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[quote name='truegeminis' post='494228' date='May 21 2009, 01:41 PM']I know. I tried the Bergs out at Bass Direct last month when I bought a new amp. I really liked them but just couldn't bring myself to part with all that money at once. Plus I was all set on the Schroeder 1212L until I'd tried the Bergs so I had to take some time and advice from everyone here just to confirm I was making the right choice. [/quote] Ha ha, another one succumbs to Marks outlandish sales technique of letting you try out amazing gear until you cant live without it Congratulations mate, I really hope its everything you need, at least until you can save enough for the second ae112! Enjoy it

[quote name='alexclaber' post='494177' date='May 21 2009, 01:00 PM'] One thing I have pondered is doing a large PA cab based around the Big One - so a 15" high-excursion woofer, high output 6.5" mid and then a nice compression tweeter. It wouldn't be small but would still weigh in at under 50lbs so very manageable and you could put a pair on short-ish stands and play a pretty large gig (the kind that would normally demand decent 1x12" tops and a couple of decent subs) with just a pair of cabs, no subs. As someone that's gigged with a Big One and has a feel for its size and output, what do you think of that? Alex[/quote] I'd love to see it, I think it would be getting on for hifi quality at monstrous levels out of two boxes You would be best marketing this as a rig that is as louder and equally full range as 2 1x12 mid tops + 2 1x15 subs in just 2 boxes about the size as most subs, so people are saving the size of the mid tops, Then design a monitor based around your midget (it would be comparable in size to a 1x12 mid top in all probability. Add two of those to the system and sell the lot for less than a similar spec big PA. In all likelihood people would be able to throw in excess of 3K into the pair of BigOne based bins (more like 4K if they could find an amp capable), and a good 2K into the monitors (feedback permitting) Coupled with the right amps and a dbx driverack that would be the best 'small' PA in the world, and should definitely be capable of coping with kick drums and bass/keys/vox/guitar - much to everyones surprise!!! Definietly the best direct radiating mid top/full range speakers anyways. Getting that across to people in the PA world may be quite tricky (esp DJ types who put a lot of store in subs). For anyone like that just tell them to hook it up with 4 BFM Tuba 36's That would do it! (ie knock the back wall of the venue down)

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='494135' date='May 21 2009, 12:25 PM']I went out in Stoke once. Full of slags. My kinda town.[/quote] Yeah, I bet you felt right at home you filthy £&*^er

I have a Digitech BP8, the compressor on it is fantastic. But, it wasnt even close to my focusrite. I've pretty much come to the opinion that you just need a quality stand alone compressor. As for chorus/flanger, I think you wont find many multi-fx where you could run both at the same time, if thats what you need. If you only want one or the other I would suggest keeping you eyes out for a BP8, they often go pretty cheap. They aren't perfect but if thats the extent of what you really need to do they are really good at chorus/flanger and compression...

[quote name='greyparrot' post='493341' date='May 20 2009, 03:18 PM']Got a fantastic sadowsky RV5 [/quote] So you weren't hanging around!

[quote name='AM1' post='493764' date='May 20 2009, 10:20 PM']So, basically, what you have admitted, is that you don't use the sock. OR the sausage and beans method. Now, in line with your previous minging admissions, I feel that there are some confessions still to be made. [/quote] Its like bass playing, its all in the hands (just)

One set on the bass one set in the tube. A day in there does the trick though. Hence the one on one in route...

Big cab = small d**k anyone???

[quote name='AM1' post='493679' date='May 20 2009, 08:33 PM']Scrapheap Challenge was amazing! No seriously - on dive gear - if I detailed some of the scandalous goings on with CE certification and standards, on what is life support equipment, you'd be horrified. There's a functional safety standard called IEC61508, which covers programmable electronics and no sports rebreather (or several military rebreathers) currently on the market, meet it. Yet they are still able, on the premise of a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) cert, to sell it in the EU. We are talking about electronics that control the breathing mixture and ensure it is respirable - however those electronics, at code and hardware level, are so poorly assembled and programmed, that they are able to hang and reboot back into a mode in which no oxygen delivery takes place, no brownout circuit, one clock, a crap processor, a massive single point of failure in the power supply...meaning that if a diver does not notice oxygen delivery has stopped, they simply go to sleep from hypoxia. This is, ridiculously, labelled as "user error" in the user community, who are, in the main, utterly brainwashed in respect of what constitutes acceptable functional safety standards in safety-critical life support systems. One manufacturer has a fatality rate approaching 75 users (in only several thousand sold units) making the mortality rate less than 1 in 39, and an even worse in active use. Seriously, other than Shipman, the most prolific serial killers had less bodies on the slab! Homebuilding is actually safer, as the builder has control over the testing - I kid you not. PS - my opinion is considered well outside the parameters of the vast majority, but then, they don't have my background. Got me on a rant - I'll stop now![/quote] I find it all to easy to believe every word you've said. You are still certifiable in my book, and in a well respected "nutter in the shed" kind of a way. Well done!

[quote name='AM1' post='493555' date='May 20 2009, 06:23 PM']Oh dear. A simple search was enough to reveal the following: [url="http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/w***_sock"]http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/w***_sock[/url] but you will have to replace the stars with a word that rhymes with tank. The bit about the can of beans and sausages is priceless.[/quote] BWAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAAAAAA ROFLMFAO!!! I never heard of that, not even when I was in the TA, "range glue" yes, but not that. Thats is cracking!!

[quote name='AM1' post='493615' date='May 20 2009, 07:15 PM']Haha you are not pimping out my zing killing skills![/quote] I thought we'd established that he didnt really want it for killing zing.....

