Dapper Bandit

I have always used a full stack of some variation (4x10 + 1x15 / 2 1x15 / 8x10) with the band I'm currently in but we are an original metal band with 2 basses and no guitars so fancy-Dan things like full PA support happen to other people. If you've got the space and the inclination then why wouldn't you go for it?

Which you already have, so kudos to you sir.

I've seen 810s going for silly money on here but unfortunately these cabs being what they are posting is often not an option! I would probably have to buy online from somewhere like Thomann which isn't the end of the world I suppose.

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I have to ask ... which island?
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I'm from Jersey, which is very scenic but has a terrible scene in terms of gear.

Hi everyone, I have a bit of a dilemma and was hoping I could pick the assembled brains of BC.

I'm in a three piece band which comprises of bass/bass/drums. We're an unusual metal band (a hybrid of noise rock / doom / prog with a dose of dub) on a small island so we only ever play with vocals in the PA so amps have to do their fair share of heavy lifting. The other bassist is using a full Trace stack (4x10 and 1x15) and I've been using an Orange Terror bass into 2 1x15s which were the cheapest boxes I could find with 3015lf speakers thrown in. At our last gig one of the speakers went and I think it's finally time to invest in a decent cabinet.

I'm looking for something that isn't boutique priced but has good dispersion and good low end (aren't we all?). Weight isn't a massive issue but something to consider as I am not on the mainland and our sole guitar shop does not carry bass amps. I could possibly order something but as they are selling Gibson Les Pauls at £400 over MSRP I don't really want to use them if I can avoid it.

Part of me is very tempted by an Ampeg 810 because that's what Bill Laswell uses but is that enough reason to take the plunge?

TL:DR noisy metaller wants a decent, loud cab for under a grand.

Cheers!

Morphine (Bass/Drums/Saxophone) - Beatnik blues jazz loveliness
Beehoover (Bass/Drums) - Stoner rock meets Primus
Toupe (Bass/Bass/Drums) - Primus-y stuff again. Met Grant once and he was a lovely chap, probably still is.

NoMeansNo!
Voivod!
Neil Young!
Terrence and Phillip!

Bumpage

Replied, sold and sent!

"Some gone but plenty left" style bump

Hello all,

I decided to go digital a couple of years ago and so here we have the remaining stock of a CD collection I spent a fair old while accumulating. Mostly heavy metal stuff but there's a little bit of something for everyone.

I'm asking for £3 each and quantity discounts are very much available (4 for £10, 10 for £25 and so on). I'll get quotes for postage as we go and I can send without the cases to cut down on cost if required.

Hopefully you see something you'd like!

