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South East Bass Bash No.12, Saturday 29th September 2018!
NancyJohnson replied to Hamster's topic in Events
If anyone would like to submit their basses to the 12.30pm Blind Lemon Rooster Tone Test, could you just shoot me a PM before the 29th as I need to prepare sheets for people to put Xs in boxes. Please bring a guitar stand. Ideally, I'd like to limit this to ten or twelve basses, otherwise it might drag; I don't feel we need to duplicate basses...for instance, there's no need to blind test five Fender Jazz basses, so one will do, but it would be fun to have a Sire P and J as well. Let me know what you have and what you're happy for <insert basschat member's name here> to dent play on the day. In my head I figure it would be useful to play a four short pieces on each bass with everything full on/open, fingers/pick, clean and then with a bit of dirt (GED2112). Maybe two or three minutes per bass tops. Vote and move along. We can mark each others papers when we're done. Paul/NJ -
From a six string perspective, I just spotted a recent YT video for the 2019 Les Paul. Interestingly, there's two guitars in the background of the glamour shot that aren't detailed in the 2019 range (or whatever passes for what's been announced).
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Thing with the Firebird X is that it shouldn't have progressed beyond a couple of prototypes. I believe you also needed some additional hardware to make it work properly, or at the very least use it to it's full capacity.
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We're not on the subject of Fender here, though, it's Gibson. If you're aware of the current financial issues on Planet Les Paul, then you'll be aware that they need to satiate the demands of their creditors; they're between a rock and a hard place here...overpriced Les Pauls selling for £3K+, frankly shoddy looking Juniors for £700.00. Fender are just as guilty in the innovation area, but their business model seems a tad more robust at the current juncture.
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The pleasure comes from the fact they have a clueless CEO at the helm who put his faith in the future of the company with the Firebird X. Isn't everyone just a little tired of Led Pauls and SGs? Christ on a bike, considering their reliance on a handful of 60 year old designs, if Gibson were a car company, they'd have gone bust decades ago.
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Thunderbirds: They never stopped making them, but they did tweak the pickups, electronics and bridges. I think they genunely missed a trick by failing to move away from the colour options of sunburst, black or (occasionally) white/ivory. I couldn't give a rats donkey for the 50th Anniversary gold one or the other misfires; surely if you're painting all these effing Les Pauls a myriad of rainbow colours, how difficult would it be to slip a Thunderbird into the paint booth? Fools.
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Been seeing stuff come through for the 2019 Gibson range over the last day or two. I'm not on the market for another bass, but from that perspective it's lovely to see they're continuing to hold faith in the new EB models and have decided to look backward and reintroduce the three point bridge on Thunderbirds and whatever the SG-style basses are called nowadays. Elsewhere, if you want Les Pauls and SGs, your demand is satiated and no doubt you'll be over them like a tramp on chips, but sadly (for a company so rooted in the issuing of heritage models), there's still no faithful Les Paul Junior DC or Firebird with a single mini-humbucker. Nothing like not giving the masses what they want to ramp up demand. And don't look at the prices unless you have somewhere soft to land when you fall off your chair.
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Dave made mine...maybe all his are 4-pole from the outset. Never had an issue, parallel or bridged.
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I'll just weigh in here on the bridged/parallel thing on the Matrix. I'm not point-scoring, but the solution is a bit more elegant than the Crown. If you look at the Matrix below, you have an area to the bottom left that's your INPUTS (confusingly marked B & A, but I suppose this is the reverse of the facia controls) AND output type selection toggle switch (Stereo, Parallel and Bridged). In the middle, there's three Speakon outputs left to right channel A, Bridged, Channel B. Flipping the output toggle to BRIDGE activates the centre Speakon output and the unit delivers 1000w into 8ohms. There's no wiring up to terminals. Obviously you can only use a single source input (into B or A on the left) in bridged mode. You can run the amp in switched parallel mode (single input, B or A), switch to Parallel, single or pair of speakers attached to channel A&B or A or B, same signal to both OR switched stereo mode (different input sources to B & A), switch to STEREO, two enclosures individually attached to channels A & B. Longterm I'm looking to run a pair of 1x12" cabinets to utilise the switched stereo mode to take full advantage of the GED2112 pre-stage. The ease of switching/outputs just makes it easy to run a single input into bridges as well.
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Oh, concerning connections, the GED is hacked to mono output and goes into the power amp on one side (I'm looking to go 2 x 1x12" at some point), the DP-3X into the other and I just decide what I want to use. Simple really. It's currently running bridged. 1000w into 8ohms.
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Doesn't seem a week goes past without a, 'What power amp are you using...' thread. Here you go. Just buy a Matrix GT1000FX. It weights next to nothing, goes loud, looks good, it's reliable and (tempting fate here) has never failed. I feed it copious quantities of Tech21 gear, GED2112, the DP-3X or when I'm feeling old school, a BDDI. It's done thousands of hours since I bought it. http://uk.matrixamplification.com/gt-1000-fx-2u.html You're welcome.
