pete.young

Seems like whenever I do a google search which points to something originally posted on the old site, the link doesn't find the article. All I get is the front page. Anyone else noticed this, or is it just moi?

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/156445-markbass-lmii-effects-loop/

Mine was ordered on 11th September and still hasn't arrived. I'm not impressed. Ped, it's a great shame that you didn't ask for recommendations for a reputable supplier - I could have recommended a friend who runs a custom shirt, clothing and guitar strap supply and embroidery business, who would have done a much better job.

Had Sunbeams on my G+L 2500. Fantastic strings, sounded great and lasted for ages.

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.