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Gareth Hughes
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Have a bump - these are amazing cabs - capable on a surprising amount of volume. My Markbass LMK is rarely past 3, and that's in a pretty loud band with horns. And you'll love the easy schlep. -
Maybe worth checking out an Epifani UL112. They pop up here from time to time. Would easily do the job for your jazz gigs and they are just so easy to move around.
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Bump for an awesome overdrive pedal. Check out the demos on Youtube - they really do sound that good in person. If I didn't have one already.....
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[quote name='Gwilym' post='948801' date='Sep 7 2010, 09:00 PM']These are great amps, I'm very happy with mine. Worth noting that the voltage is not switchable though., so this is probably set for 230/240volts ? Good luck with the sale, someone will be lucky to get it [/quote] Yup, this is the UK/European version, set for 230/240 volts. And here's something really geeky - Gwilym, Dood and Machinehead, all writing in three consecutive posts above - all joined on three consecutive days!!! How's that for conceptual continuity!!!!!!
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Hey KingPrawn - Yup, she sure is purty. Thanks for checking your pockets too
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Hey carlc64 - Good to see you here, and good luck with the gear. Gareth (mr.hughes on talkbass)
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Doh - apologies folks - the neck is by WD Music, not Warmoth as previously stated. Hey, they both begin with 'W', right?
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Here's a possible option - if you have a Boss TU-2 tuner pedal - both of those outputs work at the same time, and apparently with no signal degradation. This sounds highly suspect, except that it was shown to me by Joylan Thomas on a session he was engineering alongside Ken Thomas producing. Ken Thomas was heavily involved in a lot of the early Sigur Ros records, and more recently the last Moby record. I don't say this to name drop but rather that if it was good enough sonically for them in a studio then I'll take it!!!
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Folks - up for sale is my Markbass F500 amp. 4.63lbs of teeny tiny goodness. Bought this last July, so it's just over a year old, with minimal use - I have a Markbass LMK that does everything I need. The F500 was always taken out in a padded case and pampered from day one. It's in great nick, bar for a few scratches on the top panel from a dastardly DBX compressor that should have been racked. Looking for £595 including next day UK special delivery. I can include the gigbag for another £30. Looks similar to the pic below. Plenty of space in the bag - can fit the F500, 2-3 Boss size pedals, Boss style power supply, two 10ft cables and a 4-way plug board. Here's the technical guff from Markbass: INPUT - impedance 500 Kohm, max. voltage 15 Vpp EFFECT RETURN - impedance 22 Kohm, max. voltage 25 Vpp CONTROLS GAIN –80 dB to +25 dB range MASTER VOLUME with pull mute LINE OUT LEVEL GROUND LIFT - switch on rear panel PRE/POST EQ Di - switch on rear EQUALISATION LOW - centre frequency: 40 Hz; level: ±16 dB LOW MID - swept frequency 100hz - 800hz, level: ±16 dB HIGH MID - swept frequency: 700 Hz - 8khz, level: ±16 dB HIGH - centre frequency: 10 kHz shelf: ±16 dB VPF (Variable Pre-shape Filter) - centre frequency 380 Hz (cut) VLE (Vintage Loudspeaker Emulator) - frequency range 250 Hz–20 kHz (cut) OUTPUT LINE OUT - balanced XLR, max. voltage 10 Vpp EFFECT SEND - unbalanced, max. voltage 20 Vpp (pre-EQ) TUNER OUT - unbalanced, max. voltage 25 Vpp SPEAKER OUT - speakon / 1/4" (x2) OTHER WEIGHT - 4.63 lbs / 2.1 kg DEPTH - 10.04 in. / 25.5 cm WIDTH - 10.87 in. / 27.6 cm HEIGHT - 1.73 in. / 4.4 cm (1U) OUTPUT POWER - 300W RMS @ 8 ohm, 500W RMS @ 4 ohm POWER REQUIREMENT - 100V; 120V; 230V; 240V, 50/60Hz [attachment=58268:IMG_2621.jpg][attachment=58269:IMG_2620.jpg][attachment=58270:optoma_bk_4013_1.jpg ]
