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Jack

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  1. It just cost me £12.92 to send back some wellies. Wellies! I had to post them back that day, but as I told the girl in the post office, next time I'll use parcelmonkey.
  2. [quote name='Walker' timestamp='1366039463' post='2047590'] I use the hi-pass filter on all channels apart from bass and kick - would this give the same benefits as your idea Jack? [/quote] No. Even the HPF aren't dead cuts, they're (sometimes steep, sometimes not) roll offs. If 7 or 8 mics are picking up the kick drum (say, all the ones on the drum kit and one of each of the amps next to it) then that's still a hell of a lot of kick making it past the HPFs and going through the PA. If the xover is set at say 100Hz and the desk HPFs at 80Hz, that produces a very steep cut to get it out of the subs. [url="http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/a_detailed_explanation_of_the_aux_fed_subwoofer_technique/"]A helpful guide.[/url]
  3. Pretty much. That way it keeps all of the things that you don't want in the subs completely out. You lose all of the rumble that the guitar mics etc pick up that would normally be fed to the subs if all of the channels went to the xover. If you're xover allows it you should certainly try it.
  4. I was certainly one of them yes RR, I suppose we all hear things differently and we all play in different situations but I really struggled to be heard in a band. Plenty of volume, but it was all an indistinct mush. Obviously, many many people love the Streamliners, but there are just as many of us who run and cry. Really a polarising head.
  5. Nope. As with most things, you can get VERY VERY VERY close, but if you wants tubes, then you want tubes. I am more than happy to give up the last 1% of tube tone for my lighter, easier, cheaper and full-featured GK MB Fusion.
  6. If you want to make a massive difference to a middling pa system, look into aux fed subs. Really cleans up the tops and helps with clarity IME.
  7. [quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1366025094' post='2047344']- Whoever said that it has a ridiculous, unusable scoop either had a broken mid eq, or does not know how to use tone controls[/quote] Curious to know which of those two relates to me.
  8. Would love the cab, not coming to Newcastle anytime soon are you? :-(
  9. Is this still for sale Ash? Where are you based?
  10. [quote name='Nsoul' timestamp='1364644896' post='2029142'] Because not all the pedals are in front of overdrive, are they [/quote] Mine are. I use all my pedals in front of the very same amp, using both channels.
  11. I have one. Not overly enamoured if I'm honest. I'm sending it away for the clean low end mod, that might change my mind.
  12. You probably haven't done any damage, but yes pedals go in front of the amp generally. :-)
  13. Id find it hard to believe they don't want people buying their products. I have 2 and would have 2 more now if they were in stock.
  14. Cort Curbow, or maybe one of the newer copies. Can't vouch for the latter but the originals were brilliant. I only regret selling 2 basses, and that's one of them. EDIT - But you've bought an SGC, good choice too!
  15. don't really like fake relics either, but I'll admit at least yours looks like it was done through age. Most look reliced. And I hate it in a shop where 3 'old' basses have the exact same wear pattern. My Fender is 10, and as well as the battle scars there's a slight rub through to the wood where my forearm sits. Love it.
  16. Somebody made one on here a while back using a class D module. Like everyone else I just use the effects return on my amp when I need to.
  17. Yes, sorry I have edited the post.
  18. Kev bought a Zoom b9.1ut from me. Smooth transaction, good bloke.
  19. I was gonna suggest the Will Power and was pleased to see it already being discussed. There's one in my P that does mostly D# but three songs a night in C#. It sounds brilliant, really meaty and punchy. It's a specific thing, there's not as much warmth or subtlety as you normally set with a P but it does the 'rock with a pick', JJ Burnell thing really, really well. I can recommend Fender Nickel Tapers, too. .45-.110tw.
  20. I can understand some of this 'if you're paying covers you should be being paid' is simply because if there were enough good people playing for free nobody would pay the rest of us to do it. To specifically answer the question: I gig because I enjoy it and so that I can spend ridiculous amounts on gear and not feel guilty. As long as it's money I've earned from gigging who can complain?
  21. Looks like a [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/cat.html?gf=solid_state_bassheads&oa=pra"]Behringer[/url], it's new B-Stock but I haven't seen many used heads go for that.
  22. I have to admit to having done at least 3 or 4 'first one for free' gigs at local venues but we've always been pretty confident we would get other gigs out of it and so far it's worked and we've been re-booked every time. I dislike it intensely, (no, I'm not saying 'hate'!) but unfortunately I've been outvoted 4 to 1 so there it is. As a band though we're simply not doing gigs where the fee has any kind of variance. Absolutely NO 'percentage of bar takings' or 'people on the door' gigs. How do we know how many drinks the bar has sold? Those gigs where there isn't a set fee are the ones where the landlord is always adjusting. How many times have to heard "well that's £300 for you guys but you used the PA, the soundman needs his £50 and someone stepped on a monitor, so here's your £90." Nope. Agree a fee, have it in writing and stick to it.
  23. Jack

    Bongo Fever

    This isn't helping. Does anyone want my SR4?
  24. I don't buy that it's an eq thing. I keep the bass and treble on the bass low and the amp has flat bass and treble with both high and low mids boosted. GKs are middy anyway and my Barefaced stack is hardly mid-shy.
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