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Met Nick in a good old Basschatter's favourite venue - a motorway service station car park! Really nice guy & just one of those people you know you can trust with any sort of deal From a brief 2 minutes watching him acoustically trying out a bass I have a sneaking suspicion that this man can really play. . .

Ray recently bought an Epifani head from me & everything went really smoothly Lots of excellent communication & very understanding about a short delay when my courier failed to turn up one day. Someone I would trust completely in any deal

[quote name='crez5150' post='425945' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:23 AM']Thats not a wig....... This is a wig...... [/quote] Now that really is a serious wig Crez - do you wear that for all your functions gigs?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='421545' date='Feb 28 2009, 10:19 AM']Yes, I forgot yours had a blue tint to it, Al Embic Here's some recent promo pics from Blondie UK. Ignore the fat bloke. The bass is the important bit [/quote] I thought these promo pics were rather nice?

[quote name='ashevans09' post='423820' date='Mar 3 2009, 01:27 AM']Really well thanks, had my first gig with her on Wednesday. Cut through like an absolute bullet with a lot of rumble , I was extremely happy . The B on it is just insane . I now just need to get over my extreme fear of taking it to gigs in case it gets scratched! haha.[/quote] I gigged with mine on Saturday. Vaguely amusing little story from the interval of the gig when a bass player in the audience started talking to me. He told me had a newish Fender USA Jazz. I mentioned that whilst I liked the good old J bass I'd only ever owned one Fender and that was an old '70's Musicmaster. He then proceeded to go through a long speech about how great Fenders were and took great pains to explain that if a US Standard was a bit expensive for me then I should consider the Mex basses as they were such great quality. I'm fairly sure that because I was using a tiny Benz Shuttle for amplification at the gig he thought I was a bit of a bass man on the cheap and that the MTD must have been some cheapo Korean thing. I asked what he thought of my bass and he said it looked pretty. I said that it was a USA MTD and that he should try one if he got a chance.He said he'd look out for them in a fairly offhand way and I then casually mentioned that they were excellent but quite expensive - about £3K new but if he shopped around he might be lucky enough to find a used one for somewhere around the £2K mark. . . His jaw dropped and and his mouth gaped open for ages - he then completely stuttered over his words for a minute or two and then quietly shuffled away, lol. N.B. I really do like Fender J basses & I would never normally have tried to pull any sort of 'one-upmanship' trick like this (not least because the price of something may not be a true reflection of value & it's all subjective anyway) but he was very condescending in the way he was talking to me so I couldn't resist

[quote name='Rasta' post='421298' date='Feb 27 2009, 08:07 PM']ooooh you beauty-i have nearly exactly the same bass + 1 string, 5 string JO in Lake placid blue...probably the best 5 string bass i've ever played-a lifer for sure me thinks - i often have impure thoughts about selling/trading my USA 75RI Fender Jazz 4 to get either a JO 4 or The DJ4...hmmmm-must repent! Good luck with JO buddy [url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2009/post-3360-1235765247_thumb.jpg"]http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2...65247_thumb.jpg[/url][/quote] Nice shirt Lee - what is it about bass players, always the most stylish person in the band

[quote name='Dan_Nailed' post='422394' date='Mar 1 2009, 02:40 PM']I've always wondered if some sort of sprayable foam could be squirted into the limiter..window sealant or somesuch that isn't exactly noticeable. Even if it only gives you 3-6dB extra that would be enough to get by.[/quote] It had some sort of sign on saying it could 'detect' if the mic had artificially been blocked - not sure if this was just a trick to make sure no-one tried to tamper with it though!

Well - the postscript is that we didn't actually trip it once but certainly triggered the entire christmas tree of lights several times. It had indeed been carefully set up to rob all the fundamentals from any low frequency source. Bass, obviously, but also lower end of vocals, kick drum, low tom etc. I ended up having use just the Genz 1x10 combo stacked as high as I could get it. I also had to pull some bass out of the signal but luckily the Genz has a semi-parametric mid & I found the lowest frequency I could get away with boosting in order to get any lind of volume just to hear what I was playing. The trip meter quite liked my auto-wah though - I knew it pulled a bit of low end from the signal but it must have been right on the sweet spot of the limiter as I could snap strings really loudly with the wah on! There was a bass player in the audience who came up to me at the interval and said he could barely here anything I was playing. He knew there was some bass in the mix but not enough to distinguish much. Thing that really pissed me off about it all is that the bloody venue is absolutely in the middle of nowhere. The only person within any kind of earshot just happens to be the owner so he obviously set it so he doesn't get disturbed much - meanwhile he's hiring the place out as a wedding venue with live bands for thousands of pounds a night!

Someone's offered me a Conklin GTBD 7 in a PX deal and I really don't know a thing about them! It's something like this: [url="http://bass-guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Conklin-GTBD7-7-String-Bass-Guitar?sku=512706"]http://bass-guitars.musiciansfriend.com/pr...itar?sku=512706[/url] I would be taking it purely as a PX & then looking to sell it so any thoughts on what they are like plus an idea on value would be great

[quote name='RayFW' post='421341' date='Feb 27 2009, 09:20 PM']Good idea except the one in the link can only supply 550W Total. Not much use for anything but the smallest of bands. I suspect the person who posted the link on the pubgigs forum has never actually used one.[/quote] That's funny - I'm in the process of registering on that forum right now to ask that very question!

[quote name='tombboy' post='421334' date='Feb 27 2009, 09:13 PM']How about a separate 'petrol' one? IE, a generator?[/quote] I think they might spot it if we ran a generator somewhere - apparently we get inspected before the gig. I've had a quick hunt & loads of places sell the battery backup option so may go hunting for one in the morning

Now that looks like a really clever option Not enough time to try one for tomorrow but I didn't even think about a separate battery powered UPS!

[quote name='Hamster' post='421295' date='Feb 27 2009, 08:04 PM']Whatever you do, don't let anyone in your band make a big issue about it - the day belongs to the happy couple, explain about the limiter and do your best to keep them happy.[/quote] Totally agree - We've got a female lead singer who's gone down with Scarlet Fever so we have a dep singer. Singer #1 wanted to call the groom & let him know she wouldn't be there and he'd have to be happy with singer #2 or we'd pull out of the gig! We politely pointed out that the groom probably didn't give a toss about a change of singer & that the last thing he needed in the week of his wedding was to hear the band might not be 100% and/or could pull out!!