spencer.b

really heavy, really expensive but an all valve ampeg is as good as gets in my opinion, although I can't always be arsed to use mine when I do it always makes me smile.

Hi BCers I might be sending a bass I'm selling and just wondered what was standard practice on basschat with the money, BACS/paypal ? ,do you send after you received the money ? ta Spencer

I use an HD210 and 112 and I love em, call me old fashioned but I much prefer ceramic drivers for that old school warmth and punch

GONE NOW SWR workingmans 4 10 , it was regular cab for a long time but I ended up getting an ampeg 4 12 to go with my SVT so this became surplus so rather than doing the sensible thing and selling it i put it in my mates garage and the carpet has gone a bit mouldy in places and some of the screw heads around the handles have gone rusty but it still works fine, GONE NOW GK MB150s I used this for double bass until the speaker started sounding blown so I removed the speaker and took it to wembley loud speaker to get it reconed but they said the speaker was fine, if you power a cab from the ext speaker outs it sounds fine , so as far as I can tell the amp bit works and the speaker works but as a combo it doesn't, oh and I've lost the some of the screws . For someone a bit handy with a soldering iron I would of thought this would be an easy fix I'm in stoke newington north london, collection only, PM me

I love my OC2

I like the pick for even rhythmic articulation especially when doubling a guitar line, occasionally even a few funky 16s ala Bobby Vega but I mainly play fingerstyle, When I first started I remember some kids from a punk band calling me both gay and a fanny tickler for playing fingerstyle

see what you mean about the hire cost I'd just get a cheap second hand PA on ebay and whack everything through it , fair play to you for helping out the whole band

nightmare isn't it, I've heard that the black box marks you down for driving late at night so maybe not so good for us musos

I just bought a streamliner 900 after trying the shuttle as well at bass direct. I play an old P bass and found the shuttle a bit too accurate, a bit too much rattle and clatter where the streamliner smoothes it out a bit. I play upright too and the shuttle was much better than the streamliner for that

good question, I was watching some live gig jazz clips on youtube and it seemed that pre 70s recordings with the bass mic'd up sounded great and the later ones with a pick up sounded terrible. Did drummers play quieter? Did bass players play louder? I remember Jeff Clyne telling me that back in the day sometimes the bass would stand on a little box/stage and sometimes he'd have a mic into the PA

there is no definitive real book but I like the satanic changes

I didn't actually try a K10 before I bought but I did try it thru a big QSC FOH cab and various mackie and jbl powewered speakers and it did seem like you got what you paid for to some extent I bought mine from digital village and got the bloke to blast solo DB from my ipod thru various cabs , not a great test I know and I think I should of got a K12 but it's a bit of a compromise with weight isn't it. I just sold my beloved ampeg for a genz benz bergantino set up for that reason and that sounds pretty awful with the realist as you'd expect has anone tried an underwood/realist blend? do acoustic image amps sound good with a pick up without running into ext. pre?

I've still use a pick up sometimes, I tour with a rock band that are so loud the pick up barely works and sometimes on background functions in town where I can't be bothered to set the mic up I'll use the pick up. The QSC sounds great , really suited to upright,and getting it on a stand above the body of the bass is key with the mic, really detailed true sound although I think I may need a new driver or recone as lately there's a bit of a buzz coming from the cone after cranking it up with the realist thru sansamp (probably to much low end) at a big band swing dancing gig. In hindsight maybe I should of gone for the K12 I would love to ditch the pick up but I guess it's a necessary evil with stage levels being so high these days and certain singers insisting on crazy levels in their wedges , I'd be worried turning up to gig without the option of plugging in but I do think the acoustic instrument pick up combination is flawed and like to avoid where ever poss My bass is 3/4 german czech bass has a tiny bit smaller than average width bouts and I'm thinking of getting a bigger english/italian design bass do you think that will be harder to mic?

I know what you mean about the headway and realist together, I tend to put mine thru a sansamp into the other channel of the QSC what else have you tried with the DPA for the phantom and eq

I use my DPA with the headway QSC on a stand set up I played at Ronnies a few weeks ago and they now have DPA for FOH and a TC for pick up , I was struggling a bit and after a few tunes muted the amp and found that although it was quieter there was more definition and felt easier to play I guess a lot of this down to the realist having no top end and me over playing cos of that its weird how a bad sound gives the impression of the strings reacting differentley Greg how would you describe the sound/frequency range of the schertler ps greg I think I've met you at the corrie tap when I was playing with James Morton and Andy Sheppard