Graham

I tried a 4x10 of these maybe 3-4 years ago and was un-impressed - it was a great sounding cab, as long as you wanted to go no lower than drop D at the lowest. I was in a drop-B tuned metal band at the time and so tried it out with a Stingray 5 and it just couldn't handle the low B, it wasn't great with a D either. Which was a shame as otherwise it was a great sounding cab - tight, rich and detailed just no good for my purposes. So, as long as you're staying in standard tuning these things are great - you really do get a lot of bang for your buck with Hartke.

[quote name='6v6' timestamp='1357566577' post='1924539'] Well I'm open to any manufacturer - If I can find a nice, light, resonant P, with good playability and tone for £149 I'll be over-the-moon, I don't care what's on the headstock tbh. The Faridas appear to be J-bass style only, and have gone up to £299 according to the dawsons website. [/quote] I don't know where in Hampshire you are, but you're welcome to try my Lakland Skyline Duck Dunn if you're ever coming through West Sussex

My Lakland Duck Dunn, Genz STM 900, Barefaced Compact, Boss TU2, EBS Multicomp, EBS Metaldrive, Tech 21 BDDI

Double post

Timmy C and Brad Wilk is the first to jump to mind

I was thinking of a YOB bass for my 30th in a couple of years time ('85), I see Fullerton era Fenders seem quite well thought of, which I'm pretty sure 1983 was - was Fullerton still there in '85?

Not heard this lot before, but I liked both of those - to me it sounded like a quitesentially overdriven jazz bass; though from what I remember of my old one, sounded like both pickups on full to me - could easily be wrong. Also, rounds; almost certainly. Others with more knowledge of this pedal than me might want to chip in, but would a Fulltone Bass Drive be a goodd addition to get that sort of sound?

I reckon he'd play a Stingray, don't know why, but once I had the image in my head, I couldn't shake it.

Merry Christmas everyone [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJhwuQf91E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZJhwuQf91E[/url]

From a bass perspective, as well as the Fender Precision the Ampeg SVT changed the way bass sounded and probably changed the way people states to use the instrument in arrangements changing music forever.

Englishman In New York?

Gig's tonight, here's a video for anyone wondering who I'm talking about: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=RgbKKZWZuQo&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRgbKKZWZuQo

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1355564021' post='1899901'] We were using the other band's drums, they hadn't put a reinforcement pad on the bass drum head, two songs in our drummer put the beater through it, so that was it for our set. According to the other band the head was torn already. So why didn't they replace it when they decided everybody was using their drums? Blank stares. [/quote] We had the same thing happen in Staines a couple of years ago, ended up repairing the drum head with a cardboard drinks menu, made the kick drum sound triggered which wasn't such a terrible thing for a metal gig I suppose; killed the momentum of the gig though.

I appreciate this is probably the wrong forum for this, but as the gig's tomorrow night I thought it best to put it where the most people could see it. Last week I won two tickets to see Stooshe at The Scala in King's Cross but the wife and I can't go; I can't find anyone who a) wants to go and is free, so I thought one of you guys might be interested? Stooshe will have a full band with them (the main reason I entered the competition in the first place) and support comes from Titch and Plastic; doors at 19:30. I have the confirmation on e-mail so can forward it over if someone wants them. Graham

[quote name='McBass' timestamp='1355758348' post='1902258'] Or Electric Bass Sweden... [/quote] That's what I always assumed it was, or at least that in Swedish

I used to have a playlist for playing bass to on my old computer of my favourite song to play along with, trying to remember what was on it: Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way Steve Wonder - Sir Duke Beyonce - De Ja Vu Led Zeplin - Dazed And Confused Pink Floyd - Pigs, 3 Different Ones Foo Fighters - Long Road To Ruin Megadeth - Tornado Of Souls Were all on there, but if I had to pick one it'd probably be Everyone Needs Someone To Love by The Blues Bothers - I love the walking part at the end

And on we go

Post-rock and post-hardcore both tend to have a lot of elements of rock and hardcore but also have a lot of ambient and progressive elements - Cave In, Isis and Devil Sold His Soul are the first bands that jump to mind in those genres, though there are probably better examples - so maybe jazz structures with some progressive rock / fusion elements and string players in this case? As has been said above "post-" is a fairly meaningless and broad term that can apply to more or less anything.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1355057359' post='1893380'] Mine keeps the series-parallel and the pickup switch, of course. Just not passive-active one... I could,, there is room for it, but I´m ok without it. [/quote] hmmm.......I could always swap the 3-way pre-amp switch for a 2-way and make it a simple active / pre-amp bypass.....just been looking at the East MM circuits on bass direct, very tempting; particularly as the 3 knob version has a push - pull treble boost - like the 3rd position on the L2000 pre-amp switch. I wonder if on of the electrical engineers at work could rig a slight mod to keep the tone controls working in passive mode. This is all Pie in the sky in all honesty though as I'm broke at the moment.

I love my Tribute L2000 but do agree it could do with a pre-amp upgrade, I keep hoping John East will bring out an L-Retro.... I'd want to keep the master volume / pickup switch, the series / parallel switch and a active passive switch. Swapping out the tone controls and making the active and treble boost better would be good though - these are all features I'd want to keep, but just improved versions of them as the active mode is just a line boost as far as I can tell and the toe controls are quite subtle.

Is it a J profile on the tribute then? A mate of mine had the USA version and said it made his Jazz feel like a pencil.

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1353878198' post='1879366'] Gilmour played all the bass on Animals, apart from some of Sheep. [/quote] Ah, that'd explain it then