mcnach

Fantastic! The dimensions are perfect. Thank you so much! Order placed. Great price too!

when sound engineers give me their DI to use, I give them my signal after whatever pedals I use, so you don't have to lose your effects. Watch for your overdrives 'though... an overdriven bass DI'd often sounds really fizzy out on the front. If you warn the sound engineer, he may be able to tame it somehow, but chances are it won't sound great, so best get a microphone for your cab in those situations, or use some kind of speaker simulation. I've recently started to use a DSM OmniCabSim which is pretty cool, it allows you to model the sound of a speaker cab, and sending that to their DI gets a much nicer overdriven sound. There are other units out there.

Not being able to hear yourself is far from ideal, and it removes a lot of the fun of playing that gig... so that seems like a good reason to avoid falling into that. I've played quite a few gigs where they 'prefer' I use what's provided, but when I show up with my stuff I never had a problem. Of course, this is because in those cases I wasn't bringing a 410 or something, but something small that could easily be set in an already busy stage without causing trouble (A little MarkBass combo or a 210 cab + head, generally). On big stages they were always very accommodating and let me use whatever I wanted. I played a festival gig once through a 30W Gorilla practice amp. Yup. I would have loved having my amp nearby that day...

anyone? I've been looking for one of these but everything I find is in the US. thank you!

That would be my approach too. Even when everything is provided, I generally I still have at least one of my cabs and my amp in the car. There's been enough times that I showed up and either there was a problem with their gear, or monitoring is poor for whatever reason, and I could run to the car and set up my little 210 cab and amp before the drummer is done.

Too late now but, in the future, check the screws regularly. I noticed mine had a habit of getting loose, so from time to time I'd tighten them. Before you reassemble it: have a look at the plastic mounts. On mine, the rubber covering the metal blade inside the handle had worn inside the mount. The blade was slowly but surely sawing away at the plastic post. It was almost at the midpoint! I guess it depends on how much you carry the amp by the handle. I was using it a lot and taking it everywhere... I was lucky it didn't snap one day while carrying it, it could have been an expensive accident. I contacted MarkBass about it who sent me a replacement straight away. But of course, it was identical. I would last a few years, sure, but I did not trust it, so I ended up getting a similar handle with metal mounts on eBay for a tenner.

True, the cost of strings is not really an issue for me as they last long enough... ONCE I find the strings I want. It's the trial and error phase that gets expensive.

Same here with Fat Beams. However, everytime I try a new set I get a little disappointed... until they wear out *just* a little bit, then I remember why I liked them so much. If I were an extravagant billionaire man, I'd have a guy wearing all my strings to perfection before I play them.

Oh, nice. I'll give them a try. Thanks for the emasurements!

I was just making light fun at how the font that you use appears really tiny onscreen

and you can bury your annoying neighbour under it

Have you tried their white nylon tapewounds? I wonder how the flats compared to them with regards to feel? I really like how "controlledly floppy" they feel. I'd love to find a set of flatwounds (no tapewound) with the same feel.

I much prefer the new name, to be honest... "Pleasure board" just sounds like... another kind of internet forum

I've just promoted it to the pile of "to read next" books, right after I finish "What does this button do?" (sorry, I'm a big fan of Bruce Dickinson, even if the book is boring me... I had to read it)

Gotcha (whistling way)

I'm not a current owner of Ashdown products (I did own a MAG250 head and 115 cab years ago, as well as a couple of pedals, including the very cool James Lomenzo overdrive, a real unsung hero of the bass overdrive world)... but seeing their participation in this thread makes me feel very warm about them. Customer service is very important. I rate a company not just by the quality of their products but also by the quality of their customer service: when things go wrong, that's when I need them to be there for me. Thank you Ashdown.

I've got the book but haven't read it yet... must get around to do that

I don't like playing through somebody else's 'finger cheese'

is that the same as a "Pleasure Board" but you feel oddly ashamed and dirty calling it by its name... or is that a different product?

I smiled reading that... I imagine you with a nice back garden where one night a new flowerbed appeared. Don't tell me the truth. Let me believe.

I'm a little slow, just to be clear... you kill the neighbours and then put their bodies between the wall and those boards? Simple as that?

Your current house sounds a lot like where I am now. I generally use my MarkBass LM3 into 2x TKS S112 which is always ready to plug into. But you just have to keep it low. I often play at 2 or 3am while my girlfriend is sleeping next door and she doesn't hear me. When I moved in we ran a few 'noise tests' (previously I was in a detached house where I was able to be really loud, and I was worried that I could misjudge levels), so we found at what level I could play without her hearing me, and then surely nobody else could either. During the day I play a bit louder, but not lots more, as it's quiet... except when the neighbours have their kids and friends playing in the garden or the teenage daughter plays her stereo Those that argue using an amp in a flat is antisocial remind me of the time I walked into a bar we were playing for the first time, with my two 212 cabs... the guy in charge of the sound gave me a funny look and said "that looks loud!" in a worried tone. I assured him my amplifier had a volume knob No kittens died and sound levels were as they desired..

oooh, "bass"! ok...

You're probably right. If things are vibrating in the room... your bass is going to travel quite a bit! I guess this is also the difficulty: one man's reasonable is another man's too loud

It depends how you play! If you can play your stereo or your TV in a flat, you can also play your guitar through your amp... just don't be a silly billy when you do it edit: "silly billy"... that's what the 'profanity translator' substituted my original text with, ha!