stingrayPete1977

I do both with varying degrees of success, sometimes its busy sometimes its empty regardless of what we do, if the previous band does not watch us i dont watch them, sad but true. If they are on first i always watch though.

Some people would rather play their own music for free to a handful of people than a packed out venue bashing out mustang sally, if they did not we would have no new bands to do covers of at functions, not even sex on fire!

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1355328430' post='1897009'] I think it's awesome. Since it's already deviated into maple v rosewood and back again, I think the REAL question is, which is best? 1. Mark King playing fingerstyle on a maple-boarded ash-bodied Ray through a 100 watt all-valve amp into a broken-in BF Super 12, or 2. Flea playing slap on a rosewood-boarded modulus through a 300 watt class D head into a fresh Baer ML-212. [/quote] Always flea

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1355328056' post='1896999'] Is this one still going? It must be a record! [/quote] Its record that just has a looped noise at 25hz on it, parp!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1355324033' post='1896935'] I never take a crowd for granted but we do our homework. We've done the usual London circuit which was on these sames lines....hasn't everyone..?? But any mistakes we make..we don't tend to make again. 1 gig of this ilk is kind of forgiveable but you should get the message about what works for you and what doesn't. This is also why I like money to be a factor in these gigs... it SHOULD focus the minds on what needs to be done. We have this 'bunch of youngsters experience thing' all the time and, tbh, they will have to get their arse in gear as does everyone else. That allpies to any band as well, as far as I am concerned... For me, I was working function circuits at 16 or 17 and it was a great learning curve. I have the most time for kids who will promote their own shows and also come along and support others.. Depends on your emphasis, but you can either do the gigs that get you out to play... or you can do the gigs that you wnat to do, but you have to work it. There are gigs out there, you just have to get them...but it all comes down to whether people will buy what you are selling and there are no garauntees in that... [/quote] In the same way you think these gigs sound bad many 17 year olds would hate doing the function circuit, I know I would of done

He was a pie eating nose picking w***er!

The time people are spending breaking in cabs could be spent eating a pie, practicing a tricky riff or picking their nose all of which I have probably done whilst my new cabs sit dormant waiting for their first gig Lets be serious just for a moment, someone playing a p bass with flats through an ashdown rig compared to ebs freak playing his gb bass through an ebs rig is going to be 1000000 times more different than anything breaking the speaker in will do.

Maybe we should have a winter rig made of old worn out cabs?

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1355316862' post='1896790'] Is any bass worth 1500? [/quote] All the ones that sell for £1500

[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.