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With and without a Thumpinator would make an interesting comparison for a Bass Bass. I've got a Microthumpinator v1 and a v2 that I can bring along. -
Great news, Absolutemusic.co.uk (The web site I bought the used combo from) have given me a £75 Refund, because of the damage to the combo as received, so now this beautiful combo has cost me a total of £124! Got to be the bargain of the month. I`m not bothered about the damage on the front corner, or the loose chassis, after all it is 16 years old, and I doubt I will ever get back out playing again, so it will come into retirement with me in my music room! Thank you Absolutemusic.co.uk
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I'd love to try that EMGx + Darkglass combo if this bass makes it along to the bash in November 🙂
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What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...
Geek99 replied to kwmlondon's topic in General Discussion
Unless you’re one of those older drivers lying about your eyesight, in which case you’ll be starting to see the blurry thing near the other blurry things with what look like blurry wheels, and the other blurry things that are talking and getting in your damned way ooo - cross-thread hookup … look at me 👍 -
Many years ago at the start f my bass career we were playing a biggish gig at a local holiday park. Big stage, big PA, fairly large FOH engineer. He plugged the DI from my Laney amp into the desk and left us to set up and start the on stage sound check. Once I'd plugged in I realised there was no sound coming from my amp. As one inexperienced with DI at the time, I assumed it was something to do with the FOH guy DI-ing me, cutting the amp volume, so I went to find him. He pretty much dismissed out of hand my suggestion that it was his fault (fortunately, I don't have a temper and I was quite calm when asking him what he'd done to my amp). A few minutes of staring at the amp later, I realised that I'd turned the master volume down. I apologised to the FOH guy (his dismissive acknowledgement was enough to ensure I never made that mistake again) and the gig went ahead to moderate success.
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Definitely this. Thought I'd ruined my Sei custom as a five string low B, restrung it high C and it's awesome. -
Like Higgie mentioned, the Grape is really excellent and super easy to use. I’d also vote for the Mr Black Gilamondo… equally lush and simple. Both, however, will run you more than £100. IMO the best sub £100 phaser is the EBS DPhaser. It’s discontinued now, but tends to fetch £75-90 when they appear on eBay and Reverb. For that money, I personally think it rocks.
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Behringer Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter Clone
pantherairsoft replied to HoorayForAnonyms's topic in Effects
Seems that tonally the phaser was a very accurate reproduction, and as others have already done a pretty solid job of replicating the tone in the 101, I think this one likely will be just as good. Interested to hear user feedback, as I’m sure there are more than a couple of basschatters that will pick this up! -
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Took this in as a part-ex from Clarky of this parish recently. I was hoping to keep it, as it’s quite a lovely Precision, but it turns out that my son’s 11+ tuition is actually going to be quite expensive 😅 Anyway, MIJ Precision from their ‘Traditional 60s’ series, seemingly most notable as it merges some 60’s styling (inflicting a nice deep burst), with a more modern/comfortable B-width neck. This one comes with a cream Dimarzio Model P fitted, but is also supplied with the original black Fender pickup too. Strung with Thomastic Infeld flats, my first experience of them and they’re lovely. Weight is 7.6lbs A few bumps and scrapes on the body which I’ve tried to photograph, but nothing major, and certainly nothing that effects playability, the neck is immaculate. £750 Full specs are: Only looking for cash on this one I’m afraid. Comes with a decent but simple gigbag, so pickup/meet-up preferred unless you want to ship me an appropriate case for me to send it back in. Cheers Si-
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Beautiful Noise - Neil Diamond
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In the early days with the tribute band, when playing smaller theatres we had our mixer onstage. It was stage left nearest to me, so I got the job of starting our play on music which was on a mini disc player in the wings. The music was composed by our then keyboard player to neatly segue into our first song with a big opening chord in the same key as the play on - very dramatic. Last thing I did at each soundcheck was to check it was running okay. One memorable night we were all ( an 8 piece band with string section) waiting to go onstage, and I saw the house lights going down which was my cue to hit the start button for the play on. Only then did I realise I hadn’t returned the music back to the start and it kicked into life around half way through. Cue 8 musicians frantically running to their places and instruments - we all just made it in time to avoid a massive gap in the proceedings. Needless to say that was the last time I was entrusted with the task, and soon after we got a pro FOH engineer on every gig who did the job perfectly every time. Even then, hearing the music still gave me flashbacks. 😅
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No, thanks for your offer! I am not into 6 String basses. -
If you like a small and light box that sounds and responds like a big and heavy box, this is for you 👍 -
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I think the Behringer clones have been a little hit and miss lately but hopefully this one gets close to the original MF-101.
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Went on for the second half of a gig and silence from my bass. Backup bass - also silence. Swapped wireless to the spare and got sound. When I got home, I tested the suspect wireless and it was perfect. My conclusion was that after unplugging the two dongles to save batteries on the bass and the effects pedal, I had plugged them back in without looking to check that the one marked "Tx" in big friendly letters was on the bass and the one marked "Rx" was on the pedal. As bassist, I am of course the default sound engineer. With another band at another gig, we started the second set and all was well (we thought) until somebody told me that they couldn't hear the vocals out front. The channel mute switches only worked on the FOH, not the monitors. Turned up at one gig with what I thought was my bass amp, then found that I'd picked up the wrong silver case and had a case of microphones. I did have a spare amp with me, but sadly no means of connecting said amp to the cab, so that was a dash back home to get the amp. And I've done the wrong venue thing as well, fortunately only about five miles from where I should have been.
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My favourite (although it has no level control) is the Aguilar Grape Phaser. Lovely lush phasing with just two knobs 👌
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Indiana ,isn't that where the " If Your In A Band " guy is from? Daryl ( Wisconsin )
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Interesting. It seems like members that post regularly on the " How Was Your Gig Last Night" thread seem to be around my age (71). Consequently our histories and experiences have many similarities. I have more in common with you guys than my bandmates that are 35 years younger than me. It's no secret that my gigging experiences here in the States parallel many of you guys. Daryl
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Get a 5-string Corvette.
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Which is my point - simply saying turn left to right is ambiguous as there are two directions that you can go in to rotate something from left to right, clockwise and anticlockwise. Or deasil and widdershins if you prefer, or maybe dextrorotatory and laevorotatory.
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OLP Tony Levin - truss rod adjuster replacement?
tauzero replied to tauzero's topic in Repairs and Technical
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Maybe your amp has an internal HPF, but none of my amps do. I never saw the point of a HPF, until I did. There are some rooms we play that get a weird bass response, most notably a community centre come sports hall in Chelmsford. The only way round it was take all of the bottom end off the amp. I added a thumpinator to my board and next time we played there, no problem! -
Have you checked if the nut slot for the D is too low or a twisted neck?
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True, but I didn't see any excessive cone movement before I used the Thumpinator. I assumed the amp had an internal HPF (which many do) which was doing the job for me.
