uk_lefty

Whether it's a personal favourite chillies album or not it's a great "bass album" there's no denying. Is he making complex lines sound simple or simple lines sound complex? I'm not sure, but it is a cracking album in every respect. Great to hear the bass isolated, one of the album's that spurred me on to learn more in my frustrated early bass playing days

I used rounds on my fretless for years and there are some scars on the fretboard. Living in small towns before the days of reliable internet shopping and choice of strings I had to. I used nickel rather than stainless to go easy on the board but am going to take a punt on the Ernie ball cobalts for a round sound but with the flat feel under the finger tip. I mainly used Ernie ball flats on this fretless since 2006 and I'm only on my second set of them.

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1485950926' post='3227914'] The idea was to hold the tug bar with your fingers and play the bass near the neck with your thumb. [/quote] Hmmmm wouldn't be my preference

I don't understand what a tug bar is for?

Bought a delay pedal from skb558. Arrived quickly and kept in touch by text. Thoroughly decent chap, sent me a fantastic pedal for a reasonable price and offered extra comms which could help anyone worrying about PayPal transfer of money outside a structured web transaction. Deal with confidence!

[quote name='redbandit599' timestamp='1485385320' post='3223674'] For the OP, Download can be fun if you go with it. Plenty of stages, so lots of variety. The mud last year was biblical though!I If you really don't fancy it why not see if your Mrs has a metal interested friend to go with, I know loads of girls who go, and it's a friendly crowd. If you think you might have a tendency to be one of those who end up huddled on a fold up chair under a tarp - then probably more fun for all if you bale. That might sound a bit off, don't mean to be! \m/ 😀 [/quote] I went for the first time last year. I am too old. To the OP, be careful where you camp. There is a very active airport runway inches from your face if you're camped in the wrong bit. The line up looks great (to me) this year and in the side tents you might find something a bit different. It's a nice crowd too, people are friendly if you're lost or whatever. Just hope you have good weather and security don't physically force you out from under the only bit of shelter in to the rain for no reason.

The wife and I don't have to compromise too much on these things... Ok she took me to London bass guitar show for a birthday a few years back, I didn't stay too long so she wasn't hideously bored and she got a kiss from Mark King... Being left handed there was only a couple of basses there to play so it worked out ok. I guess it's at home when she moved in to my bachelor pad we had to compromise. Having a trace amp rig where most would have a tv and a row of guitars where most would have seats, patent drawings of basses instead of family pictures... That all had to be 'compromised out'

Interesting stuff. I mentally can't get past the tiny cab but hearing is believing I guess. Interesting what direction peavey are looking to take this, I'm really not sure. Is it the start of a high end amp range for peavey so their name stays on the workhorse budget friendly stuff? Is it product dev and market testing for crazy ideas that will later filter in to peavey products? Interesting that a lot of us want the old trace sound. I loved my old trace gear but the size and weight just wasn't practical. In keeping the name going are Peavey trying to keep the sound going or are they trying to keep the principles going? What I mean is, are they not bothered about recreating trace tone for us oldies in the UK who remember when everything was better, or to them does the trace name mean "innovation", "reliability", "high tech" or other such things that they feel they are representing in green products with the trace name on them? No idea what the answers are, just trying to guess at what they're doing.

Eventually used it last night. I paired the 1x15 rootmaster cab with my toneman 300 combo which is also a 1x15 speaker. The tone-man combo is the same as a mag combo. I was playing an MIJ 1970 P-bass re issue with Steve Harris Sig strings and Sig pickups. Took it all to rehearsal with my rock and soul covers band. So... The cab definitely gave me a volume boost. Having said that, the combo isn't the loudest so the idea was to keep these together for gigs where we have to provide our own PA and backline, with a PA that can't handle bass going through it. A week on Saturday will reveal whether that's been a good idea or not. The cab is a good weight for one handed carrying, about a third the weight of the combo. Soundwise it was what I wanted, I really pleasing fat, round bottom end sound. Drummer loved it, as did the rhythm guitarist, gave them that extra foundation through the guitars and vocals. I tried it using the amp eq and also bypassing the amp eq and using my hartke vxl for eq which I've done constantly for almost a year. The hartke gives me more presence and that suited the rig perfectly. I tried wah, flange and the amps built in overdrive and sub harmonics too, all handled very comfortably. I set the tweeter to high, but unfortunately wasn't carrying a more articulate bass so couldn't really test this out. I found some notes above the 12th really rang out clear (e.g. c on A string, above 12th) but adjacent notes wouldn't ring out as much which was annoying. That could be anything from tired strings or tired playing rather than the cab until I investigate further. I didn't bother going round the back to turn it to low or off due to how busy the room was with so much gear in. I'm unlikely to use this again until a gig on 4th Feb where it will be taking the P bass and either a jazz or a headless brromstick bass so will give it some higher notes and snappy string noises to see how it goes. For the price I paid I'm happy, but I can't justify really expensive gear for my low paid or no paid gigs. It seems like great value though compared to other lightweight 1x15 cabs. Ideally I'd want to pair it with the rootmaster 2x10 and maybe an old hartke or trace head unit, but that's a long way off. And there was no buzzing.

