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The keyboard stand is a brilliant idea. I was wondering what to do with the one I bought for a one-off gig on piano. I'll give this a go with my Lfsys Monza.
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£50 Harley Benton mandolin (or New Mandolin Day!)
pete.young replied to Rosie C's topic in Other Instruments
I have one of the original 4-string versions in seafoam green, with an Almuse pickup. It looks much better with the proper thunderbird type pickup. A bit of trickery wiith chorus and reverb goes a long way to making up for the missing 4 strings. -
I second this. It's also a lot easier to manage. I had a 24-way 25m one, and coililng it back into it's box after a gig was like wrestling a python with a stiffie. Don't forget you'll need some in the other direction for monitor feeds back to the stage.
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Hobgoblin Music sell stuff on commission but they charge 40% commission.
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These are quite handy if you have several instruments and only one amp, for busking or monitoring.
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1) It will be one or the other, depending on whether you buy a 4 ohm cab or an 8 ohm cab. 2) No. Cabs don't have an output. 150W is usually quoted as the maximum amount of power that an cabinet can recieve before thermal damage to the voice coil occurs. In practice it is usually less than this before the sound becomes distorted. 3). Cabs like this are wired in parallel, not series. If you connect your amp to a 4 ohm cab and then daisy chain the second 8 ohm cab you will end up with an overall load of around 2.6 ohms. I would recommend that you don't do this, because a load less than 4 Ohms is likely to cause damage to the amp. If both cabs are 8 Ohm, the overall load is 4 ohm which is within the specification of the amp.
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Euphonic Audio iAmp 350 and 2 VL110 cabs - *SOLD*
pete.young replied to pete.young's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
Thanks everyone. The amp and the cabs have now sold. -
For sale, Euphonic Audio bass rig consisting of: EA iAmp 350 head. £195 350W into a 4Ohm load. In generally good physical condition with one or two signs of age. Extensive tone shaping, with 4 useable tone-shaping pre-sets and 4-band parametric EQ with boost cut and adjustable range centring. Excellent for bass guitar and double bass. Sharp-eyed viewers will notice a couple of extra holes in the top. These were drilled and tapped by a previous owner in order to fix it into a purpose-made carpet-covered wooden sleeve, which I also have somewhere in the garage if anyone is interested. They don't cause any issues with the operation of the amp and may even add a bit of ventilation. Supplied with a battered but serviceable GigSkinz mixer bag which is a perfect fit. 2 x VL110 transmission line cabinets. £150 each. These cabs were originally designed for bass guitar, to provide crystal-clear on-stage monitoring for Lee Sklar. They also work very well for double bass. They are 3-way cabs, with a 10" woofer, mid-range driver (2" i think) and tweeter. The tweeter and mid-range driver have separate level controls. The weight is a scarecely believeable 19Kg - I guess the transmission line porting adds some weight and they are very substantially built. Both cabs are in very good condition. I didn't buy them as a pair: the one with the red label is a very early one, the white label more recent and has a hand-made cover. The 10" driver in the red one was reconed using a kit supplied by Euphonic Audio in 2010 by a local amp technician and has been perfect ever since. The white one is unmolested and also works perfectly. Prices: The whole rig: £450 The iAmp 350 : £195 VL110: £150 each or £250 for the pair Collection from Ipswich is preferred, or a meetup within a reasonable distance. I can courier these at your expense but it will take me a while to find suitable carboard to package them.
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EBS Neoline 2x12 bass cabinet for sale. 600W, 4 Ohm. Excellent condition. Very light, just over 21Kg. I can lift it with one hand and I'm not going to be on Gladiators any time soon. This is a great modern-sounding cab, very loud, clear and relatively uncoloured, with a tweeter you can use to emphasise those sizzling highs, or turn off altogether for a more old-school sound. It's the second one I've owned, I sold the first one and missed it too much. I've used it with Markbass, Mesa and EA heads and it sounds great with all of them, so I think it would be a good choice for any amp brand. £395, collected from Ipswich or we can meet up a reasonable distance . I can ship it at your cost, but it will take me a few days to find enough cardboard to box it up properly. -
Sorry, can't help with that.
