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[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1444313959' post='2882170'] It would be cheaper to buy a 610 and a 210 together. Not quite as cool though. [/quote] My maths says, excluding shipping, it's £50 cheaper than a 610 and a 210 (£1099 + £449 = £1548).

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1444313352' post='2882160']That's a lot of money, and as it's so unique it's hard to see what similar things cost. The Ampeg Heritage 810 is a grand. I suppose you've got to ask how much the weight saving is worth (obviously sound quality and dispersion are factors too)[/quote] FWIW, while the street price is a grand, the RRP on the Heritage SVT-810E is £1300, according to some other people also in Brighton. [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/ampeg-heritage-hsvt-810e/58425"]http://www.gak.co.uk...hsvt-810e/58425[/url] Though you're only ever going buy at RRP from Barefaced, so it may be a bit of a moot point. Looking at the raw numbers (and consistent reports about BF cabs in general) the BF is about twice as loud, so, arguably, you could save yourself buying [i]two[/i] SVT cabinets if you need to play that loud Not that I need anything like this for what I do.

Me likey

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1444221958' post='2881274'] ... but true (unless two or more 8 x 10's are envisaged...). [/quote] I'm starting to imagine the band 'Disaster Area' in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy using more than two 8x10s http://www.p2r.se/music/disaster.htm

[quote name='eude' timestamp='1444229841' post='2881367']Well of we do do it in Surrey, I'll be driving from near Sanderstead train station, so if you can get to me, I can drive from there.[/quote] Would you keep me posted too if this happens? I'm gassing for one of these badly I'm only a short way away in Sutton.

[quote name='grandad' timestamp='1444142990' post='2880626'] Zoom B3? [/quote] Or an Zoom MS-60B that will do pretty much the same as the B3 in a single stomp box size package (though you lose the DI, USB interface and a couple of other goodies like being able to use an expression pedal). That said, I'm very happy with my B3 as a compact do-it-all solution. Edit: there's also the newer Zoom [url=https://www.zoom-na.com/products/guitar-bass-effects/bass/zoom-b1on-bass-effects-pedal#overview]B1ON[/url] and [url=https://www.zoom-na.com/products/guitar-bass-effects/bass/zoom-b1xon-bass-effects-pedal-expression-pedal]B1XON[/url] which are usually cheaper and allow more simultaneous effects.

[quote name='badboy1984' timestamp='1444123039' post='2880405'] Whats the weight on that 8x10? [/quote] 80 lb (36.2 Kg) apparently, according to the OP on TB.

[quote name='spyder' timestamp='1443964936' post='2879010'] I totally agree cables make a big difference to your sound. I use The Chord Company Cream cables that are designed by a bass player and made in Salisbury. [/quote] Must be the ley lines that are prevalent round that part of Wiltshire making the difference. Similar cables designed by bass players and made in Wolverhampton or Doncaster simply don't have the same mojo.

I stand corrected. It seems he used a fretted '78 Stingray. [url="http://members.tripod.com/~j0hn_e/bp997.txt"]http://members.tripo...0hn_e/bp997.txt[/url] Originally published in the September 1997 issue of Bass Player. [b]Paul Denman's Search for Space - Grooving the Gap with Sade & Sweetback[/b] [quote][color=#000000]---What's the secret behind your deep tone?[/color] To me, it's in the fingers and in the way you develop over the years. The other thing, of course, is the instrument. I bought the Music Man StingRay I'm using right now in 1978, and I've used it regularly ever since. I've bought other basses, but I always go back to that one, because it's just, you know... it's me. Everyone's got that certain bass or guitar; it becomes [color=#000000]part of you. When I strap on this bass, it feels as if it's part of me.[/color] [color=#000000]---What other basses do you own?[/color] I have one that's pretty much the same as my '78 StingRay, but it's a '79; those two have natural finishes. I also have a '78 sunburst-finish StingRay. I have a '85 Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay 5-string, and '85 fretless StingRay, a Washburn AB40 acoustic bass guitar, and Azola Baby Bass, a 3/4-size upright made by Emanuel Wilfer, a Gibson EB-3 from the '70's and a really weird Premier short-scale bass from the '50's that has a glitter finish. I've got a ton of effect from the '70's, too. Not that I've ever used any of 'em- I've just been buying them lately 'cause they look cool! [Laughs.] I've never used effects with the band; I just buy them to have fun and mess around. --- Which instruments do you use on the road? I use the StingRays most of the time. I've used the Wilfer acoustic on every tour I've done since '86. And most of the songs on Love Deluxe were played on the Washburn, so I use that. I play through Trace Elliot amps, and I always have. I just really like 'em. I'm using AH600SMX amp with a 4x10 and a 15- that's it. I got my first Trace rig in '84 when we signed a deal and I got some money; before that, I used anything I could. In the studio, I just plug straight into the mixing board. The sound you hear on our records is just me and the bass with maybe a little compression.[/quote]

