synthaside

This thread has caused me look up the price of separate insurance for my instruments unattended in the car . I'm guilty of leaving a fully loaded car in the overflow carpark at work for the whole day before rehearsal. this is unfortunately shared with a station :-S and outside the pub when we have a cheeky half post rehearsal. Nothing is ever on ever View i have a saloon and a bass plus amp fit securely in the boot, ( no access from the passenger compartment ) Insurance for two basses @ around 700 each plus my mark-bass eemed a very reasonable 3.60 a month , or 39 for the year .... Seemed pretty reasonable to me. This was Allianz Instrument Insurance .

I'm also a big fan of [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][color=#282828]Jamareo Artis bruno's bass player , talented guy i think he's part of the writing process on a lot of these things and Bruno is one of those annoying talented multi instrumentalist guys , his dad's a professional percussionist and he's a pretty tidy drummer and guitar player himself. [/color][/font] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ivAsscK98"]https://www.youtube....h?v=K8ivAsscK98[/url] , about 50 seconds in once they have stopped pratting about Or pratting about at the superbowl ... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPMrJDbwYYM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=sPMrJDbwYYM[/url]

I suggest a pint / bass takeover of the Swan at some point , I was in chandlers Saturday dropping off a very broken Les paul for a work colleague ( headstock totally sheared off) I like the changes they have made by removing all the hanging guitars from the ceiling and floors making it much more open and usable . Very nice 70's mustang on the wall but Still no flats though .>.<

I was about to say , just within striking distance of chandlers then " perhaps you can join me in my campaign to try and get them to stock more than just Rotosound swing 66's the last time i tried to get flats there i had to take a set that had been " traded" packaging was about 10-15 years old ... I get that they like " vintage" but damn .

B1on doesnt have a XLR DI out does it ? I use mine with a b3 as a volume / tone shaping pedal , stomp on for when we do a Jam track to give me that big up in front middy in the mix with a little distortion. saves a whole load of faffing to have 3-4 tones on tap.

Hello , from just up the road in Kingston. lyle

I have a modern tele bass from Status , Mines active which allows you to shape away some of that mud and give you much more usability Propper looker she is too ;-) [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/synthaside/media/IMG_01803_zpseqcjqngc.jpg.html"][/url] bear in mind be careful some of the modern player Telebass'es were 32 " rather than 34" Scale

they do a non short scale SG bass , in both epiphone and gibson flavours Look for an Eb3 ;-)

It makes me want to take a can of seafoam green to my epi tbird , shame its too nice an instrument to suffer at my unskilled paws. Perhaps an ebay special karl , ive seen them go a low as £99 , i spy a doner right now in a facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/689090051102626/permalink/1167506796594280/?sale_post_id=1167506796594280

What about an audio interface for getting your bass into your PC ? and using virtual amps and such on your Pc / mobile device for home recording / practice use [url="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Line-Sonic-Port-Audio-Interface/dp/B00CS4L7DK/ref=sr_1_14?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1464191519&sr=1-14c"]https://www.amazon.c...191519&sr=1-14c[/url] or this for more pc inclined https://www.amazon.co.uk/PreSonus-Audiobox-iOne-Presonus-Interface/dp/B00KBMAJU8/ref=sr_1_12?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1464192091&sr=1-12 pretty much exactly at your price level.

Karl , is this what your looking for more Photo's here https://reverb.com/price-guide/guide/500-gibson-thunderbird-ii-1964-inverness-green

You've misspelled hell there rob , there's no U in it .

Just the right age , were both 30 and our singers 25 , A female fronted covers band , playing the local area and about as far out as Egham , We rehearse out of a studios in Ashford which is 3 stops away from Twickenham, they Do kit hire if he hasn't got access to his own , We have gigs in the pipeline which were now worried we cant honour ` but will probably end up being delayed ' Ask if he's interested in a chat and fire me a pm we could arrange a beverage or call. Lyle

How old is he , we just lost our drummer today :'(

Fair few of us in Kingston / Twickenham Really aught to organise a drink up . I'm born and bred in Twickenham ( Isleworth really, the nasty bit near the sewage works ;-) I've moved to Kingston now. Its a pretty good place for live music , the eel Pie / patch provide the bulk of it , its a well known quiet-ish overflow area of Richmond Very popular with early 30 something's who want to be near London but not "in London" . I think it depends on your age when I was 18 it was a bit too quiet, I headed into to Camden for my night-life , Kingston is 15 mins on the bus If your looking for nightclubs / bars after for 12 you will need to go to Kingston or into London "proper" about 15 mins on the train. If your just turning 30 and a bit over the club scene, So looking for great pubs , bars and live music its pretty good. Sadly Twickenham lost is only music shop a few years back , so once again new strings its a trip to Kingston . I keep meaning to try the jam night in [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][color=#282828]The Oak , but last time i was in there the beer selection was Carling or Stella and the live band was playing brass in pocket slightly off key , Far too loud for the 6 or 7 folk in there so I walked on to the boaters . [/color][/font]

Lets hope its a stonker when you have finished doing it up , did you manage to test the electronics ?

