Bassmanc

OK, some better pics of my Sei as described in the post above

great melody guys - if I was 20 years younger....!! good luck with it.

Makes me think that I need to take some better pics of my own Sei Baby!

This was commissioned from Martin in the early 1990s. It's a flamboyant headleass 6 with custom string spacing that meant waiting months for a custom built bridge and pickups, but it was worth the wait! It's perfectly balanced and has tone like only a Sei can make. The facing is Burr Walnut, with a maple core, but uniquely with thin veneer layers of stained maple to add an ever so subtle 'coachline' stripe. The neck is a laminate of maple and wenge and the finger board is ebony with leds. I dedicated the bass to my late brother who left me enough money to have the bass built. So there's an engraved brass plaque on the 12th fret - so I can never sell it.

Sorry I don't have a better picture - I will fix that soon!

[sup]sorry - yes I thought I had posted that, but checking back the RMS wattage is in the add title and the impedence I have only given as a PM response.[/sup]
[sup]They are 8 ohms each, so I have used them in series to give 4 ohms (which is what most power amps seem to like to drive into)[/sup]

[sup]One guy interested subject to shipping costs, but still available. [/sup]

Some more pics....

Ha ha - this is a disease and we're all infected!
I thought I had grown out of it, but sadly - no. So here's my contribution (stack on the right is largely for sale, the slimmed down stack on the left is the current rig. 1500w of pure bass - yummy

Shouldn't Roger Bucknall be on this list?
01768 891515 [url="http://www.fyldeguitars.com"]www.fyldeguitars.com[/url]

Yes I know he hates solid guitars (or planks of wood) as he calls them, but he knows more than anyone about guitars and if he's good enough for Steve Howe, Al DiMiola, Andy Summers, Stanley Clarke.....my life is too short to write up the list!!

I bought one of these for recording some lead (sorry!) guitar parts in my studio, but once I added the Bass patch extension realised it could make a great little practice preamp for Bass too.

But when I set the input to guitar I get the option to adjust the gain between 0 and 12 dB, but it doesn't seem to have any affect on the overall output at all. Is my Pod knackered????

[font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=5][sub]I guess there's no market on here for the "lower end" gear then? - If this was a pair of 1000w powered cabs that fit into your back pocket and weigh nothing for sale at ten times the price I would be fighting everyone off![/sub]

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Ash,
I have a similar vintage Trace Elliot Amp. rack-mounted with an original GP11 pre-amp.

I have no idea what it's worth now - though I do remember paying over £700 for it in the 80s!! In the old days we used to think £1 a watt for a power amp and half that second hand, but these babies have the active crossovers for bi amping built in too.

If you do find anyone interested then tell them they can have mine too for the same price!! - Now that would be a heavy-weight 1000w rig!

NOW SOLD !!! 22.06.12

Two Peavey 1 x 15 cabs with Black Widow Speakers, 150x RMS at 8 Ohms

£80 the pair - Only sold together please - no offers for 1 cab only.

COLLECT FROM MANCHESTER

These were originally equiped with passive cross-overs as part of a compact PA system, but they have been removed and wired as standard cabs with direct connections to the speakers. They have top hat pole recesses in the top if you wanted to use them for a small PA. They have 1/4 jack sockets in the rear and spring loaded folding handles.

Great for Bass guitar, Keyboards or bass bins on a PA

The metal corners are rusty, but the cabs are in good order and the speakers are fine. They were the grunt end of my old 500w Trace rig (see picture) with 2 Trace 4 x 10s on top (now also sold). As you can see from the pic I have downsized the rig to the Berg/Epifani set up.

More pics available if requested.

The vintage Trace Rack gear is also going on sale shortly...watch this space...

[quote name='synaesthesia' post='733656' date='Feb 3 2010, 12:22 AM']You want to get a Sound Sculpture Switchblade.
[url="http://www.soundsculpture.com/products/switchblade_about.htm"]http://www.soundsculpture.com/products/switchblade_about.htm[/url]

If you can find an old AKAI MB76, you can do what you want to do but it is only a matrix line mixer, programmable , but only has 32 midi slots. doubt you need more. If you can find the PEQ6 , it will also do progammable EQ.[/quote]


mmmm this looks very similar to the Ground Control unit I have - that's an 8 x 8 matrix that is completely programmable - and now I just use it as a midi controller as I am pationate about keeping the signal path as pure as I can and, good as it is, the more 1ft jack to jack patch leads in the loop the noisier it all seems to get (doh! go figure!)

I'm curious about the programmable amp head suggestion - but I do love my power amp - so a pregrammable pre-amp replacement for the TC 1128 might be the best option.

Dood,

Thanks for the reply and info - I'm a little out of touch with gear updates since the band were active back in the 90s - so I'm playing catch up a bit.

I will check out the GForce/G Major and see what it does. The 1128 is an awesome peice of kit - completely studio quality - noiseless and with loads of clever bits (like a room eq measuring system with white noise (that it generates itself) and also a feedback kill facility - great for acoustic instrument miking. But for me it was the ability to switch effortlessly from my active 6 string to the passive (and microphonic) chapman stick live on stage with no need to turn around and start fiddling with knobs and dials. I don't know why it's been discontinued - used to be a time that every studio in the land had one!

