jazzyvee

What exactly does a sonic maximiser actually do? I know what the compressor bit does.

Nice one!!

I prefer natural wood colour like this burl redwood bass with ebony and maple neck.

Richard Cousins of the Robert Cray Band.
https://knowyourbassplayer.com/2020/08/23/richard-cousins-robert-cray-band/

I can understand the interest in vegan straps but at the moment I have no interest them or any straps containing plastic. In the past, the ones I have bought containing plastic coatings end up cracking along the edges and then being scratchy on the the exposed skin of my shoulder or side of my neck. Leather ones just seem to get softer over time so tend to become more flexible and softer as they age.  Also I don't trust plastic fittings that hold the tabs as my basses are pretty heavy. My straps are all leather no plastic or metal except for the straplocks.

3 hours ago, yorks5stringer said:

We did 2 gigs over the weekend at The Newt in Somerset, which is a visitor destination  near me in Bruton. It was billed as a 'Deep South BBQ and Broil' and the place was decorated with gourds and pumkins, you can see some on the barrel, front left of the photo.

Saturday saw a small rain shower when we were playing which meant  moving our PA speakers under the tent but Sunday was beautiful and we had the added bonus of a PA provided (unknown to us). The band who followed us were a trio and their Bass player could not travel: I only found out after we had stripped down and my backline had been taken away in the van, I would have been happy to help out.

The photo is from Sunday and our singer/harmonica player has gone on walk-about and banjo player has his back turned!

I wouldn't mind one of those in my garden for the summer. 

Aston"Familyman' Barrett's Fender Jazz ( though i've never wanted to own one)

Stanley Clarke's Alembic. (I had to get one of those.)

22 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I recognise that bass 😉

From where didst thou recognise the said bass?😂🤔

I did a gig  yesterday with a Brazilian Jazz band out back at a small pub near Birmingham City Centre. By mid way through the second set we had most of the audience up on their feet dancing. 

I'm now the happy owner of this sub, and it's going to have a multi-purpose use.

But the first outing was on a double bass gig yesterday afternoon to add some meat to my Schertler Unico which is a bi-amped 180w acoustic instrument combo and has a sub output option. 

At home and small low volume rehearsals the Schertler is fine but at soundcheck in outdoor/undercover gig it was not up to the the drummer and keyboard player, I got the LF800 out of the car and plugged it in and it really worked well and added enough bottom end to keep the songs bouncing along. An indoor gig may have been a bit too  heavy on the bass.
  

15 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Thanks Al, but that 18in speaker is looking appealing 😁

I think you will eventually have to scratch that itch and find one. If I'm ever gigging in your neck of the woods I will be sure to bring it.

24 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Thanks jazzy, do they sound good on their own, they aren’t too boomy are they 

I think that may be dependent on the room. I have used mine on large stages and once in an outdoor gig and it sounded fine. I have never heard any mud or boominess. The band I play in, do classic reggae from late 70's early 80's and so I whilst the cab is really heavy on the bottom end it's probably too much so for that era unless you are doing dub and not going through the PA. But there is enough low mids to keep the note clarity but as I mentioned earlier i think it is a much more balanced sound with a big baby II. Actually what Alex recommended was putting my power amp into bridge mode and put them both on the same channel and they will blend nicely. I did that and it does work well but having the two cabs on different channels means I can control the volumes independently and adjust the Dubster so that it does not overpower the overall sound of the bass. 

To be honest if you A & B'd it side by side with a Big Twin 2 with the tweeter off, the amount of low end difference I hear is not that dramatic. 

Actually the Dubster 2 is passive cab and I have used mine as a stand alone cab on reggae gigs but prefer using it with my big baby II.

20 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

No not yet, they seem to be quite rare, probably a bit overboard for home use at the moment but you know how it is 😁

Depends on how much your neighbours love bass!! 🙂 I hope you find one. I don't use mine a lot but when I do it shows it's worth.

On 16/07/2019 at 11:47, mrtcat said:

I've got two FR800 and an LF1400 (essentially 2 powered BB2 and 1 powered Dubster 2) to all intents and purposes that's just like having a PA system just for bass. I only ever use them together as PA for the whole band. That much bass on stage would be a pain. Even if I was playing reggae I'd want to leave that sort of low end to the foh system. 

Yeah, sound guys don't tend to like too much sub bass on stage so not using mine as much as I had hoped but these days when I use my big baby II and Dubster II, which is like a passive FR800 and passive LF1400, :-), I use them on a separate channel on my power amp and just put a bit of the dubster it in to add to the low end density without it being noticeably loud or over powering. It makes the low volume sound much fuller.

I have just picked up a Peavey Minimax 600watt for a relative just starting out on bass. I was pretty surprised how nice it sounded in the shop without twiddling any knobs. 

Anyway I took it home and plugged my barefaced cab into it and it still sounds fine but not as good as it sounded through the ampeg cab that I used in the shop. I have an old mesa boogie cab which is going to a new owner soon so I will try it with that later. Maybe it will sound better with a "voiced" bass cab rather than the FRFR barefaced.  So far few a couple of  niggles which would annoy me but may not faze my relative as he is a new player. 

1) The fan is pretty loud. 

2)The buttons for the presets make an audible click through the speaker when pushed on or off.

3) The labels on the controls are inset into the front of the amp which makes it hard to see unless the amp is close to eye level. But I guess after you get used to the amp you will be familiar with the controls by their position rather than the labels.

Any views on this amp? Good or not so good.

Am in right in thinking that because this has a USB connection that I can plug an MP3 player in it and one of the presets would make it suitable for that to get a full range sound? ( albeit without the crispness of a tweeter like the FR800). Or is that for some firmware updates?

is there no tweeter in this then?
 

Good point, maybe i should sell them and get a vintage P-bass...........

"I'll get my coat"

I had a good gig on Friday night at camp bestival. First gig for the band since around 

March 2020. Lots in for late this year into 2022.

Felt great to get back on stage after so long. 

Short clip from Friday night's gig.

Nope not forgotten about it just still experimenting with different volumes and settings. I have currently found a level where things don’t go “crack” and had a gig last week Sunday with my BBII and it was fine as it was a low volume jazz gig. But i still need to discover the cause as i have more gigs coming up soon. My basses are all active and run at dc voltages  of 9v, 18v or 36v and cracking happens with them all. I tested all the leads including the speaker ones and all were fine. I bought a set of new patch leads for my preamp input yesterday only because the existing ones were the plastic moulded ones and a bit too short to fit comfortably. 
 

I have one of those, had if for about 13 years, a really high quality well thought out bit of kit. 

I'm gigging on bass with Musical Youth at Camp Bestival this year 30th July 2021

Not a bad start to gigging post lockdown.

https://www.campbestival.net/line-up/live-acts/musical-youth

Beautiful bass. I hope you find a buyer.