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A weird one last night in Blackwater, Surrey. Gig number 1 of a final 6 gig run in to folding the band up. I decided a few months back to pack the band in - a combination of getting fed up with hauling tons of gear around every weekend, a dodgy back causing me days of discomfort after every gig, not getting any help with the backroom side of the band (booking gigs and social media stuff) and a few niggling personal gripes within the band that weren't really fixable were the primary reasons behind the decision. It's been a blast for 15 years but it was getting to be the same old gigs/people/songs and I want my weekends back to do some travelling and other things before I get too old and health issues start biting. I told the guys and offered to help source a new bass player with them but they decided that A - I was too talented and good looking to replace or B - they couldn't be arsed with the whole breaking a new boy in thing so they decided to do a few gigs at our fave venues and then call it a day in December. So we played in Surrey and had people from Margate and even France travelled over to say farewell with us. Humbled is the word.... We played really well even after an 8 week break due to summer hols and my Dad dying, the crowd were amazing and a couple of songs in I was beginning to wonder if i had made a poor decision. Then I did the pack up afterwards for an hour and a bit, did the long drive round the M25 home to Essex and realised I couldn't really face much more of that. So I guess I'll have 5 more gig reports to post and then thats me done. That's All Folks!!!
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We will be selling off all our PA and lighting after the final gig in December. If anyone would like to buy any or all of it we are open to offers on each item It would be properly useful for either A - upsetting your neighbours, B - turning your front room into a replica of the Punk Floyd gig at Wembley Stadium in 1997 or C - if you're in a band topping up your stage show with some noisy/blinky things. Off the top of my head here's some of the PA we have... Peavey XR1220 powered mixing desk Peavey passive 12" speakers Mackie sub with replacement board (the bit that always blows up on them) Active floor monitor with cover (I'll add the brand/model when Simon wakes up and tells me what it is) Boatloads of PA cables to suit in various cases And the lighting is as below... American DJ Quad Sweeper beams DMX/remote x 2 (big swivelly things at the back of the stage) American DJ V Bar Pak DMX (LED uplighters that we use front of stage) American DJ V Par Pak DMX (LED drum kit uplighters) Chauvet Intimidator Spot Duo DMX x 2 (LED swivelly beam things on the floor rear stage) Beamz F900 Hazer with remote and spare fluid Lasers DMX x 3 various brands Eurolite Bigfoot DMX Move programmable floor controller Loads of DMX cables to suit Lots of speaker/lighting stands in bags/cases A backdrop stand Everything fits comfortably in the boot of a 1993 Ford Escort Estate car Have a look at our pics and videos on Facebook, You Tube or Lemonrock at Yellowhouse UK to see what it all looks like or maybe even come to the last gigs and have a chat about it. Or drop a message over of course -
Having been through bloody loads of amps over the last 15 years I've ended up with these ones below. My main criteria is that they must work in a band context with a hairy arsed drum basher, have plenty of slam and I can carry them. In order of preference Mesa Big Block BB750 - just a brilliant valvey big rock amp. Sustain and heft for days. Straightforward EQ too. Quite rare though. Orange 4 Stroke - Half the weight of the Mesa and has similar grunt. Massively flexible EQ but sounds great pretty much flat. Onboard comp really fattens it up without losing dynamics. Even more rare than the Mesa. Quilter Bass Block BB800 - the only class D amp that I've found that doesn't get squeezy and shouty when you push the volume. Great EQ when you know how to use it and a great power amp to run a preamp pedal through.
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The USA Sterling has ceramic pickups, a smaller body and some different switching options as well as a jazz neck. It doesn't sound exactly like a Stingray but it's very close. You could also look for a Sterling SB14 which is a cheaper version of the USA one - there was a black one in the classifieds recently. I've had both the USA Sterling and the SB14 and there's barely anything beteween them sound wise. You just dont get the oiled neck on the SB14. If you can find a Stingray SLO thats the one with a jazz neck on a 'proper' Stingray. As Kiwi said above they're super scarce though....
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Popular contemporary funk for The Dog and Duck.
Mudpup replied to solo4652's topic in General Discussion
None of that matters down the Dog and Duck And I'm glad I don't have your ears 😉😊 -
The brands would rather sell you two pedals than one....
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I don't quite understand why they've straight chamfered the edges either. It immediately looked odd to me. It can't be as comfortable as a curve and any dings on there will really show
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Hey Rob, check you still have your watch. And don't buy anything from him.....
