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My mate had just fitted a Bart preamp to his Jazz - I agree with it being a good choice. Fitting it in a J bass could prove tight though. Routers at the ready.

DRs last about 4 months for me but it depends how much you play/sweat. I've found them to be the best strings for me and do a mean impression of Marcus. A HD350 with a healthy dose of compression and pre shape engaged into some zingy speakers will get your there pretty quick. I thought you'd run a 350 with a 212 neo line at some point? With the shaping on the amp I'm not entirely convinced you'll need to much reliance on an onboard preamp.

Strings - DR HiBeams (Stainless) for sure. No signature, no nothing - straight forward HiBeams. Stainless is where this all starts.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465557658' post='3069219'] Please run back and construct that sentence so it can be understood by humans. [/quote] Sorry, I don't even English.

Wouldn't life be easier if the forum had a similar stance on BF with Rickenbacker....? *runs away*

Bugger, gonna have to do another hob nob run.

For me, heft is more about the attack and weight of the resulting note. You can get many rigs that will produce the notes from say 40hz up to 15khz - but it's how those notes (particularly those in the lower end of the spectrum) is delivered that is important to me. I think there is an important interaction going on between player and rig. Much like a guitarist likes the way valves interact with what is being played (with say sag and natural compression), as a bass player, I like to dig in and have my notes delivered with zero sag - with full attack at the beginning of the note - right through to the end.

I don't like the Sadowsky preamp at all. Yet in a band situation, they always seem to sound amazing (mostly with other people playing them!). I'm the same with a P bass. Played solo, I find that they sound utterly miserable. In a band... they are always thunderous.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1465297682' post='3066850'] If you're not shaving the pennies, then the Powersoft Digam range are pretty much as good as it gets, and tick every box you can imagine. [/quote] Powersoft is where it's at... although you will be paying a pretty penny for it.

[quote name='obbm' timestamp='1465288807' post='3066724'] That's nice to hear. I'd often wondered if she'd managed to destroy it yet. [/quote] Quite impressive given the fact that at one point she seemed to be getting through an XLR a gig... Just shows you that the mass produced soldering options are not always economically a sound choice! Spend a bit extra for a hand soldered quality lead people!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1465286795' post='3066706'] I used to buy all the components and make up my own leads, because I had my own home studio and required cable runs of very specific lengths and often different connectors wired in very particular ways at each end of the cable. However when I need some more basic jack-to-jack leads for my new bass rig 6 years ago, I ordered them from OBBM. I could have probably made my own for slightly less money, but certainly not once I figured in the cost of my time to do it. All these leads are still functioning as perfectly as the day I received them. They most definitely last longer than any of the shop-bought leads I've owned. [/quote] This. And the "singerproof XLR" he made for me, is still going.

Psst. OBBM. Just making sure you get the idea! :-p

Just backing up...

You think their mixes are bad? The amount of artists that complain about their IEM mixes...

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1465160123' post='3065780'] He smelled the biscuits I'm tellin ya, I bet he has pockets full of digestives! [/quote] He'll be getting all Andy Dufresne, sneaking biscuits out of here.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1465158057' post='3065741'] All of this and more is exactly why I don't come on here anymore [/quote] Does anybody else see the fundamental problem with this post...?

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1465072214' post='3065150'] I thought he would be using a Maruszczyk by now... [/quote] :-p

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1464974264' post='3064336'] Personally I think it's brilliant that Alex had an idea an ran with it. And to attract someone of TC's quality is great and will no doubt help fill the order book. With so many start up companies going under within 12 months of starting I would have said Alex was utterly mental to set up a manufacturing company in the UK. But he's managed it, and whether I like the cabs or not (only tried the One10, and I've got my order in for a second one) it's a very welcome success story. I wonder if Larry Hartke would get the repeated slagging on here that Alex gets? Somehow I doubt it. [/quote] Where is Alex getting slagged?

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1464956096' post='3064120'] <tangent>John Entwistle. I think he was the perfect bass player for The Who and the band wouldn't have been the same without him. However I don't get it. Especially in later years he had probably one of the worst bass tones I've ever heard in my life and his clickety clackety, typewriter falling down stairs style does absolutely nothing for me.</tangent> [/quote] Given his liaisons with the ladies and his affection for the white stuff, I figured tone didn't really figure up his list of priorities in latter years.

Marquees eat volume... but having said that, just make sure you put out a balanced sound... so in other words, if you are the quietest, make sure everybody is only as loud to be balanced with you. I don't know what the event is but if it's something like a wedding, you only have to be loud enough to fill out the dancefloor and not necessarily the whole marquee.

It all depends upon the context of a band. I'd quite happily do a coffee shop gig with a 1x12... You'd probably get away with it in quiet more acoustic focused bands... but you'd likely be wanting if you got much louder or larger venues. Probably worth clarifying whether this 1x12 has got to provide for front of house too... or whether it is just monitoring... or whether it's working whilst being supported by a PA (and of course, what PA - as that will change depending upon venue)

[quote name='skychaserhigh' timestamp='1464882544' post='3063500'] You have just announced your not liking of a Barefaced cab ...out loud on Basschat... *puts on crash helmet and waits for the fan club to wade in* Is anyone else going to the shops...?? [/quote] Best get some arnica and some plasters too. EDIT: hopefully it won't get to stitches. EDIT2: or broken limbs.

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1464881124' post='3063482'] Has TC got some new cabs then? - I was looking at that tatty old Ampeg and thought he would be able to afford a nice new class D amp by now I thought we would be discussing the anti heft brigade...... [/quote] Oi, what you doing around these parts, get off to the shop.

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1464880760' post='3063472'] nips to shop for more biscuits....... [/quote] Best take the van.