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[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1418091959' post='2626822'] I think was having a particular rough day and having seen a number of 'soundmen bashing' threads on here lately it pushed me over the edge so I bit. Please understand that I'm not jaded, I love my job and if it ever gets to the point where I'm not able to do it because of a shift in attitude then I'll call it a day. I wasn't attempting to impress with my experiences nor was I attempting to throw my weight around, I was trying to suggest that maybe some of the ideas suggested were sometimes more of a perception thing rather than being based in fact. I hope we do cross paths so you can see, I really was having a bad day.. [/quote] actually, I was in a bad mood myself so I probably over-reacted too... Glad that you are possibly one of the "good ones" who really care about sound. I really do believe that some guys (at the smaller venues) just end up at the desk because it's a way to get a few extra quid and don't really understand, or care to understand, what makes for a good sound in a room. We need more passionate people!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1418071738' post='2626616'] "Doremi" was a mistake. Obviously i must have meant "Milaresol". [/quote]

[quote name='Bassnut62' timestamp='1418057657' post='2626393'] aaahhh....Eddie Hazel.....he should be ranked with Jimi Hendrix in my book! check this bit of Eddie out... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcwEEu9yF7w"]https://www.youtube....h?v=CcwEEu9yF7w[/url] [/quote] nice!

I think we're getting a little tangled wth all that "professional" talk... Those who dislike stands on a pub gig (like myself) probably mean (at least I do) that stands and "rock image" don't really go together. That's all.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1418032152' post='2626058'] I call them "Doremi". [/quote] so you're a "real" bass player and you tune your lowest to C?

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1418037416' post='2626113'] The worst sound guys I know all fit one generic group. All got bits of paper from colleges and none play any type of instrument in a band. To me that is like having a teetotal wine maker, or a car designer who can not drive. [/quote] An electric guitar maker who cannot play... oooops!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1418025093' post='2625983'] They're just jealous because they can't read music/don't know the names of the notes. [/quote] I call all the notes "Loretta", that way I don't make terrible mistakes

[quote name='VTypeV4' timestamp='1417489508' post='2620960']We're all bass players on this forum covering all styles, shapes and sizes [b]but so many complain about this subject,[/b] it really gets my goat. I've been a pro engineer for nearly 15 years [...] [/quote] ... maybe you could start by acknowledging that there MAY be something wrong for many, after all. Or do you think they complain because they really like complaining? when someone starts quoting their experience/credentials as a way to "impress" and attempt to negate other people's experiences, that's a major turn off. You may be a great sound engineer, but I hope I don't have to work with you, by the way you talk (and I get along famously with 99.9% of them - mutual respect is the key and you sound jaded and lacking in respect... but maybe it was just a bad day ).

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1417981148' post='2625728'] says precision boy....lol [/quote] snitch!

I love it, sold all other octavers after I got this one. The tracking is the best by far, better than the Aguilar Octamizer, which was pretty good, and light years away from the OC-2, whose tracking just drove me crazy. I find it a bit "cleaner" than the OC-2, but it's still very nice. The EBS Octabass was my favourite together with the MarkBass, ended up selling it purely because the MarkBass is nearly flawless in tracking, but the EBS is a really cool sounding octaver too, and also very good tracking (just not as good as the MB). I get it to track really well even on a low E with Stingray, Jazz (with J-Retro) and Precision... At the low E it glitches if sustained, but the G can be held pretty well, and lower. The OC2 would go mental below A is held for more than a fraction of a second. Check this demo, it's similar to what I get: [url="http://www.talkbass.com/threads/markbass-mb-octaver-demo.838847/"]http://www.talkbass.com/threads/markbass-mb-octaver-demo.838847/[/url]

