paul_5

Ampeg SVP Pro preamp into an SVP1500 power amp. Weighed as much as a small horse, but my god! what a sound. I still use an SVP preamp but into a more sensible power amp.

Mine’s a passive Jazz bass. 2 piece ash body and a maple neck. None of those speed bumps on the board though!

yeah, I'd put nice new pots on there and then choose knobs at my leisure

This. Frets are just like that shïtty Autotune nonsense. 😉

Also Saling the seas of cheese from Primus. It’s not to everyone’s taste though... 🤨

Lateralus or 10,000 Days by Tool or anything by Charles Mingus.

This. EB Cobalts are *really* bright flats.

Just pulled the trigger on a Vibraclone rotary speaker sim; it's the one sound that I LOVE but can't make at home unfortunately. Apart from mounting speakers on a bloody big motor and boxing them up...

I did something similar with an Ampeg preamp; sounded pretty darn good afterwards... 😉

This sounds AMAZING!!! Fretless Jazz, VT2. 😍

I’m toying with rewiring my 410HLF to be 2 2x10 cabs (in the same box) to run 2 preamps into 2 seperate channels on my PA amp and have one half for dirty bass and the other for clean. Having looked at the wiring diagram from Ampeg there are 4 4ohm drivers currently wired in Series/Parallel to give the total impedance of 4ohms. I’d have to wire them as 2 8ohm pairs to run properly from my PA amp. Does anyone have any earthly reason why I shouldn’t do this? I’m using a buffered splitter and not just a shitty cobbled together lead, so the bass signal is properly split and should avoid any impedance issues, the only thing I foresee being a problem is the horn/ crossover arrangement (I intend to only use this with one of the speaker pairs) and probably some dispersion issues if the signal phases aren’t bob-on. Does anyone immediately think “Don’t do it!!!!”?

Comes with some autographed bass picks too, just like Geddy doesn’t use...

I’ve recently put some Ernie Ball Cobalts on my ‘bright’ Jazz (2 piece hard ash body, maple neck and board) and they’re brilliant; bright enough when I need them to be, but loads of lows too.

Recently I’ve been ordering from ESR.co.uk they carry most standard components (resistors, caps, opamps and trannys etc...) but I still need to find a supplier for mojo stuff.

I’d like to join. Does buying shed loads of components to make little boxes to cure my pedal GAS count?

George L cables are brilliant, I haven’t used anything else for years.

I recently bought a DHA VT2 from PBasspecial of this parish and it arrived damaged; RM had managed to smash (utterly) both valves despite liberal amounts of bubble-wrap, foam peanuts and a sturdy cardboard box marked ‘fragile’. I put in a claim for compensation as I had to shell out for 2 new valves. Yesterday I received a letter acknowledging that it had been damaged, but as they were unsure of when, where or how they were unable to issue compensation. They enclosed their ‘sincere apologies’ and a book of 6 first-class stamps, presumably for crushing other things, saving me future visits to my local waste dump. What a bunch of utter flipwits. Naturally I’m taking the claim further.

Billy Sheehan on anything he’s ever done. LOVE that tone!

I’m not a P player by any means, but’I’ve always loved the P bass sound on Frank Zappa’s ‘Broadway the Hard Way’ and ‘Tinseltown Rebellion’ albums; different players (Scott Thuned and Arthur Barrow respectively) but both do a fine job.

Any 12AX7 would work in there, Watford Valves has an extensive range with very thorough descriptions of the sound of the different tubes. It’s certainly worth a browse of their website if nothing else. Also bear in mind that Behringer kit is built to budget, so by putting an upgraded tube in there will probably improve the sound noticeably.

Mrs_5 and I have a piece of advice that we give to each other when going for important meetings/interviews etc... ”try not to be a twät”. Works every time.

Agreed, these are AWESOME trems!

I'd call that a positive conclusion to the festivities.