Ackercocke Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds that Go Undone
Alcest Souveniers D'un Autre Monde
An Albatross We Are The Lazer Viking
Ares Kingdom Return To Dust
Ares Kingdom Firestorms and Chaos
Assuck Misery Index
Athiest Elements
Athiest Jupiter
Athiest Piece of Time
Athiest Unquestionable Prescence
Bestial Mockery Gospel of the Insane
Between the Buried and Me Silent Circus
Blasphemophagher For Chaos, Obscurity and Desolation
Cavity Miscellanious Recollections 92 -97
Charger / Birds of Paradise Split
Cobalt Gin
Cobalt War metal
Cobalt Eater of Birds
Confusatron Chewbaccalypse Now
Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Dead Can Dance The Serpents Egg
Dead Can Dance Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Dead Can Dance Towards The Within
Dead Moon Echoes in the Past
Destroyer 666 Defiance
Destroyer 666 Phoenix Rising
Destroyer 666 Cold Steel for an Iron Age
Diocletian Contra Omne
Diocletian Doomcult
Diocletian Decimator
Disforterror Impalement and Holocaust Stench
DJ Scotch Egg Scotchhausen
Dredg Leitmotif
Dredg Catch Without Arms
Dredg El Cielo
Dysrythmia Pretest
Forgotten Woods race of Cain
The f***ing Champs Greatest Hits
The f***ing Champs Home Recording is Making Music
The f***ing Champs AM Gold
The f***ing Champs VI
Gallery of Mites Bugs on the Blue Fish
Genghis Tron Board Up The House
Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth
Genghis Tron Cloak of Love
Ginger Valor De Corazon
Ginger Break In The Weather
Gore Heart / Mean Man's Dream
Gospel of the Horns Call To Arms
Gospel of the Horns Ram of the Damned
Gridlink Amber Gray
Hammers Of Misfortune The Locust Years
Hammers of Misfortune Church of Broken Glass / Fields
Hawkwind In Search of Space
Humanfly God Among Insects
Intronaut Prehistoricisms
Intronaut The Challenger
ISS Forget About The Girl
Jesus Lizard Blue
Jesus Lizard Shot
Lair Of the Minotaur War Metal Battle Master
Lightning Bolt Ride the Skies
Lightning Bolt Hypermagic Mountain
Lightning Bolt Wonderful Rainbow
The Lord Weird Slough Feg Traveller
The Lord Weird Slough Feg Hardworlder
The Lord Weird Slough Feg Atavism
Malveillance Just f*** off
Megasus Megasus
Melt Banana Bambi's Dilemna
Merzbow 1930
Method Man Tical
Mos Def The New Danger
Mos Def The Ecstatic
Morbosidad Profana La Cruz Del Nazarene
Mose / Hog Mountain Split
Operation Winter Mist Imperial Grand Strategy
Oxbow An Evil Heat
Palehorse Gee That Ain't Swell
Peversor Cult of Destruction
Portal Outre
Portal seepia
Public Enemy Mu-Sick in Our Mess-Age
Red Snapper Our Aim Is To Satisfy
Silver Ginger 5 Black Leather Mojo
Snoop Dogg The Last Meal
Soylent Green Sewn Mouth Secrets & String of Lies
Soylent Green Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction
Spearhead Decrowning the Irenarch
Stinking Lizaveta Hopelessness and Shame
Stinking Lizaveta Caught Between Worlds
Stinking Lizaveta III
Stinking Lizaveta Sacrifice and Bliss
Stinking Lizaveta Scream of the Iron Iconoclast
Stinking Lizaveta Slaughterhouse
The Soundbyte Rivers of Broken Glass
Tub Ring Fermi Paradox
Tub Ring The Great Filter
Tub Ring Zoo Hypothesis
Tub Ring Drake Equation
Tribes of Neurot Rebegin
Ulver Nattens Madrigal
Usurper Skeletal Season
Usurper Threshold of the Usurper
Vacant Coffin Sewer Sculpture
V.E.G.A Cocaine
VON Satanic Blood Angel
Watchtower Control and Resistance
Weakling Dead As Dreams
White Mice Ganjahovadose
The Wildhearts Self Titled
The Wildhearts Earth Vs.
The Wildhearts Don't be Happy, Just Worry
The Wildhearts Endless Nameless
The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed
The Wildhearts P.H.U.Q
The Wildhearts Fishing For Luckies
The Wildhearts Coupled With
Witchchrist Beheaded Oroboros
Witchchrist Curses Of Annihilation
Wolf Eyes Human Animal
Wu Tang Clan The W
Wu Tang Clan Iron Flag
Yakuza Way Of The Dead
Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti

Oh wow, that's some collection! Colour me extremely envious...

You know what I don't like the look of? Gold bridge and tuners with black knobs.

You know what my main bass came with as standard?

Thing is, money spent on changing hardware just for the colour feels like such a waste I have to get on with it. The overall quality of the instrument should more than make up for any cosmetic shortcomings.

Might be worth checking out the Boomerang Phrase Sampler, very pricey new but some of the older versions can be had for very reasonable prices (I picked up the v.2 for less than a Boss RC2). Intuitive controls, great sound quality. The only issue I have is the footprint if I were to use it live and it needs a lot of juice but for me it's still well worth a look.

Another vote for John Wetton on Red, phenomonal tone.

Very partial to Jared Warren's sound with Big Business and the Melvins, I believe it comes from judicious use of some form of Brassmaster.
G.C Green of Godflesh - lovely thick sound out of his Boss HM2.
Aaron Dallison of Keelhaul - pretty sure it's just an SVT pushed to submission but when he digs in, fuggeddaboutit!

