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Heil PR40 Its the absolute nads.

Its bloody cavernous in there isnt it!

Hmmm tricky, on the one hand I'm 'in' a band thats spread all over the south coast, that get together and record bits whenever we can. All original, would be great if I enjoyed the music more, and we could do more of it, but I love the people so its certainly not all bad. Then there is a ropey blues covers band that I dod the odd gig with - that one we had knocked on the head cos it was really doing all our heads in (very non-commital singer) but it appears to have reaered its fugly head again for a Halloween gig Finally I'm in the process of getting my own band together - first meeting/rehearsal/appraisal/writing session on Tuesday week. Cherry picked a line up of people who do funk in all sorts of bands, got them involved by stalking them mainly, and selling them on the idea of what I want the band to do. They are all dead fired up over the idea of it, which I'm not going to spill here (you would all be doing it if I did ) - looking to be ready to gig in 3 or 4 months max with a 9 track set. Very very excited about this one!

Rubber car footwell mat Cheap as chips

A flatulence?

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='599736' date='Sep 15 2009, 11:10 PM']yes. It's a cascade fathead with lundahl transformers. Probably the best bargain in audio at the moment! You can't tell but it's about 10 feet in front of the kick![/quote] Love Cascades, superb for the wonga! NOt heard the Lundhal transformer version though, make much difference?

[quote name='OldGit' post='600325' date='Sep 16 2009, 03:22 PM']No contest... A pocketful Unless they are young and have yet to play in public then it's "a Slap"[/quote] +1 A Pocket

[quote name='Rimskidog' post='598812' date='Sep 14 2009, 11:01 PM']It's a Yamaha Subkick. An NS10 woofer wired backwards it's essentially a microphone that captures all the low end frequencies of the kick drum.[/quote] Cheers! Heard of 'em, never seen one. I take it you have another mic in the shell or round back getting some beater click and what have you then? We want all your secrets

[quote name='XB26354' post='596744' date='Sep 12 2009, 06:41 PM']Hi, These are "Coltrane Changes" - something that John Coltrane popularised with Giant Steps. The two progressions should be as follows: .... There's lot more about this kind of sequence in print - notably Mark Levine's Jazz Theory Book, which devotes an entire chapter to it. Hope this helps Cheers Mat[/quote] Thanks for the single most informative post (not to suggest anyone else here hasnt provided great info in their time but...) on how substitutions work - I think I'm even starting to 'get it' now! If only this had actually been explained in the article I might have had the tiniest chance of keeping up

Nice! Is it me or is there a snare/tom over the whole in the skin on that kick? Looks really weird whatever is going on anyways!

I fell out of playing for about 4 or 5 years really - I'd pick it p every now and then and widdle thru some bits. I totally lost track of the scene. Since I got back into playing I've failed a bunch of auditions (you lose some, you lose some more....) Now I'm trying to get my own band together. In all of which I can honestly say that myspace, joinmyband, musofinder, formingbands, bandmix etc are really useful. Myspace is the thing that was missing when I used to play a lot, simply because it allows you to get a taste before you even have to meet up. So trawl through myspace looking for the genre you are interested in, an amazing number of people are there and you can contact them immediately.

If I could fill it with helium to make it lighter i would - any more than 8 1/2 pounds and I'm looking elsewhere...

nope....

I'd recommend DR Low Riders, they arent very high tension at all, even though HI-Beams are even lower tension, put they have a fantastic tone- loads of lovely mid grind that I think would really suit you sir!

Well I've got the MXR, and it effectively does just one filter sweep sound, you can play a bit but thats your lot really. Then it has the auto-Q bit, which is frankly a bit of a red herring on bass (although I might find a use for it someday). I would say that that one sound is lovely though, to me anyway. I find the Q-trons dont do it for me at all, they tend to lose all sense of the bass making the sound IMO, totally ott, and are pretty uncontrollable - but both my basses are very high outout 18v active jobbies. I would suggest you try and find an EMMA Discombobulator though, they turn up second hand every now and then and are supposed to be lovely (and are on my GAS list )

Cheers! Really want to go, please get the detail of how to buy in advance! Si

If that works for you then great! I've owned and played and got the most out of a fair few basses, most of them cheap. The most expensive 'cheap' bass I owned was £499 new in 1994. Then I put a set of EMG Js in it. I spent years and years with this bass, tweaked it and tweaked it to get the action just so, just got to the point where it was sounding exactly as I wanted it to. Then I realised I desperately wanted a 5, and got the Roscoe. Its really really not cheap, so why get it? It sounds fantastic. It has the best set up I have ever seen. It weighs less than any other bass I have ever played (4 or 5 string!) Its better made than anything I've ever picked up and played before (which includes a lot of expensive basses). It is aesthetically beautiful (to my eyes), without being overtly gaudy, in your face or over the top, or in fact obviously as expensive as it is IMO. It inspires me to play it every time I set eyes on it in a way that none of my previous instruments ever have (and yours certainly would be unlikely to) It was and is absolutely worth every penny (to me). If it was stolen, I would hunt them down .....

[quote name='Rumple' post='595515' date='Sep 11 2009, 11:23 AM']Fantastic idea! Where do you get the fluffy velcro stuff from? R.[/quote] +1 Thats a fantastic idea but I have no idea where you can aquire the velcro either...

Any interest in the Roscoe? Or an extremely badly played Squire VMJ fretless

My senn buds are fine for practicing with....

[quote name='alexclaber' post='592194' date='Sep 7 2009, 04:14 PM']From what I know of Markbass and Epifani UL Series 1 they are/were using poplar ply, not a dual density composite. I think the new Epifani DIST cabs have gone to thin baltic birch and more bracing. Not sure what the AE use, they've certainly gone to thinner ply. Compared to all their drivers mine are about 2lb heavier per twelve due to the larger motors but you get another 3dB or so of max output in compensation! Alex[/quote] As ever, I sit corrected

[quote name='alexclaber' post='592170' date='Sep 7 2009, 03:42 PM']We haven't gone any thinner, we've gone to a special ply with harder denser outer plies and less dense softer inner plies, with markedly reduced voids. I've wanted to use something like this from the start but it required quite a bit of investment. I wouldn't want to go any thinner as the next size down is a lot thinner percentage-wise and the amount of bracing you'll have to add will offset the amount of weight you'd save on the panels. With plywood construction I don't believe it'll be possible to save any noticeable weight compared to the new cabs. A cheaper neo driver could save some weight but it'll cost you on performance. My guess is a 15% total weight saving - I'll verify this when I find my scales... Alex[/quote] Sounds similar to the ply in Markbass and Epifani cabs. Conversely the Berg AE series use thinner material to lose weight (and Neo drivers natch).

+1 Love it!