KennysFord

Every credit chaps, well done.

I'd say Sunbeams as well. I've not found any string that comes close if you want rounds and old school tone. They're very warm sounding and feel lovely under the fingers too.

Pretty sure Goerts "signature"basses are all Jazzers.

I've been looking at different amps to try as my current amp, a Yamaha BBT500H is a modeling amp and you have to play thru' a preset. I'm trying to get away from that so I'm trying to find something with a warm Old School kinda tone and my last trier, a GK MB200 was a little too modern sounding for me hence me trying the BH500. I got the amp today and first impressions albeit through a 16 ohm Ashdown 110 ......aren't that great. OK but not great. Bear in mind that I've only tried it thru' the Ashdown 110 at home up to now but I'll be running it thru' a Techsoundsystems ND212T at rehearsal tomorrow so will update then. With the tone set flat and "no contour" the sound is very sterile and lifeless and really lacking in warmth on all three of my Basses. With the contour switched on it does warm things up a tad but not as much as I was hoping. Tweetertone adds nothing but maybe that's because there ain't one in the cab. I'm hoping the Ashdown cab is at fault, bless it, it's only a basic 110 so we'll see more tomorrow I guess. Hopefully things will improve somewhat. Through the Ashdown cab my Yamaha BBT500H sounds warmer but the TC wins thru' the cans so hopefully that'll be the same when I play it thru' a decent cab. With my Ibanez Blazer (the musicman esc pickup type) thru' the Yamaha / Ashdowm the bottom end is surprisingly nice and fat and the mids are very burpy and jump out nicely but it's all lost thru' the TC, it just sounds MEH. Both My P and J Basses sound OK but again there's no real improvement over the Yamaha. Fingers crossed for tomorrow then I guess.

Here's me I got this: Enthusiasm for music - 70% Musical perception - 99% Emotional connection - 47% Social creativity - 70% Musical curiosity - 65% I'm a kinda 2 or 3 genre guy so maybe that put my enthusiasm down a bit and I too got some of the beat tapping things at medium. Oh dear !! I'm happy with the melody one tho', I got them all right.

I'm not sure what advice to follow re running this amp with two cabs. I've good results (to me anyway) running a 4ohm 212 cab with my 8ohm BFM 210 sat up top so the drivers are all vertical. I realise this is not the ideal but I like some volume at ear height, the Omni cab runs at less volume than the 212 which is good....to me. My current amp is designed to run at 2ohms but is the BH500 good for 2.67Ohms or whatever it is. Thanks in advance B-)

I think the Toneprint feature is pretty amazing, an effects pedal from your Mobile Phone, who'd a thunk it ! Reckon it's a pretty cool piece of kit, it might be ugly but who cares, it sounds pretty good.

Sad news, Sad day. R.I.P Soul Man.

Just pulled the trigger on one of these. £339 ex display. I've been looking for a suitable Old Skool sounding amp for The Blues Band and after quite a bit of research thought that it would do very nicely thankyou. I'll report back once I've put it through it's paces with the Techsoundystems 212. I'm thinking it will be a rather nice combination, well I'm hoping it will be

I keep going back to my £150 1980 Ibby Blazer, just love it to bits.

DR Sunbeams here. They get better the older they are, well to me anyway

Hi Folks, I've been looking at getting an Ipad2 for headphone practise, general muso stuff and app amp modeling etc etc and other general fun musical type stuff, sooooo Before I pull the trigger are there any android tablets i should consider just in case. I know there was an issue with lag on Android Gingerbread but that's old hat now I guess. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated before I go spending 300 odd I shouldn't of. Cheers.

Tim Just bought my GK Amp. He was a thoroughly pleasant chap from start to finish, very easy transaction. Thanks Buddy. Pete.

I prefer; Clip 2 Clip 3, Clip 1 I reckon 1st is the 71, 2nd is the 58 and the Mex is last. But what the hell do I know, nice chops.

Funny as hell, Marlowe was bloody spot on !! Hilarious.

Just spotted this one Dude, You have a fellow Frankie Beverly fan here bud, the guys voice is mind blowingly good. Thanks for posting this one up. Pete.