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  1. bassace
    You can't generalise. Some garages are prone to condensation and some are not. My garage is OK - got an insulated roof and walls. I have constructed a large full height cupboard out of OSB where I store some of my cabs and a double bass from time to time. But I sometimes get a bit uneasy in the winter and bring stuff indoors sometimes. I wouldn't want to store a head.
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    Having just taken delivery of a soundbar for my TV I'd say bookshelf any day. Although my Tannoy floorstanders are killers. They do engender spousal disapproval though.
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    To one of the good guys, Happy Birthday Clarky!
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    I hadn't come across him before although he was with the Basie band for 17 years, strange. He was also with Ramsey Lewis when Wade in the Water was recorded. You can find better examples on his work with Basie on YouTube but I thought this might amuse. Not a very nice sound coming off a mag pickup but worth a listen for the fun factor. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHEWFdhEMc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YHEWFdhEMc[/url]
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    Oh dear. I've got Sat and Sun gigs in Leeds. I'll send a donation nearer the date.
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    For the loud gigs I use a 10" Wizzy on a 12" a lot of the time. The 10 gives mid range clarity and somehow enhances the bottom end of the 12, not sure how. You need a 2 ohm amp though.
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    Clarky's put it very well. So many cabs sound great up close then you lose a lot as soon as you walk away from them. This one almost improves as you get away from it. It also has good attack on the front of the note (being 4x5") and maintains good volume right up the G string. I've only gigged mine twice, once in a pub where I've been resident for 14 years (as a musician I hasten to add) and which has crap acoustics. It did OK-ish in spite of the room sound although I was told I was a bit loud. The second gig was an upstairs room at Upton Jazz Festival where, in view of my probs on the previous gig, I took an extra 10" Wizzy for close monitoring and the pianist said it sounded great. I think it would play best if you had the space to stand away from the cab a bit. And tilting helps. But hold your horses a bit. I've just got hold of a new PJB C4, which is a small 4x5". Haven't gigged it yet but at home it sounds amazing with plenty of attack and as much bottom end as you'll need. It'll be while before it's gigged; Next Wed week at the crap acoustics pub with JM Stringle but the results could be very interesting. I'm at Swanage this weekend with a seven piece Dixie lineup. I'll be using Clarus and 12" Wizzy with DI to professional PA.
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    I can live with most drummers and don't have problems. It's keyboard players with heavy left hands playing [i]my [/i]notes!
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    [quote name='ChrisF' timestamp='1373471584' post='2138034'] Blimey bassace.... I thought I was old, but you must an antique [/quote] But I am, dear, I am. As anyone who's met me will testify. Funny though, the phone still rings and I had five gigs last Fri/Sat/Sun so I must be doing something right. [i]Help the Aged[/i]
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    Laurence Sorry can't help right now, all my Underwoods are on basses. But rest assured when you find one it'll do the business. Perhaps a phase reverser might be needed together with a bit of treble reduction but I think it is the most under-rated pickup. You can always eq some of the brightness off if you want to but you can't brighten up a muddy pickup. Gypsyjazzer has one for sale in this section, fair price.
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    I was walking home from school and a boy came out of his house and said 'come in and listen to this!' I went in and heard Fats Domino singing My Blue Heavorn. It knocked me out and I still think it was the best of its time. Whether it's regarded as Rock 'n Roll I'm not sure. Frankly everything that wasn't Trad or Dance Music in those days was Rock 'n Roll. I also saw Buddy Holly live on Sunday Night at the London Palladium TV. His bass player had a blonde. Heady days!
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    My 500 is OK into a 4ohm load. Actually the first time I used it I put it into a 4 and an 8 in error with no ill effects but I won't do it again.
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    Sorry to come late to the discussion but I join the no-splitters. Compared to the BGers on the forum we are a small but select and slowly growing bunch. I find it great to be able to find discussions on topics that I would not normally look for, and make great and rewarding discoveries in the process. I am humbled by the technical/classical knowledge that a lot of our colleagues possess and their enthusiasm for sharing their skills. Makes us 'amp buyers' seem quite a pedestrian bunch.[i] ('don't do smileys - you'll have to work the nuances out for yourselves!)[/i]
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    I think it's a great idea - great for young jazzers and great for jazz. At my stage I'm afraid I'm stuck with 'found jazzers'.
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    Any BCer got one yet, and how is it for you?
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    Definition of a gentleman: someone who owns a banjo but doesn't play it.
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    Good review, Jack. I had a telephone conversation with Kris about 18 months ago; he came over as a very pleasant straight ahead sort of guy (as Mr Blair would have said). I didn't proceed because I was concerned that there was just too much thump off the instrument (the salsa thing). How thumpy, Jack? Trouble with too much thump is that sometimes when stage sound gets over-powering and you turn up, you hear the initial thump but no following note.
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    Thanks for your support Clarky and tnit. In no great hurry, it'll go before long.
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    I went to see Mark Knopfler at LG a few weeks ago. They're touring Europe at the moment with a massive crew and the band fly between gigs by private jet. So resources are not in short supply; yet there's a lot of backline on stage. Go figure. For myself, it's a rare luxury ever to have a PA feed except on a big festival stage.
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    When you're playing covers and relying on your ears you can easily get tripped up when songs that seem simple can have subtle differences between each of the choruses. A good example is Fever, that I used to play on upright. Listen carefully to that and hear the differences, and I don't just mean the semitone lifts.
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    And 2% would repeat themselves repeat themselves.
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    [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1372763764' post='2129543'] This. You could put a clockwork drumming monkey on stage at Glastonbury & 80,000 people would go crazy for it & then drone on for years about how f***ing amazing it was. [/quote] And BC would say how crap.
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    This is my spare Ehrlund pickup which I don't use any more. It is as near mint as is possible and comes complete with putty and preamp. Price includes postage.
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    I am sad that I will go to my grave never having been in a band called Anal ****. I would have enjoyed sharing that with my aunties, and the vicar. I remember a sixties band called Hogsnort Rupert and his Good Good Band. And Hatfield and the North was pretty cool.
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    [quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1372667729' post='2128205'] Mumford & Sons shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as Bellowhead. Bellowhead are a fantastic live act and are very much the "real deal" folk music wise- they are very highly regarded & well respected musicians in the folk world, and many of the members have spent years playing small folk clubs up & down the country as solo performers too. They are the polar opposite of the plastic faux folk crap peddled by Mumford & Sons. [/quote] No they're not.
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