Jakester

Could it be a Overwater by Tanglewood?

Procured a Markbass cab off Gareth and he was a delight to deal with - responsive, helpful and even offered to brave a notorious dogging spot to meet up - eventually the cab had to be posted and it was really well packed and sent via a reputable courier. 11/10.

I was playing yesterday afternoon/evening in the local shopping centre with the orchestra I play with - playing Christmas tunes and more uptempo stuff. Owing to the way we were set up, I was out on the left wing and so open to the tender mercies of punters as they ran for shop to shop. First was a lady with what looked like a mummified corpse in a wheelchair, but turned out to be her elderly chain smoking mother. “Do you have a drummer?” She asked. “Only, I play the drums.” “Yes,” I replied, gesturing to the actual drummer sat behind his kit, as well as the full section of percussionists. “Oh,” she said - “I can sing as well.” Rapidly changing tack (having realised her dreams of stardom were fading), she asked “what make of bass is that?”, and then answered herself, most unexpectedly - “ah, its a Warwick Streamer. Nice. I’ve got one of those.” She then took her mum off for a wheel, leaving me nonplussed. Second was the little old lady who came up mid-tune, rapped her watch, and asked if we were going to be much longer? Finally, an honourable mention to the chap who let his labrador off it’s lead to run into the orchestra as we were playing, nearly knocking me over, as “it just wanted to see what was going on...”

Both of those are on repeat round here! These are pretty good too: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Present-Motown-1/dp/B00005Q8UC/ref=asc_df_B00005Q8UC/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310739891430&hvpos=1o7&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10804467138392042632&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006567&hvtargid=pla-774051453992&psc=1

I had a problem with TNT via interparcel - late to collect, then after repeated chases, refused to deliver, citing the fact they didn’t have a depot in the area. When I pointed out their depot was less than half a mile for the recipient’s address, they cancelled the order and sent the item back to me. Morons.

And it appears they go down to 2 ohms...

Oh dear, sorry to hear it’s been a rough time Nick - hope all is now well with you though.

MSL are the distributor and their recommended service agent is Real Electronics in Sheffield: https://mslpro.co.uk/customer-support/

Had this happen again this weekend, and i think in hindsight it is down to a change in temp - amp came out of ‘mancave’ into car and pressed straight into service and started cutting out. Cranked it up and suddenly came back to life, deafening everyone around me! Turned off and on again, and worked fine thereafter. Looks like a call to the distributor... 😭

I can’t stop looking at this bass. It really is probably the most lovely thing I’ve seen in years. Absolutely stunning.

So you’re complaining because a new product cost more than a used one? 🤔

Well, they did it...

Our local guitar shop ran a promotion like this - £5 a ticket, limited to ‘X’ tickets, on a fairly middling PRS guitar. I think it was 150/200 tickets, though I may be wrong. If you add that up, they’re making more than the retail price of that particular guitar if they sell all the tickets. Not sure what actually happened, mind, as I think the deadline got extended and then it went from the window. From the shops point of view, a good way to make a profit on slow moving stock!

Yeah, I could do, but it’s a single string so not a massive issue.

Just to update this, Unfortunately BD weren’t able to help, and although DR were really quick in forwarding my query to the UK distributor, the latter never bothered to reply, which is disappointing. Ended up buying a 4-string set of ‘normal’ nickel strings and the buying a random top c string off EBay - a different brand but doesn’t seem to make any difference at this stage!

Probably quite a lot less ‘editable’ than the others, but perhaps a) more cost effective and b) preset with more useable sounds, this might be worth a look: https://www.ehx.com/products/bass-mono-synth

Cable? Amp output?

I’d be a little wary of anything suggesting it’s ‘dripping’ with someone’s DNA...😳 🤮

This is very interesting as I was using my 121P yesterday and suddenly had a huge drop in volume. I’d assumed it was the battery in my bass, so replaced that in the break and then it cut out as I’d upped the gain to compensate for the much lower passive signal. Turned off and on and with the gain reduced it was then fine for the rest of the gig. No discernible change in temperature though - there was first thing but it lasted a good hour and a half of playing before it went. I’ll keep an eye on it now!

That’ll be baffles for adjusting frequencies, but won’t do anything to attenuate the volume - I suspect they’ll be basic ‘room in rooms’.

"Relatively" inexpensive is battening the inner walls and ceiling, adding resilient bars, and then doubling up with acoustic plasterboard sheets. Seal up any gaps with caulk and at least you've got more mass which is at least partially decoupled. By no means perfect, but a relatively easy solution which would reduce the sound transmission to outside the room.

I mentioned above we just got one - I had one of these off Paul: Probably an easy way to dip your toe in without blowing the budget, plus he was a pleasure to deal with!