You'll need a fretless '79 Stingray, too

As I'd already been working my way through learning a selection of Beatles bass lines, Something has risen to the top of the list in the last couple of days thanks to this thread - I'm very much enjoying getting to grips with it in close-to. There's a rather nicely detailed appraisal of what Macca did with Something in Bass Musician Magazine http://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2012/06/mccartneys-masterpiece-bass-on-the-beatles-something-by-rob-collier/

Not in bed perhaps, but if I'm learning new songs I often sit and listen to a recording on the train to work and mentally run my left hand through the bass line fingering and my right hand traces out the correct rhythmic pattern.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1443714580' post='2877114']I dunno... that would mean they had two members who weren't good enough to play the guitar [/quote] Or maybe it's a church band http://basschat.co.uk/topic/268536-2-bass-players/

Gibson signed a deal last year with Cleartone to supply their factory-fitted strings for guitars http://www.cleartonestrings.com/gibsons-top-notch-quality-matches-cleartone-strings/ but, it seems they only do what look like coated nickel roundwounds http://www.cleartonestrings.com/product/nickel-plated-steel-nps-bass-strings/ so, that might not be so helpful

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1443696620' post='2876921'] Let's face it though. None of the members of the Durutti Column other than Vini Reilly were really important. [/quote] A good point, well made

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1443692453' post='2876887'] My personal favourite band from the 80s (apart from us ) was the Cocteau Twins Simply Red were never on my radar [/quote] Though, curiously, Chris Joyce and Tony Bowers of Simply Red were both previously members of The Durutti Column, who are often compared to the Cocteaus.

consider my interest piqued edit: Having looked at their web site, especially at that price.

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1443626677' post='2876394'] Damned right BRX. The 80s had fantastic music, just none of it ever got in the charts. [/quote] I beg to differ. XTC's [i]Senses Working Overtime[/i] made it to No. 5. in 1982.

No practical difference between them for me, listening on some [i]fairly[/i] decent headphones (Shure SE215s)

[quote name='redbandit599' timestamp='1443599657' post='2875991'] I thought it was going to be Angel of Death by Slayer - still different strokes 'n all that [/quote] I was thinking of[i] Mexican Radio[/i] by Wall of Voodoo, but the same applies

Anyhow, congrats to @discreet on the new MB200. I very nearly bought one myself, but decided I wanted the toys that the 500 offered.

Interesting that GK seem to have changed the illuminated push pull switches with toggles for controls like the -10db cut on both models since I got mine.

[quote name='dodgnofski' timestamp='1443527272' post='2875504']Although there is only one speaker output, I think it is a dual Spakon / 1/4" Jack - so you never get caught out if you forget your Speakon lead[/quote] YMMV. As I discovered after I bought mine a couple of years ago, they changed the MB500 to Speakon-only and lost the 1/4" jack socket in the middle, even though the manual still referred to it. It's quite possible they've value engineered the MB200 in the same way. Edit: though I'm happy to be corrected if anyone has a recently manufactured one.

<super pedantic>but he did also own a 5 string</super pedantic> [url="http://www.ricksuchow.com/press-group-248.html"]jamerson 1979: the guitar player interview[/url] [quote][i]How many basses do you own?[/i] Four. I have an old German upright, a Fender 5-string, a Hagstrom 8-string, and the Precision.[/quote]