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  1. Staggering on
    A bit late posting but we played another fund raiser last Sunday at the cathedral in North Bay where we played in February of 2024 to help raise money for roof repairs and this time they even paid us for our efforts. Probably at least 200 in the audience, a bit lower than we hoped but it was a beautiful spring day and I think some folks decided to enjoy the good weather. We had a vocalist with us this time and she was great as usual and really knows how to work those old jazz tunes. We did a swing set and then I switched to tenor banjo and one sax player used a bari sax to play a bass line and we played a shorter Dixieland/trad set. Good fun and the church and the band both made money. Shen SB 100 into the Bose PA and Baldwin Ode banjo. The word on the cross above the bass sums up how I feel playing some of the songs. 😊 Edit: Keyboard player is there but hidden behind the alto sax player.
    12 points
  2. Dan Dare
    This is what it boils down to. If you like the sound of 15s (and don't mind carrying them), the technical arguments are irrelevant, even if they are true. If you are happy with the sound you make, you will be more relaxed and confident and play better.
    8 points
  3. chriswareham
    8 points
  4. Lo-E
    A few days late and no pictures (so no incriminating evidence), but I had fun gigs on Friday and Saturday. Friday was with The Underbites, loosely a punk band playing originals. The venue was Arlene’s Grocery in lower Manhattan. Arlene’s is a fixture in the rock scene in NYC. Good backline, good PA, good house engineer and, overall, just a great place to play. We had a modest crowd but they were enthusiastic. We played a fast, tight set that was well received. The high point for me was that the young crowd that had come to see the earlier (and much younger) band stayed to hear us as well (not always a given in NYC) and they were VERY complimentary. I don’t think they were expecting the old guys to be a much better band - but we were! Saturday was another punk band; Bedpan Fight. An absolutely hilarious group with ridiculous original songs. I’m a recent member of the band but I’ve known them for years. The (excellent ) drummer, my old friend Vic, is even newer to the band but we’ve played together many times and we’re a formidable rhythm section. The venue was Mr. Beery’s, a dive bar about an hour outside the city on Long Island and the lineup was four female-fronted punk bands. All the bands were great, the atmosphere was very collegial, the local crowd was very welcoming and it was a really fun time. The high point of that one was the bassist from one of the other bands, a very lovely young lady who was easily six feet tall ( and a very good bassist) , coming up to me to tell me how much she loved our set, loved my playing and thought my Rickenbacker was beautiful! It takes one to know one. That ended up being a very late night for me; by the time I dropped the drummer off at his apartment in Queens and then drove home to Brooklyn it was past 2:30 but it wrapped up two fun nights of gigs.
    7 points
  5. ern500evo
    Picked my Euro LX from the tech this morning. LHZ-03 preamp installed and some luminlay fret markers installed too. Only played it briefly through my headphone amp, but the LHZ sounds fab! Have to wait about a week to hear it cranked through my GK amp, but I think I’m going to be impressed 😊
    6 points
  6. Al Krow
    Arrival of a GT 1000 Core has meant I've been able to cut down on a lot of individual pedals I was previously using for gigs when I had my Zoom B1-4: the GT Core provides an excellent drive/fuzz, along with the usual modulation fx and not too shabby an up-sweep filter either! So I've found myself just using the two pedals shown, and wanted to get a compact pedal board to match which can more easily slot into my gig bag. I found one by a previously unknown brand "Strich" - the feet were a little too tall for my needs at 4cm & 3cm respectively, but easy to unscrew and replace with four 2cm ones, which still allows plenty of clearance for my HB Iso Pro 5 PSU on the underside.
    6 points
  7. TheGreek
    A post on Facebook from Nick's sister, Ally about the foundation being set up in his name... If you're thinking of buying any equipment please consider Nick's - you know that it will be set up properly - and that the money will go to a great cause. Link to follow.
