Acebassmusic

Welcome from another one north o the border. Hope you have fun here.

OK....I was in "grumpy old man" mode this morning when I clicked on the vid...... 3 seconds in and I'd already written it off as pesky young kids about to murder a Stevie Wonder tune....I mean look at her texting on her phone...pah! 9 seconds in....quite like the guitar riff...a bit different..... 20 seconds and the groove had started......ooh! 27 seconds its all coming together....nice voice.......ah the penny drops......shes not texting....its the lyrics...doh! Nice chilled groove, you can hear everything and its all fitting nicely together, lots going on idividually but no-one overpowering. After listening to it for the 6th or 7th time (I guess I must have liked it! ) "grumpy old man" had reteated and "chilled old man" is now trying to find a way to be able to download this to his [s]gramophone [/s]...er iPod. Nice one.

[quote name='weeleigh' timestamp='1325628035' post='1485523'] Hi Acebassmusic, Thanks for the welcome. Good to know there are plenty of North East folk here. I see from your gear list you are using a Barefaced cabinet. I'm thinking of going down the Barefaced route. Would you recommend? [/quote] Barefaced - I've only ever tried the Big Twin T so based on that and Alex's customer service......yip I'd recommend seriously looking at them. I hear the other models perform beyond usual expectations. Do a bit of a search on here and you'll see what I mean

Hey there Weeleigh from another Aberdeen based basser

Not sure whether I'll be heard if I use it all at once....lol . Barefaced Big Twin T is my current set up with the Schroeders being advertised. To use everything would have been fun ......but just a little overkill I think.....

Welcome (Guess who else doesn't have a gig tonight....lol)

2012 or 2011?

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1323604315' post='1464833'] A little off topic but Mike do you think i could try out your gear some day? I saw you before when you played in Banchory, and sounded good! And you also have a gear list of things i've always been curious about We should have a mini aberdeen bass bash me thinks! [/quote] We should have a more local "bass bash" as there are several of us up here in the northern wastelands. I was thinking of going to Moffat but cant fit it in this year Banchory! Blimey the last time I played there (The Stag) was about 5 years ago. We're at the Globe in Aberdeen this Friday (16th) if your round and about. Alex has said to use the cab until he can get me a replacement so I might just be tempted to give it its maiden run then.

After sending Alex an epic e-mail describing the sort of sound / cab I was looking for I ordered my early Xmas present 2 weeks ago, a Barefaced Big Twin T Had it delivered today by FedEx....wooohooooo! Like a 10 year old I couldnt wait to open my new prezzy......oooh me likey! Nice finish, great fittings, sexy black grill, cracked casing.....uh?......eh?,,,,,what?......noooooooo! Holding back the tears I realised that the corner of the cab had been damaged in shipping Ah well, these things happen, nothing that cant be solved. So....I dropped Alex a message letting him know of the problem. Cab delivered by FedEx and signed for : 11:22 am Opened packaging : 11:26 am Notified Alex : 11:33 am Alex replied with solution : 11:35 am Response time to customer : 2 mins.....[b]yes thats right... 2 MINS!! Priceless [/b] After many years of getting used to half hearted or no responses from companies who just want to take my money and only give a service if they feel like it, this is a wonderful change. All these big corporates with their "customer (un)service centres" should watch and learn from Alex and Barefaced. Great communication and service all the way..... Alex has one very happy customer.....and thats even before I plug it in and try it! Thanks Alex. Mike

I used to run a QSC PLX 1604 with various pre amps. I had one output from the pre into channel 1 of the PLX, then set the dip switches on it to parallel and voila you can either run 1 cab per channel or just 1 cab if you have quieter gigs. I did try stereo / seperate sounds to each channel / cab at one point but didnt find it did quite what I thought it would do! By using the power amp you can chop and change youre pre amp every gig if you want to...lol. I'm using an Alembic F-1X which I'm really happy with. In the past I've tried Ampeg SVP-PRO, Mindprint En-voice II, JoMeek VC6Qcs all of which I can reccomend. If you do a trawl of the forum(S) you'll probably get a more detailed description of sounds available from different pre's that would help you decide.