MoonBassAlpha

This is a great thread, it has made me think about one of the bands I'm currently playing with quite hard. I'm certainly no pro, but have played in bands, always originals, for years and know my place and function pretty well. The guitarist/Singer's voice is too quiet for live, the guitaring tends to the pentatonic, the songs have no noticable arrangements, and the drummer, while technically good, doesn't listen that well and plays too loudly. I'm not mad about half the material either! It sounds like a bit of a nightmare, but I'm doing it to keep my hand in, as my other band does almost nothing at the moment. I can totally get the "feeling a bit sh*t by association" thing Bilbo. Thoughts, anyone? By the way, I was once in a jazz band (our set list was almost everything on Bilbo's "pet hates" list in another thread). I can't play jazz, I found it just too hard technically, and we were mostly terrible in jazz terms. The disappointing thing is, we played at Brent town hall providing background music for a large dinner, and of about 600 people there, not one came up to us and said how sh*t we were!

would you say it's like a clown's pocket?

This may have been asked somewhere before in the mists of time, but does anyone know exactly what the frequency and boosts/cuts the pre-shape acts at?

I agree with an earlier comment about the l.e.d.s - they are much brighter than you need, and in an ill-lit environment can close your pupils down enough to not actually be able to see the control settings properly. Bright blue leds are actually not very good for your eyes too. I do like the solid machined knobs and the feel of them with indented operation, it all adds to the feel of quality. At a pub gig last night with a three piece band, I found that my 3.0 was being driven pretty hard to produce good volume. The upside of this is that the carefully designed protection circuit does clip in quite a musical way in much the same way as a valve amp warms the sound up as it starts to clip. You may miss out on this if you go for the 6.0, but then you will have the valve pre to warm it up.

[quote name='Chris2112' post='918332' date='Aug 7 2010, 08:53 PM']Thats one flat EQ![/quote] Pre-shape?

Kim Clark's solo on Defunkt's "Avoid the Funk" is one of my fave's. (the album is "Thermonuclear Sweat") Concise and funky as hell - gotta love that envelope filter! The phrasing is great too.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' date='Apr 20 2009, 02:03 PM' post='467462'] I think this is very generalised bias but for what it's worth. ". By the time anything came in a furry cabinet it was utter rubbish that WILL fall to pieces in a gigging environment. " I don't agree with this at all. I've gigged with a furry 1x15 combo that had lived in a cold damp garage all its life and was totally sound throughout. The 300w 1x15 is all you need for pub gigs. The furry finish shouldn't put a prospective buyer off. IMO

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='915365' date='Aug 4 2010, 09:03 PM']Thanks Doc, was wondering if it would give me any tonal problems, but hadn't thought of buzz.[/quote] Defret it yourself and see how it goes. There's nothing to lose! It might be ok forever, if it eventually starts to buzz sand it down again! That's what I would do, but then I am a tight git.

[quote name='mashup' post='915453' date='Aug 4 2010, 10:39 PM']That is some great advice that i will definately be taking. Thanks once again friend. By the way. I forgot to tell you what the fix was in the end - A set of new strings and a set up! As suggested by a few members previously, the strings had a few kinks in them, and the pressure of the car had forced the intonation out. £44 & Happy days, well, apart from the thumb! My bass is now officially rockn' roll now that it's been run over! Cheers, Mat[/quote] Good news about the bass, and good luck with the gig. Let us know how it goes. I bet your bruv is relieved too, I think he owes you a beer or two! (I'd wait until after you've played though, you'll need your wits about you...)

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='909686' date='Jul 29 2010, 09:49 PM']The problem is that when you drop the frets, you end up with a fretless with a really high action (for some!). G.[/quote] If you've bothered to make the frets go up and down, it's not a stretch of the imagination that the nut may do too, is it?

That Thunderbird-alike looks like they had several goes at positioning the strap button before they went for its current position....

Strings arrived fine today. Plenty quick. Really good guy to deal with. Cheers Jules

Guild B301F, just a very bad dead spot on most of the neck, and I never felt the pickup position was right

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='904948' date='Jul 25 2010, 05:28 PM']I'm not, so... a suprise would be nice![/quote] [size=7]Boo![/size]

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='904817' date='Jul 25 2010, 03:55 PM']I'm wondering what he did to so piss off God, and why God's aim is so poor to have missed him twice![/quote] Maybe it's like your "3 strikes and you're out" law....

You've GOT to check out Chicago's version of I'm a Man, from the days when they were a proper rock band, it's got lary feedback guitars, a drum solo and a big smash-up ending, all in a 3 minute single! It totally smokes, hope you enjoy it! Couldn't find the single version on Youtube, but it is just the album version edited down, I think. Cheers Jules

Just out of interest, what was the electric sound like? Almost everytime I've seen him on telly it has sounded terrible, nothing like as nice as on record. Could that be just bad tv mix? I expect that close-up at Ronnies you hear exactly what's coming out of the amp.

"In which areas were they better built than the EB? " South east Asia?

[quote name='gilmour' post='896762' date='Jul 16 2010, 06:40 PM']Looks good, and I guess you like maple! lol It's gonna be one bright bass with all that maple, and the neck looks lovely with those black pinstripes.[/quote] I know what you're saying, but it's not necessarily so. I have a US Masters bass which is all maple with a soft maple body, and that is fairly bright, but not overly so, and have had several Hohner Jack basses, also soft maple bodies, and they're actually fairly mellow and organic and woody sounding.

Bought a Washburn D10 Electro Acoustic, good price, as described, and good comms - what more could you ask? Good guy to deal with! Cheers Jules

[quote name='Clarky' post='883010' date='Jul 1 2010, 02:29 PM']Thx. Would this cope with being put through a Barefaced 2x15 Vintage cab? Or is it too lacking in power? I need something thats loud enough to deal with a club/pub/small hall sized gig (for which the AD200B is obviously overkill!)[/quote] I can't speak from experience but would think 300W through an efficient 2x15 would be loud enough for most gigs (the Vintage is 4ohms, right?)

I've raised this issue before re. the shuttle 3.0, but I'll happily restate it : when you push the power stage quite hard, it distorts in quite a nice valvey stylee, and it's not at ear bleeding volumes either. This is worth considering, as not all desirable distortion comes from an overdriven front end. It's just that the Genz's transition in to distortion is a lot more musical than traditional s-s amps. I'm sure the 6.0 does it too, but you'd end up playing very loud to get the same effect.