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  2. Beedster
    Expensive is, to my mind, linked to the concept of a thing being more than it's worth. A Warmoth Precision with woodwork coming in at around £600 with perhaps another £400 on high quality components, gives me a FCS level instrument at £1000, and IME I'd have to spend upwards of £3000 to get anything better from Fender. So, if I'm buying a Precision, anything over £1000 is not only expensive, but unnecessary expense
  3. PaulThePlug
    2x Vol is a Juggle, Blends often too Subtle or All or Nothing SR500 Passive, Vol and 3 way pup switch - simple and Hohner B2, Vol and 3 Way Pup switch. I'd give Simple a try.
  4. Stub Mandrel started following Theatre Pit Work - how does it work? Panto Season Edition and Tinkering with LED strips?
  5. Stub Mandrel
    Yes and maybe. If you wire two in series they may work at 9V, but these £2 cheapies rely on the internal resistance of the power source to limit current.
  6. Sean
    Oooooh, yes it does!
  7. Stub Mandrel
    Oh no it doesn't! 😁
  8. Stub Mandrel
    A Honer B2 is the equivalent of a Steinberger Spirit these days, which retail at about $400. We live in glory days of inexpensive basses.
  9. TheGreek
    I like it.. Hardly playing currently so not in the market for a new bass but GLWTS.
  10. BassAdder60 started following G&L M2000 Trib fret buzz
  11. BassAdder60
    Great looking bass and as mentioned perhaps one or two high frets I would get a luthier to work on it if you want a flatter neck and don’t attempt it yourself unless you’ve done it before
  12. Sean started following Theatre Pit Work - how does it work? Panto Season Edition
  13. Sean
    We've just come back from seeing Jack & the Beanstalk at The Hippodrome in Bristol. We had cracking seats and I sat just in front of where the bass player was in the pit (under the stage). How does it all work? Can the musicians in the pit see the stage performance on a monitor? I couldn't see any? I guess it's all IEM and that the musical director (the chap at the keyboard in front of the stage) speaks to the band through his mic? He also used what looked like a proper old fashioned phone handset. How on earth do they get their cues? Panto format deviates from script a lot, so I guess that you have to really pay attention. It's worlds apart from anything I've ever done and I'm fascinated to understand how it works. And in case he's on here, the chap on the SR5 did a cracking job and, guessing again, that he plays an SR5 because it just does what it does in that environment with 100% reliability. It would be great if some Basschatters that have done or do this could give some insight as it's so different from what most of us are familiar with.
  14. richarding started following PRICE DROP £100! EBS Classic Session 120 Combo
  15. TimR
    They would still consider it expensive.
  16. TimR
    I'd certainly not want to be spending a months wages on a bass now!
  17. Stub Mandrel started following What is an expensive bass?
  18. Stub Mandrel
    To me, expensive means paying more than you need to. So I'm firmly at £1,000 as that's where the law of diminishing returnd really kicks in. These days you can buy a bass perfectly capable of the standard required for any stage in the world for comfortably under £1k. I paid over that for a couple of basses and a couple that would have been more new. The extra pays for things that aren't actually necessary that take them into the realm of being luxury items where you choose to pay more. 25 years ago or more, you had to pay proportionally a lot more to get something of the quality you can get for £500-£750 these days.
  19. Lozz196 started following Jazz Bass control circuits (passive) - what works for you? and G&L M2000 Trib fret buzz
  20. Lozz196
    Could just be a tall fret.
  21. bnt
    One More Night - Phil Collins
  22. TimR
    I'm going out on a limb here and guessing these are not professional level lighting fixtures.
  23. Lozz196
    I prefer traditional VVT, that way I can of course get all things Jazz but also get very near Precision if needed by neck full, bridge 20%-ish, tone 80%-ish.
  24. TheGreek
    They are really good basses...well balanced, nice J-ish neck, well built...more than just Alembic copies...
  25. agedhorse started following Speakon chasis poor connection
  26. agedhorse
    Maybe, but if the SpeakOn jacks are PCB mounted it's going to be more difficult and with a greater chance for a more thoroughly damaged speaker.
  27. LukeFRC
    It’s all relative to income too isn’t it? I’ve worked on min wage when a Mexican fender was beyond my means, and I’ve had very well paid friends who could drop £5k on a bass if they wanted - but in careers that probably wouldn’t give them the time to play much. Ive known people who have a seperate bass fund and spend out of gig earnings, vs hobby funds vs people on here who buy expensive things they can’t afford on credit … all going to affect what you see as affordable.
  28. wateroftyne
    In that case I might go with the ambients - I don't think we'll be silent stage any time soon. Thank you.
  29. Stub Mandrel
    Thanks. We're home now and she's sleeping at last.
  30. nekomatic
    From the fact that the cabs are secondhand and one socket is worse than the other, I’m very inclined to suspect that it’s those sockets that are bad. Maybe they’ve been repeatedly used with a non-genuine Speakon plug that has damaged them. The obvious thing to test would be whether you see any problem with a different cab. The good news is that it looks like it should be easy to remove the connector panels and replace the faulty connectors on the cabs. If you don’t fancy doing it yourself it shouldn’t be too expensive to have a tech do it.
  31. EBS_freak
    There is no additional risk of a feedback as the ambient mic won’t be going into foh. There’s no way the ambient mic will be picking up any output from the IEMs. To be fair, setting up an ambient mic is pretty low effort.
  32. EBS_freak
    To be clear - if the seal is broken, ambient or otherwise, there is a tradeoff in that you start to lose bass response. How much of that which is tolerable - but as a bass player, you probably won’t appreciate it. Best practice is to think along the lines, anything you want to hear, you pump in via the mix. There is a line of thinking that if you have a bass rig on stage, having that come in ambiently offsets the bass loss… but the goal is to keep stage volumes low so the mix the audience hears out front is better.
  33. ModLad69
    Thx Binky. I actually designed my bass ,sent Greg Barcus a drawing and he did a killer job with my build. I combined wal, Ric, and Fodera inspired , hybrid styling which became popular with some of Greg’s bass customers who used my styling ideas to have Greg B incorporate them in their basses.
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