stingrayPete1977

Sure i want my gear to look professional at a gig but i paid for it so i get first dibs on what it looks like so if i don't like it I'm not going to buy it, I'd also never use two odd cabs with different designs style wise and or dimensions (width wise, maybe height) , call me a gear slag if you want but until someone else us paying for them that's the way it will be

They all look like fender jazz basses with slightly different head stocks to me, dull

I'd save your money and spend it on better strings for it and a roll of copper shielding tape

Just looking at the uber quad,I like it!

[quote name='aj5string' timestamp='1376558994' post='2175852'] Wasn't really sure which of the Genz cabs would stack up - any suggestions? [/quote] I don't think it would be fair to compare the other brands to the focus range, if they do an uber 1x12 I'd be wanting to try one with the Genz amp before anything else, meant to be very tasty?

Why no Genz option?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1376515114' post='2175442'] Stingrays are sh*t... [/quote] That's why your not playing one in any of your photos or videos with your band I have been looking at then

So?

Pics or it didnt happen, you know the rules Marcus

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1376503978' post='2175148'] Eh?? So we all have to buy a Genz 2X12T now..?? [/quote] Already got mine

Fair enough and it was more a general feeling that your post raised so sorry for using your post as my rant basis, still had it loads of times though especially from Ric lovers. Also yes its quite good for metal too!

[quote name='Salt on your Bass?' timestamp='1376501716' post='2175067'] If someone can point me in the direction of the perfect cab that meets everyone's needs I'd be grateful.......... [/quote] Well funnily enough the Genz 2x12t looks good, its lightweight, has rubber casters at the back with rubber feet at the front and solid rattle free inset handles at the top rather than in the middle of the cab where they ruin the cabs tone, cost less and even Alex himself rates them as a good cab

[quote name='Wooks79' timestamp='1376494391' post='2174868'] A question for Toasted - do you own, or have you owned a Barefaced cab? I only ask to be able to put posts in this thread into perspective in my head, regardless of my own personal opinion on Barefaced gear. Everybody has their own opinion of certain gear and are welcome to it. Cheers! [/quote] I don't get this idea of the you have not owned so you don't know thing (which is obviously what you want to pull on him), sure he is trolling a bit but there are plenty of things I can make valid judgements on without owning, have I owned ricky, or an ebs rig, or coffee table bass? No but I have tried them even gigged them but they are not for me (ebs Freak loves two of those things yet we get on regardless), according to lots of people I'm not allowed to pass comment on them.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1376497675' post='2174964'] The one on the left (just to clarify) [/quote] A bit of wee just came out!

Pre TBT?

One day that story will come out Russ and you will be enemy number one, I feel privileged to already know but my lips are sealed

Bonus! I'm not to hot on fender basses but my Mexican strat had USA pickups which they replaced on later ones with cheaper versions, I presume your bass may be the same at that age? Double bonus if it is!

[quote name='thodrik' timestamp='1376412230' post='2173616'] I wonder how quickly it would have taken Larry Hartke to solve such a problem... [/quote] I love my Rays but I also know what a cock SB can be in these situations, I just dont feel the need to defend him like I would if I knew him personally I suppose but then again this is not a tiny scuff or a slightly larger than hoped for neck pocket, it is a pile of donkey poop

I am an noob to DB defcom and I am glad I didnt try and lower the action too much on my Stagg (which is easy enough to do), My DB is a bit higher and with a bit more tension too (or compliance blah blah), switching to the Stagg feels easy now after a few months on the DB so stick with it and see how you get on, you could lower it nearer to 8mm maybe if you are still in trouble but a full on DB will be a devil IMO if you go much lower, I might even raise my Stagg action which 6 months ago I would not have beleived! Good luck and you do realise you will end up with a DB with a year dont you?

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1376411106' post='2173585'] Eh? Have you never heard of TripAdvisor? Read a review on Amazon? Taken note of feedback on eBay? Or would you rather all this went on behind closed doors? [/quote] Unfortunatley the Fanbois of products like this get wrapped up on a personal level because understandably they are often run by one guy or a small family business, if those same people had an amp delivered for £3000 and it was faulty they would be on here in a flash if they were refused a refund from a big corporate company.

I appreciate that some folk on here know JC in person and love his work but man that bass is a sack of sh*t regardless of who built it, It should never have left the workshop in one piece. We all stand up for people or products we like but thats easily the worst top end bass I have ever seen albeit in pics but even still. I would have wanted my cash back within days of JC receiving the bass back at the shop, end of.

I still fancy a Big Al, that would be different to the Bongo but still really cool IMO, I think I want one!

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1376403719' post='2173427'] I agree the Stingray could of been eq'd a little better, maybe he tried to set it flat! We all know the bass full up and treble to taste is the way it's done on a ray. (at least on the 2eq) I'm also very much in the passive club when it comes to bass's.. at least for what I do. For some reason I like active soloed and recorded in a controlled environment.. but using one live with the band I'm always fiddling and never completely happy. Saying all that, another Ray is deffo on the radar at some point. [/quote] I have a John East 2 band in my Classic5 (I'm not the only one either) and for the first time ever on a 2 EQ ray I dont use the bass flat out, maybe I have turned a corner but more likely the JE just has a beefier output

Smashing Pumkins..........sorry thats enough

Maybe something by the Lightening Seeds instead?