gafbass02

It's got that 'dammit I can't get loud enough' look about it

Having just bought an old trace ah250 I did an a/b 'heft test' against my 500w markbass through the same cabs. The markbass seemed 'as loud' but more focused, the trace just had more.... ...Heft! So that was worth doing.

It's in remarkable condition and sounds fantastic! I'd still prefer an ah400smx like my old one, but this'll do to relight my fire

Same really, I went lightweight when I left Leicester after running a huge trace stack for years, but just lately I've missed the 'sense of occasion' you get with a big, glowy, fan humming old trace!

[quote name='Deedee' timestamp='1459185220' post='3014239'] Bugger. Just missed out on this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/222067448929 Asked the seller a question and half hour later it had ended. Is it anyone here by any chance?? [/quote] It's just arrived at my house

I had a white one and it was so badly made I sent it back, even the seller admitted they were of very poor quality these days.

I like those songs, simply because they get a pub singing, which gets me rebooked and people pay me money to play them even though they are as simple as it gets. Job done.

The walnut jazz I built last year. Didn't realise how much I'd miss it, gave me a real sense of achievement doing that

Good shout bud.

Love the guitar, bass makes me feel a bit ill

I own an igig. I just put everything in the whole world in the front pocket. That leaves all the other pockets spare!

Ugly and yet another baffling name choice.

Yeah, I've rather prioritised income over quality and sanity! But I always think it's like any job, at some point you'll hate it. I just have to think back to my ten years at 'Richer Sounds' to realise that nothing else is that bad I reckon a break will help, just to relax the brain and hopefully something worthwhile will pop up. Hopefully on bass. I've really enjoyed a five year trip to the dark side, it gave me a fresh perspective and enthusiasm, but maybe it's time for me to back to bass and crucially NOT being the band leader!

Following this with interest. After around 25 years near constant gigging and thinking and caring about very little else; I feel like I've finally reached the end. I always expected a 'grand finale' but actually I've more just 'petered out'. I currently host two open mic nights every week, plus gigs and rehearsals/other spot work. It sucks, because the money is very handy! And as jobs go, sure can't complain!! But, my enthusiasm has just gone. Seven years ago I moved to a town where the music scene is disasterously cliquey to the point of total self defeat. Same people playing the same songs to the same people in the same pub, week in, week out, frequently badly too! So many local musos just seem to be jobless bums who think owning a guitar and smoking pot all day makes them a 'pro' instead of 'unemployed' and that the world owes them a living, there's virtually no cross population between venues or cliques and anyone new is treated with suspicion and disdain. Not to mention the fact that there are so many loonies and excessively 'eccentric' oddballs that some evenings feel more like a YouTube freak show, and sometimes intimidating when some of the 'less together' ones get ansty. (Like the guy who (really) thought he was Noddy Holder last week, apparently he is a delusional psychotic, he couldn't understand why bands didn't want him to play with them. I've started to find my Facebook feed full of musos I don't really know and an endless stream of futile 'come to my gig' posters, usually five or six metal bands on in a night, all of whom are convinced that anything else is 'selling out man' etc etc Musician adverts are full of 'death doom core' start ups and the regular older boys still banging out 'sunshine of your love' and 'wild thing'. It feels like I'm surrounded by poor quality musos or great musos that are lazy and drink/drug dependant, leaving me high and dry in the middle to do mediocre work where I can grab it. The guys I left behind when I moved were all driven and brilliant, that was a much bigger place too. I've had a brilliant run, sold a ton of albums, played HUGE, legendary venues, toured, had fun, lived the life and loved it, owned hundreds of guitars and basses, been successful and been a frontman and guitarist and bassist over the years (mainly bass) in so many genres. But it feels like the drive and draw has faded away to disdain and disinterest, I'm fed up of doing all the work and being surrounded by oddballs and lazy small minded folk all the time. I'm 40 this year, and wondering if it's time for a big change! Rant over, I just needed to 'say it out loud' I guess as I've no friends close enough here to talk it through with who don't rely on me for music in some way. I think I'm gonna sell up, keep one bass, one acoustic, one electric and amps for each/pa and train up as something. I'm a HLTA, so probably a teacher like my wife, get old, buy a big TV, save for a car with than 80bhp and remember the fun times.

Still no seperate hi and low mid controls, amps without that always put me off.