Bigwan

Just recently picked up a Bass Cube 30. Very impressed. Also have a lot of love for the Line 6 Studio 110. Sounds very good in a small package. Always been intrigued by the Bass Cub, but never bitten... I remember a review here saying recorded music sounded very good through it so I'd imagine it'd work well with guitar with a preamp to add the voicing of choice.

Do you need string spacing adjustment? If not I'd be tempted to go with a bridge with fixed string spacing. One less thing to worry about. Gotoh, hipshot or Fender high mass bridges. I say this owning a bass with a Shaller 3D. It's a nice unit, although I never liked the spacing plate needed for certain basses. Not a particularly elegant solution.

Half way through our first gig in the first money making cover band I was ever in. Soundcraft desk had a fit and the master xlr outputs quit. We took a short break and set our active stage monitors up as vocal and acoustic guitar PA tops (monitor mixes were working fine). Cranked my wee Ashdown 1x10 combo/Aguilar 1x12 cab rig up and away we went. Guitar player had a Fender twin and was determined to use it! But the layout of the place made things really awkward - 2 long, narrow (about 12' x 5'), raised platforms surrounded by handrails, separated by about 15' of dance floor leading to a staircase (looking from other end of the room the stages were in the left and right corners, dance floor in front with stairs between the stages - designed by a lunatic with no regard for drunk punters safety!). Without monitors it turned into a total winging it session as the Fender Twin was pointing at me from the other stage and was SO loud I couldn't hear the drummer at all (he was also on the other stage!). Looking back if I'd had XLR to jack leads we could have run the monitor mix outputs to the power amp, but we didn't... Fault in the mixer was a 20p opamp. I know because I fixed it after it had sat with "a mate who fixes stuff" for 6 months before returning as repaired (but actually totally untouched)... Total comedy of errors in a venue totally unsuitable for live music. Of course we didn't learn our lesson and played there about 20 times over the following 2 years. Once had to play half the night without the drummer as his kick pedal disintegrated during soundcheck. He had to run home for a spare (45 mile round trip!). Same band (towards the end) were playing in a coastal hotel who'd just had a sound limiter installed. You can guess the rest. Thing had been wired wrong and took out the whole bar (except the gambling machine which always amused me!). 3 times... The look on punters faces when they're bouncing round to "Highway to Hell" and suddenly the noise stops...

Have you ever considered going to CGCG? I've recently got my hands on a 4 string Dingwall AB1 and have a set of heavy gauge Newtone strings ready to go on there for GCGC tuning (REALLY heavy gauge) - in preparation to release my inner Devin Townsend! Have my Ibanez baritone electric tuned GCGCGC already...

Enablers!

Submarine preamp is a Keutzer with a few mods too so they're in the same family.

A brightened up BJFE Blueberry circuit is a thing to behold. My fav by quite some way... and I built it myself based on fuzzdog's Juicy Blue kit. A few mods suggested by Josh/Azure Skies over on TB (that's Josh Broughton of Broughton Audio) and it sings. Must build one standard to compare the 2 and post some clips...

That sounds a bit odd. The BDPG is basically a trimmed down Kreuzer on-board preamp with a boost (actually an EHX LPB-1 modded for more bass throughput) in front of it. Confirmed by Ryan Ratajski himself on TB...

My old hard rock/metal originals band played in that tuning. Set of Elite 0.110 Steels and minimal setup adjustment from standard (think I had 0.100s on before that).

100%... Had to guess the thunderbird one though...

Ah ha! No problem to a man of your caliber then!

Hmmm... Think I'd "do an Andy" and put a top on it... Or buy the body you want. Filling those routes is never going to be pretty...

https://www.yamaha.com/yamahaguitars/ElectricandBassGuitarSerialNumberSystems.pdf '83/'84 going by that My Pulser 400 has a '77 BB1200 serial number though so it would seem there was some flexibility...

Not in a position to answer the CTM15 questions yet - but there is one incoming! The LB30/CTM30 doesn't have a gain control - I found if I wanted mine gritty at lower volume I needed to boost the front end with a pedal.

I'm thinking this is my only way to keep an interest in playing with others. Spent my formative years in original bands - covers never came close to that feeling, but I was never under the same illusion as my band mates that we'd "make it". I just enjoyed the process. Up until egos got in the way anyway...

A lot of Youtubers seem to use a hot air gun, freezer spray and a dye application to highlight cracks. Never tried anything like this so wondering if you'd considered something like that?

[quote name='Bridgehouse' timestamp='1510168759' post='3404469'] Well. Took the body out of the freezer and liberally applied a good dose of hot air from the hair dryer. Nary even a tiny crack, check or anything. Gah. [/quote] Does it take multiple temperature shocks?

Second hand Tecamp Puma 2x12. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. The Eich 2x12 is along the same lines but not under a grand...

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1510053955' post='3403530'] You do realise there is one in the FS section (albeit as two separate 1x12s, which should in theory be just as good?). My mate, Osiris, has a 2x12 Tecamp cab he plays his Magellan through and it's just divine... [/quote] Ah but then you're missing out on the 4" mid/high driver which is SWEET! Also 350w not 500w. Although that's neither here nor there really. As an all in one gigging combo the Puma 212 is unbeatable IMHO. Edit: Eich still make something similar, but I don't have twelve hundred quid just at the minute!

Oh and the tecamp puma 2x12 combo I had for a while. Best combo in the world ever. And the local guy I sold it to won't sell it back...

Ashdown LB30, and a CTM30... Orange Terror Bass 500, 3 times... Tech Soundsystems 4x12. Best bass cab I've owned, lightweight but BIG. My knuckles thank me every day though... An abused '83 Squier SQ P bass. One of the best P basses I've owned. Bought for buttons too... '83 Wal Mk1. Not really my thing, but it'd be worth a fortune now! Line 6 Studio 110. Great little thing to have around the house.

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1510007075' post='3403272'] That Jake model in the video looks like the Lull PT4. Very nice!! Be interesting to check out the price with those thunder'buckers I've just seen the actual bass on bass direct for £1099. Bit cheaper than a Lull what! [/quote] Nancy will be along in a minute to say Maruszczyk should go down the tubes for doing that... Great looking bass, but it's a bit unclear what the pickups actually are. They don't say they're Haeussel Thunderbird pickups, just that they're humbuckers in thunderbird covers.

I had a Schecter Model T a while back. I believe it was a continuation of the Rob Deleo signature. Came standard with Seymour Duncan pickups and pretty decent hardware. It was quite a nice bass. Nothing amazing, but did most things well.