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How many do you need Don?

[quote name='tonybassplayer' post='390433' date='Jan 24 2009, 03:12 PM']Now funny that you should have mentioned that as one of my ideas is to take songs from Grease, Dirty Dancing, Blues Bothers, Commitments and Mamma Mia etc and build a show around them We already play some of them and they go down really well I know that I shouldn't really say this but when you are up there playing the one thing that makes you feel good ( and overrides the long drive, no time for soundcheck, no food for 8 hours, no free drinks, hard load in, missed solo's etc etc etc ) is seeing a packed dance floor 8 bars in to the fist song [/quote] The guy that I played for about 4 years ago had a strange mix of oldies. he hadn't been born when the songs were new and eventually I twigged that they'd all been used in movies. They went down with all age groups because the youngsters knew them. Don't limit yourself to the musicals, they are some great number in Shrek, From Dusk Til Dawn, etc. Did I mention Twist And Shout/La Bamba?

We used to segue: Sweet Caroline 500 miles Hi Ho Silver Lining I'm a Believer Songs that have been used in the soundtracks of movies in the last 20 years or so.

[quote name='drumbloke' post='388275' date='Jan 22 2009, 10:17 AM']Depping in a few bands at the moment, just realised that not all Bassists 'sit' on the same side of the drummer. I thought it was a set up area constraint but most bands I have played with recently the Bassist has been on the left hand side of me (ride cymbal). Me ol' mate Pete (Thunderthumbs) plays on me right (Hi hat side). Just wondering if there was a preference to which side you like to be on? Or did you just naturally fall on that side?[/quote] Most drummers I play with have the Hi hat on their left. Are you a left-handed drummer or are you looking at this from the audience viewpoint? Anyway facing the audience I prefer to stand to the drummer left, next to the snare/hi hat so I can see the Kick pedal easily.

Oh that is a bu**er. Welcome to the unemployed musicians club. It's a shame you can't sign on and draw some dole. Hang in there. Something is bound to turn up.

[quote name='obbm' post='380181' date='Jan 14 2009, 12:33 PM']I suppose you'd call it Rock covers - Thin Lizzy, G 'N' R, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi, Clapton, Chuck Berry, Quo, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Bryan Adams - all the usual suapects. Three of us are retired and the average age is 57.5, but that doesn't deter us.[/quote] Please forget what I said about the band. I decided to walk due to musical differences between the drummer and myself. It had been niggling me for some time and the last rehearsal just confirmed my views. so bandless again.

The editor of BGM came up from Devon and supported the SE Bass Bash in September. He had his own session and talked about the magazine and answered a number of questions about the magazine, some quite pointed. At the end of the day it's a commercial undertaking. If you don't like it OP then I challenge you to start a rival magazine and make it pay. BTW I have no connection with BGM, it's editorial staff or its publishers.

For some time now I have been looking for an alternative jack for pedal board patch cables. One that is smaller than the ubiquitous Neutrik, equally robust and ideally cheaper. I believe that I now have the answer. It seems to fit all the boxes and will take both the VanDamme Classic Instrument cable (on the right) and the rather excellent Klotz La Grange on the left. The connector is made in Australia by Amphenol who, if you haven't heard of them, have been making connectors for the military and the automotive, broadcast and telecoms industries for as long as I can remember. Up to 500mm the VanDamme version will be £8.50 and the LaGrange will be £9.00. I have a made a 300mm sample of each so if anyone would like to volunteer to check them out then drop me a PM.

From one oldie to another, welcome. I used to be the oldest but I think BassAce is now.

[quote name='Linus27' post='383509' date='Jan 17 2009, 07:37 PM']So your saying that as both my cabs are 8 Ohms, if I ran them through the LG1000, I could use either one of the two 500 watt amps running at 4 OHMS getting the full 500 watts (maybe to much for my cabs) or both 500 watts amps at 8ohms getting about 350-375 watts. However, if I used the LG350 with my two 8 ohms cabs, they would run at 4 ohms giving me the full 350 watts from the LG350. Have I got that right??[/quote] Correct, but as Merton has already pointed out it all depends on how far up you wind the volume control. You have control of the power control. Just because your Elise will do 100+, it doesn't mean you go everywhere at max power and max speed. Amps are no different.

