4 Strings

[quote name='bassist_lewis' timestamp='1403218427' post='2480976'] I'm based in Edinburgh, and not aware of any midget users nearby. Tbh I never have trouble hearing myself at gigs but I am almost always running the amp near full. [/quote] With the STL900 its the rig as me. I never have it anywhere near half and I've put a softer V1 valve in. You must have a really loud band! With two of them you'll virtually double the output of your amp too. No doubt, you have to drive a Midget hard, it's not for feint-hearted amps. However, I get complaints, from the drummer mostly, when I'm pushing it. The [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]'one trip from the car lug' is life changing![/color][/font]

Midget T + Compact here. Used them together only a couple of times as, tbh, the Midget does all I need on its own. Was thinking of selling them both to buy a new Super Midget and have done with it. The Midget T+Compact stack sounds incredible and is way louder than anything I've ever needed (especially using both virtually doubles to the output of the amp too). I used to use the Compact for bigger gigs, but I've braved it enough times with just the Midget and not once been left wanting so just use the Midget all the time. I use pretty dud strings on a Stingray (or Ruach with Stingray pups) and play Motown/soul mostly and it pours out the bottom end no problem. Needs a powerful amp to get the best from it. I know the Gen 3 BF cabs are supposed to be even better, but these older cabs are still incredible.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1401892264' post='2467923'] Do you remember a guy called Zac , think he had a PK50 Scooter? Think a big fella called Alan with a flat top , also worked there ? [/quote] (Bizarre - my youngest has a middle name Isaac and called himself Zac for a short while, and rode a PK50! In fact it's still here, good runner, anyone want to buy it?)

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1401887468' post='2467852'] [i]Musowear..?[/i] Is that a thing? [/quote] Ha! Hope not, just made it up as in the bike shop clothes were referred to as 'cyclewear'!

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1401886449' post='2467833'] It's already happened to music shops; remember when HMV used to have row after row of records on shelves? Now you have to fight past games, DVDs, silly plastic headphones and clothes before you can look at the meager supple of music. [/quote] True, but then that's because fewer and fewer people buy cds nowadays. Just glad they're still hanging on.

Roqsolid for me!

[quote name='bassman344' timestamp='1401886832' post='2467837'] Starbucks is getting the same. It isn't even called Starbucks coffee anymore - it's just Starbucks so they can sell tea, and hot chocolate, and porridge, and crisps, and other stuff that has nothing to do with coffee. Bit like premiership football, looks like it, smells like it but when you pay close attention it's just a prima-donna haircut and fake pirouette party to cheat your way to three points. [/quote] Ha! Maybe that's why I always meet my friends in a local greasy spoon before Leyton Orient games!

Walking to Newcastle Station, passed a shop with three nice looking dutch style bicycles in the window. Surrounded by clothes, I thought them props in a clothes shop. I was surprised to see it was "Start Cycles", a bike shop! The more I looked the more I saw racks of helmets, gloves, shoes, more and more clothes and, yes, there was a display of some new bikes, and then more and more racks of clothes. Only a few years ago the shop would have been showing off racks of bikes and then, somewhere, the clothes and shoes etc displayed. I wondered if it wouldn't be long before music shops selling predominately muso clothes (I don't know, pork pie hats, jolly roger heavy metal tee-shirts, Dr Marten boots, key rings for belt loops etc) with some musical instruments for sale in the corner would replace those with racks of guitars and piles of amps to which we have become used. I suppose when the turnover becomes 1/3 musical instruments and 2/3 musowear it's easy to see which display will become prominent. With more and more musical instruments being bought on-line I don't suppose it will be long.

Funny isn't it? totally different experiences from a similar product. I'm looking at my covers right now, my BF Midget cover has been thrown into the back of the car at least twice a week, mostly 2-3 times that for most weeks including being bundled around with pa and drum gear, and, apart from some white marks picked up from somewhere and the green piping looking a little grubbier in places, it's as new. Cab is unmarked, the cover fits perfectly (including the slightly off-centred handle) and looks set for an eternity of use. My experiences of own manufacture covers has been poor (and, admittedly limited), with them generally splitting up the seams and V shaped tears from sharp digs.

Only ever taken one bass. Always have a spare set of strings, screwdriver, fuses and goodness knows what else in the case pockets. Needed strings a couple of times in my life, never anything else though. Had an amp go down twice (yes, same one) in rehearsals but never suffered any other problem in over 30 years playing. The risk is low, not high enough to warrant spare basses/amps. I'm sure if I was a touring professional I would, but I'm not and appreciate travelling very light.