[quote name='AM1' post='493615' date='May 20 2009, 07:15 PM']Haha you are not pimping out my zing killing skills! Just looking at the string cleaning tube. I already have all sorts of pieces of pipe and crap here from [b]homebuild dive gear projects[/b]. It's like scrapheap challenge! Haha, keep the tube away from drummers [/quote] "Jeez you came in that, you're braver than I thought!" That sound like a recipe for a seriously nasty acident though. My only experience of diving was about a half hour at the bottom of a swimming pool. I swim like a fish (admittedly something really big like a whale shark) but all that gubbins and gear felt so unnatural to me, I'd rather stick to a snorkel! Scrapheap Challenge, now there's a top program, is it still on?

[quote name='Kongo' post='493519' date='May 20 2009, 05:51 PM']Hell yeah! For 2 years when I had but £160 a month to my name I kept my tone doing this...they begun to stink a bit after a while...that old metal smell would cling to my fingers bad! But it WORKED! and I still don't know how... Oh but this is also best done on strings without silk...Red turns pink and eventually white and Blue / Green / Purple...well you get the picture.[/quote] Whilst I used to boil strings, the temperature change, water, whatever does definitely weaken them as well as clean them. I used to get by by doing this but suffer more and more breakages as strings went through the cycle. And I play soft like a babies behind compared to most. Since using the DRs and the tube I haven't had any breakages (yet) and the strings on my 4 banger are about a year old now. Cant recommend it enough!

Well its effectively two preamp channels into an LMII power section. The LMII is generally considered to colour tone very very little from what I've ever read both here an on TB. Certainly my SA450 (which is also closely related to an LMII) really does let the nature of the bass shine through. I find the combination of sa450 and berg ae410 is amazingly accurate to my ear, when compared to a loud playback of a DI'ed version of my basses over good monitors. So if uncoloured is what you are after I think amp-wise at least you should be on to a real winner. The cab is probably even more important in this regard though (IMO any way)

[quote name='AM1' post='493504' date='May 20 2009, 05:35 PM']Since you've lowered the tone (well you are almost a Stokie!) - I have to ask, why are you pretending here that you don't use a w@nk-sock!! Blokes have NO secrets, we know them all![/quote] Errrr "w@nk-sock", you gotta be sh**ing me! What is this "w@nk-sock" to which you refer???? (BBC prefers two pieces of liver and a radiator I've heard)

[quote name='AM1' post='493501' date='May 20 2009, 05:33 PM']What's this methylated tube business then, I've seen a bit about it but need more detail![/quote] Here is a pretty good version:- [url="http://www.tunemybass.com/strings/bass_string_cleaning_tube.html"]String Cleaning Tube[/url]

At rehearsals I end up wearing whatever I've been wearing all day (generally not a gimp suit or gas mask then). I figure it like this, I am definitely going to get as sweaty as a Dutch posing pouch, so why bother changing anything. I sometimes wish I had done something more clever come the end of the rehearsal as I slide off home, just me and my clothes soaked in 20 gallons of slimey sweatiness. Having said that I do enjoy that first break in a rehearsal, when you take your bass off and your T-shirt is glued to your back with sweat, kind of tells you you've been doing something worth while! Strangely for all I sweat a lot by all accounts its never very smelly (or so I have been told), and my feet never smell at all. Nope, no fungus either. I dont think I've ever had a reheasal top, however I have a DIY T-shirt with a picture of the pyramids and the legend 'Slavery, gets s**t done' underneath. Which really does get me in the correct mood for D-I-stinking-Y, which I loathe Unfortunately I hate DIY to such an extent that it is a pathetically excellent state of repair

Crikey No really, thats is staggering playing mate. Stumbles off back home to consider slitting wrists........

[quote name='AM1' post='493472' date='May 20 2009, 05:09 PM']It IS a true fact though that you always pull when at your absolute dog-roughest! [/quote] But what and at what cost to your dignity?

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='493434' date='May 20 2009, 04:42 PM']Sorry. What did I miss...? I was away with the kleenex...[/quote] Fortunately it was only coffee all over my keyboard at that, what with being at work and all!

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='493404' date='May 20 2009, 04:24 PM']All this talk of a sweaty AM1 is kinda turning me on.[/quote] And you think you're alone in that do you?

[quote name='AM1' post='493370' date='May 20 2009, 03:47 PM']I think I better bulk buy some strings soon![/quote] In all seriousness I'd really recommend the tube of meths for string cleaning, and if it doesnt work out you can always use it as a poor mans pipe bomb.... I havent bought strings for my 4 string in over a year, and it still sounds zingy enough with the strings from the tube.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='493357' date='May 20 2009, 03:35 PM']Ha - bass strap glow... Neoprene straps are the worst for that (anything like Neotech or ComfortStrapps...). They proper hold the ming.[/quote] They do that - "I love the smell of neoprene early in the morning!"

[quote name='AM1' post='493356' date='May 20 2009, 03:33 PM']Haha, I only dive so I can keep rubber suits in the car! Bring out the gimp! [/quote] Bwahahahhahhaaa!! There is a very rude comment about fishy smells in there too, but I'll leave it with the gimp suit (in the car) You're not on RateMyGASMask.com are you??

[quote name='Eight' post='493343' date='May 20 2009, 03:19 PM']Then do the same on yourself AM. Dirty dirty people.[/quote] She wont do that, WD40 and other oil based lubricants degrade rubber, and we all know she lives in a wetsuit.....