Count Bassy

[quote name='danthevan' timestamp='1401471893' post='2464022'] i'm doing a website for my local sports club, and done a bit of googling to find info on it, and come across their licence on the council website. They have a band there couple of times a month, and on the licence it states a 60dbA limit on any 'functions'. i think i have done farts louder than that [/quote] Measured where though?

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1401473046' post='2464031'] Finally got a chance to watch that clip - dreadful, tabloid TV masquerading as something serious. My heart really goes out to all those bands playing 100,000-seater stadia who bought a cheap copy on eBay. As you do. Flyfisher is bang-on with his comments about the "scientific testing" (pah!), and of course the article carefully steered clear of the real issue ... money. Why do people buy cheap copies on eBay? Erm ... because they're cheaper than the real thing. So why not tell us the price of a real SM58 and the typical price of a fake one? Whichever way you look at it, that's a key part of the "rip-off" equation, perhaps THE key part. Shure have been making a fortune out of the SM58 for years, which is absolutely fine with me - it's a great product, even if I prefer my (totally genuine) Beta 57A (which I bought new from an authorised dealer and paid full price for). But if you're clever enough or lucky enough to have a product become the industry standard, there's no point being surprised if the market floods with copies, especially when the price of your genuine product remains stubbornly high. Shure's actual response seems not to have been to make silly TV programs but to sharply reduce their prices, e.g. [url="http://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Shure-SM58-with-Boom-Mic-Stand-and-6m-Cable/C39"]http://www.gear4musi...nd-6m-Cable/C39[/url] Hats off to them. That's the right way to deal with fakes - make them uneconomical. [/quote] There is a difference between a copy and a counterfeit. The thing is that counterfeits aren't actually that cheap. They are pretending to be the real thing and tend to sell for a good price for the real thing. Eg an SM58 might be £90, and a counterfeit £65 I.e. "a bargain" if you think yo're buying the real thing, but you're not! Copies are up front that they are not an actual Shure (or whatever), and might sell for around £30 - 40. You pay your money for brand 'X', and get brand X. No deception, no problem.

Thanks for your thoughts guys, just need to check with band if its actually going to happen before I put too much work into it.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1401042044' post='2459458'] I don't get this... do you really think Jeff Beck is some kind of failure because he's not producing music that you like, or music that you think he [i]should[/i] be playing? He has spent his life playing what he wants to play and has made a great career out of it! I'm pretty sure he's quite happy doing what he does and his achievements are really quite remarkable when you look at it in any accepted way of gauging success in the music business! I bet he doesn't waste hours every day sat on his arse putting the world to rights on the bloody internet, either! [/quote] I actually totally agree with you. I didn't mean to suggest that he was in anyway a failure, and he can do what he likes and he has done, and continues to do remarkable things. However, you won't be finding much of his recent work my collection!

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1401187921' post='2460871'] According to this news article he's behind The Fleece (as is the Bristol East MP): [url="http://www.bristol247.com/2014/05/27/bristol-mp-and-mayor-back-campaign-to-save-the-fleece-46325/"]http://www.bristol24...e-fleece-46325/[/url] [/quote] In which case good for the mayor and the MP!!

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1401056339' post='2459697'] I'd like to think that (at current count) there are 33,735 chances of something happening. The mayor of Bristol owns at least two music venues (The Grain Barge and The Tobacco Factory) so I do hope he's listening. [/quote] On the other hand (and I don't know the bloke) he could see it as an ideal opportunity to take down the competition!

OK, so at last night's band practice we started playing around with Walk on the Wild Side. I don't play Double Bass, and even if I did I could not play the double and electric at the same time! Having listened to the original quite a bit today it seems that the electric bass is prominent in the chorus, and of course I can do the slide with the 10th in there as well. The Double Bass then seems to become more prominent in the verse (the electric seems to drop out completely in the early verses), and I could probably play this part with some practice (not even tried it seriously yet). So, accepting that, with the best will in the world, it won't sound quite like the original, I was thinking of basically doing that - i.e. the slidey bit in the chorus, the double bass line in the verse. What have others done for the bass line(s) in this song? PS:- while looking into on line (Trying to find the versio with the extended sax solo at the end), came across the LOu Reed + Susan Vega version, which I really quite like in concept, if not some of the detail.

Personally I would modify your cabs to have two speakons each, and then daisy chain them (in parallel). No extra bits to carry around !!

