tauzero

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1409840206' post='2543837'] @tauzero - in that photo, your speaker looks to be even bigger than 15". It makes the bass look short scale. How big is it? [/quote] The Thumb is 17" scale (and not suitable for conversion to Ashboryness). And although the GK was a bit more than £31, the Thumb certainly wasn't.

ZZ Top's song. She Sells Thanctuary, mathter. There is one song which isn't root notes all the way through, but is one note all the way through - Waterfront by Simple Minds.

My Thumb with the former GK rig:

SGC Nanyo Bass Collection. Very very light, nice to play. [url="http://m.gumtree.com/p/other-guitar-accessories/sgc-nanyo-bass-collection-5-string-bass-guitar/1079552496"]http://m.gumtree.com/p/other-guitar-accessories/sgc-nanyo-bass-collection-5-string-bass-guitar/1079552496[/url] - absolute bargain

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1409492980' post='2540134'] I'm gonna definitely stick with this one, but what the hell can I buy her now to match this ;( [/quote] So far I've bought Mrs Zero two ocarinas, a stylophone, and (for one Valentine's Day) a didgeridoo. There's plenty of instruments out there...

Seeing as we've moved from providing info to willy waving, I took a GK combo, Westone Quantum, bag containing leads and Boss ME6B, and a sleeping bag on the back of a Triumph Tiger 900 from Tamworth to Maidstone and back again.

Well, someone's had it.

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1409580718' post='2541097'] Think speaker inches. 1x15 is 15 inches of paper moving air. 4x10 is 40 inches moving air. [/quote] No, it's volume of air displaced that counts. The area of a 15" speaker is 225sq" [1] and 4x10" total 400sq". I haven't studied Xmax in great detail but I suspect that a 15" speaker would tend to have a bigger Xmax than a 10" speaker, so that brings them closer together in terms of air volume displaced. [1] Well, it's bigger than that as it's a cone. However, imagine a spherical cow...

Experiment. I'd say out but I'm no expert.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1409609688' post='2541589'] The only time I've dealt with touts was for a Stones ticket at Wembley on their Steel Wheels tour in the 80s.. Four of us bought regular box office tickets but come the day one couldn't make it so we sold it to a tout on his behalf. We tried half a dozen touts but the best price we could get was less than the original ticket price. [/quote] When I was at university in 1975/76, the Stones did a tour. One friend went to see them and told me of touts desperate to sell tickets even at below face value.

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1407535878' post='2521676'] I'd also say that the sensor should be outside the room if it's an indoor show - that way the better the sound isolation, the louder you can go - maybe a 125dB sensor inside and a 80dB sensor outside? [/quote] I've encountered that. Every time someone opened the door, there was serious risk of the power going out.

I've got side (and front) LEDs on my Status S1 fretted and I've got Luminlay markers on the Sei fretless. I find the side LEDs are useful even at reasonable light levels as it takes just a quick glance down to see where the frets are. The Luminlays are good when I remember my LED UV torch. If I'd had the LEDs fitted myself, I don't think I'd have gone for the front LEDs, but they are a fun posey thing...

[quote name='tonybassplayer' timestamp='1409155391' post='2536917'] Just read the bbc mini review and quite frankly staggered that three of her biggest hits including the one that made her a household name were not given an outing !! [/quote] Even worse, she [i]did[/i] play "Running up that hill".

"Enthusiasm more important than ability"

I'm in a band with Mrs Zero. Our most recent gig happened to coincide with our 6th wedding anniversary, which was rather good. It sounds rather as if you're looking for a good solid reason to justify leaving, when actually you just want to leave. Get a new band up and rehearsing and then give the old band notice.

I've seen this one on That Ebay before and really fancied it but it was rather out of my price range. (More photos at [url="http://www.stradi.pl/foben_eng.html"]http://www.stradi.pl/foben_eng.html[/url] )

I've got Schaller or Schaller clones on all my basses and guitars. Never had a problem. They're all positioned so that the strap buttons sit in the cups, so the retaining button has no stress on it, it just keeps the button in the load-bearing cup. The only thing I have to do every now and again is a little nut tightening, though most of the clone straplocks have two nuts on each straplock, so the second one locks the first one.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1408754808' post='2533309'] Keep an eye on the Peavey eBay account. I got an American-made Millennium from them for £220... [/quote] What's the name to look for?

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1408642880' post='2532188'] When I saw the (admittedly not very clear) front of the bod,y and the headstock (which I kind of like) I was thinking "What's so bad about this?" Then I saw the back... Then the neck!!!!! [/quote] It doesn't look like playability was a priority when creating it. Nor aesthetics, come to that.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1408360749' post='2529287'] I think that what is a big problem of selling on here is exactly that. 'Buyers' on here seem to think that when a bass is listed the price is just a starter and that it will go down and down until it sells. [/quote] I did once suggest to someone that they keep putting the price up, then anyone who wanted it would have to get in as soon as possible...

This looks like a quick technique (the second one in this video): [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEd7ru24Vx0"]http://www.youtube....d&v=pEd7ru24Vx0[/url]

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1408299988' post='2528801'] Is this a common thing? Bass players supplying the PA And doing the sound? I have exactly the same role in our band, the unspoken attitude being that I only play one note for very thousand that the guitarists play so I must have time on my hands to sort out their monitor mix, adjust the balance, make sure nothings peaking, etc, etc. oh, and change the lighting presets on cue as well. [/quote] Me too. I then have to go round picking up the odd thing that didn't go back into the right place (Saturday night no-one had put the lights footswitch cable away in the lights case, or put the kick drum stand in the case with the mics). And when setting up with one of the bands, the guitarist keeps on whittering on at me when I'm trying to get the PA set up with advice that I can well do without (because I know moderately well what I'm doing and what all the gear does). I do the elbow wrap thing too, followed by a velcro tie. I really ought to do it better, but, let's face it, I bought all the bloody leads too. It's generally not too bad doing it that way.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1408290504' post='2528662'] Yes but you don't have to start it at a low price or list for 10 days. There are various methods of listing an item included a fixed price or auction with a reserve. [/quote] I realise that, but if you want to be guaranteed of selling it, you can do it on That Ebay by not having a reserve and not having a high start price or fixed price (and I said "ten days (or less)" precisely because you can list it for less than 10 days). You can do it on here too, but you have to have an auction in the opposite direction, keep on dropping the price until someone bites.