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I get everything I need out of this rig, RM800 Evo + Super Twelve. No pedals, just the joint versatility of the BB735A/RM800/SuperTwelve. Perfect match!

Look what was waiting for me when I got home from the office!!!

Someone remind me when an 'f'hole becomes a Norissole?

Getting quite close to being able to close the top on this. I've cut the cable routes to the control chamber and lined the main void with veneer: The reason for the latter is that the chamber is actually quite shallow, because the back is so heavily carved, and the dark veneer gives the illusion of a much more substantial void through the 'f'hole :

Here's my reason for unreservedly recommending Jon's work.

I’ll just leave this here.

Hello, i'm Luca. I play guitar, but lately i bought my own bass equipment for my practice room... So i discovered i enjoy play bass too 😆

Two One10’s will sound awesome. I just started using both all the time (two Marshall 4x12’s to contend with) hence my want of a Two10. Heck, if I’m flush I might just get a Four10 and be damned with the roof!

Heres my Fender collection- 66 Jazz, 71 P, Custom Shop 5, 76 P 64 P, 70 P, 69 P

Windows still sucks. Yes a Windows laptop is far cheaper than an Apple Macbook but plug anything MIDI related and it may or may not work, the soundcard is likely to need tweaking to be a able to get the controller to work, the list goes on. Mac’s just work.

Could have been worse. If I'd invented it rather than nicked it, I suppose it would be an AR'sole… or is that me for nicking it

My first family pic, love em all in different ways 😍

Looks like a reverse body to me.

The 48’s as standard have a p neck and power bucker bridge pick up config under the shiny covers.

Look, I've just got podgy bones, ok?

Hi Al, it's genuinely complex isn't it? One of the complexities is that a lot of the 'information' is also advertising. For example your 'well known manufacturer' who is quoting a 15" cab running from 25-2k is probably stretching things a little. If the 15 is flat down to 25 Hz and can handle any power it will have to have a very heavy cone and a long throw, both of which would make it very inefficient. More likely it is 10-20dB down at 25 Hz so it is making some sort of sound but just not loud enough for you to hear significantly. The 1x12 may sound good with their 2x10 but if one part of their claim is improbable can you believe anything they say? A speaker that only goes to 2k wouldn't be suitable for bass on it's own. All this means is that you couldn't tell anything about how the cab would sound just from a bald 45-16k frequency response. Is that at -3dB, -10dB or some other figure. Is the response flat between those two extremes or biased towards some frequencies more than others. Add in one more factor, how we perceive sound. It is just like everything else to do with our senses, an entirely subjective experience. What we think of as bass is often about what is going on elsewhere. If I'm trying to pick out a bass line from a recording I usually cut the mids and tops rather than boost the bass. That'll make the bass line stand out much better than boosting bass 95% of the time. If your cab 2 had a bit of a mid/top end boost it would sound brighter even if the bass end was exactly the same. It might not be the 5Hz quoted difference in 'cut off' that creates the difference but what both cabs are doing in the 100-200Hz range that you are hearing. The best way of judging any cab, particularly an instrument cab is by ear. Test gear will help anyone designing a cab but you can't really drag it along to a music shop. Published figures without any indication of how they are measured aren't always a lot of use. I'm not completely cynical about manufacturers but it's a tough world for them too. If they use 'honest' rms watts and +/- 3dB frequency figures and so on then they are likely to lose sales to people who use peak figures. I'll get back to you on what in principle might be the difference you'd hear if the figures were independently measured and so could be compared, that's another long story.

Good gracious, no..! Whatever gave you that idea..? Almost libellous, to boot..! Retract, I say; retract or face the consequences.

i have my own Shuker template

For a brief time when things were really bad, I actually put my 7 string (Doodle as it is known) up for sale. I still thank so many who sent messages telling me not to do it. Who needs kidneys anyway, I have my flip-paint beauty still! (I don't look like that now lol)

Sounds like you got involved with guys that perhaps like funk but can't play it. Funk can mean different things to different people. In my neck of the woods sadly no one is playing funk. It's not an easy genre and a lot of guys don't understand don't have the feel for it. IMO play a guitar solo on " Good Times" is an example of not understanding and removed from the genre. Blue

Strings. Four of them.

I’ve done better?? I didn’t realise my comedy was being rated! I shall try harder in future to ensure the quality of my humour remains top drawer and only of the finest mirthment.

Don't be so sure about that. Most rehearsal spaces are small enough that you'll get a lot of boundary sourced phase cancellations, which can make your amp sound not as loud as it will in a large room. Guitars and drums don't have this issue, as the wavelengths they produce are much shorter and are relatively immune to phase cancellations.

So ..... few times over the last few years i was lucky enough to do some music for advert and television .... the guy was really nice and he told me he saw a video contaning my music which i ve done for a media company in London . However , he told me they already have a music composer that they have worked for years but he told me they are very busy and need a hand . when i asked him what kind of movie it was i was shocked ! Never done music for a porn tv before so i went for it . Checked the website and they have won loads of awards in the last 5 years, big company . now , just purchased a 50 inch 4k tv just for this job ahahahahahahahaha and another positive thing is that i can never get caught "sorry love im working "ahahahahahah

My new arrival :

I play with the thumb a lot , it allows me to get the really deep and warm sound I like, you can also get it up to quite a speed with double thumbing , and the muting just falls into place. a good example is Robbie Shakespeare

This is only partially true, because the impedance is not constant. You can put nearly any speaker to the output as long as you drive it with relatively low power. Keep the volume at 9 or 10 o'clock max and try every speaker one at a time and then in pairs. Remember to turn off the amp before changing the speaker. Level volume and try every possible configuration. Keep the impedance selector at 4. If the amp starts to become too hot, turn down the volume and let it cool down.

