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It's great fun with the right people, assuming you don't mind sleeping in a freezing cold van with someone's smelly feet in your face for a month.

I know a guy who's got one of [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8712924&postcount=26"]these[/url], which he was thinking about selling but he's discovered both speakers need replacing. He asked me if I know anything about speakers which of course I don't, so I thought it made sense to ask here on his behalf. That centre section of the cab is sealed with one speaker firing upwards, the other down so I guess there's not a whole lot of room in there. He wants it to present an 8 ohm load so I guess a pair of 16 ohm speakers? Any suggestions? I suppose he's looking for a suitably vintage sound.

While I like the simplicity of the OC-2 and love the sound it produces, it sounds best when I have the tone knob on my guitar turned up but tracks best when I have the tone knob turned down. So I always have to compromise somehow. That said I haven't tried another octaver that sounds as interesting to my ears. Tip if you're ever recording it: DI. We tried a bunch of different mics and cabs and settled on a combo which sounded great with my basses and other effects but we ended up using just the DI signal for the OC-2 sound.

[quote name='steantval' post='931105' date='Aug 20 2010, 04:30 PM']Chickenfoot What do you guys think?[/quote] I think there are a lot of bands doing more interesting things than them, but they are definitely very good at singing songs about how rich they are, and that's a topic that a lot of popular musicians shy away from. Maybe we should be talking about rich people and how many cars they've got, maybe it's important. Or maybe they're twats and their band is sh*t.

[quote name='270degrees' post='929967' date='Aug 19 2010, 04:14 PM']*Bidart, about 3 miles from Biarritz. The best of all worlds: sea to the west; mountains to the east; forest all around. Spain and its cheap shopping 20 minutes south. And you could go for miles without seeing another soul. Heaven.[/quote] That sounds dope actually. Probably not a good place to be in a band though?

[quote name='lojo' post='930220' date='Aug 19 2010, 07:54 PM']The singer in one band I play with plays copy guitars and after a gig once, someone made a comment about it along with something about his footwear, this guy was a snob / fashion victim or whatever, Id rather play and be friends with people who where themselves, than a tosser who is going to judge someone by their clothes or make of gear[/quote] Haha. Our guitarist/singer mostly plays an old Antoria Tele Thinline copy and I remember one gig he hadn't washed for a week because his boiler was knackered, so god knows what people think of us. The other day he was talking about buying a boat to live on that doesn't actually have a bathroom, so we might be doing more gigs like that.

We don't share ownership of anything, it just seems like a really bad idea.

[quote name='steviedee' post='930173' date='Aug 19 2010, 06:54 PM']I'll give it a wee go you can take heart from the fact that I'm the most DIY averse person I know![/quote] Even better, I never know which end of a drill to saw stuff with.

Looks a lot better than the POS I started on.

Only buy stuff you want.

Do you fancy writing up a quick how-to? It looks excellent from here, I've got a fairly orange and very cheap bass I would like to have at.

I will need a bigger car though. Got my DB, amp and associated gubbins in the wee Daihatsu but if I had to carry bass guitars and pedals too I would need to put stuff in the passenger seat.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='928470' date='Aug 18 2010, 11:21 AM']Look like Vans TnT's to me mate.[/quote] Yeah that's what I thought, can't find them anywhere but found half a dozen other pairs of sneaks I'm going to have to buy now, I'm such a sucker...

Cursed topic!

Bear in mind that if you're using a regular bass guitar amp you might also need an acoustic preamp to get your piezo pickup down to a sensible input impedance, so factor that cost in too. You might get away with not using one, but I didn't. I'm using a K&K Bass Max on my ply bass (into a Fishman Plat Pro pre, into the FX return on my Hartke LH500 to bypass its mid-scooped EQ, into a Schroeder 1212L), it actually sounds pretty good to me, but it does sound like an amplified bass rather than an acoustic bass. I don't know if my bass is resonant enough to really benefit from a fancier pickup, apparently a previous owner put a Realist on it and it sounded crap, but I heard another guy's Realist-equipped bass sound amazing through his GK rig the other week, but his bass is a lot fancier than mine. So, yeah, seems like it's difficult to recommend a pickup in isolation, really. Depends what sort of sound you're shooting for and what other gear you're using.

I've got an awful little Laney practice amp that apparently Julian Cope left lying around. He can have it back whenever he likes.

No, I can get a decent sound out of anything. I might be a bit of an anti-snob though, because I wouldn't be seen dead using a bass with a coffee table top or any other common bespoke bass vanity features.

I did my first gig on DB tonight, doing an "unplugged" set of my reggae/punk band's tunes with just guitar, bass and a pared down drum set, and three vox, and two kazoos (mine wobblily mounted on a copper wire hooked around my tuners). I even used the bow on an intro and I didn't f*** it up - go me! A professional double bassist was in the crowd and afterwards collared me for a natter about some gigs I might want to do, so I presumably wasn't astonishingly sh*t. Loved it, would do it again.

I like those sneaks second from the right. Vans or Globes of some sort? Might have to see if I can find some of them.

Looks like a clever design, I like the idea of being able to move it around the bridge until you get more of what you want out of it.

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='921839' date='Aug 11 2010, 06:03 PM']Confucious he say: "Nicking wife's nail varnish much cheaper than Badass bridge!!"[/quote] Shame nail varnish couldn't also fix noisy pickups, a twisting neck, or any of the other half a dozen things that weren't fit for purpose on that Jazz. It was a truly rubbish bass, I gave it away in the end. Fortunately I hadn't paid for it in the first place or I would've been more upset.

[quote name='Jambo' post='906524' date='Jul 27 2010, 12:02 AM']I'm seriously contemplating getting one of these as a stand-by for my p-bass (which has a j-pup fitted too) & if need be switching the pups and fitting a badass.[/quote] I'm thinking of getting one just to take the neck off and put it on my Jazz.