pete.young

Nice article, thanks for the link. RIP Rory, much missed.

Yes, he should have told you. Advertising is one thing, what turns up to the audition is another matter. Either you are out, or back in with a stronger hand in negotiations! If you were the real Sting though, you would be used to being called a w***er, and far worse :-)

12XLR is quite a lot - if you can manage with 10 the Yamaha MG166CX would be a good choice. I have the MG206C which has 16, but no built-in effects.

[quote name='JimBobTTD' timestamp='1411061308' post='2556134'] All is well again. Life is beautiful. Thanks again, kind BC community. [/quote] I love it when there's a happy ending.

Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I have a Puma 110 combo, so I might give that a go and see how it copes. I've been trying to buy other pickups, but always seem to be too slow out of the blocks.

If anyone is looking to upgrade and wants to move on an old-style one, please let me know. It's a last resort to getting a decent sound out of my BP-100, having pretty much failed with an ADI21 and a Phil Jones Briefcase.

Can't make this one unfortunately, I have a gig. Have a lovely time.

No contest, second hand peavey any time. Get two if they are half the price. That picture doesn't look like a 410TVX, they had a higher rating (700w) and a red logo plate. Seek out one of them or the earlier 410TX, great sounding cabs for the money if you can cope with the weight. There is a Laney stack in our rehearsal room with 4x10 and 1x15. It sounds horrible whatever you do to it and my tecamp puma 110 combo is louder and sounds better.

Www.web strings.com are pretty good for 12 dollars a set.

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1409559524' post='2540756'] others I love these, I did have a TRB1005 for a while and loved the sound but found it a bit unwieldy.. [/quote] I had a TRB5P mk1, which was a brilliant bass with an immense B string, neck through construction, easily available in your budget. I only sold mine to buy a BBNE2, which is even better. It's not impossible to find a BBNE2 under a grand on the used market. What's missing from your list is Bass Collection SGC Nanyo - it's not quite in the same league as the Yamahas but its pretty close, and can be picked up for a lot less money. I have one of those too and with a decent pre-amp it kicks sand in the face of various Ibanez and Fender offerings that I've tried. If you can increase your budget by a bit : Fender Roscoe Beck 5 - they're a totally different ball game to the rest of Fenders 5-string offerings IMHO and its very definitely a buyers market.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1409599375' post='2541411'] 2 Mackie subs are more than capable of taking some bass guitar at pub volume, why will the voacls be going down there, are they a Barry White tribute show? I am saying in with that PA [/quote] I'd say in , too. Makes it much easier for whoever is controlling the FOH sound if they only have to deal with the FOH, and not worry about the contribution from the backline (especially if you are in the habit of fiddling with it during the gig!) .

I like a challenge! I think I can replicate most of this with the VB-99 - bass on one channel, guitar emulation on the other, got plenty of effects , harmonists/delay/tremelo and a blend through a distortion pedal. Then I can route each channel to one side of the stereo outputs and use the footswitch to turn the bass channel on and off. What's s-bend mode, I'm not familiar with the harmonist? (mine will probably sound more like U-bend mode LOL !

I think you will be good for them. The only way to find out if they'll be good for you is to try a couple of rehearsals and see. Good luck, hope it works out. The original material seems a lot weaker to my ears than the covers of known stuff, but it's not a genre I know a great deal about.

Zoom MS60B, or B1ON if you can stand the cheap plastic casing! Delays and Choruses to choose from, the Pitch Shifter is better than the Octaver.

The Fishman unit looks fun, but uses a USB receiver which I don't think will pass a signal into a GR55, or a VB-99 come to that. You would need a USB - Midi converter, I think they exist but haven't seen one before. You could use it via a computer to trigger synth samples in something like Studio One or Logic. I reckon it might fit onto a Bass VI, depends on how adjustable the spacing is. I have not found a way to use a wireless with a VB-99, which uses the same GK-3B and 13-pin cable. I don't know about the GR55, but with a VB-99 you can go up to 36" scale length. Unfortunately a VB-99 doesnt' do the kind of string pad and piano sounds that you're looking for, but it does have MIDI out so it might be possible to use that to drive an expander or keyboard. Latency and tracking isn't an issue with a GK-3B by the way: there's no buffering involved. Tracking on the B2M isn't great and you have to be super clean. I'm told the newer i2M is better, haven't tried one of those. If you want to play string pads and piano parts, you will need to be a demon two-handed tapper to keep a bass line going as well.

Anyone looking for a 1u enclosure I have a dead Sabine feedback destroyer in a decent quality chassis, collect from Ipswich or pm me and we will work out postage.

Free to a good home for spares or repair, one Sabine fbx1020 plus feedback destroyer. This appears to have a fault in the power supply which might be fixable by someone with the right skills. Or, it is a very well made 1U chassis which might serve as a housing in a self build project. Collect from Ipswich or posted at your cost. This has now been claimed. Thanks for the interest.

Looks like something that's been squeezed out of an intestine.

Yes I do, but not to the standard that would be required to dep for the kind of stuff that you do.

You might be the first guy on the eighth guy's list! At least you didn't call me. Things weren't even close to desperate :-)