colleya

Just picked up a (barely) used 702 with cover. Next gig is Jan 11 so will report back.

Just bought an IEM system from Knicknack. Smoother than a silkworm in a smoking jacket. Highly recommended, cheers!

Merry Christmas folks! Here's Jump The Shark's version of Hungry Like The Wolf with a bit of Loggins chucked in for good measure. Live recording at Unit 26 Studios, Salford back in October.

So much want.

This is one of the early models. I think the newer ones have a slightly bigger (and better) case. Can measure if it matters?

Black it is then!

Like the Music Man charcoal sparkle?

Handbox R400 sounds pretty sweet.

10 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Gun Metal Sparkle

I'm putting my wallet in the freezer.

On 11/12/2019 at 20:13, AndyTravis said:

So I then decide what I’m doing with it.

Gold sparkle!

Saw them on the Boys & Girls In America tour. Excellent live, a really good atmosphere. It's still their best album.

Saw them again on the Stay Positive your. Franz (keys) had left and a fourth guitarist had joined. It was offensively, painfully loud and they'd lost the great balance from the previous gig. Still a decent gig but I had very high hopes from earlier.

Looks like Franz is back now, but they haven't been anywhere near Manchester recently. I'd definitely be buying a ticket if I was nearer to London though.

@Al Krow hope you don't mind me reviving this thread. Would be interested to know how you're getting on with the RCF. I'm toying with the idea of replacing our Alto 1st gen 15" sub, but the RCF is double the price of the new Alto.

9 hours ago, Muzz said:

Oh, it was all off and mostly disassembled (hence the XLR-coiling)...not that they noticed...

I've had requests to 'just plug it back in and play xxxxx for us' whilst carrying a subwoofer between pub door and car.

Well, I thought they were good mates but then the buggers gave me an early birthday present at rehearsal last night! 

1 hour ago, peteb said:

If you're anywhere near West Yorkshire, you are welcome to pop round and have a go with my R400. 

R400 here in South Manchester too. Same offer for any basschatters who might be interested.

On 25/11/2019 at 00:08, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

 

 

Enjoyed that an awful lot. Sounded ace. Love that John Deacon correct P bass too!

I already have one of the early versions of this amp and I've still caught myself considering this just for the nicer case!

Top amp, somebody please buy it!

I'm the youngest in my band at 39. 

You may well find that a lot of folk our age are just getting their heads back above water after years with young kids and now have a bit more time to spare.

We've all got families/jobs etc so agreed early on to gig about once a month and rehearse every fortnight or so. Because we got this sorted early there have been very, very few disagreements about commitment etc

Go for it, and good luck!

12 hours ago, BrunoBass said:

The first was a Fender Duff McKagan which I tried in a store and was blown away by, so I took the plunge.

Never been interested in sig models, especially the over branded ones. It's definitely more specs and appearance that sell a bass to me. So when I saw Brunobass' Duff on the for sale board last week the GAS went into overdrive.

Took a couple of days to shuffle the funds around before messaging and just missed out on it.

Still sig-less.😢

49 minutes ago, T-Bay said:

To be fair, a well tanked crowd are almost always better than a stone cold sober one.......

Agreed. Miles more fun playing to a nicely oiled crowd who are up for dancing & singing. The other bits also come with the booze though, so within reason I try to smile and humour them. If you play pubs, you're going to get drunk folk. I'd much rather put up with the associated buffoonery than the soul destroying experience of playing to two bored barmaids and a passing cat.

33 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

On the other hand, some of these bozos are sources of great band stories for the years to come. 

Had an excellent one a few gigs back. I'd developed a dead spot on the A string 1st fret about 3 songs into the first half. Thought it was the strings (pink DR neons - hey, it's an 80s band) so spent the break swapping over to my reserve (standard colour) set.

A couple of songs into the second half a punter wanders over: "Where's the guitar you were playing before? You should play that one, it was much better"

For the record, it wasn't the strings, just needed a little truss rod tweak. However it was a night for gremlins and I was already stressed out from trying to sort mystery IEM problems so wasn't thinking straight enough to spot it.

An absolute cracker of a gig at the same pub we play every Halloween.

Full day of the dead fancy dress, even busier pub than usual and tried out my new Smoothound which worked perfectly.

The sound was great, but funnily enough I didn't play that well (possibly due to being paid in beer & accommodation). The atmosphere & fun factor carried it completely though.

Anyway, pics.

21 hours ago, EBS_freak said:

 

 

Apologies for it being a bit rough around the edges... guitarist, keys, perc and female singer all deps... and this was after a run through at soundcheck when somebody came up to us asking us to play Timewarp... so we gave it a go... warts and all.

Sounds great! Especially love the drum mix, and no discernible warts at all! Also looks like a really fun gig.

1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:

Its an option, but if we didn't take out own kit it would end up a compromise, which i would want captured on video.

Our drummer used their kit and it sounds great. He had brought his and was all ready to set up but it was loads less hassle to use the one provided.

Guitarist and I used our own amps.

Cheers gents, appreciate the comments. The bass sound came out with more mid and treble than I'd usually dial in, but I like it a lot.

@Beedster Our singer was really struggling that day, lots of coughing between takes etc. She did a fab job of covering it up but her power at either end of the range was down a bit which affected her ability to really go for it. And then we made her do this: