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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.

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!

[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...

[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!!!

[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?

[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? )

[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

[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.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1376515114' post='2175442'] Stingrays are sh*t... [/quote] indeed... but Sue Ryder basses rawk!

[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.

[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!

I have only just started to use it, and I am liking the M-Comp model a lot. It's not the pedal to kill all pedals... but it is pretty decent, and the compression effects are definitely useable, something I was not expecting.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1376333547' post='2172369'] Bit sexist. [/quote] what? Manuel does not complain...

[quote name='fatback' timestamp='1376314445' post='2171975'] Just don't tell that girlfriend that double bass players are barred from washing up, lest they soften their delicate hands. [/quote] We have a dishwasher

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1376221439' post='2170868'] Just admitting that in public is the first foot on the slippery slope [/quote] My girlfriend txted me once, from a gig by some friends of a friend of hers, and sent me a picture of the double bass the guy was playing. "it's beautiful! and he is selling it! shall I ask?" she says she can see having a DB as a decorative item (much like her classical guitar, which has needed new strings for over a year, but I digress...) and would not mind having that beast of an instrument somewhere visible... unlike my electric basses that have to be kept under lock and key in my little music room away from the gaze of visitors... So a significant part of the battle is already won.

I don't play DB but... I admire them from afar and I lurk sometimes I love your solution, Pete. Nice one!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1376085739' post='2169703'] That whole assertion about there being no stupid questions has just failed QA. [/quote] be nice...

[quote name='Stan_da_man' timestamp='1376064215' post='2169273'] G&L - the improved Stingray. [/quote] except it sounds nothing like a Stingray! I see it more like a deriveation from a Jazz, rather... even 'though it really it's a different bass altogether. But the placement of the pickups means you sort of get a Jazz sound, and a very FAT Jazz sound from the bridge pickup (parallel and series respectively), and a kind of P-bass type of sound from the neck pickup too. It does not, in any combination, get a sound that's reminiscent of a Stingray. Fantastic bass, the L2000 (which I assume is the model you are talking about). I have a L2000 that I modified. I removed the preamp, which I really did not care for, and installed a 3-band MMSR Stingray preamp from John East. If the L2000 was a beast before, now it's a veritable monster.