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18 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

They do make them in the classic guise. 

While I have little intention of ever owning a Stingray, I do like what MM are trying to do with finishes...the Stealth one (all black) looked beautiful and, on the subject of MM, the St Vincent in Stealth Black is specfeckingtacular.

One of my guitarists and me couldn't agree more. Just need to convince our singer lol 

10 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

If it were me, the rosewood one, BUT man alive, that is a huge slab of pickguard.  It actually detracts from the niceness of the sunburst.

My only gripe with SR5s. The pickguard isn't to my taste at all. Stingrays are still my favourite bass though and I'll absolutely never be without one.

I have had both maple and rosewood necks and personally preferred the rosewood but it's so subjective that only you can tell which will suit you best.

1 hour ago, stingrayPete1977 said:

I'm not sure that's a very fair comparison?! 

Agree with this. Any gig where you go without backline is dependent on decent monitoring. If there's no monitoring then it's not the right gig to ditch backline. By all means have your backline in the van / car if you're going to an unknown venue / pa setup but you shouldn't write off the idea of working without an amp based on that one gig. 

Love this. Those roasted necks look awesome. 

18 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Nah, they are easy to get if you are very well off.. or I guess St Vincent - she seems to have a few spare.

Would certainly like one if they turned up cheap!

There's a sterling version out now for about £800 rrp 

6 minutes ago, Cuzzie said:

Those St Vincent’s are absolute corking guitars, and musicman guitar necks are some of the best around, I quite like the looks as well.

Sounds like that chap could do with the Fractal FM3

Only a matter of time I'm sure. Totally agree about the St Vincent.

9 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

Jamie was only posting yesterday on facebook how he cant get any decent sounds out of it! :0 Is he a Kemper tart at heart? Mind you, I think he's one of those gear obsessives that will never find nirvana! I see he's sporting a St Vincent Musicman at the moment too! (I always wondered who would buy them when they were released - quirky looking things!)

This is his second helix. I think he really likes the idea of it but got on so well with his kemper that he struggles with anything different. He loves how easy it is to put patches in order on tye helix for every gig. He's an absolute nightmare with gear though. I've never known anyone turn over so much stuff. He had two St Vincents until the start of May. He traded a black stealth one for a Tom Anderson but now he's traded that for a USA custom schecter and I reckon that'll be gone soon because he doesn't like the single coil pickups. The St Vincent suits him tho cos it was designed for a girls body and to be fair it sounds great. I'm a massive Musicman fan tho so am pretty biased. 

Been gigging with a helix and IEM's for 2 years now. I love it for bass and, although I initially thought it was overkill, it has more than paid for itself. If i change basses mid set then I just hit the patch for that bass. I can change rig completely with the touch of a footswitch. The routing options are the best bit for me with the ability to split signals and run them in parallel applying effects only where needed. I use far more mild overdrive now by splitting at 800hz and only adding grit to the higher frequency. Makes for such a great fat but detailed sound out front. Myself and both guitarists are all on helix now (yes EBS_freak even Jamie the gear tart has come around now). Worth every penny imo. 

1 hour ago, stingrayPete1977 said:

I've got an Orchid DI box (on ebs_freaks' recommendation), that's it, nothing else, bass into di, di into mixer, mixer to FOH and in ears. Awesome! 

I have a helix where you have a di. Essentially the same thing tho and love the simplicity. 

Another very happy UE6 user here. The other guys in my band all use universals and you'll regularly see them with one in and one out. I use a decent wireless system and have never once felt the urge to remove a monitor mid gig. I had UE900s to start with but custom moulds are a massive step up. I also would recommend using the custom iem company. Paul will make sure everything is just right for you. 

I don't listen to music on the way home from gigs prefering radio 5 or something. If i wake up thinking about stuff I need to do next day then I write it down on a pad I have next to the bed. Makes me feel like it's already partly sorted. Usually when I read it in the morning I laugh at how trivial and insignificant it is. It's crazy how important silly stuff seems at 3am.

Herco flex 50s for me. I find really rigid picks harder to play with. Horses for courses tho so go try a few 

On 26/04/2019 at 12:54, GarethFlatlands said:

2 sheets of plywood, which I seem to have trouble cutting in a straight line, so that's my immediate issue!

How are you cutting? 2 sheets will probably be enough for 4/5 1x10 cabs if they're full 8ft by 4t panels.

