mrtcat

Just traded my tks cabs for daves Nv610. Super easy chap to deal with and a very nice guy to boot. Thanks Dave

Whoop, paid a visit to Paul at CIEM in Stanstead Abbots today and had the ear impressions done for re-shelling my UE900s. Nice guy and very professional. 6 week wait now whilst my UE900s are sent to California to be transformed into custom moulds. Anyone considering doing this should be aware that the £199 quoted for reshells will rise to £300 by the time you factor in the required impression work and new cables (existing ones won't fit once they are reshelled.

Seriously considering picking up two 4ohm retro two 10 cabs as my modular set up. The one I tried before Christmas was very very nice.

I think EBS freak is probably absolutely right here. I use the 905s and they are really solid subs. It's very unlikely that you will make them fart out with the bass especially with all your HPFs in place and the subs crossed over at 80hz unless you are really hammering it hard. Are you able to run a test tone through the sub to check that the driver is ok? If it is then the built in protection shouldnt allow the sub to fart out unless you are putting in a distorted signal.

Right so the nearest I'm getting right now is by using Bank 0 Prog 1 with a few tweaks (dial envelope depth back to 2, note off level to 1, attack to 3, decay 8, dynamics 3, cutoff 6, resonance 2 and balance 2) and then using an mxr bass preamp later in the chain with a bass boost and mid cut to fatten the whole thing up. It's far from perfect but its at least useable in the mix with the band. I also use the same setting for Lets Groove by Earth Wind and Fire which really shows it's not quite the 80s sound I have been chasing. I'll keep looking and if anyone finds a way then let me know!

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1490787746' post='3267953'] What about a Maruszczyk bass. You can have pretty much what you want and decent value too? [/quote] +1 you can have whatever you want with a maruszczyk and adrian will accomodate all of your requirements.

I've had flats on a Jazz before and really liked the fatness of the sound. Definitely not taboo, it certainly works and makes sense to me. It may will undoubtedly tame the burpy bridge pickup sound a bit but to my ears that was on improvement.

Wow, Darkheart that's an amazing offer and really kind, Thank you. I think we have decided that both guitarist and I ate going to order Harley Bentons from Thomann and have them delivered to the villa were going to be staying at (I know the owner pretty well) and take a few tools so we can set them up. After the gig we can either mail them back to ourselves or donate them to a local school. Thanks so much to all who have advised it's definitely much appreciated.

Thanks all. An extra seat would be £170 so not an option. Whatever I go for needs to be headless as a headed neck won't fit in the case I'm afraid.

I have a gig in Italy this summer. Flying Ryanair so I don't want to take anything valuable and don't want to pay the £100 to take a guitar only to have it destroyed by baggage handlers. Thought about getting one of these kits http://www.guitar-warehouse.ie/product_detail.asp?ProductID=725&CategoryID=43 and removing neck so it packs into a suitcase. I have one of those old hard shell cases so no problem to fit it in what with it being a headless neck. Not expecting great things but with a bit of setting up etc could it be good enough for a gig?

[quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1489091880' post='3254387'] Have a look at [url="http://websynths.com/"]http://websynths.com/[/url] Bass preset 004: Far Bass without the reverb sounds like a similar sound, maybe you could use those settings as a jumping off point? [/quote] Thank you so much Gareth, that's awesome and much appreciated.

I need to get something that approximates the bass synth sound from "Material Girl" by madonna from my Future Impact pedal. Does anyone have any settings suggestions? I'm really new to synth sounds and it's blowing my mind with all the different possibilities but I'm yet to get close to what I want. Something like this: https://soundcloud.com/tom-caswell-3/material-synth Any help massively appreciated.

Happy to rehearse if there's something that needs sorting. In that situation I want to see a proper plan for the session and it needs to be focused and productive. Rehearsal on a weekly basis is, in my experience, rarely beneficial. If drummer and bass player are good then being tight should be possible after very limited time together. If you have to rehearse week in week out to get tight then there's a limiting factor at play somewhere.

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make this. Will bring a nice limelight P and Maruszycyk Elwood L. Can also bring an Aguilar DB750 plus TKS cabs if there's not too many amps already. What's the etiquette with cake? Should I get MrsTcat to knock something up?

Goes to show that a tone that sounds amazing in the mix isn't necessarily that pleasant isolated. Fantastic playing and RHCP at their peak for me.

Now you might get 200 watts in that little elf but there's no way in a million years you'll get 200 "trace elliot watts" into a box that small.

[quote name='Winny Pooh' timestamp='1485784336' post='3226632'] Buy a bass with something else on the headstock. [/quote] +1. I love fenders but there's just so many other great bass makers out there now and with limited colour options and Fender QC being somewhat "inconsistent" at times then maybe it's time to look elsewhere.

I'd guess at 70% classic rock.

Thumpinators are about as good as it gets. Not cheap but worth it.

Wedding band varies completely depending on what we've been asked and what the room of people look like. Usually go for classic (beatles / stevie wonder / something disco) over current pop but really depends on the people. Hair Metal band starts with Hot For Teacher most times to warm drummer up.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1485723628' post='3226196'] That would always be the preference of course, but for a turn-up-at-the-gig-at-8:30-and-plonk-the-camera-down-and-off-you-go solution, it's pretty hard to beat. [/quote] Agreed 100%.