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    Old vs New Barefaced cabs

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    On 2/21/2018 at 09:40, AidanB said:

    Can anyone tell me if there is a marked difference in sound quality between the new generation and the older Barefaced cabs?

    For example: older 15" Compact vs new 12" Super Compact or older cab with tweeter vs BB2.

    I'm trying to decide whether to go for a new one such as the BB2 or SC (for a lot of money for me) or pick up a s/h one for a more reasonable amount. What doesn't help is that I've tried out neither!! and I'm only going on what people say about how great they are. 

    Thanks in advance...

    When I bought a Midget back in 2011, it inspired a friend soon after to buy a Midget T.

    He's recently bought a Super Compact, and reports more volume and better dispersion onstage.

    However he's keeping both, partly because the tweeter in the old Midget differentiates it, and it suits DB, and because they make a potent pair, and 'cos the Gen 2 1x12 is still a hell of an item, considering. 

    Which is nice to know because I'm poor and the old Midget's doing fine. 

    32" Medium Scale Bass Thread

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    Posted · Edited by KK Jale

    Yep, they made the Squier PB-331 in black, white and sunburst.

    They also pop up slightly earlier than the E-series... below is mine, it's an A-series dated '85 (plus, I believe, Fender Japan made them in late '84 under the Squier JV series, though likely not exported... and they also came as regular Fender Japan models, but that's another can of worms). Great little basses. 

     

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    Thomann to stock Quilter

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    Yay! Just when I scooped up the last one from Wembley Music!

    Still, hey ho, needed one for some gigs straight away... and really liking it so far... 

    The Bass Block is showing as due to arrive at Thomann in early March at an estimated £513, which is £86 less than Wembley's last price... they recently dropped it from £620. The Bassliner 2x10 will come in at £813 over Wembley’s £925. 

    https://www.thomann.de/gb/quilter.html?ref=search_prv_6

     

    If you could go back in time to one gig, which one?

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    13 hours ago, thumperbob 2002 said:

    Manchester Apollo 1977. 

    Elvis costello and the attractions

    richard helll and the voidoids

    john cooper clarke

    what a great gig and for a boy from the back streets of hull very eye opening to be sure. 

    Sure you don't mean the Free Trade Hall on Jan 8th, 1979...?

    . http://www.elviscostello.info/gigography/concert_69-79.php

    Amazing line up, I saw a show on the same tour, in Bath on 29th Dec 1978. The Attractions were amazing, completely lethal, played at 90mph... and I was NOT expecting the Voidoids, a straight shot of CBGB's with Robert Quine on guitar... great. 

    Others I'd love to see again... Bowie at Shepherds Bush circa 1997, a wild greatest hits set nobody was expecting; Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham at the Borderline, the most pin-drop music I think I ever witnessed; and Elliott Smith at Glastonbury, with a full band, playing his new Figure 8 album in a far-flung tent to about 100 people...

     

    Gigging without a car

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    I gig in London via public transport… I've done it for about four years. I use a good gigbag, a lightweight amp (10lbs, I could get one lighter) which I keep in a plastic toolbox with all the cables, and a Barefaced Midget. I'm none too strong and though the cab's only 20lbs, it's an awkward one-hand carry. With a trolley I can cheerfully walk a mile or more fully loaded, and often have done.

    Try one of those folding ones… about £25 and much easier to stash at the gig. MIne looks like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/FOLDING-TROLLEY-WAREHOUSE-FOLDABLE-ALUMINIUM/dp/B00WIK10SQ . Get one with decent-sized wheels. The micro-wheel ones are no good for anything. Don't use bungees: get a pair of hefty, 25mm-wide woven tie-down straps with metal cam buckles and lash your cab down hard by weaving them through the footplate, over the cab and around the handles.  

    I use buses a lot, and tactics come into play. The ideal spot for a trolley is in the pram/wheelchair zone, parked firmly against the forward bulkhead in case the bus brakes. If two prams get on, then the only place left to move it to is the exit doorway. That can get like human Tetris.  You learn to scan buses for prams before you get on, and for some reason certain services often seem to be less prammy than others!  I'll always set off in good time and will often let a crowded bus go by to try to pick up a nice empty one behind it. 

    Being able to cross town for a few quid, play, have a couple of pints of ale without worry, and make it home all without causing extra trips for bandmates is a good feeling. 

    Noel Redding

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    Posted · Edited by KK Jale

    Noel himself wrote a book, Are You Experienced: The Inside Story Of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, published in 1996. Though it had some insights on Hendrix it swiftly descended into whole chapters detailing Redding's post-JHE life in Ireland, the years of bitterness, management injustices and endless litigation. A very, very depressing read. 

    How many this year?

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    NYE will make it 51 this year. Two bands have gone very quiet but are still a pleasure when they happen. The trio/duo has been making most of the running. On top of that there are occasional deps in two or three other outfits. This year has been slightly more guitar than bass, again. A new and potentially busy old-school rockin' originals start-up has just imploded, making the diary look a lot thinner than I had hoped. Boo!

    Who would you - most have enjoyed playing bass with?

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    Though I'd love to have been in Duck Dunn's shoes, or Jamerson's, or Kaye's, I wouldn't have had the chops for those serious '60s studio gigs (tell a lie, I could manage with the MG's... probably my all-time fave band).

    I'd like to have played with Dylan, or Van Morrison, anywhere roughly between 1967 and 1974. Simple song structures but flying by the seat of your pants and right in the middle of that swirling mercury sound. 

     

     

    JV Precision original-like replacement pickups?

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    Welcome!

    If your JV is a '57 as your name suggests, of course you'd be looking for a pickup with raised A string polepieces (whether these help or hinder string balance is another question!) As far as I know, your options are limited to a secondhand one taken from a real JV, or from a Fender US Vintage Reissue.. don't think they've ever been available separately. Otherwise, you could order a really nice custom pickup with the correct specs... plastic covered wire, raised polepieces, etc. Maybe try Mojo Pickups or Oil City?

    NCD - Barefaced One10 *REVIEW*

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    [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1508057550' post='3389455']
    One came up on That Ebay a few days ago at a very reasonable price, collection only from That London.
    [/quote]

    I really really wish I hadn't looked that up and seen how much you snagged it for.

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