Jack

I'm auditioning for bands at the moment, and I always take the Fender P. It's just more accepted, and a P or a J is ESSENTIAL if you want to do session or sideman work. So, assuming that you have to own a Precision or a Jazz (which, IMO is wrong but there you go) this way you have a choice. Your alternative would have 90% of the bass playing world on fenders, this way we have a choice of Fenderesque instruments from different manufacturers.

Battlestar Scralatchtica or Are You In? - both Incubus Want You Back - Jackson 5 Boys and Girls - Blur Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen Brandy - Originally Looking Glass but I mean the RHCP version even if the basslines are largely the same. They're just the ones that jump straight out. By no means the most show-offy, complicated, technical, but some of the most fun.

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Just bought some, cheers for the heads up.

Was it someone on here who made himself one? A digital module in a small case similar to the AI Focus? I remember he wanted passive but had to add a fan .......

Yeah I wish there was either a separate eq for the distortion channel or if we could just turn the colour switch off. As it is, I have it as clean and then colour, don't use the distortion unless I'm using a different (or no) DI, then I just have the MXR set up a distortion pedal only.

2003 MIA P - No hole on the body.

Meh, none of TCE's heads do their rated power output anyway, so I wouldn't worry about buying one that is 'too much' for your cabs. To be more helpful, I love the sound of the classic, and that would get my vote based on what you've stated as far as your sound preferences. I've only tried it at shop volumes though, so can't comment on reliability/volume/longevity etc. Personally, I'd go for a Markbass head. The rocker is possibly my fave smaller amp ever (although a tad more expensive that the TC heads or the LittleMark) , and is definitely the one I'm going for if I ever decide to leave my GK. And hey, at least you'll be giving your money that tells the truth about it's products.

They cant be the dimensions, they're way to big for any bass head. Mine's 435(W)x230(D)x100(H) in terms of millimetres including controls and feet. I'm being generous with the depth measurement but it would be hard to be exact and I figure a few mm spare is better than a case that's too small.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1317911657' post='1396121'] I'm sure Jon could make you something that you would love (probably the guy I would consider making the closest to stingray type basses). [/quote] Who is this Jon and what is his website? Is he a basschatter? Hope you get your bass sorted out Gareth.

That would be £190 for a head and 410 with a couple hundred watts. Cant go wrong IMO. Hartke is pretty blegh soundwise but they'll forever be one of my favourite manufacturers because if you have a problem you can call Larry Hartke himself. I have a Gallien Krueger for the same reason, Bob Gallien is a nice man and eager to sort out any problems. Definitely look around used, a gigging rig for under £500 is sooooo easy to come buy it's ridiculous.

What's your budget? What do your guitarists use? Any other instruments in the band? What kind of bass players have sounds that you like? There's a Hartke HA2500 for £100 and a Hartke 410 for £90 in the for sale right now. And that was only 2 mins of searching.

One day you'll get it.

Just went to pick Dave's Steinberger up from his house. Nice guy and a pleasure to deal with. :-)

I don't know if it was actually the smallest but we played the Durham International Brass Festival a few years back. A proper, outdoor, festival-sized arena. The hotdog stands at the back must have been half a mile from the stage. And they got front row seats. Seriously, there must have been 30 people there in an area the size of a football stadium. Certainly felt like the smallest audience I've ever done. Largest may have been the Sage or maybe the 02. I'd guess about 1000 maybe. The best are always the stripper bars or the university parties. For the same reasons actually.

You would, alternatively a cable straight from your bass to the mixer would work as well. Mixers? My first thought was a Soundcraft Compact 4 but it seems they don't make them anymore. Soundcraft seemed to have replaced it with the Notepad series, but they also appear discontinued. Actually, [url="http://cpc.farnell.com/soundcraft/notepad-102/mixing-console-6-channel/dp/DP31374"]CPC have one for £40.[/url] Otherwise, always remember the golden rule of gear shopping: [b]Behringer = bad[/b]. Try looking at Mackie, Peavey, Soundcraft and maybe Alesis? In answer to your backing track question, pretty much any small-frame mixer will have a stereo channel or a main input. A stereo channel you play a backing track into and you can play about with it just like any other channel on the mixer wheras with a main insert you have to all the eq and volume from your source (mp3 player, pc, etc). Personal, biased advice to follow: That Soundcraft Notepad 102 looks to be a cracking mixer, and for £40 it's half the price of anywhere else. EDIT - As an example my Compact sits on a shelf in a cupboard next to my pc. The bass goes into an MXR M80 DI which is powered by the mixer itself. The pc has a line out into one of the stereo channels and there are headphones plugged into the headphone port. That way I plug a bass in, cue up a track on my pc and I'm playing in less than 10 seconds after deciding I want to. Is there an easier way to do it? The DI box is optional, plugging your bass straight into the mixer will work just as well for a headphone jam.

Well, I'd argue that mileage is specifically the distance a car has been, you don;t really say the mileage between two points is such and such. Hmmmmm, maybe I guess. Anyways, now we're splitting hairs and I started it, so I'm sorry. I know it's a nominal impedance across the range of frequencies, but we still talk about a 4 ohm cab as having an impedance of 4 ohms. The impedance of the load when two cabs connected is therefore 2 ohms. I suppose to me or you they could be interchangeable but there seem to be (and I don't mean to offend) a few people in here with less of a technical understanding, and I'd hate for them to pick up bad habits or not understand what a word means. There's nothing to connect the word impedance to anything in this discussion if you saw it written on the internet. Personally I've always used magic smoke too.

Hey Neil, A headphone amp has a socket to plug your bass in and a socket to plug headphones in, no speakers involved. Something like [url="http://www.pocketrockit.com/Page.php?id=0022"]this[/url]. (Not an endorsement, I have never used those amps). My dad (guitarist) loves his [url="http://www.korg.com/PX4D"]Pandora[/url], but I don't know of any similar products for bass. I guess the closest I can think of is I own a cheapo Zoom 506II that can be used with headphones, and you get the bonus of it being a multieffect unit to play about with too. Personally I'd still be tempted by either a mixer or a tiny practice amp with a headphone socket as well as the above suggestions. Basically, a gadget that does something else and can ALSO be used with headphones. I guess spending money on a dedicated headphone amp just sounds like a waste to me.

I have a preety similar rig, and there's certainly not a headphones socket. Can't use the DI either. Either try a separate headphone amp or a small mixer is always good.

Whilst we're being educational, the word is 'impedance', not 'ohmage' or anything else of the like. You don't say 'kilometreage', you say 'distance'. One is the measurement and one is the unit. (I guess for some reason we do say 'footage' when measuring distance or area but I digress.)

If you want really clean and clear (and be sure you really do) then look at some studio channel strips. I really, really love the Presonus Eureka for 'my' sound but unfortunately I find it too clean for rock bands. Have a look at somewhere like KMR or Thomann and see what takes your fancy.

The passive ones just have passive bass and treble controls.