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+1 Wider the better for me. To the OP, you just need to play this bass. Play both of them until the string spacing doesn't matter.

Lozz, good story. Good tone is built on the smallest of changes.

Of course. Those guys say that first and foremost a bass in an acoustic instrument. If it sounds good acoustically then it'll sound better amplified. Alex Clabber posted a few weeks ago explaining why. I'd take the opinion of these guys against the opinion of any "week-end warrior" on Basschat any day. With little knowledge, it seems, comes great certainty. Prepare to get shouted down.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1425031095' post='2703081'] ....But a dedicated singer in most bands.... is a trouble-causing passenger with an ego the size of Jupiter. [/quote] Oh boy..... have I met some of those!!!

Which way are you putting the amp in the bag? Front first or back first?

The OP seemed to be asking if there was any chance that this bass could be a real 66 Fender. I think that is very unlikely. The pick guard doesn't fit, the general finish is too good and the price is so wrong at £290 that that alone should confirm that it's not a vintage bass. The pick guard shrinking would put pressure on the screws and leave a split or 2. Usually the tip of the lower horn breaks off if serious shrinkage has occurred. All I see is a pick guard that is the wrong shape. It might be a good bass but for that money I'd rather find one here that I could play first.

Just happened on this and I'm impressed with the bass playing, well the whole band actually. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdeqSnbL5rU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdeqSnbL5rU[/url] Anybody know of Rick?

Not saying anything. I'm just glad most of my toe curlers happened before mobile phones, camcorders and YouTube.

Put your eyeballs back in their sockets and your tongue back in your mouth. That is [i]not[/i] a vintage Fender.

TC quote: "You can connect up to three TC Electronic RS cabinets or any other two 8 Ohm cabinets of another brand to the amplifier. (minimum load: 4 Ohm)" I'm disappointed in TC, as that statement from p6 of the RH750 User Manual is a [b]lie[/b]. The appendix I linked to in my previous post is the "clarification" TC put out a couple of years ago after they were challenged by most of Talkbass on the discrepancy between the TC watts rating vs the real RMS watts being generated by the power unit. They also included "clarification" of the 3 of our cabs but only 2 of other companies cabs statement by giving the minimum ohms of each of their amps. Read the link. 2.66R means 2.67 (rounded up) ohms. I used to run 3 8 Ohm Bergantino cabs at high volume and the amp was fine. As I say TC are deliberately posting incorrect information, I guess in an attempt to sell more of their cabs. Shame on them.

Again........ the RH750 can run at 2.67 ohms. There is no magic. That's how it powers 3 8 ohm cabs. [url="http://cdn-downloads.tcelectronic.com/media/914735/tc_electronic_bass_amp_power_rating___active_power_management.pdf"]http://cdn-downloads..._management.pdf[/url] Go to page 7 the Min. Load is 2.66R

There is a big CE on the back of my TH500, so there is no story here.

I don't know MB 212 cabs but the 2 112 and 2 210 rigs I've heard, both with 500w amps, have sounded pretty good.

I'm playing with a drummer who uses a 70's Ludwig Vistalite kit. He also has the version that lights up! He says it cuts through better. It might do but it still sounds crap.

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1424769766' post='2700115'] I play with a guy who uses one of the kick drums! He has the rest of the kit, but says it's just too big to bother with. It's had a psychedelic paint job and always draws comment- it also gets accused of sounding like a cardboard box, too! He's a great player though. [/quote] Aaahh, you must be referring to Ed. I like the sound of his bass drum. He was always promising to bring the rest of the kit but never did! +1 as a great player.

This reminds me of those "new concept" chairs we got in the 60's. Look fantastic but you can't sit in them for more than 2 mins. I wonder where they are now.

Of course it's 100% down to the mix. Pino has no say in what anyone heard on the gig or when watching the TV program. As I would imagine Pete Townsend has the final say in all thing Who, I assume this is what he wants the band to sound like.

I have a very understanding wife. She has always supported my playing but 25 years ago, with 2 young kids, a demanding day job and a house that was in need of some serious DIY to make it habitable for a young family, she asked me to quit the band. I was the only married guy, the only one with a family and the band was becoming very successful. We were gigging every weekend and towards the end did 10 days straight. It was a pro band pretending to be semi pro and I knew she was right. So after fighting the decision for a couple of months I quit. It was the worst thing I could have done for my playing career, which never really recovered, but it was the best thing to do for her. If I'd had any sense I'd have made that decision long before she asked me but I'm selfish and it was a great band.

There are no downsides, as long as you connect the cab correctly before you switch on, ensure the ohms of your cab match the selector on the back and let the valves warm up at the beginning before you play and cool down at the end before you move the amp. All standard valve amp stuff. Back in the day, clutching a cheque from the management company, I had the run of the Marshall shop in Ealing Broadway. I walked away with the Super 100 Lead guitar amp. IMO it sounded punchier through my Marshall 412 cab. Cabs back then weren't the best so the amp had to provide all the definition for them.

The best sounding Markbass 210 I've heard is the Standard 102HF. It's larger but produces a bigger (and IMO better) tone as a result. And 2 of them can fill any room.

In the early days I never thought about how I played the bass. It was OK, the bands liked it, but it just happened. Over the last decade I've been working on technique and my touch has been gradually getting lighter as my playing has improved. These days I'm using bigger amps turned up louder, the action on my basses is half what it was and I put a lot less energy into hitting the strings. The benefits are more even playing, better dynamics and better groove because I'm not fighting the bass anymore. I have never played a style that would benefit from a compressor on a gig. I would imagine one would detract from the dynamics of my playing. This is also why I don't understand the need for ramps. My fingers never touch the pickup covers. I'm playing [i]on[/i] the strings not [i]through[/i] them, and IMO anything more is overplaying and a waste of energy.

I tried DR Sunbeam nickel strings, to see what all the fuss was about. They didn't jump out at me as a big improvement over the DR Lo-Rider steel strings I was using at that time and they didn't last half as long. I don't play hard enough to have a problem with steel strings.

Nathan East in Fourplay. I don't much like posh lift music or bands made up of people who went to Berklee. They would go into my Room 101, for sure. These are not "bad" bands they just make music that I don't like much, but the bass players in these bands are some of the best in the world; NE, Jimmey Haslip in the Yellowjackets and Neil Stubenhaus in whatever bands he's in and all the others.

+1 There's a thread on Talkbass about this at the moment. Some people seem to think that outsourcing various manufacturing processes makes for a "poorer" quality product and that the only good way is to make everything yourself. That view shows a lack of knowledge of the process. Outsourcing components to skilled manufacturers is a tried and trusted method employed by most manufacturers from cars to computers and, if done properly, can guarantee better quality. The components we are talking about here are of a much higher quality than Warmoth parts Most companies make "parts" basses to one degree or another. How many make their own bridges and tuners for a start? GUS is the only one I know of. A large company might get their components from the same factory but there is more pressure on outside companies to provide a better quality service because they know you can go somewhere else. There isn't the same edge when supplying internally. If your guys made a poor body the pressure is on for you to use it because to throw it away is your business expense. If this process is outsourced then the rejected part is only a cost to the supplier. I've seen this in action, having worked in several big IT companies. It's the same with made in the USA, which Americans get very exercised about versus Far East production. The Chinese can make anything. How much the West wants to pay them to do it is the main problem regarding variable quality.