G-bitch

No worries - everything I decide to sell will go up in the classifieds a good while before it hits ebay!

Right I’m moving to Bristol and moving in with the better half, the result of which is having much less space available so I’ve got to rationalise the possessions. Upon examination, it would appear that I own two groups of things that take up room – music gear and bicycles. The latter can be kept in a garage/shed but I’m going to have to clear a lot of gear out to fit alongside a guest bed and desk etc. I’m hoping to get into a new band either on bass, vocals or both – it’ll probably be a straight up bloody row rather than the two piece experimentalist stuff I’m currently doing which requires (justifies anyway) the vast amount of effects! There are some things which are definitely keeps: Ampeg V4, Marshall VBC 412, G&L L2000, Shuker 6, vocal rig (Safesound audio mic-pre + boss vf1), Fulltone bassdrive, Keeley modded RAT, Sansamp BDDI. This leaves quite a few other things which I’m not sure whether to sell or not:  Mackie SRM450 (+ plus nice gator wheelie padded case)  De-Armond Ashbury rubber stringed mofo (currently used for hip-hop covers and not much else)  Frankenstein P bass with moses graphite J neck, cheap ass body and sub-par construction – still sounds damn good mind! Would probably part this out rather than inflict my dodgy drilling and shielding on anyone.  SX Gibson les paul copy – don’t play it, probably never will either.. but it’s nice to have a guitar around right? (you’re seeing my problem now aren’t you?!)  Pedalboard – the largest one available from Flightcase warehouse/Spider engineering. Must remove stickers to sell!  Custom two loop loooper  Akai unibass  Behringer V-amp 2  Akai Deep Impact  Korg Bass Pandora (3 I think that takes 9v adaptor and AAA batteries)  Sansamp programmable BDDI  Other pedals including Guyatone MD3 delay and MC2 chorus, EH bassballs, Danelectro PB&J.  Miscellaneous items: Axess Electronics BS2 buffered guitar splitter, MTR big beefy ass 2 amp 9v power supply, Korg tuner, Behringer shark I can’t see myself using any of the pedals again – keeping the best OD and distortion pedals I’ve ever used is enough for me. I’m really split on the Mackie as this has been used a fair bit with a band that didn’t rehearse at rehearsal studios so needed a vocal amp – how likely is it that this’ll be needed d’ya reckon? I also kind of love the Ashbury but don’t want to have it collecting dust. Basically, what would you keep based upon amount of space it takes up and ease of getting replacement should I kick myself for selling (that’s the second Bassdrive I’m on)?

I posted in Dood's thread back on bassworld or whatever it used to be (f*** knows how you're supposed to keep track LOL - only just found this one!) - picked the 15db jobbies from audiologist a couple of months back. Superb basically, don't think that the comments posted need any expansion. One thing I will say is that 15db is plenty to make intimate (and bloody loud) metal gigs a very comfortable volume - most recently, Napalm Death. 25db is probably intended for industrial applications; I don't care how loud your band is, you don't need them unless you have particularly sensitive hearing in which case you wouldn't have been able to join a band in the first place

Only experienced Birmingham - they, rather unfortunately, had the legacy of the staff that used to work there when it was Musical Exchanges (a.k.a. Musical Excuses) 90% of them really quite clueless and with no interest in customer service. I haven't been in there in about 3 years after asking to try out a digitech pedal to be met with "Are you looking to buy it? I can only get them out if you are looking to buy it?". I could understand if they want to keep tire kickers away from £3k basses but FFS, an £80 pedal?! My face probably said it all before I told him to forget it and walked out.

Reliability seems to be the only other problem after rarity! I suspect that it's just the case of a few duff units but I do know one person who had to have the same job done to both a V4 and V6 - nothing major but still a good £100 worth of bench time. It's cheaper to get Ampeg valve amps now, and I actually prefer that sound; not better or worse just different. A lot of people rave about their amps and it's only the V series' rarity that has built up the cult following for these amps - they're damn good, but they weren't a gift from god so try before you buy rather than taking the hype as word enough.

The only 'alternative' to an SVT is a vintage V4 or V4B. The tits and 100-120w means that you get power amp break up at volumes that won't cause structural damage like the SVT.