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[quote name='lownote12' timestamp='1377719911' post='2190919'] hey your signature is so long and involved I've kindof lost the plot of what you're selling and where we've got to [/quote] [indent=1][size=6]bass player with [b]Sea Bass Kid [/b]- [url="http://www.facebook.com/seabasskid"]http://www.facebook.com/seabasskid[/url] & [url="http://www.seabasskid.com"]http://www.seabasskid.com[/url][/size][/indent] [indent=1][size=6]and [b]The Richt Hoat Chillis [/b]-[url="http://www.myspace.com/rhcpscot"] www.myspace.com/rhcpscot[/url][/size][/indent] [indent=1][size=6]and [b]Radge Against The Machine [/b]- [url="http://www.facebook.com/radgeatm"]http://www.facebook.com/radgeatm[/url][/size][/indent] [size=6][color=#FF0000][b](1) [/b][/color][b][color=#000000]MusicMan Stingray[/color][/b] (2002, 2EQ - now with John East MMSR 3-band preamp), natural with maple fingerboard. [color=#FF0000][b](2)[/b] [/color][b][color=#000000]MusicMan SUB[/color][/b], (2003, 2EQ), white with rosewood fingerboard [b][color=#FF0000](3)[/color][/b] [b][color=#000000]MusicMan SUB[/color][/b] (2006, 2EQ), wine red with rosewood fingerboard OLP MM2, black and maple fingerboard. SD SMB4A pickup, 2EQ Stingray clone preamp. - [color=#EE82EE]FOR SALE[/color] G&L L2000 Tribute, natural with maple fingerboard, with John East MMSR 3-band preamp. Fender Jazz (2002?), CIJ 75 Reissue. Natural with maple fingerboard. Nordstrand NJ4SE pickups. Squier Jazz (1994, MIK). Red with rosewood fingerboard. SD SJB-2 pickups and Fender flatwounds. Squier Jazz VM series fretless, capri orange body and ebanol fingerboard, with Basslines pickups. [color=#FF0000](4)[/color][color=#000000] [/color][b][color=#000000]Vintage EJM96 Jazz bass[/color][/b], black with rosewood fingerboard. Fender USA pickups. Cort GB74 super Jazz type with MM/J pickups. Active, natural ash body and maple fingerboard. Retrovibe Vantage MM/J, modified to be single MM and John East MMSR 3-band preamp. Red with maple fingerboard BC Rich Mockingbird, dual P pickups, black and rosewood. - [color=#EE82EE]FOR SALE[/color] Sue Ryder RP-1 (Precision bass clone), white with rosewood fingerboard. With Status flatwounds and Wizard Thumper pickup. Sue Ryder RP-1, white with maple fingerboard. Fretless, with DiMarzio Model P pickup and D'Addario nylon tapewounds.. - [color=#EE82EE]FOR SALE[/color] [b][color=#FF0000](5) [/color][color=#000000]Squier Precision Mike Dirnt[/color][/b], vintage white and rosewood. Squier Precision Classic Vibe 50 series, butterscotch blonde with maple fingerboard. Fender flatwounds - TC Electronic RH450 head, MarkBass CMD121P combo TC Electronic RS210 and BC212 cabs. Barefaced Compact 1x15 cab. - [color=blue][b]FEEDBACK[/b]: [u][url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=100971"]My feedback thread is here[/url][/u][/color][/size] -
I had a Wesley Monarch, shaped like a Streamer, more or less. It was actually a pretty good bass despite the pickups being a little quiet. It sounded good and a basic set up was all it needed. Cheap? Yes, but that Monarch was a pretty decent bass. I don't know about other models, but the MOnarch was nice. I should have kept it...
