LukeFRC

I enjoyed listening.

[quote name='Stephen Houghton' timestamp='1372286045' post='2123972'] 'Don't let the hate and greed blind us, rebel practice random acts of kindness' Translation for you there Luke your from Leeds and cant get the Wigan accent, thought you would be used to it from when we come to your town and whack you at rugby on a regular basis [/quote] If you talked in broad scots I'ld understand you! I've only just moved to this part of the world! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBrzEVJwYFg

Luke's Reviews... (as I listen) faced a dialema... is anything slightly critical allowed? hmm lets just start listening! Space chick - awesome spoken word stuff going on. Love the singing too. Reminds me of the end of Shorely Wall by Ooberman (one of my fave songs) Steve - more ambient stuff here - some awesome playing going on, hard to believe it's all on a bass. Lovely parts but only seems to grab me after the 3 min mark. Mornats- movie clips added to a beat and synths, think primal scream around vanishing point or xtrmtr, death in vegas. bass lovely from about 1.06. great stuff. Sibob- oooh synthy stuff. no, pedals... that's impressive. great feel and tension. i thought this would be wibble but it's actually great. really great. Most of the others I got to reading the comments after a min or so, this has kept me listening till 4 min in before I noticed how long the song is. Mind you soundcloud seems to want to get me to listen to lana del rey, and while she is better looking i'll stick with this. british sea power's man of aran meets four tet but better. Stephen H- keys... and glock.... odd vocal pan sweep at about 1.05, I'm hearing "Do let the hater greet blindnees Big L practiced random acts of kindness" it it a song about Big L ? I like the audio clips. Bilbo- it's loading, expecting atonal jazz rubbish, lets see....oh sound cloud links Bilbo to Linkin Park for me. Oooh a snare and a melody. hmmm.... well it's not atonal jazz rubbish - but a rather nicely crafted set of melodies weaving in and out of each other. annoying snare though, it sounds too perfect timing wise for the rest of the music- I kind wanted to think of it being recorded up a chimney by a really wild fella but it was a bit clinical for me. Appart from that pretty awesome! Camden Rob- bass in the rain... oooh a live video. lovely tone - I am sat here wondering what gear you're using. Lovely melodies going on, and the bass sounds great. Very very nice playing. Awesome Lurksalot- iv'e been doing this a while and the wife said i could have a beer so the reviews may go downhill.... flip me a lot of low on that kick drum, ooh the blues, love the guitar at about 0.57 onwards. Great great singing - like a real singer rather than a bass player trying to sing! ( ) discreet..... is very loud at the start! ouch thanks for wrecking my ears - i've headphones on that can do bass quite well....that was painful- takes intill 2.06 to get going. Keep expecting some one to shout out King of snake-snake snake.... I liked it once the beat kicked in. lowdown.... actually tries to capture a south american mountain range feel in a song, plus points. eerie vocals... feels like there's a gap in the mix waiting for a bass.... nice strings coming in at end - very good and the best match of the pic so far imo. oddly it started playing mornats "running" after bob bass 4k... sounds like a whole band! very mogwai which is either a good thing or a bad thing depending, I love mogwai - we'll see how it goes. Very very nicely programmed drums here. The whole thing sounds very compressed though- it's kinda killing whats going on... overall I like what's trying to go on, but the whole thing sounds so compressed it' lost something. Skol/urb - so rap. with some awesome drums and.... well you know that really awful bass playing you see on youtube with that awful "jazz bass sound" of nice sounding bass that doesn't do anything.... this isn't it... this is that sound working to make a song... like exceptional - listen to it on your headphones if you're not or you'll miss how tight that bass is with the rest of the song. Rapping is great too. Really this was made for this month? bit of mastering and I wouldn't be able to tell this wasn't some released song I had missed! Love the funk feel in the last wee bit too. so there you have it..... some great entries... for me.... some of the highlights.... Spacechick's vocals, everything about Sibob, Bilbo's sheer musicianship in that. Camden rob for the confidence to do it all live.... for me a clear winner is Skol's thanks all for a lovely evening listening!