If copper goes anywhere near sea water, it turns green, non?

I will get some pics up when I change the tuners. The rolled edges make quite a difference, the neck is very comfy, something all basses should have but I imagine it would be costly. The fret ends are well finished as well, no jagged edges anywhere.

I own 3. My first was a Hofner copy which is stored at my sister's place in Ontario. My next was a Gibson Ripper, which after 43 years of playing was retired last year. Now I have a Burns Bison,, totally love it even tho when holding it normally I cant quite reach the "G" string tuning key with my short arm(s), lol.

I can't slap, I never learned. I never learned because I don't like it at all, dunno why, I just don't enjoy all the sound that's produced. I'm old school. I learned using just my thumb in the late '60's, then graduated to include picking in the '70's, then onto include single and multiple fingering techniques after that. I've never played in a band that required a slapping technique, so other than that I just use whatever technique the song requires or sounds best with.

Yeah, although for me it’s always without PA support so I need to know I have enough headroom to cover all the gigs I do. This being the case I tend to err on the side of caution and use a rig that more than I need most of the time.

Yes, i seen the guitar version of this forum. But i already read everything about in the last 10+ years 😄 Honestly the guitar world now is boring and too over hyped. Anyway i have a Squier 70 jazz bass, Little Mark III with the TC RS410.

Gonna play these as mid set break music at our next gig. Awesomely awesome

All a bass needs is the following: 1. A neck 2. Some method of tuning each string 3. Some method of intonating each string 4. Some method of spacing the strings apart at the end witness points 5. A pickup 6. Some method of connecting the pickup to the rest of your signal chain Everything else is personal preference.

Replying 'for a friend'.... He may (or may not) have brought back a number of basses from the US on more than one occasion.... and walked straight through the nothing to declare channel each time... As you were.....

Thanks all, As it happens, I just happened to find an email from a custom pickup maker that I have used in the past (anyone believe in fate?) so asked the question. The 3 x 3 configuration no problem, and no problem to put it within the p90 cover as a staggered set up (so no modification needed there). Only would be £75 done and delivered. I am going to try the suggustion of doing it as a temporary trial with an old precision pickup and if it does what I want I will order a custom one and save myself some grief trying to fashion a new pickguard etc. Much obliged for your input.

Used my RM500 set up on Saturday night to play outdoors for the fireworks display to 3-4000 people. Amazing sound and clarity, easy load in and out. Sensible easy to use EQ, DI, I changed amps so much over the years but I don't think you can beat the Rootmaster range without spending a considerable amount more. They've nailed what a gigging bassist needs IMO.

Good luck with that! Iconic band though - sound as fresh today as they ever did. Talk about standing the test of time.

They're OK. I remember Maison as a decent midrange MIK brand from the ealy 90s. Had quite a nice time noodling on one of these at a party a few years back, nice player. Couldn't get much of an idea of how it sounded, through a little practice amp & accompanying haze of alcohol.

Getting a simple and effective unit on a solid body in a position that’s viewable when playing is hard - acoustics have the big slab side to fit them in easily and they are viewable when playing

I've always thought a zero fret instead of relying on the nut for string height was a good idea

Like @cetera there's been a couple of changes since August. Peaveys are Aberdeen electro-acoustic. Axcelerator 4 & 5 string B-90, B-Quad Cirrus in teal,walnut and the 34" scale bolt on version. Also 34" scale BXP model Dynabass. Forum, Foundation-S, fretless Foundation, 4 & 5 string with the later pickup, 2 Foundation with super ferrites. Foudation bitsa (humbucker 2 Vol,1 Tone) Furys 1st,2nd and 3rd generation models. Fury II from Korea. G-bass. Grinds are BXP neck thru,USA bolt on 5 string,BXP bolt on active 4 string International 4 string. Midibase, Millennium Plus,Millennium standard,Millennium BXP. Palaedium,Patriot Randy Jackson IV (redburst), Resolite prototype, RSB Sarzo T 40 with blades,T-40 with toaster,T-40 5 string conversion,T-40 active mod. T-45, T-20. 1st & 2nd generation TL-5s, TL-6. Tragic PXD Unity, Dynabass/Unity series,Dynabass/Unity series Koa Void PXD Zephyr 5 (modded to active,Wilkinson hardware,Warman pickups). Zodiac EXP, Zodiac DE Scorpio (Entwistle Neo PJs), Zodiac DE Scorpio (stock Duncan Basslines) Others are 4 Harley Benton PB-50s (2 with Herrick pickups,1 with Jess Loueiro split coil,1 with Peavey super ferrite) 3 Tunes. fretless Maniac,Maniac,TW-4z. 2 Wishbass Lobes Gordy Blueshift II. Retrovibe Super-P Bass Collection 310. Revelation RPBX Vigier Passion. Wilson Sapphire Cort Curbow. Bitsa Telecaster bass. Briefly reached number 74 but back down to 72. Keep 25 near to hand on living-room, 6 are under the bed,5 are in a cupboard. Other 36 are stored in racks in the spare room.

Quick snap of my top three! Or is that two and a half 🤔

You'll be able to do a 'Recent Status Update' then....

Got 54 Peavey basses,at least one of every model but not every variation within each series. That's definitely classed as a collection and it's fairly well known among Peavey people. Because of that I get messages from folks all over looking for info or advice,sometimes I put buyers/sellers in touch. Mostly found playing a Harley Benton PB-50 😉