Wil

I picked up a Series 1 Status with a wood neck (the series 1 is like the Eclipse but with a multiple laminate body and through neck), for £250 from Trade it last year, and its an amazing bass. It kills any bass I've owned for playability and growl. Build quality surpassed the brand new Warwick Streamer Jazzman I sold a few months prior to getting it, and it has more growl, too. Truly awesome basses.

[quote name='Freuds_Cat' post='80016' date='Oct 27 2007, 03:12 AM']Yep I agree with this. We are the owners of our practice room and rent it out to other bands. We supply a basic Pearl drum kit (quite reasonable quality) A Laney 100w Combo for guitars (ordinairy sound but works OK) a genuine Hammond B3 (too bloody heavy to shift anyway) and a 15" JBL cab with a Peavey Mark 4 head. I cant stand the sound of Mark 4 heads personally and I've had to use quite a few over the years. My practice solution is similar to that suggested above, I bring my Ampeg Preamp to practice and just use the power amp section of the Peavey. Works a treat, its light, only takes a few seconds to setup and makes practice 100% more enjoyable. When my gear is in a truck or un accesible for some reason I have even resorted to using a Behringer Tube Ultragain Mic100 (Very basic tube preamp) These things are small, cheap and make a subtle but effective difference to the sound and feel of an instrument. I think I paid Aus$50 second hand for mine from [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BEHRINGER-MIC100-MICROPHONE-PRE-AMP-PRICE-INCLUDES-VAT_W0QQitemZ130160551561QQihZ003QQcategoryZ3278QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem"]ebay[/url]. I did change out the Chinese tube with a Tung Sol though. This is not the best way but it is a very cheap and simple way of getting a better tone when using a crap sounding amp but as Wulf says nothing except talking to the owner can solve damaged speakers. And if you are paying for it then you should expect everything to work.[/quote] In my experience, those Beringer preamps sound really good for recording. Nice tubey response and warmth.

I don't have this pedal, so can't offer any real experience per se, but you seem to have your mids rolled off. This probably sounds nice on its own, but scooped mids in a band mix normally = bass getting lost. Your mids are vital for cutting through the guitars, try leaving them flat or boosting them a touch.

I keep my gig rig and occasionally my bass at the studio all year round. Screw using a Peavy/Ashdown lump when I've got over a grand of GK and Markbass noise making equipment!

I could make Swindon, depending on the date.

I've lowered the starting bid, buy it now and and reserve prices slightly. Someone buy this, I gotta pay my credit cards off!

Yep!

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Pm'd. They sound great together, and they can do "very loud" with ease. Admittedly I'm "only" pushing 500 watts through them, but they've easily kept up with any situation I've been in without breaking a sweat.

I'm posting this from Ubuntu Linux. I've used it since my PC died and I didn't have a copy of XP knocking around. Observations are that its far faster and more stable for general usage (browsing the net, working with images etc). Installing things can be a bit confusing at first, and I haven't got it to record sound using my onboard PC line in yet, but besides that, screw Windows and Apple, this is free! All I really use my PC for is surfing the net, so its ideal for me. Plus, where with XP it took ages to configure my internet connection (and I'm a Microsoft certified XP specialist, fer god's sake!) Ubuntu connected of its own accord, instantly, which gives it brownie points as far as I'm concerned

I use 3 12"s, admittedly a 2x12 and 1x12, but its great mix between the punch of a 4x10 and the lows of a 15. Plus, with 500 watts of Little Mark driving it its fookin loud. I don't think you'll have any problems being heard!

Sounds very fat, warm and thumpy. How a P bass should sound When I was fitting the neck I decided to keep it flush with the top edge of the neck pocket for stability, as it was at least 2 mm too big for the neck. Shouldn't cause a problem to shift the bridge slightly I think, as because the neck is already drilled I dont have much scope for movement there.

This is a project I've been documenting elsewhere, but thought I'd share the finished result with y'all. Its the body of my first bass, a mid 90s Encore P, with a Status neck, new black pickguard and knobs, a Wizard Thumper P pickup, new black bridge, and black gotoh tuners. Sounds and plays great, a vast improvement! And yes, the neck is set a bit wonky (neck pocket was too big) but it doesn't affect playability, just looks a bit off in the upper register. May shift the bridge to the treble side by a few mm to even it up.