Count Bassy
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Depends what the tweeter is. Piezo tweeters, because of the incredibly high impedance, are easy to control with a pot and a limiting resistor. If its a coil driven tweeter at 8 Ohms or so then yes, you need an I-pad.
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HMRC investigating 'traders' on eBay etc.
Count Bassy replied to The Admiral's topic in General Discussion
Income tax is only applicable to profits, so unless you really are a regular trader, as in you buy things to sell on at a profit, you should be OK. -
Be very careful with nail polish remove - it can damage/dissolve many plastics. Try some of the orange smelling label remover - it'll have those bits off in no time.
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The Band has had bit of niggling discontent for a while, mainly to do with choice of material, and mainly in the sense of guitar, bass drums & sax versus the singer. Anyway we arranged a meeting so that we could discuss this and agree on songs we we all happy with, or at least could play without moaning about it every time. [size=4]Then about 4 hours before the meeting the guitarist and the drummer sent us all a text saying that they did not want to carry on with the band at all. [/size] So, from expecting an awkward meeting with the worse scenario being having to look for a new singer, it went to a relatively relaxed social meeting (because there was very little left to discuss), but with no band at the end of it. The plus side is that we didn't fall out over it, the downside is that there is no longer a band, and it's left me with a real hole in my life, and I'm feeling it quite badly as the band was my only real musical outlet. Apart from having no practices or gigs to look forward to it just seems such a shame that all that work has gone into the band was for nothing. Just needed to share.
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You do know that some amps go to 11?
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Only in America ... BB King didn't die of old age
Count Bassy replied to Happy Jack's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1432718809' post='2784158'] Had to work for the money, or had to work because he was addicted to it? [url="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-b-b-king-20150515-story.html#page=1"]This obituary[/url] seems to indicate the latter. [/quote] The same thought went through my mind. -
Class D Active Full-Range PA Speaker for Bass
Count Bassy replied to discreet's topic in Amps and Cabs
[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1431865164' post='2775656'] Well it looks like a nice bit of kit for the money, however buried in the spec sheet is the statement "Power consumption max 110 W" which doesnt fill me with confidence, [/quote] Slightly off topic, but the Roland Bass cube 100 is like this - a "100 watt" combo that only draws 60VA from the mains. Seems the worlds energy crisis is solved! -
Lack of bass support in music shops.
Count Bassy replied to ianrendall's topic in General Discussion
Bass is a minority interest compared to guitars, and with a lot of people buying on line anyway why would they bother to stock much? I can totally understand why this is happening. -
Amp vibrating off cab....any cures..?
Count Bassy replied to jonnythenotes's topic in General Discussion
or weigh your amp down with a few pints of beer on top. -
Amp vibrating off cab....any cures..?
Count Bassy replied to jonnythenotes's topic in General Discussion
Shallow depressions to match the amp feet in the top of the cab? -
[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1432033989' post='2777378'] Maybe I'm reading a different thread. The first page is full of people wanting the driver hung drawn and quartered. [/quote] Not me necessarily, and I'm very sympathetic about the terms and contracts that many of these people have to work by, BUT, I'd be very surprised if his contract said that he should sign it himself and throw it over a fence. Would the driver have known that was a relatively robust bass guitar, rather than say, a mirror? If it was a first offence than perhaps give him warning or suspension, but for all we know this could have been one of many complaints. We have assumed that the driver is a hard working oppressed worker doing the best he can, but for all we know he might just be an ignorant twat!. The OP did not demand the man's head (or job) on a plate: That decision was made by parcel Force. All the OP did was to complain about bad service, which was absolutely the right thing to do. By contrast you seem to suggest that if you pay for a service and don't get what you paid for then you should just not say anything about it, which sounds like a recipe for perpetual bad service to me.
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[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1431960662' post='2776614'] I just don't get the s**t that's been thrown at the OP for daring to complain that an item he had ordered and paid postage to be delivered signed for was dumped into his garden overs gate, left to the elements and his signature fraudulently applied to say he had received it. The comparison is in both cases someone did something wrong, and the company they work for decided to let them go. The OP didn't ask for him to be sacked, that was the decision of his employer. Must have come under gross misconduct. So any time someone providing a service does something monumentally wrong we should put up and shut up? Total b***s. [/quote] +1 from me.
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Well with the new pictures you can see that the one in poole has distinct lack of paint around one of the Knobs. No wonder he used the other ones.
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Songs You Really Don't Like Playing?
Count Bassy replied to yorks5stringer's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1431683017' post='2773882'] We currently have Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz) which I dont mind as a song but really dont like playing. [/quote] Love the song and love playing it. The current band does "Shape of Things" in a Badlands Style, which I don't enjoy playing at all. -
Not a great fan of slap, but that was actually quite tasteful.
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That made I larf, that did.
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Yamaha Bass - Input Socket Kettering
Count Bassy replied to CyberBass's topic in Repairs and Technical
PS: It's an output socket! -
The problem is that there is so much money in this sort of development that the odd ten grand here and there to the planning committee barely registers.
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End of a era, but the legend will live on. Can't really be sad - he got to 89 and was gigging until last October! I loved his guitar and his singing. I think someone here said that never has a guitarist managed to get so much feeling out of a single note. What a guy! RIP BB
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Why are singers (generally) averse to lessons/instruction ?
Count Bassy replied to Coilte's topic in General Discussion
And another thing! Why do singers seem to think that it is their band???? -
Why are singers (generally) averse to lessons/instruction ?
Count Bassy replied to Coilte's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1431350833' post='2770266'] Why? Because they are deluded, narcissistic chancers who believe they have God-given talent and you should think yourself lucky to be in the same room as them. I think they are worthless, feckless, lazy bastards who should be lashed until they drop. These are just opinions, of course. [/quote] [b]This[/b] [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1431375939' post='2770742'] Some singers seem to have the attitude that if they've turned up at all you should be grateful. And while I'm on, what's with all this carrying around scraps of paper and tatty notebooks with lyrics written down? Is it to make them look important? I've taken the trouble to learn my bass lines well enough that I don't have to consult any literature while I'm playing, so why do vocalists think that it's OK to peer myopically through their bifocals at their spidery handwriting when singing? This is bad enough at rehearsal (they should have learned their crap at home, rehearsal isn't for learning stuff), but when they do it at gigs (whether it's my band or not) it makes me want to punch them! AND ANOTHER THING, they can't (or won't) count bars, either! They routinely come in too late or too fricking early, or not at all! THEY'RE NOT PROPER BLOODY MUSICIANS! Stupid fecking worthless unprofessional bastards!! They must be lashed!! There, I've said it. [/quote] [b]And this[/b] except for BassChat members of course. (Our singer doesn't even have his own microphone, and stands around chatting and smoking while all the gear gets set up! Grrrr.) -
Class D Active Full-Range PA Speaker for Bass
Count Bassy replied to discreet's topic in Amps and Cabs
Don't know about the active part of it, but I have often played bass through my Shermann full rage cabs (15" + 6" + Tweeter), and it sounds brilliant. -
Personally I find that these "Tall/hanger" style stands get in the way too much on a tight stage. Much prefer the ones that support it from the bottom and only stand about 300mm high. (but have the Hercules wall hangers at home).
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Quite possibly the most expensive 12" driver I've seen!
Count Bassy replied to xgsjx's topic in General Discussion
Have you told them?
