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[quote name='dyerseve' timestamp='1476642069' post='3155912'] Surely if your lead is producing that much capacitance it is either broken or been terribly designed. The capacitance of any competently built cable should be so low as to be negligble. [/quote] But it isn't. Just try it with any 'good' cable... you can easily tell the difference between a 2m cable and a 10m cable.

[quote name='gillento' timestamp='1476691873' post='3156235'] I have played the Baer ML112 and they seem to be based on the same concept. In the end I did not like them when playing with a pick. I just re-read a message by Tommy and he confirmed that the 1126 have neo speakers. My hope was to use traditional ceramic speakers again. So I might be better off with a S212 after all. [/quote] I owned both simultaneously for a while. The 1126 sounded bigger and had a lot more low end, for sure... but the S112 sounded much better to me. It was tough to realise I had spent £1500 on the pair of 1126 when I was a lot happier with a pair of S112... Of course that is not to say you'll also prefer the S112!

Finally I got to use it in a live situation last night. It was only as onstage monitor at the smaller O2 ABC in Glasgow. MarkBass LMIII, Stingray and the Two10 vertical. The onstage sound was not fantastic... but I had no problem hearing and feeling the bass. This thing can get pretty loud, it really doesn't compare to the other 210s I experienced before. I turned the bass control on the amp down a bit. The stage sound was clearer that way, and this cab is not short in lows. I'm keeping it. I can't say whether I like it better or worse than the TKS S112s, but this cab is definitely a cool one. I had a bit of space to move about too, which I did, and it was nice to hear the bass clearly... and it had a bit of 'thump' that made it feel it was a lot bigger than it was. It was an enjoyable experience. Someone was estimating this could be as loud as a pair of S112... that sounds about right from my experiences so far. A bit deeper too, but the lows are tight, which is great. The midrange may not be quite as sweet as the S112 but the semiparametric mids on my Stingray got me where I wanted... Promising! And I can fit two in my boot, for sure.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1476542327' post='3155096'] Only just had a chance to watch this, I presumed they didn't cover the cabs/amps rather than there being no BF ones. [/quote] well, they did go a little into the amps/cabs too. He didn't mention BF at all, and showed a lot of love for the ultra heavy Ampeg ones. In fact he went as far as saying he is looking for another Ampeg 210 (I forget the particular model) and encouraged people to let him know if they knew where one was available...

[quote name='AlexDelores' timestamp='1476475685' post='3154730'] Wakrat are currently touring as the support band for prophets of rage so I'd imagine he's using the same rig for both. perhaps his roadies have done something wrong and he's punishing them by making them lug those ampeg cabs around for a few weeks [/quote] yeah that could be an explanation The logical conclusion is he didn't like the BF ones enough after all.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1476458065' post='3154536'] Where are the BF cabs? [/quote] I think this is the Wakrat rig, and the BF were used on Prophets of Rage... but I don't know why he'd use different cabs on each. I was surprised too. Has he gone back to Ampeg already?

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1476449717' post='3154421'] You're a smarter man than I, Jose. [/quote] I don't know smart has anything to do with it the reason I knew was that those words are similar in Spanish so they stood out to me.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1476447820' post='3154396'] [/quote] I confess I had to use google translate, my level is nowhere near enough to understand that... but the 'korpus' and 'palisandrowa' gave me a very good indication of what it was about

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1476439831' post='3154288'] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Essential Polish: [color=#212121]Topem z klonu płomienistego, korpus jesion i klon szyjka z palisandrową pokładzie palec (courtesy of Google). [/color][/font][/size] [/quote] nah, not a fan of rosewood fingerboards

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1476435990' post='3154221'] Neat! This trip could finally motivate me to take some Polish lessons - been meaning to do it for years but never got round to it. [/quote] I have a "Polish for Dummies" book my gf gave me when I expressed an interest... but I'm enjoying the "Duolingo" app on my phone right now. I'm using it for Polish and to improve my Italian as I barely use it these days. Just 5-10 minutes a day, slowly... it starts with just a few words, and little by little things fall in place and they start making sense. The trick is to use it every day, just a few minutes will do. For people like me who lack the discipline to sit down and follow proper lessons seriously it's great. You will not become fluent overnight, but it's amazing how quick you pick up things, and it doesn't seem like work at all. Then I use the book as reference to check verbal tenses and when I have 'proper' questions.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1476422111' post='3154098'] Great player, great tone. Rage were revolutionary but Prophets of Rage are awful. [/quote] I quite like what I've heard so far...

[quote name='pmjos' timestamp='1476423968' post='3154101'] OK here's my bit. I stopped playing for a decade. Been back for 2 years ish after a hard 20. 5th rehearsal after staring a new band. It took 3 months to get the line up. Now three months later bitching, moaning , and the whole sh*t train. This is the reality of a band. It's hard work and its not for everyone. I know many a musician who just doesn't want to be in a band for that reason. [/quote] the ability to recognise fundamental personality incompatibilities soon, and quit bands or fire people is very useful. I see people stuck on the same unhappy situation again and again and stay just out of inertia. It is hard work... but we need to help ourselves a little by doing everything possible to find the right people. And even then it won't be all roses! People, eh?

