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Fantastic! Thank you!

Thanks! I just find it confusing because I've seen the same "LTF-4A" described as long and medium scale... but if they say LTF-4A that's just one scale length and they've been misdescribed right?

Ibrahim Maalouf... can't get tired of this

I keep meaning to try some Labella flats too. What is the actual catalog model, do you remember?

I discovered them by chance on Spotify once (I sometimes just type random words and go through the hits... soemtimes you find really good stuff)... They have some really good material.

This one here: Shine SBA724, new, on eBay I have one. I bought it about 8 years ago I think, then sold it, then regretted it, then my girlfriend bought it back from me (thank you @alyctes ) It's a hell of a bass, and at £149... I'd buy it again if I didn't have one already Mine is very light. However, that comes with a caveat: it's light, and because of the body shape with the very low strap button, it does have some neck dive. It's the one thing I don't like about it, but I live with it. Lots of people play Gibson/Epiphone EB series and Thunderbirds... this will be on the same territory with regards to ergonomics, but a lot lighter than a Thunderbird. It sounds great. The pickups are beasts. The tone control actually works, unlike in many cheap basses where it just goes from bright to mud... here it is well coupled to the pickups. Anyway... I thought maybe someone would find this attractive.

The bass starts at 15

That's... different!

Don't feel bad Maybe you feel a bit differently, maybe not... I for one I'm very grateful that you share things that you found here. I've come across a LOT of great music in your posts. You can't score 10/10 every time

Thank you And, yes... he is! I should get a Kala bass to play with him 😛

Ok, so we look a bit bored and stiff... we were missing a guitar and the sax player, and personally I was struggling physically a lot. Not the best night to have a gig... but it was my first with my new bass so here it goes, Sea Bass Kid playing "Smokey Home", one of the tracks in our new CD (almost ready!)

A video from last weekend, first gig on the Sandberg... excuse me my looking bored, I was not, but I was struggling due to lack of sleep for several nights and it was after 1am already. In fact the whole band looks a bit stiff compared to our usual, and we were missing one guitar (and sax!)...

Thank you, but I'm alright for now I think I've tried that cab (maybe not the very same, but same model) one epic night (same night I tried the Vanderkley ones and various others in one single room) and it was pretty good!

Are you selling any? I tried the 210... MNT I think it was, alongside the two TKS types, a single BB2 and a single Compact. They were nice, surprisingly close to the TKS 1226 in sound. Nice, but not my kind.

I don't think I could call any of the BF cabs I tried (15" Compact or the 12" BB2 and SuperMidgets) lacking in the mids, I found them pretty 'transparent', as bass cabs go. In fact, sometimes I wanted to tame the higher mids on those (not because they enhance them, but because I think I like lower high mids myself and less of the higher mids and treble ranges). The 1126 and the BB2 are not a bad comparison, in that they're both big sounding, and you can probably get one to sound like the other, but their inherent voicing is different. The 1126 sounds more 'pleasant' at first, to my ears, possibly because the higher mids are not as prominent. The BB2 is probably just more transparent, or 'flat' in its response. The SC I think it's a very different beast from the S112, but I'm just going by what I read as I have not tried a SC myself. The S112 is a tiny cab, as far as 12s go. With a ceramic driver whose details I forget but I remember it being something relatively common in the bass world. It is not very highly rated, 250W or so I think, so with it being in a smaller box than the SC, probably can't even begin to compete with is volume-wise. Not to say it's weak, it's just that you need to be a bit mindful when using amplifiers capabl of delivering hundreds of watts. Because of the relatively small box, there is not as much bass as in other bigger 112s. It's not that it sounds weak, again, it's just that it's voiced with a bit less bass. You can turn up the bass controls a bit and it responds beautifully, but because of the power handling limits, you need to be a bit careful, more careful than with anything like a SC or BB2. But I personally love their sound. They're only around 11Kg I think. Something ridiculous. So carrying a couple is nothing. They just make getting the sound I like very very very easy: fat, but with good definition, strong low mids, punchy but not too bassy, and probably not a lot going on above 5 KHz (which is a lot brighter than it seems to most people, slap bass sounds REALLY nice with that top end rolloff). I've used a single one at band rehearsals, full band. Use the wall wisely and it sounds plenty big on its own. For gigs, as a stage monitor I've used one just fine. For small bars I used two generally, without PA. I even played a small beer garden without PA, just the LM3 and the two cabs and I was not pushing it too hard. The drums were not mic'd either, so it was loud enough, but not crazy loud. Larger bars... I have reached the point where I wanted a bit more but I was afraid of pushing too much. A HPF would probably be helpful although the LM3 has a built-in one, but I noticed even a Thumpinator seemed to have a (positive) effect with it. Three cabs will probably see me quite happily play any of my common gigs, and ifwe need more it's definitely PA support time. Trouble is I'm not sure I can fit 3 in my boot... hmmm. I may have just found the reason I needed to stop being silly and not thinking of buying anything else now No, I didn't consider 212s or 410s because I wanted something easy to take with me wherever. I used to have a heavy 410. Not superheavy, at just over 40Kg, but with the bulk, it was not fun when I had to load/unload by myself, and at the time I lived in an apartment with stairs to climb etc... not great, not my idea of the end of a good evening I like small boxes, as many as you need, so you can use just what you need each time. That's where the Two10 are working well for me. While I prefer the TKS S112, the Two10 is nice enough, loud enough, small enough and light enough... and two fit perfectly in my boot. As for the 4x 112s... that was never my plan. I had the pair of blue ones, and I was liking them a lot. I decided the 1126 were going to go already, and someone else here had a pair of black S112 they wanted to swap for my 1126... so we arranged a swap plus a bit of cash my way. It was just a chance to experiment with adding more cabs and see how that worked. Eventually I sold the black ones too because if I needed more volume, I wanted something I could fit in my boot and not fill the car with stuff... I tried the Two10, and I got a pair. For some reason I never tried 3 of the S112s...

