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[quote name='lonestar' timestamp='1441458803' post='2859041'] Thanks Ill have a look at that Milty. I did a furniture making course a few years ago and thoroughly enjoy working with wood. Im very lucky to have inherited my grandad's planes and saws, they didn't make cheap tools back in those days, and have picked up some very nice chisels and things over the years which are a pleasure to use. Good steel not your cheap Chinese import which have a tendency to break, are hard to sharpen and shred fingers. Can't beat a nice sharp boxwood handled chisel ! Same comfort factor as playing a well set up bass through a decent amp I suppose. [/quote] But working in our shed only needs cheap Chinese tools. I don't see the sense in using expensive vintage tools.

Sadly Guy wasn't the first to be chased away and probably won't be the last. Basschat is a poorer place without the likes of these guys.

The stereo-types are: Vintage: fat, warm, bassy, woolly, feel the notes more than you hear them, boomy, more bass than mids or top, what they sounded like in old fashioned times. Ampeg. Hi-Fi: not so fat, not so warm, bassy, clear, defined, hear every note, middy, more low mids rather than low bass. EBS. There is also a middle ground, which is my sound. A combination of all the good bits and none of the bad bits. Bergantino.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1441447105' post='2858931'] with all respect, its still a flat wound tone no matter how many flat wound tones you can get from it.. i don't want to be rude to any flat wound players out there, but the voicing of a bass seems to be canceled out by flat wound strings. maybe I'm missing something. yes i probably am. i tried a set of La Bella flats on a jazz bass i used to own, and i just didn't see/hear the point.. sucked the life out of the instrument. a subjective point of course. [/quote] I can see that flats on a dynamic instrument, such as a Jazz or any active bass, could work against the broad capabilities and natural sound, but IMO flats on a (passive) P bass enhances and focuses the tone. IMO makes a big improvement. I wouldn't argue for or against flats on anything else. That could only be a personal preference.

As far as I know, no BF owners disagree with the estimates of BF cab capabilities. So if you want to compare apples with apples you have to be looking at BF cabs being very good value for money.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1441407662' post='2858769'] I'm under no obligation to accept your ideas as correct, pal. [/quote] Pal? Oooo!! You don't have to but you aren't even accepting that others can have valid opinions that are right for them even though they are different from yours. I play the Dog and Duck and the Albert Hall with the same approach and attitude. I give my best, always use the best gear I can find and afford and sound as good as I can. If the audience doesn't appreciate my efforts then I know the band will. So might the guy who's standing at the bar and looking for his next bass player. You don't play for the people who aren't interested in listening, you play for the people who are. I actually picked up a great gig when a guy saw me playing my guts out with a crappy band in a crappy bar in central London. That you can't accept or understand that view doesn't matter but to repeatedly tell me that my view makes no sense. . . is just underlining an issue you have.

We're telling you but you're not listening!!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1441193502' post='2856782'] .... when people want to 'have a go' and reproduce the hits of the day, the sounds being made are unattainable.... .... all but impossible for a four or five piece band to even begin to approach the feel of the original.... [/quote] At the end of the day they are only songs and if you can carry the song you've done your job. I know a one_man_show_with_backing_tracks who is so good you could close your eyes and be listening to the original artist. I know another great player who plays with one acoustic guitar and voice and every song sounds like him. They are both fantastic players and because they play the songs as well as they do it doesn't matter how they play them. The only problem here is inexperience, trying to take on too much and failing.

The benefits of a modular rig. The components can be used in different playing situations. I can play through a Berg 112 at home and I used to put the 210 on top for gigs. The 112 sounded better at home than many of the practice amps I've heard.

My flats are about 3 years old. They are just coming into their prime.

I think the point about Alex's cabs is that they are not [i]just an xxx (put your config here)[/i]. Is £299 good for a 210? That's the comparison you should be making.

They are currently rehearsing. After they rehearse the band they move up to a venue and rehearse the lighting crew, FOH and stage sound crews. Professionalism on a level you wouldn't believe.

Didn't this start out as the Retro One 10?

Didn't he come up to the required standard then.

Strings wear out and can lose their intonation.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1441033437' post='2855503'] Surely you mean 1+ and 1- ? [/quote] Throw em all away and get OBBM to make you a new set.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1441313907' post='2857922'] I find this "I sound great, therefore I play better" attitude quite hard to understand. [/quote] I don't understand why you can't understand. I guess you need to try harder.

Do your cables get stood/walked on, or does anyone else put them away? That could be the reason for the twist between the inner core and outer layers.

So theory gets in the way of creativity? it's a good job no one told Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

Firstly, I don't think anything in the classical world is at all unclear. It is a very focussed world for one good reason, they take musical excellence to levels we can never understand. Secondly, I think we have to allow "weekend warriors" to make their own choices. Some of which might look strange but no worse than my old next door neighbour taking the kids to school and then doing the Tesco run in her husbands brand new 911. I don't think she ever got out of second gear. I would be very interested to see how raids on gigs to enforce a musical equivalent of the Sumptuary laws would pan out.

An [i]artiste[/i] wouldn't be asking this question. I've never had a lesson and I do reasonably well. Would I have done even better after some lessons? Of course. I know I would have done a [u]lot[/u] better as a player if I knew more. No question about that.

Nice stuff makes me play better. Sounding better than the next guy is part of the competition and the striving for success that is making music and playing to an audience. Sounding good increases you confidence, which improves your groove and note choices. Now that really [i]does[/i] matter to others. Who are you going to offer the gig to, a guy who sounds crap and plays well or a guy who sounds good and plays better?

I agree. And the real stinger is that Aguilar amps will be discounted and Mesa amps won't. So you're looking at £739 compared to £629. There are people who will always buy a name or the latest fad, but my £110 has to buy that amount of better tone.