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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!

Only allow yourself single note fills for a month, just do rhythmic stuff. After that its all gravy....

I'd say you would struggle to beat either an ae410 or an hs410. They are 4 ohm though so you'd need an amp capable of driving 2ohm to add another one later. Having said that I cant imagine when I would need more power than I have with my MB sa450 into my ae410 - its extremely loud indeed! Were you really after full on hifi, then the Barefaced Big One (with the additional tweeter) is the absolute canine undercarriage.

[quote name='Golchen' post='589003' date='Sep 3 2009, 07:11 PM']I don't get compressors??? Forgive my ignorance but it just seems like a nuance remover?[/quote] You might think that but in fact a properly set up compressor is the opposite. If you play your accents 3dB louder than your normal playing, and your nuances and ghosts are quieter by 3dB then in all likelihood the audience wont hear the nuances very well because they are too quiet, and the guitarist/vocalist will ask you to turn down cos your accents are too loud. A compressor lets you play with the same feel under your fingers but allows the audience to hear the quietest bits (although psychoacoustically they will seem quiet still due to difference in attack, timbre etc as you plucked softer) whilst taming the loudest accents to the delight of your band. Nothing stops you playing with dynamics like trying to be heard. Nothing stops you playing quieter with a compressor, its a fallacy.

pointy head stock ? yes pointy body with unnescessay unergonomic siticky outy bits to make it look all tough and grumpy? yes very black? yes Its a metal bass, the pups and pre anre irrelevant, it is designed to look 'metal', its aesthetic design is dictated too by the preconceptions of what is 'metal'. Can you use it to play other music? yes, of course. Will you look like a tw@t? almost certainly.....

Just add 2 Big Ones

[b]Bugera[/b] BTX36000 The Nuke 3600 Watt Bass Amp Head Is that another name for Behringer then???

[quote name='stevebasshead' post='588669' date='Sep 3 2009, 02:37 PM']The above involves compression...of a sort... It could even be described in terms of: Attack Compression Threshold and Release [/quote] ROFL! I'm sure this is really helping the OP too!

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='587642' date='Sep 2 2009, 04:34 PM']This represents the approximate time taken to have a really good poo[/quote] That can be a considerable time!

my Roscoe

oh boy.... too many variables to jsut say "do this" For instance level going into the device, difference in volume between styles from your fingers etc etc. However if you want to transparently level something you need to go along the lines of:- very very short attack long release low ratio (2:1 ish) low threshold (so its always compressing. Open up the attack for more of the initial transient to get through. Shorten the release such that the compression fades out with the sustain of the bass to allow the next transient through. PLay with the above for a good log while!