Muzz

I've heard the fan on mine, but I wouldn't describe it as intrusive, and certainly not 'air-raid siren'. Sounds like there might be an issue with the amp? What were the circumstances of the fan kicking in? Rehearsal, hot room, driving it hard? Could you hear it over the band?

Hey Lozz, if you'd mentioned you were thinking of running two S12Ts at a pub gig, I'd have driven the 250 miles just to watch the drummer's face...

I've had both, and I preferred the USA Rays, but then I'm a sucker for satin maple necks (I always wash my hands before playing, so none of my Ray necks ever got grubby at all) and I really don't like painted necks. As above, though, I'd never buy a new one given the secondhand prices you can get them for. Another shout for John East's preamps (on anything - I have three basses with U-Retros) - that sweepable mid gives so much control on the bass it's amazing.

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"...which showed our next gig as being 3 weeks ago - so only Dr Who could see it."[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Genius. [/font][/color]

I'm on my third Barefaced cab now, only changed them for cabs which got closer to my goals of ultimate portability and versatility. Only ever heard one 'industry professional' slag them (the whole range/concept/maker) off, and that was, at his own admission, without ever testing one. All I ever get from people who actually hear them (and then lift them) is head-shaking admiration. Haters are, it seems, gonna hate...

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1354970450' post='1892453'] Bonham the younger is pretty handy. [/quote] Jason is now 16 years older than his Dad ever was...a sobering thought...

[quote name='TPJ' timestamp='1416483893' post='2610630'] I'm looking forward to hearing how well it works with your Duke. Curious how well it will do high volume. [/quote] I gigged mine for the first time (the day I received it) in an RAF hangar, on a raised hollow stage, and it was very very good. Had an hour free this morning to play about with EQ and stuff, set it up in the house and didn't touch the settings from where I'd left it at the gig. Hit an open E, everything rattled, stuff fell off shelves, the sofa set off across the floor and the cat f**ked off like a shot. It was plenty loud enough... Seriously, though: an astonishing 1x12. For reference, I'd had the Markbass F1 Gain at about eleven o'clock, and the Master just past noon...

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1416341979' post='2609268'] To be fair, that's just Vic performing at a gear show, probably for a bunch of fawning bass players I imagine. He's the first person to state that it's just 'fireworks', and whilst it partly pays his bills, he's perfectly aware if what it is (or isn't) Si [/quote] Quite. And look at the stick poor old Nige Clutterbuck gets...

[quote name='dudewheresmybass' timestamp='1416427123' post='2610151'] I've seen the double neck bitch, but I wasn't aware of a double neck mockingbird in association with Derek smalls [/quote] Dammit, you're right - Bich it was...

Derek Smalls' double neck [s]Mockingbird[/s] Bich...it's probably a moral failing on my part, but I've wanted that bass for thirty years...

I've never had one, but I believe the handles are rubbish...

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1416242939' post='2608229'] Lovely-looking bass... but if you just listen to it rather than watching, it sounds very like a Fender (or cloned) J bass with both pickups full-on. To my ears, anyway. [/quote] I have to say I agree - if that's a signature sound, it's pretty generic. On the other hand, the playing doesn't exactly showcase the sound - I played the first minute, then skipped to near the end - does he just keep doing the same thing all the way through?

Making a song seem easy and sound good can be very hard...

I've had lots of PJs and nope, with the P pup soloed, the J has no effect (assuming the wiring's all sound). With 2 pickup basses I use the neck (usually a split/P pup) only for 90% of the time, but I like to have the option to run them both for a more scooped sound on the rare occasions I need it. I never, ever use the J soloed.

A location might help?

OK, I'll quote somebody else then: "Is that as hard to play as it is to listen to?" Try that at a jam night round our way and watch how long it takes for the drummer to start playing over it... I used to have a picture of Yngwie Malmsteen gurning on a small stick that was used in a Yellow Card kind of way at rehearsals for the guitarist...this is in the same league...

We do mostly weddings and functions where the money's very much worth it, if we're filling up the calendar with pub gigs we go out as a trio which increases the number of gigs we can do because the cheaper ones are then still viable money-wise. A wedding as a trio is even better... I also enjoy the different skill set and vibe needed for a trio, even from a four-piece.

They'd have to design one a lot differently to make me want to pick one up

OK, so in my constant search for the perfect luggable small cab, I picked up a BB2 on here this week, and it arrived just in time for a gig last night at RAF Leeming, so I threw caution to the wind and took the cab untested straight to the gig. Result. The gig itself was a 300-man crowd, we were on a raised stage in a huuuge hangar, normally a recipie for disaster (luckily I'd remembered my Gramma-tastic foam), but the cab was frankly astonishing - I could hear every note (not always a good thing with me ), no matter where I was standing, and although I'll need to have a good play to re-EQ properly, it performed very well at very short notice. A very perfunctory twiddle with the tweeter control did indeed perform as has already been noted in a different way to a lot of tweeters I've previously used (and mostly turned off) - it's more a subtle voicing change. The output level using my F1 (cranked louder than I normally run) was more than enough to sit with our big-hitting drummer, and just for giggles I muted myself at the desk for a number, and I was still there in the mix. After the gig the drummer offered to carry it to the van. It looks like I may have finally found my ideal gigging cab.

Well, that was a minute of my life I'll never get back...to quote someone or other: 'Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...'

I had a brand new Schroeder arrive via courier (I wasn't at home, it was accepted for me) with a ding to the packaging and something big rattling round in it. Turned out it was the magnet off one of the speakers... I've also had a Mesa head arrive almost lozenge shaped at one end, thanks to the courier. Both were sorted out, but some couriers can wreck anything...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1415563880' post='2601524'] A G-K MB500 Fusion and a Schroeder 1212L. Done. [/quote] This. Or a Streamliner instead of the Fusion. Or a 1515L instead of the 1212L. Or a Compact instead of either. Or a BB2. Any of these will keep up with a rock/loud drummer. Small amp, single light cab. Done.

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1415523130' post='2601041'] Well that's a great suggestion because if you have it shipped, the cost of shipping ,VAT, and import duty will cost you about the same as the trip to collect it. [/quote] You'd still get hit for Import Duty and VAT bringing it in yourself, though...what you're saving is the shipping element.