[quote name='RichF' timestamp='1372270592' post='2123708'] I have a tecamp 500 into a BF compact and midget t. It's a fantastic focused sound but a bit warmer than the newer Tecamps I have tried. Still it's a more "modern" sound, like Markbass. I actually found it closest to Genz Benz but the permutations given cabs etc mean it's difficult to pin down. [/quote] which possibly tells you that it, like a lot of the other makes, are going for a clean modern sound... and that what cab you buy is as important as the amp

The colouration will be partially determined by the cab you choose. There are basically two "types" of Puma you'll find - the older ones (500 and 1000) have a "powersoft" transformer and the newer ones something different. The newer ones can go down to a lower speaker impedance, from what I've read Musicman20's description is dead on, similar to Markbass F500. The older powersoft era Pumas, what I have, are somewhat different having a big smooth bottom end and being somewhat fatter sounding. Talkbass and the post of a fella called kjung are what you need to read though! While I also don't like the "Markbass tone" I like my puma, but your gear list is interesting... lots of 15", but the one you liked was a 4x10.... maybe look at 2x10 cabs? and.... why Tecamp? they are great but if the best thing you've played is a SVT... why go towards Tecamp? (thats not a rhetorical question btw, genuinely interested)

sounds to me like a daft idea - it's not going to take much to go wrong or BOE base rates to go up (as they're going to), or your circumstances to change, job lays you off, you get pregnant, you get ill, etc etc and you'll regret it. You're talking 3.5 years to pay this bass back? If you want something save and earn it. Save up - it may take you 2 years or more, sell something you've got first (the market might not pick up for a long time!) it may not be as fun to begin with but when you get the bass at least you can say it actually yours and an actual reward for your hard work. mind you having said all that I am wondering what 2.5k bass you're after!

[quote name='AKAK' timestamp='1372176103' post='2122504'] Have you seen that new Virtue Camp they have with the 12" and 10" which you can select between using the side switches? WOW that seems like the best cab design ever(design not sound being the word as I have not heard it in person and youtube videos with super bassist demoing equipment is not a clear indication of what 'tone' another bassist would get out of it.) Molan: i sense a business opportunity for someone who has a music store as obviously there is interest in their gear. [/quote] the switching between 10's and 12's seems a bit gimmicky to me personally but I like the idea of different tweeters

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1372177721' post='2122538'] Luke I was gonna buy that cab but you beat me to it [/quote] You should have seen me, walking from guitar guitar to st enoch's low level with my lightweight cab and the pleasure pump they gave me! One of them was lightweight, the other was big and bulky

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1372124716' post='2121982'] A few yrs back Guitar Guitar had a huge blowout on Tecamp most of which I think ended up in the hands of forum users. It's nice gear and I wouldn't have minded a go on the bad bull heads. Ironically at the time of the blow out I had a power amp in for repair which I bought from guitar guitar and they eventually gave me a refund days after the heads and combo's had pretty much sold out [/quote] ... and guitar guitar forgot to put one cab on... and it sat lonely, with a pleasure pump, in their glasgow store till I found it and as I was buying the cab they gave me the pleasure pump for free!

Woooahhh - they have an new cab range.... ceramic not neo speakers!

