Marvin

I once had a Westone Spectrum 11. It was plainly sh*t, I hated everything about it. The colour, neck, body, pups, bridge, pots, tuners, shape.......

Whatever fits the band, the song and what you feel comfortable with. My pick playing is very wayward and is something I need to really work on.

Perhaps I read it wrong then. I thought it read that Steve Lawson hoped the major labels would cease to exist not that the labels hoped that Steve cease to exist. Maybe I'm wrong?

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1324060674' post='1470509'] The angle of dispersion is inversely proportional to the size of the source. That's the #1 reason why midranges are smaller than woofers, and tweeters smaller still. Guitars have most of their frequency content above 1kHz, where the dispersion of a twelve is rapidly collapsing. Worse, when two twelves are placed side by side their dispersion on the horizontal plane falls to that of a twenty-four inch driver.The simple solution is to use eights and tens, not twelves, and stack them vertically, for maximum dispersion on the horizontal plane. But, while most guitarists are acutely aware that their cabs beam, as with the weather they complain about it but no one really does anything about it. [/quote] Thank you Bill.

Absolutely no flexibility with my employer whatsoever. A real pain working saturdays as well. If I were to work through my break all that would happen is I'd get knabbed to still work to the end of my shift. Booking days off is a real nightmare, last week I had to book my leave for next year, up until April 2013, and there is talk of limiting availability. I've recently turned down an audition with an originals rock band because I couldn't commit to the gigs, some too far off and a lot midweek. My employer takes the stance that we shouldn't have outside interests it seems.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1324045515' post='1470200'] Bass cabs are omni-directional to about 250Hz, and don't beam much below 1kHz, so they're generally not hard to hear on stage unless cancellation modes mask their output.That's because most of their bandwidth is in the directional frequencies, and if their cabs have drivers placed side by side they're beaming through most of their range. The only solution is to have them in the monitors. [/quote] I sort of understand what 'beaming' is. This is a question out of sheer curiosity, how does speaker configuration affect beaming? Or what affect does speaker configuration have on beaming?

It would be better if I referenced like for like I suppose That would make the self build more appealing again.

I was looking at the [url="http://greenboy.us/fEARful/"]fEAful[/url] website and wondering whether to make a cab, so I estimated the cost and given the recommended drivers a 1212/6 would cost approx £600. Given you can buy a Barefaced Super12 for about £730 or a Genz Benz NEOX-212T for £700, is there much point in investing time and effort in a self build? Then one also has to consider resale if you ever needed to sell the cab. note: I had a go at a BFM and the angled cuts and internal gubbins made it a nightmare and I gave up on it

Darn there's no like button anymore Great news. All the best.

With regards how many tunes it is I have in my head...well, I do have the brain the size of a planet. Unfortunately it seems to be quite a small planet.

Talent is definitely inherited. I'm useless at playing the bass and so is my Dad, which is probably why he's never even touched a bass. I wished he'd told me before I'd spent good money on my gear.

It seems every time there is a 'is Basschat getting a bit dull' thread BBC gets mentioned, as if his return would breathe new life into the forum. It, he, wouldn't. He was just one contributor, that's it. There are others who no longer contribute, or can't contribute, whom I would much rather see return way ahead of BBC. I found BBC rather tedious and one dimensional in his contributions. Bored the arse of me his continual shitraking, to the point I didn't actually read his posts as they were so predictable. Basschat is described as a community, it takes more than one person to make a community.

[quote name='frostis' timestamp='1322237991' post='1448482'] Just listen to any solo by Alain Caron..... [/quote] Oh dear, what have you said? [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1322238178' post='1448487'] Who? [/quote]

I can't change the theme either. Odd. Seems to work fine otherwise though. EDIT: Tried Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, all are up to date. I can't change the theme on any of them.

When is the poll due to close? It's probably mentioned somewhere, but alas I'm struggling to find it.