[quote name='bakerster135' timestamp='1401019489' post='2459148'] Not quite, the pre-amp's slightly different on the Classic, based on a pre-eb 78 'ray. There's quite a difference in the treble sound between the two. Also the Classic has through body stringing, though the jury's still out on whether that makes any difference... [/quote] Certainly regarding tone, but it's a better engineering solution. Don't the Classics have the slab bodies of the earlier 'Rays too?

Looks incredible!

[quote name='Mikey R' timestamp='1400433537' post='2453810'] No-one else has mentioned this - when I tried out a Ray, I found that you get the same sound whether you play soft or really dig in. I can see how this would be useful, but I didnt get on with it, I like to vary my sound by varying technique, which the Ray didnt respond to. But the Sterling really is a nice beast. [/quote] Maybe no-one mentioned it because they don't find this.

Just by a Midget. Almost all I ever use regardless of gig size

It's a cultural thing, isn't it? One that would stand some interesting investigation. That Ibanez isn't a bad looking bass and I'm sure plays and sounds great. But, there will be few people interested in a Stingray who would be also interested in an Ibanez. Could hardly say the Ibanez is bland but has no more than a passing interest for me. Is there something brutal, crude yet elegant about the 'Ray (and, indeed, most of Leo's creations) which the luxury of the Ibanez misses? Certainly the Ibanez might try to mimic the 'Ray's sounds etc, but never the other way round. Why is this?

[quote name='bh2' timestamp='1399728849' post='2447087'] I had to move on my 78... still brings a tear to the eye... I loved her... oh well. Some fellow in Spain plays it in a disco/funk band now. [/quote] Oh, yeh, .. the bass, mmm, yeh....

[quote name='matski' timestamp='1399547659' post='2445160'] Snap! Me too [/quote] Silly, same as mine bit it doesn't stop me being jealous of you! If I had piles of cash I'd find it difficult not to buy each one I came across.

It's an odd one. Could be favourite parts, could have been a swap from a fretless. Not sure if it reduces the value by much, but I suppose originality is everything. The older necks are the most important aspect, 1977 would have been one of the first (which means the early 1980 serial number came with the body). I really like it. I'll give you a monkey to take it off your hands!

[quote name='Brams77' timestamp='1399485986' post='2444736'] I actually have the original spare mute pads from the early 80s I bought it from a talkbass member a while ago for 6 dollar... They have already got adhesive undersides which helps:).. Anyway I can you this club with two basses actually I have a '78 refinnished in trans butterscotch amazing player and light 4,3 kg And I have a original black one comming my way that i'll have in tomorrow... That one has a replaced eb preamp and I'm not 100% the pickup is original or not... Never the less I always wanted a black one all the finish is original and it still has the original frets aswell.. And it's even lighter then the butterscotch one.. Cant wait If it is as good as the one I already got then it will be very hard to get the grin off my face everything I plug it in the comming weeks;) [/quote] No pics, no......

Bit difficult to comment on the sound at Brighton last night as I didn't hear too much of the pa being positioned here: [URL=http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/4Strings1/media/2014-05-05200814_zps668aba54.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o760/4Strings1/2014-05-05200814_zps668aba54.jpg[/IMG][/URL] However, thoroughly enjoyed the gig, one of those 'musical experiences' type gigs that will stay with me. Get to see them if you can. Mr League is an incredible bass player - on flats too! - but that's not the story.

They talked about a 500W micro amp, tried a few mockups but couldn't solve some of the issues. There's a thread on here somewhere following their progress. I was one of those eagerly awaiting, in the end I bought a Streamliner and not looked back while the Matamp version disappeared. I heard that none of the GB staff worked for Fender, who pinched the Class-D technology for their Rumble amps. Bit like Kraft promising to keep the major UK Cadbury factory running before they took them over, but closing it 1 week after. Can Fender be forgiven?

The interesting part of the number is [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]B016370 (not sure where the other digits come from?) a[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]nd f[/font][/color]rom here: http://musicmanbass.org/mycustompage0011.htm you can see it falls almost certainly to early 1980, but you can also see it's a bit hit and miss as the bridges were just picked out of a bin. The neck/pocket/pot dates are the only real way, but then they just tell you the dates those particular items were finished and, as has been said, many don't have the stamps on one or (like mine) either. The pots always do, but they may be somewhat older than the actual bass as they too were picked from a bin from batches delivered. I'd agree with £14-1600, although may be slightly less to actually sell. What's for sure is that you have an extraordinarily nice bass there and I'm sure you have your reasons for sale, I'm sure they must be good ones!

Bass full up Treble as a slap switch, i.e. mid way unless slap is need when it goes to 10. (I know, but sometimes get to do 'Some Other Guy') Mid as a subtle volume control. Around halfway, if I'm being lost in the mix up it goes and there I am, without just getting louder Any more knobs and I'm lost.

Yep, same reason for both buying those here.

Brighton on Monday for me