silverfoxnik

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='199975' date='May 15 2008, 10:16 PM']The Aria is an '81' Nik. Older than a lot of BCers It's medium scale with a set neck.[/quote] Lovely! Reminds me of one that Bloodaxe has that I played at the SE Bash last year.. Great fun

Is the Harry Potter stuff still available??

[quote name='Shockwave' post='199708' date='May 15 2008, 04:10 PM']Love your back garden ;0([/quote] +1 You must be suffering from a lack of urban deprivation! Very nice basses Peter and the Aria looks particularly nice to me.. How old is it?

Saw them live at the Ilford Island in '95 with Max Beesley on precussion.. One of the best live gigs I've ever been to!

[quote name='The Funk' post='195818' date='May 10 2008, 05:41 AM']Is there anyone out there who's actually worked out the bass part note for note? Outstanding. [url="http://www.getsomevideos.com/videos/Prince/Alphabet+Street+(A+Version)(WindowsMedia).html"]http://www.getsomevideos.com/videos/Prince...dowsMedia).html[/url] I have no idea where to start.[/quote] +1 Great bass playing.. I have no idea either but I just wanted to echo your thinking.. As you say, outstanding!

[quote name='Beedster' post='196660' date='May 11 2008, 08:13 PM']Just an update; THIS BASS KICKS ARSE Took the action right down and got out my old Stanley Clarke tab book and I have never heard a slap tone like it (OK, to clarify, I've never heard a slap tone like it from a bass I'm actually playing at the time.. Chris[/quote]

[quote name='Gwilym' post='196551' date='May 11 2008, 03:07 PM']hi Nik, I'm good thanks, even better with the sunny weather I trust you are also ok? Sorry, I should have said what I did to fix it! Well, before I realised what it was, the Bass Centre had already replaced a driver! When I did figure out that it was the handle(s), (they were just hanging a bit loose when they were at the hanging vertical position) I was able to adjust the foam around the handles by pushing them as much as possible to the "side", (towards the right-angle of the metal), this seemed to brace the handle in postition a bit better but pushing it out by a very slight amount, which was enough to stop the vibration. cheers Gwil[/quote] Thanks Gwil, I'm good thanks.. Like you, enjoying the sunshine which is a nice antidote to dark, sweaty pub gigs! I've got two gigs coming up at the weekend so I'll try that suggestion of yours and get some neopryne too.. Cheers Nik

There's some great music that is funky and some really bad music that is funky.. It's not 'funk' that's the issue, just bad music IMO. Each to their own I say, but for many bass players, playing funky music is great fun!

Very nice set-up and those basses are a perfect match for each other! And I love the fact that you have Basschat and your avatar visible on the computer screen in the photo of the rig...

[quote name='XB26354' post='196294' date='May 11 2008, 01:08 AM']Standing waves usually occur in rooms with parallel walls, regardless of the whether the room is long and thin or square. Standing waves occur when a peak amplitude wave hits a trough amplitude - add them together and you get (near enough) zero, so they cancel frequencies out instead of enhancing them (like 2 mics that are out of phase). This is unlikely to be the cause. Bass frequencies need a fairly big space to start reflecting. It may be that the room was big enough to start reflecting the bass end off the walls, meaning front of house (and the audience) were hearing loads of bass. How big was the room? I have found that I need my amp to be louder in a small rehearsal room than a medium venue because of this.[/quote] This stuff just gets more and more fascinating!! The room is the front of a fairly large pub, maybe 40ft x 25ft, something like that and the band is set up at an angle facing into the 25ft deep part of the room from a corner (if that makes any sense?). The guitarist described my sound as being shaped like a reverse funnel, i.e getting bigger and bassier the further away it was from my rig.. Not a very flattering description I know, but quite illustrative I suppose...