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Folks - I bought a new neck for this bass but alas I just don't think I'll be the fretless whiz I dreamed of. So once again - Up for sale is my Ernie McMillen Custom 4 String Fretless. Ernie McMillen builds guitars for the Avalon Guitar Company. Recently he has been working on Zematis guitars at Avalon, which retail at $15,000 in the US. Before that he worked for 15 years for Lowden Guitars, during which time he built many of the Goodfellow Basses that were made there between 1992-96. All this to say that the construction is top notch. Enough about Ernie and now the bass: I had the bass made in 2000, and whilst I do love it so I'm mainly playing upright for most of my gigs so this bass is criminally underplayed. Body is a regular jazz shape (taken from a mid 70's Fender template) and is one piece Mahogany with a bookmatched Rosewood cap (that has some damn sexy stripes running through it). As you'd expect for a ten year old, well gigged bass, it had a few marks here and there. The neck is a WD Music unlined ebony Jazz neck, with an overhang which gives you an extra note at the top (high E instead of Eb on a regular 20 fret bass). The neck wasn't new to me but it's still in great shape. One slight bump around low F# on the E string. I've tried to show that in the photos. The other bump looking thing is actually a small bit of Birds Eye Maple. I'm guessing this neck always had flatwounds on it as there is no string wear. *One quirk - the previous owner played left handed so if you flip the neck upside down there are matching position markers - for those Hendrix moments perhaps?* To get a better fit for the new neck Ernie lined the neck pocket with stained black maple. Bridge is by ABM with adjustable 16-20mm string spacing. The pickups are by Bill Lawrence, the J45 model. These pickups have a huge frequency response and are very even from low to high. The electronics and standard Jazz passive: Vol/Vol/Tone. The bass was originally wired with a preamp with the jack socket side mounted. I didn't get the empty jack socket filled in, just discretely covered, so an active system can be installed without any modification. Asking for £700 shipped to the UK with a hard case. Here's some examples of other basses that Ernie has built: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=53343"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=53343[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=57031"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=57031[/url] [attachment=58238:IMG_2611.jpg][attachment=58239:IMG_2613.jpg][attachment=58240:IMG_2615.jpg] [attachment=58241:IMG_2616.jpg][attachment=58243:IMG_2618.jpg] [attachment=58244:IMG_2619.jpg]
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Yup - this rubs me way up the wrong way. Had similar experience with the Bass Centre late last year. I ordered one of the new Fender Am Std 5 string Jazz basses. Was told it would be coming into them within a week, then onto me. Took at least 6-7 weeks for the bass to show up. To compound my annoyance I was told it came to them first, rather than be sent to me directly, because the Bass Centre gives them their once over and professional set-up before it leaves to go on to the customer. Now either mine was never looked at or folks - NEVER send your bass in for a set-up there. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt (only because I'm a sarky git) but when the bass finally did arrive the neck was beyond loose - each screw needed at least 7-8 turns to be properly tightened. I'm in Ireland so that's the price I pay for ordering online. I could have sent it back and lost more money. As it is I have a great bass but I doubt I've ever shop there again, which is a shame as I bought plenty there on each trip to the Liverpool St shop and the one before that.
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Good man yerself. I was just down in Inchageela - about 40 mins west of Cork, for a gig with the mighty Crystal Swing. Some beautiful places down there, especially in West Cork.
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Cool. Whereabouts in Ireland are you? I'm just past Newry, at the foot of the Mourne mountains.
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D'Addario do a 6 set in flats - their Chromes series. For closer to home, try OVerwater strings. I have no first hand experience, but the Overwater people are great and would happily answer any questions about their strings I'm sure. [url="http://www.overwaterbasses.com/regular-flatwound.htm"]http://www.overwaterbasses.com/regular-flatwound.htm[/url]
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Michael Jackson Transcriptions.
