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Saw Roy Wood with his rock and roll band not long ago. Absolutely brilliant!
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A portable rig for jazz - any advice/preferences?
casapete replied to julietgreen's topic in Amps and Cabs
Ok, here comes the inevitable love for the Fender Rumble range. My 100 watt version is loud enough for gigs that aren’t crazy levels, is lighter than a light thing and comes in at a very respectable price, currently around £250. 200 or even 500 watt models are both good value too.Whatever your budget, certainly worth a try out. -
Will bear this in mind if my Rumble 100 needs a bit more umph - thanks for posting.
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I bought an early Squier Strat from Loz out of Kingmaker, nice chap. They were a Hull based band. Wish I still had the Strat. Seen a few great support acts over the years. The Stones always seemed to pick acts who gave them a good run for the money - I remember seeing The Meters open for them at Earls Court in 76 ( I think...) and then Black Uhuru (featuring Sly and Robbie) at Wembley in the early 80’s. Another close one was at Leeds Uni in 76/77 where I saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers open for Nils Lofgren. It was their first UK dates and they were amazing, making it very hard for Nils to follow. The support act that I remember most was when seeing Graham Parker and the Rumour play at Bradford St George’s Hall in 1977. I loved this band dearly, but they were blown away by opening act Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Amazing 10 piece band in suits and fedoras, cool as f*ck and with a load of great tunes from Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt. They went down so well that they headlined their own gig at The Rainbow in London and got an OGWTest special too. Over 40 years later probably still my favourite band , seen them many times over the years and always deliver.
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You can usually find Duracells on eBay for not much over £1 each , when buying them in boxes of 10. 🙂
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QSC GX5 power amplifier. Excellent condition / order, been kept as a spare but not used so time to move it on. Comes in old but still functional flight rack case which protects it well. Superb quality amp at a great price - these are around £350 new. Cash on collection from near Hull, East Yorkshire but possible help with delivery / meet up etc. depending where and when. I'm also gigging in the following places in the next few weeks so could bring it with me to the venue - Scarborough, Dorking, Swansea, Mansfield, Swindon and Cheltenham. Cheers. Specifications here - Output - 2 x 700 watts per channel @ 4 ohms 2 x 500 watts per channel @ 8 ohms Power levels matched to the most popular speakers used by entertainers Optimised for maximum real-world headroom into 4- and 8-ohm speaker systems Inputs: XLR, 1/4" TRS and phono input connectors for compatibility with any source Outputs: Speakon® combo accepts 1/4" (TS) plugs or Speakon 2- and 4-pole plugs (connects 2 poles only). Binding posts support all other speaker wiring systems Minimum depth chassis (10.1" / 257 mm) fits in compact, inexpensive effects racks Lightweight - less than 26 lb (12.5 kg) Detented gain controls for precise setting and matching of sensitivity GuardRail™ automatically protects the amplifier and loudspeakers from damage due to temperature rise or overdrive without shutting down the show Front panel LEDs monitor power, signal, and clipping Subwoofer/satellite crossover built-in Distortion (1dB below rated power, 1 kHz): 8 ohms: less than 0.02 , 4 ohms: less than 0.05 Signal to Noise (20 Hz - 20 kHz): 100 dB Input Sensitivity: 1.2 Vrms Voltage Gain (8 ohm): 34.4 dB Output Circuitry: 2-tier Class H Frequency Response: 20 Hz - 20 kHz, +0, 1 dB Dynamic Headroom (4 ohm): 2 dB Input Impedance (ohms): Greater than 20k (balanced) Maximum Input Level: +24 dB (16 Vrms) Input Connectors (each channel): 3-pin XLR and 1/4" TRS, balanced, parallel Phono, unbalanced Output Connectors (each channel): Speakon, 1/4", Binding Posts Amplifier and Load Protection: Short circuit, open circuit, thermal, RF protection, Load protected against DC faults Front Panel Controls and Indicators: Gain controls, 21 detents, Red Clip LEDs, proportional, 0.1 THD threshold, Green Signal LEDs, threshold -35 dB, Blue Power LED, AC on Rear Panel Controls: Full Range / Crossover switch, 100 Hz, 3rd order LP (sub), 2nd order HP (top) Dimensions (HWD): 3.5" (2RU) x 19" x 10.1" (89 mm x 483 mm x 257 mm) Weight Net: 28 lb (12.6 kg), Shipping: 32 lb (14.6 kg) Agency Approvals: UL, CE, RoHS/WEEE Compliant Cash on collection from Brough, East Yorkshire but possible help with delivery depending where and when. Cheers. -
Happy to listen to offers on this - nice quality bass for not a lot of dosh. -
Going to see Robert Vincent next week, so catching up on some of his great stuff.
