Stub Mandrel

Over the last four rehearsals with the covers band I've taken along a Fender Flea Jazz, Fender Performer, Squier Jaguar SS and tonight my lowly Westone Thunder. The guitarist came up to me at the end and said "that's a fantastic bass, that's by far the best tone you've had".

Why not add it on to the existing 'donate £10'? My main worry is that marketplace membership would encourage me to sell things...

Those starlings look knackered.

Most typical MP3 compression used for the web has a 'brick wall' rolloff at 16Khz, and this almost certainly applies to YouTube videos.

There doesn't seem to be a way of becoming a supporting member without the marketplace. There should be a way to be supporting member without the full whack for the marketplace, although I may want to shift some kit down the line...

And every day I read posts saying 'big amps are a thing of the past, everyone DI's bass these days'.

I'll resurrect this thread rather than start a new one. I got an Elf as a backup amp, but thought I would test it at a rehearsal. We play at pretty much gig volumes. I used it though a GR bass AT212 slim. I had to turn it down a bit, ended up about 2 o'clock gain, 9 o'clock master volume. All tone knobs about 1 o'clock Turned up to 3 o'clock it was very loud, enough for any gig I've done, louder and it started to distort unpleasantly. Definitely much louder than my Laney 150W, but not as loud as the Bass Terror. Very happy with it, but the cheap Stagg jack to speakon lead turns out to have a jack plug 2mm too short that vibrated out of the socket if the amp was on the speaker.

Well, the Thunder 1 went down a storm and was really pleasant to play. It sounds 'more precision than a precision'. First time I've played it in a band context, would be more than happy to use it live, although not a very broad sonic pallet, even with the tone rolled back it still sounded quite rich, and I missed my bridge pickup honk.

I have a proper signal generator, but its in a shipping container...

Could have a go, but it will be subjective. The at212 gets 'flabby' by the time you get down to a low b but reproduces it.

Intersting, my little computer speakers became audible at 40Hz, properly sounding above 50-60 Hz although the volume increased up to about 200Hz. Either they or I topped out at 14000Hz.

I am shouting how good my AT212 is from the rooftops. Should be able to bring it to a couple of bass bashes.

I will take my Thunder 1 to rehearsal tonight.

Great job! Are sensitivity figures reliable enough to use? Worth adding a note about tweeters being fixed, switchable. multilevel or adjustable? GR Bass use AES figures for power (which are about 20% higher than RMS, but have the advantage of being properly comparable with other cabs using AES methodology).

I've noticed that the 'remove formatting' button doesn't. It seems when someone using light mode pastes into a message, they create a block of black on white text that is then impossible to make white on dark grey without stripping its formatting in something like word. I'm thinking of the lists in Bass Bash threads that get copied and updated many times.

My brother has my first bass. I'd quite like to gig it again...

The GR cabs are so efficient with solid bass it makes sense to go for the 4 ohm versions.

Polyphonic, tracks very well, no noticeable latency, very simple to use. Sub, upper and dry do what you would expect. The 'mod' knob gives a range of increasingly organ-like whirly sounds as you turn it clockwise, the downside being that there isn't much adjustment of these, but t does add the potential for hamnond-like effects. Main use - just turn 'upper' to max, turn down the others and annoy guitarists by widdling above the 12th fret 😉

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So hands up who has a 'fully optimised signal chain'? I would have thought you should use the same brand of cables, pedals, strap and plectrum for sonic sartori. Certainly possible with Fender. Seriously though, I would expect most same-manufacturer amp/speaker combinations to sound decent, but obviously there are exceptions - a rock oriented amp may not sound at its best when used with the same brand's acoustic-optimised cab. But ultimately, amps and cabs do very different jobs so mix and match has the potential to be better, allowing for the fact that better depends on the musical style, where and how the setup is being used and the preferences of player, group and audience. It's like saying one brand of camera works best with the same brand of lenses, when it's clear the best lens for a particular situation will often be by a different manufacturer.

By the same logic, you probably should be playing a bass that's the same brand as the am and speakers...

None of the above.

You won't be disappointed. I got the AT 212 slim and after five rehearsals with two bands I'm still getting 'that's an amazing sound' 'you must be over the moon with that rig' etc. etc.