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pete.young

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  1. pete.young
    Have to say I'm very happy with my LFSys Monza, slightly over your spec at 11kg but a great sounding cab and an easy one-handed lift because the handle is in the right place.
  2. pete.young
    I've got loads of high quality Ikea cardboard which could be turned into a box. The risk is that if I take it over to Needham Market I might be tempted to buy the cab myself!
  3. pete.young
    You could give Presto Lights a try, or some other gut-alike variety. I have these on my acoustic upright because I wanted a lower tension, but they still have a steel core and work with magnetic pickups.
  4. pete.young
    Yes, I can ship it. Sent you a PM.
  5. pete.young
    It sounded very good with my old Burman too, I'd forgotten about that.
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    I think the key here is practice - a small amount a day for a few weeks will get you up to a reasonable standard quite quickly. I had a similar situation a few years ago when I was persuaded to take up the tuba for a wind band. I was given some basic instruction and a selection of bass parts to learn. I did 30 minutes a day for 6 weeks, and when I went to my first rehearsal I was able to cope with all the parts I'd been working on . I think I played out with the band about another 6 weeks later. I'd played piano and double bass for years and could read bass clef so that helped. Besides jazz and pub ska bands, you will find that there are opportunities in community wind bands who are always in need of more woodwind and brass players. You'll need to read treble clef and maybe alto though. Some of the bigger bands will also have intermediate bands as feeders for the main band, which may be a good way to get started if you're not confident or quite up to standard of the rest of the band.
  7. pete.young
    Normally I'd agree with you , but this particular bass is an unliined fretless.
  8. pete.young
    Find the post and click on 'Report' .
  9. pete.young
    The keyboard stand is a brilliant idea. I was wondering what to do with the one I bought for a one-off gig on piano. I'll give this a go with my Lfsys Monza.
  10. pete.young
    I have one of the original 4-string versions in seafoam green, with an Almuse pickup. It looks much better with the proper thunderbird type pickup. A bit of trickery wiith chorus and reverb goes a long way to making up for the missing 4 strings.
  11. pete.young
    I second this. It's also a lot easier to manage. I had a 24-way 25m one, and coililng it back into it's box after a gig was like wrestling a python with a stiffie. Don't forget you'll need some in the other direction for monitor feeds back to the stage.
  12. pete.young
    Hobgoblin Music sell stuff on commission but they charge 40% commission.
  13. pete.young
    These are quite handy if you have several instruments and only one amp, for busking or monitoring.
  14. pete.young
    1) It will be one or the other, depending on whether you buy a 4 ohm cab or an 8 ohm cab. 2) No. Cabs don't have an output. 150W is usually quoted as the maximum amount of power that an cabinet can recieve before thermal damage to the voice coil occurs. In practice it is usually less than this before the sound becomes distorted. 3). Cabs like this are wired in parallel, not series. If you connect your amp to a 4 ohm cab and then daisy chain the second 8 ohm cab you will end up with an overall load of around 2.6 ohms. I would recommend that you don't do this, because a load less than 4 Ohms is likely to cause damage to the amp. If both cabs are 8 Ohm, the overall load is 4 ohm which is within the specification of the amp.
  15. pete.young
    Thanks everyone. The amp and the cabs have now sold.
  16. pete.young
    For sale, Euphonic Audio bass rig consisting of: EA iAmp 350 head. £195 350W into a 4Ohm load. In generally good physical condition with one or two signs of age. Extensive tone shaping, with 4 useable tone-shaping pre-sets and 4-band parametric EQ with boost cut and adjustable range centring. Excellent for bass guitar and double bass. Sharp-eyed viewers will notice a couple of extra holes in the top. These were drilled and tapped by a previous owner in order to fix it into a purpose-made carpet-covered wooden sleeve, which I also have somewhere in the garage if anyone is interested. They don't cause any issues with the operation of the amp and may even add a bit of ventilation. Supplied with a battered but serviceable GigSkinz mixer bag which is a perfect fit. 2 x VL110 transmission line cabinets. £150 each. These cabs were originally designed for bass guitar, to provide crystal-clear on-stage monitoring for Lee Sklar. They also work very well for double bass. They are 3-way cabs, with a 10" woofer, mid-range driver (2" i think) and tweeter. The tweeter and mid-range driver have separate level controls. The weight is a scarecely believeable 19Kg - I guess the transmission line porting adds some weight and they are very substantially built. Both cabs are in very good condition. I didn't buy them as a pair: the one with the red label is a very early one, the white label more recent and has a hand-made cover. The 10" driver in the red one was reconed using a kit supplied by Euphonic Audio in 2010 by a local amp technician and has been perfect ever since. The white one is unmolested and also works perfectly. Prices: The whole rig: £450 The iAmp 350 : £195 VL110: £150 each or £250 for the pair Collection from Ipswich is preferred, or a meetup within a reasonable distance. I can courier these at your expense but it will take me a while to find suitable carboard to package them.
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    EBS Neoline 2x12 bass cabinet for sale. 600W, 4 Ohm. Excellent condition. Very light, just over 21Kg. I can lift it with one hand and I'm not going to be on Gladiators any time soon. This is a great modern-sounding cab, very loud, clear and relatively uncoloured, with a tweeter you can use to emphasise those sizzling highs, or turn off altogether for a more old-school sound. It's the second one I've owned, I sold the first one and missed it too much. I've used it with Markbass, Mesa and EA heads and it sounds great with all of them, so I think it would be a good choice for any amp brand. £395, collected from Ipswich or we can meet up a reasonable distance . I can ship it at your cost, but it will take me a few days to find enough cardboard to box it up properly.
  18. pete.young
    Sorry, can't help with that.
  19. pete.young
    Supporting members can. What is it you're looking for? PM me if you like.
  20. pete.young
    Is that a JJ configuration? My 465 has JJ and @Doctor J is right about the pickup heights. It's easy to have the neck much louder than the bridge, for balance you need to set the bridge as close to the strings as possible and then adjust the neck down . You could also measure the resistance of both pickups, they should be the same. This assumes that the pre-amp is working properly which isn't always the case.
  21. pete.young
    For a budget semi-hollow, I'd suggest Ibanez. They have a variety of semi-hollow and completely hollow basses. AG200 rings a vague bell but I'm not sure of the actual model numbers. I have Duesenberg Star bass, which is in theory semi hollow but has a big block the width of the neck all the way through it. If you're looking for something that will be audible when not plugged in, this isn't it!
  22. pete.young
    Well that's all very well, but in what sense are these 'semi-hollow' ?
  23. pete.young
    I've just acquired one through @GILLY , an all-round splendid chap. I'm mainly going to use it with double bass (Krivo through an EA Doubler), but I just gave it a quick burst of fretless through my Walkabout Scout and it sounds fantastic, really sings on the upper registers. Looking forward to giving it a first gig on Saturday.
  24. pete.young
    Turns out this is a 12 dB boost centred at 30Hz. Which to me is weird, because I'm using a hi-pass filter to get rid of anything at 30Hz and below!
  25. pete.young
    I think the retailer is right, this head should have been capable of operating at 2 Ohm . The early models only allowed 4 or 8 Ohm operation and they were labelled 4 - 8 where yours says 2 - 8 . You can get absolute confirmation by emailing EBS with the amp serial number. So whatever fault caused this to blow up, I don't think it was because you connected 2 4Ohm cabs to it.
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