pete.young

[quote name='silddx' post='995020' date='Oct 20 2010, 04:26 PM'][b]I'm still looking for some form of guitar amplification or Mackie SRM - Can anyone help?[/b][/quote] My gig is cancelled, so I'm hoping to make this. I suppose I could bring the 100W Burman Valve combo - do you think that would be loud enough? I'd need someone to give me a hand getting it out of the car.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='994953' date='Oct 20 2010, 03:34 PM']Mustango Sallyana[/quote] Ha ha ha, is that the one that goes on for 45 minutes without a break? (Please give my regards to Gione, he's a lovely chap and a pleasure to work with)

I'm not entirely sure why the peanut gallery is sniggering at this. Seems like an entirely legitimate listing. It's not a million miles from me - does anyone want me to go and check it out?

I saw him play with Joe Bonamassa last night. It was kinda hard to make out his rig (might have been a Markbass 2x10 on it's side) but the bass he was using was definitely an Xotic 5-string. That guy is some player by the way. Some pictures of the gig are here, you can just about make out the bassist in some of them. www.flickr.com/photos/mybenners/sets/72157625034000087/

Use a Presonus Firepod - 8 mic pre-amps , makes a great mixer. 1u.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='959234' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:02 AM']Nope. The original plan with the Vintage was to tune it higher but it sounded better with the same tuning as the Compact, and net volume per driver is near identical. We've discontinued the Vintage because although there's demand for it there's much more demand for the other cabs, so it's a question of rationalising the product range. Plus the name is really confusing as you can get all the other cabs (bar the Midget T) in a 'vintage' look![/quote] That's a great pity. The other reason for the Vintage, that it was built to fit underneath proper valve amps, is still valid and a stack of two compacts is not going to have anything like the same visual appeal or the necessary stability. Oh well, guess I'll be keeping my EBS 2x12 for a while longer.

Thanks everyone for the helpful suggestions. I picked up a box of Maplin springs today, bargain for 3 quid, and it looks like Axes R Us have the screws I need. Never thought of them. Sorted once again thanks to Basschat!

Can anyone suggest a likely supplier, either on-line or walk-in for some small wood screws? I need No. 3 x20mm long, round head. Preferrably black japanned but I'll take what I can get. In case anyone is wondering, this is to fix the Roland GK3B V-bass pickup to my bass - the second hand pickup that came with the unit didn't have any screws and I'm getting fed up with sticking it back on with tape. I'll also need some small compression springs, I was thinking either Maplins or chopping up a couple of ball point pens but better suggestions welcomed.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='975906' date='Oct 3 2010, 12:46 PM']True. But they [i]can [/i]be moulded into a variety of interesting shapes. Ideal for friends and family with Xmas just around the corner.[/quote] And the winner is ... Someone please put this in the quotes thread for posterity.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='975456' date='Oct 2 2010, 09:57 PM']I wanted to keep it downstairs but the missus was very insistent that it be moved to the bass room. [/quote] Hmm. Mine lives in the bedroom. The upright I mean, not the Mrs. If only.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='973879' date='Oct 1 2010, 01:06 PM']That's cheap capos, I should hasten to add. There are all sorts of [url="http://www.g7th.com/capos/performance"]more expensive capos[/url] that purport to exert only the necessary pressure, but I have yet to meet a guitarist who has one.[/quote] The G7 is hands down the best capo that has ever existed. Never mind a guitar, I use one on a 10-string bouzouki and it stays in tune right up the neck even at the 10th fret. All the guitarists I've worked with who have seen this capo have started out by saying "that's a lot of money for a capo" and ended up buying one when they borrow it and realise how good it is.

This looks like a piece of vintage jap crap to me, maybe Antoria - I think we need Bassassin or Spinynorman to give us a hand though.

All mine are in the 'Show Us Your Burmans' thread. I have to say that the crimp connectors in Mr Foxen's first picture look like a recipe for disaster to me. I don't know what that is, and I dont' want to !

[quote name='Wolverinebass' post='968527' date='Sep 26 2010, 04:37 PM']Anything I've went for in the last 4-8 weeks have either sprung the "just play the root note" crap on me[/quote] Ha ha, Peter Hook was on a documentary on BBC4 the other week : "Can't you just play the root note? - NO, cant you just fook off?"