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  2. TrevorR
    Before @cetera jumps in… Big Horizon were fantastic at Pizza Express Live - Holborn in London last night. A lovely evening of Yacht Rock, 70s West Coast pop tinged music. These guys are absolutely top of their game (which explains why the spend most of their time backing megastars on tour). Great set, great playing and what a fabulous voice Iain Hornal has! They did a couple of Jeff Lynne’s tunes (an obscure ELO one - Four Little Diamonds, and Handle With Care by The Traveling Willburys). As Jeff Lynne’s backing band for the last 10 years, they paid tribute to him and the unfortunate way the tour ended with him being too unwell to continue to his big Hyde Park retirement gig. Wonderful evening! Lee Pomeroy was a highlight, of course but watching him mangles my brain because all the strings and fingers are in the wrong place. Fab to see Gary PB and Costas there too!
  3. carlsim
    I seem to be using amps on stage less and less and this seems to be sitting around in my music room, plus add on fewer gigs for me in the interim due to personal reasons - I think it's time this went to a better home. QSC K12.2 - excellent condition and no issues. Comes with the tote bag and the locking power cable (although this is quite a short one - always meant to get a longer one!) No box or manual I'm afraid. I have a PA speaker box so will be able to look at postage but collection is preferred for obvious reasons. Postage with insurance won't be cheap in this instance. Amazing bit of kit for the FRFR route, extremely powerful and I ran it with my Microbass 3 and it gave me a punchy modern sound. I would also use it (very occasionally) as a vocal monitor as well. Presets built in for bass, this is very much the mack daddy of speakers used for bass if you are looking for a FRFR solution. The times I did use it, in front of me, wedged up, it was simple to set up, sounded great and had PLENTY of everything a bass player needs on stage. If I start doing regular gigs down the line again on stage, I will definitely be returning to one of these. I will add pictures later this evening when I get home, I jus wanted to get it listed - I won't bother adding stock pictures (it's easy to find online) and if you are looking then you know what these are and how good they are. I will highlight any scuffs or marks with pictures. I am looking to put the money into a new bass - in particular a 5 string Sadwosky Modern or Cort GB5 Modern (or something similar...) obviously I will add cash to the deal. Carl
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  4. Wolverinebass started following 1956 Fender P Bass @ Tom's Guitar Shop
  5. Wolverinebass
    I remember playing an old 50's era precision about 5 years ago. My friend had raved about how good it was. It cost at the time about 10 or 12 grand. Well, it was a piece of crap. The pickup was massively wooly and it was also clear to me that the action wasn't really going to come down in any way to a level I'd be happy with. I'm happy to say that he gets a great deal of joy out of it and of course I never said anything about my misgivings. Like everything you could say "you could buy however many basses I actually like for that!!" as a rebuttal, but in truth, it doesn't matter as long as it does it for you. I have basses I don't play much, but that's mainly because the projects I'm doing or have been doing don't suit them. Not because I'm trying to build up some massive collection to store in a temperature controlled, secirity guarded aircraft hanger.
  6. dmccombe7
    A sturdy pair of boots and he should be fine. Tell him to grow a pair and get on with the job. 😂 Seriously tho i hope he recovers soon and wish him well. Dave
  7. gary mac started following Hercules Stand
  8. gary mac
    I'm no longer gigging, so moving this on. Condition is excellent as can be seen in the photos. £30 collected. If you need it posted, just let me and I'll get a price.
  9. BigRedX
    Using pitch detection to drive a synth engine is almost always going to be a complete non-starter for bass guitarists. The laws of physics just won't allow it. The very best detection systems require at least one and a half wave cycles of clean waveform to detect the pitch, which means every note below open D is going to have noticeable latency. And remember this is the best case scenario. Any imperfections in your playing technique or signal processing before the pitch detection is going to make that detection time longer which is going to result in more latency, glitches and pitch instability. That's why to me it makes more sense to dispense with pitch detection and to instead apply Filter and VCA processing to the actual signal instead. Of course in order to do this properly your are going to need full ADSR control over both the filter and volume which will mean attack and release threshold controls and side chaining so that the clean signal can be used for the triggers and an signal with whatever effects you want to run before the filter can be processed. Also you'll limit cross mod to amplitude only and you won't be able to do oscillator sync which limits how close you are going to get to some synth sounds.
  10. bass_dinger
    I will be taking this to the local recycling centre on Saturday.
  11. bass_dinger
    I will be taking this to the local recycling centre on Saturday.
  12. chris_b
    Thanks. . . . and the weight?
  13. Kiwi started following NBD
  14. Kiwi

