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mcnach

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  1. [quote name='graz66' timestamp='1393325149' post='2378635'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Just to update everyone, i did in the end downsizing to a Markbass CMD 121P with a matching New York 121 cab. I've attached a picture of the the setup. Loving the sound & the weight !! Thanks to everyone who contributed on this post :-) [/font][/color] [/quote] Nice one! I ended up getting a Schroeder mini10-R a couple of weeks ago, just by chance. I was not looking for anything, but I met someone who had a Barefaced Big Baby 2, same speaker I have ordered and am waiting for, and he suggested I visited him and try his... So I did, and among his various speakers he had this tiny thing (it's a bit smaller than the CMD121P) that sounded great and was loud... and he happened to want to sell it. I have since used this combination once live and a few other times at rehearsal. It's awesome. I can only imagine yours is probably better. LOud, powerful, fits easily in the boot of a Golf with plenty of space left...
  2. [quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1393281949' post='2378356'] I appear to have a box of black plastic bits and a pile of plastic swarf on my machine. Large chamfer, small chamfer, no chamfer, I'm too kind to you lot. I'm just waiting on mod approvals for sticking a link up on here to pay for them. Don't want to step on traders/sponsors toes. Rectangular to follow tomorrow morning whilst machine is set up for these. Cheers, Rich [/quote] thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  3. [quote name='stoo' timestamp='1393008185' post='2375274'] I've got one. Bought a passive one by mistake - had been watching a few on eBay and got mixed up when I put a bid on. It's heavy. Haven't got round to weighing it but suspect it's around 3 or 4 tons. The neck is fairly chunky in profile. It plays nice and it's usually not an issue, but sometimes it can get a bit uncomfortable, despite me having fairly big hands - probably due in part to me having broken my scaphoid years ago, but my OLP stingray copy doesn't set it off in the same way. When I got it, I was never that impressed with the sound of it. It had a fair bit of stingray character, but there was definitely something missing. Since then I put a John east preamp in it and it sounds spot on. [/quote] the neck is identical (except the finish) to a Stingray neck. Fantastic basses. If you want a Stingray for £400 or less... this is the bass to go for. Active, of course.
  4. That looks awesome! Thanks Rich! I'd also prefer the one with the tiny chamfer. I would take either of the two, but I much prefer the tiny chamfer one: My original one has no chamfer whatsoever and I find it very comfortable. I would take 5 of them, at £6. If it's too much of a pain in the arse as the numbers grow, I'm happy to get just a couple, but if it's not a problem, up to 5 would be ideal
  5. [quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1392676086' post='2371594'] okay okay I give in. I've just ordered a sheet of black Perspex. Leave it with me to make a sample, maybe at the weekend. I've got engines to dyno and run in most of the week and I cannot run the dyno and CNC mill together. They are in the same room and after 10 mins of two stroke testing the smoke gets too thick to see the screen on the mill....! Cheers, Rich [/quote] Yay!
  6. [quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1392657568' post='2371176'] I may make a batch of black plastic ones in the future, but I would need to CNC mill them. I've got all the gear, but the equipment and me are fully booked on other jobs for the foreseeable future. I will do it as a hobby project maybe in a month or two. Cheers, Rich [/quote] you're a star! no problem if you cannot, but if you can, you can count me in for sure!
  7. Thanks for the effort Rich, I'm glad they'll be produced for those who want them. I'm afraid I'm out, 'though, as I already have a few and my only interest was in getting some black acrylic ones as it may look better in some basses. Aluminium will look good, that's the one shown in the first picture of my white Precision (first page)
  8. someone take this thing already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's orange/peach/whatever!!! I want it. So someone else buy it already before I do something crazy! edit: if you lived near enough that I could try it first... I would have already been knocking at your door.
  9. [quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1392636620' post='2370824'] I'm still not 100% sure what I'm doing but It's sounding great. No further thought required. [/quote] Most of the population go through life that way... you'll be alright enjoy your bass!
  10. [quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1392630809' post='2370712'] Yeah... 'loud' is only so-much use. My seven year-old daughter is loud, but I wouldn't plug my bass into her. [/quote] ... and now I feel very reassured about your parenting skills
  11. [quote name='gsgbass' timestamp='1392600961' post='2370585'] I chose to go back to the RH450 over other heads, because of the Real wattage @ 450, not just a rated wattage. The mute, the phones, the three memory onboard, and the Tube Tone that really gives it an Ampeg SVT-CL sound that costs less, smaller in size, and weighs 8.8 pounds, instead of the SVT-CL's 80 plus pounds @ 300 watts. [/quote] Funny you mentioned the "real wattage". There was a bit of an "issue" about that following the tests by a guitar magazine whose name I forget, and leading to TC to admit it was true, it would normally be rated at 236 watts, but the way they processed the signal it sounded like a typical 450 watt amplifier. Do a search here, or especially on Talkbass, and you'll find a lot of information (and lots of posts from fans/haters -especially on TB- that you may want to skip too ). Whatever the wattage, nobody can deny it is a loud amp. I like them. I owned one from early 2009 until last week in fact! Right now I prefer something else. There was something about the RH450 that wasn't bringing anymore a smile on my lips like the Markbass, or subsequently the GB Shuttle, did. But they're cool amps.