However, it doesn't have a dedicated footswitch - so I've been using a "Ground Control" - which is a brilliant footpedal controller with a huge clear display. It links via a powered midi cable back to a single u rack unit that then distributes patch change info to the rest of the rack and has an 8x8 programmable effects loop matrix for outboard gear.

I also have a couple of mega rare TC footpedal phasers (one for guitar, the other bass/keyboard - the difference being that they phase different frequencies). I have the guitar one rackmounted but the other is still a footpedal. I've never found anything that makes the same sound and they're an integral part of my stick sound now, but if TC have an all singing all dancing rack mount unit that can mimmick them I'd be sold!

Where abouts are you based? - I looked up predator country in google and it thinks I'm looking for Toxteth!

PS....

Here are some pics of the rig (and me) in action at a soundcheck.

There are two Berg 1z12s and an Epifani 2x10 powered with 750w per side.
The basses in shot are my Sei Flamboyant custom 6 and a Kawai 4 string

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Hi,
Many years ago I was regularly gigging with a selection of basses that all had very different eq and sound dynamics. Over the years I built a programmable rack system based around a TC electronics 1128 programmable graphic pre-amp.

This was a great choice as it had programmable input gain and output levels so I could tailor by bass sound for each instrument before it went through the rest of my system. I also had a studiomaster programmable compressor and some effects that I'd had rack mounted followed by a trace elliot GP11 (which was just there in case I had to make quick hands on adjustments without having to try to re-program my patches live on stage!)

Last year I was dragged out of semi-retirement to reform the old band and I decided to downsize. I bought a Line Pro XT rack mount pod (the guitar version but with all the bass models loaded). I can get some great sounds from this - but it doesn't have a programmable input gain and so I find that my basses drive it at very different levels and the compressor doesn't work properly as a result. I've also found that the level getting to my power amp is about half what I had using the TC straight through - even if I bypass the Pod settings and go straight through - (presumably just an issue with the preset input gain)

I've therefore taken to putting the TC pre-amp in front of the Line 6 and running the pod at line level, but here lies the problem....

The TC seems to have developed a fault and randomly switches to preset 1 by itself. I'm still looking to find anywhere that can service it - but I anticipate that even if they could repair it I will be without it for a while and I'm struggling to manage without it (even just on one preset)

So I'm now wondering if I should just get a new pre-amp - or multi effects unit that can replace the whole lot.

So a long intro - but if you know of a high quality multi effects unit with programmable EQ AND input gain level, then please reply.

If you own such a thing and can personally recommend it then that would be even better!

Thanks for reading!

Costa
Just had a listen to Ping Pong - sounds like it's a fretless (!!!?)

or is it just the way you've eqd it?

[quote name='KiOgon' post='687205' date='Dec 17 2009, 12:14 PM']No interest at all! Guess I'll just chop it up for firewood then, it's getting cold in here [/quote]


Does look interesting - but you're far to far away for me to consider coming to hear it - sorry
(I'm looking for a stand-by 4 string at the moment and thinking of something with a rockier sound to compliment my main (funk sounding) 4 string)

At the risk of appearing as a total numpty - what's the pointof a short scale bass?
Is it just for people with lickkle fingers?
- or is there a specific tonal reasoning (or some other subtedlty?)

Where do you get strings for it and what does it sound like?

Very curious and intrigued!

[quote name='birdy' post='506051' date='Jun 5 2009, 02:43 AM']No I think what he has done is replicated the batteries to simulate how the power may have been back in the 60's

Case/gig bag was provided. If I was going to suggest one improvement it would be to provide a higher quality branded case in the same manner as Sadowsky etc. That's just me being ultra picky however.

Steve[/quote]

Are you sure they had active basses in the 60s!!!

Adding another 8 ohm cab will give you 4 ohms in total - so your amp will produce it's full 200w. It will also be more efficient so a lower volumes you should still hear a cleaner sound. If you duplicate the existing cab with a matching 4x10 you probably won't hear much tonal difference, but a 1x15 will certainly change your sound.

Or you could ditch the laney and get a 4 ohm rig with one or two cabs, depending how much gear you want to carry.

Whilst I agree with the comment about going through a PA my experience is that few sound engineers will get close to the bass sound you've spent years perfecting unless you work hard with them to get it right. I've also found that plenty of headroom on the backline certainly helps when you get on a larger stage and your band are suddnely spread further apart than you're used to at rehearsals.

I've worked semi pro on and off for around 30 years and currently use a 1200w 4 ohm rig, (or half of it for v small venues). There's no such thing as too much power!

PM sent

PM'd yesterday - are you picking up your messages?

The EA site has no data that I could find pn the cabs - can you help?

Size wattage impedence etc?

Thanks

[quote name='ogri' post='440582' date='Mar 20 2009, 07:30 PM']nope..still sitting here in all its GK loveliness..[/quote]

Where is here exactly and can you post dimensions and weight please?
Also what conmnectors does it have?

[quote name='BOD2' post='421938' date='Feb 28 2009, 08:13 PM']Download the PDF manual from here

[url="http://www.tcelectronic.com/media/6f601a5fb0f94cb9a1a3c881aacf5e10.pdf"]http://www.tcelectronic.com/media/6f601a5f...881aacf5e10.pdf[/url][/quote]


Wow - you star!!!

I spent ages on the TC site and the only references I could find kept telling me it was discontinued!

This is brilliant and I hadn't hoped for such a quick response. Next time you're in Manchester I owe you a beer!

Thanks