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' timestamp='1321792691' post='1443022'] There is a question that needs asking. Apart from 'How do I transfer funds to your bank account Snicks?' What is the reputation system for? What's its purpose? You can follow that up with... Will the way the function is instigated achieve that purpose? At present, the system encourages me to be slightly lazy and click the arrow rather than responding with words, something already pointed out. It also confuses the voting for post or voting for person issue - again something already pointed out. I've just looked and I see I have a score way beyond what looks like any sensible totting up of my 'reputation'. Which begs the question: What are we really measuring? What is reputation? Whose measure of reputation? Stuffed if I know. It just all seems a bit arbitrary to me. However, it's not meant to be taken seriously is it? So it doesn't matter really. And I've just wasted 5 minutes valuable snacking time. Rectifying as a I type... nom... nom... nom Wanders off muttering....What is food? Why am I eating now? What is its real purpose? Why does bread mould taste so awful?.... [/quote] I like this. Ooops, should I have clicked on the little green arrow

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1321729964' post='1442575'] Nice one Marvin, glad to hear you have found yourself a band [/quote] [quote name='Linus27' timestamp='1321742157' post='1442726'] Top job Marvin [/quote] Thanks guys.

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1321752457' post='1442809'] How am I misreading the options? The first two options begin (and I quote) "Keep the reputation system but..." while the last one is "Deactivate the reputation system...". A & B are clearly the same option differentiated by a sub-proviso while option C is clearly their absolute antithesis. A & C can't be the same - C is against the use of Reputation System as a whole, while A is in favour of the system but against one of it's features. And (again) B is also in favour of the system but is not against either of the features. I do see how it can at first look unfair but the wording clearly stipulates that it is a vote to keep, or not to keep... but if kept there is a further condition to the choice. [/quote] The wording of the poll question though actually clearly stipulates which option the voter prefers. It's the poll question that's important to obtain the result. The poll question is 'Which option do you prefer'. It's a simple 3 horse race. Nowhere does it say the vote could be construed in the manner you're setting out. [color=#000000]You seem to be taking the option statements and turning them into the poll question. [/color] [color=#000000]We could have a discussion on whether the poll has been very well devised or on how the question has been phrased. However, it's been presented in a relatively straightforward manner hence I should imagine the upshot is is that it's first past the post poll.[/color] [color=#000000](holds back from say simples and doing meerkat impression)[/color] [color=#000000] [/color]

[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1321728301' post='1442527'] Not so. They are both in favour of the "like" option. The only division between those voting A & B is that the B voters are in favour of "dislike" too. [/quote] I think this is wrong and I dislike it

I have just voted, but I'm not saying where I stand, sit, kneel, lie or crouch on this issue. That is between me and my unconscious.

New covers band, only practised a couple of times. We did a small support slot, 5 songs, at The Olive Branch in Barnstaple. A very good first gig, we were all pleased and happy with it. The two main bands were quite young, 19 to 21, and so was most of the crowd therefore. Our few songs weren't really their cup of tea but we still went down very well. A glitch half way through the guitar solo of Rebel Yell actually did us a favour in a way, I think. The power to our amps cut out, our drummer kept going and did a sort of groovyish solo whilst we sorted out the problem, as soon as power was restored, about 30secs or so, we came right back in where we'd left off. We're thinking of keeping it in the set it went down really rather well As all the others, apart from my singer who is the same age as me, were about half my age, I did say to her that I was probably the only one performing who carries indigestion tablets in his gig bag A good time, hopefully there'll be quite a few more.

[quote name='gazzatriumph' timestamp='1321622402' post='1441305'] Hi, I was looking at buying a new fender rumble 150 amp, i have a MIM fender P Bass with rotosound swing bass nickel plated 45's, I would appreciate any helpfull comments and advice, it would be used for small to middle sized gigs and play joy division, cure, killing joke style music. Thanks. [/quote] I'm assuming you mean the combo and not simply the 150 head Fender do in the Rumble range. I've a 350 Rumble, they're about £100 more expensive and 10kg heavier . A good gigging combo, that does what I ask of it. My band has just one guitarist and a drummer (oh, and a singer ) and it's never been above 4, we play small to medium size gigs, rock covers. Not sure what it'd be like with another guitarist but then that almost always depends on the guitarist.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1321300748' post='1437568'] Thank you, female [/quote] Crumbs man! Where have you been?!! He's had that there for ages BTW, never heard of the band

I have 2 basses set up identically. Well, the actions may be slightly different But the tunings are the same.

Damn! Wish I'd read this before, I've just disliked someone's comment I didn't mean to. Sorry.