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[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='22140' date='Jun 22 2007, 09:45 PM']+1 on that - Cheers Dave! ^_^[/quote]

Thanks Nik and John

Lets keep a high visibility on this thread so we get a good attendance on the 18th Aug.

[size=3][b]South East Bass Bash[/b][/size]

[size=3][i]Saturday 18th August[/i][/size]

[size=3]10:00am - 6:00pm[/size]

[url="http://home.btconnect.com/backlinestudios/location.html"]Backline Recording and Rehearsal Studios[/url]
1-2 The Archways
Guildford Park Road
Guildford
GU2 5NP

Farnham Road Car Park is 60p per hour or £5 per day.

[quote name='dr.funk' post='21718' date='Jun 22 2007, 08:29 AM']I wondered where this thread had gone, didn't realise it was at the top. I will definately be coming and can bring any of my gear should anyone wish although I appreciate it is not of the same quality as the rest of you!

Well done Dave for booking it. Regarding the emails I'm not sure that the address is checked that often, when I did my work experience there it wasn't very professional although it is great for what it does. Ive done numerous gigs in the liveroom and I think it sounds pretty good.[/quote]

Steve told me that they have an email problem so that was the reason for zero response. What a way to run a business eh?

Venue booked.

Saturday 18th August

10 am to 6 pm.

I guess we now need to start listing who is bringing what.

I'll bring Lakland DJ5, Lakland Duck Dunn and Epifani rig plus whatever else takes my fancy.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='21207' date='Jun 21 2007, 08:31 AM']Come on then, are us "London types" invited or not? If there's parking I can bring Urb with me.[/quote]

Everyone is invited.

The venue is accessed from the Farnham Road Car Park so there is no problem parking - it just costs.

At £10 per head, 10 is the break even point so it looks like its a go.

There are still a few other locals who haven't signed up yet - Merton? Walbassist? Wildman? plus some in London expressed an interest. It's a quick 40-minute train ride to Guildford and a 5-minute walk from the station.

[quote name='Blink' post='21035' date='Jun 20 2007, 09:08 PM']Does anybody use an SWR 6x10 cab? My new band is playing heaver stuff and my 2 Aguilar GS112's were lacking punch and depth at our last gig. The SWR is reasonably compact and at low shop volumes seems to sound good. What is it like at gig volume?

Any help gratefully received before I part with any cash.[/quote]

I had one and it was great but my back didn't like it. Very loud, very punchy.

It's starting to look like the 18th but what happened to all those who were so keen for this to happen?

Looking at the current numbers it is either not financially viable or we just do it beween 14:00 and 18:00.

If the dates don't appeal then we could move it to October, November, December or later, or just forget about it.

[quote name='Rumble' post='21030' date='Jun 20 2007, 09:01 PM']If you had the choice between a P bass [u]OR [/u] a jazz for playing covers (70' to present day), which would it be and why?

(I'm thinking Lakland DJ or Bob Glaud)

A[/quote]

Don't forget the Lakland Duck Dunn.

Until you can get someone to do it properly for you why not use some electrical terminal strip. The type with screw terminals. Do them up nice and tight.

I was at a meeting near to your work place yesterday. No doubt I will be back again within the next month. If you can hang on til then I'll bring my iron with me and do it for you.

[quote name='Muppet' post='20268' date='Jun 19 2007, 04:21 PM']It's such a huge sound with the preamp that I can pretty much get any tone I want out of it![/quote]

The DJ5 with J-Retro is amazing.

Today I visited backline Rehearsal Rooms at Guildford Station to have a look and discuss. It's a bit tacky but I'm sure that our bass gear will brighten it up. Thier live room should more than adequate. It's about 7m x 5m plus a good size stage.

On a Saturday they rent out in 4-hour slots so we could have 10:00 -18:00. I'm prepared to underwrite the cost but we need a minimum of 10 attendees.

Possible dates are:

Saturday 11th August

Saturday 18th August

[i]Please state your preferred date and your committment to come.[/i]

You know you want it to happen.

It has to be a Bongo 5-string which was dead on arrival from the USA - the rear pick-up was open-circuit. I'd ordered and bought it from a US dealer in order to save some money so there was no-one to send it back to and I wasn't going to send it back to the USA to have it fixed. After posting on the EBMM forum and exchanging pms and emails they eventually sent me a replacement which I installed. I then had to send the old one back. They never did refund my postage. Finally it was so out of alignment I had to pay to have it set-up by my local luthier. After that it was fine bass and is possibly still in the BT fraternity

I would say put it down to one of those nights. I've had probelms with wooden stages but it's easier to cut the bass back rather than try and find something that may not be there.

For ease I put castors on a Trace 4x10 years ago. It sounded dreadful. It just lost everything so I took them off again. Could well be the same effect with your rubber feet. I keep my rigs on wheeled trolleys in the garage and they all sound thin but take them out and put them on the floor, even outdoors and they are normal.

Yesterday I played a local festival using the house Trace rig, a 1x15 combo and a 2x10 cab. It sounded aweful standing directly in front of it. The 15-inch seemed to fart down at G and F on the E-string and it was so clanky. I was in two minds whether to use my own or risk it. A number of the other bands used the house rig and it sounded great out front so I left mine in the car and went for it. Still sounded weird on stage but good result where it mattered.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='19112' date='Jun 17 2007, 12:19 PM']Yeah, just be nice if they could though.
Schroeder manage it ok.[/quote]

Unfortunately that's the realities of the commercial world. Next you'll be wanting to buy directly for Fender, Gibson, EBMM, Warwick, Ampeg, Ashdown, EBS, Boss, Electro Harmonix, Line 6, etc., etc.

