pete.young

CK, In your signature, you list your Rig 2 as: Trace Elliot V8 or Burman Pro 4000, EBS Neo 212 x 2 . Was just wondering how you manage to run a 2 Ohm load on a Burman Pro 4000 - mine's minimum 4 Ohms load.

Couple of gigs this weekend (1/2 October) 1st October - Crossover, The Railway, Foxhall Rd Ipswich - rock and pop covers band - 9pm 2nd October - Waxies Dargle, The Spreadeagle, Ipswich - Pogues covers - 5pm I'll be the one who isn't wearing a BC shirt because it still hasn't arrived :-( - come up and say Hi anyway.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1317197770' post='1387802'] A bassist in a local band uses a Behringer head & 410. I don`t know what model it is, but it sounds great, and he gigs regularly, without any backup gear. For info, he has a very JJ from The Stranglers type sound. [/quote] Isn't that sound mostly due to having blown drivers? I'd avoid Behringer - we had a guitar combo for a while and was glad to see the back of it. I know someone who has a Harley Benton 4x10 and it's OK for the money, but as others have said I'd be inclined to keep an eye on the For Sale section for Peavey or maybe Trace Elliott, assuming of course that you haven't got a bad back yet ;-)

@JTUK - fair enough, I'm not an expert on Aguilar cabs so I don't know what the difference between DB and GS is.

Thanks everyone for the great information and apologies for the slow reply, I've been a bit busy over the last couple of days. Monckyman, the reason for wanting to do this is to emulate 51m0n's setup with head and compressor in the same rack case - it makes sense to compress all the signal all of the time. First I need to find a rack case (a minor detail!)

Met up with Nigel a couple of days ago in a splendid Victorian boozer near Oxford Circus to collect the much-travelled Status Vintage PJ. We put the world to rights over a couple of beers and I can't imagine a better way to buy a bass. A perfect transaction - I recommend Nigel to everyone and wish him the best of luck in his search for that dream chrome Warwick. As for the bass, wow. I've been playing it at home and it's everything I hoped it would be. My only challenge is to stop my son trying to smuggle it out of the house and taking it back to Uni!

Hm - we tried an RH450 with dave.c's Aguilar GS1x12s at Dusty's Essex bash and it was decidedly underwhelming. It sounded much better with TC cabs, and the Aguilars were much happier with Dave's Hartke LM1000.

Does anyone have a detailed set of instructions for switching a Markbass LMII from parallel to series? I understand it involves moving 2 jumpers and its probably obvious, but better safe than sorry. Would I be right in thinking that if I change it over to series and don't have anything in the loop I'll need to connect the send and return with a short jack-jack lead?

I like the way it carries on playing itself when he plays the fiddle break.

Also known as 'Yellow Pine' I believe. Used for making pianos in the 1920s. Not a great choice for guitars though I would have thought. Pete "It's a toilet door made out of herring boxes!"

Curtley Ambrose, West Indies fast bowler.

To my surprise, no-one else seems to have posted this - apologies if you've all seen it before. [url="http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/video-signals-duff-mckagan-fender-snowboard-bass-498271"]http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/video-signals-duff-mckagan-fender-snowboard-bass-498271[/url]

And you've broken my avatar. What are those black bars top and bottom?

My first reaction is that there's far too much white space. The home screen is now three times as long as it used to be. In the forums, a one-line post takes up a lot of space due to the enormous amount of real-estate that is now allocated to username, avatar and all the mostly meaningless twaddle that appears underneath it, and then there's extra space for the Report/Multiquote/Quote buttons. Huge signatures also have too much prominence - it's almost impossible to find any content in the posts by Ou7shined and KiOgon, for example. I'm sure someone will find the new features useful. I think it's a step backwards in readability.

I tried to vote no, and got an error screen saying I'd already voted. Which I hadn't. Mods, what do you make of that? Funny, don't recall lending my vote to some other bassplayer.

Does the place you're studying have a music tech course running? Students on that course might find that producing a backing track for you will work for their coursework assignments also, so you might find some willing volunteers that way. Network network network!

Looks like I'll be doing the 'take son's stuff back to university' run to Guildford that day so I'm hoping to call in at some point. Don't think I'll be able to bring much with me though - why do students these days have some much stuff? Mine used to fit into a Mini van.

This is a Pro 4000 bass head? I have JJ KT77s in the power stage of mine and am very happy with the outcome. I'm not sure what's in the pre-amp stage - probably the original Mazda ECC833 . Any decent amp tech should be able to replace that valve holder and bias up a set of new power valves. There's a sticky somewhere with a recommended list of amp techs. I expect Crazy Kiwi will be along soon with chapter and verse, he knows all this kind of stuff off by heart!

[quote name='dmccombe7' post='1353748' date='Aug 27 2011, 05:43 PM']I've seen a lot of LED style lighting kit on market. Anyone used it with their own bands and how does it compare.[/quote] Between us we have 2 or 3 sets of LED lights, KAM Parbar or Equinox. All have DMX so you can control the whole lot from one laptop or one set of footswitches. They weigh less than half of the equivalent PAR sets, don't use anything like the same amount of power so they don't overheat the band and can be dismantled as soon as they are switched off. Can't see any drawbacks other than the price.

[quote name='Fullmetal' post='1353927' date='Aug 27 2011, 10:18 PM']And thank you for pointing out that the Marcus Miller's are MIJ, always thought they were MIA which is why I was confused. Since they are MIJ, doesn't that mean there is a significant difference (same quality parts and improved quality of build?)[/quote] Fixed that for you.

[quote name='jonannlou' post='1346257' date='Aug 20 2011, 12:16 PM']Any idea what you paid for your one? I guess the one on ebay is a higher range bass, but it gives me an idea to its value and if its a cheapo bass or not ) Theres no prices on that website, why would they do that!![/quote] Because they don't sell to the public, they have dealers. Somewhere! I don't recall what I paid for mine, but it was under 100 and at a time when used prices are higher than they are now. I'd have to say that if you wanted a bass that looked like that, you'd be better to find a Peavey Cirrus BXP or Grind, they seem to go for about the same money.