[quote name='scoobystig' timestamp='1417560600' post='2621863'] Yes you need 12v with at least 1.5a But you need negative centre pin same as the boss pedal power supplies, this is indicated by the small picture above the " made in China" The Link to the one on amazon doesn't say what it is, but normally they are positive centre pin I'll try and find one [/quote] I doubt the compressore actually *needs* 1.5A!!! The super booster pedal also indicated in the manual a supply of 12V and something crazy like that for the current, but it actually uses 60mA. (actually, the superbooster also works very well at 9V!) edit: a quick check reveals it needs 600mA (it's a valve compressor)... so anything above that and you'll be ok.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1417979495' post='2625717'] Thats unfair, I think there is maybe two or three people out of all the thousands that likes me, lol [/quote] Nah, that was before you ditched the Stingray for a Fender

[quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1417954985' post='2625353'] Not too sure of that. You see any number of huge gigs where there is a monitor feeding lyrics etc to band members - mainly the singer but technology like that is present everywhere. [u][b]You may not see it but it's often there.[/b][/u] Nathan East plummeted in my estimation when I saw him reading a 12 bar. [/quote] And that's ok. I'm not against players using something to help them if they want to, as long as it is done in a way that it's not obtrusive and the players look like they're actually involved with the audience.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1417954442' post='2625344'] Out of anything an audience is going to notice during the gig, charts are the last thing I'd worry about. [/quote] It's part of the visual impact of your band... it really would be a turn off for me, as an audience member. I'd rather see a band that's not perfect technically but who are engaging and entertaining, rather than a perfect one musically, and stands get in the way, for me.

Brass and woodwind players don't engage??? But they do!!! Seriously, covers band? A regular player and not just a quick dep for one night? Lose the stands.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1417875585' post='2624767'] I have to keep up the pretence even if I have not gigged an MM bass for weeks now [/quote] Shut up, the EBMM Police are onto us... (haven't played anything but my Precision for about 6 weeks now )

[quote name='Johnm93' timestamp='1417814624' post='2624355'] Have you used one...? [/quote] The demos are terrible!!! "and here's an identical guitar without the O-port, listen" - USE THE SAME GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't one of the points they make how easy and quick it is to install and uninstall?

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1417789298' post='2624051'] Woah, eardrum alert! I never had mine on more than 10 0`clock - with gain set to just clip on the very loudest notes. [/quote] I guess my band is louder than yours naa naa naa naa naaah It won't sound THAT loud 10-20 metres away. That little amp is great, but is not a wizard that can bend the laws of physics

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1417789878' post='2624061'] Read the info. These cabs work just as well horizontally as vertically. [/quote] I'll have to listen to believe it. I can't imagine getting the same definition onstage from two very low speakers on the ground at knee level, than from a stack that comes at least to chest level, no matter what the blurb says. It just goes contrary to every experience I've had.

[quote name='chrisanthony1211' timestamp='1417785978' post='2624004'] Well I tried it in the shop and the bloke let me put it next to my orange terror bass to compare, terror bass was definitely more dirty and full, but the mark bass was very sweet, and volume wise I cranked them both up and again there wasn't much between them, they're similar up to 12 o'clock and then much extra on either after that, anyway I got the mark bass, I think I will probably get the extension cab at some point in the future, they're not silly money picked up second hand, band camp on Monday for some mark bass funk, let's see how it gets on. [/quote] The MarkBass doesn't really get much louder (if at all) with the volume past 1 o'clock or so, by the way.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1417782267' post='2623945'] Aaarrgghhh.... no! Then the badges would be the wrong way round Thought I'd mention it before WoT did... [/quote] although... if you floor people with your amazing tone, then it'll look ok to them

[quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1417777466' post='2623882'] That's interesting. I seem to recall reading that the whole point of having the G string machine on the other side was to eliminate a presumed weakness in the Precision design for a weaker G string. [/quote] Not sure there's anything weak about a G-string in a Precision! I like the 3+1 visually, and that it allows for a shorter headstock and a much shorter length of string after the nut to reach the post... but I doubt it does anything to change whether it's weak or not.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1417777608' post='2623884'] If I owned this cab I'd have 2, and I'd be stacking them horizontally. A flat solid surface isn't guaranteed and vertical isn't always a safe option for many of the gigs I do. [/quote] would you do that to claim more stage space to yourself? cunning! :thumbsup" not sure it'd be much good, soundwise, compared to a vertical stack.