chris_b

Just ensure that a qualified electrician installs the system and the rig is properly PAT tested afterwards. You've got more problems with motion, gravity and the weather. Make sure you have heavy weights to anchor the cymbals, something to hang on to when the driver does 90 degree turns at speed and stops on a 6p. Make sure there are rain proof overs for the instruments and gear. Check that the guy organising the whole thing has PLI.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1425984063' post='2712959'] Everyone hates them for not allowing ripp offs, [u][b]yet everyone wants one[/b][/u], figure that one out. [/quote] Really? These basses have not been involved making a single piece of music that I have liked or listened to since I discovered what a bass guitar was. So, while they seem to have fans who don't mind the questionable quality, structural problems and huge price tag, to me they don't sound good and are so pug ugly that I'd give one away if it was given to me. Please don't include me in any list of "everyone" who "wants one." I just wanted to share.

This all depends on how loud you play and what you define as a smaller gigs. None of my gigs would require an 810 but most of them would need more than a 112. So I use a 212. I'd be happy replacing a 410 with a good 212, and several years ago I replaced a 410 with 2 210 cabs, but while the BB2 is a great cab I don't think one on its own would replace a 410, especially if you're pushing the 410 hard.

Hi Ken, You're only loath to get rid of the 810 because you don't yet know what the Big Twin can do. Sonically Barefaced cabs are like nothing you've ever heard. The new BT's weigh 49 lbs. That's got to be more than 150lbs less than the 810 surely? If it's local I'd check out the Big Twin and see what it can do for you. I use a Berg CN212 and it does me perfectly. It's as loud as i need in a loud covers band but I think if I had regular louder (rock?) gigs I'd consider the large Barefaced cabs.

NG just spills out irrelevant personal abuse. He exhibits the intelligence of Tourette's outbursts, but does so by choice. He's the Alf Garnett of Rock, minus the charm.

There's a Barefaced Big Twin 2 in the classifieds. With your PRO 7 the band wouldn't notice you changed cabs.

I rest my case.

[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1425904839' post='2711965'] Seriously - you really want to win that? [/quote] Of course. What's the point of entering if you don't want to win? We seem to go out of our way to insult the other entrants and that rudeness reflects very badly on us. But sadly, we don't seem care what others think about us. You'd think being thought of as a bunch of knobs by so many of our neighbours should concern to us. That it doesn't bother us at all is a real indictment.

There are "names" out there using class D and Neo in amongst all the other choices that are available. The differences between items of bass gear are subjective at best.

The string should wrap downwards, so the final wrap is next to the head stock.

We will never win, because the rest of Europe doesn't like us, because we openly laugh at them and their best efforts. It isn't cheesy and naff to the other countries and it shouldn't be to us. The UK's superior, snotty and condescending attitude to the competition would piss me off if I was an entrant. The BBC in allowing the idiot Wogan to drunkenly take the piss out of the other songs and the competition in general for so many years has guaranteed us nil point, and rightly so.

What is the distance between the E tuner and the D tuner on a Fender? About 3 inches? That's how long I cut the strings. Gives about 3 winds. Also, you can leave a twist in the string when wrapping it around the tuning peg if the ball end is trapped in the bridge. I always free the string at the bridge before tightening it. I'm assuming this could be why I've never had a dud string.

How long have TC been selling amps to the UK? And they are saying, they only just found that out?

... and they don't mention bells. If you have your own, you're in.

Good sale. Chris, pleasure meeting you. Cheers Chris.

I don't know if this is an outtake or what, but at 2 mins it's 18 mins too short. The incredible Alex Al, and the funkiest bass playing on YouTube. . . . ever. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnVWG2wR3Is[/media]

If Fender had re badged GB or SWR amps I would have more confidence, but nicking bits of these designs (is there any evidence they actually did that?) to put in their own amps doesn't fill me with any desire to own one. My reading of the situation is that Fender didn't know what to do with the companies they bought. Several including GB came to them when they bought Kamen so it doesn't look to me like they bought GB for its technology. I owned and liked (a lot) a Markbass LM2, so with these choices I'd get an LM3 with no worries. Edit: I own a GB STL 9.2 and Aguilar TH500. Along with Markbass, that's where I'd be doing my comparisons.

Hey Nige....... Snap, I'm just listening to this. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhHU_BZXSk[/media] So good.

Dunlop Super Brights sound very good on a Jazz.

All Dave's sites are working for me. He's about. You could drop him a line, he answered my PM last night.

Put some good strings on your jazz. That might give it a whole new lease of life. I'd try it with some flats for a completely different slant on your sound.

I had an Epifani 410 cab which I rate as giving me one of the best bass sounds I've had.

I haven't played my 2 pickup bass much for nearly 4 years, but I'd always keep one around, just in case. A P bass won't cover everything and this band won't last forever so I'd keep it.

+1 The problem with inexperienced or just plain selfish guitarists is that they play on their own and get a sound they like, and then think they should sound the same when they play in a band context. Two of them exhibiting the same problem in the one band would drive me to get the wire cutters out. I have the same issue when explaining to keys/piano players who insist on playing left hand bass parts. It always seems to come as a complete surprise when I tell them there is only one bass player in this band!!

Do you rehearse in a circle? IME in that format the bass player is usually standing opposite the guitarist with the amp blasting right at him. Do you have a clean sound? The RH450's natural tone is rounder and less defined. That might cause you to disappear into the mix.