    5 points
  8. LowB_FTW
    It has taken me some time - quite some time - but I’ve finally got my hands on one of these. It’s about as close as I’m likely to get to an actual Status T-Bass. This was the bass that first brought me to BassChat as a longtime lurker, before a registered member. I never actually thought I’d get a T-Bass, despite coming very close a couple of years ago, there was one on Fb marketplace, but the seller was very cagey with his answers to my questions, and he just didn’t inspire any buying confidence in me at all, so that one passed. (A decision I’ve regretted for letting the bass go, but I always felt it was the right decision due to bad vibes from the seller.). And here I am today, making this post. I've the bass exactly a week now. Pros : It’s a T-Bass! That headstock (you can’t really want a T-Bass if you don’t like the headstock). The colour (I'm not sure if it's faded white or supposed to be this off-white shade). Cons : It’s a TE, not Status. It’s the 3-piece neck. Just before PoiDH, a super-massive shoutout to @NigeJ and @HeadlessBassist , who both took time out of their lives to go and meet the seller and check/inspect the bass for me. Just prior to Nigel’s viewing it developed an electrical fault - seller said it was due to a battery leakage and provided pic of removed battery box with green residue on it - which is why I needed Richard to go and check it out after the issue was fixed, which he did, tested the signal and all OK. Without these two, I wouldn't have this bass now, so thank you very much gents, your time was very much appreciated. The bass isn't perfect, there's some dings in the finish and a couple of splits in the finish as well, the black marks you see in some of the images in the Flickr album may just buff out, I've got some polish to try and remove those. I've got some Rotosound flats on order as well as some strap lock buttons. I'll revisit this thread once the above have been put on and I've had a go at giving it a cleanup. Enough words, PoiDH below … Plenty more images in this Flickr album. Mark
    5 points
  9. MichaelDean
    Small update to the board, I've been tasked with triggering samples in-between songs, so I've put our Jamman on the board. It's a bit of a beast in both size and weight (1kg!). But, despite the claim on the back of the thing that it needs 1300mA it seems to be fine with 500mA! That means I can use the last output on my power supply and not have to work out other arrangements. 🥳 It's a bit of a pain to get to though. Toppers have been added to help me identify play and stop as I got a little confused under stage lights and the white text disappeared. Really, I'd like a Boss RC-5, switch the samples via midi from my GX-100 and just use the foot switch as an on/off pedal. Alas, funds do not allow!
    5 points
  10. The Guitar Weasel
    First view of the neck offered up ... and yes there's a lot of that heel that needs to come off!!!
    5 points
  11. Sweenyrod
    Having recently got stung, I'm beginning to understand why Bitsa is a dirty word! This one however is a fantastic hardly played instrument, commissioned by me, all work executed by Indra Guitars down here on the South coast. We have... Hosco neck, alder body, 70s jazz spacing Nordstrand soapbars, Hipshot Ultralites, Titanium bridge for added sustain. The knobs are vol, blend, tone. CTS and fancy cap. Thomastik jazz flats. Custom anodised pickguard and bespoke control plate, Gotoh relic knobs. Everything bought new, cost around £1400!
    5 points
  12. Sweenyrod
    This is a rare punchy beast. Short scale active made in Japan in 2014.its effectively a very high quality, active Mustang variant. Featuring the John East jazz preamp, so it has full passive control, or epic active. In excellent all round condition. Currently wearing La Bella Deep Talkin strings. Can courier at cost.