[quote name='Linus27' post='383466' date='Jan 17 2009, 06:45 PM']I've got an Ashdown MAG115 1x15 Deep Speaker Cab which has a power handling of 250 watts. I will be getting an Ashdown MAG210T 2 x 10 Deep Speaker Cab which has a power handling of 200 watts to go with it. Will the LG1000 be too powerful for these two cabs? Just wondering if its worth getting a LG350 as a spare head for my two cabs or get the LG1000 as my main head. No point getting the LG1000 if its to powerful for my cabs.[/quote] I take it that both your cabs are 8-ohms. I've not had the chance to gig the LG1000 yet but will on Feb 5th at the Lion Brewery Jam in Ash where I will use it with two 8-ohm 1x12s. That should show up how it handles 2 x 8-ohm cabs instead of 2 x 4-ohm. I estimate the LG1000 should put out about 350-375 watts into 8-ohms. As far as your cabs go you would have lots of headroom but always with the risk of overdriving. The LG350 with 350-watts into 4-ohms would be a better match to your cabs.

Look great but just get in the way when playing.

[quote name='~tl' post='383079' date='Jan 17 2009, 11:07 AM']The other option would be to use a small mixer in front of the amp. That would allow you to independently set the levels of your instrument and MP3 player.[/quote] ... but the amp EQ would effect both bass and MP3s. If the amp has an Effects Send & Return you could take the bass out from the Effects Send, mix in the MP3s with either a small mixer or even a passive resistor network and then retun the mixed signal to the FX return.

Indeed welcome. I spent a very happy 2-weeks in Austin a few years ago making an album. Have you ever come across Eric Blakely, Ron Irwin, John Main or Bill Kirchen?

[quote name='OldGit' post='381425' date='Jan 15 2009, 04:00 PM']It's his fault so many of us got Sevens, well that and fact that Chapman had already product placed the Elan for Emma Peel in The Avengers..[/quote] And then went to to place an Esprit S3 and an Esprit Turbo in Bond films.

[quote name='Linus27' post='380188' date='Jan 14 2009, 12:38 PM']Dad rock [/quote] Grandad Rock please.

[quote name='Linus27' post='380171' date='Jan 14 2009, 12:23 PM']What sort of music obbm??[/quote] I suppose you'd call it Rock covers - Thin Lizzy, G 'N' R, Dire Straits, Bon Jovi, Clapton, Chuck Berry, Quo, AC/DC, ZZ Top, Bryan Adams - all the usual suapects. Three of us are retired and the average age is 57.5, but that doesn't deter us.

[quote name='bumnote' post='380147' date='Jan 14 2009, 12:02 PM']Thats pretty poor, I remember seing your piccy on the web site Are you back in a band now?[/quote] Yes! I was pretty lived as I had to refund the buyer for the cost of getting it sorted. Band? Sort of yes. We have 2 guitars, bass and drums and although three of us can sing none of us have got strong enough voices to front the band so we are looking and looking and looking for a singer. Musically it gelled very quickly but we need a quality singer.

[quote]Perhaps a black and gold JPS Jazz Bass[/quote] Now that is a nice idea although I think that the Musicman did something like that a couple of years ago. This is getting very very OT. Perhaps we should start a Lotus page in Off Topic and continue the car chat there. Back OT, I couldn't fault Ashdown service when they fixed my ABM500 a few years ago and returned it in a couple odf days. It was only when I sold it and the buyer took it to have it serviced and the Tech found that the underside of the motherboard had been bodge repaired with Tin-copper wire where it had blown. This was a warranty repair when they should have replaced the motherboard completely. I was none too happy and asked to be removed from their web site.

[quote name='Linus27' post='379833' date='Jan 13 2009, 11:27 PM']Hey obbm, I would love to see that ruuning again, especially as your about 15 mins (10 in the Elise) down the road from me. Beautiful looking Esprit. What's up with her anyway?[/quote] I got in '87 after I sold the Ginetta G12 and used it occassionally however after a longish period of inactivity the clutch seized to the flywheel. None of the known techniques would free it and I concluded that it was going to be an engine-out job. What with work, house rebuilding, redundnacy, music, gas expenditure, and starting a business I never got round to it. I reasoned that if the engine is coming out (only done 45K from new, then I might as well have it rebuilt . In it's current state it has a low value but the value of the car running is about the same as the cost of the rebuild, so no point in doing anything at the moment. It can sit there until I pop my clogs and then my son can have the problem.

So we have some Lotus enthusiasts. I still have this one: Unfortunately it hasn't run for many years but one day it will go again. At least that's what I keep telling myself, and Mrs OBBM. Alternatively I'd consider swapping it for a pristine Frogeye Sprite or an early 60's Jazz.

The standard Fender designed tone stack used in many pre-amps (Trace V-type, BBE, Alembic, old Fender, and many others) is bass and treble boost and mid cut. To make it flat you need to set the bass and treble at 2 and the mid at 10.