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Fab little speaker that does a great job of being a stage monitor for bass/vocals Or a guitar amp, or an acoustic amp. Or a party speaker, or a gazillion other things. Very nice it is too. Just a bit unused these days, so up for sale for collection only from Cheltenham. Some scuffs from being moved around, buts it’s had almost no use! £150
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(I’ll take more pictures later) GAS has struck, so whilst the other item is available I’m closing my eyes and listing my SR1200. I’m sure you know the deal with these by now! Nordstrands, beautifully made, plays and sounds just amazing! This one in particular has a figured top that shifts and shimmers, it’s impossible to capture in a picture, it almost looks ‘wet’ sometimes. Quite stunning. It’s a well played bass with minor knocks and dents from gig life, which I’ll picture later. It comes with the fancy Ibanez matching case. Totally collection only from Cheltenham I’m afraid. I know this limits me, but I’m doing a pgce and don’t have time to blink let alone sort postage. I also have no packaging. The bass is fully working, very well set up, with no issues and has just had a brand new neutrick barrel jack fitted too. Only listing whilst I’m GASsing!! If I miss out on what I’m after, this will be back out gigging with me as usual. I don’t actually want to sell it, but you know how it goes!
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Absolute genius..might have to go back to my Benton board now! (Switched to Pedaltrain)
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I've owned five or six stingrays and they all had this issue.
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The IEM (in ear monitors) Bible thread
gafbass02 replied to EBS_freak's topic in Accessories and Misc
One of them does, I think it’s the pm55se version. Mine doesn’t, but it’s not been an issue yet. -
The IEM (in ear monitors) Bible thread
gafbass02 replied to EBS_freak's topic in Accessories and Misc
This is precisely how I do it, in fact, I have one of each - a designacable and the Ernie Ball one, it connects to my Rolls headphone amp on my board where I can mix my bass signal with the band. Its a nice, elegant and simple solution that works for me as I don't need to stray too far or leap about anymore. -
Odd one for me last night, private do in a local pub, so nice and close, but our engineer was unavailable and it’s never quite the same with the stand in guy, good as he is. I couldn’t seem to get my IEM levels quite right, it was all a bit odd. Crowd were into it, but in a subdued way, plenty of dancing, but otherwise no other interaction at all. Strange night, but we were liked and handed out cards and got paid and fed, so fine.
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The IEM (in ear monitors) Bible thread
gafbass02 replied to EBS_freak's topic in Accessories and Misc
Thought I’d chip in that I’ve just upgraded my kz10s to the pro x version and they’re way better! Less harsh sounding, more ‘thump’ and generally smoother and nicer. Plus they’re smaller and lighter too. -
Local massive warehouse gig last night, like playing in a giant loo. Crowd were a bit too lively after the rugby so we knocked off a little earlier before something expensive happened.
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NBD ish, started as a 4, now it’s a 5 !!! update.
gafbass02 replied to wrinkleygit's topic in Bass Guitars
Wow, I’ve not seen one of those necks in a while! I custom ordered a signature bass from the infamous eBay seller back in the day, but it didn’t stay. Love the way your bass has turned out, very cool. -
I’ve had a change around! Super flexible set up with four possible DI out locations, options for running out to my frfr cabs in mono or stereo, or to an amp, or as I use it, to my IEMs through a separate route to my FOH signal. All mounted on a Pedaltrain novo 32 with a choice of soft or hard cases.
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The IEM (in ear monitors) Bible thread
gafbass02 replied to EBS_freak's topic in Accessories and Misc
I can relate! The tangling drove me nuts, so I upgraded and I'm SO glad I did! -
I get a bit of screen time in this live clip from the jubilee, sound is oddly muffled though.
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Thanks, I thought about that, but my skills are super limited and I could cut this with a craft knife 😂😂 (as you can tell!) If I tried using anything more I’d slice off a limb and burn the house down 🤣
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It’s not quite a perfect match 🤪But I finally got something sorted that’s more substantial than the cut out ice cream tub lid. I consider it a mk2 variant, I may make another and work on improving the fit and maybe spray it black as the stain doesn’t take the same way as the body. Just need some flat head screws next to stop my clothes getting snagged.
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Same here, I used to lug a mahoosive trace stack around, sometimes two of them!…and a 2x10 combo as a bass monitor!! (Such a fool!) At least they were taken in a truck and handled entirely by roadies on some tours, which helped. Then I went through a pile of class d lightweight rigs, markbass, genz, bergantino etc, before switching to a pair of headrush frfr 112s when the gigs started to get a lot more frequent and I got older!! That quickly switched to one 112, and now my rig has vanished and my pedalboard has shrunk and I’m on IEMs, which is amazing!.. Same sound every gig, at whatever volume I choose, load in is quick and easy, as is a quick line check, and packing up is just putting my bass in it’s bag and zipping up my pedalboard. it’s ace. I don’t miss an amp other than for looks factor. I truly regret not doing it years earlier.
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It now has a bartolini preamp and sounds fantastic debating some nordstrands and improved tuners next.
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Can’t wait to see it.
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Fun Thread , Have You Ever Been Asked For Your Autograph ?
gafbass02 replied to Bluewine's topic in General Discussion
Many times in the mid 00s when I was having a lucky spell with a band I was in. We got to do the whole all standing behind the merch stand at some big venues with a long queue of folks each wanting to say hello and to get each of us to sign their albums. It was all very surreal. Some would still be waiting around the loading bay gates when it was time to leave, or would follow us from gig to gig in their T-shirts. I was stopped in public a few times too. Cool, and a life experience that I’m grateful for. But still, very surreal. -
Basses that could have played better.
gafbass02 replied to NancyJohnson's topic in General Discussion
Everyone else’s bass I’ve ever played ever, I swear! I just don’t get it. Everyone else’s action feels terrible to me! -
My set up has a few routing options depending on whether I’m DIing from the zoom or the boom avenue, or running out to a pair of headrush 112s from the sonicake switcher. Mostly it’s run using a (bloomin expensive!) custom made multicore signal/headphone cable so the signal goes into the Sparrow DI (only switched on if I’m running a passive bass) and the out to the zoom for all the signal processing. From there it’s on to the horse EQ (again only used to subtract v low and hi frequencies if running to the 112s, otherwise it’s also off.) Then to the boom avenue preamp for punch, and DI out to the desk. But the signal splits at this point from the boom ave’s 1/4” out to the caline EQ which is for keeping my IEM signal as close to foh as possible so I don’t don’t make per song eq changes on the bass that might sound strange out front, here I can tweak what I’m hearing without affecting the FOH. From there the signal goes into the Rolls PM50 where I receive my monitor feed. The headphone section of my multicore cable goes in there and allows me to mix my own level against the rest of the band as I wish. I can also use a wireless and single headphone cable if I prefer, or Di straight from the zoom and use the boom ave and EQs for iems. Or should I wish, I can stereo out the zoom into the 2xfrfr speakers and run stereo, or take a mono out and use the other monitor for fold back, or a single speaker using both channels, one for bass, one for fold back. But mostly It’s run ampless as seen. It’s a very flexible, yet simple set up. At present, the board is all housed on a squashed up Harley Benton spaceship 60xl for portability. When festival season comes around and it’s all getting chucked in a van day in, day out, for protection, I move the whole lot over onto a much larger Pedaltrain in a flight case. I forget which model, but it’s big!
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