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The more I look at these the more I am reminded of the Variax bass but with pickup(s).

Ooh I want something like this to go with my BF cabs.

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1379615878' post='2214937'] I could probably manage disorderly at a push! [/quote] Oi! No pushing!

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1379614201' post='2214906'] Hoping to have a play through a BF cab so you can add my Reidmar as well Bluejay. [/quote] I for one would be most interested to audition different heads through my BF Midget. Please form an orderly queue.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1376672459' post='2177860'] A friends band do really well out of it...and I was reluctant to go and see them as I had these pre-conceptions about material but they had such a good spin on numbers....that it was very entertaing. I think...or have learnt...that if you think the 60's is boring, then you are picking the wrong numbers What can be wrong with the Small Faces, Who and Stones..to start with...!!! [/quote] Yes a lot of it is down to how you approach the material. If you approach it as enjoying playing great songs, you are on a winner. If you think you are churning out the same old guff, you clearly are not!

[quote name='Si600' timestamp='1379614134' post='2214903'] I've got a serious amount of GAS for a 5 string P-Bass with a PJ configuration. I know they exist but they seem to be quite rare and not available new. Would it be wrong to get a normal one and have a competent fellow fit the jazz pickup? Not that I'm in a position to buy a P-Bass at the moment regardless of what sort it is, but you can't help thinking of these things can you?! [/quote] Look for a Sandberg VT5.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1379590590' post='2214477'] I look forward to t[s]rying[/s] buying it. [/quote] Fixed.

All helpful stuff. I'm going to try a few heads in shops, but not many delaers seem to stock the bigger Ampeg heads. any tips on where to go? I prefer not to buy blind on something like this!

Been using a TC Polytune since they came out. Most excellent.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1379590051' post='2214459'] We have our T-shirts here now. £15 each cash on the day, should raise some money for the charity pot from the profits! [/quote] Don't forget to get some made up saying 'I hate Barefaced cabs' - that way you've got the T-shirt market covered!

[quote name='stevie' timestamp='1379532674' post='2213898'] I have to agree: that is a great P-Bass tone - and yes, no slap is a bonus. It's difficult to tell how much of it is coming out of the amp though and how much is DI'd. [/quote] According to the YouToob blurb, the right channel is an SM57 on one of the speakers, the left is DI'd. Definitely sounds better if you just listen to the right speaker.

I have a Class D all-solid-state head and really like it, but fancy the idea of something from the Ampeg stable with a valve front end and a Mosfet power stage. This of course leads me to consider the SVT 3 Pro, and indeed its predecessor the SVT III Pro. So, if you own or have owned one, tell your BC chums - what's hot, what's not, what does it excel at, what does it struggle with, can you proudly say 'this is the Ampeg sound', and finally - any epic fails?

[quote name='mickster' timestamp='1379272869' post='2210717'] I thought the LB had just a single vol control ie not a separate gain & master vol? [/quote] You're right, I am mixing it up with the PF500 that I also tried. So, volume was at 2pm. Seems like it was that cab.

[quote name='MtlRed' timestamp='1379467509' post='2213102'] Yeah, that amp fried on me during rehearsal, a couple months after making that video. I got an SVT-CL head now and use the PF-500 as a backup. [/quote] Sorry to hear that, hope you got your money back, and hope you didn't mind me calling you 'some dude'! [quote name='MtlRed' timestamp='1379467591' post='2213103'] Not from Crook in County Durham. Not evn the same continent I'm from Montreal, Canada. [/quote] I actually meant DarkHeart - he has Crook as his location beneath his avatar.

Already bringing a Tele in case someone wants to buy it - you're all welcome to have a go on it, if only because I hope you will be stricken with skinny-string GAS!

My July 1989 issue of [i]Guitarist[/i] magazine (yes, I have every one!) contains a review of the Blade B4 bass. It is a light ash 'J' lookalike, with front-mounted passive volume, tone and pan controls, plus a coil-tap switch. In the back is a circuit-board with trim pots for a notch filter for each pickup (to take out mains hum), and a 3-band active EQ. So - not this one then?

I can't thank Jools enough for my first hearing of the Secret Sisters. But I find it hard to forgive him for playing boogie-woogie piano over every act that he pals up with.

As previously mentioned, I have room to transport at least one person, possibly 2, in my big feck-off estate - depending on the kit you intend to bring, obviously! I am travelling from Swindon, so will pass Reading, Slough, Windsor etc. If you were thinking of coming but have no transport, or want to save a few bob by sharing fuel costs, PM me with your mobile number.