    4 points
  13. johnbiffa
    Trade added, would consider PJB Small combo or HX Stomp !! I own 2 1x10 Wayne Jones cabs and a Wayne Jones preamp which is my go to rig and I bought this incredible 1000 watt powered 2x10 on this forum last year as a viable “bigger venue “ alternative. It is in perfect working order and very good cosmetic condition. A few very minor marks/dints which can be seen in the photos. I believe there are 3 variants of the cab, this one being the second, so same size and power as the later version, Available to view/trial near York or could potentially meet to complete the sale within a radius of about 59 miles. Not viable to post. Here's details from the site: WJ 2×10 1000 WATT POWERED BASS CABINET WAYNE JONES AUDIO “The Wayne Jones Cabs Are As Good As It Gets” (2018 Review) “The Best Powered Cabs I’ve Heard” Two Editor Awards from Bass Player Magazine ~ Bass Player Magazine DIGITAL DSP FOR POWERED BASS CABINETS Now you can have a 1000 Watt Compact, Portable High End, High Powered, Crystal Clear, Full Range 2×10 Bass Cabinet (40 Hz – 20 KHz) that only requires a pre-amp, your bass & yourself. I still use the same 10” driver design that was in my previous model (if it aint broke don’t fix it) with air dried Kevlar Impregnated cones, a 70mm voice coil, massive ferrite magnets (in preference to Neo). A state of the art switch mode D Class power amp with amazing dynamics, 20Hz to 20KHz frequency range (see specs) is built into the rear panel of the cabinet with a grill to protect it. I could have used what most other companies are using but this power amp far surpasses them with specs & amp quality. Perfect for my cabinets as they need the power to move those drivers to give you all those frequencies. As opposed to other cab companies where their speakers do not deliver all the frequencies as present & as balanced as mine. Dimensions Height: 64.5cm Width: 40.5cm Depth: 51.5cm (25.4 x 15.95 x 20.28 In) Weight 29kg, 65lbs Cabinet Specs Power Amp – State of the art D Class switch mode power amp 1000 Watts with heat sink plate mounted into the rear of the cabinet. Internally the power amp mains cable has a heavy duty ferrite on it to shield from RF interference. Drivers – 2 custom made Wayne Jones 10” drivers with Aluminium cast frames, Kevlar impregnated cones with specially formulated Eucalyptus pulp Voice coil – 70mm Magnet – Massive Ferrite. Individual driver specs. 40 Hz to 4.5 KHz Tweeter – JBL, 1.75” Voice coil Crossover point 3.5Khz Control plate- Brushed Stainless Steel Mains in Power – IEC XLR balanced Input LED readout for thermal & amp; clip Indication ”Bigger venues” are few and far between and my 2 cab solution has always been ideal so time for someone else to explore these fantastic cabs. SBL have a great review on one of their give away videos and they are used by top session players the world over.
    4 points
  14. spongebob
    Some of us who’ve been on here long enough get that! 😁
    4 points
  15. Obrienp
    I have had one for a few years now and I think they are great little basses but not without their issues and idiosyncrasies. Pros and cons from mine and other folks’ experience: Pro: 1. Very light weight and well balanced; 2. Slim fast neck (36mm at the nut); 3. Lots of tones available and it can sound massive on some settings; 4. The push-button presets give you instant repeatable tone (not to everybody’s taste); 5. Quality hardware but see some of the cons below. Cons: 1. Selecting the all-in (series) pickup setting can be very tricky; 2. Some reported issues with the longevity of the push-buttons; 3. First batch basses suffered from the saddles dropping on the Hipshot bridge. The official cure was Loctite and careful location of the string ball ends (not acceptable IMO). My second batch model has been OK in this respect; 4. The pickup screws go straight into the metal baseplate and the thread can strip over time giving the screws no grip, so the pickups drop. My local luthier has had to repair quite a few by attaching a nut to the baseplate. He says the pickups look very cheaply made, which is ironic as they are one of the few USA parts; 5. No body contouring. I haven’t found this as much of a problem as on basses like Mustangs and the Gretsch Junior Jet; 6. The upside down headstock is a gimmick that wears thin after a while and it can be confusing tuning it, if you swap from a conventionally configured bass during a gig. I am thinking of having a pickguard made to accommodate a strat style pickup selector, vol, tone and jack socket. Then I can do away with the buttons. I like the tone presets though, so I would replicate them with a rotary varitone control. Just a thought. There looks to be ample room in the cavity to accommodate this set up. Hope this helps your decision. BTW my experience is with a dual pickup model.
