Colledge

well my band, spectrum, are in the semi-finals of the marshall ultimate band competition. it'd mean alot if you go and have a listen and if you like what you hear, give us a vote. here's our video, [url="http://marshall.licklibrary.com/video/510"]http://marshall.lick...y.com/video/510[/url] let me know what you think, cheers.

keep an aye out on the bay for pa cabs. you can pick up little 10" pa cabs for next to nothing, not pretty though. plus the more hi-fi sound of a pa cab lends its self well to slappin da bass.

great colour, i think with a black pickguard / hardwear and a body coloured pickup cover it'd look mean as hell. maybe slap on a set of green dr neons too

i've never tried playing with a metronome but i can see how it can help. i'll give it a try.

no matter how hard i try i just cant get myself to play fast / complex stuff smoothly. mostly highlighted when i play this [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYbDKBcmVmQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYbDKBcmVmQ[/url] my playing always end up sounding rushed, lots of fret noise and twangy. although yes it'll have alot to do with my technique and its a case of practice makes perfect... but i also think my tone has a bit to do with it. i'm playing through a fender cij precision, gt06b into a trace v-type. whenever i try messing with the eq i just end up with mud, usually the same with comp. what am i doing wrong? should compression help? boost / cut certain frequencies? i've thought about maybe raising my action too, should get rid of alot of my fret noise. cheers.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1285732' date='Jun 28 2011, 09:27 PM']I'm pretty interested in how the head case works.[/quote] i imagine it'll be like the trace elliot bright box. basically uses a hpf so it can be used in parallel with any cabs as the overall resistance is negligible.

i'd say the di is your best bet. running a power stage directly into a compressor and then into another power amp sounds like a recipe for disaster for all 3 parties. if you get a male xlr - jack lead then you should be able to feed the di into the compressor and power amp just fine. not sure on if the effects return is post or pre-eq but if its a post, then you could probably use that too.

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='1284481' date='Jun 27 2011, 06:59 PM']I'd say louder than your average 4x10 it slayed the barefaced compact when I a/b'ed them I normally gig with an 8x10 but I did an entire tour mostly without PA support with the 2x12 and it handled all my gigs fine.[/quote] thats what i wanted to hear, one of these may be in my future. matamp really needs to get more info on their site.

what kind of volume does the neo 2x12 put out? is it up there with the barefaced super 12, or your average 4x10?

the guitarist in my band is a butcher and every other week he complains of cut fingers, luckily it always seems to be little paper-cut sized things. in my early playing i frequently got blisters in longer gigs, but just played through it.