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Ive just got an epiphone les paul lp300. Which Sounds great but feeds back like a banshee at gig volume. Is there Anything I can replace it With that keeps the cool chrome cover look but Is less feedback prone? My V has an invader in it which is amazing but very expensive and not attractive at all! I use a high gain sound but don't struggle with the invader at all. Trouble is: A im skint, so it can't cost a load. B I'd like to preserve the chrome covered look if at all poss. C I know nothing about guitar stuff!!

Yeah. I was gutted to find my berg ae210's sounded awful looked up to my guitar combo.

Ed Byrne it was

Interesting thread. Doubt its the same at PMT, byt the well known hi-fi store i used to work in I used to hate price beats. It meant extra faff and that the money the customer saved by having me faff around ringing up other places and getting arsey with me when they didnt have it, or more often they read the model no's right etc was the money I would have made from selling it. So I'd done more work for no money, and they'd often act all 'I'm giving you a sale' Whereas you were thinking, 'yeah a sale for no money whereas I could have sold it to the next guy at no price beat and made myself a tenner' or whatever. Just a glimpse behind the counter. That's life 'n all. So glad to be out of retail hell!! The old sound control crew in Leicester were one of those 'stiff till you know em' crowds. Nice eventually though lol. Offered me the deputy job once-turned it down. I'd just moved out of retail. Funnily enough I used to do the sound for Phil Jupitus quite a lot, we got on pretty well, free tickets and stuff and he always asked after the Mrs etc, I did see him be arrogant to others though. I worked at Jongleurs DI with loads of famous telly types. Did the sound for Jasper Carrot once lol. Worst was that long haired Irish chap off the phone ads, name bizarrely escapes me, he was utterly vile.

i cant wait to grab a graphic module

Missed that one! Good call. I'm curious too.

Yeah, it doesn't 'feel' quite as brutally loud, then again as you say, it's a minimal difference and not a factor as those volumes aren't often nessecary. Indeed possibly never. I'm aware I'm in the minority nor digging the sound of the BareFaced cabs, Shame cause I love the weight, and they certainly seem to look better now I think and Alex is a handy fella, and a very welcome addition to the board. That and I very much like to support ventures such as his. I may try them again in the future. But for now, after a lot of rigs, many more than ive discussed here, and 20 years gigging, I'm pretty much happy.

Yeah, they really are a tremendous buy. Love the form factor too. Drop in the boot of the Honda Jazz perfectly.

That is awesome!!

As far from porn as you can get, but here's Malcom and Mr Shiny. [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/a8b8c5a6.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/3acc8d13.jpg[/IMG] And, um, goldie? [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/861bd675.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/f0102293.jpg[/IMG]

Nice

Hell yeah!!!! Good job man.

Many thanks Jam, that's REALLY kind! :0) cheers dude.

Erm...,thanks? I'm not sick of the punters reaction tho ...that and we're rather limited to what I can play and sing....which ain't much.

Don't why I'm posting this cause its awful!! I've only been 'playing' guitar since July, and 'singing' the same. It only started as a joke! This was recorded by accident, we were just trying to catch the audio cause we needed to learn the song, this was literally, and I mean that - LITERALLY the 2nd time we'd attempted this song. I'd just talked them through the chords, and as you can see from the arm waving, still working out the structure. My first and indeed only ever attempt at a guitar solo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvF6b4QMovQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player It's just me and my mates messing about really. That's basschatter Davemuadib on my 'Bassmaster Funk' bass. We were playing at sub talking volume with electric drums and vocals through a hi-fi in my cellar. I was reading the lyrics off a sheet.

And finally..[IMG]http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/gafbass02/my%20bass%20stuff/100_1432.jpg[/IMG] There's been more, but that's all the pics I have.