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='196423' date='May 11 2008, 11:15 AM'] This was the view from our dressing room looking east on the 37th floor yesterday afternoon. I swear this is the most dramatic sky I've ever seen over London, made me think of a Constable painting. The load in was truly horrendous. The entire PA, all the amps, drum kit, percussion and lighting had to be loaded into the goods lift from the loading bay, taken up to the 34th floor then shifted through half the kitchen area to another lift that went from 34 to 39. THEN we had to lug everything up 1 flight of granite steps to the 40th floor before we could actually set up. The acoustics were terrible as you might imagine with glass dome, but at least there weren't any standing waves where we were. (Although frequencies from all parts of the space did get reflected into the centre of the space very effectively. Made me wonder if the dome was nearly parabolic in shape). Having said that, we did actually hear ourselves a lot better than some of the conservatories we've played in.[/quote] What an amazing gig to do CK - talk about having to 'get up' to 'get down'!! What kind of audience was it?

[quote name='Gwilym' post='196254' date='May 10 2008, 10:29 PM']hi Nik on the off chance that it isn't the grille, you might want to check the side handles too. My old SWR Bigfoot used to rattle occasionally, it turned out to be the side handles, (the ones that are spring mounted and lift up/out to the horizontal). cheers G[/quote] Hi Gwil, Good to hear from you - hope all's well? That's a good point because I checked the grill and it's very securely screwed on, so maybe it is something else like the side handles.. which are the same as the ones you described.. I still think I might use some neopryne as well, but what did you do to rectify it in the end? Cheers Nik

[quote name='clauster' post='196186' date='May 10 2008, 07:14 PM']Good to see you again too, and a cracking gig it was! (and many thanks for not mentioning the route we took to Worthing )[/quote] Oops! Sorry - did that in the other post

Thanks Charic / Ben for the more detailed explanation, though I must admit to my eyes glazing over at the sight of some maths and a formula! Does help explain things a bit more though....

Cheers guys! CK, the cab is front-ported and the venue was wide and not very deep, so not sure what that means in terms of 'standing waves'? All that speaker science stuff tends to go over my head to be honest but thankfully here on BC, Alex & Bill etc put it into simple, bite-sized chunks that I can just about get my head around. Ben.. seems like it's quite a common problem then? But Ian's neopryne strip behind the grill is a brilliant idea that could be the quick and simple solution I'm looking for! Cheers Nik

Hi Folks, Just when I thought I'd got my sound settled a couple of months ago, I started to thing it might be better to have a full-range cab so I bought this SWR Triad from Lee-Man recently and used it for the first time at a gig last night. Overall, it sounded great, though I think it's going to take a bit of getting used to as it 'seems to throw' out the low-end in a completely different way to my Peavey 410TVX. During the gig, I was standing near to the cab (as usual) and the sound was crystal clear which was nice as I wanted to get a little more definition in the mids for gigs, hence going for this 3-way cab. Having said that, during the soundcheck it felt like it lacked a bit of bottom, so I added some bass from my GK 700RB to compensate and it seemed fine. But at the end of the gig, the drummer and guitarist both said that my sound had too much bass and not enough in the mids?? Seems from what they're saying is that with the 15" driver, this cab projects the bass into the room in a totally different way to my 410, so I'm going to have to adapt the way I use the cab and the way I set up my sound at gigs.. And it might have been because I had too much bass in my settings but apparently, the silver grill was rattling quite a bit so I'm going to have a look at that today to see how to stop it happening.. but if anyone's had any experience of that particular problem and has a few hints, I'd be grateful? It never stops does it, this search for the perfect sound!!! Cheers Nik

Good to see Clauster & Mrs Clauster there at The Elms last night. Thanks for coming all that way Nick and for giving us some support!

Great gig tonight at The Elms in Worthing! Pretty much packed and although we were ropey as anything having not played for 3 weeks, the crowd really seemed to enjoy it. Lots & lots of dancing girls which always helps.. A big thanks to Clauster & Mrs Clauster who came all the way from near Tunbridge Wells via Eastbourne to see the gig!! Good to see you guys again! Dropped two new tunes into the set; Springsteen's "Fire" and Prince's "Rasberry Beret" and both went down well.. Had a few teething problems getting used to the SWR Triad but I'll get there! It's a very different sound to my Peavey 410 TVX, that's for sure. All in all, a good night

[quote name='dub_junkie' post='195743' date='May 9 2008, 11:00 PM']absolutely! funky,melodic and immensely inspiring[/quote] Great description of it!