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I've had some very posh basses over the years and the Cort is better than all of them. And not even 'for the money's. It's brilliant
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Another morning after the night before post for you My mob Yellowhouse played the Essex Riviera with a dep singer. She's done a couple of gigs with us over the last few months with us and it's getting better each time. I think this is the best bit of video I've ever seen of my lot. The sound is great and the vocals are immense. It's an old Skunk Anansie song which I've always wanted to play and Susie blows the doors off here.... (Cort A4, Orange 4 Stroke, Laney Digbeth pre on the tube setting and a couple of Barefaced Big Baby cabs for the geeks)
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You can adjust the brightness on the fly with one of the pedals if you want to.
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https://www.thomann.de/gb/eurolite_dmx_move_bigfoot_foot_control.htm We use this one......
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Just received a pedal from Nigel. Fast delivery, well packed and a totally stress free transaction. 🙂
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Yep, I have one and it's an excellent bit of kit. But I was expecting a shop that had some very high end and expensive basses in stock would have something better than a front room combo to play them through. I bet the guitarists don't get such a rough deal in there ....
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I've been in there with an appointment and to be fair they didn't put me under any pressure at all. Just grabbed the basses I was interested in and left me in a room to myself then popped back in after 15 mins to see if I was ok. The only issue is that they haven't actually got any decent bass amps in there to play through. I was offered a tiny little Mark Bass combo (maybe an 8" speaker but I could be wrong) which sounded like a shoebox. Eventually we found another combo with a headphone socket which I used and that was much better. I went in there with £1000 to spend on the day but wasn't going to buy anything if I could only try it through their gear because everything sounded rubbish. Probably best to take your own amp if you're having a serious look at basses
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I'm still in and steaming ahead with a new plan to avoid failure. I've bought an electric MTB! This is a bang on move to keep me in and it's working already - let me explain..... They cost a poopy kilogram of money so I've had to sell an amp and a bass to help fund it. There's loads of other bits thats I need to go with it such as MTB clothing and there's a whole raft of shiny things that can go on it so the bass fund will be empty. Plenty of other eMTB related online sites and forums to geek out in. That means less time to spend on here dribbling over stuff. I'll check in on NYE to see if I've won so see y'all in 2025!!!!!
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Excellent thread! Here's mine... Queensryche Empire - Jet City Woman, Della Brown, Another Rainy Night Dan Reed Network - Forgot to Make her Mine, Taming the Wild Nights, I'm so Sorry
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No idea - was TE an 80's thing? Memories not so good these days....
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What's 'the classic BASS tone of the 90's' supposed to be? Doesn't look much like a Trace Elliot....
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We use a Eurolite Move Bigfoot DMX controller. It looks a bit intimidating initially but it's actually pretty straightforward and very gig friendly. I run it next to my pedalboard. You can preselect a patch using the UP/DOWN buttons at any point in a song and then just hit the GO button to activate it when you want to - It has built in macros and chases if you want them, a blackout, a sound active mode and the 2 big pedals sort of act like lighting expression pedals if you want them to - you can assign them to a particular fixture and then change the colours by moving the pedal a bit. Myself and the geetard spent about a day teaching ourselves basic DMX programming and learning the unit and we've ended up with 16 patches using just our big sweeper bars behind us and a couple of moving heads on the floor. They're all named on the display which I can see easily (for example BLUE/WHITE, PURPLE/YELLOW, STROBE, SOUNDACT RED/YELLOW) We are planning on adding the lasers, drum lights and front lights in when we can be bothered! Here's a link https://www.thomann.de/gb/eurolite_dmx_move_bigfoot_foot_control.htm And this is what we do with it....
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Second gig of the year for Yellowhouse and another packed house in a good venue in Essex - we were expecting January to be quiet but it's been great so far. We've been running with dep singers for nearly 5 months now as ours is broken and it's been a really positive experience. It's got us off autopilot and learning to keep our ears open much more and i've really enjoyed it.
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First bit of feed back for Elliott! He just bought an amp from me, lovely bloke and dead easy to deal with. All good and welcome to the money pit!
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Mesa Boogie Big Block BB750 price dropped to £650 - *SOLD*
Mudpup replied to Mudpup's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
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FS: Mesa Boogie M-Pulse 600 & RR 210 cab - *SOLD*
Mudpup replied to Beedster's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
The guys on the 2024 Gear Abstinence thread must be sweating How is this still even here? Best bargain of the entire year 🙂