Signed. MK11 in Milton Keynes is also under threat due to someone complaining. And it's on an industrial estate.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1400785465' post='2457063'] Whilst in no real sense a fan, I have always admired Beck's expressiveness as a guitarist but, lately, everytime I see him on a video etc, he is playing some lame mainstream crap like Jerusalem or You'll Never Walk Alone. The arrangements aren't even interesting. It all sounds like James Galway play The Beatles to me, Dreadful. What is he playing at? [/quote] Spot on Bilbo, just seems such a waste of a great talent.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1400883406' post='2457979'] just want valvey warmth without changing your tone [/quote] This does not compute!!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1400684833' post='2456093'] I think that standard CNC routing isn't accurate to the kind of tolerances you need for the finer points of building basses . Half a millimeter at the bridge can make a discernible difference to the alignment of the strings on the fingerboard. Part of the problem is that wood is a comparatively soft , variable and unpredictable material to work with. It's ancient -world engineering, and so relies on craftsmanship as much as precision geometry . [/quote] I have to disagree with you on this Dingus. Half a millimetre is [i][b]enormous[/b][/i] for any half decent CNC. Even a fairly basic machine should be giving you accuracies of around 20 microns, and repeatabilities better than that. However it also comes down to fixturing, tooling, the operator, and proper maintenance as well, but a CNC machine should be able to out perform a person quite easily.

I'm a bit surprised he didn't swap them all. Still, glad you're back in action.

Still, buy it now for a tenner? Bargain!

Looks an excellent amp and at a good price too (£430). I am looking for something light to replace/supplement my DBS400 and have been considering an LMIII, but would love to try one of these out as well. Only things that seem odd/ a shame is that if they could have fitted two Speakon/Jack combo sockets instead of one of each, and why did they put the valve bypass button on the back (or, indeed, not have a SS/Valve blend pot like some of amps do)?. I love the demo on You-tube where the bas player just keeps going and someone else twiddles the knobs. Really lets you hear the range of sounds available - more demos should do it like this! Shame he didn't demo the Tube bypass in the same way.

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1399869746' post='2448424'] Like asus, most likely because I'm foreign I admit. [media]http://youtu.be/iq9B3evfu8s[/media] [/quote] I've always said it "Ace-us" !!!

Reminds me of an old friend who was doing some brazing, and accidentally picked up a round file instead of a brazing rod.

First gig with a new band "Cacofonix" (whole band is new) at our local pub. A few nerves but it went really well. Some bits didn't go quite as rehearsed, but we kept going and everyone seemed to have a good time, and the band came away on a high. Got two more gigs out of it, so must have done something right! To explain the picture - the gig was outside on the covered patio area. [attachment=162502:cacofonix.jpg] And your's truly, apparently in dreamland. [attachment=162505:Count Bassy.jpg] Has a moments panic when setting up and plugged in my bass and all I got was a farty sound (never done it before). Fiddled with various things and then it suddenly came back it while the volume was set at full volume, and made all the band,including myself, jump a mile. Still don't know what the problem was so will have to investigate! Hopefully this band will last better than the last two I've been in: was sacked from the first because their original bass player moved back into the area, and the second one imploded, both after one gig!!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399460003' post='2444377'] Harsh, but true! [/quote] True indeed, but not everyone can afford £7-800 for a "Decent Cab".

I am a great fan of Status Hotwire Half rounds, so thought i might try out their round wounds: Does anyone have any opinions on them (good or bad), and how do the Premium (round core) and Standard (Hex core) ones compare? Thanks

When I sing (very occasionally) I find reverb really off putting. Give me 'dry' any-time.

I am using them on my Ibanez 605 and mostly love them. With rounds I found I was constantly playing with the treble completely backed off to get the sound I wanted. With the Status Half rounds I got the tone I wanted with everything pretty well flat, leaving me lots of room for tone tweaks. However the B can sound a bit dull compared to the other strings, and does seem to have a bit of a dead spot around the 7th fret (not completely dead though). So yes, well worth a try at £25 or whatever.

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1398869741' post='2438476'] Can he fix it ? [/quote] Yes he can!

Always seems odd to me that you might buy something and then expect, as a god given right, to be able to move it on without any loss!. When you buy something (via auction/E-bay at least) it you pay what you think it is worth, when you sell it you sell it for what someone else thinks it's worth. Take E-bay as an example, say you win an item at £100 that implies that you thought it was worth £100, but no-one else did. If the second highest bidder dropped out at £95 then if you put it back on E-bay the next day then you will likely only get £95!. (unless some new desperate buyer has entered the market). If you get a bargain via a private transaction then the above does not apply of course.

How Morrissey has achieved the standing he appears to have completely baffles me. There are far better song writers and singers from that era, and some of them aren't even aren't jumped up twats.