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This too ^^^^ When my band started using IEM's the difference in onstage interaction was very noticeable. For a while we had a mic ('ambient' ? ) set up front of stage so they could hear the audience, but soon gave it up. It's very strange for me now being the only band member who can actually hear the audience / room!

I still have my GK 800RB amp, which has a large heat sink and no fan. On long loud gigs in the summer it does get a bit warm, but it's never tripped out - in fact it's been 100% reliable all the time I've had it. Probably my favourite amp head, but I also love my GK1001RB which is fan cooled and fairly quiet too - I'm not sure the fan is even running all the time when not running at louder settings.

This is a good point. One of the main reasons I use an amp and cab is to maintain consistency wherever I'm playing. Most of my gigs are in theatres, where the room and stage size can vary tremendously. Using my GK/410 rig means that the sound I hear is pretty much the same on all of them, so much so that I rarely feel the need to tweak the tone settings, just the overall volume. It sounds very much the same at lower or higher levels too. We do use monitors, but I don't have any bass in them, preferring to have my bass just in my rig behind me. When I've done gigs that have meant either relying heavily or solely on monitors for hearing my bass, I've often found the necessary eq for everything in the monitor mix is not what I want to hear for my bass if you get what I mean. I just like having my core onstage sound the same every time, with me in control of it!

So many seasoned comments. This thread has been peppered with them.

I look forward to more comments with relish...

Eric’s appearance in ‘The Last Waltz’ wasn’t startling I have to agree, although it’s not helped by his guitar strap coming loose ( just after 1 min in the video). You can see it doubled over from the beginning, so it was inevitable! He was also fighting his demons around this time - possibly off the heroin but replacing it with alcohol I think. Robbie did cover for him very well, but think EC managed to pull it back a bit before the end. Mind you, he counted it in fast so that didn’t help either...😄

Right, that’s the end of the line for me.

You just need to express yourself clearly....

This thread has gone so far OT I may have to tender my resignation....

Great film! As far as I can remember very accurate with the instruments and amps too. Tom Hanks is his usual brilliant self too, and a funny running gag about the band's name too - 'The Oneders'. Good performances from them all.

Sold Simon a GK combo. Great guy to deal with, prompt payment and good communications. Another great BC person!

Agree with you about EC ‘s voice, sadly underrated ( due to his guitar playing maybe?). And the other comment mentioned is not only out of order, but technically incorrect - poor Conor Clapton was actually 4 and a half years old when he fell to his death in a tragic accident from a New York high rise apartment.

Do you not think it would be ‘was a racist’? I also have no time for racist musicians, but the racist incident was over 40 years ago when EC was on a drug and booze fuelled downward spiral that nearly killed him. He has since spoken of how ashamed he is and apologised for his comments. This doesn’t condone his behaviour but does show how he realises how wrong it was. He speaks of this in the recent ‘Life in 12 Bars’ documentary.

I do exactly the same with my GK 1001RB. Use an SKB 3U to enable the fan to work at it’s best.

Sansamp for me, with a Behringer BD121 Sansamp copy for a spare. Both will give you great amp tones and a good DI. Also worth a look is the Tech 21 VT Bass DI. More controls than the standard Sansamp. I know you said you were looking for TE tones, but they may be had from this versatile pedal despite having an obvious Ampeg slant.

Sorry, I haven't got a source - it was forwarded on to me. Some more links here though - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53668563 https://inews.co.uk/culture/arts/coronavirus-latest-pantos-cancelled-uncertainty-theatres-reopening-england-572365

Same as me, seeing Chuck Berry with a red Gibson ES sealed my fate when I was about 14! Looked for a nice 335 for years, got a mid 60's sunburst one which was a) the wrong colour , and b) too slim in the neck department. Wish I still had it though, as 60's Gibson prices went crazy shortly after I sold it! Eventually got my red 335 Fat neck and love it. I did play a nice Eastman style 335 a while ago, and it was close to mine in all respects and a lot cheaper. Sunburst though, for me a Gibson 3 series looks best in red. Gibson did a great 58 dot reissue a couple of years ago, and Guitar Guitar were doing them for a silly reduced price but still only sunburst versions. Probably the best Gibson I played in the last few years was a 63 VOS 335 block reissue, around £4300 IIRC. Neck too slim for me ( and a lack of £4300...) meant it wasn't ideal, but did play and look fabulous.

Apologies if this has been posted already - saw it yesterday, not great. BAD NEWS for professional performers from EQUITY in an email received today! In brief: OLIVER DOWDEN (Secretary Of State For Digital/Culture/Media/Sport) has confirmed that a full re-opening of LIVE PERFORMANCE will NOT be happening until 2021 with no further updates on the present decision (in respect of indoor performances) until NOVEMBER at the earliest! This means no Panto or Christmas season this year. SEE EMAIL BELOW: 'Last Wednesday Oliver Dowden confirmed that a full re-opening of live performance will not happen until 2021, with no further updates until November. This is devastating for panto, the wider theatre industry and for all those who work on productions made financially unviable by socially distanced audiences. It has emerged that only £2 million of the arts rescue package has been allocated to freelancers, meaning less than 0.2% of a £1.57 billion fund will directly support workers. With the £1 million committed to the Benevolent Fund by Equity exhausted in just a few months, this is both derisory and troubling. On Friday Boris Johnson announced that the anticipated re-opening of indoor live performance was postponed – the day before indoor shows had been set to begin again. This eleventh-hour decision came as a significant blow for many of our members working across variety and performance who had hoped/ to start earning again in August...'

Nice idea, but just looking to sell it as is really. Cheers.

Think you may be right, may wait for one of their free listing offers!

Basschat knowledge wins again - you're right! There's a load of wadding in the cab but found the transformer where you said. Speaker is a Beyma SM110/N - looks like a 10 inch 200 watt job https://www.beyma.com/en/products/c/low-mid-frequency/110SMN8/altavoz-sm-110-n-8-oh/ Thanks again for your help BassBod.

Thanks for your reply! Don't think the mains transformer is in the cabinet, maybe I need to dismantle it and check! May find what the speaker is then as well. The cabinet is quite well made out of ply and doesn't rattle or anything. I honestly don't think it's worth £200 though? I was hoping for say £75 TBH.

Ok, so this is a bit of an weird one! It's a GK 200MB combo I've been using as a practice/small gig amp for a few years now. As you can see, the original metal cabinet has long gone and replaced with a wooden version! It was like this when I got it, and I thought I'd get around to painting it black with Tuff Cab stuff but never did. The little thing works fine, pots slightly crackly occasionally but nothing that can't be easily sorted. Unsure of the speaker details, but it's a 10 inch job whereas I believe they would have been 12 inch in this model? Used it mainly at home and the occasional 'acoustic' gig with my Washburn AB20. I've tried the head into a separate cab and it sounds great too! So the big question - what's it worth? It's now superfluous to my needs, since i got a Fender Rumble 100. If someone wanted to use just the head, they could maybe make a sleeve for it, or just either use it as it is for practice or tidy it up for gigs etc. Even spares for their GK combo? Any thoughts most welcome. I'm a paid up member on here so this isn't a selling dodge - I genuinely haven't a clue what to put it up for! Cheers, Pete.