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hes defintely not someone i know a whole lot about but i seem to remember seeing a gear video from when he was in the who where he said he was using those because he didnt like the feel of rounds, and they were bright

depends on your play style and the type of music! i think slower doomy stuff you can get away with lower tension and it being floppy. my band plays in c and i just use power slinkies (55 to 110), the tensions low i think thats about the minimum you need for it to not go out of tune when you pick. if its more precise? music if you get what i mean, faster stuff i think you need the tension. probably best way to go would be a light 5 string set and dont use the g string

The sound city seems to be doing pretty good for sure! I'm a little paranoid it'll go bang one day but we shall see. Honestly I think I've overestimated the wattage I'd need, I saw eyehategod in Bournemouth this Tuesday gone and Gary had a 900 watt dark glass head and he had the volume less than half... Mega loud!

Honestly I was looking for something smaller and lighter than the sound city I have, but it cropped up on Facebook and it distracted me...

Thanks for the wisdom, I'm glad I asked! Honestly i didn't know about the wattage on cabinets, I just assumed you want at minimum the wattage of the amp for the cabinet considering Id be using it mostly with rehearsal room cabinets that's definitely something that could have been a problem.

I may throw my wanting something lighter away... I've been offered a pretty fair price on a marshall vba400, do you guys think that'd be a good doom amp? On paper I reckon it should be great, but you don't really see many people in the scene using one

from rehearsal yesterday, only the second time we've played together and things are going well! its my first time ever being in a band

gave it a go today, it goes alot louder than i thought... definetely loud enough! though something lighter would still be good but ill definitely hold off on something new for the moment

try the yellow dunlop tortex triangles, same material and thickness but alot bigger.

aah ive only run it through a 2x12 before, ill try it next practice through a bigger cab! it is vaguely original the weird preamps not been modified to my knowledge and its still got the huge partridge transformers but im not sure about the valves, the guy who helped me fix it bought those but i think they were new...

thanks all, ill hold off on going for anything soon, id really like to try keep spending under 250 or so, sounds like the laney digbeth or an ashdown abm600 are a decent bet to go for and i think ive seen those ashdowns pretty reasonably priced before so ill keep an eye out. definetely see how my sound city goes over the weekend through the 4x10 at the rehearsal space and maybe ill just keep running that, my only fear is it crapping out but i guess cross that bridge when i come to it

hey! managed to get myself in a band with some people at uni, does anyone have any cheaper amp recommendations, ideally on the lighter side. ive got an old sound city b120 i found broken and fixed up, but i dont think its really loud enough and its about 25kg to lug around if we can get gigs in the future. the orange stuff (ob1 500 or terror bass) is interesting but on the expensive side, ive also seen alot of cheaper peavey stuff, seems theres a few peavey tour 700s around anyone have any experience with those? ill give the sound city a go at practice this weekend see if it competes, guitarist has an orange super crush head that was pretty loud and he only had it halfway up and the warwick head the rehearsal space had was struggling to keep up. thanks!

hi, id like to start trying to record rough versions of songs ive written, at home. id really like to start a band, i tried asking in my unis music group but nothing came of it so I was thinking if i had some basic recordings of a few songs would be good to add onto an advert. so i was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a microphone would be a decent all rounder for guitar bass and vocals, it would mostly be doom metal so bass and guitar with alot of distortion and id like to try and learn how to sing distorted. ideally something affordable that id be able to get used, hopefully £100 or less that would do an ok job at everything, it doesnt have to sound perfect just ok for demo ey type things. i was thinking about a shure 58, but not sure if it would be better to go for something different thats more instrument focused, ive heard good things about audio technica stuff too. also any recommendations for an affordable interface and whatever other things id need to start recording would be appreciated as well as any advice on programming drums. thanks in advance, leo : )

mines somewhat smaller compared to everyone else... but hey im not ashamed. fernandes lawsuit thing and fender deluxe jazz bass

the warwick corvettes horn...

enlarged the pickup hole and still having the same issue, problem only happens when i screw the pickguard down and when i do so the pickguard between the top of the neck pickup and bottom of the neck bulges upwards. ive attached a picture but its quite hard to see. i think maybe the different pickguard has the pickup route minutely closer to the neck than the original and maybe the bottom of the pickup plate is getting caught on the edge of the pickup route. might try taking a hacksaw to it and cutting off a little bit of the bottom plate when i next go to visit my parents but i think for now i might put the original white pickguard back on.

hi, so i changed the pickguard on my fernandes rb80 rickenbacker copy and i just cant seem to get the neck pickup to sit flat. it was fine with the old pickguard. the pickup is a little tight in the hole in the pickguard but not massively could it be that or would it be crappy springs and lack of foam?

sorry to hear its still not showed up, hopefully you hear something soon! same colours as the fernandes copy i play with the black pickguard / white truss rod cover, although was the pickguard painted black looks like its worn through to white in the picture or is that a sticker?

haha, i can imagine!

wow matamp! thats my dream amp for sure