Rayman

[quote name='ardi100' post='293539' date='Sep 27 2008, 06:45 PM']Hello, Just bought a DB500 and it's great. Sounds much louder than its 150W, easily gets over the top of our loud drummer. Tone is great (I use electric and double bass) and the programs mean you can switch easily between 2 or 3 sounds. I was worried it wouldn't cope with gigs but I'm not any more![/quote] It was mine, and I miss it terribly, superb amp. Leftysteve......thoughts are with your family.

Amp's on it's way to Dave.

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='293088' date='Sep 26 2008, 08:52 PM']+alot from me Has repaired and serviced about 2k worth of gear for me. Rayman do you need to borrow an amp for anything important over the next week or so?[/quote] Cheers Steve, thanks for the offer mate, but I'm OK for now. Fuse is OK, at least it [i]looks[/i] OK, I might get another one just in case. No light at all musematt. When it first died, I unplugged it, then plugged it in again. The power came on, as did the red LED, but only for a minute or so, and it went off again, never to come back on. I'll give Dave Lunt a shout.

Thanks a lot folks.

Thanks Mike, nice to see you back here. Wish I still had my Roland.

[quote name='Merton' post='292531' date='Sep 26 2008, 10:30 AM']Not that this helps, but what's up with it?[/quote] Well, I dunno really. I was halfway through a song during the first set on Saturday night, and the amp just went off. I turned around, the band played on without me, I unplugged it, then plugged it in again and it came back on for a minute, then died again. Now it just isn't firing up at all. I've tried other power leads just in case, but nothing. I've had it out of the cabinet (in front of the audience) and no sign of anything loose or whatever. Pro-Lines suggestion wasn't very helpful. Because of its age, he just refused to touch it, saying he'd never find the replacement parts. He suggested buying a new amp altogether..............hmmmmmm. I'm in trouble now. No amp, my trusty Roland sold on, and no-one to repair the Trace. It's such a nice amp, mint condition and all that, but I think this is the last straw, time to move it on if I can locate the fault and fix it.

Anyone know of a good repairers I can take my Trace combo to in the North west? It's an old (but immaculate) GP7SM200, not one of the new models. Pro-Line in Cheshire have turned me away with no suggestions for alternatives. Any ideas??

4 of us in the covers band, but just me in my recording project.

It's crazy. I sold mine for £650 and I thought that was cheap. They're unquestionably superb basses, I just don't get why they're out of favour right now, and Warwicks too, it's mad. Personally, if I was selling one now, I'd refuse to let it go for less than £600 minimum, I'd just hang on to it. Depends how desparate folks sre for the cash I guess.

I'm in Steve.

Now a POD, I [i]would[/i] like.

I didn't get on with the DOD FX25, but I did like the Ashdown filter, and it's cheap. Edit; £350 for an effects pedal is madness to me, I just don't understand why stuff like the Deep Impact for instance commands such mad prices, after all, it's just a bleedin effects pedal.

My gig setup, I just wish I had a decent camera to take the pics with.

My H1 Jazz is still my #1, workhorse bass, big tone with the Villex pups, and every bit as good as any standard US Jazz. The difference I've found with mine is how dark it sounds. Jazzes are generally quite bright and honky, but mine wasn't, even with it original pups it was quite moody sounding, silly I know, but it just seemed different to a regular jazz tonally. So, I banged in some Villex pickups hoping to give it more top end. The bass itself was having none of that, and still sounded quite dark, even with the massive range available from the pups. The pups are just magic though, massive bottom end great clear top end, but the bass still has a character of its own, and I like it that way. Between the Jazz and the brighter sounding Lakland DJ4 I've got all the sounds I need live. H1, great bass, build quality, mojo, I wouldn't be without it:

MIM P bass, in the hands of my oldest (who looks very young here) best all round precision I've ever played bar none; 70s/80s Yamaha BBs, L-R, Fretless 400S, stunning 3000S in the middle, and an 1100S; Epi Thunderbird, Fender Marcus Miller, 70s Ibanez P. Three truely great basses; Fender deluxe P; One I should NEVER have sold, Lakland JO4. LOVED it, but needed to raise some cash; Beautiful Stingray, just not right for me; Lovely Ibanez K5, great player; Schecter Model T; ............and the final two for now, Fender Highway One Jazz with Villex pups, BIG tone, old faithful, and my gorgeous Lakland DJ4, stunning in every way, thanks Mike, along side my Trace rig; This was the edited version. Honourable mentions to the Geddy Jazz, great bass but no pics of it, and the OLP Tony Levin I still have for mucking around at home on, again, no pics of it.

DJ5 is on my list too, since I got the DJ4, which'll be the last grands worth of bass I'll get for a while too. I just tried to add my list of gear too, but there were too many pics for the thread to take, it wouldn't let me download them all .

Top gear there pal, love the Bacchus there at the end, and the Streamer too, I'd love a Streamer, especially when the Zender sig comes out.

I'd LOVE to see her live, but I can't be arsed driving down the M1 to do it. It seems to me that many artists like this feel that a gig in London is all they have to do for the UK. Marcus Miller is the same. I guess it's down to demand, and the lack of it for a full scale tour of the UK.