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[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1343858558' post='1756597'] yeah, his heads are rack mounted, in a rack. they sit behind the cabs. his amps are quite loud. i was sitting pretty far away from the cabs at croke park, and when the tech was testing, i could still hear his cabs (nott he PA, it had been muted at this point). so maybe the vibrations coming from his cabs is the reason why they keep them in a rack? i dontknow what you mean by a class D head, but i did question before if the cabs actually did anything or were just there for the look. but i have witnessed that they do actually do something. his cabs arent mic'd up, i assume the heads are plugged straight into the PA. i was able to tell the difference in the sound by going and finding videos of him using the acoustics, then comparing that to the videos of him using the GK's. i did make sure the watch a few of each, just to make sure it wasnt just bad sound quality on part of the person who uploaded it. i know that youtube sound quality is absolute dung, but it did work. anyway, i found your post a bit confusing, thats why i rambled on a bit :/ [/quote] Any sound on any clips are surely just taken from the pa mix and very little do do with his amps? Also you can't of been that close as you would of spotted the little clip on mic he always has over the top left speaker of the top left 4x10 (I can hear you looking at you tube clips already!)

[quote name='stu_g' timestamp='1343853367' post='1756458'] yeah, i normally just adjust till they sound good [/quote] As an EBMM fan I prefer this method too, adjusting to factory height is ok for a starting point especially if it's been fannied with before after that it's ears rather than ruler for me

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1343853281' post='1756456'] Are you saying that's changed? [/quote] I was going to make a bonfire night joke but decided to resist due to the thread being quite tense as it was, your joke was better anyway.

It's a bit tiresome reading lots of threads suggesting everything has a scientific solution, it doesn't . As humans we enjoy flaws in things, I prefer KT Tunstall's voice live before its been overly cleaned up for example. You can use the techy stuff to prove what is happening and why but not to give a water tight solution or definitive spec for a speaker that everyone will like.

How could you tell what his amp(s) sounded like with acoustic or GK? One 10" out of a possible 19 speakers (3 4x10, 3 1x15 and another 4x10 on Josh's side) mic'd up for me doesn't alter much. He could be hiding any heads behind there too, makes me laugh when people say they would not gig a class D head just on looks yet Flea has 7 cabs and no heads at all!

What's wrong with a bow and arrow?

I dont get why they dont work with certain heads? I have more than one head and more than one cab, they are all interchangeable.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1343836996' post='1756087'] The COMBINATION of your playing, your bass, the amp and the cab. And the strings come to that. That's why every time you email me asking if you can have a Compact for cheap, I email you back asking a whole bunch of questions like this: "What amp do you use? What cab(s) do you currently use? What do/don't you like about them? What music do you usually play? What kind of bass sounds are you into (links to youtube etc clips helpful)? What bass(es) do you play? What strings do you use and how new/old do you like them? What kind of gigs do you usually play?" It is all interactive! Last year someone persuaded me to sell them a Compact even though I said it was the wrong choice - and it came back. Nowadays people get the cab (or one of the cabs) that I say will suit or they don't get anything. There's no way I'd have suggested you gig with an SVT3 and a Compact doing the music you were doing back then, no way! [/quote] That post has put me off your cabs without even hearing one, I'm not being an arse but my choice of cab (s) is largely based on me playing a bit of rock one night with a wedding band dep gig the next and maybe a bit of reggae a few days later, I dont like 4x10's for the record or even 2 2x10's (personal taste nothing more) but I know a good 4x10 or 2x12 with an adjustable tweeter will cover all those gigs I have metioned,even my little Genz 3.0 can run a decent 4x10, the only thing I would expect to need a certain cab for is dubstep which I dont play (yet)

I said the same about the video we did, there are better songs on the old album. I enjoyed it all the same, I'm going to have another watch!

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1343756626' post='1754746'] It's just marketing isn't it? The use of [u][b]well-known people[/b][/u] to endorse a product in return for something is as old as the hills - even Michael Parkinson sells OAP insurance (or whatever). I can't really see a problem, either way, though like any contractural agreement it's not a good idea to break the terms. [/quote] But most of the people involved are not known at all, loads of brands have sold themselves out by giving deals which appear to be not a lot more than being able to add it in your sig on here and a free T-shirt to people no one else has any idea who they are. Giving Flea a bank of GK speaker cabs makes sense as people will recognise the brand being used by Flea so it must be good enough for them, giving me anything is a waste really as no one relates my ability to anyone elses gear and no one knows who I am anyway, It appears to me some brands are doing deals of some sort with people no more or less important than me?

Your missing my point, so what if he was a bell end that could not even play, he has sold more Fender basses just by being him than all the endorsers of all the gear on basschat put together. If Fender could go back in time I'm sure they would be happy to send him a dozen.

[quote name='TomRichards' timestamp='1343753023' post='1754665'] I'm protective of the brand and also want to ensure that the bass players using them are a good citizen and face for the brand. [/quote] This is the sort of thing that would put me right off any kind of deal, Sid Vicious was not exactly a good citizen but I would imagine there are a few Fender fans on this site that felt the urge to at least try a P bass after seeing him? I'd rather buy my own gear and behave how I want ta

If you look at it from another angle it becomes even more pointless IMO, I am the target audience for these endorsement deals not as an artist but as someone that is meant to be buying the gear because I see other people use it, no offense but I'm not going to go out hunting stuff down because I have seen it in someones sig on BC am I? Unless you are a known player using a known brand I cant see much point other than bragging rights on sites like this really. We all tell each other what gear we like and what we have (look below).

Nice one Jose! Catchy tune that There should be more love for anything with white pickup covers these days too

I work in quite a few schools maybe I should hunt one down and give it a try!

I have noticed its sort of left handed tuning across the strings! You dont have a cheap cello for sale then do you

Since I have learnt to read a bit I quite fancy playing something different, I dont have a fretless and never played anything with a bow but I understand cello is read from the same clef as bass so once I can get my head around the tuning basically the top 4 strings from a 5 string tuned to c? ADGC I think I could get something going. Anyone else had a go or even a virtuoso? I know this is not Cellochat but to my mind its a bass on its end

Guy Pratt, Daryl Jones and Anthony Jackson are all just lurking in the shadows but I have just let the secret out

The 6 bolt is as solid as a rock! Never had to shim one though......

Most three bolt neck basses I have seen you can move the neck left and right fairly easily with a good tug. Now a 4 bolt with a micro tilt that's a different matter. In truth though a good shim is always going to give a good solid joint compared to having a little pin trying to do the job, using it as a way to gauge the shim you need would make sense.

You should only be up at 12 o'clock on the master at gig volumes even then I'm often a lot less, back off that preamp gain some more. My clip light flickers a bit but not much, if your using the amps EQ heavily that also affects the pre amp signal.