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    As it says - does anyone gig with just a 1x12? I'm looking to get a really seriously small light 1x12 to use for the support slot gigs/multi-band gigs in small music pubs etc where lugging my bigger gear is a pain. But how small is too small? We're an electric trio, but mix quiet atmospheric soundtrackish music with some full on flailing and singing. I've seen things like the Eden E series 1x12 (Bergs etc are out of my price range on this one i'm afraid...) which look decent. I've gigged many times with a 1x15, so surely a 1x12 should be ok, yeah? any thoughts?
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    I've just spent the evening playing this loud thru a pair of headphones and I can't bring myself to sell it. It was a glorious experience! So, regrettably, it's withdrawn until further notice. Sorry folks
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    Fantastic looking bass - I've recently started playing a hollow body bass and the sound/feel has transformed my playing. Everyone should own one! GLWTS
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    Played at The Gladstone Arms in South London last night - a bit of a trek from my adopted hometown of Leicester, but what a great night out. It's an excellent, tiny pub, which puts on live music a few nights a week, serves delicious pies with mash and mushy peas, and serves really nice real ale. I was playing with my original band, and it went down brilliantly - always encouraging to see the audience actually watching and listening, rather than just drunk people chattering among themselves. It's small enough to be intimate and engaging too. Shifted a good few CDs too, which helped finance the whole trip. Didn't get home till 2am so enjoying my bonus bank holiday Monday off work...
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    [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1464460493' post='3059656'] Some of the most enjoyable times I spend with my bass are doing just this - starting off with the bare bones of the tune that the band's working on and trying to come up with just the right part for it. [/quote] That's exactly it - I'm just finding it a really creative, fulfilling thing to do.
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    Hobbayne - same here actually I forgot that bit! People singing along set the bloody thing off too! We're not talking rowdy drunks either - probably 50 well-behaved wedding guests. Needless to say we steered clear of AC/DC, Jet, or indeed anything requiring balls, volume or backing vocals!
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    GAS is a part of life, especially if you're a basschat member.... But I figure I'm 42 now so sometime in the next 10-15 years I might get tired of gigging and travelling. So might as well enjoy it all fully now!
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    GAS is a part of life, especially if you're a basschat member....
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    Cheers NiceGuyHomer - you're not helping my willpower here! I had thought of keeping it and possibly doing something like that - popping in a pair of SD Pearly Gates was my original thought. If only I did more gigs on guitar it would be a goer. Someone please offer me guitar gigs so I don't have to make these difficult decisions!
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    Had a gig in a venue with a noise meter - so we played a sort of emasculated, lounge version of our normal set, with no dynamics of any sort (certainly no crescendos) no backing vocals, and playing quieter than I'd normally play in my house. Overall vibe wasn't helped by the fact I kept getting electric shocks off my mic throughout the first half, until I got a chance to swap some leads at half time, which seemed to cure it. Not our finest hour, but the audience were lovely and they seemed to enjoy it all the same. Oh well.
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    Don't get me wrong - i'm still busy gigging in my covers band too. The originals band is out gigging regularly too - we've gone down pretty well at support slots for people like Howard Rose, Marc O'Reilly and Emma Pollock, and are doing some local summer festival stuff as well, so it's a really pleasing combination of work. We're playing at the Gladstone in London this Sunday if anyone wants to pop down!
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    I've been playing in covers bands for years, but the last time I worked on original material with a band was about eight years ago (aside from depping). But working on new material with an original band again over the last couple of months has suddenly awoken me as a player all over again - I'm hearing things differently, and have got room to explore and stretch my wings a bit. It's wonderful! It's also really changed my bass playing too - I'm standing back a lot more and being guided by the music as to what to play and how to play it. Aiming for something a bit different rather than just learning stuff and repeating it. Sometimes the results are really sparse bass lines, where before I might have been tempted to add in too much. Sorry if it all sounds really obvious, but is puts been a real breath of fresh air to me. Not before time neither. Covers gigs are definitely still where the money is at, but my sanity is loving having some creative fun on the side.
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    More pictures added, this time showing a bit more detail of the maple top and bird inlays. I've also tried to show the small area of very light surface scratches from belt/jeans rivets etc on the back - these are imperceptible to touch, and hard enough to see at all unless you're looking for them. Just thought it would be right to mention them.
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    [s]Have just put this up for sale on the 'Other musically-related items for sale' forum. Sadly no longer using it for anything, tho it's a great guitar, as I'm almost entirely playing bass these days [/s] I changed my mind on the sale after an evening of blissful playing - it aint going anywhere!