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I don't think there was one full set of teeth in that place. The sound-guy was doing lines in the toilets while we were on and why the feck didn't you tell me I was wearing those Josie and The Pussycat kitten ears before we started playing? 😄
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Hahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahaahhhahahaha. etc. You wanna try working with my old singer. Can't play? Then tough stinky poo. We'll find someone who can, irrespective of whether you write 90% of the material or not.
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I’ve been giving a lot of thought about thinning the herd recently and for now at least this will be the last one. This beauty started life as a Squier Badtz-Maru Bronco Bass. I just wanted a nice funky short scale that fit the band’s then fun demographic; something I could pick up and track with when I was recording at home and something I could gig that might give someone a smile. It’s had a strange history; the original bass suffered catastrophic headstock failure when I was enlarging the machine head holes to replace the original tuners, so after a while I bought a loaded maple Squier Mustang neck from the US and fitted that. Bought a Fender ‘F’ neck-plate. Replaced the original stock Musicmaster bridge and then replaced that with a Fender Mustang bridge. (Disclaimer: There are some extra holes under the bridge but these aren’t really visible.) The stock Stratocaster pickup has been replaced with a hotter Wilkinson unit (I think it's a Hotrails thing, but I can't be certain) Oh, and I fitted Dunlop Straploks. Given I could just break the bass down and sell the constituent add-on parts separately, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to let the whole thing go for £225, maybe a tenner for shipping, especially considering the stock bass is selling for way more on Gumtree and eBay. Just need it gone now really. Needless to say, as usual, it's incredibly well set up, immediately playable and it looks pretty f*cking cool. I'll also through in a long Levy's polypropylene strap. The bass is in great condition; a handful of small surface glazing, no dings whatsoever. There’s no gigbag or anything, but I can easily take the neck off for shipping. My wrapping skills are legendary here, so it should be fine. -
Ooh, the irony and contentiousness. I don't think I know any drummers who felt they were such an abject failure at another instrument that they thought it was a better option to switch and play something the size of a Fiat 500. Drums are hard work. I think the primary reasons behind the scarcity of [good] players is largely down to space, cost and time investment. During their formative years, they were likely as passionate about the drums as we are about the bass, and they likely received encouragement from a tolerant and sympathetic parental set. As time moves on though, priorities change and for the most obvious reason, drummers tend to move from being drummers to someone who just plays drums at rehearsals and gigs.
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The construct on this sentence could infer a couple of different things.
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Yep, hen's teeth. Despite the failing of his private life and me having to endure the odd gruesome sh*gging story, the last drummer I worked with was spectacularly good and a keeper. He had as much as given up before he joined us, playing in a series of terrible cover bands. Sometimes I wonder whether I should have played drums instead of bass, but as someone who was criticised early on as 'not being able to clap in time', I suspect holding down the beat behind the drums wasn't for me. That said, as bass player infected with continual GAS, I suspect that had I actually played drums the pleasant extension in our house would have transitioned from a light airy summer room into a dark, smelly, soundproofed drum cave, containing something like this:
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Steve just purchased a 4x10 from me. Good comms throughout. Top bloke.
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I've seen these kits before. Interested in seeing how this comes out. Loads of photos please. Don't be too perturbed about not having a spray booth...you can do the primer with rattle cans in the open and then sand it back/repeat. A good tip would be to hit up a local garage who do body repairs and just ask them to shout you next time they're doing a colour close to what you want. They're usually pretty accommodating and interested in doing something that's not a car! Also, you could stick a Babicz FCH three-point replacement in there.
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Gonna give you a pointer. Try and mix up the logo sizes so that they look good on the shirts. We supplied a single logo for the shirts we had printed; they looked fine on the XL and 2XL shirts, but wrong on the S/M/L ones (logos were too big).
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Blue, it's a toilet. Our singer thought it would look good on our CV as the place had history. Wrong. We played to three or four people; it's a dank basement, the place reeked of cheese (there's a cheese restaurant upstairs), old beer, old sweat and old smoke. It's the type of place you'd never know was there unless you needed to go there. I've actually walked past the place dozens of times in the past and didn't know about it. P
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Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I just found this photo of the St Moritz on an old phone back up. It was about this full when we played there as well.
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I'm still waiting for the OP to let us in on how he's playing...
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Offering up my very clean Boss BR600, well thumbed user manual, original box and soft carry case. I tracked a load of Nancy Johnson band stuff on this and just used the on board processing. It's a cracking bit of kit. Have a listen. Fire up Spotify and search 'Nancy Johnson' and 'When I Grow Up'. Full manual and specs available here: https://www.boss.info/global/products/br-600/ £100 shipped.