If you could then their overheads would be so great that the prices would go up dramatically to cover the costs and you would save nothing. A small company like Schroeder can probably afford to do it at the moment but once they get larger and have a dealer network it will it will certainly stop.

[quote name='Muppet' post='6891' date='May 25 2007, 11:01 PM']I've got the Sennheiser 172 also (not the G2 but the older model). It's exceptional in my opinion, apart from the rubbish instrument lead that is supplied with it.[/quote]

Having made you a new lead I thought I'd better make myself a new one with a view to using my 172 at Loxwood Beer Festival today however trying out my 172 system I found that it is no a patch on a direct cable. I'm not sure how to describe it but with a cable the bass is crystal clear but with the 172 it's just .... If it were an optical system I would say it was out of focus. It's put me right off using it again. Maybe faulty I'll have to see who Senheisser recommend to service them.

[quote name='dood' post='18112' date='Jun 15 2007, 11:08 AM']The cab is sooo huge it has it's own gravity.. I just couldn't resist the pull of the UL-610. It's a little monster![/quote]

I have just turned a Kermit shade of green.

It does raise the question as to what is wrong with your existing rig?

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='18026' date='Jun 15 2007, 09:26 AM']am i wrong then in thinking i could just get a stereo 1/4" jack and a stero cable with a 1/4" stereo plug on the end to connect it all together?[/quote]

Don't waste money on a stereo cable. What you need is a balanced (screened twisted pair, same as mic cable) with Ring/Tip/Sleeve jacks on either end.

[quote name='OldGit' post='17663' date='Jun 14 2007, 04:16 PM']How about this?
[url="http://www.behringer.com/AB200/index.cfm?lang=eng"]http://www.behringer.com/AB200/index.cfm?lang=eng[/url]
I can't quite work out if it will do the switching job
Dave can you translate the spec int yes or no?[/quote]

Funny you should mention that Si. I was looking at it earlier. I'm certain it would do the job however it would be a bit of a bodge on the cabling side. I think John said he wanted a single ring/tip/sleeve jack cable to plug into the footswitch. There's no way you could do that with this as the two switching elements are completely isolated from one another.

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='17471' date='Jun 14 2007, 11:24 AM']Comfort strapp, it's great![/quote]

+1, with Schaller Straplocks

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='17382' date='Jun 14 2007, 09:44 AM']cheers BOD2.
i've got an ashdown abm 300 evo II thingy (an english one!!! ) and I use a marshall two button latching footswitch to turn on the sub harmonic function and switch between the valve drive and clean sounds. I also use the same footswitch to change the channels on my Laney LC30 and turn the reverb on and off. I'd ideally like a an LED switch to show me when a particular function or channel was active as sometime's it's not too clear to distinguish a sound with a drummer like ours - it does appear though that unless i can get a switch with its own 9v power for the LEDs, it might be a bit of a pain - I didn't think of this to be fair. It might also be worth investigating whether any of the switches out there with LEDs use their own power.

Cheers[/quote]

Ashdown ABM requires latching switches which connect the signalling wires to ground so there are no volts available down the cable to drive LEDs. I use one of these:



Latching switches, LEDS, battery inside, Ring/tip/sleeve jack socket. Not made any more but they do come up on ebay from time to time.

Many footswitches just make a connection to ground so there are no volts to use for LEDs. I have a dual footswitch that uses a separate battery to drive the LEDs.

You haven't said what the amp is or what functions you are trying to switch.

[quote name='Muppet' post='17243' date='Jun 13 2007, 10:25 PM']Unless you're going to be making good money or have serious prospects with your band then I'd concentrate on your career - especially when good opportunites come up at your [relatively] young age.
Excellent advice.[/quote]

+1

[quote name='bassbluestew' post='17133' date='Jun 13 2007, 07:15 PM']Dave,

I had gone away after my last posting here feeling really sorry for you and how you have been f@cked over by both musical box and wood&tronics.
No other posting on this ( or the old website ) has affected me as much as this.

You have spent top dollar on this cab, you COULD have bought any other manufacturer in the worlds equivalent cab for this type of dosh, but showing great faith you choose Epiphani and to make matters worse, you had to import it from Italy.

Having taken all this into account, Epiphani should be now be jumping through HOOPS to make sure you are not just happy, but DELIGHTED with your new cab. I almost get the sense that the sheen has been taken off this new gear and that'll you'll be happy almost to make do with a cab that works(I hope I'm way wrong). That's simply not good enough when paying this type of money for a single cab. You should be getting service above and beyond the call of duty here.........I'd really be getting a bit fed up by this stage.

It's got to the stage now where Epiphani HAVE to step in directly to support their product, and more importantly their brand new customer.

I'd give a detailed account of what's happened to Epiphani and I'd expect them to make it up to you - and I'd also tell them so.

It's simply just not good enough !!!

We're all behind - or beside you - Dave,
Stewart[/quote]

Being the devil's advocate, this is actually an object lesson in why it is better to pay a bit more and buy from the official UK dealer rather than try and get it cheaper overseas. Had Dave got it from the Gallery I am certain that they would be bending over backwards to sort the problem pdq.

Before you cut them off I would check with Epi directly. It could be that the speaker they have sent you is not completely to Epi's spec.

I am amazed at the tardiness of the response of all concerned. If you had been on tour and this was your only cabinet just what would they have done to get you out of the mire. I would have been hopping up and down and shoutting by now.

When my Ashdown ABM blew-up after 11 months I sent it back on the Monday and it was fixed and back with me on the Thursday. That's the sort of service I expect.