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Unless you already have the P I'd recommend looking for matched pair from one of the better manufacturers. There's quite a few out there that have vintage type specs - Aguilar, Nordstrand, Seymour Duncan etc. all make fine PJ sets.

I was once effectively hired and fired again within 15 minutes Saw a band ad looking for a new rhythm section to work with a husband & wife team who both sang and played guitar. Turned up with a drummer (we didn't know each other) and we gelled immediately. We seemed to be getting in well with the husband & wife too and they were even appreciative when we pointed out they had the rhythm and timing of a classic rock cover a bit wrong in the choruses. The husband called a fag break and went outside with the drummer whilst I stayed chatting with his wife. She told me that she could tell he really liked us and we were by far the best they'd tried and the only other people left to try came with a bit of a dodgy rep and also only came as a 'pair' and they'd heard the drummer was difficult to work with. Audition carried on and we played through some unrehearsed new stuff and it was all smiles and happy handshakes at the end. As we were packing away I spotted a Spurs scarf fall out of the husband's bag and I, casually, asked if he was a Spurs fan. He turned on me and asked, quite aggressively, what it was to do with me and whether I was an Arsenal fan. I replied that I had a season ticket at Arsenal and he glared at me like I'd just threatened to rob his mother. Then he turned to the drummer and, using quite a few swear words, asked if he was an f...ing Arsenal fan too. The drummer calmly replied that he was actually a season ticket holder at Chelsea The husband stomped off outside and got into his car waiting for his wife. She told us that we had no chance of getting the gig now (in a way that suggested we were somehow at fault) and she left us to pack away everything. We never heard from either of them again. . .

I liked it. Kind of thing I'd turn up if it came on the radio Your site formatting appears to be buggered at the moment though. On my, new, iPad the content is hanging off the side of the screen on both horizontal edges and it's not scrollable,so I can't get to that content or click on links Vertical content falls off the bottom of the page but that's quite common and scrolling works fine. Given the high volume of web traffic generated by mobile devices I'd try to get this fixed quickly. It's the kind of thing that can 'lose' people on site very quickly

Slightly off topic but I once worked as monitor engineer for Hawkwind - one of the most fun nights I can remember. Quite surreal having a long chat with Dave Brock about issues with rust on late 70's Merc SL's (which we both owned at the time), lol.

I've seen a few instruments with this sort of finish cracking (most recently an older Stingray) but none quite as pronounced as this. SF Green definitely not standard for this era but you can never tell with Fender who quite often did an odd custom finish or simply discovered an old body on a shelf and bolted newer necks and hardware on it. On balance it feels like a refin, possibly an old one, but tough to tell without seeing it up close and inside the neck and control cavity. If you're seriously interested then I'd ask for pics of these and any other dating info like the neck stamp and pot numbers etc.

Be careful of matching in a PJ configuration. A non hum-cancelling J could lead to nasty hum when in solo mode and you can get phasing issues as well. There's also often quite a few problems with non-matched pairs where the P is dominant and the J doesn't add much to the tone - in fact I've even had this with a matched pair! Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs here

My Ritter R8 is under 6lbs. In fact I think my heaviest Ritter is 7.9lbs! Mind you, with these instruments you pay for such light weights. My NYC Sadowsky is really light as well. All the modern NYC's are light (and most of the older ones too) but again they aren't cheap.

RCF make some genuine quality gear, definitely one of the true 'pro' brands out there. I'd recommend them happily to anyone Edit - I should add that I don't have any experience of the plastic moulded cabs, only wooden ones.

As it happens some of my favourite ever cabs over the years have had a three driver arrangement with either 10", 8" or 6" mid drivers (the cabs with the 10" & 8" were both paired with 15" bass drivers whereas the 6" was with a 12"). If the most recent if these, the 12" with the 6" mid, actually fitted in the boot of my car then it would be sitting next to me right now My cab of choice these days is a lightweight, well built, 2x10" in a diagonal vertical design. It brings the upper 10" to a nice height which I'm sure helps my on-stage monitoring. I should add that I'm always in the FoH to a degree so don't need to be blasting volume out on stage. I'd love to try the new Alain Caron MarkBass combo which adds a 5" mid driver to the 12" main one but it's a bit heavier than my original AC combo - enough to put me off for now.

