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Top thread mate.. I'm ordering some new valves tomorrow Cheers Adrian

[quote name='TRBboy' post='1213279' date='Apr 27 2011, 10:39 PM']Well it's a combo, so not really an option unfortunately.[/quote] This is BC.. there is a for sale/ for trade section mate ;-) I went from a combo to a separate head and cab..

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1213256' date='Apr 27 2011, 10:25 PM']I think in terms of quality the MB will slay the GK gear! I'd stick with it.[/quote] +1.. always win over GK in my eyes.. er ears :-) Maybe you should look at keeping the amp and changing cabs.. maybe barefaced???

[quote name='Lozz196' post='1206390' date='Apr 20 2011, 08:37 PM']Bring back TFI Friday, but have more music, and less guests. Agree about the sound on Jools. Only one I`ve seen recently was Beady Eye, and Liam Gallaghers vocals were barely audible. Maybe that was his choice, but I doubt it.[/quote] That's how I like to hear Liam's vocals.. either like that or not at all :-)

[quote name='JTUK' post='1197977' date='Apr 13 2011, 11:54 AM']hmmmm... agree that this is taking the p** out of a company that has backed them. Nice ..!!! [/quote] It annoys me.. as it makes it more difficult to get deals

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1197051' date='Apr 12 2011, 05:15 PM']My advice, don't believe what most bands say![/quote] or promoters, producers.. need I go on.. sorry to hear that mate

how did the gigs go?

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1196947' date='Apr 12 2011, 03:35 PM']If your head puts out 500 watts @ 4 ohm & your cabs are 8 ohms each then they'll get upto 250 watts each. The SP cabs are (on paper) a good match.[/quote] +1 two sp212 would sound awesome. On very big gigs, I use my sp210 and markbass 1x15 and I still have to turn down.. the TB is a monster. I sit on the fence with whole is one SP cab enough...

[quote name='Dropzone' post='1196564' date='Apr 12 2011, 09:54 AM']I have heard good things about the KRKs but they are heavy on the price. Don't want to spend bucket loads as I may be rubbish at recording. I will probably do my usual thing of waste loads of money on cheap stuff and then decide I need to spend on more expensive stuff. Still, it keeps me happy ;-)[/quote] very very good, but so expensive.. used them many times.. in someone else's studio ;-)

[quote name='JTUK' post='1195543' date='Apr 11 2011, 11:37 AM']I'll PM you both if you'd like.[/quote] Please do

[quote name='JTUK' post='1195459' date='Apr 11 2011, 09:51 AM']You might be too late... I see one retail outlet has already jumped on this and put up prices even though they say the kit is in stock and not a new order... Not naming names at this time.... [/quote] I think one should name names

[quote name='RichardFoggo' post='1186515' date='Apr 3 2011, 09:27 AM']wow - i think for just so many things we are going to look back at recent days and say "we never had it so good", when our kids are paying £100K to go to Uni and we are paying £2k for a barely decent 4x10.[/quote] This could eventually lead to just good pre amps and PA or In-ear monitoring.. :-( bearing in mind the nominal gig fee hasn't change much in the last 7 years, yet all other costs are raising.. This was why I looked at a small powerful rig that I could take on the train

[quote name='Chris Ramlar' post='1191921' date='Apr 7 2011, 04:38 PM']thanks a lot for the responses! I guess you are right the Terror 500 will be more than enough![/quote] without a doubt

[quote name='barneyg42' post='1191055' date='Apr 6 2011, 09:09 PM']Thought we got sorted but not going to happen, he was going to dep for us at the weekend and now wants to blow that out! So, the upshot of this all is we need a dep for a gig in Westerham on Saturday and still need a regular drummer! Desperate bumpage![/quote] PM'd

[quote name='DaveMal' post='1179637' date='Mar 28 2011, 03:40 PM']haha, i dont know.. 16 years of playing the guitar.. that will always be my #1[/quote] trust me mate. you'll end up with a bass too .. and yes you're talking to a drummer and bassist.. no room in my house to sleep :-)

I know I know.. I just realised that my comment sounded like I was on a hump... ooooh dear

[quote name='51m0n' post='1179276' date='Mar 28 2011, 11:24 AM']Sacriledge! Blasphemy!! Be gone foul spirit!!!!![/quote] Technically, you're wrong.. your amp, which I am a BIG fan of, is really bass monitor. Unless you play in band that has no PA or you play where there is no PA, you amp is really only for you.. MXR or Sansamp and VERY GOOD monitoring will work a treat.. That said, I still rather a little amp behind me.. but the FOH is always hearing your DI I played a big festival and their glorious SWR 6x10 rig, that was supplied, stopped working just before the show.. my trusty sansamp saved the day and sounded miles better..

