Merton

[quote name='walbassist' post='13570' date='Jun 7 2007, 01:11 PM']Hi Luke One of the bands I play in is a function band. When we started off six years ago we played gigs for a max of £600-£800 just to get on the circuit and build a reputation. Plenty of social club gigs too, but they were soul destroying! From the start we were a slick outfit, with a truly special lead singer as the focal point for the band. We registered with loads of agents but little work came from them and now almost all the gigs we do are from referrals, repeats, and word of mouth. Six years on we earn a lot more than the £600 per gig we started. Sure we do the odd cheap (and, for charity, free) gig, but for the most part we can charge full whack because we always come highly recommended. That sounds arrogant but isn't meant to be; we have faith in our product and our clients do too. So, my advice is start out cheap and make sure the band works well as a unit, if it does then you can go far pretty quickly. Best of luck! Gareth[/quote] Similar. We've been together since 2003 and started off between £450 and £700, now we're never going out for less than £850 unless it's a friend or charity and 95% of our work comes from recommendation.

[quote name='tombboy' post='9745' date='May 31 2007, 10:29 AM']Cliff Williams - tighter than a gnats you know what! Chris Childs - Thunder. Great melodic runs. Pat Badger - Extreme. Great tone and technique.[/quote] +1 to all of these, good call(s)

Top five eh? Well, I'm slighty pished coz just come back from the pub, but that's no excuse. My biggest influences have been (in no particular ordr within this group of five, sorry): Cass Lewis Jeff Ament Doug Wimbish Marcus Miller Robert DeLeo and bubbling under: Steve Harris Mike Starr (original AiC bassist) Cliff Burton

Pics pics pics - don't worry about getting your bits out to show everyone, we're all friends here. ANd let's face it, having a V8 is like having Dirk Diggler's schlong.

Freddie Washington I believe

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='6693' date='May 25 2007, 06:02 PM']Can we breed them with the Essex boys? Iceni Zoot Chaser Prototype. Trace AH300 (sort of) 2103h (nearly) 1153 [/quote] Crikey, an Essex family. Imagine. Awesome

[quote name='binky_bass' post='6603' date='May 25 2007, 04:03 PM']Good to see a decent collection of basses in essex! thought i might be the only bassist in essex who actually knows the instrument. its good to see a fellow essex player! heres a pic of whats soon to be my cherished slag![/quote] Hello mate, I'm not actually in Essex, it's coz they were all born there tis why they are Essex girls! I'm afraid I've taken them to deepest darkest smelliest Surrey. Well, Redhill, anyway... Your new bass looks niiice - are there pics in the Build Diaries forum?

[quote name='overwater#1' post='5811' date='May 24 2007, 03:16 PM'] Trace Elliot!!!!! AH400SMX, 1048, 1153, Early (70's?) GP11 1x15 combo...[/quote] No, early 80's mate. Not sure there's anything in existance from the '70s, they only really started up 1978 IIRC? But anyhoo, lovely

[quote name='Phaedrus' post='5041' date='May 23 2007, 11:20 AM']Careful there - Eden's Nemesis combos put out their full power before an extension cab is hooked up. Their outputs are actually lower when an extension cab is hooked up. I'm not aware of any other amps that are wired like this, but there could be. Mark[/quote] That they are. But Mike has an Ashdown combo I think?!!

[quote name='parker_muse' post='3990' date='May 21 2007, 10:55 PM']Isn't this merely a 'lets give the newies who haven't got money or a big rig GAS' thread?[/quote] Yes, yes it is. Well, in fact, it's a "let's give everyone GAS" thread. I'm beginning to feel like I need a Marbass rig or something ickle at the mo.... Or an Ampeg stack. Or maybe an Eden thingy.

Main amp is the V-Type combo, so that would be a hybrid. I guess the 12-band is almost a hybrid (same theory as john_the_bass!). Oooh, recording with both tomorrow: V-Type - gonna be mixing the DI'd pre-EQ signal with a mic'd signal, wohoo! 12-band - DI post EQ Well, that's my little egg of a theory anyway

Function band - have our own Macki PA and a soundman. Originals - whatever's in the venue, unless we need to provide something in which case the drummer has a small vocal PA.

I suspect that the early Trace's had wadding then when Kaman took over the costs were decided to be too high and the wadding was removed. In the next couple of months mine are both going to have some put in them, when i get round to it....

[quote name='Linz' post='3630' date='May 21 2007, 02:47 PM']I lived in Haroldslea Drive, then got married and went downmarket to Thornton Close (near the Swimming Pool) - only good thing about that address was it was a short crawl across the playing field to the 6 Bells Pub! Do you mean 40-odd or 40 odd people? Caterham's easier to get to from the M25 than Redhill - its just off J6.[/quote] 40 odd people, definitely. Hell, we'll all be talking bass!! Not sure there's much in it between Redhill and Caterham from M25 Jcts 8/6 respectively to be honest. Ah well, I'd better carry on thinking of locations....