    4 points
  16. Sweenyrod
    Rare bass, natural velvet is a factory satin over swamp ash. The neck is beautifully figured and the bass has just been luthier set up. It's been modded in the early noughties and is done really well. I had it upgraded from SD matched alnico Aguilar MM and supplementary J neck pickup. About as close as you can get to the original Stingray sound. There's an Aguilar preamp, I think it's OBP-2, with cut and boost on bass and treble, 2nd knob is blend. Comes with the Bass Direct mute kit for the thudders. I'm torn selling it but I have a Special, and a mongrel, plus a couple of Sterlings. It's an outstanding bass for the right player. Weight is a fantastic 8lb 7oz! It started out as a 3eq and was modded when I bought it. Plays fantastically and has added versatility. No offers but open to Sandberg trades, esp Lionel.
    4 points
  17. Beedster
    Well they are precision polished, which perhaps suggests that the standard strings aren't precision polished, merely polished imprecisely
    4 points
  18. BigRedX
    New single out now from all the usual downloaded and streaming sites There's also a poptastic remix by Matt Pop:
    3 points
  19. admiralchew
    Now considering offers. UK postage via Royal Mail Special Delivery is included in the price. All pedals are in good working order. Pedals are boxed unless otherwise stated. Please let me know if you have any questions about them. Trade interests: - Hamstead Subspace GE - Cog T-70 v2 - 29 Pedals Toki - Demiurge Life - MOOG MF Flanger Broughton Calamity - £160 – a brilliant muff optimised for bass. It’s one of my top three muffs for bass but I have two so I’m parting with one of them. Hiero BEAD v3 - £205 - a very well-regarded take on the Brassmaster (Hiero sold this in a brown paper bag, which is included, rather than a box) Dunwich Volt Thrower - £300 - sought-after RAT-type pedal from the brilliant Nick Williams. They all seem to be a little different but I think this version has Schottkey and germanium diodes (no box). COG Custom Solid Snake Blender - £90 – similar to an LS-2 and is configured so that the pedal can either run the A Loop, B Loop or A+B Loops. It also has phase switches. I bought this because it’s a COG pedal and I love Metal Gear Solid. Moose Nomad - £160- my favourite octave fuzz. I have a slightly newer version so I'm selling this unit. Nightowl Industries Parabellum v2 - £250 - a Nightowl Edison tube preamp and distortion circuit. Cog Effects R-1 - £290 - another brilliant octave fuzz from one of the best builders in the business (no box, missing one screw which was donated to another COG pedal a while back). Magic Pedals Cthulhu (black-out) - £190 - one-knob Fuzz Face-type fuzz. Wrought Iron Leather & Effects Kaiburr - £275 – a cool fuzz with an excellent LED design reminiscent of Kylo Ren's lightsaber. SOLD BOSS HM-2W - £90 - HM-2 Waza style. SOLD Broughton BBA - £70 each - signal optimiser and buffer for the start of your chain. SOLD Broughton Subsonic - £140 - Broughton's take on the OC-2 (battered box). SOLD Magic Pedals Fuzzthrone (black-out) - £215 - versatile Fuzz Face-type circuit. SOLD Magic Pedals Magick Fuzz - £175 - muff-style fuzz (no box). SOLD Lone Wolf Audio Left Hand Wrath 2.5 (boxed) - £125 – HM-2-style distortion. WITHDRAWN Damnation Audio MBD2 - £180 - versatile distortion in a smaller format than the MBD3.
    3 points
  20. Sweenyrod
    2008 trans orange G&L. It's really vibrant! Sporting Delano soapbars and full active Aguilar Obp preamp with vol, blend and stacked bass and treble. Serial/solo/parallel switching on both pickups. Factory jazz neck (38mm nut). Fantastic rich and full tone with plenty of tweaking options. Comes with original 10 ton bridge and hard case.
    3 points
  21. NancyJohnson
    Mine did have the names. Scott was the white, Virgil the Hamer, the black/white Alan, and so on.