[quote name='watchman' post='1179051' date='Mar 28 2011, 01:29 AM']I'll back you up here. Apart from the lack of eq, which I guess you could fix with a graphic pedal or something if you needed to, the one I tried had a definite nasty little edge of distortion going on at the high end regardless of gain settings and so forth. This was through a little Orange 2x10" cab, BTW, whatever the one is that runs the speakers in tandem in order to be small (and heavy and sound awful, although of course this is only my opinion). I was actually trying out basses at the time, so my comments apply to using it with some Fenders (passive) and Sandbergs (active) and the odd Ibanez (both). I could never get rid of the nasty distortion. And I don't mean tubey sound, this was far from warm drive. Honestly, I think it may have been a dud. A pity, as I too was taken by the power/size ratio and intrigued by the valves - being as susceptible to a bit of audio voodoo as the next menopausal male. I wound up with an Ashdown Little Giant 1000w. I gather these have a fearsome rep for blowing up, as did my previous Ashdown rig, but I get 'em cheap and work 'em hard and take it philosophically when they fail. Twenty five or so gigs in, no problems yet. And I run it close to full chat. I love the clarity and cleanness of class D power amps, but I thought that marrying that to a valve pre was probably the worst of two worlds. Tubes do their magic in output stages driving output transformers (Heat! Weight! Bulk! Expense!). Although in a preamp they warm it all up a bit, I'm sceptical that there is some valve magic inherent. Which said, some likes an egg and some likes an onion. Good to hear that many players here are happy with the little Orange. If your rig makes you smile, and does the required in the band you play in, it doesn't matter a fig what I or others think does it?[/quote] ++1000 try what works for you and if you like... you buy.. simple

Aargh.. timing.. I'm in the process of moving, so it's really hard to gauge my time at the mo with current gigs... If the post is still open in 6weeks, I'll put myself up for consideration.. Nice Tuuunes

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1174245' date='Mar 24 2011, 09:09 AM']In the end it all boils down to how you want to pace your set and how your audience views gaps in the set. IMO any energy that you have built up in an audience will be gone in 15-20 seconds if you haven't kicked into your next song. If you are a covers band then you're being paid to entertain. Anything more than introducing the next song or a quick mention of when and where the band will be performing next is unnecessary dead space and not entertaining. It's your duty to keep the between song gaps down to a minimum. I very much doubt that it's possible to change a string in 30 seconds on a bass. 2-3 minutes (including stretching out and tuning) if you have everything to hand and probably more like 5 minutes on a darkened stage in a gig situation. That's against 10 seconds to swap your bass over. If you play original songs and your set is mostly made up of fantastically brilliant songs then maybe I can forgive you for the occasional on-stage string change. However if you make a regular habit of it then you probably need to be better prepared. There's a band here in Nottingham that are fantastic live when they are playing the songs. However they spend a couple of minutes mucking about with tuning, fiddling with their effects pedals, trying to reposition the mic stand etc in between every song. It's boring and they loose all momentum. If they took the time to realise that these things are killing their performances they could be one of the best live bands ever. However at the moment they are just another average local act.[/quote] I agree.. For me. If it's high profile gig or very well paid and especially miles away. It's not that much effort putting in an extra bass in the van/car. I did a function 6months ago where the keys player stand was a bit shakey. Instead of trying to sort it in the soundcheck he decided to use it.. fours songs into the first set all the three keyboards collapsed.. he decided we should stop and we didn't get back on for 15mins, which felt like two hours, when you're getting paid good money.. that's not funny and actually embarrassing. It s business.. If he had sorted it in the sound check it would have been better... Otherwise just my fender J

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1172412' date='Mar 22 2011, 06:31 PM']He's absolutely wasted! [/quote] totally!!!