At one point I owned FOUR of the S112... This is from a day where I went to try a couple of amps and various combinations of cabs (I had a series/parallel box, as none of those amps could be use with lower than 4ohm). Another day I repeated that including a Mesa D800 I borrowed, which could do 2ohm... fun!

Yes, that's what I meant but I didn't want to say 'scooped' as it makes it sound worse than it was. They were NICE no doubt! I was just in a great position to have various sets of cabs to choose from, and my "loud and light" solution was won by a pair of BB2 cabs as I found easier to get that midrange I want. I'm positive I could have made the 1126 work just fine, and they were prettier (red! :D) but the BB2 narrowly won (for me) and they fitted better in the boot of my small car (an A3) which was also a factor in my decision. Three S112 could be pretty cool. They're so small and light,and sound great... between three of them spreading the goodness I'm positive I'll get all the volume I need. If I see one for sale when I have money to waste I may give that a try, just to see. If it works well I may just let my two Two10 go and simply have 3 little cabs for maximum modularity and save space at home too. I really like my Two10 cabs... but I always preferred the S112 for sound.

Tension is actually typically lower for BEAD and EADG, so theneck will be fine but you might need to loosen up the truss rod to get more relief as the strings will pull less and you may get some fret buzz otherwise.

Well, I bought one... I just need to install it! In fact I have that one, and a tonestyler-type one made by someone in his workshop that I got on eBay a while ago (complete loom, for Jazz style wiring, including series/parallel switch, so it'll take all of 5 minutes to fit)... I just need to stop being distracted in BC

Damn you @Al Krow Now you got me thinking about speakers, and have been playing with the TKS S112s... and realised that as my current amplifier is 2ohm capable, I could safely run 3 of the S112 cabs and that would surely be just fine for pretty much any gig that I do. So you got me thinking about getting a third S112 now, just when I was free of GAS As my existing ones are blue, and the few times I see one for sale they're black, it would mean ordering new, again. Ugh. 😛

I find that staying away for a bit helps reigniting the flame. My main band had a kind of... 'hiatus' forced on us due to circumstances beyond our control. We were a little... bored, at the time too. I thought that was it. But when we had the chance to come back we did, and the fire is starting to come back. It's not the first time I experience this. Sometimes we all need a vacation, I think.

You're my twin brother... I've recently brought that book out, again, hoping that seeing it on the desk will prompt me to actually use it... not getting very far yet I start... then I get distracted playing something I'm actually decent at and that's it.

Indeed! If I plotted the number of musical items I buy against time, there will be a sharp peak starting a few months after I joined. However, it's been a good trip My most expensive mistake? Probably making a custom order for a bass. I didn't gel with it at all for various reasons. It wasn't bad, just not what I look for in a bass. Took a big hit when selling it on. Then again, my last custom order has been a resounding success, so I'm happy overall. Thanks @Cuzzie In general, I bought too many things new that I was not sure I needed/wanted, and took big hits selling them on. But I'm impatient so when I want something and I have money in my pocket...

@dave moffat Not sure what you find confusing... so here's a bit more, just in case: http://www.kickassbass.co.uk/ edited to add the obligatory smiley, just in case!

You could make something like this: He makes acoustic basses (can be 'electrified' of course) out of standard bass necks and bass drums. They sound pretty good and they're actually easy to play. You can find more on his facebook page. Search for "Kickass Bass" on facebook.