    NBD

    Kiwi replied to jeffjohnson's topic in Bass Guitars

    @SteveXFR perhaps this deserves it's own thread?
  15. briansbrew
    Look forward to seeing it, if you ever get a chance try the Ernie Ball flats
  16. Inga
    actually used one of these for a small pub gig and was great worked wonders so, would recommend to anyone who wants one
  17. Homatron
    Thanks for the advice @JPJ & @Burns-bass. I'm certainly not offended! I don't have a tutor (not sure if there are any in Plymouth) but an experienced/trained friend of a friend has offered to give me some pointers. Looking forward to that in the next week or so. I'm taking it slow and steady, referring to Discover Double Bass and other resources to keep me on track. Currently loving playing over an F blues!
  18. Woodinblack
    Thats not good, it isn't a particularly a fast riff (and we play it faster because.. you know, drummers), but our cover is more like the arctic monkeys so its just distortion for me.
  19. Kebabkid
    Gary (Cetera) and I went to a Big Horizon gig last night at the Pizza Express, Holborn, so nice and intimate. For those of you that are not aware of this band, they're the backing band for ELO & Take That and they released their own material about a year ago which is in the vein of The Feeling and Yacht Rock and they're bloody excellent! Anyway, Gary and I know busy and in-demand Lee and I think most of us are aware of his bass skills and he had a great sound last night. Whilst an EBS player, he does use Kemper rack units, but last night, he had the smaller, compact Kemper Profiler and it sounded great. I just wondered if anyone here is using one of these and how does it compare to the HX Stomp? Thanks
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  20. fretmeister
    New pedal coming next week... https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ9pRjeDJci/?img_index=1 If it's a B15 and the Cab Sim is switchable I might have to find some money.
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  22. eddbass started following PJB Briefcase uber-portable high-end combo
  23. eddbass
    Ideal for rehearsal and small to medium gigs. Don't let the small size deceive you. I also found the people at Phil Jones really helpful when I needed info for a small repair.
  24. Woodinblack
    How wide is the neck on those, should I ever find one at what I would consider a reasonable price?
  25. Woodinblack
    I don't think thats meant as a sound difference, the bass synth can sound just the same as a key synth, its the tracking/latency/performance. Keeping the synth consistant on a bass requires quite a lot of discipline which you don't need on actual keys - the actual keys never glitch out or fail to notice where you are playing or respond quicker to higher notes than lower notes etc.d I don't take keys as it is another to have, but I do take a 16 pad sample pad, and play that for keys on somethings, chords and piano sounds etc. Thats powered from a USB lead from the back of my pedalboard (the HB spaceship ones)
  26. Pow_22
    its en route - will update once it lands. I just felt for the price that i could live with a hidden route and changed pots. Now its about string choice - my usuals are Elites Flats but in this band I've found Elite Halfwounds more fitting and give a bit more growl
  27. Stub Mandrel
    Last night (Darren was hiding in the corner).
  28. EmmettC
    It can be really frustrating, it's Abba of all things that's highlighting this for me. The intro to Does Your Mother Know, I'm back to just using a dirty octave sound on my Octabvre because live (and probably faster than it should be) the tracking just isn't reliable enough on the MXR or C4. That's why I like a big pedal board though, if one thing fails, or just can't be made to work for a song, I have plenty of other things I can use instead.
  29. briansbrew
    Any pics
  30. Al Krow
    Hey BRX - fully appreciate you have a full Helix and adding an additional separate pedal(s) to that doesn't make sense for you. But for pretty much everyone who is planning to get an MXR (or FI), they will either be upgrading an existing set up, shift something else off their pedal board to accommodate, or get a bigger pedal board. It's what many of us pedal users do very regularly, when the need arises. I also completely also get your point re. synth pedal tracking - it's a fundamentally important issue for live use and has been picked up by several of us on this thread. Was precisely the reason for my choosing to go with the Boss SY-200 despite it not having as good synth sounds as several other synth pedals - it's my personal compromise and for me considerably better than the "nothing at all" alternative.
  31. mattpbass
    I'm not sure that the no space on stage argument holds up, I use a bass synth at every gig big or small, its stand goes above my pedal board so I don't require any more/less space either way. The set-up time and too much stuff to carry argument I can definitely get on board with though! 😅
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