NancyJohnson

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1506756061' post='3380853'] With your background in Rock and fair collection of basses it would have been nice to hear you give a talk even if it was just on the tribute side of the music. You must have some great stories of gigs too. You've played a few first class one Gary. Dave [/quote] Years ago, I used to help out in my mate's CD store in Bracknell; there was a guy there who regaled me about his past gigging experience (he was a great singer) and one time tells me a story about a Kiss pinball machine. Years later (many years later), I hear Gary telling the same story. Cogs turn in my head. It was a surreal moment that both Gary and my mate Mikey were both in the same place at the same time sharing the same experience.

[quote name='sifi2112' timestamp='1506892072' post='3381884'] Thanks for your response ... maybe next time you connect the XLR you could try see if the master volume(s) affect the XLR(s) ? Could be a deciding factor choosing this pre over the RBI ... any other observations over these two preamps would be most welcome cheers Si [/quote] Will do. I'm doing a radio show this Thursday and overdubs on the 18th. Will have an answer then.

When I recor [quote name='sifi2112' timestamp='1506868446' post='3381618'] I noticed this GED2112 pre doesn’t have a separate XLR DI level control like the RBI .. is this XLR DI output level fixed or does it run of the master volume control ? [/quote] When I recorded, I just altered the output with the pad button on the rear panel. To be honest, I never really gave it much consideration at the time, I just got positivity from the engineer. In answer to your question, I'm not sure how the XLR output levels are controlled.

[quote name='Steve Lawson' timestamp='1506770613' post='3380996'] Yup, I love so much of Mick's solo work and Polytown. I played on an album with Steve Jansen a few years back, but we didn't get to meet [/quote] Torn, Karn and Bozzio. Seriously. This should have been huge.

[quote name='Steve Lawson' timestamp='1506679972' post='3380349'] Hi Nancy! Those three records are all big influences on my music - very well spotted! If you delve into my back catalogue you find a couple of collaborators that David Sylvian and I share (BJ Cole & Theo Travis) and a lot more music that incorporates in some obvious and some less obvious ways his influence [/quote] With Japan, it was very much a case of diminishing returns...I adored them early on but the longer it went on, the less engaged I felt. I profess more of a connection with Mick Karn than the aforementioned Mr Batt, but I did connect big time with his [i]Gone To Earth[/i], I've lost count of the times it's been on at home...he has the ability to create an immense soundscape, which isn't to say his brother, Richard or Mick don't have an immense extracurricular back catalogue.

[quote name='Cuzzie' timestamp='1506599491' post='3379827'] Good to hear, looked at this, but I am not a rackmount guy. Hate/proud to tell you but a dUg pre amp pedal is in production it'll have a tuner, mute, compressor and dUg sound with fixed crossover points for the distortion circuit so not as tweakable as the amp by any means, and it should be out within the year. His will fit lovely in the FX loop of my Form Factor Audio BI1000 amp with other pedals going in the front Just have both! [/quote] I saw a short video about the dUg, I'm sure at some stage it'll be part of my arsenal, I run a floorboard too for certain applications where amps aren't required. Tiptop!

I'm a few weeks in here...I've rehearsed with it, I've gigged it and last weekend recorded with it. I know I use the term 'in all honestly' and the word 'honestly' an awful lot, but honestly (there, I said it), the only way that I'd consider a different pre-stage unit would only be if Tech21NYC put a dUg pre-amp into production, which at this juncture seems unlikely. On a day to day basis, I've wired the unit externally as per post #5 on this thread and the unit feeds one side of a (Matrix) power amp which I now run in bridged-mono mode. Suffice I am very pleased. It took a bit of tweaking; but in the above configuration, the drive level effectively becomes the unit's output and it's a case of blending in the deep channel's saturation and output level to get an agreeable tone. I'm tending to run the GED-2112 with the drive channel's blend at 75% (so 75% Sansamp/25% DI bass), with both the mid-shift and the treble in their full-on positions. I'll adjust the bass and gain settings in accordance with the bass I'm using or room I'm playing in. It's VERY easy to dial up great tone. At the weekend I recorded with it with the external cabling out, XLRs into two channels...to be honest (there, I said it again), I could have just had my mother, hearing aids out, twiddle things and it would have sounded great. It's a blindingly good pre-amp. Blindingly good. Buy with confidence.

Just to weigh in here, it was a good day. I have to say, I enjoyed the Steve Lawson event immensely and profess I'd never even heard a note of his before the day; musically it reminded me a lot (and I'm uncertain whether this is a good or bad thin to say!) of David Sylvian's [i]Gone To Earth, Flux and Mutability, Approaching Silence[/i] material. I will be investigating more. Some nice basses on show...I fall a little more in love with Gary's reverse Thunderbird every time I see it. The bass with the Pacman LEDs was a delight. There was a really nice 5-string (an Alpha), I think it was Peds. Reminded me of a design from Bud LeCompte (who used to be on the old alt.bass newsgroup and here, or Bassworld, for a while too).

Ultimately, it's a lot of money for a 2x10 and 4x10. I'd rather use it to get a Barefaced. P

Someone at the Bass Bash mentioned Darkglass were about to launch a 2x12...nothing on their website although there is a countdown clock on the FrontPage.

I played in Chatham on Saturday. There wasn't one full set of teeth in the audience. I wore an Alice-band for our whole set and didn't realise. The sound guy was off his head and disappeared while we were playing. We had a McDonald's on the way back.

