chris_b

[quote name='giamma' timestamp='1503563629' post='3359116'] Could the Barefaced be a good option for replace the GK? . . . seems I'm looking for something that simply doesn't exist. . . [/quote] There are always options. Barefaced would certainly be a good choice and easily replace your GK. They have a 1 month trial period after which you can send the cab back. IMO if the One10 doesn't work then the SM will. There's also the Genzler Magellan series, AER Bass One combo and the smaller Aguilar cabs. All great products. One thing that you really shouldn't expect is to replicate the sound of your old rig when you change parts of your signal chain. Change an amp or cab and you [u]will[/u] sound different. Upgrade to the right cab and that difference will be an improvement to your sound. Edit to add a Bergantino 112 to the list

As I said I know the guy, have played with him in several pickup bands and when he's depped in my bands and know he is a very serious player. You wouldn't find a guy more professional attitude. It was a very clever and humorous put down to someone, who I don't know, but who sounds like they needed to be put in their place. My point is that some of the responses to the story says more about some of the Basschat posters than this drummer. That's all. Let's leave it there.

The story is true and a pretty good put down to a smart-arse dick-head of a band leader. You guys are killing me with all your huffing and indignant puffing.

[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1503502391' post='3358773'] That's a slightly sweeping statement there chris_b, but in the main I'd have to agree. [/quote] Oh yes. . . . what's the internet without a little hyperbole and a sweeping statement or two?

All my basses for the last 20 years have been over 7 years old. If that's considered old for a bass then it isn't one that I want to own. The warning bells here are, "unseen", "unplayed" and "in a foreign country". You can find another bass as good as this nearer to home.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1503488424' post='3358612'] IMO if he wasn't prepared to do a proper job for £50 then he shouldn't have taken the gig in the first place. If that had happened to my band I'd be naming ans shaming the drummer in question.[/quote] This guy is a fantastic drummer. Naming and shaming is not appropriate. His £50 listen would have turned in a better performance than most of the drummers in the fully rehearsed bands on Basschat.

The problem is Alex is wants to produce HIS take on an amp. All the advice he'll get from here will be. . . can you make it like this amp or that amp. Just buy those amps.

Context is always the issue. What the right wing community in some parts of the US still considers acceptable treatment of back communities beggars belief in a modern democratic country. Many of the past and present injustices suffered by black people in the South are still represented by the confederate flag. The Cross of St George was appropriated by the hard right but it's the flag of England so no one in this country should be ashamed of flying it. But many are. I think we're slowly getting it back. I'm not sure the Swastika will ever be rehabilitated, though.

My Dad would have been ecstatic if I'd gone into Accountancy or the Civil Service, rather than being the rock musician I became. His taste in music was West End Shows. Mine was anything on the Chess and Stax record labels. I've been asked to help beginners on several occasions and all I say is, what was the last song you listened to that you'd like to play. And that's where we start.

I didn't give my son a list, but I helped him workout and play all the songs he chose. I'd tell people starting out to try lots of instruments until they find one that "speaks" to them and start learning to pay their favourite songs. After they do that, and if they are succeeding, get lessons.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1503312959' post='3357042'] We have an Americana show/image, we advertise ourselves as "The North Wests only cowboy rock band". It's all cowboy boots, cowboy hats and "howdy y'all" we dress up and put a show on that's generally very well received and it's tongue in cheek. . . . Is it time to lose the flag ? [/quote] The flag is only a prop so I guess another would do just as well, how about the Lone Star flag of Texas? But if your audience only sees the flag as a design you'd probably be OK to keep it.

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1503309204' post='3356997'] As above really there used to be some really funny people on the forum and you could always crack a joke but now some people seem so grumpy and just seem to want a row sign of the times? OK rant over lol [/quote] I'm still here ya bastard!! [font=P22JohnstonUnderground , sans-serif][size=4]I stayed over at a friend’s house in Kensington last night. This morning, his kids were playing around in the kitchen while we had breakfast and, who knows how, I managed to swallow a few Scrabble squares.[/size][/font] [font=P22JohnstonUnderground , sans-serif][size=4] [/size][/font] [font=P22JohnstonUnderground , sans-serif][size=4]My next trip to the toilet could spell disaster.[/size][/font]

One of the many fantastic musicians to come out of the Mad Dogs and Englishmen project.

[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1503221695' post='3356483'] There's a story I heard many years ago about a drummer who was asked to dep on an originals gig in a pub up in central London for the paltry sum, even then, of £50. The band leader sent him a cassette tape of the songs (as I said, it was a few years back) but with a busy schedule, he only made time to listen to it in his car on the way to the gig. It was fairly straight forward stuff, so apart from one or two hiccups, he discharged his duties quite well, or so he thought. Afterwards, the band leader took him to task about these and other minor infractions. Feeling aggrieved at what he perceived to be nit-picking, when asked to explain himself, the drummer said "Well, I gave it the fifty quid listen, didn't I?!?"[/quote] Initial PS, by any chance?