    3 points
  22. Stub Mandrel
    Incidentally, I saw Walter Trout last night. He played a solo, then said "I enjoyed that so much, I'm going to play it again, because it's my band and I can!". The whole night was full of things like signalling people how many turns around to take for a solo, or to take another one. I'm sure even the encore was unplanned as the band were watching him, and he called out 'Going Down'. James Oliver (a very different style of guitarist) stood in for a song. Walter just called out let's go with Am, and started playing. That doesn't mean there wasn't a framework for the night, but it was wonderfully loose and immediate. He was also incredibly generous to his bandmates and guests, it felt like a really special performance.
    3 points
  23. Dad3353
    Sue Ryder..?
    3 points
  24. tayste_2000
    BTW the correct term for this is Guitar Safari 💁‍♀️ You’re welcome
    3 points
  25. Chadu25
    Looking forward to it. Just preordered the Ducatti white 5 string from BassDirect. Decided to gift myself something nice as I just got promoted to Senior UI Artist at work. They mentioned stocks will arrive end of this month. Going to be my first Dingwall and fanned fret experience. I requested them to have a TI flats installed I’m really excited!
    3 points
  26. Beedster
    Read 'all music gear' ^
    3 points
  27. chris_b
    Chaps, I never thought I'd ever see this day, so I think a little celebration is in order. 50 years ago today (just after lunch) I walked into Maurice Plaquet's music shop in Acton, West London, with £22 10/- in my pocket and bought my first bass, a Framus small body Star Bass. 6 weeks of hard graft on my Grandfather's nursery in Kent paid for it. It was easy to play and I played it at home for a year before I could afford an amp. Everything I know today I started on that bass. Unfortunately it began falling apart almost from day one. With an ever increasing number of repairs and mods I played that bass for 2 years and only stopped using it when I joined a pro band. [url="http://s293.photobucket.com/user/chris_b_photo/media/CopyofFSBme2.jpg.html"][/url] I've been a pro bass player twice, made a few records, been to some interesting places, played some great gigs in great bands with some fantastic players. I've also played in places and in bands that weren't any of those things. Ho hum! I have no idea where the time has gone. Anyway, my life started with that bass. Here's to the next 50.
    3 points
  28. fretmeister
    I love the Group flats - I use the 2.5 on 34 scale, and I have some 50-110 for shorties. As it happens though this thread has inspired me to get another set of the Fender ones for a different bass! Damn you all for making me spend money!
    3 points
  29. zbd1960
    OK.... here we go... A custom built Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ. Three manuals, 32 key pedal board. Custom built PC with 128gb RAM, assorted Arduino and MIDI boxes, Focusrite interface, two ARC Studio DSP boxes, 1 pair Neumann 310 inside the cabinet, 1 pair Neumann 120 externally, 1 Neumann sub....
    3 points
  30. chriswareham
    When I previously lost a band I found the following poster helped:
    3 points
  31. KevSpurs
    I can go for the shortest. A squire strat from next door neighbour. It took all of 20 seconds
    3 points
  32. RonC
    The 2 MK1’s that are now forever connected!
    3 points
  33. stewblack
    The Fender Fuzz arrived earlier this week and the Plum was built by our very own @BabyBlueSound and arrived this afternoon. It's a Prunes and Custard clone and it's wonderful. Looks and sounds awesome
    2 points
  34. Cosmo Valdemar
    I think the Quadrophenia bass tone is absolutely beautiful. I'd love to hear an isolated track. There's an awful isolated Real Me on YouTube but it sounds like one of those dodgy ones where the individual tracks have been picked out by computer rather than the actual track, it's extremely poor quality and not what we hear on the album. Mind you, the mix on Quadrophenia is so biased toward the bass (at least on the vinyl) that there isn't that much mystery as to what he sounds like.