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1476375000' post='3153795'] [/quote] What a beauty...

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1476371740' post='3153744'] Too right! My feeling would be to wait until they're 'open to the public' in Poland. As it happens, it was the Polish connection that sparked the visit idea in the first place (my wife's suggestion would you believe!!). My dad came over from Poland in WW2 and she thought it would be great to kill 2 birds with one stone: factory visit and holiday in 'the land of my fathers'. She doesn't know much about basses but she's fallen in love with my new 'Cazzie' - yep, she's even given her a name. [/quote] Sounds good to me. My girlfriend is Polish so we travel in that direction from time to time anyway. Adding a bass-related reason would be perfect. She also plays bass, so she might even join! Did I say the beer is great too?

[quote name='pierreganseman' timestamp='1476349330' post='3153458'] Hi guys, please accept all my apologies. I just asked Adrian out of curiosity ... and it turns out you CAN visit the factory in Poland ! they are building next year a new showroom / hall there and new videos will happen from then (of the place) I guess policy has changed... [/quote] AND flights to Poland are soooo cheap, and the beer soooo good... hmmmm. I

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1476176614' post='3151918'] Queens Hall in Nuneaton on Friday. Dead cool venue, great soundman, not a huge crowd but it was all right [/quote] ah, I was there a few weeks ago. Pretty decent venue and sound guy knew what he was doing, so if you got the same one I'd agree We were also fed the best chili I had in ages! Yum!

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1476341401' post='3153395'] I have severe P-bass GAS at the moment after hearing someone playing an MIM Precision on Tuesday and thinking to myself, "That's it, that's the tone I'm after". The thing is, I've owned countless P-basses in the past, US, MIM, CIJ, Squiers, Vintage, Westfield, the list goes on and every one has been sold or traded, so I'm clearly not happy with something about P-basses. I'm trying to ride it out until the GAS passes but I'm weakening. Does anyone else convince themselves that they need something after having heard someone else using one or am I unique? [/quote] You sound like me 3-4 years ago. I now have 2 Precisions and a P/JJ. I never liked them, owned a few over the years that just didn't get used and were sold. But suddenly I heard something that sounded great ("Forget me nots") and sounded like a Precision. Then I started paying more attention, and I realised that I wasn't in love with the sound of it alone, but in a band context it was often a really good sound. Then I just had to find a bass that felt good, and I found that on the Fender Classic 50s Precision (on my avatar). It feels and sounds great. I still use mostly a Stingray, but for a while I used that Precision constantly. If you find a good Precision, it just seems to go with anything. Go and explore, and find that Precision that speaks to you

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1476294504' post='3153154'] If it's only a hour from Pierre in Brussels it must be just over the border from Belgium. A road trip probably makes more sense.. [/quote] right! who drives the van???

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1476289916' post='3153098'] I'm currently on my second Mk 2 five string - always regretted selling the first (needed the cash at the time) not just for the excellence of the bass but also for the circumstances of buying it. I had the money, right at the point in (I think, if my memory serves) the late 90's or early 00's that Wal had just stopped supplying shops and moved to custom orders only. So after ringing around the London shops to no avail, I made a call to Pete, who responded with his his best plumber's impression and sucking air through his teeth "ooh, no, you'll have to wait about six weeks for us to build you one...but what are you after?" Well, a Mk 2 fiver. To which he responded "if you want one in walnut and can get here this week I can help you out". Trip to High Wycombe the next day, to be picked up by Pete at the station ("you'll never find us, easiest if you ring me when you get there") and back to the workshop where he presented me with a bass to try and the explanation that they'd built it for a customer in South Africa who had just put off his trip to collect it for six weeks and they could get another one built for him by then. Gorgeous bass, I'll take it. "How would you like to pay?" Waves credit card. "No, we don't take those...can you get cash out on it? See, you'll want a case, and then there's the VAT so that's well over two grand, and if you write me a cheque I have to put it through the books and all sorts and it's a lot of hassle for everybody. But if you give me, say..." Pete looks at empty wallet "...£1500 cash then it saves us all that trouble doesn't it?" I didn't have to think very long. Drives me to the bank, cash withdrawn, bass secured... "Now, I can't give you a receipt because that'll go through the books, but I can give you a 'valuation' and that's enough for any insurer if you want cover for it" Writes out the not-receipt. If my insurers had ever had to pay a claim and contacted Wal to check they would have found no record of the bass with that serial number being manufactured. I do wonder how many other "undocumented" Wal's there are out there. Then Pete asks "when do you need to be off?" Er, no hurry, I just want to avoid the rush hour. "Great, lets go to the snooker club!" And we spend the rest of the afternoon in Pete's favoured watering hole chewing the fat and getting quietly drunk, him insisting on paying for all the beer, what with him now having a very fat wallet. He then made me promise to bring the bass back in a month or so's time so that they could make any tweaks required after it's settling in period, and if could maybe get there a bit earlier to give us some more time in the pub...the bass didn't need tweaking but I still made the return trip. Just to make sure there was nothing that an experienced professional like Pete could spot that I'd missed, you understand. Great bloke. Sorely missed (as was the bass, less sorely missed now that I have a replacement). [/quote] what a fantastic story

