Marvin

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1234716' date='May 17 2011, 06:53 PM']Mine are whatever sounds best in the room I'm in. Since every room is different acoustically my settings are different in every room .[/quote] [quote name='thodrik' post='1234831' date='May 17 2011, 08:22 PM']It depends on the amp, the bass, the room I'm in, the cab I am using, the state of my strings, effects pedals I am using and the type of music I am playing. On each of my amps the 'flat' settings produce entirely different sounds, so the whole thing turns into a 'how long is a piece of string?' debate. Sometimes you can get great sounds of amps that sound terrible (to me anyway) with everything in the twelve o'clock position or without any pre-shapes or eq settings (Ashdown/Trace Elliot). I think that the trick is spending time with the amp so you can work out what works and does not work for you. It is not a sin to alter the amp eq to get a sound you like, in fact that is what the knobs and sliders are generally there for. One of my amps sounds great with minimal eq boosts and without any pre-shapes, whereas the other requires some button pressing. I frankly don't care either way as they are totally different amps with different characteristics.[/quote] Both of these. Yes.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1234729' date='May 17 2011, 07:06 PM']Room for a little one you two?[/quote] Cripes this sofa's getting full

I can't comment on the Marshall as I've never used one. I've got a Rumble 350. It sounds very good (when it's not in our rehearsal room - which we now refer to as the room of doom due to it's dreadful acoustics) and has quite a wide range of sounds. Lots of features. Is it loud? Yes. My drummer is quite loud (loudest I've come across) and my guitarist can crank it up. I haven't gigged it yet but at one rehearsal we were insanely loud and the volume dial wasn't even at 3. However, I don't know what it'll do at a gig but I've got some room to play with. The only thing I would like to have seen is the possibility to extend it with another cab. It's a good combo and I'm happy with what I got for my money.

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='1232057' date='May 15 2011, 02:59 PM']I thought Islington was supposed to be deepest red![/quote] Perhaps they coined it a few years ago when people were struggling to tell the difference

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1231775' date='May 15 2011, 11:17 AM']A fancy name to try and persuade you to buy what is in reality a rather dull coloured bass.[/quote] I agree. Found another daft one - [url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/bass-collection-jive-bass-islington-blue/43326"]Islington Blue[/url]

[url="http://www.gak.co.uk/en/yamaha-rbx374-mustard-pearl/16269"]http://www.gak.co.uk/en/yamaha-rbx374-mustard-pearl/16269[/url] Mustard Pearl? I've never heard anything of it's like before.

Damn! I thought you may have tabbed that song by Hue and Cry.

[quote name='Dad3353' post='1225640' date='May 9 2011, 10:16 PM']Does your Mum ever talk about Jerry Garcia with a trembling voice..? [url="http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/bickershaw-menu.html"]Bickershaw Festival, 1972...[/url] ...on the other hand, if you're redhead, I disown you outright...[/quote] No. She's never been that far north and has never uttered the name of Jerry Garcia

[quote name='Dad3353' post='1225625' date='May 9 2011, 09:58 PM']@Marvin... Where was your Mum in April, 1972..?[/quote] Could have been Bristol. Dad?

[quote name='icastle' post='1225484' date='May 9 2011, 07:51 PM']No. No No. No No No. Are you and Dad3353 related by any chance? [/quote] No.

[quote name='icastle' post='1225469' date='May 9 2011, 07:39 PM']Is that for real of has it been reliced? [/quote] Reliced indeed. It's Road Worn.

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='1221769' date='May 5 2011, 11:26 PM'][attachment=79163:osama_bi...ead_body.jpg][/quote] You do some rough gigs.

I'd probably go for it.

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='1220717' date='May 5 2011, 10:17 AM']Allow me to help, once upon a time, televisions, or TVs as they are known colloquially used to use things called Valves, also known as Tubes (honestly, we should know these things, we are bass players) in order to work. Some people here are old enough to remember such things (not me, I am just historically minded enough to know pointless sh*t like this). Marvin was making a pun or play on words about this very real situation. It was mildly amusing </jokegeekmode>[/quote] Terribly kind of you to say it was mildly amusing, I doubt others would be so kind

[quote name='BottomE' post='1220029' date='May 4 2011, 04:43 PM'][/quote] Sorry, you'll have to excuse my atrocious sense of humour.

[quote name='BottomE' post='1220004' date='May 4 2011, 04:10 PM']Keep forgetting to watch it - i miss the Tube[/quote] Buy a modern telly, they haven't got tubes

[quote name='KK Jale' post='1219306' date='May 3 2011, 10:41 PM']'Kin 'ell... just how appallingly, unspeakably, irredeemably flat does Adele sing?[/quote] [quote name='goblin' post='1219364' date='May 3 2011, 11:41 PM']If you listen to Rolling In The Deep carefully enough on Spotify, especially the Acapella and Instrumental, you'll realise just how lazy the band are too. I can do a better job of it with a couple of mates and the copy of Audacity I've got on my netbook![/quote] Comments like this really do sum up BC members sometimes. I'm looking forward to your rendition of Rolling In The Deep with much anticipation

I've just replaced the D'Addarios on my bass with Fender 7150 Nickels and tbh.........all I can tell is they are a set of new strings. Only differences is maybe less finger noise and they sound marginally 'warmer'. Although I'd have to clean the D'Addarios up to see how bright they really are. The Fenders feel slightly smoother as well I'm crap me

[quote name='paul h' post='1217812' date='May 2 2011, 05:44 PM']Now I'm finally gigging again I feel like I can join in![/quote] Cool! That Retrovibe looks good mate. And welcome back. I was just wondering the other day where you were. EDIT: I'm old enough and uncool enough to use the word cool and not be bothered whether I get away with

I had to really think about this one, it's been about 6 weeks since I sat down to learn a song. So, it was either. Alison Moyet's, All Cried Out (with some extra fills ) or Avril Lavigne's My Happy Ending (with some fills taken out, because my fingers are old ) Also had to refresh my memory about playing Message In A Bottle. Simple but I love playing it, I just do

Watched last night's edition. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't listen to any of the artists that were featured so perhaps I wasn't expecting anything. Performances were all very good I thought, Ron Sexsmith was a bit shaky but he wasn't awful. Really nice to see Avery Sunshine's bass player playing a Squier, and he played it very well

Cracking stuff mate. Really pleased for you.

[quote name='silddx' post='1214819' date='Apr 29 2011, 01:03 PM']My POD X3 LIVE. I'd be lost without it.[/quote] Is it a Sat Nav?