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The 800RB is 400 watts, but runs 300w into 4 ohms for the main amp and a separate 100w into 8 ohms amp for the high end if you’re using it that way. Mine has always sounded like it’s got enough headroom, and is second only to my old SVT rig on my list of favourite amps I’ve owned. Still really fancy trying the new Legacy stuff though! Hope you’re enjoying the MB200 too Dave. 😊
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Rebecca Johnson band - bass-led Aussie covers trio
casapete replied to bornagainbass65's topic in General Discussion
Nice! Great guitarist and drummer too. Just goes to show what you can do with a 3 piece when everyone is of such a high standard. -
Selling my black Fenix PJ bass. This was made in the early 1990's in Korea by the same company (Young Chang) who made the excellent quality Squier instruments at the time for Fender. The bass is in very good condition considering it is close on 30 years old! Precision and Jazz style pickups, which originally had Stratocaster style knobs fitted but I have replaced these with the more usual chrome ones. ( original knobs come with it too though.) Nice chunky bridge, and the rosewood fretboard is nicely figured. Very well made bass, sounds great with recently fitted strings. Will come with a 70's vintage shaped hard case, scruffy but does the job! These often fetch around £200 + (one currently on ebay for £275!) so a good price for a great bass. Happy to listen to offers though! NOW SOLD!
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Good question! I don’t have the boxes anymore and not sure if the model number is on the unit itself. Think mine are the SN5 or the updated version, SN5X, which can currently be had for a tenner on a well known internet platform.
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Snark user here. Got a few now and they all work great, not too big / intrusive, will adjust angle to exactly where I need them , bright display but don’t eat batteries and not a lot of money either. Think I paid around £12 each for mine. If you get one though keep it quiet on here, as headstock tuners are just for amateurs, apparently....🤣
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Tips for a consistent sound when going ampless through a PA?
casapete replied to geoham's topic in General Discussion
Relying on unknown quality monitors and engineer is a recipe for disaster IMHO. Either insist on using your IEM's every gig, or maybe look at a FRFR powered cab so you can have your sound wherever. If you're not happy with what you're hearing then you're never going to be at your best. -
I’m a big fan of Gallien Krueger stuff, but even after using their amps for donkeys years I still sometimes struggle to quickly make tone adjustments onstage due to the placing of the 4 eq knobs. From left to right they are treble , high mid, low mid through to bass . In my mind they should be starting with bass on the left, which seems far more logical somehow. Also active basses that require undoing a lot of screws to access the battery compartment -why? Those on MM Stingrays etc make far more sense.
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Just sold Dave an amp. Quick payment, great communications and an easy transaction overall. Highly recommended. Thanks Dave!
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Lucky EC. 😉
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Think her and Mr Clapton were once an item too?
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She’s great - if you didn’t see her performance at Glastonbury last year then try to find it, excellent performance and a kicking band too.
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I'm still fairly good with songs, even at my advancing years. In my acoustic duo we play 100's of tunes, and most I can remember although for some strange reason it's the keys that often catch me out! Once I've got the key then the song just falls into place for me, and this is quite handy when we decide to drop the key for any reason - we call them 'sitting down' or 'lunchtime ' gigs, where we may be feeling a little rough and the vocals will be too much of a stretch! I guess I must subconsciously learn songs in a way that easily translates to other key signatures. The other stumbling block for us is lyrics - we can both usually remember the tune / chords etc but the words don't come to mind so readily. For those occasions we have an Ipad Pro running the Forscore app with song lyrics to help prompt us. Didn't like using this at first, but it's certainly better than freezing halfway through a number etc. Also most big touring bands (of a certain age anyway) seem to use those large monitor screens with the lyrics scrolling along, so hey ho.
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One of those songs that when you hear the original you realise it still sounds amazing, especially as it’s now around 50 years old. Great drum sound, and Andy Fraser’s bass part is sublime. Annoys the sh*t out of me when you hear covers bands killing it though, with the usual errors - wrong guitar riff, bassist playing through the verses / worst of all not playing the pedal root notes in the choruses. And relax.....
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We been asked for it a number of times in my country band, and also occasionally in my acoustic duo. Always seems to go down well whenever we’ve played it too. I think it’s popularity in recent years was something to do with it being adopted by the England rugby team and their fans, giving it a new audience.
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To be fair, they had given us prior warning of the Mexican theme. La Bamba did feature (naturally) along with a few other traditional tunes, and we did use some artistic licence to include some ...err..related stuff such as Loco In Acapulco, El Paso, Santana tunes and then some Tex Mex stuff like Tequila etc. ( With apologies to any Mexican BC members)
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My acoustic duo did a gig last summer in a country house rented for a weekend by the booker in West Yorkshire. It was a birthday celebration, and we played in a corner of a dining room for the whole evening, right next to a table with a total of 15 seated guests. First and second sets were whilst they were eating, and then we played a last set of uptempo stuff during which a few pushed back their chairs and got up to dance in the rather limited space available. Really nice people though, who just politely asked for requests every now and then. ( It was easier than the last gig for them , where we’d been asked to play Mexican stuff all night to go with their party theme! )
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Just had to check something in my last year's diary so had a quick look at gigs done - 130. These mainly consisted of theatre gigs with the ELO tribute band and acoustic duo gigs ( private parties / pubs / cafes etc), along with some dep gigs and function / event stuff. Think this is probably roughly around the same amount as in 2018 too, so happy to still be here (or anywhere really...).