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1476278178' post='3152950'] I think it's easy to jump to the conclusion here that a "bedroom noodler" is happy to be exactly that. I would love to gig. I get bored and fed up playing stuff in musical scores. I dream of playing in a band. Bach's Cello stuff is NOT what I want to do. I never did. On the other hand, what is more sad, playing Bach and developing reading skills, or playing old covers bass lines along with a band on an MP3 who will never notice if I stop as they already have a bass player on the track. Whatever you reconsider is the answer to that question, I can't get the old Beatles track out of my head; "He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land making all his nowhere plans for nobody". [b]No, I'm not happy with my lot.[/b] Geek also isn't happy with his lot too on the odd day, same as a few others here. But we have made our bed and we lie in it. As for me I'm craps at playing. I'm getting quite good at fixing basses up though and it makes a good distraction from the playing. Sorry for the rant. I'm not really upset. I just feel this needs to be clear to some who may make assumptions. Thank you all for being a great bunch of people. [/quote] Is anybody ever happy? No matter what I do... I always think there's something else I could do that I might like more. I never "arrive" I started as a guitarist (don't hate me! ) and all I wanted to do is play a bit of an AC/DC song. That's it. Not even the whole song! Then I thought "oh, I could maybe stretch to X"... and X kept moving. And I became an ok bedroom guitarist without pretensions beyond that. I recorded things and I was happy. Then I tried playing with others. Eventually I found some cool people and I enjoyed that. So playing in a band would be cool, who would have thought it? Then I discovered bass... which would be handy to add to my recordings. But as I started to pay more attention to the bass I realised that there were some really cool stuff you could do with a bass (I know, I know)... and the same story: at first I was happy with doing A, but once you do A you think "maybe I would like to try B"... and so on, without implying it's a progression where things are better the further along you go. Each step results in something I enjoy, whether it is playing by myself at home, recording or whatever. That's why I continue: because I enjoy what I'm doing, not because I aspire to some undefined goal. But everytime I change what I do, I think of new things I could do. It never ends. It's teh journey, not the destination. And if someone wants to deride another because they have 1500 gigs under they belt and the other person "just" plays at home for their own enjoyment... let them. There are idiots in any field and if they are so insecure they need to feel better about themselves by putting someone else down, it's really just their own problem and probably best to leave them in their own self-centered world. Fortunately the vast majority here are not like that. And the OP certainly isn't one of them. Sometimes when someone gets offended it's really just in their head and there's very little we can do about that. We can't go through life double-measuring everything we do or say in case someone may take something the wrong way. It's their job to understand things before getting upset at them. And this is really not a dig at anybody, we all sometimes take things the wrong way at some point. It's just human. We make mistakes. Then hopefully we rectify and move on. Nobody dies and we continue playing

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1476280024' post='3152978'] In my mind I was thinking of the shop, rather than the Factory. That would be a nice enough visit.. [/quote] actually that's what I thought too...

[quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1476278237' post='3152952'] Every single day. Not for nothing is the phrase "She's with the tuba player" one of the rarest ever heard... [/quote] !!!

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1476279430' post='3152970'] that is the reason i never imparted any comments. Mine work great and sound great, but I am comparing them against cheap hifi stuff, so I have no idea how they sound against others. They could be crap for all I know ☺ [/quote] I wouldn't say they're crap either I liked them enough to buy them in the first place. But then I found I like the M50 better. They seem better built too.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1476270743' post='3152836'] That would depend, amongst other factors, of there being a monitor channel free for this. Modern digital desks usually have enough monitor outputs, but many traditional desks have only 2 for monitors; maybe 4, and they may all be used, in which case you'd have to share a mix with others. Just a thought. [/quote] Most places I play have digital desks, and for others, I don't mind sharing a mix: it can often be better than what I get without the headphones, I'm sure.

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1476271876' post='3152851'] i've noticed this before i have always found it strange that on a forum of bass players where we talk about bass, there seems to be groups that look down on those that aren't fully working musicians at times.... surely the point is that we ARE playing bass, regardless of if it is at wembley or aunt fanny's back room? [/quote] yeah, some may imply that but... that's not what the OP or the vast majority here said