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[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1377526835' post='2188460'] Brand New. They essentially built a factory in Indonesia with the same specs and the parts as the California plant. Result -- same bass, with workers who get 1/16 of the pay. That may not be good for the American economy but it makes for a great deal on a bass. [/quote] Not really. Pickups and preamp are different, for starters. They are two separate companies that share nothing physically. Woods are also different qualities/source... but I don't care so much for wood: as long as it's solid and looks alright, that's fine by me (heresy for some, I know ) Go on talkbass, there's a thread on these basses and one of the top guys at SBMM is often there answering questions. He even posted a modification for the preamp on their basses, which many felt was too hot. Cool guy. His latest question was "right, it's time for new colours, what do you want?" I said shell pink. If they make a SUB (maple fingerboard!) in shell pink, I would have to buy one. They already make them in surf green and they are sooooo tempting
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[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1377514670' post='2188283'] I've owned a couple of original USA SUBS and they were as good as any Stingray. But the new cheaper SUBS, which were manufactured recently and sold for about £300, don't nail the Stingray sound in my opinion (although they may well be nice basses in their own right). [/quote] That's why I asked, as what you say fits what I heard from people whom I trust. I have not personally tried the new SUBs so I don't know for certain. I heard also that teh new SUBs compared to the OLPs... and those were not really Stingray quality or sound, but could be modified relatively simply and were pretty good instruments (some were, some were dogs)... The new SUBs look very tasty, and if they're anything close to what the OLPs were, they would be great value... regardless whether they nail the Stingray sound in stock form or not. I love the old SUBs, I have a couple of them!
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[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1377487717' post='2188061'] I have a MM and a SUB and I concur. it's ridiculous. [/quote] original USA SUBs (2003-2006)? or the newer line by Sterling By MusicMan?
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[quote name='dwh87' timestamp='1377295006' post='2186059'] Something "new" from Fender. Was there a gap in the market for this? It has a couple subtle changes from his old one like the added forearm contour. He also played one at Reading and Leeds festival tonight. Here is the sweet talk from Fender Fender and hard-hitting Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt join forces once again to bring you the Mike Dirnt Road Worn Precision Bass. With original-era 1951 Precision styling, its ash body wears a 3-Color Sunburst or White Blonde lacquer finish worn to perfection to simulate years of hard-played onstage glory. Other distinctive features include a comfortable forearm contour, a volcanic custom vintage-style '59 split single-coil pickup, side-mounted output jack and custom Mike Dirnt neck plate. The maple neck has a thick "C"-shaped profile and a classic '51-style Telecaster headstock shape, with a 9.5"-radius maple or rosewood fingerboard with 20 medium jumbo frets and black (maple board) or aged white (rosewood board) dot position inlays. The bass also has a single-ply black pickguard, two knurled chrome flat-top control knobs (volume, tone) and special '70s vintage-style tuners. [/quote] Hmmm, if the sunburst/maple one has a clean routing under that pickguard... that would be a very tasty bass indeed.
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[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1377215248' post='2185018'] Music Man came out with the Ray line and they matched the original in quality. Now there's a SUB series for even less and THEY are every bit as good. [/quote] Some may disagree about the "they are every bit as good" and about the SBMM Ray line matching the original in quality. But the truth is we seem to be able to get pretty good instruments even in the budget lines (not all, but many of them). The difference in quality between the top range and the budget range has been reduced dramatically in the past 20 years or so. I have an OLP that I have gigged and if I could not afford a Stingray (or a USA made SUB, the original ones from 2003-2006), I would not really be lacking much. I modified the OLP to have a decent preamp and a good pickup, and have it set up beautifully. It's still a cheap bass... but it would work just fine.
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Pity, I only have the 3 stacked knobs from a J-Retro, without the extra single knob... otherwise I'd take you up on a swap. -
[quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1376322722' post='2172109'] I have a Ryder with a Wizard Thumper pickup in...that's my retirement fund sorted then! [/quote] Ha! So do I!
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[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1376993873' post='2181862'] Really want one of these but no cash boohoo me lol [/quote] if you have a sister aged 25-35 send me a PM and we may still sort something out -
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[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1376772250' post='2179045'] Just done an outdoor gig, and am amazed - yet again - at how my tiny Markbass CMD121P combo & NY121 ext cab performed. Nothing other than vocs going through PA, in a big pub garden under a tent/marquee. Had to up the lows a bit, but other than that, the depth of sound, certainly where I was, was great. I did another outdoor gig a few years back using my Marshall DBD7400 & VBC412 and I think the Markbass sounded better. [/quote] Ha! I just posted something along the same lines! Pub beer garden, nice stage, PA for vocals and everything else by itself. I did not use an extension cab. It would have been nice, but because of logistics I decided to make do with the CMD121P combo alone, plus they asked us not to be too loud. And the little yellow and black fellow did its thing remarkably well without sweat.
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Help me choose a light powerful combo (or cab?) - update: MarkBass CMD121
mcnach replied to mcnach's topic in Amps and Cabs
3 months later... and I'm still loving it! I played a gig today at a beer garden. Full band. We were asked not to be too loud, so we weren't, but it was still full band, and I managed with the CMD121P combo. No, there weren't earthquake-like amounts of bass... but the bass was not buried, and I wasn't even pushing it hard. Is there anything this amp cannot do? -
Theo just bought my microsynth. Easy going, no problem at all. Thanks!
