm cab etc until everyone has a 30 watt behringer combo

What I'm saying is that if your dead set on one cab it might as well be a four ohm. If I ever (unlikely) needed to add another 2x12 I could run one off my 9.2 max and the other off my 6.0 using the various in/outs on the back. If fact they run quite well off the 3.0 anyway so three genz neox 2x12s stacked high would be cool!

They always tend to be in europe mainland somewhere rather than here, one day maybe.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1355151335' post='1894656'] Aiming for 4ohms isn't a good plan, no benefit. Two cabs is louder because its two cabs, twice as much speaker touching air, not because the ohms is less. A 4 ohm cab in practice is unlikely to be any louder than an 8ohm equivalent an just serves to remove the option of another cab. [/quote] I'd rather have all the available power on tap myself so if I knew I only wanted one cab I'd hunt for a single cab solution.

I wonder why flea never uses a Ray 5 live as he has said he uses them in the studio even now I'm sure I read somewhere, certainly other fives at least?

What sort of stingray has he got there though, kind of looks like a copy in them colours but I guess its a 80's refin? I like both really.

[quote name='Prunesquallor' timestamp='1355160853' post='1894838'] Exactly my point. Although he didn't like using Stingrays in the studio, he used them live because he liked the tone. But when he found the Modulus he didn't need the Stingrays for live use either. [/quote] Then released his own stingray copy so rubbish and over priced he had to return to modulus once more

It wouldn't be a skyline, you know me better than that

I like the 1.0mm black dunlops

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1355143235' post='1894506'] Sadowsky use the wheel , but Lakland use a conventional truss rod nut . Just to expand upon the point about EBMM necks , I saw an interview with John Myung's bass tech on Youtube recently ( Premier Guitar Channel ) and he was explaining how he has to adjust the truss rod on Myungs Bongo basses during the course of a show as they move and affect his action just from the change in temperature and humidity during the gig. [/quote] Re Lakland I meant the overall bass which are very ray like and very nice too, probably something I'd concider swapping to if I lost the ray love, that or a Modulus funk5.

Brilliant! I wired Jim Lea's boiler just a few weeks ago, he wasn't in

The 10 years of using a Ray is more than many bands last to be fair although I can see where the graphite neck could come in for touring, on the flip side many many pro players with huge big shows manage just fine with ebmm basses so maybe flea is just a big girl! If I was a bass tech I'd be happy to see any bass with a wheel of fortune over anything else graphite rod or not, which brings it back to the neck construction idea being an issue when I'm sure other big names derived from mm use the same method, I'm thinking sadowsky and lakeland for a start, a few years ago the names to have in the pro scene?

All the fenders i have known have needed just the same truss rod adjustments at the same time of year, just a lot easier to do on a musicman

Could just save lugging all your fx gear and get an old hh cab and crank it up then , probably sound the same! I have gone the other way and gone super clean, must be my age, damn kids and their punk rock and 8 track players