TankJon

Sold Mick a Fender Classic 70's Jazz. Came to collect, paid cash and drank my coffee. Good stuff!

[quote name='RockfordStone' post='1166701' date='Mar 18 2011, 09:09 AM']i run a pc and laptop with cubase on both for home and mobile recording, and i very rarely have any issues that are not self created[/quote] Agree to that. I love reading threads about people using computers. Nearly all contain people slagging off something purely because they didn't read the user guide and screwed everything up, then all of a sudden you get loads of posts containing "cubase/pro tools/logic is utter crap". Computer recording is only hassle if you don't learn to use it properly!

[quote name='icastle' post='1174677' date='Mar 24 2011, 02:16 PM']Oh lordy, I'm gonna regret this... Allen keys (hex) Allen keys (torx) Soldering Iron Two gauges of solder Desolder tool (various) Tip cleaner HRC Fuses FB Fuses SB Fuses Wrist strap and isolation box DVM Clamp Meter Fluke Net analysis meter RJ45 tester Cable tester Screwdrivers (flat) Screwdrivers (torx) Screwdrivers (posi) Screwdrivers (phillips) Cutters (various) Pliers (various) Mole grips (various) Adjustable spanners (various) Small spanners Socket set Trimtools XLRs (M & F) Speakons (M & F) Jack plugs and sockets (6.25 & 3.5mm) Wire strippers (pistol grip and rotational) Scissors Steel rule Stanley knife Various craft knives Superglue WD40 Blutak Switch cleaner Isopropyl Alcohol Thread lock Solder paste Crimptool (standard terminals) Crimptool (RJ45) Crimptool (RJ11) Punch tool (Krone) Punch tool (110) Punch tool (433A) Assorted crimp assemblies 16A commandos (M & F) Mains plugs and trailing sockets. Files Batteries Torch Insulating tape Gaffa Tape Self amalgamating tape Masking tape Various lumps of cable Various pens Various nuts, bolts and washers Various electronic components It all fits in one tool box that needs both hands to lift.[/quote] Why on earth would anyone need IPA and all the network cable tools and tester for gigging? ...assuming of course its your gig tool kit and not for work

[quote name='73Jazz' post='1099106' date='Jan 22 2011, 09:49 PM']Designed for killing people! The best tone i have ever heard, with enough power to discipline guitarists. So full of sound, full of tone ,that i don`t want any other amp for the rest of my life, worth every gram it weighs [/quote] OMFG!!! This + Zvex Fuzz Factory + Orange Thunderverb 200 + 2 Matamp 4x12's + Les Paul strung with 15 - 70's tuned to drop A = Massive doomtastic sludge-a-ma-geddon!! ...oh and deafness.

I've not tried the Hydrive but I owned a kickback 12 which was 120watt and that was a thundering little beast. Very punchy and very portable.

I've not tried one of the Peacemaker heads? I heard it was partly designed by Dave at Matamp but does it sound anything like a Matamp?

[quote name='ahpook' post='868304' date='Jun 15 2010, 07:30 PM']one thing - i do wish people would stop calling guitarists 'guitards' it's childish in the extreme.[/quote] +1 I hate the expression. The assumption that somebody who plays guitar is also a retard is itself quite retarded.

Not long ago I saw a Cream tribute band and the bassist, with his chin high Status, obviously thought he was the mutts nuts whilst he slapped and tapped his way through an hour and a bit of Cream songs. Afterwards I asked him how long he'd been playing ...15 years was his response as I sighed into my pint. Bass is indeed a wonderful instrument but only when its played by a bassist who has a clue!

I've always liked having at least a 3 band EQ on a bass amp but I just purchased an Orange Dual Terror guitar amp and its basically got two channels, each with Volume, Tone and Gain controls ...sounds fookin ace! No need for anything more than that in this case.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='866278' date='Jun 13 2010, 07:12 PM']Put a bass in a guitarist's hands and they just seem to get the urge to, well...widdle. [/quote] Hmmmm Stu Hamm, Victor Wooten, Billy Sheehan, Alain Caron, Marcus Miller, Adam Nitti, Jeff Schmidt, Jonas Helborg, Micheal Manring etc.. of course THEY don't widdle on bass I consider myself an accomplished guitarist and bassist and resent the fact that people seem to genuinely believe you can't do one without being some kind of traitor to the other.

