Heyy!

[pandathe3]

Hi all!

Well, my name is Nick Ellis, i'm 19 and live in a town called Shrewsbury (West Midlands).

I've been playing bass for around 5 years now and loving every minute!!


I'm in a band called "Yes, Captain!". Its a 3-piece rock/funk/progressive band with myself on bass, Thom Black on Vox/Guitar and Phil Moody on drums. Over the past 6months we've had about 3 drummers :/ but last night was our first band practice since Christmas and also first practice with Phil on drums and we had a real vibe going on! So everything looks set now

I play a Fender Precision Bass Lyte (Tobacco-burst w/ MH!) into a range of pedals (Which i will discuss below), into my Eden EN400 head, and finally put out from my Genz-Benz Neo 2x12" cabinet.


Basses:

Well my P-Bass Lyte is really the only bass i play the neck plays so fast and its such a 'bright' bass its silly (It does lack a bit of low-end!) I'm currently building a jazz bass which will have a p-bass size neck (Just as something to take to college or for students to use). I've got a couple of encore basses lying around (one fretted one fretless) they play REALLY bad.... Oh, and i'm looking for an OLP to mod out and be my main gigging bass (The p-bass lyte sounds abit too thin :/)

Amp's + Cabinets:

My EN400 gives me everything i want and more! to get my tone i boost my Bass and Mids just a little, keep my treble flat and use the parametric EQ section to find the frequency to scoop out (Usually a few clicks below 400Hz) Job done!! I also own a HA3500, which is a really good amp, unfortunately i'm going to be selling it soon as i never use it anymore.

I love my cabinet! A Genz-Benz Neo 2x12. Infact there isn't much too say: Its light and gives out a very good sound. The ONLY thing i'd want to do to this would be too chop it in half, cause sometimes a 2x12 for practice is TOO much. Also getting it wherever i'm heading is hard too. So i may be putting it up for trade on the site here very soon.

Pedals:

Not much to say. I've been concentrating on my bass more than anything really but heres how my signal goes:

Bass-> BOSS LMB-3 -> EHX MOLE -> EHX LPB-1 -> Digitech bass envelope -> amp.

My footswitch from the amp is thrown in there somewhere too I'll be replacing the digitech envelope filter with either a DOD-FX25 or a Q-tron at some point soon. I'm also GAS'n a BOSS OC-3 and an EBS Valve drive :P


So, yerp. Thats about does it. CHEERS!!


Oh, i suppose you want pictures?? Here you go

[neepheid]

Welcome to the forum - that's a tasty, well looked after Lyte there

[Telebass]

Welcome!