Steve Browning

I should also add to mine - no guitarists wearing a hat. They are all invariably awful. SRV is dead, get over it. He was better than you and played like that 30 years ago!

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1495699270' post='3305895'] Same here with my 66P [/quote] Mine too. I have never played a better Precision than mine. Looks like 66 was the year!

1. Nice guys. 2. Great drummer. 3. Great music 4. Professional outlook.

Sold Nick my Boogie 2x15. Great comms and very pleasant guy to deal with. Deal with confidence, as they say. Steve

Great news. Hope I get to do the same tonight. Park up, load in and off for a dosa at a great little place a few minutes away.

I'm playing there tomorrow night! They have a pa of sorts. It's rudimentary but adequate for the size of gig. Odd room in some ways but a good atmosphere - very little room to set up in though! Parking is a huge nightmare.

Top hat case with the amp on top of the 'top' so it'll be pretty much the same height as if it were on top of one of the cabs?

Never do such a gig without an RCB plug. I did a soundcheck at such a gig once and all was well. Realised I hadn't plugged in my RCD plug and it tripped immediately it was plugged in. Turned out there was no earth.

Very good price for an excellent instrument. I have 4 of these and they are all superb.

Yes thanks Phil, that's a huge help. Thank you for your efforts and thanks, again, to everyone else for your input.

Indeed. We are after best bang for buck on a limited budget and are playing places where there is likely to be a PA so there's little point going too mad. I am inclined to the TS215's because they seem to ahead in this market spot but am interested in any other options. Thanks again for all input.

Yes. Our keyboard player has a 12 and a 10 in that series and the sound is wonderfully crystal clear. I did have a TX15 as a monitor but will part with that and get a 10 as that does the job perfectly.

Absolutely.

Thank you all. I fear the budget may be too limited but I'll give the RCF's a go.

My band is moving from a Peavey passive 15" set up (with powered mixer) to a new rig, based on active cabs. Kind of looking at Alto/Behringer/EV. Can anyone give me the benefit of their experience and come up with some recommendations? Usually just vocal with some support/spread for the guitar/keys. We rehears in a studio where they have Alto TS15s and they do sound good. Possibly some occasional drum/bass but rarely, I would think. Any thoughts gratefully received.

Recently bought one of these (sunburst) and it is a fantastic bass. Excellent build quality, sounds great and plays great.

Bought a bass from Tonci. Great comms, fast delivery and very well packaged. Don't be put off by the fact that he is not in the UK, highly recommended.

Maybe I'm less sensitive (there's probably a graph for it!). While not a scientist, I have worked in a scientific environment and it is the nature of scientists to probe and question any claim. I was around when scientists were engaged in work on Thrust, the speed of sound on land. There were heated discussions around the minutae of the project and I recall how it was proved (because air pressure is part of the equation) that some parts of the car would achieve Mach1 before other bits of it. I, as a layman, was left thinking that it's one thing so it must achieve mach 1 in its entirety at the same time - not so. I don't profess to know much of the technical arguments but I have a healthy scepticism of any claim by a salesman and so I find this discussion very interesting. I'm not sure I see any casual put-downs but a mere statement of fact.

My Dad was also an Archer Street chap!

I can recommend the George Melly book 'Owning Up' as a brilliant first hand account of life in a band in those days - and the opinions of other musicians to those in the Jazz/Rock'n'Roll world.

He was on that Talking Music programme and was wonderfuly humble and engaging (as always). His autobiography is an astounding book and left me thinking that being in Chic was about the most dull part of his life!

We are called 'rosbifs' in France and I dare say there are other equivalents in other countries. I don't have any problem with anybody referring to me as anything, frankly. Odd that I never thought of Polack as anything other than a similar term (to rosbif) and wasn't derogatory in any way.