Earlier Trace's used Fane speakers, I think they changed over in the late 80's/early 90's to Celestion, though someone else on here (DrP please!!) may be able to give more accurate dates. AFAIK, none of the Trace speakers ever had wadding in, mine certainly don't. [quote name='stevebasshead' post='3640' date='May 21 2007, 01:50 PM']I have an old Trace Elliot 1518 cab which I've had for about 6 years now. I don't know how old it is but it's from sometime before they carpet covered them and I had reason to take the speaker out last week. It turns out it's a Fane whereas I was expecting a Celestion - was I wrong or do you think the previous owner(s) changed it ? Could this be why it sounds brighter than I was expecting for a 15 inch cab ? Also, there was no sound damping wadding at all in the cab, does anyone know if there should be ? Thanks in advance, Steve.[/quote]

[quote name='Linz' post='3579' date='May 21 2007, 01:03 PM']Thats no-where near Caterham! I used to live in Horley, plus I went to school (eons ago!) in Whyteleafe so I remember the Angel. Lucky you, nice place to live. Back to the topic - Oxted County School might have a big enough hall - the school's huge... Plus the pubs in Old Oxted are worth a trawl, and its on a main trainline from London.[/quote] Hehe, but methinks Graham has links to a school in Caterham y'see. It's not that far, only about a 10/15 minute drive from good ol' Redhill. Sorry for thread hijack, but whereabouts in Horley? I spent a whole 6 weeks living there before going back Redhill way... Back OT, the Harlequin has a few Saturdays free but none when I am free. The function rooms can hold 100 people max due to fire regs and size, but with gear etc that would be about 50 people tops. Might be a bit small and uncomfortable if we really do get 40-odd people.

I have a Status Retroactive J which is grand - given you're in lovely Reigate drop me PM if you wanna come try it

When I was in InSoFar we got endorsed by Dean so I got a Dean Edge Q4 bass for cost price, and we got endorsed by Rotosound, so I got lots of sets of strings with discount. No longer in the band, no longer have the deals but not really bothered. I have better basses now (tho I do want to get another Edge at some point coz it was a fine bass for the money) and I can get strings from Status for about 50p a set more than the Rotosound deal.

Here's my "big rig": [attachment=195:rig.JPG] TE AH300-12, 2103H and 1153, plus my Status Groove 5 And here's my "little rig": [attachment=196:vtype.JPG] TE V-Type Combo

[quote name='Geejay' post='2564' date='May 20 2007, 12:02 AM'] Pleased to join in. I live near Merton, in Deigate, the posh bit of Deadhill. I will try to help with a venue if I can. How many are we likely to need to fit in? I can probably get the use of a small school hall in Caterham. Schools have the advantage of parking although not always next to the hall![/quote] Whereabouts? I'm right on the border, near the Hatch pub

[quote name='jwbassman' post='1508' date='May 18 2007, 03:55 PM']Other - Overwater Progress III Fretless 5 - guess this could also be considered custom as I selected the woods and hardware etc, with a bit of guidance Have any you guys heard of Overwater?[/quote] Yes. Cracking basses!

[quote name='MB1' post='1467' date='May 18 2007, 03:09 PM']MB1. other please state STATUS KINGBASS ARTIST the best of british accept no substitute! all the best MB1.[/quote] Other - Status as well! But not a Kingbass, tis a Retroactive J, or a Groove, depending on what colour the tie is which Jon Snow wore the night before on the Channel 4 news.

Why not just add a speaker cab, then you'll be using your amps full power and moving more air? You can slave two together, I've done it in the past and it's been fine - either use fx send or line out, just be careful that the input to th e2nd amp isn't overloaded.

[quote name='funkysimon' post='1352' date='May 18 2007, 12:42 PM']Hmmm, I can't remember whether the dial that controls the valve section is a mix 0%-100% valve tone or whether it's 0%-50%, i.e. the dial brings it to the same level as the solid state. You can turn the valve stage on and off though, and the amp works in both modes, so I assume the valve isn't totally dead. Eee, and I thought I'd only be worrying about the valves in my guitar amps [/quote] The valve dial on your amp controls the amount of gain the valve cct gives. So the further to the right it is, the more gain and the more clipping. It's a "drive" level rather than a "mix" level. I reckon the valve will be fine, it'll just be the sh1tty Sovtek stock job. You could do worse than a Raytheon or Svetlana in there instead (IMHO of course!)