LukeFRC

oh and if you wanna come try my rig and am local feel free

I like them.

nice bass - these subs are something I would like to try out sometime- totally refinish one! my suggestion- get along to underground solution on cockburn st, ask for their spray paints.... £3.50 a can, a kind of nitro, and will do you more than fine unless you're going for the 60's vintage nitro thing

For pete's sake, didn't we have something similar not long ago and you eventually decided to keep the preEB? - don't sell lots of great stuff just in the hope of finding something good..... lets face it it's going to be a 5 string stingray of some kind isn't it.... go play lots of them, be nice to the fella above who said he was selling his... and good luck whatever you do!

[quote name='Rockaction5' timestamp='1371802416' post='2118218'] some news from the other side of the channel, Jaguar type "DR" with DR re-designed bisonic type pickups. Elected "bass of the year 2012" in the french magazine "guitariste and basse magazine" [/quote] wow... turn the headstock the right way, stick an old style bridge on that and paint it a solid colour and that might be the bass of my dreams based on looks!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1371819533' post='2118490'] Which PA system was it? [/quote] what- in the church? as in what make were the amps/board etc? [quote name='Adrenochrome' timestamp='1371823798' post='2118550'] All kinds of good reasons, including the angle of the wedge, the fact there probably won't be muddy/boominess due to the mid focus of the monitor and also the fact that you'll have been hearing some lovely bottom end from the FOH. [/quote] FOH was off though - this was us turning up to practice in an empty church building - using the monitors to give us enough to hear each other. Maybe it was the room - big building and less reflections possibly it was cos It was pointing at me - I dunno - it just sounded good. I'll have to look again when I'm there next and see what make/type it was- it was just I plugged in and the jazz and the P and the wick was the bass tone I have in my head. In a way my rig doesn't give as well.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1371770788' post='2118070'] The Lord always smiles on Bass players....? [/quote] well he had the right idea when he invented bass frequencies and Leo Fender

yeah, I've done similar with a bass I built. T-cut is quite cheap in wilkinsons too. I didn't bother with the polish.

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1371766584' post='2118025'] It's all about the midrange! A decent monitor is designed with the focus on delivering good, clean, evenly-dispersed midrange in the nearfield. Very few bass cabs have the same quality of components in this area. Mind you, a really decent monitor is more expensive than most bass cabs for a given volume level. [/quote] yeah, it was the mid and top end that sounded sweet. Might have to look see what it was next time I'm there. Smallish thing, the inputs on the back, one for instrument and one for line too..

Bass.... di.... desk... wedge.... maybe they have got compression and eq set on the FOH but i know that the foldback mix is all taken out pre EQ, and I doubt compression as we just turn on enough to run the fold back to practice through. This isn't us playing with a sound guy sorting us out, this is us turning up, turning on, playing for 2 min and then getting something that sounds good enough to practice with.... it's just the tone... and the fact that it's also giving me a bit of most the other musicians . I'm right there in the middle of them all, next to the drummer and.... it sounds great. Well the bass tone is good, the general sound is pretty bad cos we don't spend much time sorting it out beyond being good enough to practice with. You know it's kinda making me think I should sell my rig and buy one of those wedges and a di box!

So i've quite a nice and lightweight rig, with a good tone to boot. More than happy with it. Now I'm in a band at church, and we practice at another church's building (big inner city church, big sound system etc) we get to use their backline and stuff - first time we practiced I pulled out their old trace elliot amp out the cupboard... and it sounded like a underpowered trace elliot (not a tone I like much, though I don't hate it) but it was all a bit odd. So next time I took my P bass, and wondering how the churches' bass players played with the cab in the cupboard plugged into the the behringer DI box in front of me, and lo and behold when the PA was fired up I got a lovely P bass tone coming from the powered wedge in front of me - and it sounded great! And i could control the tone with my hand and the tone knob The next time I took my Jazz bass.... and it was brilliant - again an amazing jazz tone - spot on. The next time I took my Warwick with the ACG preamp - and again my tone sounded spot on and amazing - the thing just sounded like my bass guitar and I had so much control of the tone with the preamp. So I have a very nice and lightweight rig - why on earth does this powered wedge sound better than pretty much any bass amp I've tried?

my friends (banjo, guitar, f vox) played all the trees in the field will clap their hands by sufjan stevens

One thing I have noticed though.... people are spending less generally.... but more folk seem to be using bass gear, bass direct etc and selling on commission.... if this is happening rather than it all goung through basschat... that might be a good thing for us UK based bass players?

oh and personally I took the £20 fee as a sign that I should stop swapping basses around so much!

I have a feeling that actual sales possibly hasn't slowed down much on basschat - I think it's been slow for a while. If you looked before you had a lot of stuff going up but most of it seemed to be cycling around not selling. Now a few years ago the prices would have come down till they shifted BUT I've a feeling as people have been feeling the pinch they havn't been dropping their prices as much as they would have done when we al felt more confident about the economy. Plus as the forum gets bigger you're less likely to see the basschat-special type low prices! So before the fee my feeling is that things wern't going quickly and people weren't dropping their prices much - but what they were able to do was list stuff they weren't sure about. "Hmm do I prefer my Jazz bitsa or my JV squier? I dunno i'll stick them both up and see what sells" - which now costs money, and while a small amount it's that wee pause to think that will convince you that it's not worth listing them. So we get less stuff go on, and less stuff cycling around. I also think, with people not dropping their percieved value, most the deals of value are going to be trades at the moment - people don't have as much spare cash. Mind you what I found really really odd with when I stuck my JV squier up for sale... I pitched it at around or just below what other similar JV were being advertised at - and would have probably taken less for it.... but I didn't even get one lowballer - not one. I kinda missed that! [quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1371398743' post='2113345'] If I saw an interesting bass on Feebay, from somebody who obviously didn't know about Basschat, I would point them in this direction. I don't do that now, because of the fees on here. I probably put 15/20 new members our way last year. My Alembic is on hold to a guy from Bumtree who is coming back next Saturday with the cash. If a very good conditioned Alembic doesn't go on here for £1000 it perhaps shows hard times? I did have A LOT of offers for exchange here, but the only suitable offer was another guy from Bumtree. Perhaps most of us on here have filled our boots anyway? [/quote] why that alembic is still in your house is a massive mystery to me.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1371291412' post='2112183'] Fraid thats not me. Straight-laced, nearly 50 y/o. Unlikely to change! [/quote] fair enough. Try the "yes your bass and £2850 for my precision" trade?

stop being so polite?

my playing sounds better once you get far enough away you can't hear it.

so I was looking at that... thinking, that looks nice but I don't like something... is it the neck, what about the neck.... is it the tree of life.... no don't mind that too much ..... but the headstock... going to do anything with that?

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1371149867' post='2110616'] Might just be a case of good ones /bad ones? I've played a few not so good pre CBS guitars and basses, wood will always be unique so there will always a bad example out there. Plus, it amazes me just how many guitar shops have basses on the wall that seem awful as they need a set up or simple truss rod adjustment. So many guys in guitar shops (and bands) these days can't even adjust a neck, it's not exactly rocket science!!!! [/quote] maybe, could just have been a duff one. In my limited experience the good instruments tend to resonate and feel alive as you play them (unless they specifically are built not too) whereas cheaper instruments tend to feel more dead and plastic like - which isn't to say they can't be ok instruments - just i'ld expect more difference between a £1800 bass and a £280 one. but yeah - could have been a differ. Poorly trained staff fiddling with truss rods.... hmmm