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  1. 6 points
  2. The non-Fender is probably quite a playable bass....
    4 points
  3. They'd only allow you to join if you could type with both hands at once.
    4 points
  4. I liked the tone of my One10's but I had concerns over the fact that they couldn't keep up with my band's moderate volume in certain pubs (acoustically damped by carpets and furnishings). Despite everything they are very small cabinets and do not defy the the laws of physics. I confess that I succumbed to the hype and believed they might be as loud as, say, a Markbass NY121. Unfortunately they're not. I actually replaced the 2 One10's with one Markbass Std121HR and have done a number of gigs with that, with no issues and plenty of spare volume available. I also think there is a valid criticism of using non-standard optimistic specs on the website ("usable frequency range" etc among others) and the general tone of the site inferring that other manufacturers are "behind the game" in design terms. Don't get me wrong, Barefaced cabs are a good option among many good options but there are other cabs out there are on a par or maybe even better.
    3 points
  5. Early on I recall being obsessed with Steve Priest, then Geddy Lee, then dUg, so it really came down to dirty clank. All hail Tech 21 NYC. It doesn't matter whether I'm playing a Squier Badtz-Maru or one of my Lulls; that's the tone I'll dial up.
    3 points
  6. I'd find that a prohibitively slow method of moving my gear around.
    3 points
  7. Some awesome entries this month & very hard to choose 3! Initially I was a little disappointed at seeing just 2 votes for mine, as I thought it was rather good, but after listeneing to the entries the 3 that I picked I think are better than my entry, as are others. So now I'm not disappointed at getting 2 votes. I think it's an acievement for me to get 2 votes against some awesome tracks! Great work guys!
    2 points
  8. I love this version, these ladies' harmonies are amazing
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  9. I read the topic title as "Deplorable String Mute". Thought it was another Rickenbacker thread.
    2 points
  10. 2 points
  11. From what I've heard on other YouTube clips, the technical problems seem to follow him around...
    2 points
  12. Bit of a weird one... It was the gig with almost no promotion, where our band name was billed wrongly, where we foolishly accepted the fact we weren't getting paid due to the possibility of "good future gigs" (I know, I know!). Anyway, 'twas in a small Shropshire village, even smaller pub frequented by an odd mix of walkers, tourists and local heavy drinkers. PA was set up by the band who were actually getting paid - we had a 1 minute sound check which was pretty good when the landlord's wife came out of the kitchen next door saying could we turn down as they couldn't hear orders in there... So we turned down a touch, closed the connecting door which made it extraordinarily hot, and started playing; of course I'd turned down much more than the guitarist so had to keep fiddling. But we played well; at one point about 30 women, all dressed to the nines, came past the stage into the 3 cubicle Ladies toilet by the stage - it was like the initial walk-on in TV's "Take Me Out"; we were playing our one and only blues-ish song, which has a verse inspired by Killing Joke's "Change" and a funky slap chorus if you can imagine that. It also has some quite long pauses where the singer sings his line, then we come back in. One of the women came up to guitar/singer and asked if we did "Summer of 69" (we don't do any covers!), so rather than going back into the song, our Tim quickly sang the 1st verse of the Bryan Adams classic (!), stopped, and we all somehow continued the interrupted song - which showed we could busk it a bit! Of course, the young women -who turned out to be young farmers along with a similar amount of young men- weren't interested in us (if we'd been the Wurzels it would have been different!), but there were quite a few rockin' locals who enjoyed us - and at least 1 older hikey type who'll no doubt leave an appalling TripAdvisor review for the pub. She ran into the Ladies toilet clutching her head as if the demons of Hades were clawing at it - which in a way we were! Still, last unpaid gig. Not sure if the pub will ask us back anyway as we were a touch too "rock" as opposed to "pub rock" for them!
