LukeFRC

It is daft. I put it up there with "buyer sorts out courier." - fine until you realise you still rely on the seller to pack the thing well. I presume that it's my reponsibility to get it to the buyer - if the courier mess up it will be me filling out the insurance after all. My other wee bug bear is folk who don't let you know it's got their safely.

just go and play a load of stuff.... surely if you did go sei then the change could go for a couple of day trips to ldn?

is it just me but doesn't the spacing between the pickups and the bridge look just wrong?

ooooh bloody nice that is too!

take up the bagpipes for a bit. They'll be begging you to go back to the bass...

apart from Bravewood... and maybe Wes Steed's Herbie Hancock bass he made they don't look real do they? Up close Nash's look awful IMO. I don't mind it though but would much much rather buy some idiocentric secondhand bass where all the dings tell a story. I like well played basses me, I've bought a few basses off here and then sold them quite quickly as I feel too precious about a almost imaculate finish. I have a JV squier that lives in a case in a cupboard whereas my jazz and wick get played loads cos they're already well played enough to not have to worry about a finish too much. The Warwick has 22 years of play polishing the wood whereas the Jazz I finished myself so it's not perfect.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1373405796' post='2137337'] None of the above :-D No giving the game away, Mr. Hunt...! [/quote] Something Warwickhunt's knocked up at work over lunch breaks

behringer, but with a custom grill on them natch

warwick infinity????/!

sounds like it came out around 2002... just after the white stripes went big and yeah yeah yeahs.

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1373069871' post='2133543'] A mate of mine has one of the very first Squier P basses brought into the UK, complete with Fender spaghetti logo and the smaller Squier series logo in black on the end of the headstock. It's an amazing bass in every way, beautifully put together and tone to die for. If this is half as good as that bass, then it's a good 'un! [/quote] I've one of them too. Great basses! (even if my one currently doesn't get played ) your one looks great too tredders! def looks the part how does it compare to your '73?

you know that the pickups are in different places?

everyone copies fender... so they got their own back by making their very own... burns?

ooofff heavy!

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1372964590' post='2132278'] Did I mention the weight? [/quote] you did, but not how much it was, how heavy is it?

I think there are a number of things here.... Would I be happy without an amp? Just through the PA? Yes given a good foldback monitor (see the thread on this in the amp section about using PA gear instead/as an amp) - I would quite happily just plug straight into a DI box, my basses, and my playing, is good enough that that works for me. In some cases it is easier than having your own amp and you can get a better onstage and FOH mix. Would I use a modeling amp? No not in a million years! I've tried and I found.... it wasn't great at adjusting on the fly, and every one i've tried has had an effect seeming to compress my tone and dynamics in a very non natural and musical way. In the same way I've played live with our drummer using a top-of-the-range very very nice electronic drum kit- sounded immense from the FOH - but to play along with their seems to be so much compression going on.... you loose something. So I don't like the modeling stuff I've tried.... they also confuse me... cos I don't get why anyone would... well if I were wanting to go that route I really don't know why I wouldn't buy an audio interface... cos I'm pretty sure my macbook can act as better audio processor, with more options at hand and easily editable, than pretty much anything line 6 make.... or if I were going the other way, analogue effects/preamp into a DI would give many of the same effects - with the bonus that you could build them yourself.... I think also having worked PA a fair bit- if the POD mixes that sound good with clinical headphones how do you know they won't turn out to have massive variations between patches when played through the idiocyncracies of a live PA and specific rooms? It's not going to behave in the same way. One patch sounds great, next song switch to a patch where the preset EQ on your POD, plus the EQ on the desk, plus the resonant freq. of the room, plus the speakers built in Eq..... and what does the PA guy have to change your FOH eq every time you change a patch?

[quote name='LawrenceH' timestamp='1372942975' post='2131911'] This is the crux of it really, does your particular sound require even dispersion above 1k or so? Plus, do the players who have their cabs below their waists realise how much they can be blasting a beam of treble death across a section of the audience to get it sounding right 30 degrees off axis, where their ears are? I am really interested in knowing more about which frequencies different players prioritise in the way they hear their sound, I am convinced it's really variable. [/quote] the frequencies they prioritise that they want for a tone, or the frequencies the want to hear their sound? I've found that sometimes they are different things, what I tend to need to hear in order to play (in loud/busy mix) is a fair bit higher than I would nessesrally want/need for a bass tone (from FOH point of view)

er ok.... don't know what went on there.... So in my head.... for a full Hi Fi type sound the Berg IP series would possibly be the place to look (if you could find one) as a bass specific powered speaker. After that you have two options... -PA full range speaker, like the HK DART that I've used. But the compromise is not being designed for low frequencies (as in PA these would be provided by subs) or -High end full range Bass Guitar cab, like Acme, Accugroove or Barefaced, which will give you the low end the PA stuff may lack, but won't have the multiband compression or active crossovers that the PA stuff does. The Berg IP range, theoretically had both! (lucky owen)

I think it's kinda still on the original topic Oh and alex.... they had a couple of your cabs, not just the midget - I think it might have been a 2x12 rather than a big one though. The midget was the most impressive for me as it was tiny yet sounded great. Both were really rather good.

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1372876963' post='2131102'] I'd be very happy using a big expensive active PA cab for bass. The Big Series cabs are simply a way of getting that sound in a package that you can bothered to haul to gigs on your own and that works well with most heads so you aren't restricted to outboard/rack preamps or carrying a duplicate power stage which you can't use. I've yet to come across any PA cabs of comparable size and weight which can compete at producing uncompressed high SPL tone and bottom but if there are any I'd like to check them out! [/quote] Hey Alex Chris at Alpher bass let me try out some of your cabs - they were awesome - some of the nicest cabs I've heard. The midget was ridiculous! (in a good way). If I were going to buy a new cab I know where I would be going! I guess people are to a certain extent set in their ways and while to me a (good) powered cab with clever power management and then stick a nice preamp infront of it- But I guess that's going to be unorthodox to a large amount of folk who are used to the ampeg/markbass/ashdown head and a passive cab. (plus I guess a much bigger engineering job to design)

[quote name='hamfist' timestamp='1372838003' post='2130419'] Second .... bass cabs all still seem to be incredibly directional, so I still can't move much from the "optimum" position. Can't beat that big wide horn dispertion of a PA cab. [/quote] I've never found a cab to be that directional, esp the better ones. If anything i've had problems with PA guys not liking the way that even on whisper quiet my bass cab will fill the hall in a way their speakers won't