Lozz196

The Player Series are very nice instruments, I was very impressed when I got my Player Precision and likewise I’m not sure that there’s nearly £800 difference between these and the US range.

I’m 6ft and when I was in my teens/early 20s was one of the tallest people around both at work and in my local. Now it seems I’m just of average height. I don’t think Boris has been blamed for enough this week so I’m going to lay this at his door.

For me they’d be the ultimate fly-rigs if they had the option to run on batteries. Having to take a power supply and a converter plug (and then hope there’s a power socket you can see that’s near enough) makes these not as convenient as they could be for actual flying gigs to other countries.

I’m pretty much in the “if it’s not there don’t force it” camp. Many a time I’ve sat down and tried to get riffs/songs and ended up with nothing, however the times I’ve found most productive have been when I’ve simply sat down to play for the sake of it. At that point I seem to be able to produce good working ideas. These sessions usually start with me selecting songs I know how to play on YouTube, playing along then going off on a tangent and ending up with some workable ideas. Probably as my mind was relaxed by that point I suppose, just enjoying playing stuff I love,

Yes of course, the difficult in-house people, forgot that one but when they raise their heads above the parapet man, do they contribute big time to a bad gig.

Bad gigs for me are where the promoter does nothing other than book the gig, where the headline band lose their heads in their own back-passages and won’t move their drums off stage but won’t allow the other band(s) to use it, multi band gigs in venues where there isn’t enough storage for all the gear, and where the promoters don’t get in a set backline to make changeovers/storage easier. Also gigs where bands think of the gig more as a party and bring all their friends in the dressing room who then drink the whole rider and stay sat in the chairs that are there for the bands to relax in. Said bands are often the types that overrun on set times. Again the promoters should have a better handle on this and just stop both of these happening. Lastly gigs where there is no parking - makes things just that little bit more frustrating.

Not sure but if it plays well and sounds good then you’ve got the two points which count. As a third point it looks cool too.

Given the variety of sounds we’ve heard on the demos so far on this thread I really like the look of this. Each demo is pushing me further towards it, aaarggh.

I like that, very well mixed & balanced imo. I especially like the guitar sound, it’s nice to hear a guitar that isn’t way over the top driven/delayed/reverbed, think he’s nailed the Andy Taylor vibe there.

Just bought the new Michael Monroe CD, One Man Gang and only 5 tracks in so far the verdict is its killer! Which is nice as I’ve got tickets to see him on 02 Nov.

I had a Markbass 2x12, it wasn’t to my recall the NY version. It was however a very nice sounding cab, and very light/portable. I also noticed that you roll off the high end on your current set-up, well in my experience with Markbass cabs they have an in-built high end roll off so they should suit you very well.

Unless the style of playing used doesn’t work for the band in question why change?

Genius, he managed to sound like Lemmy on an acoustic fretless.

Not exactly one-trick, with the same strings and eq on my Para Driver that I use for my live work, just rolling off the tone control makes it sound a very different instrument.

I liked them, did some good stuff that I thought was great but also some that I just can’t listen to.

Whoever played bass on Seasons in The Sun, though I didn’t realise it at the time, then punk in general. A few obvious contenders being Sid Vicious (yes he wasn’t a great bassist but played for the best punk band and looked great), and JJ Burnell & Bruce Foxton who made the bass almost a lead instrument.

Congrats, they`re decent little cabs and surprisingly full-sounding given their size. I`ve used them a couple of times - courtesy of friendly headlining band that I know fairly well.

It’s pretty easy, use maple fretboards on guitars for use in Europe.

Again showing it’s versatility. I’m getting severely tempted by this.....

He hit him with wood, hrr, hrr.

A but like a boogying Wilco Johnson methinks.

Don’t forget they managed to fit George Michael and menstrual cycle into another of their songs.

Good points Chris, and many apply to me as well, should have simply bought a Precision rather than trying to get that sound from other basses, and def should have practiced harder rather than being content to do ‘enough’.

Nice one, it’s good to know of the companies who look after their customers, and even better when we find it’s a British one as it makes returning gear to be checked etc so much easier,.