I would go for ash body if you're having a maple fretboard, alder if you're having rosewood (which my phone auto corrects to firewood, interestingly!). The ash and maple combo should give a brighter sound with a bit more snap, alder and rosewood is your traditional darker and rounder sound. The vintage versions, I believe, have the bridge pickup closer to the bridge in the 70s position. Great to have these options for a lefty!

Well done! Great bass. Suppose with all of these things whether bitsa/ warmoth or complete custom it is hard to find a second hand buyer who wants exactly that so you have to price low or break it up for parts

For my fretless five I rest my thumb on the protruding edge of the fretboard around the twenty-something fret. If I'm not going for mwah tones I'll rest on the back pickup, something I've always done since having a two pickup bass and seeing Fleas instruction video for the tight focussed sound. Both these I use for the low B and sometimes E and A, then it's resting on a string

Interesting that the Origin head doesn't have their overdrive and sub which seem to be on everything. Not saying that's either good or bad, just surprised it wasn't there. Looks a decent head unit.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1484777808' post='3218453'] Obviously, I disagree, but that's the beauty of free choice, we can totally disagree about something yet still get along [/quote] Quite a few panning Radiohead here. I used to absolutely love them, still like them a lot. It's good not everyone likes them, means the music doesn't get overplayed and you could actually get tickets to see them Although I was sat next to some drip who whined "this doesn't sound like the album" all the way through...

Every Kasabian album. Seriously, one ok single and they're hailed as "rock gods"??? My @rse!

[quote name='Merton' timestamp='1484682648' post='3217503'] If it has a white cone it's the White line cab [/quote] It's silver....

Just got asked to do a charity gig last night! Drummer immediately asked situation with kit, PA, etc. It's unpaid, but local to us and we want more party gigs so decided to pencil it in for the contacts and a place to try some new material. Luckily our drummer knows the organiser and that's what swung it. No pro fund raisers or anything like that.

It's arrived, don't know if it's the white line version but it's definitely the rootmaster lightweight one that retails at 279. Not managed to plug in yet, sleeping baby, but it's a good one handed carry. Looks nice and compact. Can't wait to hook my combo in to it and see what it gives me.

Enjoyed that and looked up some other songs. Loving everything with a double bass drum at the moment but the songs and riffs are well crafted, nice space in between big crunching chords for fills, really tastefully done.

My guitarist loves come together by the Beatles and wants to open shows with it. People just stared blankly at a festival when we opened with it. I'd rather not play it at all, or anything that gets wheeled out on X factor every year without fail, including Chris Cornell's Billie Jean.

A band project I was in that did loads of good eighties music like talking heads and other stuff auditioned a drummer. He came to rehearsal, was a bit of a d!ck but an ok drummer, we thought he "got it". Then he sent through an entire set list of utter drivel. Let me entertain you, crazy horses, sex on fire. Thirty of the most hideous and could-not-be-further-from-the-point songs imaginable. He didn't get the gig.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1484592983' post='3216647'] Council estate fridge door! [/quote] Lol

Nickleback, how you remind me. Played when it "first" came out. I seem to remember it being all over MTV2 which was a rock channel then, for months before it was released. When it was released it was everywhere!!! We played it in a gig, was going down like a poo sandwich, and the drummer and I nodded to each other and killed it before the second chorus. Guitarist wasn't happy but we did him a favour. Playing charity things and festivals you do get some of your not typical audience. I would probably play some Motley Crue to wind them up, but our usual audience would love some of their more recognisable songs

Why not tell the organisers the best you can do is publicise where to buy tickets on your bands Facebook etc. And that you'll make every effort to help but taking responsibility to sell tickets you'd be worried you'll let them down because you can only just commit time for the gig... Also, check there's a PA! Paid six quid to watch my mate at a charity gig with the singer putting his mic through one of those tiny tiny toy amp things. As soon as their set finished the singer from the next stage was running over to swipe it so she could be heard! Bit of a farce.

Amazing how long it's taken me... And it's always amps I cycle through despite me thinking I don't really care about amps! I was a decent level hockey player once upon a time and I used to buy all the best gear, but then started to use pretty scrappy gear just because I could, and now won't even buy mid range gear - partly because of price but also because I know there is a diminishing return after a relatively low price point.