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Price Drop £450 - Warwick Rockbass Alien 5 String - *WITHDRAWN*
JPJ replied to JPJ's topic in Basses For Sale
Woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise and it got me thinking of those warm summer days that are just around the corner, sitting in the garden noodling away on an acoustic bass 😎 If this was my only acoustic bass she would be going nowhere but she’s not, and as she’s probably the more saleable of the two I own, she’s up for grabs. If you fancy playing alfresco with no hassles, this is the bass for you. -
What is the minimum power needed for a Pub Band?
JPJ replied to thebrig's topic in PA set up and use
Leave Watts to the marketing dept. What’s more important is SPL. A lot of the 12” & 15” plastic box speakers are around 128dB whereas their wooden sisters are often around 132dB. That said, my two bands use a pair of old 400W powered Peavey bass bins, combined with a pair of EV ZLX15 tops. Nominally that’s 900w per side, and we put the whole band through a Behringer XR18, then through a DriveRack PA loud speaker processor to these speakers, and we receive plenty of compliments on the sound. The rig can cover a social club concert room albeit we’re not going to be the loudest band you’ve ever heard. -
I've just strung my Overwater 35" 5 string Jazz with D'Addario XL Chromes because I've been playing a lot of fretless recently using the same strings and going back to rounds felt like playing sandpaper. I've gone with what they call their regular light gauge (45, 65, 80, 100, 132) and I'm loving them. My bass is top strung from the bridge and the standard long scale fitted fine but they would have been short on a through body strung bass.
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Wow, great result, and as I said in response to an earlier video, I actually prefer the sound of the Wal'ish. For me it has the overtones and the distortion of the Wal but it's just a little bit more open and fuller sounding to me.
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I see no lack of heft in your collection, but I imagine that the VBA will sound rather glorious. I once had the pleasure of playing a festival where the supplied back line was a VBA400 and matching Marshall 8x10.
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….and stands, and cases etc etc
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My solution is a good hard knee compression on the guitards channels. Yes they can still turn their back line up, but it’s not going to mess with my FOH sound. Although to be fair, since all four guitards I work with across my two bands have amps with DI’s the problem of the FOH signal changing with a back line change has largely gone away.
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The bizarre thing about Overwater is, despite the quality, they do not retain their value on the used market. I own three that will probably go to the grave with me, but they were all £2k+ basses purchased secondhand for less than £1k. My main Overwater (J5) cost the original owner near £2.5k and I picked it up for £850 a year later. My original series five string has a 36” scale and a filter preamp (like the Wal) and should be worth a lot more than what I paid @BigRedX for it when I prised it out of his hands.
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D’Addario Chromes XL MEDIUM SCALE flat wound 4 string set. Brand new, the packaging has been opened but the strings have not been fitted to a bass due to them being the wrong scale length. Purchased in error recently from Strings Direct for £69.99. £35 collected from Killingworth, Newcastle upon Tyne, or £40 posted UK first class. -
To dismount the amp you need to remove the top speaker to gain access to the screws. Don’t ask me how I know this - expensive mistake involving letting all the tone escape in the form of white smoke.
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Just my two’penneth but I also think they are quite niche. Probably on the aspirational list for many of us, and then sold on when you realise you have a £10k+ bass but you only play covers on the local bar circuit. Not just Wal’s mind, loads of other high end basses appear to suffer the same fate.
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TC Electronics BG250 series combos, but my personal favourite is the 208 variant with 2x8” speakers. You often see them pop up on here around the £150 mark.
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That looks like the “easier” fix
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I do like the new blue on the EVO V
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No interest in this premium rack mount preamp? -
Price Drop £450 - Warwick Rockbass Alien 5 String - *WITHDRAWN*
JPJ replied to JPJ's topic in Basses For Sale
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Not last night but earlier today. Played the new Tyneside Americana and Blues Festival this afternoon with Ten Bob Blind, our female fronted Americana/Country band. The festival was organised over three days with three stages all within a local social club. The festival was really well attended with over 400 attending each day. Lucked out with the provided back line, an Eden World Traveller head and Markbass 2x10 supplied by the PA guy who was also a bass player so I had a lush sound both on stage and FOH. Hopefully this festival will become a regular on the national calendar 🤞
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I have an old iPad I use for the X-Air and to get around the account problem, I just created a second Apple account using a different email address. The only apps on that iPad aside from the standard built-in stuff is the Behringer app which I still prefer over MS. For break music, I use my normal Apple account from my phone over Bluetooth to my Apple AirPort Express that I use for the X-Air.
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This will be me Sunday afternoon opening the Blues Matters stage with our little female fronted Americana/Country combo “Ten Bob Blind”. A bit of fretless bass and EUB tomfoolery. If you happen to be in attendance please do come and say hi (no heckling mind 😂)
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The quietest passive bass I own is the one where I shielded the pickup cavities and the control cavity with copper tape and connected all the shields together with the bridge earth and to the earth lug of the output jack. Not even a badly wired fluorescent light will affect it.
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My OCD says you have to put the same washer under the volume pot as well please 😵💫
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No I haven’t, unfortunately life got in the way and whilst I haven’t given up, I bought a Vanderkley 2x12 to fill the gap in my cab arsenal in the interim.
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You have 6 aux buses routed out of the box to the six aux out xlrs. The standard headphone out is either your left right main outs or a solo’d channel. You can route one of your six aux busses to the headphone out but you then disable that bus aux out. Hope this helps?
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+1 for the Behringer B205D. Played a support gig a little while ago and the headline acts bassist was using one with his db and he kindly offered to let me try it. It was one of those tight little stages where you are almost stood/sat on your amp, so having this thing at ear height was a godsend. He obviously knew it well and had the eq spot on and it produced a surprising amount of bass from its 5” speaker. Plus points I could clearly hear every note I played, downsides I could clearly hear every note I played. Note to self, stop prattling around on the internet and practice more instead 😂
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Truly beautiful. Please record a few sound clips for us when you can, for us fellow Overwater nuts.