Had the opportunity to play with my recently fitted EQ01 over the weekend (bass returned to me the day we began recording our new EP!).

A revelation, never been happier with an EQ before, spent a few minutes reading the manual and had a sound I was very happy with in no time at all. Believe the hype, I've got a syrupy dub tone from my neck pickup and a snappy Stingray-esque tone at the bridge and the blending between the two really opens up a world of possibility.

Best strings I've ever tried! Took a punt on a set last year, got another 6 coming down now! The balanced tension has made my bass a joy to play now in any position on any string.

They do bulk discount now so I personally feel it's worth stocking up though I found it took 4-5 months before they started going a bit dead.

Had a great experience, top notch seller. Kept me in the loop, gave a tracking number on the day of dispatch and pedal was packaged really well.

Buy with confidence!

Thanks for sharing this, idle curiosity shows that the expansions are quite nicely reduced too! Early Christmas present perhaps?

Curses, thought that was the case whilst I was tinkering. Looks like another investment is required!

Cheers for your help Phil although by help I mean giving me another unnecessary purchase to explain to the Mrs...

Hi,

We're a three piece band based in the Channel Islands. Jersey to be precise, which contrary to recent news reports isn't full of millionaires but Nigel Mansel does run a used car lot here.

We've been going for a few years now and have finally cornered the local market for Choppy-Changey-Doomy-Rock. It was a close run thing, with no other bands ever having formed to challenge us! We have two bass players and one drummer which is exactly two bass players and one drummer more than one of the more popular local acts. Our combined height is nearly 20 feet.

[url="http://whitechapelmurders.bandcamp.com/"]http://whitechapelmu...s.bandcamp.com/[/url]

That's the link to our latest album/EP and there's even another song on there from our debut EP.

If you like it you can do a Facebook like at: [url="https://www.facebook.com/WCMJersey"]https://www.facebook.com/WCMJersey[/url]

Thanks for your time!

Kyle

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the very, very, deepest Bill Laswell dub that i know of lies herein, and it sounds to me like a mix of octave down and an LPF (like the IE Xerograph or Moog LPF)

the octaver sounds like it's glitching, but still, frickin' awesome.

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The sound I'm after is definitely in the Painkiller back catalogue and elsewhere in his massive discography. It's that "DOD FX25 with every knob turned counter clockwise" sound that I'm seeking. is this possible with the Source Audio?

Hearing that track takes me back to being a 17 year old Death Metallist getting his mind BLOWN.

I've been doing a lot of research and buying in the world of EF's over the last couple of years, only ever really managing to get sickly quacks or ear piercing screeches out of them.

I bought the Source Audio BEF Pro and this seems to be doing the job for me BUT the one sound I really want is the Bill Laswell deep dub sound. Can someone wise to these pedals possibly share a setting or hint to get this tone on this pedal, if it is indeed possible?

Thanks in advance!

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I haven't kept up with this post - thanks for the reply. Questions though, So do you use this pedal live and use the Pitchfactor tuner - any issues? I could get the pedal sooner if I sell my tuner

Also, the auxiliary switch. I didn't realise that I'd need one. Looking at it though, I would have assumed you could use the Pitchfactor itself to move up and down the banks - or am I missing the point?
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I use the pitchfactor live with all my additional gubbins and I haven't had a single issue. The tuner is slightly quicker than my Boss TU-2 and it only works in chromatic mode which is my personal preference so it was a win-win for me!

You certainly can use the pitchfactor on it's own, I did that when I initially got it but the expression pedal and auxiliary switches have really opened the pedal up for me personally.

The thing with the Pitchfactor is you HAVE to get the bits to go with it. Expression pedal and auxiliary switches are a MUST. The Digitech aux switch box does the job and is proper cheap on places like Amazon and Thomann, I've got mine set to cycle up & down banks and the third switch is dedicated to activating the tuner. One stomp to tune, another to get back to effects.

You can even set the tuner so it either mutes your signal or allows it to pass through. This is the best pitch related pedal ever and it rendered my tuner obsolete!

I'm in complete agreement with all the previous statements, a pleasure to deal with! Really went the extra mile sorting out the shipping of the bass and it arrived in pristine condition.

You have a PM!