Roger2611

Just played a festival this afternoon which had a bass rig supplied I was expecting to turn up and find a Musicman bass rig that is owned by a local bassist and is usually the rig available for this festival and to be fair it sounds ok but I prefer my Mark Bass rig. Anyway I turned up today to be greeted by an Ampeg SVT CL and matching cab, the thing sounded awesome, great sound onstage and (as I got to hear from the band on after us) an equally great sound out front as well a real pleasure to play through. I spoke to the guy who owned it after we had played, he said the only downside was that it is back brakingly heavy...ooh for a roadie and a spare couple of grand

I love the bass work on Music For Chameleons, White Boys and Heroes and We Take Mystery To Bed, some of my favourite Numan stuff, I keep winding his current bass player up by saying I think he should bring them back and do them live again.....I keep getting told to sod off!! I have a feeling that Pino wasn't well known at the time and this album certainly put him in the limelight, I cannot think of anything he played on prior to I Assassin that was commercially successful

Yuck

Depending on where the OP is located my local music shop has a modern player jazz for sale and I have a bunch of Precisions you could try alongside, I think the precisions will win hands down

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1405453463' post='2502095'] I wondered that, but that would be pretty silly-cheap for an SR500, unless it's completely trashed. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-SR500-Bass-Guitar-Mahogany-Levys-strap-/251589481161?"]He's relisted it again, at the same price, on a 30-day listing[/url]. I'm voting "delusional". Jon. [/quote] Ended again, this time under the heading "item has been lost or broken! " now I am really intrigued!

I get very annoyed with myself if I make errors purely because, If I make a mistake it shows I hadn't rehearsed enough, I expect the rest of the band to have rehearsed properly before a gig and I do the same. My ethos has always been "just because we are not professional musicians there is no reason why we should not have a professional musicians attitude" I think it is good to be critical of your playing it should drive you to be better but also remember you are up there doing it which is a lot more than most people manage

I brought one and used it for half a gig only, I teamed it up with my Mark Bass cabs 1x15 and 2x10 but couldn't get anywhere near enough volume out of it, I traded it in for a 100w Hiwatt head the following day, considering my guitar amp is only 15w and fully giggable I thought a 30w head through decent cabs might do the job on the bass but no...not by a long way!

Hi Sam and welcome, I would definitely look for used gear...... I have been hugely impressed with a Mike Dirnt Squire Precision I picked up very cheaply a couple of years back for all of £70.00 (it was unplayable at the time the set up was so bad) it is still one of my go to gigging basses, as long as a bass is set up well you should be able to enjoy learning to play on it. Amp wise I was very impressed with the 100W Roland Bass Cube, not overly expensive nowadays (there is one on Evilbay for £130.00 at the moment) I gigged with mine on quite a few occasions it will stand up to a drum kit providing your drummer is not stupidly loud

Finally I am a bonafide superhero....enter the Gas Man

4/10 doh

I see he will entertain trades for high end studio gear, I have an Alesis compressor that Paul McCartney once walked by in a crack convertors window.....I think that suggests a similar pedigree and hence similar values....I would offer him a trade if I didn't still need the compressor and fully intend to pass it on as a legacy to my son

He sounds about as appealing to deal with as the Taliban!

My latest project....10 minutes from set up to final take on the bass, still on our 3rd day getting the guitar parts right, the band all said "how come you can just turn up and get it right in one go"...easy I am JUST the bassist Fortunately we are all recording our parts individually on our own recording gear so there are not costs involved other than our time, mixing wise we all have a copy of all of the individual tracks to take away and create our own mix from it.....first time we have done that and boy, mixing is not straight forward at all. I am really loving working this way

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1404303644' post='2491323'] So, you've owned four Stingrays then! [/quote] I'm on my 4th Stingray and I thought I liked this one! You are probably correct and I just want to like it and very shortly the magic will wear off and out it goes again Still on the upside I only have one Jazz just can't get on with it at all and have absolutely no gas for another.....so final Stingray gas sorted, Jazz gas sorted Precisions in place so gas should now be a distant memory.....yeah I bet

I doubt it would fetch more than a couple of hundred quid, probably a lot of guitar for £200.00 but I doubt it is especially desirable

As per the last post Mrs2611 and I were really impressed with Arcade Fire, it was the first I had heard of them, great performance

It has the same appeal to me as a Badgers ass

We played with one that was on the wall behind us so we couldn't see it when playing, we played as quietly as possible had absolutely no atmosphere throughout the set and the stupid thing was we only tripped it out once and that was during the quietest song we played .....oh yeah just to top it off the reset button was in another room entirely. We have vowed we will not play another venue with a limiter

I have used 2000 grit wet and dry (used wet with a bit of washing up liquid in to make it even less abrasive) on a rather too shiny Les Paul, it takes the shine off nicely and would polish back up to a deep glossy shine if needed

Yeah our drummer takes about 30 minutes to set up his Bon Jovi stadium sized kit ( std kit plus 2 floor toms 4 rack toms and about 320 cymbals!) in the Dog and Duck then we squeeze in around him.....nice orange sparkly kit though it looks great when I up light it

Yeah smoke from passive speakers would be a bad thing.....very off the wall question but any power amp you are running wouldn't be a Harrison amp would it?

Back breakingly lovely!

Can't remember my password again!! played there earlier this year...will sign it tomorrow