Humph Posted March 27, 2015 Posted March 27, 2015 Hi chaps and chapettes, I'm Adam, and I'm from Belfast. I've played bass for around 14 years now, and I suppose I could say I've played semi-professionally for the past 6 (insofar as gigging once a month or so and recording one album is semi-pro... I'll let you decide). I've lurked around here for a while but never got into posting. I used to frequent a forum for years back in my early teens, I'm a little out of practice but I'm sure it'll all come back to me. I work in software engineering, but honestly I'd much rather play bass for a living (a man can dream). This year I have a production of Evita coming up in April and a week-long Christian conference in August, both to pretty large audiences so I'm looking forward to that My (current) setup: Main workhorse bass - MM Stingray 5H 20th Anniversary Edition [url="http://imgur.com/y0L635h"]http://imgur.com/y0L635h[/url] Backup bass - MM Stingray 4H [url="http://imgur.com/oZOLiX9"]http://imgur.com/oZOLiX9[/url] Gallien Krueger 700RB-II + GK 4x10 RBX (also a GK 2x10 BLX for small gigs/practices) Boss TU-2 (a must) MXR Bass Compressor MXR Bass Envelope Filter And also a few guitars: Martin DM [url="http://imgur.com/atlyzdk"]http://imgur.com/atlyzdk[/url] Fender Jaguar '75 [url="http://imgur.com/Pw29wqT"]http://imgur.com/Pw29wqT[/url] At the moment I'm really struggling with my desire for a nice Fender Jazz Deluxe V, or even worse, an F Bass BN5. Temptations abound. Nice to meet you all! Quote
Ticktock Posted March 27, 2015 Posted March 27, 2015 Hi, Humph. I'm only up the road ( Ballymena ). Nice folks here. Quite a few from "here" here. Quote
Dad3353 Posted March 27, 2015 Posted March 27, 2015 Good evening, Adam, and ... [sharedmedia=core:attachments:167528] Much here to inform, amuse and share. Quote
Humph Posted March 30, 2015 Author Posted March 30, 2015 Thanks guys! @Ticktock - I'm actually stationed just outside of Ballyclare, I'm up round Ballymena all the time haha. Pity there's no good music shops there though. I guess all we have is Baird's! Quote
Ticktock Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 A close neighbour then?! :-) Music shops aren't what they used to be. Quote
Humph Posted March 30, 2015 Author Posted March 30, 2015 Music shops are woeful here in general. They don't even stock good bass strings half the time... hello Thomann! Matchett's in particular winds me up every time I'm in. They used to stock a Warwick Thumb and Jazzman, but now it's all Fenders/Squires/Ibanez. Mehhhh. Quote
Black Coffee Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) [quote name='Humph' timestamp='1427709538' post='2733184'] Music shops are woeful here in general. They don't even stock good bass strings half the time... hello Thomann! Matchett's in particular winds me up every time I'm in. They used to stock a Warwick Thumb and Jazzman, but now it's all Fenders/Squires/Ibanez. Mehhhh. [/quote] Welcome to the forum. I'm also from Ballymena area, and yes the music shops aren't great. Two new ones have opened recently though in the ballymena town centre. As for Matchetts, I bought the last warwick thumb I remember seeing in matchetts. It was about a week after they sold the jazzman you are talking about, and I won't say how little I paid for it, but it was so very stupid cheap. Sold it for what I definitely won't disclose about a month later. Enjoy the conference in August, new horizon I presume ? Edited April 3, 2015 by Black Coffee Quote
Ticktock Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 They sold off a Thumb for cheap??? Fools...but good on you getting it and punting it on. Quote
Black Coffee Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 [quote name='Ticktock' timestamp='1428076396' post='2737870'] They sold off a Thumb for cheap??? Fools...but good on you getting it and punting it on. [/quote] It's the only bass I've made money on. Everything depreciates Quote
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