Hamster

Did someone here get a bargain? - it sold for £536.75

If you're not in too much of a hurry maybe this will be worth it? - [url="http://www.andertons.co.uk/BassGuitarAmps/pid15406/cid561/OrangeBT500HBassTerrorHead.asp"]http://www.andertons.co.uk/BassGuitarAmps/...sTerrorHead.asp[/url] Due for release around 1st August. Switchable 500watts into 4 or 8 ohms and light & cheap

As long as the rest of the band play at a lower level and you do a bit of boundary reinforcement it should be ok. Don't take it past 75% though or it'll sound bad and suffer.

I don't care. I want one. I think being surrounded by all the metal objects from a room full of punters in a sort of swirling electromagnetic maelstrom is pretty cool

I use a Pandora, and it's very easy to use. I followed this simple setup guide here - [url="http://playbassnow.com/recording-videos/"]http://playbassnow.com/recording-videos/[/url]

Just seeing where this book is at the moment?

Something like a Roland GR20 will get you close I suppose?

Nathan Watts plays some fantastic bass line so nonchalantly

Lets hope it does the rounds faster than Guy Pratts book sendonathon!

[quote name='lojo' post='528923' date='Jun 30 2009, 06:18 PM']Could afford (or stretch to!) the Mark bass, but dont want to spend £900 when £500-600 would make me happy Suggestions and comments gratefully received (covers bands no PA support)[/quote] I don't know where you live, but if you're near the South Coast go here - [url="http://www.barefacedbass.com/"]http://www.barefacedbass.com/[/url] For £625 you'll be very happy indeed. I supoose Alex could post it as they're so light they only need a couple of first class stamps!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='530357' date='Jul 2 2009, 10:38 AM']And once you get into the sub £200 bass bracket for any review to be worthwhile you need to review about five examples, and not those carefully selected by the distributor - at the cheapest end the quality control is so random that one example could be fantastic and one could be utterly toneless. Wood is not a consistent material and tone is very much dependant on it. Alex[/quote] As you've said, getting a very carefully prepared and selected 'demo' model for a shoot-out from a distributor does no one any favours except the distributor. I suppose it might show the potential of the bass [u]if[/u] you get a good one and have it set up properly. I don't know what budget BGM work on, but if they spent £1k on 5 budget basses from various retail outlets, did a shoot-out with them, then did a prize draw for the winner and knock out the 4 'loosers' on fleabay for £125 each, then they're only £500 down on the exercise (unless they make this up on the prize draw entries?)

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='529458' date='Jul 1 2009, 11:51 AM']They are well stuck on, I pryed the 12 out of my combo with a screwdriver. Satisfying crack/pop sound.[/quote] I've used det cord to cut holes in things before, but a screwdriver might be easier if you want to re-use the cabinet, amplifier, speaker or living room again

Very, very sad. My sincere condolences.

One like this? - [attachment=28007:SYB_3_OM.pdf]

These are pretty good and really are long. I'm sure if you buy the 'long' model it'll do but measure first of course. IIRC there is a very similar one made by or branded 'bass collection' - avoid those as they've been known to break. These are the ones - [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Comfort_Strapps.html"]http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_sp...rt_Strapps.html[/url]