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What's the difference between a "slave" and full on amp? My AD140 has a slave output on the back, no idea what it's for. I did see one of those OR120 slaves on thebay once, stupid price.

I didn't get the LH500 because i got an ampeg svt-3 pro, but then sold that and got the OTB.

Well the pricey-ness is part due to the active circuit. The fender jaguar bass comes with block pearl inlays on a rosewood board. But it has a two band active pre-amp, however when it's passive it sounds fantastic. The only thing that isn't "jazz" about it is the body shape, the neck is great on mine nice thin. It came setup with perfect intonation and stribg hieght as well.

Used to boost low mids to cut through 2 guitars but still sound relatively low. Then used to cut highs all together. With my rig and bass now all I need is: flat EQ no tweeter jazz single coils in series. IMO this gives a great natural deep tone without losing prescence. My JC bass gives meca great thumpy woody DB kinda tone, very deep on the lowest impendance setting. I'm definatly one to go for more warm and vintage tone than hifi.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='852759' date='May 31 2010, 04:56 PM']Being very new to bass-playing (Xmas 2005 was when I first picked up a bass) I can remember quite clearly every bass I've owned (see my sig) and why I sold it. The last six months have seen my tastes close in very strongly on a Precision-type bass played through an Orange Terror Bass head into a Barefaced cab. This is NOT where I thought I'd end up! [/quote] 2005? Early? I only started last November. The OTB and barefaced compact rig is not where I thought I'd be today. I thought (considering my guitar equipment) I would stick with my old Thunderbird 4, and end up with a bulky great orange AD200b(I'd still love one though). Strangely I'm more than happy with what I have. Amp wise I won't change. I thought about adding another cab, but it's so loud as it is another compact would be overkill. Basses; well I have an amazing Fender, a hollowbody(which I've wanted for ages) and I just finished my parts-a-jazz. There is only 1 or 2 things I truely want now still. A good warm fender P, a double H cream/black/maple EBMM ray, and a nice overdrive that sounds like what happens on low gain on my Ad140 with my jaguar.

If you end up feeling you want it over anything better for the same price new or used, then buy it, still I would probably make a point of mentioning te fact that you've never seen one sell for more than £550, and try an haggle the price down a bit. Ive seen a JV jazz go for around £360 amd often question why eBay sellers have ridiculous prices, but someonne must be buying them at the higher prices. After all something is only worth what a person is willing to pay for it. It's like the sudden trend of musicmasters on eBay. I've seen 1 or 2 go for deluxe squier monies, and some go for mex standard money, but I don't want one enough to pay the £1000 plus price tag someone puts on it.

It's a good pedal but as I'm loving the flat tone of the OTB and the compact I don't think i need it, you can have it £45 posted?

It's the switch. A lot of cheaper pedals 'pop' when they are engaged. It's like the power surge you get when you turn a light bulb on at the switch, there is a voltage peak. I think it's that voltage peak that disrupts the signal, not a major issue unless it's really loud and jarring. I've only really noticed these pops with OD/distortion pedals. More expensive an well made pedals incorporate a dampening thing ma jig so ty don't pop. Edit: guitar pedals with bass or vice a versa, means nothing. Just because my bass limiter says bass on doesn't mean I can't use it to compress a guitars signal and verywell. With guitar I prefer using bass pedals (wish there was more) as they have a broader frequency range, the other way round though the issue comes with how well the pedal retains the lows, some struggle to keep anything as low as 100hz.

I'll be trying this when it's released. Whoop iPhone !!!!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='846881' date='May 24 2010, 09:21 PM']Throw up some examples of the sorta sound you want. Bad Monkey will take out the real lows without modification. Nick was selling one with the mod, see if that is still going, should sort you for a bit of drive.[/quote] What kind of mod is this? There are a few guitar od/distortion pedals out there that hold the lows well(no mods and no eqing) Like the EHX big muff pi, I have one it sounds like a creamy chiansaw, holds the lows very very well. I'm in the Market of the Marshall guv'nor as they've been said to hold those lows well (deep control and a bass EQ control) this is what tim commerford(rage) used through the 90s with rage. There are maybe a few really good ones but, one I like is the boss bluedriver. It sounds thick and full better than with guitars, but it loses so much lows it's not a viable option. So I've been looking for a mod to maybe mix the true-bypass signal with the effective signal or a tone mod to add back the lows when the effect is on. I've used briefly the EHX bass blogger, the fuzz is nice as a low gain fuzz. The OD mode is nice and warm but lacks the something 'natural' for me. I'm interested in the boss 59 bassman, since it's basses off the fender bass amp from wAy back when but boss do know bass demo and I can't find anyone with it for me to try or any vids on YouTube. There is 2 outputs but one is 'normal' and one is bright.

