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Cheers dude, just got in, four tracks nailed. Used the lm2 from the xlr no probs at all, coupled with my compressor, hartke vxl and noise suppressor I managed to get a cracking, well controlled signal that sounded fab, and crucially sounded like me. Pretty much the same as the live mic sound on the useless wooden toys stuff. Thanks again for all the help guys.

Awesome!! See that's why I love you guys!!! Thanks loads. I can only assume by turn off the volume he means turn it down. Bless the lot of ya!! (I'm off to do more Loungefly songs. We got an email off Rick Wakeman asking if he could play us on his planet rock show which is nice. So we are this and next Sat am apparently.)

Is it safe to run a little mark 2 as a preamp into the studio without speakers connected? I'm pretty sure it is but thought I'd check 1st as I can find it anywhere and have to go in half an hour. !

Lmao :-)

The 2-tek was awesome. Required routing a big chunk out if I recall? Wasn't it endorsed by some chap? Loius someone? Johnson perhaps? I Vaguely it assciate with a Treker bass? (which I'm sure inspired the guy that drew the Warwick katana) but it coulda just been on the same page of a magazine.

I spent a lot of time at Quad doing some session work a few years ago, great place. Im a Leicester lad too, all my life till i moved to Cheltenham just under two years ago. They say true Leicester folk navigate by telling you which Bruccianis things are near lol! Oh and i use a full Mark bass rig downsized from a Trace UBER stack too!

Um, its looks cool! i just let my strings wear the grooves, not had a problem in 15 years or so of having a badass on pretty much every jazz ive owned. Only issue i have now is my new squier has the HMV bridge and i want a gold bridge and apparently the badass holes dont line up with the hmv. Hmm :-(

I don't really have a main bass anymore, just a bunch of jazzes, but what I have done is narrowed things down from wicks, rays, statii and god knows what else to discover I'm most at home on four string, passive jazzes with maple necks.

I'm the same, ' oh God, I love this, it's great, it's perfect, now how can I mess with it!' :-)

Christ im still wincing from reading that!

I use em a LOT and totally recommend em. They are excellent for the money and seem to last longer than rotos. Downside is they seem to be about two feet too long!!

I pride myself on an über quick, tidy and fuss free set upwhich distracts for a few minutes. After that it's smoke a lot lol. I know it's no good thing but I never really get nerves, never really have. Only about things like interviews rather than playing. I guess one important pre gig ritual I've stuck to since 17 is offer to buy the soundguy a beer!

That's awesome thanks for posting it. I used Trace for years, some of you might recall the last stack I had. It really was amazing and just owning it was a teenage dream cone true. Sadly moving it was such a pain I Succombed to the markbass craze in about it's first week lol!

I feel so stuck using the same patterns and shapes I feel like I'm cheating rather than playing these days. Sadly I just can't afford lessons so I'll have to cheat a while yet. Great post dude.

Yup I got it too, want me to make a phone call to the boys?

This thread is the bestest ever!!

Im getting one of these next week but will need to change the bridge for a gold one, and ive heard the badass 2 isnt a straight swap for the new hmv bridge, any one done this or know one that fits? cheers folks

I hate playing without, I find my old boss improves my tone and my control and crucially the response of the bass, where goes my bass goes my compressor pedals ( I gave two boss cs3's one in each pedal board, both have a sticker on saying 'talent booster!, so true though!)

Well there's proof that treating customers like garbage will backfire cause from reputation alone I'm going elsewhere after reading this.

Oh poo, I was just about to order from them too!

Same

Gorgonyte, fret and fingerboard cleaner, omg!! Frets like shiny mirrrors! And who remembers the bass hammer??? Yup I was the guy that bought one, there was endorsement talk briefly, until i realised i could slap faster without it, I sold it on here actually, anyone else have one? Ooo and legacy strings from strings direct, how are they so good?!!?!!

That logo and face mounted jack affair looked horrifc imho and def cost em a sale from me in the past. I do understand that perhaps that sharing a logo with the branded wicks may debatably devalue the german wicks in the eyes of more gear obsessed types as us, but hey ho, it'll shift more units I'm sure!