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[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='36742' date='Jul 25 2007, 09:55 AM']Hi Alan,

Good to see you here again! Must try to catch up in Littlehampton sometime. Hope all's well...
Nik[/quote]

Hi Nik
We do keep saying that and we really should!!! Just about surviving encroaching old age & another joint replaced in June

Are you going up to the Guildford bash in August? I don't mind driving - I am there every damn day so one more won't hurt - and have a cunning plan to park (oh all right the office car park just round the corner & box any b@st@rd in who shouldn't be there)

[i]Steps back and waits for flood of "got any more room?" posts [/i]

[quote name='dr.funk' post='29614' date='Jul 10 2007, 10:12 AM']My first set of Elixirs arrived this morning, can't wait to try them out [/quote]

.....and?

I have to say I started using Elixirs a couple of years back and though they are expensive they just go on [i][b][size=4][u]forever[/u][/size][/b][/i] are even in tone across the neck and keep that tone pretty much until I realise that they are starting to look a little skanky and need changing.

The first set I got were freebies at the Guitar show in Wembley and I was hooked. Next year I bought a box from the Strings Direct stand (or possibly Stringbusters) at a knockdown price. This year no one seemed to be selling the bass strings so I could not stock up again damn them!!!

The box by the way has lasted two years of an average gig + rehearsal a week, and its not that I do not change the strings regularly, its that they hold tone for so long even beating them up quite hard with a plectrum.

IMHO after too many years playing you can buy cheaper, but it really is a false economy unless you find that elusive string that lasts with the sound you want

[quote name='bassninja' post='35500' date='Jul 22 2007, 11:39 AM']Anybody else play Bognor Rox event over the weekend?[/quote]

Hi & welcome from another Newbie.

Didn't make Rox this year. The rest of the band were in London to see Spamalot arranged ages ago so it was a bit of a bugger that we were asked this year. Mind your the last two times we almost did it as a band it was either hurling it down (so we ended up doing the gig in an obliging pub on the front) or started hurling it down 2 songs into the set, so our record with the weather as a full band is not good.

[quote name='ped' post='34615' date='Jul 20 2007, 01:10 PM']Hopefully I will be able to come too, having an operation on Monday so may be recovered enough in time. What better to get me back on my feet than a bass fest?[/quote]

Want to compare scars!? OK praps not!! New knuckle 14/6/07, replaced shoulder 22/2/05, & that's so far.

Might be able to make it. Are we still talking somewhere in Guildford? I couldn't immediately see skipping back through the thread tonight when I should be in my pit

In a similar sort of dilemma.

A few years back I went over to using a Bass Pod Pro XT straight to the PA which sound awesome out front and through my IEM, but have had a few mutters re on stage monitoring, despite the foldback strewn about. So I have started carrying round my TE 122H combo and sending a separate feed to that.

Trouble is whilst it works OK it doesn't fit in the car easily ([i]what the hell sort of decision making reason is that!!! [/i]) and is a bit big to use for smaller acoustic gigs possibly on the horizon for which I was toying with getting an EUB. I also have to bear in mind the fact that my joints are slowly but surely giving out & being replaced so weight / portability is a factor, as is size in the smallest of gigs.

So I have looked at a GK Backline 112, and Markbass CMD121H to date. I have also seen but not tried the Silver series Edens & wondered. I have even considered a s/h TE BLX combo, which certainly seemed a possibility. Lastly there is an EBS 1x12 Drome

Either of the first two would fit the car bill & both sounded good in the shop at least.

The BLX knocked out the power sufficiently for onstage monitoring, but the two I found in shops looked expensive for the state they were in!

EBS I have not had a chance to try yet in the combo version. Eden I merely threw into the pot

The GK has the benefit of the kickback & is quite a bit cheaper than the MB, but almost certainly does not have headroom that the MB would. There is of course nothing to stop one using a lump of 2x4, or even the MB fold away stand. The MB combo is [i]incredibly [/i]light but certainly seemed to pump out bass. Is it a one trick pony as I have heard suggested - pass. Chances are if you can find a good tone, which certainly seemed possible, that's enough isn't it? Certainly live with the Bass Pod I really only use 3 main patches with a couple of other for short boosted sections.

I really need to take my bass along and stick it through the GK & MB. There was very nearly a "SODIT" moment this morning for the MB, but I have a few weeks off for other band members hols so there is no huge rush just at the mo.

[quote name='overwater#1' post='6121' date='May 24 2007, 10:52 PM']Now thats cool! [/quote]
YAY!! I had a couple of those (Shergolds) years back, a black fretless, and a black fretted that got painted with a silver burst and turned into an 8 string

They were my first "proper" basses

Other: Wal Pro1 updated to Custom with Hipshot D-Tuner added



The headstock zoom was due to someone on another forum saying my name reminded them of WalMart - DOH!

Morning from another Sussex member

Al

Looking to sell my TE 122H combo

Speakers: 2x10 + horn
12 band graphic based around the GP12SMX preamp

You know what to expect, but the manual is [url="http://www.britishaudioservice.com/inst/12BAND.PDF"]HERE[/url]

Heavy duty padded cover.

I have owned it from new & it was serviced by ex TE service engineers a few years back.

I have 2 x the 5 way foot switches one of which is in a loom with cables for mute & tuner and a midi cable (I used to switch a Behringer Moduliser back at the amp with a SansAmp Midi Mouse)

Condition is very good with just a couple of small nicks in the green carpet covering.

I am looking for around [i][size=1]EDIT[/size][/i] [b][size=3][color="#FF0000"]£395[/color][/size] [/b]but will be open to offers.
Go on. You know it makes sense[i][size=1]EDIT[/size][/i]

Well here I am back again. Been playing for more years than I care to mention & slowly being rebuilt by medics as body parts fail, but still not letting it stop me.

Play along the South Coast (mainly between Littlehampton & Southampton) in a rock covers band called The Alibi. Prior to that in a band called A Kind of Fury with the same drummer & guitarist but a different vocalist

Gear wise a Wal Pro1 uprated to Custom actives, a Line6 BassPod Pro XT straight to the PA and presently looking at a small MarkBass combo for rehearsals & small gigs to replace the Trace Elliot 122H combo