    2 points
  35. Misdee
    If these strings are a serious proposition by Ernie Ball and Pino then it begs the question, what problem are they solving? What advantage do they offer? What was wrong or lacking in some way with the La Bella and Thomastik strings PIno was using previously and how do these new strings remedy that? I've watched the YT video of PIno demoing them and talking about flats in general, but it's all very vague and non-specific about what exactly is special about these strings. To my ears even with PIno playing them they sound like just another new set of flat wounds, with the caveat that new flats don't sound very good to me. Ernie Ball don't make inferior products, I'm sure these are very good strings. However, in marketing terms I suspect what makes them extraordinary is that they cost more.
    2 points
  36. reggieboomboom
    2 points
  37. waveydavy
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    2 points
  38. Baloney Balderdash
    Oh, it is definitely an EHX POG in some form, yes looks like the Mirco, if OP should want to nail the exact tone. But just about any decent polyphonic octave up pedal should do.
    2 points
  39. BTops
    Cool
    2 points
  40. uk_lefty
    Behringer did or still do one that fits the bill. We had it in the band to save floor and car space from big monitors and it helped get vocals in tune. I wouldn't pump bass through it though. Anyway, fifteens... I hear all the arguments on speaker size but to me something just sounds deeper and more rich in my fifteens than it does with smaller speakers. It's rare for me to play without PA support so I want the sound I like from my kit. Lightweight and compact cabs mean it's not as impractical as it used to be.
    2 points
  41. steantval
    I would pay £90 for them if they made me play like him.
    2 points
  42. Jean-Luc Pickguard
    I use EB cobalt flats on four thunderbirds and a rickenbacker. Never understood the 'sticky' complaint — they've always felt fine to me, and I have never had any with rust or discolouration. They are a lot brighter than all the other flats I have played and the brightness seems to last a very long time. I really like them. I use the lightest set, the one with blue on the packaging.
    2 points
  43. fretmeister
    1: He sold transcriptions of other people's work claiming it was his work. 2: He released music on Spotify and claimed he was the only composer but he wasn't a composer of the tunes at all. Both are fraud / obtaining money by deception. Not just civil disputes but actually criminal offences.
    2 points
  44. RonC
    Around 530km (1060 in total) to trade a Wal for a Wal! From my hometown in the Netherlands to Hull, I booked a minicruise for it. We swapped basses at a parking lot!
    2 points
  45. Steve Browning
    Where's the humility emoji when you need it? 🙂
    2 points
  46. Bill Fitzmaurice
    That One 10 defines physics. Moving air isn't just an expression, it's how speakers work. A high quality modern ten with 8mm excursion capacity will move as much air as vintage fifteen with 3mm excursion.
    2 points
  47. Bill Fitzmaurice
    And for that there's this:
    2 points
  48. Chimike
    My recently built Greenboy 12/6 , and 15/6, although on the 15/6 I had to move the port to the rear of the cab, and add a false floor to get the "Vox" look ! I still LOVE 15's.
    2 points
  49. fretmeister
    Midi Vanilli?
    2 points
  50. RonC
    Haha, that’s mine…(and I didn’t do this!) Long time ago I traded my MK3 fretless 5er for an MK1 fretless plus an extra fretless neck with British bassist Ian. the MK1 had a rosewood fretless fretboard and the extra neck was ebony. I swapped the necks because I prefer ebony for fretless. After the swap I contacted Ian again to ask where this neck came from. He also had the rest of this bass, the demolished body, electronics, pickups and bridge. He got this bass from some punk bassplayer who found it to heavy… so this guy cut it up..😬😳. I finally bought the parts together with the body and in 2011 I send all the parts plus the rosewood neck to Wal and had Paul build me a new body for it and had the rosewoodneck fretted. So now I have 2 MK1 basses. All this time this poor body is lying in my room and i can’t look at it. So i thought I’d give it a try and see if there’s someone brave and crazy enough to buy it and make something out of it… I have no idea if there’s someone who wants to pay for it anyway so I just started high … why not?
    2 points
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