Hi! If you are feeling up to it you might want to shorten the length of the wiring. It'll help with keeping the signal as clean as possible.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='864733' date='Jun 11 2010, 09:46 PM']It wasnt going to be long before I had to post was it. I do honestly truly understand the 'but I can make the same sound for £500' argument. I can also understand the 'I wouldnt use that in a pub 4 nights a week argument' (I wouldnt use mine for pub gigs, I'd probably use an Ibanez). However I have to say a few comments on this thread have somwhat vexed me Why is it a waste of money? Someone could afford to buy it and probably will. If you use that argument Ferrari, Maybach, Rolls-Royce and Bentley would never sell any cars. If you want the very best of everything it costs money. Because almost everyone cannot afford £7k on an instrument doesnt make it wrong, itjust makes it very very expensive. A PRS EB IV when on sale in the UK was £2.4k. I would most certainly have not been ableto buy all the lovelies I have if I'd had to pay that amount, but some were sold for that price in the UK. I'm afraid most of you are missing the point. You have to order PRS Private Stock instruments. They are hand made for you in the custom shop at Stevensville. The customer specifies all aspects of the order. PRS has obtained some of the most exotic woods and finishes available to make Private Stock instruments from, and some of those have been stored and conditioned for years to produce massively stable structures. The GG 5 string for sale at Thomanns will have been orderd by someone maybe even Thomann to sell. They are not mass produced machine made 'fighting guitars'. Thomanns can reflect that price in what they are asking for it. I also resent the midlife crisis bass label that some of you have added to it - would you say the same of a Shuker, a Custom shop (POS IMHO) Fender or a custom shop Warwick......? There is less than 5 GG basses made a year, that makes it a very exclusive club. A club I will be joining in a couple of years time, not because I want ANY OLD 5 STRING bass, I want a handmade PRS and I am prepared to pay for it. I will be flying over to pick it up too. It will never get played in a pub but will be played and cherished as my others are. Someone will buy that one and you know what.... You will never see it for sale on here because whoever does buy it will want to keep it.[/quote] Well said! I couldn't afford to spend £7k on a single instrument but I've spent more than that over the years on various guitars basses and amps Its all relative as well. If £7k is a drop in the ocean and you can easily afford to then why not? Also, to many people £500 is a lot of money for a guitar/bass.

[quote name='silddx' post='863018' date='Jun 10 2010, 10:25 AM']In what situation? As has been said, it's down to the quality and attention to detail of the patch. But maybe you are talking about the Line 6 amp, I keep thinking about the POD.[/quote] It was in a live situation. It was the factory default Treadplate setting on a rackmount POD into a ss power amp and 4x12. It was a good sound but it certainly wasn't a Mesa sound. A valve poweramp would have helped a lot though to be honest. Im not anti modelling amps but I did try the Line6 HD100 valve head and just didn't like 90% of the default sounds. I say 90% because the crunch tones were pretty awesome but I wasn't fond of the high gain or clean sounds.

[quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='862823' date='Jun 10 2010, 12:58 AM']For solid state amps, they do a fair job. Something trying to be something, will never be the same as that actual thing being it's self, because it just won't be, but that's not to say that it won't do an equally good job, just slightly different. Emulators are never as good as valve amps though. I played a gig recently where the guitarist from another band had his own monitors and laptop (not just a POD into the PA) and used a setting that was supposed to sound like a Mesa (our guitarist uses...a Mesa). To be fair, the sound wasn't awful, it was maybe 90% of the sound of the real Mesa, but as soon as it went into the mix it died a very sudden, obvious death. If you want a valve sound, you need to use valves. Never really been into valve bass amps though, my experience is with guitar amps. I've used them to an ok effect in the studio, but there's so much control there. The biggest problem I've seen with them in live use (and why I'd never use one) is that they vary so much in mixes, it's not like an amp that's roughly the same every gig and I'm not prepared to sit down and re-EQ/write every patch I use for every gig.[/quote] Having owned a Triple Rec and a Rectoverb I can say 100% that the Line6 approximation sounds nothing like the real thing. It totally lacks the Mesa's aggression and punch.

Ive used and owned both but I do prefer using real valves over digital modelling but I only ever play bass clean or when playing guitar I use massive amounts of doomed out fuzz. In this case, only using two sounds ever, it works well for me but if I was playing in many different bands then having access to a large variety of sounds in one place is very appealing.

If proof were needed that strap locks are a good idea then this is it.

Eight Feet of Ash by Hyatari ...epic doomyness!

If you don't need to read then learning to read wouldn't really be necessary but it never does any harm to add a few more strings to your bow. If you want your bass playing to pay your bills then its essential ...unless your in a band selling millions of records. I do read but a lot of what I do doesn't require me to do so. Although I am considering doing the whole wedding/function band thing again so it would mean me not having to remember everything