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    [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]Hello all,[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I'm selling my very nice PRS SE Bernie Marsden Signature. Its almost mint condition, Korean made, bought new in 2015, and barely left the house since then. These are now being discontinued in favour of USA-made versions I believe.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I've owned it since October 2015, when I wrote a fairly lengthy 'New Guitar Day' post on it shown here:[/font][/color] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/272245-ngd-bernie-marsden-prs-se"]http://basschat.co.u...-marsden-prs-se[/url][color=#000000][font=Helvetica]/[/font][/color] [font=Helvetica]In a nutshell, it's a singlecut Les Paul-alike, with a neck modelled on Bernie Marsden's own 1959 sunburst LP known as 'The Beast'. [/font] [font=Helvetica]It has a mahogany neck and body, with a solid maple cap overlaid with a figured maple veneer. [/font][font=Helvetica]It features two volumes and a master tone, wrap-over bridge, vintage-style machine heads, mahogany fretboard and the usual flying bird inlays. [/font] [font=Helvetica]Full spec here: [url="http://www.prsguitars.com/2015/seberniemarsden"]http://www.prsguitar...seberniemarsden[/url]/[/font] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]It's had a pro set-up by Leicester guitar repairman Howard Smith [url="http://www.howardsmith.co.uk/"]http://www.howardsmith.co.uk[/url], which involved tidying up the string slots in the nut and giving it a fret polish. It did wonders to improve the action and tuning stability, compared with how they are 'off the peg.' Its strung with 10-46 Ernie Balls. [/font][/color][font=Helvetica]The action is beautifully low and buzz-free.[/font] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]Condition-wise it's about as near to mint as you could get, having been played onstage only a handful of times, but not even for a full gig. It comes with an immaculate condition PRS SE chocolate brown padded gig bag, which again has only left the house half a dozen times.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I've put a cream Gibson Les Paul pickup ring on the selector which, which I think looks cool, but I'll include the original ring too. Its a 30-second job to swap them.[/font][/color] [font=Helvetica]The exact weight is 3.5kg - which is lighter than my 2001 Strat and very comfortable to wear. [/font] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I'm selling it because my workload is now almost entirely bass playing, and I've already got two Strats for the very occasional guitar gigs. I also need to cover the cost of a newly-bought Epiphone Jack Casady Bass (which is worth a whole other NBD post of its own…!)[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]Price is £425 & postage. They retail for £595 new.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]I'd prefer meet / collection within a sensible distance of Leicestershire, but I can post too. Will work out costs etc.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]Fire away with any questions, and I'll do my very best to answer them. I'm sorry some of the pics are at the wrong angle, but i can't figure how to change them and[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Helvetica]they show all the right details.[/font][/color] [attachment=219947:PRS7.JPG] [attachment=219949:PRS3.JPG] [attachment=219950:PRS4.JPG] [attachment=219951:PRS5.JPG] [attachment=219952:PRS6.JPG] [attachment=219953:PRS2.JPG]
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    Great basses. I've been gigging one for last few weeks and it's definitely a keeper. Much more versatile than you'd think too. Black ones look super cool too!
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    If you can, get one of each. If you can't, just get a good Precision.
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    Great cabs these - i've got a 1210 and i've used it for every gig since i bought it.
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    CamdenRob very kindly donated to me a volume pedal he wasn't using. It arrived first class, well packaged and in great condition. Top man to deal with.
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    I've got EXL165 nickels on my jazz bass and they're great. I've always used Rotosounds but really like these too - more so in terms of the feel, and they seem to have lasted well too. I've also wound up with a set of new NYXLs which I've yet to put on the bass - the D'Addario rep brought some along as a raffle prize at the Midlands Bass Bash.
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    Lovely guitars - my first ever electric was a E series MIJ 1957 reissue Strat, in some strange metallic aqua blue (turned out to be quite rare colour apparently). It was great tho. Lovely grain in the maple neck/fingerboard, nice guitar. I ended up selling it for a 1994 MIJ Strat, which despite the lesser pedigree, was a better individual guitar for my tastes, and which I still have 14 years on. Both cool guitars tho.
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    Wow - yeah I've got a jack casady that looks exactly the same, but that Gibson is the daddy definitely! Stunning looking bass that.
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    Why does it have two jack sockets?
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    Wow that is cool! Amazing looking bass.
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    Around the same time i also worked in a jewellery shop, and a cool looking, older guy came in one day. He looked faintly familiar. We got chatting, I served him etc and when he handed over his bank card to pay, the name on it is "Mr A Stardust". Cool.
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