    2 points
  13. Band members playing along to the music coming from the juke box while others are setting up.
    2 points
  14. I feel for the OP's mate. Couple of things... * If it's choking out on bends it's just as likely to be the neck relief as the action - best he check this before he gives up. And if it isn't the relief it could just be a high fret. Also, if it's a vintage spec neck the 7.5" board radius will always choke out with big bends up at the dusty end unless the action's jacked well high. * Alder / agathis / basswood? TBPH, it's not going to make a huge amount of difference anyway if it's a multi-piece Squier body. Whther it was ash, alder or agathis most people would have to be have to be a total cork-sniffing tone hound to tell the difference blindfold . People go on about alder and ash but afaich there's not much difference, unless it's a shoot-out between some really light, resonant old swamp ash and some boat-anchor alder. Even then the amp and the speaker make more difference than wood types (as the OP's mate has discovered). * I've done the steel trem block thing on a proper Strat and it made a microscopic difference to the sound - nowhere near as much as the difference between setting the bridge to float and setting it flush to the body. * Final thing: He's gone round, played it and walked out the door with it 'as seen'. Very difficult to turn that one around. The other guy claimed it was an alder body; maybe he genuinely thought it was; maybe he's a fibber; hard to prove either way without suggesting the guy's a liar which isn't going to get the Chapman back. Really, I think he's just going to have to suck it up and put some work into the guitar. Caveat emptor.
    2 points
  15. With the risk of sounding like like a broken record, the BB2 i had was left way behind when i used a cheap Peavy 4x10 at my rehearsal studio. The BB2 is a great cab, but no way can it put out the same kick and punch as every 410 out there, and in my experience not even a cheap one. Just to be clear, ‘keep up with a 410’? What brands are we talking about there? Exactly what 410’s have been tested next to a BB2? Obviously not the Peavy as ive had first hand experience with that and the BB2 was sorely lacking. Does it keep up with the BF 4x10?
    2 points
  16. Thought I'd share this experience in case someone else has the same problem - it might save you some hassle/cash. A while back my MXR M87 died. The level meter was still functioning but there was absolutely no sound coming from the pedal output. I did all the usual quick fixes (contact cleaner on jacks, replaced footswitch etc) but to no avail. After a bit of digging I discovered that the output op-amp in this pedal (TLC2262 in case you were wondering) has a maximum voltage of 16V. Obviously this would normally be OK in a pedal that runs at 9V, except that MXRs "Constant Headroom Technology" feature is essentially a charge pump circuit that doubles the pedal's internal voltage to 18V. It shouldn't take a genius to work out what therefore ensues if, like me, you're unlucky. I replaced the TLC2262 with an AD822 (which has a supply voltage of 18V) and my pedal now lives and breathes again. I believe MXR will fix pedals under warranty for a flat fee of £75, whereas replacing the blown chip cost me less than a tenner and a few minutes fiddling with a soldering iron (the TLC2262 and AD822 chips are both surface mount - soldering these can be tricky unless you're experienced in doing so). It appears that mine is not an isolated issue as a quick Google uncovers many such failures, so I figured I'd pass this info on in case any other BC members' M87s suffer the same fate. Please use or disregard this information as you see fit!
    1 point
  17. I'm so bored with having to ask where gear advertised in the Marketplace is located that I'm wondering whether it shouldn't be a compulsory field?
    1 point
  18. 64 Limited Edition Custom Shop from 2009 Dakota Red stunning Bass , would love to keep, but too many bills at the moment! £1800 including insured postage. NOW £1600 UK ONLY, COA was lost in paperwork at the shop, but I have a letter from Fender confirming it’s identity. 1 of 23 made, 1 of 9 in Europe.
    1 point
  19. I've done a lot of car Tetris in my time... Got a full backline, drum kit and band in a old Nissan Micra before now... Back seats down, drummer and guitarist buried under everything, 2nd and 4th gears unusable because everything was so tightly wedge and the boot held vagly down with one bungee cord. I remember praying we didn't get pulled over a good few times in that band. 😂
    1 point
  20. Had a bit of a recent cull due to needing funds for an upcoming family holiday! So as my EBS head has a decent compressor built in,ive moved on MXR comp. Ive also moved on the 3 leaf Doom which ive replaced with the cheaper and still great Zvex Mastatron. Moved on the Wonderful Cog T16,and will just have to adjust my T65 for diffrent sounds. Sold my block phase 90 and replaced it with the funky looking EVH phase 90 (has script/block tones) My board was pretty crowded before and now just nice! Liking Dannybouys idea of two different boards though.
