stingrayPete1977

I could be anything from a faulty socket face even just one half of a double socket going back to possibly just the circuit the socket is on if the earth has come away somewhere or even no earth right at the beginning of the wiring so nothing in the whole place has an earth, so it could be anything really, certainly if you find one socket that works ok use that one for now and try the others once you have a tester. I dont supose you have one of those plug in RCD devices on your lawnmower or anywhere do you? That would be worth using for now if you or anyone else in the band has one, any DIY place would have a tester is there anywhere on route?

I have actually just bought one of the £3.29 ebay ones to put in my gig bag to save taking my work one with me

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1360420544' post='1970090'] That's a good idea, would trying another socket help in the meantime? [/quote] If I was uncertain about the wiring at the place I would want to try the plugin tester all over the place [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/mains-socket-tester-9800"]http://www.maplin.co.uk/mains-socket-tester-9800[/url] before plugging something like my Genz 9.2 Max head into any of them, thats a thousand quid head ruined if something is wrong! You can pick them up for less than £5 if you look around in fact [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/240V-UK-Mains-Test-Power-Plug-In-Trailing-Socket-Tester-Wiring-Safety-Check-13A-/150757510856?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Other&hash=item2319d90ec8"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/240V-UK-Mains-Test-Power-Plug-In-Trailing-Socket-Tester-Wiring-Safety-Check-13A-/150757510856?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Other&hash=item2319d90ec8[/url] so I would be sorting that out first IMO

Is the sandwich still available and how many watts is it at 3.6548 ohms? I have a 4x10, 1x15, 2x12, an iPod dock and a Behringer combo that I use the power stage from to run the iPod dock then FX out into the 2x12 but it sounds sh*t at the moment which must be the passive P bass causing it rather than the jumble of mismatched sh*te speakers etc.

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1360399586' post='1969732'] There are two routes in my opinion Either pick a genre and base Your set list around that as much as possible. Then throw a couple of tenuous songs to the genre to entice other groups of people Eg an indie rock band can do some classic rock like the who etc This means people who like the genre of music you play will book you and they know what to expect Or make yourself as wide and varied as you like , and advertise as a function band. Unfortunate I think this route tends to require leaning about 5 times as many songs and having someone capable to call out things to go with the current dance floor and mood. You tend to appeal to more range of clients but might e a bit more boring or end up playing the same stuff week in week out ( mustang Sally etc) Either way you need to define wht you are going to be doing [/quote] I could not agree more, I was in an indie style wedding/pub/function band for about 5 years and we did just that where it was mostly early 90's (James etc) right upto the current stuff which was popular then and still being played now (Killers etc), the only problem was that as the indie chart scene went quiet a few years ago with the last new stuff being things like the Wombats it sort of killed our desire to do it. The latest band I have joined/formed fall much more into the latter anything goes category which should make it more future proof but maybe less fun?

From this thread its nice to see that I have been on the right wavelength over the years, I cant disagree with anything said by anyone in this thread

I would get a plug in tester for a few quid and try all the sockets in the venue, you might find no earth or a weak one probably even a few with other problems like reversed polarity

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1360399238' post='1969726'] It certainly sounds like bad earthing to me. The old rehearsal space in Cambridge had the same issue as my mate rewired the place. [/quote] Is your mate a bad electrician then?

Can't upload pics for some reason or lent someone my camera even though it says posted by iphone which I beleive is fitted with such a device!

Sex on fire is still the most requested imo! Bored of it now......

I am still having trouble with my nymans, its rock hard!

You could try a......er...actually no just get another Ray!

I dont know much about the bass but check out my thread 'french or german?' for some useful info on bows and rosin

[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1360185395' post='1966465'] Had a good look tonight - all pick up springs are in place and the thread is there as the screw goes in perfectly without the pick up and does not pull out which was my worry. Looks like superglue is the only option! [/quote] Are the springs still providing some upwards pressure on the machine screws? If not then the springs might want stretching out a bit, the pickup should be fighting against the screw in the same way jazz basses etc have a thin spring around each screw. If it still does it just a dab of glue will be fine as it has very little tensile strength and just splits away from the thread should you need to remove the screw at some point, just comes away like a moulding of the thread then do the same again next time. You can buy proper thread lock but it's messy IMO

That's it the end with two screws and keep it level too

I wind the e string end in as much as possible as to use it as a thumb rest then put the g end slightly raised towards the strings in comparison and fine tune the balance across all the strings in a band setting,I have taken a bass with a legendary weak g to actually having too much output compared to the lower strings and then back to balanced. Get the e end set in as deep as possible first ime

I'd put a switch in too, might as well. A passive P bass setup and active musicman 2eq clone preamp would be cool with switching to run either pickup through the active or passive controls?

Which is why you can't see a key signature

unless it is the 90's Ray 5 sound you are after of course, nothings simple is it?

The ceramic pickup will make it sound less like a Ray more than the series parallel bit IMO/E

Some cheaper versions are wired in series so if someone had only seen the inside of an original SUB or OLP then they might of told you Rays are series? Full fat Ray always = parallel I wouldnt be able to tell that easily but as my main basses are now Ray 5s obviously they have the switch from series/parallel/single coil (phantom) so I have been able to compare series parallel first hand, I also have one ceramic and one alnico Ray 5 so the bases are all covered!

And again out of phase I dont know, +1 series is louder to my ears.

Series cuts through better but lacks that ultimate Stingray sound as far as the bottom end is concerned although that might not be an issue if you dont boost the lows all that much but I do as do quite a few others (Musicman20 is a bit of a fairy with his though )

Being Flea you would think parallel the same as a standard Ray with a single H?