1 hour ago, Bill Fitzmaurice said:

It would be of little to no benefit. Using the same frame and motor you can use over a hundred different combinations of voice coils, cones, domes, surrounds and spiders for over a hundred different results. 

This was my understanding too. I also think that reverse engineering a box to try and find driver specs could be a lot of work only to find that there is no readily available driver with those exact specs. That said, I'm more than happy to spend a few evenings trawling the Web to see if anything turns up.

Thanks Phil that's really helpful advice. I think what I'll do first is get the measurements of the inside of the cab and the details of the port along with a picture of the driver and report back here. If anyone is able to help me work out which drivers work then I'll start looking. If not I might consider asking for help designing a lightweight 210 based around a pair of nice lightweight drivers (maybe faital pros) and see if I can maybe utilise the parts (grill, handles, crossover etc) because I also love the look of the powerhouse cabs. We'll see. Ots not mega urgent as I use in ears gigging but it would be nice to maybe do something that complements the 1x12 build thread. Essentially I want a cab wide enough for a valve head. I would have built a fearful 15/6 but am absolutely stumped for the crossover components in the UK.

Yeah it's a tough one now. I paid £225 for the cab but only played it at low volume at the sellers house. I know he is a genuine guy and hasn't used the cab muxh so im certain he was unaware. Obviously I have no way to prove to him that it wasn't me that damaged it so I'm kinda stuck with it. 

I bought it because I have had one of these before and I love the sound. I'd love to be able to get hold of the specs of the driver to try and get a matched pair of new drivers but all I know is that they are 16ohm 300w units. I have the building chops (Im a trained cabinet maker and was a bfm builder for a while) but I've not designed a cab before. 

In reality I should probably just write it off. Whatever I do I'll have spent more than its worth. 

Thanks agedhorse. Oreste just came back to me but they want £216 + vat for a single 10 inch driver. Going to rip cab apart for parts and build my own cab based around specs of better drivers. That's crazy money for a fairly low quality single 10.

No response from Oreste, the westside distribution main phone number / email or Mesa Boogie themselves. Is there any way I can find the driver specs?

1 hour ago, Beedster said:

Oreste at Westside [email protected]

Lovely lovely guy

C

Absolute star - thank you Beedster, very much appreciated.

Anyone know who to contact in the UK to get a replacement driver for a mesa boogie powerhouse 2x10. I picked up a fairly old used cab yesterday and on further inspection it turns out one of the drivers has seized. Is there a UK distributor?

Cheers

Man, if you were closer I'd have this off you in a heartbeat. 

Will await pics. Sounds like something I might like.

6 hours ago, intime-nick said:

Mix Station Pro - it's worth the few quid you pay for the pro version (the iOS version is also out soon if not already).  As for old ipads not running the s/ware - as Russ has said, it's not the ipad that's the problem (the X-Air software runs on my ancient ipad 2 smoothly and on an atom powered mini-laptop which has less power than my watch) - it's the external router (or rather, lack of) that's the issue.  Buy a bog standard dual band router, run it on 5GHz only (if your tablet/phone supports it) and away you go.  I'm not sure I could handle going back to an analogue desk anymore irrespective of objections from band members - i like my personal stereo IEM feed too much ! (it helps that i also do the sound for our band so it's an easier 'discussion')

This. 

The XR18 is a cracking little mixer only let down by the WiFi. A cheap dual band router not only solves connection issues it also allows you to secure your connection with a password. 

We've had to pull all of the R-Kelly and Rolf Harris songs from our set.

I recently joined a fairly busy band doing weddings and private events. They're great guys and so far it's been a lot of fun.

All the work is divided pretty fairly amongst the four members. We also run a little rehearsal studio in Rushden, Northamptonshire. As I live the furthest away I don't get asked to do much with day to day running of the studio and that suits me fine. I have however been given the job of producing a weekly vlog that shows what we do. My only qualification for the role is that I own a decent camera and a couple of gopros bit I'm definitely up for the learning process that will be involved. 

What I'm after is any advice and feedback. The aim more than anything is to share the interesting parts of what we do, allow people who have / might  book us get to know us and how it works and really just make something interesting. 

We have agreed that we should try and find a different theme each week so we aren't making essentially the same thing over and over and we need to keep it simple enough that it doesn't affect performances. 

If you want to see what we've done so far then this is my latest effort. 

I already learnt I'm going to need to use a high pass filter when using footage taken whilst driving lol.