    1 point
  21. Surely you mean tw@ ch@
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  22. How's about a forum for various parts of a curry menu ...chicken chat chat I'll get my coat then ....
    1 point
  23. 1 point
  24. Saturday night we played another very small pub. The owner loves music, he's in a band himself which played before us, so it's still a good place despite its size (or lack of). It all went well. We don't play rock and pop crowd pleasers, we're a blues band, so it's always nice when people like and are complimentary about what you're doing, despite probably not knowing 60% of your set.
    1 point
  25. ^Same. Definitely worth doing.
    1 point
  26. Rated in the industry-standard way, the power handling of the BB2 is 400 watts. I'm afraid you need to be very careful if you're going to repeat the claims on the Barefaced website. Also, please explain how you get 127dB. Ashdown do give SPL figures. They are between 101 and 103dB @1m. So you can now tell us what their maximum output is. We're listening. And that's quite an interesting claim you're making, Chris, that Ashdown cabs can't handle their rated output. What do you base that on?
    1 point
  27. Had an interesting day yesterday at the Greenman festival in Cornwall. Great band called Rootzmill on (ska and reggae), the bass players tone was amazing, best I have heard in years - including some BIG bands. I had a chat after the set, he uses a Yamaha amp (never seen that model before) and a very well used Marshall amp. He was also DIed out to the PA which was noth8ng special bit the sound was amazing. He was a great player which I am sure is a large part of it but I would kill for the tone.
    1 point
  28. On Saturday we played at the Maidens Head in Maidenhead, the gigs here are arranged through a promoter and it's not particularly well paying but it's a great venue that has live music every weekend so really needs congratulating on that. There's also a decent stage area so you don't have to negotiate with customers/bar staff to move chairs & tables before setting up! We'd played there back in March for the first time and according to the promoter the pub had specifically asked us back (which is always a positive). From previous experience we knew not to start before 9pm but it was the night of the CL Final and they weren't showing the footy so the place was quite empty. First set went OK but the place filled up about 10pm and we rocked the joint for the 2nd set plenty of singing along and dancing. After doing an extra long encore and packing up the van we made a point of "mingling" and got lots of good feedback from the punters and more importantly from the landlord/manager who commented on the fact that we entertained rather than just played. Hoping we'll be back there again on a regular basis!
    1 point
  29. By car, learned to drive as soon as the law allowed so I could get my music gear around.
    1 point
  30. If you're stuck for ideas you could wire a kill switch, that way you can leave the bass plugged in between sets without draining the battery.
    1 point
  31. I have the four string version, huge sounding bass and absloutely stunning, best of luck with the sale
    1 point
  32. Phil, out of interest I tried firing up WinISD to see the graph you get with these numbers (46l box, 55Hz tuning). To get the same port length I needed to take the box volume down to just over 40l - so I assume the 6l difference is you taking account of the driver and port volume?
    1 point
  33. I know exactly where your coming from, been there more times than I care to admit. Love your honesty too, it happens to all of us that are working in the trenches of local level gigs. I still maintain, at the local level even if the band is great your going to lose under those circumstances. Hopefully next weekend will be better for both of us. We have our second outside gig of the season and it's a new venue for us. Any land Lords or owners here? If yes why do you book bands if your clientele has no interest? I'm not trying to be flipant, I'm thinking there must be a reason or some sort of logic here. Blue
    1 point
  34. Id love the 2x12 but ive an AE2x10 to move on first! Oh and raise a bit extra 😁
    1 point
  35. Contract of sale is void if it’s based on false information. https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/misrepresentation-act-1967 Tell the guy the deal is off and learn a lesson from it.