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1372070425' post='2121140'] Heheh I'm not surprised it was a nice sound - fully active with multiband limiting, 24db/oct crossover as low as 2k to a nice compression driver, and about £1000 rrp if I remember right. You won't find a 2-way bass cab which can match that in a similar footprint! [/quote] I'm using it again this eve it is a nice bit of kit... also you can find it online for way less than that. [quote name='fingerz' timestamp='1372079545' post='2121281'] Hi Luke, This will be to do with the monitor being 'flatter' in it's speaker/cabinet tuning than your bass cab. You are hearing a very flat/uncolored sound due to the nature of the PA set up you are using. Because of this you are getting a really transparent sound (ie, you hear the bass, not the amp so much) which is why all your basses sound so different and like themselves. Lots of bass amps have their own inherent sound, which can make it seem pointless plugging different basses into them. I imagine the PA also suits the room well, as I've had ok and awful experiences when it comes to getting good low end monitoring through PA's.. But because monitors are designed generally for mid range and clarity your tone can be eye opening. [/quote] .... which makes me wonder- why do we not use something like this as a bass amp? unless you're going for a distinctive "SVT" tone... I mean this thing is about the same weight as a light combo, sounds great... what's the downsides? I'm also thinking that with the eq, and playing I could probably get my rig sounding more like this.

It was an HK Audio D.A.R.T monitor. http://hkaudio.com/products.php?id=11

oh and if you wanna come try my rig and am local feel free

I like them.

nice bass - these subs are something I would like to try out sometime- totally refinish one! my suggestion- get along to underground solution on cockburn st, ask for their spray paints.... £3.50 a can, a kind of nitro, and will do you more than fine unless you're going for the 60's vintage nitro thing

For pete's sake, didn't we have something similar not long ago and you eventually decided to keep the preEB? - don't sell lots of great stuff just in the hope of finding something good..... lets face it it's going to be a 5 string stingray of some kind isn't it.... go play lots of them, be nice to the fella above who said he was selling his... and good luck whatever you do!

[quote name='Rockaction5' timestamp='1371802416' post='2118218'] some news from the other side of the channel, Jaguar type "DR" with DR re-designed bisonic type pickups. Elected "bass of the year 2012" in the french magazine "guitariste and basse magazine" [/quote] wow... turn the headstock the right way, stick an old style bridge on that and paint it a solid colour and that might be the bass of my dreams based on looks!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1371819533' post='2118490'] Which PA system was it? [/quote] what- in the church? as in what make were the amps/board etc? [quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1371823798' post='2118550'] All kinds of good reasons, including the angle of the wedge, the fact there probably won't be muddy/boominess due to the mid focus of the monitor and also the fact that you'll have been hearing some lovely bottom end from the FOH. [/quote] FOH was off though - this was us turning up to practice in an empty church building - using the monitors to give us enough to hear each other. Maybe it was the room - big building and less reflections possibly it was cos It was pointing at me - I dunno - it just sounded good. I'll have to look again when I'm there next and see what make/type it was- it was just I plugged in and the jazz and the P and the wick was the bass tone I have in my head. In a way my rig doesn't give as well.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1371770788' post='2118070'] The Lord always smiles on Bass players....? [/quote] well he had the right idea when he invented bass frequencies and Leo Fender

yeah, I've done similar with a bass I built. T-cut is quite cheap in wilkinsons too. I didn't bother with the polish.

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1371766584' post='2118025'] It's all about the midrange! A decent monitor is designed with the focus on delivering good, clean, evenly-dispersed midrange in the nearfield. Very few bass cabs have the same quality of components in this area. Mind you, a really decent monitor is more expensive than most bass cabs for a given volume level. [/quote] yeah, it was the mid and top end that sounded sweet. Might have to look see what it was next time I'm there. Smallish thing, the inputs on the back, one for instrument and one for line too..

Bass.... di.... desk... wedge.... maybe they have got compression and eq set on the FOH but i know that the foldback mix is all taken out pre EQ, and I doubt compression as we just turn on enough to run the fold back to practice through. This isn't us playing with a sound guy sorting us out, this is us turning up, turning on, playing for 2 min and then getting something that sounds good enough to practice with.... it's just the tone... and the fact that it's also giving me a bit of most the other musicians . I'm right there in the middle of them all, next to the drummer and.... it sounds great. Well the bass tone is good, the general sound is pretty bad cos we don't spend much time sorting it out beyond being good enough to practice with. You know it's kinda making me think I should sell my rig and buy one of those wedges and a di box!