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To be honest, without more info as to what sort of music you make and what you want your bass to sound like its almost impossible to say which is really 'better'....

If you favour any grind in your tone then IME you cant beat the amp/DI combo approach. But you need a good amp, good cab, decent mic (neednt be anything magic though) and a decent room (although you are going to mic really close so the room is not that big of a factor). The important thing is the phase matching of the sounds. Get that wrong and its plop city....

The Berg HT115 is just a superb cab, 15 or not. Paired with its brother the HT210 its an utterly killer little stack. The HT210 is even heavier than the HT115, its a real workout getting the stack to a gig (you can see the pair of them at the SE Bass Bash if you're coming along), but it just sound so gooood.... I'd love to hear a pair of HT115s though, that would be utterly killer.

Call Larry Hartke? Seriously! [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=686428"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=686428[/url] 2nd post in, is Larry, offering his cell phone number. Genuinely amazing CS.... As an aside PLux's LH500 is pretty darn quiet (more hissy with the Bright switch in but not too bad)

Yup, I find it far better to wear ear plugs (ER-15s) than not in the audience If I were doinf reguler front of house I would always be wearing custom molded ear plugs.

Alternatives:- Markbass Compressore Joe Meek FloorQ Maxon CP-9 Pro+

That was ace!

IME normally shortest is tip, but I have seen a couple of nasty cheap ones where that wasnt the case. I bought myself one of those cheap'n'nasty maplins mulitmeters just for the connectivity testing beeep it can do for issues like this. They arent more than a tenner and take all the hassle out of this sort of thing...

[quote name='Wolverinebass' post='1001840' date='Oct 26 2010, 10:33 PM']Oh No!! That's every single feature of my Hartke!! Nightmare!! On a serious level, I'd go for the useless feature of sub octave in Ashdowns.[/quote] Sorry

Dont 'hit' the strings! Your fingers should brush across them. The string should vibrate in parallel with the neck more than it does perpendicular to it. The difference between loud and hard is how tense your last knuckle on your fingertip is, nothing more is really necessary, and is wasting energy.

That won't last 5 seconds against a determined thief. It may slow down someone who is only intereted in picking up a guitar thats entirely unattended, but I'd be as worried about damage to the neck from the device itself if some drunken tw*t picked it up to 'just have a go' while I toddled off to 'sign autographs'

Yeah thats the video I listened to. I had no idea that was Herbie before the gig, really surprised to find that out (which is why it stuck in my mind). Definitely played with a pick. Before anyone thinks Herbie's '59 has some unbelievable something, he was using a Squire on the day (red one IIRC) although it had stock Fender pups in (again IIRC, had a fair old chat to him about it), and the magic tapewound strings, and Herbie reckoned he couldnt tell the difference in sound between it and the '59. Enlightening day, watching Herb play Space Oddity, It Must Be Love, a bit of War of The Worlds etc all live 10 ft away from you with the Little Band is as amazing as it sounds!

Now I might well be wrong, but I think Herbie FLowers may have played on this. IIRC his Little Band played it at the Brighton Bass Bash last year, and he said it was one of his sessions. I which case it was his '59 J bass, with the tapewound strings on. May have used a pick for it though, he certainly isnt averse to using one....

Any and all amp mounted compressors (or any other fx - didnt SWR go mad for this on one of theirs?) Graphic eqs - they're plop, deal with it! Tone stacks - utterly befuddling illogical eq. SOunds nice, pants to use! More than one input! 1/4" speaker outputs Noisey fans Pointless graphics - just keep it simple and clear, I include dumb fonts in this too!

I run my rig like this:- into amp (preamp) out of fx send to compressor out of compressor to korg tuner (so I can use its mute button, and the comp isnt compressing any noise from it) out of tuner to fx return (power amp for you) I have no issues with the signal quality as a result of putting the korg tuner in the path that I can hear...

Once upon a time it would be 6 hours a day. That was a very long time ago. Now its lucky if I get 10 minutes a day....

I have a Zoom H4n, and its the canine undercarriage IMO.

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='996934' date='Oct 22 2010, 12:22 PM']Ha ha, I saw you 2 going into the kebab shop just before I caught my bus home, thanks for letting me share a table with you guys (forgot to introduce myself!). Cheers to Phil for organising a refreshingly different bass experience! [b]I loved some of the middle-eastern sounding stuff played over drones - excellent use of eBow[/b]. Jon[/quote] Ooooh did he do Adhan then? Love that, totally mind boggling!!

[quote name='obbm' post='996846' date='Oct 22 2010, 11:13 AM']They are both fine causes. Could I propose we donate 50% to each.[/quote] +1 Seems like the best way forward to me....

Guess I may as well be the first to mention a possible Barefaced Compact solution. Team it up with a Hartke LH500 (or LH1000), and a sansamp VT and you'll be there....

Wow! What a gig, Hiromi is just astonishing, and I saw SC at The Barbican last year, and he spent all night on the DB then as well (and was staggering!) More than slightly green with envy here (and I dont really dig jazz - but SC is [b]so[/b] funky....)

In his own words:-

PM coming your way re Vincent's email addy.