    1 point
  36. Scared to post this but here goes ...
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  37. beautiful bass playing !
    1 point
  38. The Thrill is Gone. Probably because I've played it with Victor Brox, who played it with BB KIng. In B-flat minor for Victor's trumpet, which he plays right-handed while playing keys with his left. I play a walking minor 7th line with a lot of sustain, love the sound, but also the memory it always brings back of being so close to true greatness.
    1 point
  39. You'd think that would be an easy question to answer but in fact it requires more consideration! For example, I think its an unforgivable sin to have done a gig with every note perfectly in tune and in time; but with a drab soulless performance given. I'd much rather someone put their all into the music, to make it expressive, emotional, varied their touch and tone, used dynamics etc etc and the odd mistake crept in here and there because you're trying your best, rather than sleepwalk through all the notes and think you did okay when in fact it was quite dull to the audience.
    1 point
  40. +1^^ I've just spent an afternoon A/B ing 3 high end rigs and the Mesa M6 is still the winner for me. The combination of the rich harmonics delivered by its 12Ax7 valve preamp with an excellent 600W Mosfet power amp makes it add real sparkle to your bass tone. Oops I've just read back through this thread and I'm definitely sounding like a stuck record on the Mesa M6 - must stop being so enthusiastic about this head!! If mine wasn't part of an 80lb combo it would be bass heaven, but with that weight sadly it's just not practical for gigging...
    1 point
  41. 6??? That’s impossible surely Tom?
    1 point
  42. I'm not sure how much he actually paid for it but I heard he was going to party like it was £19.99
    1 point
  43. Coo that's nice! I had a blue one of these and it's a bangin bass. Shame they call them basic...Classic would have been better
    1 point
  44. This is a difficult question to give a single definitive answer to, unfortunately! I'm sure that the likes of 51m0n and Skol can give you some far more informed advice than I can here but here's a few pointers/guidelines to help get your started. There are many variables that can have an impact here e.g. the instrument you play, the type and amount of compression you want (i.e. just a touch of dynamic control, some tonal shaping, say a punchy mid-range, the other instruments you're playing with etc.) Setting up compression can be very difficult especially if it's just the bass in isolation and not playing along with other instruments. This is where I suspect some people think it's not doing anything and then set up so they can noticeably hear the squash, but by that time you have killed all of your dynamic range. Try setting it up at a rehearsal when playing along with other people as it'll be easier to get it right without completely flattening the bass dynamics. The main thing to listen out for is a consistency or evenness of the bass throughout its range in the mix, so the low notes are not overpowering and the higher notes stand out and are clearly audible too. Your lowest notes will will be as even as the highest ones. The Threshold is the point at which the compressor starts to squash; anything exceeding the threshold will be compressed, anything that falls short of it will remain uncompressed. For me, I like to have this set so that the compressor kicks in on the lower notes to stop them overpowering the higher notes. The Ratio is the amount of squash that is applied to the signal once it passes the threshold. Too much and your bass gets too squashed, too little and you may find that things are still uneven. Getting the Threshold and Ratio right are the main things to focus on for now. Try experimenting with the extremes of the range of both the Threshold and Ratio so you get a feel what each of them does. Once you understand what's going on start backing them off until you find the point where they are enhancing the bass and making it more consistent in the mix but you still have dynamic range and subtlety. It's not an easy thing to explain what exactly to listen out for but once you have found what works for you, you'll start to be able to hear and feel it when setting it up for another bass, for example. Things like attack and release times and hard/soft knee setting are also important but I'd focus on the threshold and ratio for now. Hope this helps
    1 point
  45. See what you have done? It's all your fault! !!!
    1 point
  46. I have to second this - It's so frustrating to have to ask location on pretty much every thread. Could do with a flag or something as well, as I'd prefer not to buy from overseas, but I can't be the only one.
    1 point
  47. also all these chit-chats should be banned imho. honestly, some threads are getting bumped to the top all the time, because there are convos going on constantly. not very fair to other sellers.
    1 point
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