pete.young

Maybe someone could move this into the 'Amps and Cabs' forum?

Plus one for the sack trolley. Rather than fit castors to the cabs, fit them to a piece of 1" board. That way you only need one set, you don't damage the cabs, and you don't need to stack them on their sides or put up with the castors rattling.

Got a couple of gigs with Waxies Dargle, a pogues covers band, coming up in the next couple of weeks: Saturday 3rd December - The Kings Arms, Stowmarket, a cracking pub next to the railway station. I'm on bass for this one. Saturday 10th December - The Spread Eagle, Ipswich, on cittern/mandolin/fiddle etc. Hopefully we'll have our whistle player back for this one too, all systems go!

[quote name='Walker' timestamp='1322654920' post='1453951'] We've no amabition (or talent!) to play huge venues and as you say, house PA's will be used anyway. We played a festival last summer and went straight into their gear with no issues although the mandolin and banjo threw the sound guys for while! [/quote] Yes, that does tend to happen with acoustic instruments - usually they like a challenge! I play cittern/mandolin/fiddle in a Pogues covers band, along with another guy who plays mostly banjo plus a bit of mandolin, and we both find that the biggest challenge is being audible on stage over the drummer, who is loud even when using hot-rods. We both use acoustic combos (he has AER, I have Roland) and DI the output from them into the PA, partly to improve the monitoring aspects, partly because the piezo transducers sound better through the amp pre-amp stage, and partly to balance up the sound from all the different instruments. Also, you can stick them on a speaker pole and get them at ear level! That way, when we do end up on a festival stage with a soundman he doesn't have to do much to cope with instrument changes.

Markbass F1 is only 1u, 500W into 4ohm and there are rackmount ears available for it. A good match for your cabs too.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1322503268' post='1451722'] This was from someone with no feedback who uses too many exclamation marks, both things which make me slightly uneasy! [/quote] And from someone who has made no fewer than six postings to this august forum, all of them in the Wanted section in response to people looking for kit. I was thinking 'scammer', but surely nobody could be stupid enough to do that in postings rather than PMs. I think what you did was entirely reasonable.

I think this should be a piece of cake for the V-Bass, using a blend of the normal mag pickups on the guitar for fundamental, and octave up plus chorus on the unit. Will give it a go and report back.

I think it's short for digital multiplex - it's basically a protocol that allows you to send signals to up to 512 lighting devices down a 3-core cable. Most of the lighting sets that I'm aware of use XLR sockets for DMX, so all you need to do is chain the units together and you can control them all from one laptop - usually you get a DMX box that plugs into USB on the laptop. There's a good primer on it here. http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/DMX-Lighting-Effects-What-is-it-Hows-It-work_W0QQugidZ10000000001554234

You don't say what kind of head you're using, but if it has a gain for each channel you don't have to feed the same amount of power to both cabs.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1322313937' post='1449225'] As for the competion back then? Guild, Ricks, Gibson, Hofner, Shergold, Ibanez, Yamaha + loads of Jap crap copies. No wonder Fenders were considered the best! [/quote] My Yamaha BB800 , which dates from 1978-9, is as good as any Fender from that period.

That's really good to hear. Great progress, long may it continue.

And another one. Re the OLP, Check your messages. And there's also this: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/161237-5-string-olp-in-maple-neck-coral-green-l160/

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Antoria white Eagle, looks amazing. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTORIA-IBANEZ-70S-WHITE-EAGLE-BASS-NIRVANA-JAZZ-BASS-/160686192987?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2569a4b95b I never knew these existed in white. Interesting seller too.

It never happened.

+1 for Outshined's suggestion to drill it out. Ideally you'll have a bench drill and a flat surface you can clamp the body to. I'd caution against the use of screw extractors in a situation like this. They can work, but they can also break off at the slightest provocation, leaving you with a much more difficult problem to solve. Besides which, this is a very small screw, looks about 1/8 inch to me - finding an extractor small enough is going to be an interesting challenge.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1321901439' post='1444269'] Check parcel2go.com - they`re roughly the same price structure as Interparcel. [/quote] parcel2go is a Parcelfarce reseller, so they have a limit of £150 quid on musical instrument insurance. This bass is worth over a grand, so I wouldn't trust it to them in the UK never mind abroad. Pity the Sheerness - Flissingen ferry no longer runs, that would have been the obvious way to do it.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1321871809' post='1443799'] I take your point, but why try to keep Off-Topic under control at all? [/quote] Ask Hamster, he wrote the original text.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1321813545' post='1443376'] I don't get the anti-Off Topic Brigade... if you dislike Off-Topic that much then why go there? It's just control-freakery IMHO. [/quote] I am neither pro or anti. The reason I brought it up was in response to Hamster's remark in this thread: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/160229-reputation-system/page__st__20 that: "It is hoped that this will rein in some of the confrontational and obnoxious posters who get personal in Off Topic - rather than get rid of Off Topic all together - which has been considered many many times." My point is that if I'm given a choice between having this reputation system clutter up the entire board and finding another way to keep Off-Topic under control, then I'm for the latter. If I were an anti-Off-Topic, I could not go there, but I wouldn't be able to avoid the reputation system because it would be everywhere else.

The instructions about this weren't very clear: I thought it worked like a 'like' button for individual posts and I didn't realise that the scores were being accumulated. This is very confusing: I'd like to reserve the right to disagree with someone's opinion on one subject, whilst still respecting their reputation. Or vice versa. There's another comment from Hamster about it being introduced in an attempt to make people behave more reasonably in off-topic. Is it possible to just activate the reputation for off-topic? I think it's a bit much to inflict it on the whole site, just because one tiny set of people in Off-Topic can't behave. I'd rather see individuals banned or Off-Topic removed altogether. Personally I think it should go. It doesn't improve anything, it's not clear how to use it, and we've managed fine without it for several years.

[quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1321309971' post='1437757'] As for measuring the fret height, I've been using the extending shaft of a vernier gauge as a depth gauge for one or two goes. I don't want to continue with this however, as I suspect this may damage the tool in the long run ? Any ideas here ? [/quote] I think it's unlikely you'll damage the tool, although you might mark the fretboard if you're unlucky. One way: capo on fret x, capo on fret x+2, measure the distance between the fretboard and the bottom of the string in between frets x and x=1 with feeler gauges. Or drill bits. There shouldn't be that much variation if the frets are in good condition.

+1 to Gilmour's comments about the stands. The one in my Equinox set had plain nuts fitted which swiftly unscrewed themselves, making the whole thing a bit rickety. I went down to B&Q and bought some Nyloc nuts which have improved matters no end.

If it's the same as the EA350, you've blown a surface mount I/C on the pre-amp circuit. It's replaceable if you can find someone who is really good at soldering and has a very steady hand!

I could be wrong, but I think EBS heads provide 9v phantom power.