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[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1376568786' post='2176147'] But Im the singer too, so there! [/quote] egomaniac warning right there: you want both the sheer thumping power of the bass and also to have the spotlights aiming at you...
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[quote name='clauster' timestamp='1376564588' post='2176000'] If I was in an originals band that had aspirations of making it big would I be using the Compact? No way! Chances are it'd be a big Ashdown or Ampeg. Maybe Trace or Hartke or Peavey or Mark Bass or GK. Half of being professional is looking professional and those are manufacturers you see on big stages. And there's many more requirements above weight/portability in this market. A function band? Again, probably not. I'd want something a bit more elegant and sophisticated looking than my current rig. The clients would be expecting a professional appearance of a certain quality for their money. In that situation I'd happily trade that for the ease of movement of the rig as it wouldn't need to be moved so quickly or so far. [/quote] You are seriously overestimating how much people are going to look at you. You are the bass player!!!
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[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1376515256' post='2175444'] Bear in mind though that these are modelling effects, not actual compressors. [/quote] ? A signal processor that compresses the signal is... what? what would you call that? The compressors in the B3 and the MS-60B are modelled in other well known compressor units and attempt to reproduce their characteristics... This they may do more or less successfuly. But they are compressors! what on earth are they if not? is the distortion effect of a digital modelling distortion unit not a distortion?
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[quote name='dood' timestamp='1376504738' post='2175165'] I love the B3. The compressors are really nice. I've been using the DBX type comp but what I love to do is use the global wet dry mix to stir in a bit of original bass tone as well. Works a treat for fat sounding bass. [/quote] Your youtube video on the MS-60B is fantastic, thank you! It helped me a lot to decide to buy one and how to use it afterwards (who wants to read a manual? )
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[quote name='Toasted' timestamp='1376485263' post='2174620'] Heard the one about a fool and his money? How about the one about the emperors new clothes? [/quote] I have only owned mine for about a month now or so... but apart from cosmetic details, I really really like mine. It's not emperor's new clothes. It sounds huge, it sounds great, and it's so very light... It suits me perfectly. Yes, lightness comes at a price, both literal and in terms of how solid the cab is, with its thinner walls etc. But the way I transport my gear, which is the way 90% of the people here transport theirs, it will not be a problem. If I worry about it in the future, I'll get a case for those situations. I can walk comfortably with Markbass combo in one hand, BF Compact in another, and bass on my back... and that's a very loud and good sounding rig in a very comfortable package. Are there "better" options? Better meaning suiting my wishes. I have not found one. If I find a cab that sounds better, for me to use it it should be as light or lighter.. and sound much better, or it would not be worth the effort and expense. Corners etc are not the strongest points on the BF. Not the best fit. But it's something I can live with after I experience their performance and have transported the cab a few times. I can understand not everybody has the same objectives and standards and not everybody likes the same thing. That's ok. But it's very naive and superficial of you to assume that BF owners have somehow been confused into buying something that does not meet their needs, and that they just express their delight with their BF cabs out of delusion. I do like an entertaining troll, 'though, so please carry on
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[quote name='Toasted' timestamp='1376558076' post='2175822'] Wooks79 - I've never ever seen a Barefaced. My opinions came to me in a dream. Or maybe I read them through a hole in the top of a hat? I don't know. [/quote] this is trolling in style... if you're gonna troll, at least be entertaining. My hat off to you, sir.
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[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1376515114' post='2175442'] Stingrays are sh*t... [/quote] indeed... but Sue Ryder basses rawk!
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[quote name='Steve G' timestamp='1376380515' post='2172929'] Molasses, coke and vinegar all contain phosphoric acid to some degree. This is the part that does the rust removal. You can probably get the acid in higher strength on ebay but don't leave items in it overnight, more like a few minutes, and mind your fingers!! [/quote] coke contains some phosphoric acid. vinegar is acetic acid, diluted. molasses I *think* contained *some* acetic acid among others, but it's been a long time since I read about that stuff. I don't recall any phosphoric acid there 'though.
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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1376339009' post='2172541'] My other thread did cross my mind Jose knows me well enough for me to have made it first, others reading it might not know that or get the joke at all, I'd save it for a pm rather than over the counter of a busy shop [/quote] ah, life is so complicated these days!