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Supporting members can. What is it you're looking for? PM me if you like.
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Obscure Musical Backwaters - The Great SGC Nanyo Thread
pete.young replied to Happy Jack's topic in Bass Guitars
Is that a JJ configuration? My 465 has JJ and @Doctor J is right about the pickup heights. It's easy to have the neck much louder than the bridge, for balance you need to set the bridge as close to the strings as possible and then adjust the neck down . You could also measure the resistance of both pickups, they should be the same. This assumes that the pre-amp is working properly which isn't always the case. -
For a budget semi-hollow, I'd suggest Ibanez. They have a variety of semi-hollow and completely hollow basses. AG200 rings a vague bell but I'm not sure of the actual model numbers. I have Duesenberg Star bass, which is in theory semi hollow but has a big block the width of the neck all the way through it. If you're looking for something that will be audible when not plugged in, this isn't it!
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Well that's all very well, but in what sense are these 'semi-hollow' ?
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I've just acquired one through @GILLY , an all-round splendid chap. I'm mainly going to use it with double bass (Krivo through an EA Doubler), but I just gave it a quick burst of fretless through my Walkabout Scout and it sounds fantastic, really sings on the upper registers. Looking forward to giving it a first gig on Saturday.
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Turns out this is a 12 dB boost centred at 30Hz. Which to me is weird, because I'm using a hi-pass filter to get rid of anything at 30Hz and below!
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I think the retailer is right, this head should have been capable of operating at 2 Ohm . The early models only allowed 4 or 8 Ohm operation and they were labelled 4 - 8 where yours says 2 - 8 . You can get absolute confirmation by emailing EBS with the amp serial number. So whatever fault caused this to blow up, I don't think it was because you connected 2 4Ohm cabs to it.
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My Blues band The Ministry of Mojo are playing 3 sets at Dereham Blues Festival, various venues, this coming Saturday, 13th July. Come along and say hi if you're there. https://www.derehambluesfestival.org.uk/
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Glad you were able to resolve it. If I were about to join a band and they said "by the way you owe £x for a share of a well-used PA", I'd walk away and find another band. Does anyone else feel like that?
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So have you just come here to argue with me, or do you have any genuine insight which will actually help the OP to achieve his objective?
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In my experience, the Zoom bass effects don't excel at anything, except maybe some of the compressor patches. Everything else is more aimed at allowing you to experiment with a lot of different effects for not very much money, and then buy something more expensive that actually does excel. The other way to go about this may be to eschew the synth patches in favour of some combination of fuzz (if there is a gated option, good), envelope filter, autowah and octave. You might get close to the kind of bass sound on 'I wanna dance with somebody' with this combination. Bearing in mind that if all you have is a B3, you can only have 3 of these so pick the least worst solution. Ultimately, it's probably quicker, easier and cheaper to polish your keyboard skills until you are a live keyboard player, at least for basslines. It's not as hard as you'd think, especially if you use both hands!
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Inexpensive 5 string bass with stainless steel frets?
pete.young replied to tretim's topic in Bass Guitars
Go fretless. Problem solved. -
I've played about with the various synth settings inn the MS-60B but didn't get any real satisfaction until I bought an SY1. Your playing needs to be very clean to help the tracking. I'd use the Z-Syn effect if that's available on the B3- this is supposed to be a clone of a Korg G5 and I think it is about the best sounding of the synth patches though not close to a real G5. I'd put a compressor patch upstream of the Z-Syn, probably 160 Comp. This will help with the tracking. The track details also mention an OC5. If you have to use a slot for an octaver I find that PitchSHFT is a bit more predictable than Ba Octave. If you don't need a slot for the octaver, I'd use the 3rd slot to add an EQ to take out some of the bass signal upstream of the synth, this will take out some of the tracking issues. Alternatively, adding a chorus is sometimes a useful dodge to fatten up a synth sound. Now you see why you need 5 slots, not 3!