Well even I'm pretty tone death and I can tell when a string is out (not marginally however). Also I know the tension of the strings on my basses so I can tell by that being any tighter or loose. It would be good to just strum the strings and see which is out, but £75, no thanks. I use a boss TU-2 anyway.

[quote name='Conan' post='850330' date='May 28 2010, 02:06 PM']You can get a brand spanking new Hartke LH500 for less than £300 - including delivery!! That's the one eyed get... as I said last week just before a passing cyclops took offence! [/quote] +1 the not reason I didn't get this head wad because it didn't do full power at 8 ohm. It's a great soundng piece of kit, it will give a nice transparant tone so literally the tone is "in the fingers"

[quote name='basshead56' post='849285' date='May 27 2010, 11:41 AM']It is sort of strange. Most of the people I deal with over here are either people just looking for a change or, like the guy I bought my Oly White 78 P from- Don´t really know what they have. He was selling it as an 87 and was convinced he was right. Go it for a song, even though I told him once I´d met up to have a look at it. But the fact that it was the week before Christmas and I had travelled to the other side of the country (for a gig) obviously influenced his decision. The Trace Elliot/Boogie 400+ one was very weird. Had gotten this huge monster of a thing that I couldn´t bring to gigs and scared the sh*t out of the guitarists with, next to my old Fender 400 Pro rig. So decided to advertise it for sale in a nationwide ads paper. No luck shifting it for months and I had given up and then this guy from the other end of the country rings and said he needed a big bass amp for a studio he had built. He said he didn´t have any money but could offer me a few trades. I said sure and he left hs house within the hour. 5hours later he arrives (round 12 at night) with a van load of bass stuff. He had a pearl Vorg ric copy but the neck was wonky, a Gibson Sg bass (old) and a 400+-did a straight swap for that, despite the obvious difference in cost-value is a different matter! Didn´t get on with the 400+ at all, so shifted it rather quickly, for a tidy sum indeed-got an Ampeg and a few other bits with some decent money left over! Guess Ireland is just a rather lucky place to be when it comes to equipment [/quote] That's it. There is probably a lot less people with a lot less high end gear to trade with, or sell anything onto some one wants to pay a nic price for it. That guy with 78 P. What a fool. Probably just thought he was getting 2 basses for 1. If I could find someone selling fender 400 pro for 325 I would snap that up.

I'm quite sure there is a CIJ walnut satin jazz in the for sale section(try a search) it's fretted however but it would save you time to just defret the neck than huntfor a fretlezz one.

[quote name='oldslapper' post='848457' date='May 26 2010, 01:42 PM']To be unnoticed, but missed when you stop playing..........[/quote] +1, this is great. Our singer trys to say "we will be alright rehearsing without you" the next day I see him and he says "man, it's not the same with your driving bass there" in truth a lot of things make a great bassist. In my personal opinion it's simplistic playing, knowing what to play and when. Being versatile is important to, so you are able to adapt your self to the rest of the music. Not knowing you are good is probably best aswell.

I think we already decerned from the other thread about the show "I'm in a rock and roll band" that the public don't care about bass, and in reality they don't care about the guitar the lead guitarist uses or why he uses a certian OD than another, or why he uses a churos in a particular song. The program is for the masses, which we arnt. The masses want light entertainment. They want to hear about the one time the lead guitarist fell out with singer because he stole his sausage roll. Or that the singer is a huge drama queen and threw a fit becuase the ham was too big for the bread on his sandwhiches..... I think it's time to move on. You want to watch and hear about bass. There is here, bass guitar magazine, here, talkbass, guitargeek, YouTube oh and here.

Same really, my current bass rig cost me roughly £250. The epiphone JC only cost me £250. However I would still like to know where Basshead finds these people?

[quote name='Linus27' post='848964' date='May 26 2010, 09:55 PM']When signed, we would rehearse every week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for around 10 hours a day. This would be working on the set, especially if gigs coming up, writing and working on new songs, record company bussiness and the odd game of headers and volley. Friday, Saturday and Sundays would be for gigs and Monday we would have as our day off. Plus studio, promotion etc could be on any day it happens on. We did work very hard at it.[/quote] I wish I had this schedule.