[quote name='Wolverinebass' timestamp='1506333228' post='3377912'] Mick (the Greek) brought his to the bass bash on Saturday. I didn't play it, but I did a bit of amp fiddling when people were. It's actually not bad. Tonally it's okay. Volume wise, it's not bad either. I would honestly say it's not enough to play in a band with a cymbal happy drummer or 2 guitarists unless you're using a 6x10 which kind of defeats the purpose of using an amp that you need an electron microscope to see as its so small. I'd say, if you're doing a jazz gig or some kind of acoustic folk gig, it's great. If you're bag is metal or hard rock, you're stuffed unless you're using a massive cab as it won't have any headroom even if you used a topnotch 2x12 like Barefaced or Bergantino. So, to answer the age old basschat question "is it any good for metal?" The answer is a resounding "no." It's a very inventive bit of kit, but it's just not for me. I just need more juice from any amp I'd buy and you won't get it from the Elf. [/quote] This.

I do have a bass strung BEAD...you know, that never actually crossed my mind. I'd forgotten about it entirely.

While I'm pining for the arrival of my Lull 5-string, I am in desperate need of a 5-string loaner (with reasonably bright strings) for an evening so I can complete one song on a recording session we did yesterday. I tuned down the bass to drop-D and it just sounded too [i]flappy[/i]. The Lull I have a Lull on order is unlikely to drop for another 4-6 weeks at least. We'll be going in for overdubs either first week of October or around a fortnight after that. I'm recording in Bracknell (Creative Control, South Hill Park) and would be happy to collect and drop off, or if you want to swing by and watch me misplay and gurn through five minute song, you're more than welcome to sit in and mock. Like the topic title says. Help! Paul

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1506067189' post='3376178'] so that's what you did with it! i'm pretty sure you bought this from me, what scratchplate did you go with in the end? matt [/quote] I put the Badtz Maru one back on...I love that it looks like a toy bass.

[quote name='clivem' timestamp='1506080148' post='3376298'] This'll be my first bass bash! Looking forward to meeting people tomorrow! I've managed to injure my blinking hand this morning, which has me now thinking about what I'm going to bring tomorrow..... I think it's gonna have to be light! (Don't think there is going to be much chance of me man-handling anything big and heavy in/out of the car. So the big stuff (tube amps and 212/410 cabs) will be staying at home. I think an Eden WTX-264 with a Barefaced 110 is going to be what I bring for an amp. I've already decided to bring 3 "lower end" basses (hopefully) to sell. Now I'm thinking about what other basses to bring. Is there anything from this list that anyone would particularly like to have a play with? (Won't have room to bring them all.) Fender Elite Dimension IV Gibson 2017 EB IV Ibanez SR1300 Premium IV Ibanex SR1405 Premium V [/quote] I'd be interested in seeing the Gibson.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1506071303' post='3376211'] Nik, It was actually quite hilarious, I think Paul said to every single person who was there, "Look, if you win that Barefaced cab in the raffle I've got a lovely 335 over there I'll give you for it. And some pedals. And cash... And a kidney..." The look of shock and disbelief on his face when his ticket was first out of the bucket was priceless!!!!! [/quote] Blimey, what a memory you have. That was quite succinct. The Barefaced has become my go-to cab over the last year. I just need to win, sorry purloin, a Super Compact so I can run my GED2112 in stereo...

[quote name='silverfoxnik' timestamp='1506024299' post='3376018'] It was a fix! [/quote] Aah, it was clever subterfuge on my part. Well, while you obviously thought I was nipping out to check my car was locked, I did in fact travel a few hours into the future and found out what the winning number was going to be. I took my time machine back to 1976, had a quick chat with Herbie while he was doing the [i]War Of The Worlds[/i] album and told him to pull out ticket #64 at the 2016 Bash Raffle. While I was there, I hung around for a couple of months, saw the Sex Pistols at The Screen On The Green (brilliant, by the way) and then made it back to the Bash before anyone there knew I'd been away. I'm surprised nobody realised I was actually wearing different trousers from those I arrived in. I also bought back 23 1968 Fender Jazz basses that have now helped me in my dream of being mortgage-free. It's all in the detail. Nik.

I'll be there but my gear won't be. In body only and hoping to clean up on the raffle again. Titter.

I bought a Badtz Maru off here. The machines wete awful, while trying to enlarge the holes for new ones, the top of the headstock sheared off. So first up, new neck. It didn't sound so great, so I put in a hotrails style humbucker. It wouldn't intonate. The bridge was awful, so I put a Mustang bridge on it. Oh, and Straploks.

My name isn't Nancy and I'm not a girlie either. Not even the name I use in my band is real. Bwaharharhaaaaaar!

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1505302001' post='3370839'] Queen maybe? I'm sure someone will disagree though - that's what the internet is for [/quote] Early Queen stuff is fantastic, well certainly up to A Night at the Opera (and parts of A Day at The Races), but after that it's all a bit meh. That said, I'm loving that Queen Inc. are (finally) releasing so much of the older material - At The Beeb (1989 release), plus the recentish Rainbow '74/Hammersmith'75 shows and On Air.

Reading through the comments here, I'd concur with Timmo and PaulWarning...it really is a kind of IMHO type of thing and certainly one man's overrated is another man's underrated. It's all so subjective. I don't know whether being overrated comes into it really, I mean there's no doubting that the bands I mention below know their sh*t, but they are abhorrent to me on so many levels. I used to have these girlish crushes on dozens of bands but as soon as (metaphorically) [i]Teresa from the typing pool[/i] mentions them in passing or says, 'Ooh, I really like <[i]insert bandname here[/i]>', I'd draw a line under proceedings and make a mental note to move the band to my sh*t list. It really was as black and white as that...you knew when it was time to stop listening to them because they'd moved from your little secret to (shudder) the mainstream. There's a ramp of festival-pleaser bands that are a complete turn-off for me, with the top of list being comprised of Radiohead, Coldplay, RHCP, U2 and Muse. I look at the bills for Reading and Glastonbury and just go, 'Kasabian? Friday night headliner? Really?'