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With the arrival of the new baby and the accompanying chaos it's taken me a while to get round to mentioning this, but I recently sold my shuttle 9.0 to basschatter, my bass player and best mate Davemuadib. I went back to markbass, I found with the genz I loved the full range hi-fi thing, infact it mafe a great hi-fi with my bergs! But i missed having control over low and high miss seperately, something that many bass amps seem to ignore, Infact it took the otherwise very sexy tone hammer out my choices. I like to boost the low mid and have the facility to cut or boost the hi mids independently from room to room. I've been through a number of rigs lately, after the trace mega stack I ran a markbass stack of various cab combinations for years, I was an early adopter. I was very happy with it, especially with a big and small pair of 2x10's but a few large stages made me realise the throw wasnt great, and bottom dropped off very quickly! That and the huge cone excursion never stopped freaking me out, despite being perfectly normal! That and suddenly i went lightweight CRAZY! Everything had to weigh nothing! Then I ran a Barefaced compact/midget stack for a summer festival season with a markbass LM2. The weight was amazing for those long festival schleps, but I just couldn't find my tone with those cabs, and never seemed to find all that power that people rave about maybe, either indoors or out. Alex was very helpful and they were great tools for a job, but I couldn't live with the tone or looks, amazing company no doubt at all, but a compact and two midgets later perhaps not for me. I just think its 12's and 15's they always sound like 12's and 15's to me, despite the theory saying they don't. To me they do, and 12's to me sound honky and plunky rather than punchy and focused. Same with 15's. To me they sound woofy and 'retro'. Too many little 'foibles' for me, too slippy for the amp, or the handle was too high, so I used foam feet which reacted, with the finish, the handles wouldn't let me use my bass keepers, people took the p1ss about my homemade speakers etc. (But I do keep looking thoughtfully at the S12t and they do look tidyer now too) So... I tried a shuttle with the barefaced. MUCH MUCH better. 100 percent better, and part if my lightweight quest, power per pound thus rig was NUTS! ...But still not 'my' sound. A good sound, def not bashing Barefaced here, a good sound for many people, but like opinions everyones 'tone goals' are different, and this rig just wasn't playing for me. So much to my backs chagrin it went. Then fortuned intervened and I was able to pick up a pair of Bergantino AE210's. Night and day. These truly felt like the boutique quality I'd sought, with the BF I always looked at them and felt a little wrench, I know, I know, don't listen with the eyes, but when you earn as little as me you really need that money to feel well spent. With the Bergs, I STILL go and lovingly stare, not quite believing I own them. Like the old Trace stack. And so we end up back at the beginning, great cabs, great head, but, those niggling mid controls. So I looked to the past, id always enjoyed the little mark 2. Only sold it for the weight. But now I could drive and didnt carry gear around so much, and felt I learned a weight/sound lesson with my cabs, so I explored how markbass had changed since. The LM3 solved a few issues with the LN2, but I'd always been intrigued by the MoMark. Mainly cause there was a graphic module- my thing! I like graphics, used Trace for a long time and Laney too. It sold me on the Promethean too. Sadly every. Single. Piece. Of. Promethean. I bought. Went. Wrong!! :-( .... Even cabs!! Heck, even the bag!! So I looked on thomann, and bought the MoMark 800w amp frame with valve preamp, parametric EQ and variable line out output module for a VERY good price. Weighs a lot more than the shuttle, and more than the LM2, and its bigger too; but is still small and light enough to fit in and carry in my iGiG front pocket. (Then again I could fit Wales in there!) It looks great with a plastic 'faux carbon' finish. The modules are glossy 'piano' black and the strip lights are fab. Two of them flash when muted ..get in! It has a fair bit of hiss when on, not as bad as the Promethean I had though, but enough to make me think Id balk at miking in a studio in the old days, nowadays it's less of a problem with 'hissaway'! It's more of a threatening sense of the power on tap! It's more of a linear feeling volume pot than the old LM2 'on/off switch' volume. Oddly doesn't feel 'quite' as loud as the shuttle 9.0. Not ever gonna be an issue though. We're still talking LOUD here!! It feels well built and well engineered. Nice weighty knobs and positive sockets. Combo speakons are very welcome, as is the mute, line out level, switchable DI etc. The sound is classic Markbass, fast, punchy, very flexible with the filters, from modern to very retro indeed at the twist of a knob. The EQ points feel much better than the LM2, and the level controls for the mid freq's really help fine tune things. You hardly need the bass and treble knobs, the low mid really fattens things, while adding growl and saving power. Using the bass control adds a floor rumbling sense of 3d 'solidity'. It's not a crystal clear, pristine sound like the shuttle. But to my ears it fits a mix much better, and for me gives me the key sounds I use much more convincingly. Specifically that jazz bass, neck rolled off a touch 'burble' and the two pickups on full, slightly scooped funk rock type tone. I'm very, very pleased with it. Now with the two bergs, a gramma pad, my bass keepers, QED power cable and OBBM speakons my rig is spot on (for now!) I'd fully recommend the MoMark to anyone. It sounds very big, fat, solid and full, but with bite and punch and enough sense of drama' and size. An amazing rig, and typically now I'm stuck on guitar it's sitting largely unused!!!!!!!! :-/ I've not even bought the graphic module yet! Sods law! It's not as good a hi-fi either lol! Long old post that. Pics to follow. 'scuse any typos, I'm on my phone and with the new baby it's taken almost three hours to write this!!!

I utterly love the way they look. Kinda like the 70's walnut jazz's. But my attempts at recreating one are doomed. Some of you may recall two years ago before Christmas when I'd got the parts for one for Christmas and a HUGE personal problem meant I never even got to open them and had to sell them off immediately :-/ still proper gutted about that. Then last year I bought one off a guy on talkbass only for the costs to continue to inflate as he 'researched the shipping' then took ages to refund me, which when you earn what I do (less than £650 a month!) was a huge stress with a lot of worry, caused me to mess about a basschatter too when the money didn't appear when first promised Still want one though,, but pretty scared what horrors I'd unleash if I was ever able to pull the trigger! Cursed I tells ya!