Woodinblack

That is really just a normal ric with the bridge put on in the wrong place isn't it!

Like most things, it is down to placement and eq. We also have a very loud-ass drummer, and yes you can get feedback if you turn things right up, but we don't generally have problems other than our singer is actually naturally quite muffled (ie, I have to turn down a lot as a backing singer to not cut through more than him). once you EQ its fine, and it is not normally something we worry about as compared to the saxophone feedback, vocal feedback is no problem! If we play outdoors I sometimes take a bigger bass amp to take myself out of the PA but in general I don't, and we can still be heard at the back. If you have facebook this is recorded from behind the bar in a busy pub https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JZ6tcXy9j/

I would add the evox which repaced 2 Alto 12" speakers on poles has been great, both of my mine were second hand bought at different times (for a while I was on one evox and a speaker on a pole) - both cost around £500. We put everything through them (I also use a bam200 bass amp with a 10" gnome speaker as backup) and in general for pubs they work great and as you say, it doesn't get in the way and not so much of a cab landing on someones head issue. The biggest change was the clarity of vocals.

Fun fact, I was one of the few people who didn't almost by a Wal for £300 in the 80s!

Sure is. And it will be joined by its new 4 string cousin as that has just turned up

Theres scanners at the door so people don't sneak out with the food, no show, no eat

I love everything until hold your fire (which was the last tour of theirs I saw), after which I went off in a different direction to them. It seemed every subsequent album was weaker, but that maybe just because I didn't listen to them to death like the previous one. For me Power Windows was one of the very good ones. There aren't any before hold your fire (maybe even including) that I wouldn't sit and listen to the whole album.

Yep, ben is the creator of Crimson Guitars, really well spoken with a biohazard tattoo on his head.

Yeh, I thought about the bridge, its just a bit too old to have it (6 years), but I will leave it to see if it annoys me before getting one.

Many of us in the south west did a 1 day maintainance course with fret leveling a few years back* when they were starting up - Ben came to one of our early bass bashes. It was very good and would have always liked to do the building course but it is just getting a week to go! * Of course, when I say 'a few years' that means 11! edit - I looked for the original thread for it, but it suffered in the old Photobucucket purge of 2016!

First impressions, good to play, B string aside, although the action is too high, but I don't want to change that just yet, because the A&D strings are proud of the nut, and looking on the interweb, rics are supposed to have a weird 45-55-75-105 gauge for those strings, and I suspect this is just a standard 45-65-85-105, so I ordered some new middle strings and see what that is like before I adjust anything. Also the pickup seems quite a way down, but also slightly on an angle, but one of those metal surrounds you get would be nice so I will get one of those.

A lot of the gigs I have been playing recently are with my rick 5 string 4004, I thought about getting a 5 string 4003 made. i looked into it but ultimately you end up paying the same as a real s/h ric for the same price so I decided to just get a normal 4003 and see if I got on with it. So that turned up today, a matte 4003s - I have a practice tomorrow so I get to hear what it sounds like, but I need to go through my normal set and try and adapt to having a string missing. Traditionaly it has never worked, and I ended up ignoring the 4, but we shall see- its a bit harder to convert a 4003 to a 5 string with the bridge! First impressions are good, apart from the obvious lack of strings! Anyway, useless without pictures, so here we are

Yes, that works better because you are not using the same signal, you are using a different signal on each path that has different resonant frequencies and dips

and in my experience, Andertons, Guitar Guitar and Wunjos do.

Maybe its the not answering - I know several things I wanted to buy that I emailed about didn't get bought because the shop didn't answer, so I went elsewhere. Wheras I have bought quite a few things entirely on email, so don't really have a problem with it. If you don't want to use email, thats fine, don't put an email out. However, if you do put an email out, don't ignore it.

No, because it is exactly the same signal. You would need a variable delay or pitch modulation between them to make them sound like two basses, because two basses can't possibly play in perfect unison and your brain knows that.

Well. that sucks, can you at least do collection only?

Indeed you can opt out of simple delivery - I didn't last thing I sold and it was a bit of a faff, but worked out ok.

Probably best not then, just remember them then - I haven't been since 87, which is why I didn't go to the last tour.

I think it is a good choice, she was recommended to them by someone they trusted, she can clearly do the job and more importantly, although she is known, she isn't a 'name' like Portnoy or Grohl that everyone already has fixed ideas on.

I have a number that is probably above 10, and I was looking at doing some adverts to move them on, or at least ones that dont get played much. but I also have a new one incoming!

I am also wiped out with lurgi since the middle of last week, but I will be fine by sunday!

It does, but that is no different from an ABY pedal or just connecting the direct of one effect to another, its the same signal. You can put a different effects on different parts of the same signal, but ultimately it will still sound like one bass with different processing on it.