Only just spotted this thread and the comments about watches. Every member of our band owns, by complete, coincidence, a watch from the same manufacturer and at most gigs there's at least 3-4 of us wearing one or other of their watches (some of us have multiple watches from this brand). At a gig last year we were spotted wearing these and approached by the manufacturer to do some promotional work for them It hasn't appeared yet but hopefully will at some point later this year. So, for us, wearing a watch on a gig was not only a good thing but could earn us money and get additional publicity. It was never part of the band 'look' but definitely seems to have paid dividends - maybe we'll even get some free watches, lol

I've always found there are some cabs with long throws and some that have a closer field (no idea what the physics is with this though, lol). I currently have a couple of, very different, amp/cab setups that work just fine firing into the back of my legs. If I had to dump a cab across the stage, or 4 metres behind me, then I'd definitely get rid of it rather than trying to 'fight' against it.

I never understand how someone can play in a band where they consistently can't hear the self on stage. It's not really that complicated to set a band up so everyone can hear their own sound plus enough of the rest of the musicians that they can perform professionally. Using in-ears can make a real difference but I know a lot of people find them either uncomfortable or struggle because they can't 'feel' the input from the rest of the band. I find using decent quality cabs, putting a little time into setting up amp/bass and actually talking to other band members to get a sensible on-stage balance does the trick every time. One thing that might upset this would be to stick my cab on the other side of the stage and have it firing across the other band members and forcing them to have a stage dominated by over-loud bass response. If I needed to do that to hear my cab I'd be selling it very quickly and getting a decent new one that simply worked how it ought to

The NV115 is a fine cab but it needs a powerful current amp to work at its best. I can't explain exactly why this is (maybe the closed cab design and relatively low sensitivity) but it doesn't seem to particularly suit the small modern class D 500w heads. Great with a chunky Ampeg with some power amp valves kicking out the watts It needs a bit of bedding in as well. Definitely sounds better once it's had some decent use at a reasonable volume. One of those rare cabs that is almost better to buy used rather than new.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1492330971' post='3279395'] The problem is that I don't think Joolz cares what the expert muso audience thinks, because he is aiming the show at what he feels is 'educating' the TOTPs crowd [/quote] He doesn't have anything to do with selecting the bands - he's just the presenter. Doesn't even know who's on until quite late some weeks.

[quote name='Conrad' timestamp='1492095351' post='3277921'] Yes it does have rosewood board but i didnt think old rosewood is a problem with new regs am i wrong ? [/quote] Age doesn't matter - if you don't have the correct certificate for export and import it could be impounded. You can ship in Europe whilst we're still an EU country but anywhere else could have problems. You'd also need to get import and export stuff sorted so that you don't pay U.K. import duties and VAT when it comes back. I'd definitely get it sorted here. Plenty of good people out there

I always use; https://www.ampvalves.co.uk Great service and Stu is a top valve amp repair guy. I'm sure he could help when choosing valves for a Mesa.

[quote name='E sharp' timestamp='1492154717' post='3278280'] Or also , that Randy Hope Taylor Modulus twin pick up Flea bass . I bought a 5 string SEI Jazz at The Gallery, when it was a toss up between both of them . In hindsight , I bought the wrong bass . It's another bass that has popped up on here for sale a few times over the years , but had silence now for ages . One of the best basses I've ever tried . [/quote] The Flea was mine for a few years. Gigged it quite regularly. Last I heard it had gone to Scandinavia.

What a ludicrous response 😄

For sure - if you want something cheap that doesn't sound great and is a hassle to work with then multi-effects are the way to go. . .

Warren recently bought a, particularly beautiful, bass from me. I was very sad to see it go but especially pleased it's gone to such a good home. Great communications throughout the buying / selling process and everything went very smoothly. Definitely someone I'd trust completely in any transaction

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