I've recently got my status back from Rob who was fixing a problem with the active circuit , he was able to tell me exactly what my bass was born to use, Those happen to be status hot wire Half wounds in 45-105. May I suggest a quick call to status with your serial number might allow you to quickly order a set .

So spill how much was it did you get absolute bargain due to it being " nut-less" , * bom bom tish. [i]* ill get me coat*[/i] It looks really interesting I'd suggest you might suffer the same issues I do with my telebass ... without the Pick-ups there's Nowhere to rest your thumb. I'm so accustomed to resting my thumb on the Pu cover on my J that whilst i play floating for the top 3 the E string that it feels very empty indeed.

I just think the Boss bass effects are little long in the tooth these days , released in 2008 , at least the zoom b3 was released this decade , I cant say that i've used one but i do love my B3

I bought one of these new a few weeks ago .... The Piezo seems to be part snake .... I asked one of the guys at work, who has experience running PA systems from a former life of being the sound and light guy for a touring act. He Suggested if I didn't want to disconnect the tweeter ... thus void my warranty a baffle will do wonders for killing hiss , but not the bass sound. Test it by placing your hand over the tweeter on the grill ... If the hiss is drastically reduced ( which mine was ) . Buy some Foam and cut it to cover the region of the tweeter, attach this inside the speaker grill' back with duct or double sided tape . I bought this and cut then taped .... it to fit [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/BLACK-NEOPRENE-PLAIN-SPONGE-RUBBER/dp/B00I0WWG0M/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1460650564&sr=8-16&keywords=foam"]http://www.amazon.co...6&keywords=foam[/url] Hiss = tamed Now if only i could silence that fan ...

Hot tip for anyone who can get to Guildford , Andertons I decided to leave it and bought a CMD121P Markbass combo instead .... it was more money but i just got on with the tone better. There's a Rumble 500 head and the matching 15 cab that I was looking at today, Somone has traded it in but the condition is immaculate, it includes cable , covers bag for the head etc and warranty for £349 , I'm pretty sure thats a bargain right ? Here's the advert http://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-cabs/pid45242/cid686/second-hand-fender-rumble-stack-500-head-38-115-cab.asp

Oh , i didn't say I wasn't keen on a combo , Just not excluding separates from suggestion of looking at when i'm at the store.

A bit of background as this has spilled over from another thread * on the Rumble 500 here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/270307-who-has-a-troublefree-fender-rumble-500-v3-combo/"]http://basschat.co.u...e-500-v3-combo/[/url] Friday I've got the day off to head to the nearest good sized amp stockist to try out some gear, I ran out of volume on my Trace Gear over the Easter weekend . The summary of my issue is pretty much this [i][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Over the Easter bank holiday weekend I played a gig at a social club beer festival and ran out of volume from my Trace 715 GP7 SMC I've never before had to dime the pre-amp gain to squeeze a little more out of the amp just to compete on stage. The performance space was tiny so there was physically no way to accommodate my expansion cab , Usually the trace is enough on its own for this sort of pub / club gig, but apparently the only songs where I could be heard were Chelsea dagger * tubescreamer* boosting me and on uptown funk where its just me for large periods of song.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Our , Guitarists were running at about 6 /10 master on 100 watt fender SS gear , which we had raised , [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]you couldn't hear even hear the drummer . [/font][/color][/i] So help me shop guys, what should I try out , I'm looking around the 500 watts mark, and want to try the Rumble, I'm not wed to the idea of a combo, just coming from trace land I've become accustomed to it. Looking to spend 400-500 tops on a new amp and if it can nail the trace tone it gets bonus points. What I can try at Andertons , what should i ask them to get in from the warehouse as most of the big bass kit isn't in the tiny bass room. [url="http://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-guitar-amps/cid561/bass-guitar-amps.asp#1459279380558page-1"]http://www.andertons...279380558page-1[/url]