Gareth Hughes replied to solofunkyjazz's topic in Theory and Technique
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Just reading this today and it's knocked me for six. Like many, I didn't have the pleasure of meeting him face to face but I felt like he was a mate I could ask any question that popped into my head about bass or whatever. I bought a Precision off him a month or so back that has quickly become my regular bass. I'll be playing in tonight in his honour and I'm sure there'll be tears. I loved his sense of humour. I'm sure everyone has their own stories or anecdotes they could share. Here's mine. Just scroll down to the last comment and revel in the warmth and humour and sheer mischief that comes across in Simon's post. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18207"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18207[/url] Thanks to all who posted pictures of him - it's lovely to put a face to a name. Now I can imagine the mad hatter scheming away, finding that picture. I'll miss him for sure. He made Basschat more than words and pictures.
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Thanks guys. I'll let it sit for a week or so and then see where I'm at. It's not hideous but it's not pretty either. T-Cut might be the way forward too. Thanks again. g
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+1 for the Barge Concepts pedal. I have one of these (as well as their GLZ pedal) and they are top quality kit. Plus Geoff at Barge is a lovely guy. I use my VBjr for keeping some righteous low end mixed in with an overdrive pedal, or for keeping things a little sane with a BassBalls or Mini Q-Tron. Another big plus with this pedal is that the blend knob is easily adjusted on the fly with your foot. All good. -
Hi folks - apologies for a slight hi-jack here but I figure you guys will know the answer to this - I have a 10 year old Fender Precision in Olympic White that has just had a bad reaction to a gig bag. It was in the case for a few days after a gig. Took it out the other day and there's some noticeable brown staining on the arm rest/belly cut. It seems to be less darker than it was now that it's been out of the case for a few days. I'll get some pictures up if that helps. So my question is - can this discolouration by buffed out, can anything be done with it? Again, sorry for the derail - and fair play with the blueburst finish, I've been following this for a while now.
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I didn't get to try it with my upright - but I read that it didn't have a high enough input impedance which would limit it's compatibility with several of the piezo pickups out there. The EQ section was useful, tho I don't know what frequencies each knob was centered at. The manual was less than useful for that info. I don't imagine it to be a great DI/EQ for upright. The distortion channel (which can be used as a clean channel with the BLEND knob set fully to your clean signal) always has the COLOUR preset engaged, which has a huge mid-scoop and bass boost. Not good ingredients for most live settings (especially the ones I end up in at least 70% of the time). Here's something that seems to have a bit of everything: [url="http://www.gollihurmusic.com/product/2093-LR_BAGGS_VENUE_DI_PREAMP_PEDAL_WITH_BUILT_IN_TUNER.html"]http://www.gollihurmusic.com/product/2093-...T_IN_TUNER.html[/url] Certainly seems like a pretty handy pedal, and if I didn't have all of these components in separate pedals I'd be tempted to go for it.
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Get something with a flexible EQ - different venues pose different sound problems with the upright. If you can find one try a Fishman Dual Parametric DI. A good tip to give the soundguy is to roll off a lot of the low end - from 100Hz down. That might sound like a high point to start cutting from but it can be very useful to letting to note be heard rather than the boom. A variable Hi-Pass filter works great for this - like the one found on Acoustic Image heads. That should be a feature common to all amps, IMO.
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EHX BassBalls Nano with mod *Price Drop*
Gareth Hughes replied to Gareth Hughes's topic in Effects For Sale
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[quote name='Marvin' post='923020' date='Aug 12 2010, 06:21 PM']Your Googling is miles ahead of mine. The guy has transcribed loads of stuff, a lot of it beyond me, but others look OK. A big thanks from me, despite it not being my thread. [/quote] You're welcome Marvin. I was actually pretty chuffed with the karma of all this. Thought there's bound to be a scan of 'Do I Do' somewhere, and in searching for it came across that site which I know I'll benefit from greatly - so everyone's a winner, as the saying goes.
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And check out the rest of this guys site - some amazing stuff there - and incredibly inspiring too.
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Quick Google search gave me this: [url="http://www.arcellussykes.com/transcription/watts_doido.pdf"]http://www.arcellussykes.com/transcription/watts_doido.pdf[/url] Enjoy!!! It's a knuckle buster for sure.