  12. [quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1392542690' post='2369760'] Tell me, why do folks think a mute button is useful? My floor tuner does all that is needed, keeping my LMIII nice and simple. [/quote] Most times I use a floor tuner too. But sometimes I do not. Not many... but enough times that it makes me wish it had a mute, like my old RH450, or the Shuttle... If it had a tuner and a mute, like the RH450, that would really be nice.
  13. [quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1392565998' post='2370070'] I'm finding it hard to resist purchasing one of these bad boys - I play reggae and I need a deep, smooth tone using heavy gauge flatwounds. just 2 questions to any owners out there: 1) What do they weigh? 2) How is the tone from the neck pick up soloed with the tone rolled off? [/quote] Mine is lighter than my Fender 75RI, and a bit heavier than my Squier... I'd say it's pretty average. You might want to change the tone cap if you want a deeper tone, as it can still be pretty middy with the tone control fully off... which I like, but it's not as "round" as it could be. However , I imagine you would also set your amp differently from what I normally do. I think it would probably work quite well, as it is deep but it has "body". You could always change the cap fro something else if you wanted deeper. The pickup screws are made of butter. I was screwing the pickups deeper into the body to alleviate a "pop" I was getting sometimes when slapping, and I think I nearly destroyed the head of one of the screws, without much effort.
  14. [quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1392489886' post='2369416'] Are J&D essentially a DV247 house brand? [/quote] No, I don't think so.
  15. [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1392429244' post='2368813'] Look up the cheapest set of strings you can find on eBay - probably those! [/quote] well, that's the thing, I bet they're pretty cheap... but I like them a lot on my green monster Jazz, so I'd definitely buy more. But I'm not about to start buying all sorts of cheap strings hoping to hit the jackpot.
  16. [quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1392374708' post='2367858'] I have a couple of Ibanez guitars, a SR3005E and an SR1300 with a John East preamp [url="http://www.east-uk.com/index.php/bass/u-retro/u-retro-5-knob-deluxe-32.html"]http://www.east-uk.c...-deluxe-32.html[/url] I don't usually like "complicated" systems and the JE is one that I would certainly have put in that category. I'm enjoying these though, probably because it rarely requires more than minor adjustment. Both guitars have mids and a mids frequency adjustment. I usually leave the "sweepable" element roughly in the middle, because it sounds nice and to be honest it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. I'm curious about mids so my questions are 1. Why have the sweepable feature in addition to the usual mids? 2. How do others use it and why? [/quote] The sweep element not making a difference??? Try turning the top bit all the way up (max boost). Then move the bottom bit (frequency sweep) from one end to teh other end of its travel. If you don't hear a difference it must be broken, because it can sweep from 100 to 1000Hz, or 200 - 2000Hz, depending on how you set the internal switches... and that's a very wide range! I normally set it according to the noise from the rest of the band, so that I get enough mids in the particular area where it allows me to cut through nicely. I don't normally boost a lot, just a bit in the right place. I find the "right place" doing what I described above, while the others are playing. But after a while, playing with the same people etc, I tend to find the frequency sweep stays roughly at around the same spot (probably about the bottom third, in my case). A bit of boost, normally... which I remove for slap.
  17. anybody knows what they really are, or where to get them? I recently got a VIntage 75 J&D Jazz bass with those strings on, and I really like them.
  18. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1392426765' post='2368784'] Well OK, but my solution is actually possible. Thhhpp! Thp! Thhpp! [/quote] possible shmossible... dare to imagine, man!
  19. [quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1392400061' post='2368321'] Black plastic is nasty stuff to laser cut as it burns and melts. The only option for black is to either anodise the alu ones, or I can CNC from acrylic plate. I should have quoted costs for the alu ones on Monday and will look at costs for plastic. I don't want to make a load of different versions or I end up either making 1 by 1, which is not worth it at £20 each, or a load of stock I would not know where to shift. Will report back with prices then, people can let me know how many they want, and we can go from there. Cheers, Rich [/quote] Cool, thanks for taking care of this! (and when I said black plastic I meant black acrylic... it's all "plastic" to me )
  20. [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1392406813' post='2368472'] A stock LMIII and a mini headstock tuner..? [/quote] No. A LMIII with a tuner. And a mute button.
  21. [quote name='apa' timestamp='1392386547' post='2368026'] BTW what news on the control plate? Ever get that finished? [/quote] erm... ... not yet. I've been too busy taking other basses apart and finding room for all the bits (don't say anything, please )
  22. [quote name='apa' timestamp='1392379135' post='2367900'] It looks like your all sorted but if your really stuck let me know and I could get them made again for you A [/quote] ah, here's the man who copied my original one in aluminium... (again, thank you! ) I've had lots of people asking me about the thumbrests. I'm alright with the ones you made for me, they should last me for a lifetime (unless I get a bigger place so that I can store more bases ) even after I gave a few away. But I'd love a handful of black plastic ones.... Hopefully Diablo will sort this out and we don't need to bother you again... but if that fails and you're willing...
  23. [quote name='lemmywinks' timestamp='1392331985' post='2367626'] A Markbass with the Compressore, a tuner and a mute switch would get a sale from me straight away. [/quote]# Yes, the MUTE switch... I forgot that
  24. Same here, stick on only... And black acrylic, please If they're shaped like the model I sent you, 5mm thick, and black acrylic... I'll get some! At £2ish I would happily get 6 of them!
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