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[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='1125731' date='Feb 13 2011, 10:18 AM'][b]Basschat special. [/b] This is what you'll find at [url="http://www.bassgear.co.uk/2011/02/be-a-guest-of-bass-gear-at-the-london-bass-show/"]http://www.bassgear.co.uk/2011/02/be-a-gue...ndon-bass-show/[/url] [indent][b]*Competition*[/b] To win a pair of Guest Passes to the London Bass Show, all you have to do is email [email protected] and put in the Subject Header “Competition” and tell us which item currently offered on our site you would chose to have for free … and your reasons why. To add to the fantasy, you must 'keep' this item for the rest of your life, so the financial value doesn’t come in to it. The competition ends midnight February 28 2011 and a winner will be notified very soon after. [/indent] [i]But what you won't find there[/i] is the news that in addition to the original pair of Guest Passes to be won, there's now an additional pair up for grabs that can only be won by a Basschatter. Just mention your avatar when entering. The reasons you give can be three words or three hundred![/quote] I spoke to Phil earlier and he said he hasn't had many people entering his competition - that obviously increases anyone's chance of winning quite considerably. . .

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='1127448' date='Feb 14 2011, 06:57 PM']I don't know why Joe but it really pleases me you still have this bass [/quote] I agree - on both counts Made me get mine out today for a quick blast!

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='1126514' date='Feb 13 2011, 10:34 PM']So who got the £750 bargain Spitfire? [/quote] I nearly went for it just because it was so cheap but thought I might be 'stealing' from another BC'er so decided to let it go. Watched the bidding right through to the end and was sure there's be another bid but nothing happened.

[quote name='jakesbass' post='1125338' date='Feb 12 2011, 07:41 PM']I have the self same problem[/quote] They work fine on my iMac - I have upgraded all of my video players though & installed a few add-ins, I see they ae video M4V, might need a plug-in for this format?

[quote name='steve-soar' post='1105778' date='Jan 28 2011, 12:57 AM']This is a bassline. [/quote] Excellent - still missing Mr P and his blue eyed soul Always liked this bass line:

I have to own up that I'm not sure about the three pickup look. The ex Me-Shell daphne blue 4 is still my ultimate Celinder. . .

I had one for a while, quite an early one I seem to remember. Nice enough but didn't really blow me away and I sold it soon afterwards. In fat, OTPJ came round to try it and decided he didn't want one after all I now have a Godin which I much prefer. These rarely come up for sale but I know there's a 5 string up for grabs at BassGear (because that's the one that inspired me to look for a 4 string equivalent!). [url="http://www.bassgear.co.uk/products-page/pre-owned/godin-a5-electro-acoustic-5-string-pre-owned/"]http://www.bassgear.co.uk/products-page/pr...ring-pre-owned/[/url]

The sound he has at the beginning of the clip is pretty much exactly how I think of LowEnds sounding based on review stuff I've read I did wonder about the T-Bird as a gospel bass, lol. I've got a bit of a 'blues corridor' trip coming up, could be dangerous - Nashville, Memphis, Clarksdale, Vicksburg, New Orleans. Will probably add some more stops in the delta before we hit NO The Gibson factory tour is on the list, luckily I don't like their basses very much!

I know there was a prototype LowEnd here on BC for a while but I wondered if anyone had tried one of the newer models? I always seem to read good things about them on TalkBass - seem to be popular with gospel guys (always a good sign in my book). They've been making T-Bird shapes for a while and now trying out some quite exotic tops which you never normally see on a T: Or a nitro finish 5 string: Shell pink: Exotic topped Js: I picked this lot because they are all in stock and for sale right now - I'm also heading for Nashville in April. . .

[quote name='Dusty' post='1103487' date='Jan 26 2011, 12:33 PM']Used Korean ones do come up every so often on 'world wide e-bay' around the £800 mark.[/quote] And even here on BC [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=119815&hl=alien"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...15&hl=alien[/url]

I've run live sound many times for people and have to agree that it can be fraught with issues as far as getting a good bass sound is concerned. I always try to be sympathetic to to the players' requirements but sometimes you have to over-ride things simply because it sounds bloody awful out front. Obviously my view of 'awful' may be someone else's sonic nirvana so I'll always speak to them about changing things. Last time this happened I was working with a bass man with a fairly modern bass and amp set up who just sounded like mud out front. I had a go at tweaking the mix to cut out some of the low thud and horrible boomy tone and then had a chat with him about his sound during the break. Turned out that the sound he wanted people to hear was all low thud without much note definition etc so I ended up putting things back where they were. A couple of people in the audience moaned that the bass sounded horrible and was over-powering the mix but I tried to be faithful to what I'd been asked to reproduce This was one situation where I really wish more people had either really long leads or wireless set-ups to get out front & hear what they sound like to their audiences! A lot of people are really slow / unprofessional about setting up and only leave time for a short sound check (amazing how many people blame the sounds guy for this when they've just wasted loads of time arguing over how much space the drummer can have for his kit, whether the keys player sets up facing across stage to save space etc.!). Then, having got a decent balance on sound check, everyone turns up half way through the first song, lol. I usually try to take a DI feed pre-eq from the bass, had too many situations where a post eq feed has seen the bass player massively tweaking his eq to get a better on-stage sound and really screwing the front of house mix (instead of asking the sound enginer to turn him up in the monitors - obviously this only works if there is bass in the monitors!). When I'm playing I always spend time with the sound engineer - personally I've always found this helps in many different ways. Some sound guys really don't give a toss (and some of this may be because they've spent too many years having to deal with sh*tty band members who treat them terribly) but most seem to respond positively if you treat them well and get them a bit involved in what you're trying to achieve. Really helps if you have a friend in the audience who a) has good ears knows the sound you'r after and c) knows how to speak to the engineer the 'right way I guess what I'm trying to say is that sound man's lot is often thankless and a little bit of effort working with him can go a long way - as someone else has said, if you piss him off then he can simply pull your faders right down and make you dissappear or turn your sound to mud. . .

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1099682' date='Jan 23 2011, 02:45 PM']Killer track.[/quote] Anyone know if the rest of the album is any good?