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[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1428933230' post='2746064'] "Standard" does not compute. [/quote] That is fair enough! I have no call for fretless, and for any songs that need a drop D/C/B, it takes a couple of seconds to sort that out for me

What Blue said made sense.... Shouldnt he be ringing back to see if he got the gig? Or, why don't you ring him and tell him he has got the gig, and then confront him? I must admit i would find it hard not to put the hurt on him.

I often talk about or hear about bassists having their own sound. I get that this is effected by technique, but a lot will be how you set up, and what your set up is. I have a Warwick Streamer Stage 1, that goes straight into my effect board. It is then daisy chained through a Boss tuner, a Sansamp and then into a Soundblox Multiwave distortion pedal. This then goes into my Aguilar Tonehammer 500, which is connected to 2 TKS112s. The EQ section will have drive at 9 oclock, and the gain at about 10. I set the mid freq to be at 1 oclock (high mids), and give that a little boost. Bass and Treble are at 12 oclcock. I'll adjust this depending on the room. The bass has a master volume which i back off max tilt a bit. I put the pickup pan to bias the jazz pickup at the bridge, then boost the bass a touch, and cut the treble with the onboard pre amp. It sounds better to me when i use the on board pre compared to EQ'ing it on the TH. This is my standard sound. I like the clarity of notes i can get by playing off the bridge jazz pickup, and the boost in bass EQ fattens it up nicely, IMO of course I change this only if i have to slap (only 2 songs), where i'll boost treble, and boost the master volume to make the sound more present in the mix. Or for songs where i feel it needs a bass heavier feel, i pan the pickup bias toward the neck "P P/up". So what's your set up? What's your sound?

Looking forward to seeing how this progresses!!

I am very pleased how they turned out. Go great with my '87 streamer too!

[URL=http://s674.photobucket.com/user/FuNkShUi/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20150125_183157.jpg.html][IMG]http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv109/FuNkShUi/Mobile%20Uploads/20150125_183157.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Here are my two. Taken in practice last night with my phone, so quality of photo isn't great, but they are

I've no experience with any TecAmp gear, so i can't comment on them. I have used a GB Streamliner 6.0 and i did like it. I always had it as a backup, and it never let me down. The tone was good. Very warm, and you could get it driven. Lightweight. Good class D amp. The amp i use is the Aguilar TH500. Love it. Very easy to use. Can go from clean, to driven to outright fuzzy. My favorite part is the Mids. Being able to select the frequency you want to boost/cut makes it very versatile. I've not played it through Vanderkleys, so i don't know how it would work with these (some cabs are voiced different to others), but overall i absolutely love it. I think the most common bit of advice you'll be given i to try and test these amps with your cab set-up. Everyones opinions will be valid, but it's yours that matter!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1428647532' post='2743313'] OR more pertinently, 'friends' or 'fans' put up a phone video...so you have no control over it. Fortunately, there is only one horror story I am aware of... but the rest I'll still not be that pleased about just in terms of an amateur production more than the band itself. [/quote] Yeh we had someone ask for a video of us playing, as a way of seeing if we were suitable for their wedding. Before we had a chance to respond to them personally (they had made the request on our facebook page) , a friend posted a video they had taken of us, on what must have been a potato it was so bad! I appreciate that they were trying to help, but they really didn't! On another note, we had a practice again last night, and were sounding much better IMO. Happy days.

Turn up and play. If it sounds good, and just fits, you'll know. If it sounds bad, and has a kind of tension to it, don't worry. you're playing jazz

I love that colour with matching headstock. Deeeelish

I was just thinking the same thing. Good height that man!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1428494588' post='2741752'] The more you know, the more you know you don't know. IMO. [/quote] This is so true. I thought i was at quite a good level 12 years or so ago when i was only self taught. I had a lesson, and i then realised how little i actually knew, and how much better i could/should be. "Get inspired" is good advice. A excellent teacher did this for me

Having previously owned a Big Twin, i cant imagine how loud 2 Super12Ts would be! Would probably be quite useful should you ever be constipated in the future though

[quote name='theyellowcar' timestamp='1428390789' post='2740726'] You won't hear me questioning their ability- it's obvious that they're incredibly talented musicians! My challenge in this case would be to Seymour Duncan to produce a 'straight' demo that showcases how the pickups sound when played with fingers/pick. [/quote] I agree with you on this!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1428351797' post='2740539'] I have NO issue with the drummer. [/quote] You do if you have issues with the bass player. They are brothers! Haha. I used to play with the drummer and can confirm, he is a incredible drumster

That's outrageous!! Isn't there a website you can track who the phone was registered by if you type in the phone number? Or like someone suggested, type it in Google, see what comes up? Gutted for you! Hope you get something sorted!

No offence caused at all. I'm sure the boys would laugh if they saw it too! Really I just wanted to put it in context a little and fight their corner, if nothing else. It's like I said, they are top musicians, this is only a snapshot of what they do. If this type of technical playing is what your into, this project of theirs is called 'kinky wizards'. Great name hahaha

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1428325375' post='2740198'] This is a particularly annoying example I found recently; SPB-3 Quarter Pound for P-Bass: http://youtu.be/XHUySLAjp0g [/quote] I know both of these boys. They are top notch musicians IMO, and good lads! I do take your point that as a demo for the pickups, they don't really show what they can do for standard finger type playing etc. But they were asked to demo like this because they'd been seen playing this kind of style. Although i dont want to give the impression i speak for them, i just wanted to give some understanding from their point of view really

The TKS cabs I went for are amazing. Tommy was brilliant. So helpful and accommodating. I ordered through Bassgear and they were equally brilliant. I think I've only seen one TKS cabs in the for sale section. In my opinion this isn't a coincidence. I have no cab GAS anymore