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Afternoon Gents and Ladies I am currently playing in an 80's band, which is naturally synth heavy. Now i'm a bit on the cheap side, and had an idea What do you folks think to using a keytar (totally 80's) for bass synth ? Essentially I have a budget of about 200 ish quid for synth based goodness, the choices are either a Zoom B3 (boring )or a keytar such as this : [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/alesis-vortex/56698"]http://www.gak.co.uk/en/alesis-vortex/56698[/url] which handily has a USB port which is compatiable with iphones (so iphone software for synth) and well, who wouldn't want a keytar Anyone had any experience of keytar or anything similar? Would the sounds be so terrible it wouldn't be worth it?

He said he hasn't got a feedback thread so here goes! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/548-jack/"]http://basschat.co.uk/user/548-jack/[/url] Just bought an amp off him. Very very swift efficient and polite to deal with. Talked to him tuesday, amp was with me on thursday midday.

A big +1 for Barefaced cabs here.

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1339190901' post='1685297'] Well, got a new 80's project started, we're thinking that We Built This City might be a good starter! [/quote] Oh and second / last set open with the final countdown by Europe !

Well, got a new 80's project started, we're thinking that We Built This City might be a good starter!

For a laugh, I watched a few more videos.... Of note was lady marmalade.... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oOeyCoVtbE&feature=relmfu"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oOeyCoVtbE&feature=relmfu[/url] Hes playing with a punchy attacking sound and isn't bringing the main bass riff through on that....

Got a gig running sound for a Jubilee festival, although this is the annual jubilee of the village as opposed to the queens jubilee..... Can't get enough gigs playing bass at the moment, resorting to sound.

To bring this up again. Took the case off the amp. Turns out that the amp seems to be in working order, however there is a ribbon cable that connects the front board ( the eq etc) to the main board. Wigglign that around causes intermittant functionality but full functionality. Going to seef if there there a dry joint!

So, heres a question for you to answer I blew this at a free paid gig (my friends a music student and they needed a bassist) Should I be pursuing them for money if it costs me a few hundred quid to repair? There is one show left tomorrow night and i'm using a practise amp. I'm going to open up the amp and look at it tomorrow.

Ok. A little bit of investigation looks like the amp has a psu problem. Everytime it warms up it reboots itself on the psu and thus no power. Interesting

Indeed I know the output jack is a mechanical not electrical failure. Could a loose jack really blow an amp? I guess I won't know until Sunday at best when I get a chance to open up guitar and amp. Time to play follow the circuit ! It did seem to me that some reason of a reverse current going to the guitar looked a good possibility for failure but I would have thought that the pedal would have stopped it going all the way to the bass

Hmm BEen doing a show this week, first night tonight and halfway through first song. pop. no bass. Found that the passive parts of my pre amp working ok, got nothing coming out of active( got an East SP2 inside a Lakland 55-01) When I have pedal attached to the cable chain, I get huge whiney noises above about half volume on it. When I have the bass straight into amp, I get lots of interferance ( and somehow the speaker cable jack socket seems to have come a bit loose....) Any ideas? I assume it must be a surge to be all at once, but RCd didn't go out ...

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1334828789' post='1621845'] Drop Alex (at Barefaced) an email and explain what you've got and what you need. He'll set you straight. [/quote] Will do, i've dealt with him before seemed sound

Cheers for the many replies. Given me stuff to think about. I always have amp off floor anyway. Be it on my cable box or a chair or whatever. I think a compact maybe the way forward. Now I need to save up ! With regards to cabs in series. How do you do it. Midget only has an in and no out ? The problem is that it is right on the border between loud enough for pa support but not quite for non pa. again maybe a case of you can turn down but not up !

Yeah, how is the compact? I've never really got my head around amps, If i have a 250 W amp and connect both outputs, is that 250 wats on each cab, or 250 split between the two? (brain farting today really)

Hi chaps Currently I have a Hartke HA2500 running into a Barefaced Midget T. I love this setup, I love the sound and the cleanliness of it. However I am simply not getting enough volume at gigs from it. I do a fair amount of sub gigs, and the problem is, some of the bands refuse to mic up bass etc for their smaller gigs (understandable). So i'm kinda stuck, what would be the best option? I am unsure if it is better to get another cab and use the other output of the hartke, or to get a more powerful amp, but I love the sound as it is! (I like my bass as clean and natural sounding as possible, my main bass is a lakland 55-01) Ideas?

At the risk of asking a question already asked How do the sizing hold up? I'm rather large!

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1327608947' post='1514258'] I was wondering why Lesbian, Bi or Gay Students would be a topic for Basschat. Or was that LGB? [/quote] usually lgbt with t for trans.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1203498533' post='143530'] We're a slightly rockier modern covers band and we get plenty of weddings. People who are getting married now are (mostly) the younger generation, IMO they don't want WetWetWet and Robson & Jerome. We're doing a wedding in August where we've been asked if we can do some Rage Against The Machine........oh yesss Si [/quote] Quoted for Truth. My previous project to my current ones was the same sort of music, and people in their late twenties and early 30s are the current target audience. Sex on fire, Bon Jovi, Foo's, Muse are all good wedding game now

I met a guy with a wierd technicque at my jam session. He plays Left Handed basses, Right handed, and tuned upside down. (ie as an upside lefthanded bass) I asked him about it he said, I dunno why i play like that, Its how i learnt when i borrowed my mates bass...

Hi guys. I'm a cambridge based Bass Guitarist looking for gigs in and around the cambridgeshire area. I'm happy to dep but ideally i'm looking for something a bit more permanent after my current gig has sort of amicably split due to family life of a couple of members. [url="http://www.facebook.com/ChiefSly"]http://www.facebook.com/ChiefSly[/url] Is my previous main project. [url="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap5Y5XnDVuDjdFl4cFd5bWNaM29vZDBacm80MVQ0MXc&hl=en_US#gid=0"]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap5Y5XnDVuDjdFl4cFd5bWNaM29vZDBacm80MVQ0MXc&hl=en_US#gid=0[/url] contains a list of songs that I have played or can play off my head. Stephen