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My band Asylum Affair have our first two gigs this weekend. We play classic rock and pop, 5 piece with girl singer. At the Plough, Three Bridges, Crawley tonight and the Foresters, Forest Row, East Grinstead tomorrow. Totally under rehearsed as last two rehearsals got cancelled and 4 songs to learn got done last night! So should be a bit of a blast. Will report back how they went, if anyones around pop up and say hi to the bass playing rabbit in the headlights. Colin

[quote name='bassbloke' post='517096' date='Jun 18 2009, 06:50 AM']korg pandora. Works a treat.[/quote] +1

Nik came over to Brighton today to meet me at my coach to buy my old Peavey Mk3 series amp. Smooth as silk deal, enjoy the beastie mate! Top Basschatter! Colin

I'm bored and pretty pish and having a punt on here as me band ain't together yet. Anyone need a dep over the bank holiday at all. I'm in Surrey and can do mainly Rock and popular covers with little notice. Got a bad back so tend to recline on me stool every couple of songs and I'm no oil painting but have all me own gear and transport. I don't read but give me the chords and I'll be ok. Cheers Colin

Checked with Ped if ok to post here, sorry Machines forgot each forum has own mod! My band Asylum Affair has been working hard since Xmas to get a set together and just as the gigs are starting to come in the damn gitard had bailed out! We are a 5 piece classic rock/pop band with more emphasis on the rock, girl singer, bass, keys, drums and guitar looking to gig once a week or so eventually. Music we are doing includes Bryan Adams, F.Mac, Heart, Chicago,Divinyls, Whitesnake,Patti Smith,Stereophonics,Tom Petty,Joplin,Springsteen,Eurythmics,Stones,Texas,Sam Brown,Gary Moore! So a right old mixture needing a pretty versatile guitarist preferably with backing vocals, we are based in the Woking,Cobham,Leatherhead area and have a free rehearsal room (at the mo) in Leatherhead that we usually use on a Thursday. We are all (except the singer) slightly more mature musos with full time jobs(me) and kids(not me) so things get changed around a bit. Here [url="http://files.audiobod.com/guitarist-ad/preview1-25624.mp3"]http://files.audiobod.com/guitarist-ad/preview1-25624.mp3[/url] is one track from a demo we put together in rehearsal. 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago. The rest is still being mixed. Drop me a PM if you're interested or know someone who might be. Cheers Colin

Affectionately known as the Stretch Bogey or even the Torrey Canyon (wiki it if you're too young to remember) here is my 1990 Merc 230TE! 167 thousand miles on the clock, starts on the one! [attachment=24498:26082008166.jpg] Fits all my gear (listed below) in the back without moving the seats at all! All my mates take the piss out of it but when there's some driving to be done guess who gets the call! Here it is with a bit of the white stuff from earlier this year. [attachment=24499:02022009328.jpg]

[quote name='Hoppo75' post='454352' date='Apr 4 2009, 09:10 PM']Well done mate. It's a wonderful bit of kit for the price. Gigged mine for the first time last Sat, and the amount of comments I got from the people in the room on how excellent the sound was, and on listening to the cam footage from the gig........how very right they were!!! (family and friends, most of which are super critical muso's, including 2 Uncles who are bassists). One thing though, I did have the same impression on the compressor being useless when I was playing in the house, but it really does work. It's very subtle, and from song to song is easily missed, but I started playing the gig without it, and turned it up to 3 mid way through the set. It seemed to ever so slightly balance out the attack on the strings (without affecting the tone). Like I say, very very subtle, but I somehow found myself not concentrating on my finger pressure as much. Great bit of kit.[/quote] Well I have to backtrack on this, we put a couple of songs in our set to try tonight at rehearsal that really needed me to use a pick and I found that by putting just a gnats on the compressor it really smoothed it out nicely without losing any bite and tone. I then left it in with my finger playing too and it wasn't half bad. When I tried it out at Dr Funks place when I bought it we turned it up and it really sucked the sound away but at gig/rehearsal volume it's a lot more subtle as long as it's not boosted too much. It really was just switched on and no more. It has to be said that this head with my Status S1 5string is the best sound I've had for ages. The valve side of the pre-amp warms it up nicely but it still retains the punch and clarity of the Status.

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='458583' date='Apr 9 2009, 04:59 PM']Yup If the valves drive the power section of the amp its bad news. The valve is for tone and is not driving the cab. G[/quote] Cool Thanks for the quick reply, Colin

[quote name='slaphappygarry' post='458578' date='Apr 9 2009, 04:52 PM']You can use the amp without a cab. Valve heads fry themselves if not connected to a cab. G[/quote] Even if I dial some valve pre-amp in?

Doing a bit of recording with my band tonight and I'm taking my amp as an option. It has a DI out on the back. Do I have to have one of my speakers plugged in (with master vol turned down) or can I use the head alone with the master turned down? If you don't know the amp it has two pre-amps valve/solid state. Colin