If you can make the pain bearable, do the gig. If you need to change the lines, change them. I did a gig after a skirting board incident with a sharp implement that meant that night I could only play root notes. But I played them well, so everyone was happy.

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1502890576' post='3354205'] Just interests sake, what amp are you using with the SC's? I'm thinking about getting a pair of them. [/quote] I was using either a Thunderfunk 750 (now sold) or an Aguilar TH500. The TH500 has been my main amp for about 3 years and I've had the SC's for nearly 2 years. I bought 1 cab from Merton and liked it so much that I ordered the second cab the next day. If you're style is anything like mine, Duck Dunn meets Nathan East with a little John McVie and Willie Weeks thrown in, you'd love it. I could probably gig with just 1 cab but I like the sound of both so I usually run 2 cabs. I haven't pushed them hard and still I can get loud very quickly. I've not been beyond noon on the gain and 1 o'clock on the master and we were [u]very[/u] loud that night. Where are you? I'm not playing for a few weeks, but if you're in the South East I've got some gigs coming up at the end of September. You could have a listen.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1502885331' post='3354159'] From the recent documentary it sounds like it was pretty hellish! [/quote] I believe those buses had no heating which is why, in the middle of a northern US winter, the aircraft was so appealing. On the long haul gigs the guys slept in the bus, sitting up on the hard seats.

I don't use one but I've come from Berg cabs which have very tight low end. I tried a Thumpinator with the Bergs and it made no difference to the sound at all. With the Bergs there was no muddiness or boom, even on the worst stages. As you know I went from them to a BB2 and didn't like the amount of big low end. The SC's are much better but I'd like the option of reducing the low end even more. I'm thinking/hoping that raising the "floor" of the low end via an HPF would do this for me. On bad stages I always feel that trying to EQ out a bad low end also alters the rest of the sound too much, rather than just eliminating the problem. Maybe it's my lack of ability with EQ but using an HPF to tighten up just one part of the sound might be a solution. I know I could buy a separate HPF but so far I've only seen fixed ones. I'm wondering if an adjustable HPF would be a better option. I'd also be hoping that a Barefaced HPF would be better than the competition. I might also be barking up the wrong tree. Not for the first time!!

If you have a car-crash gig because the dep wasn't good enough or didn't put in the time to get up to speed then you didn't choose the right dep. This only works if there is time to prepare and the guy can rise to the occasion. Everyone needs to know where these guys are because gigs are not as plentiful as they used to be so turning one down should be the last option, not the first.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1502879064' post='3354098'] I liked to sit in the back because it was quite obvious that, in the front, the thin metal of the Commer van would crumple under any impact and your legs would be crushed. [/quote] Yep. That is the sensible thing to do and how I would think today. We knew Martin Lamble the drummer who was killed when Fairport's tranny overturned. Both the people killed in that crash were sitting in the front seats.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1502875691' post='3354050'] Do you really need 2Ω capability? AFAICS it's main use is to run more than 2 cabs without needing special series/parallel leads making up and with high sensitivity cabs like Barefaced is this really necessary? [/quote] I just had an eye on the 4 ohm cabs Alex makes. Somewhere someone might want to run 2 of them. My experience is that the SC's are so sensitive that 2 of them can match the volume I was getting out of my previous Berg 312. I had two 2 ohm capable amps, my Thunderfunk 750 and a D800, and while I mostly used 4 or 2.67, I did use the 2 ohm option a couple of times. This amp won't be cheap so its features and capabilities will need to be extensive to compete. I agree an adjustable HPF could be a decider for me.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1502876068' post='3354055'] It's for the person that accepted the gig to get a dep, as it had already been made clear that the OP would not be available. [/quote] It doesn't matter who gets the dep as long as he does a good job and fits in.

Just get a dep and everything is covered. A band should do all the gigs it can so cancelling everyone's gig just because one person can't do it is the least acceptable course of action in my book.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1502874555' post='3354035'] The Beatles too had a Commer.[/quote] Yep. Ex GPO vans were also very common. My usual place was on the engine cover beside my mate Derrick, the driver. IIRC we had a top speed of 50 mph. Me and Derrick used to play chess driving on the motorways. When it was his turn I steered. We thought we'd made it when he got a Ford Transit SWB with some mk10 Jag seats in the back.

[quote name='Jack' timestamp='1502826366' post='3353827'] In one of the Facebook videos Alex states that he sees the cabs that he has currently covering 99% of bassist's needs and that he has no plans to add or replace any bass cabs as of yet.[/quote] He's right. He got it covered for us. I haven't thought about cabs in over 2 years. Well, I briefly looked at an SM and a Two10 but that doesn't count. A more useful thread might be a list of options and features we would like to see on the BF amp when it appears. I don't do much Facebook so this has probably already been addressed there, but I'd like a real 800 watts, big heft, 2 ohms and an adjustable HPF.