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    Are Elixir’s worth it?!

    in Accessories and Misc

    Posted

    I've used them for a few years.

    They start off sounding like normal strings do after they have well and truly worn in.

     

    They stay sounding like that for me for about 2 to 3 months. Having said that I sweat like a hippo on crack playing live and that stuff eats through normal strings in less than an hour.

    I am seriously considering changing things up a bit though as they sit under rather than cut through a bit too much with my present rig.

    How was your gig last night?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 23/12/2019 at 20:39, dmccombe7 said:

    Me to and its pretty darn good. Enjoyed that.

    Just watched them doing some live material (Shaft) and they sound just as good live as they do in studio.

    Dave

    When I saw them live they spent a fair proportion of their set backing up Marva Whitney, went a bit more soul for that section, but When they lay it down hard, man alive they are funky as, and tighter than any other band I've heard...

    This is my favourite track of theirs, love the 'melted' drum kit too!

     

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    How was your gig last night?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Richard R said:

    Just googled the Osaka Monaurail album. That blew away the cobwebs!  

    You must have played a real belter 😎

    Seriously it awesome being in a band with such quality players and people, but Osaka Monaurail, best funk band I've ever seen, better than Tower of Power...

    How was your gig last night?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Played a blinder at the Jenny Lind in Hastings.

    In 7 years that was the best gig my band have played, masses of love from the punters, lots to the bar from punters too apparently.

     

    One of the regulars came up afterwards and said, "That was incredible, you guys are just surgical, in a really good way".

    The bar played all of Osaka Monaurail's Riptide album while we setup. If you aren't up on your Japanese funk, let's just say something really serious to live up to....

     

    Apparently we did and then some.

     

    Still buzzing 🤩🤩🤩

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    Quilter BB800/802. why, other than size?

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted · Edited by 51m0n

    I never reckoned the BB800 was overly grunty in the lows.

    I think it's strength is the way the preamp thickens up as you put too much into it. Gets a nice very slight grind going on.

    Very loud though.

    Compared to my big amp it's not got anything like the umph down low, but that's 1200w so it can push enormous amounts of air.

    The BB800 gas covered a 400 capacity 2 storey room without pa though. Close to too loud apparently, for a funk band. That was into a big twin 2, so massive air movement 🤩

    Opinions are like a*sholes, everybody's got one... What's yours on compression?

    in Effects

    Posted · Edited by 51m0n

    On 29/11/2019 at 20:08, dannybuoy said:

    I used to think I didn't need a compressor either due to always using a Sansamp or similar.

    But overdrive simply squashes/limits the overall volume, it doesn't have a delayed reaction like a compressor. Like I was describing with my experience of multi-band compression and the DP3X, a compressor can reshape the volume 'envelope' of each incoming note so that rather than squash the attack, it can accentuate it. This graph shows what I mean:

    Compression_-_Attack_dc0ccc17-9e15-44a3-

    That graph isn't quite right actually...

     

    [Engage pedant mode]

     

    The compression doesn't begin to stop until after the threshold is crossed in the downward direction.

    In fact the crossing of that threshold is the point from which the release time is measured.

    Achieving 0dB compression only after that. 

    The attack and release are also non-linear.

    Compression is seriously complex to draw. I have never seen a really accurate compression graph drawn...

     

    [Pedant mode off]

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    Opinions are like a*sholes, everybody's got one... What's yours on compression?

    in Effects

    Posted

    Oh of course, time for the regular biannual basschat compression bunfight, should really put it in my calendar....

    Here we go:-

    Compression used properly doesn't smash your dynamics

     

    Compression is a much more subtle effect than preamp side effect compression due to time control of the effect. It's actually more of a transient control.

    You can't hear transparent compression on its own, hence the transparent... But it is still powerful in the mix.

    Effects obvious compression will change your dynamic range, cos you're smashing the stinky poo out of the signal...

    Cheap compressor pedals generally are only useful for heavy effect compression cos you can't tell what they're doing cos they have inadequate metering...

    There you go 🤩🤘

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    is Trickfish my no-man's-land?

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    A downside to EA is that they haven't got any rack ears for their amp - something I am getting very irritated by.

    I don't want to jury rig some dodgy shelf solution, get me the damn rack ears you swines!

    Their after sales have strung me along for months over this now. Not impressed at all!

     

    is Trickfish my no-man's-land?

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

    Funny to read this now, because I warned you at the time that TrickFish was pure typical American marketing bullsh*t and nothing else, but you didn't believe me...

    Euphonic Audio are really terrific amps (and cabinets too), but sadly close to the unknown status over here, maybe because they are not into that typical marketing approach of their (same) country.

    Well its an interesting thing, they are definitely very tasty preamps, but the rest of thee signal chain does not quite live up to expectations IME. What can you say, I was suckered by the lovely preamp, I am a fool :D

    Having said that the EA was not available when I was originally looking, and it has a more full featured preamp that sounds every bit as sweet IMO, and a fricking huge power amp that certainly makes the Trickfish 1k tremble at its SPL capability. And the nicest input level meter I have ever seen on a bass amp (got to love the flashing lights mate)

     

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    is Trickfish my no-man's-land?

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    I had a Trickfish 1k and it didn't work out, in all honesty there was definitely something not quite right about it, it went back and the 'fix' made it worse.

     

    Anyways I now have an EA iAmp Classic which is an absolute tone monster and as loud as bombs. Worth a try if you are still searching....

    Endpin rubber do-dah

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    Chaps, thank you all!
    I knew I could rely on you lot to have figured out this stuff already, brilliant stuff!
    I never realised the db was in fact a very ornate walking stick, having been under the impression it was in fact a very ornate canoe...

    You live and learn :D

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    Endpin rubber do-dah

    in EUB and Double Bass

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, BlueMoon said:

    I've been on the same journey!!

    I've found this to the best on wooden floors:

    https://www.thomann.de/be/rdm_floor_protection_black.htm

    20191008_101419.thumb.jpg.c0fa0e5f57fdfaf05178cb13413b177c.jpg

    The material that the endpin fits into is metal and therefore durable.

    Whilst this is great, the issue is its for a 15 year old and he will not remember (best will in the world) resulting in knackering the floor at home when he is practicing. I know this to be true, it is absolutely guaranteed. Trust me! The only way to protect the floor is to have something permafixed to the db that under no circumstances could be removed, forgotten, missed with the spike or in any way lost...

     

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