skidder652003

if I were you, I would look at the excellent range of used cabs on sale here rather than spending new, especially Ashdown stuff.

No effect whatsoever IMO, had both castors and rubber feet, exactly the same. Snake Oil for the modern bass player.

[quote name='mingsta' timestamp='1462221663' post='3041298'] Yeah, the drummer doesn't need a monitor as he has his own mix from the desk going in to his headphones with the rest of the band in but no drums. He then mixes to taste with his drum and click when this gets to his drum unit. I'm now leaning more towards getting a 12inch wedge monitor such as the Thomann The Box Pro Mon A12. [/quote] I wouldn't recommend those Thomman "box" wedges, a bit underpowered IMO. We picked up a pair of active RCF art 310 PA speakers which are designed to be used as wedge monitoring and are incredibly loud, you can find em used for about £300 a pair if you look around

[quote name='Chownybass' timestamp='1462092984' post='3040130'] I don't think the game has changed either. People like Scott and I are never going to be able to make - for instance - a jazz bass and compete with Squire. They make a solid instrument at an economy of scale that we could never HOPE to compete with. What we can do - is fill up the niches with well thought out and soundly constructed instruments. When making stuff in smaller runs, the things you'd cut to save money when manufacturing thousands, don't really matter. Want a bone nut? Sure why not. Doesn't affect my bottom line particularly much. So with no distributors taking a margin, and doing our own distribution, it's perfectly feasible to make a musician friendly instrument at a good price and of good quality - as long as we work in the niches. That's not to say we're not going to try stray outside them from time to time. It's not for the faint hearted though There is a gap in the market for us at the moment to get stock into independent stores, as a few don't want to deal with the major brands at the moment. Agile brands like us, that can be flexible on stock levels, price and so on will always find a way to wiggle into the gaps. I've often considered blogging about what it takes and took to get Chowny off the ground. But then I think I'd be the only one interested in reading it. [/quote] Now I have gas for your NT-J bass, thanks a lot! http://chownybass.com/product-category/nt-series/

great song, very Bowie!

they're quite often 8ohm so you can pair them up and go down to 4 ohm if you fancy playing bigger venues. For most pub gigs one cab is enough so a 4 ohm cab is fine, to be honest an 8ohm cab on its own is also fine as the actual difference in volume isn't all that great, but the real experts will be along soon enough....

Untill I have the opportunity to touch cloth, I wouldn't want to commit.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1461531957' post='3035527'] Duff reasoning. If he bloke nicked an OBBM cable, he would break no more. Get two, then, and let him swipe one. There; problem solved. No need to thank me. [/quote] very good but regretfully he has several cables, guitar to pedals, pedals to pedals, pedals to amp, all sh*t, he will appropriate and collect...no more, it must end (he doesn't even get a round in after rehersal and we've been going for 6 years), Im a diplomat and a compromiser.

[quote name='Malcspring1' timestamp='1461523549' post='3035415'] Well after many recommendations I bought one from OBBM. Bombproof build quality fast delivery and to say that it is a top notch cable it was very reasonably priced. Thanks to all for your assistance. I really appreciate it. [/quote] good call! I would order more but the guitard's cables always break and he pinches mine, so no way am i spending good money on that f**kstick's lazyiness.

from the OP it sounds like you have a decent bass and a great amp but a pretty awful speaker, there's the weak link, the elephant in the room! If I wasn't going to ditch the lot and start again, my route would be to upgrade the speaker to (probably) something barefaced, and a great DI pedal for lots of options with blending with FOH, obviously Im a bit biased, but a DHA pedal is the mutts nuts for grit and "dark"

bloody hell, not again!

Another OBBM fan here, needed a monster thick speakon for my valve amp to speaker, supplied a superb cable, not too expensive, twice as good as anything commercially available.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1461164395' post='3032060'] Things to avoid:[list=1] [*]What key was this one in? [*]Oh, I never listened to that. [*]I'm playing the 'Live In Newton Abbott' version off YouTube ... haven't you checked that out? [*]I thought we might do this one reggae-style. [*]I don't worry too much about tuning - it's only pub rock, right? [*]I find that envelope filters work with pretty much everything. [*]Who the feck forgot to bring the beers / can you skin up in here? [/list] [/quote] Hey dont knock the live in Newton Abbot version on YouTube-thats me!

This will happen when the cat burns his arse on the ice....

https://www.lemonrock.com/venues.php?a=search&venSearchType=1&maxMilesVenue=20&giglocation=Taunton%2C+Somerset&EC_giglocation=27839

no but we play to loads of silent audiences, does that count?

Thats completely immoral, and possibly illegal, deffo never play there again and make it known as much as possible on social media, outrageous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNe6J5v2OGc&nohtml5=False i cant hear any difference!

wow, lots of quitting going on! Ive been in the same gigging band for getting on 6 years now, and they were the first 2 blokes who answered my ad! I guess i got lucky although we have our differences now and again, but i have been pretty flexible when it comes to choosing songs, getting the round in, not mentioning the smelly trainers and general twatiness of the other 2...!

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1460377007' post='3025081'] Why not, if they've paid for it? Maybe I misunderstood. [/quote] i think paypal would refund the "buyer" thier money once they had recieved it and then went on to inform paypal it was broiken, not sold as advetised, wrong colour etc etc...

not sure if its considered bad as such, but it sounds rubbish to me in a band mix, would never consider it myself but some more of the "out there" members here might!

You should have it on standby for probably at least 20 minutes before you fire it up, and also when you switch it off, leave for 20 minutes (if possible) to cool down before you move it. In other words, make it the first thing you do when you arrive at gigs or rehersals!

For rehersals I plug mine into a 1500W poweramp then into my Ampeg 410 HLF, it sounds absoloutely great. For gigging it goes into the SVT-CL, again sounds amazing, total tube heaven