Stub Mandrel

Blimey my innocent Basschat T-shjirt thread has been invade by archtypical capitalists. The Bread-Head Dead-Heads are taking over! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sorry to be a pedant but as the owner of a non-curly one they are Surf Green not Mint Green 🙂 >DUCKS<

Hmm.. after looking at some 'real world' reports on the Rumble 40 it's probably that or the Ashdown Studio 10. Practically I think I have to wait a month or so anyway, so I'll just bumble my way through this first gig and see what happens (it may be a complete disaster...) Looks like we will rehearse properly next week, so I'll find out what gear we will use .

'Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow' - but on mandolin, no fancy picking, just chords. Some quite fast changes in one bit. I seem to have most trouble with remembering the words...

Back to the subject of this thread, I've had the delight of learning the (incredibly not-difficult) One Love. Can't say I've got a perfect Family Man sound but I just used the neck pickup on a Jazz with the tone right down and even with roundwounds it sounds nice .

Problem is the Laney head is in many ways a TE clone, including the weight... I could get a combo up to 100W for the price of the RM210 that's probably lighter than the head... I should be clear I'm looking at no drum gig here, plus it's a 'side project' so I don't want to invest a huge amount. Think it will be February before I can invest, anyway... Ironically I used to have a Marshall JCM800 1x12 cab with a greenback in it, a bit short of deep bass but it worked well, that I gave to my brother. I thought of (perhaps temporarily)_ rehousing one of my 12" speakers - I have two greenbacks and a pair of Mackenzies but they are all 16 ohm. A bad thought for a temporary solution, I've got a Carlsboro Colt guitar amp, I could blank off the back and use the clean channel. I suspect that would be enough to get me through the first gig.

There seem to be a lot of ways to get light and portable, but I thing I am really looking at a combo. Does anyone know if there are comparable figures for loudness anywhere? e.g if I lined up Rumble 40, Crush 50 and Ashdown Studio 10 (50W) which would be the loudest - I know actual wattages are far from the whole story... Lots of sales patter about 'acoustic gigs' etc. but these don't really tell me much. I might just go with the laney and a 2x12 with the volume down for the first gig and see how loud the rest of them are.

I've come across two or three LP's (copies and most recently an Epi) that clearly had chambered bodies... filled with depleted uranium pellets.

A fair enough point, but if that makes it a Christmas song, then so is Shipbuilding, in which case it has to be the winner 🙂

i've always like Rotos too, they are the Marmite of bass strings!

It's a lottery but the prices can be silly cheap. Took me two tries to get a Jazz pup cover that wasn't completely wonky, the bridge cover took a few minutes on a linisher to get the right shape but the scratchplate looks great (even if it needed a tweak to fit a Squier..)

I've no idea what an old hohner j-bass would cost, but not a lot. Met up with my old one a little while ago and it is still very lovely 🧡 so worth considering if you see one.

Has to be worth looking at! Correction, looks with hunting one down for a try!

You can have a custom Bulgargaz one 😉

Room for a 22nd fret there. Actually, room for 23 if you squeeze them in a bit... Seems such a shame as some aspects of the aesthtics and choice of woods are pretty good, Is suspect more sympathy with working the timber and little practical knowledge of the instrument.

I tried basses through a Fender Rumble 40, which was very light (18lbs) and sounded much better than older rumbles I've tried and surprisingly loud. I preferred the sound to a Markbass 802, which was more expensive but sounded rather 'clinical'. What else is there in this sort of price bracket/power level that has the same sort of volume/old fashioned sound? The Orange Crush 50 might be an option (although I hate the 'crunch' setting, I love the sound of my Crush 25 but it's not very loud at all) and I fear the Crush 50 a bit quiet as amps in this sort of range go - plus it's lot weightier (32lbs) than even the Rumble 100 (22lbs) but this is getting a bit large. Don't suggest more powerful amps as I already have a 150W head and a 300W combo. I want something more portable (the alternative is using the head with a lightweight 10" or 12" cab but it woudl be nice to have a rig I can carry bass in one hand amp in the other). I'd be interested in any experience of gigging with the Rumble 40/100 and any alternatives people might want to suggest with similar sound.

Macca.

My Thunder 1 is supposedly about 10lbs and is noticeably heavier than my others. Fortunately my 'dodgy' shoulder is the right (it moans if I wear a rucksack ever since I was in my 20s) but my left seems to manage anything (touch wood).

Merry Christmas all you Bass-Tards 🙂

My brother's got one of the HB bass ukes, sadly a left hander... but it's very nice otherwise.

Flats AND a pick! That needs a double:

If the red, blue and silver/grey are metallic they may look a lot tastier in the flesh.

Anyone who takes my opinions too seriously needs to spend some time scanning the 'Den of Iniquity' thread...

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My Kay KT-2 six string camo with dead flatwounds fitted in 1979. Only ever used roundwounds since... (tip for flatwound users, have you considered using the tone controls 🙂 a much cheaper way of sucking all the character out of your sound)