Johnny Wishbone

[quote name='BassBomber414' post='24440' date='Jun 28 2007, 02:21 PM']I bought a bass and effects etc from GAK - no problem.If you check out Thomann in Eastern Europe they can often be much cheaper - for eg ,£100 cheaper for a Warwick Bass Combo Ibought recently. Delivery times are a few days more but free delivery over £134- which for a 30kg amp from the East German /Polish border is very good. Also they assisgn an English speaking contact for each U.K. order - You get the photo /tel no/ and a name- very user friendly.[/quote] Any idea which couriers Thomann use? I'm about to order something from them but as they'll inevitably try to deliver it whilst I'm at work I could do with knowing where I'm going to have to pick it up from.

Yep, tried the quick fix but no joy, so I've got a tech to have a look at it whilst I've got a couple of weeks until the next gig. Had to DI direct into the PA at last night's gig. Slightly odd experience not having my rig behind me. Thanks though guys. I appreciate your advice.

Robert DeLeo - Stone Temple Pilots Andy Gilmour - Hundred Reasons

Anything by Oasis's old bassist.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='25235' date='Jun 30 2007, 10:52 AM']Matt, Wasn't Johnny Wishbone the psuedonym used by Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop I? Welcome aboard oh kindred spirit [/quote] Spotter's Badge for you there, as Ron Atkinson would say. It was Beverly Hills Cop 2, though.

Been reading the forums for a while, and a couple of members have been kind enough to help me out with a recent tech problem, so I thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Matt, I'm 29, from Sheffield and I've been playing about 12 years. I play in a hard rock/grunge band called Subnova ([url="http://www.myspace.com/subnovaband"]myspace[/url]). We start recording our debut album in August and we've recently secured an endorsement deal with Ernie Ball Musicman. I play a '99 Warwick Fortress One through a Crate BX-220H head (via several FX) with custom-made 4x10 and 1x15 cabinets. I also have a '94 Mexican Fender Jazz, which rarely gets touched these days but is handy as a backup. It's nice to be in touch with so many other bassists, where I can live without fear of being ostracized for only having four strings

Top stuff - I'll be off to Maplin's shortly then. Again, many thanks.

It's definitely more of a hum than a hiss, and I've fixed the clicking, which was an unrelated fault (dodgy XLR cable). I suspected it might be a ground loop so I'll give this a try at the weekend. Many thanks for your help. Incidentally I guess this doesn't really solve the problem outright unless I take my own XLR cable to gigs, right? Or am I correct in thinking that most DI boxes have a ground lift anway, so I should be OK?

Sadly no, plus I've tried all the suggestions on the common faults page (changing power leads, unplugging FX, changing basses etc) and it still hums even with nothing plugged into it at all. Looks like I'll need to get it looked at

Bugger - this should probably be in the "Repairs & Technical Issues" section

Hi all, newbie with a problem for you to hopefully solve: The problem concerns my bass head (Crate BX220H) which I've been running for about 8 years with no worries. Lately I've been having problems at gigs with the XLR Line Out feeding a lot of noise to the PA (depending on the PA it's either a constant kind of low hissing/humming sound or occasionally an intermittent sort of random clicking, both of which can be quite loud). I suspect it's an earthing problem. Up until recently it happened once in a blue moon, but now the humming's started happening at rehearsal (I line out into an old PA to spread the bass around the room so our guitarists can hear it better) so I'm pretty keen to sort it as I've got a shedload of gigs through the summer. Is there a simple solution, or should I get the head looked at by a tech? Hope you can help