Mudpup

Hey Rob, check you still have your watch. And don't buy anything from him.....

I've had some very posh basses over the years and the Cort is better than all of them. And not even 'for the money's. It's brilliant

Another morning after the night before post for you My mob Yellowhouse played the Essex Riviera with a dep singer. She's done a couple of gigs with us over the last few months with us and it's getting better each time. I think this is the best bit of video I've ever seen of my lot. The sound is great and the vocals are immense. It's an old Skunk Anansie song which I've always wanted to play and Susie blows the doors off here.... (Cort A4, Orange 4 Stroke, Laney Digbeth pre on the tube setting and a couple of Barefaced Big Baby cabs for the geeks)

You can adjust the brightness on the fly with one of the pedals if you want to.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/eurolite_dmx_move_bigfoot_foot_control.htm We use this one......

Just received a pedal from Nigel. Fast delivery, well packed and a totally stress free transaction. 🙂

Yep, I have one and it's an excellent bit of kit. But I was expecting a shop that had some very high end and expensive basses in stock would have something better than a front room combo to play them through. I bet the guitarists don't get such a rough deal in there ....

I've been in there with an appointment and to be fair they didn't put me under any pressure at all. Just grabbed the basses I was interested in and left me in a room to myself then popped back in after 15 mins to see if I was ok. The only issue is that they haven't actually got any decent bass amps in there to play through. I was offered a tiny little Mark Bass combo (maybe an 8" speaker but I could be wrong) which sounded like a shoebox. Eventually we found another combo with a headphone socket which I used and that was much better. I went in there with £1000 to spend on the day but wasn't going to buy anything if I could only try it through their gear because everything sounded rubbish. Probably best to take your own amp if you're having a serious look at basses

I'm still in and steaming ahead with a new plan to avoid failure. I've bought an electric MTB! This is a bang on move to keep me in and it's working already - let me explain..... They cost a poopy kilogram of money so I've had to sell an amp and a bass to help fund it. There's loads of other bits thats I need to go with it such as MTB clothing and there's a whole raft of shiny things that can go on it so the bass fund will be empty. Plenty of other eMTB related online sites and forums to geek out in. That means less time to spend on here dribbling over stuff. I'll check in on NYE to see if I've won so see y'all in 2025!!!!!

Excellent thread! Here's mine... Queensryche Empire - Jet City Woman, Della Brown, Another Rainy Night Dan Reed Network - Forgot to Make her Mine, Taming the Wild Nights, I'm so Sorry

No idea - was TE an 80's thing? Memories not so good these days....

What's 'the classic BASS tone of the 90's' supposed to be? Doesn't look much like a Trace Elliot....

We use a Eurolite Move Bigfoot DMX controller. It looks a bit intimidating initially but it's actually pretty straightforward and very gig friendly. I run it next to my pedalboard. You can preselect a patch using the UP/DOWN buttons at any point in a song and then just hit the GO button to activate it when you want to - It has built in macros and chases if you want them, a blackout, a sound active mode and the 2 big pedals sort of act like lighting expression pedals if you want them to - you can assign them to a particular fixture and then change the colours by moving the pedal a bit. Myself and the geetard spent about a day teaching ourselves basic DMX programming and learning the unit and we've ended up with 16 patches using just our big sweeper bars behind us and a couple of moving heads on the floor. They're all named on the display which I can see easily (for example BLUE/WHITE, PURPLE/YELLOW, STROBE, SOUNDACT RED/YELLOW) We are planning on adding the lasers, drum lights and front lights in when we can be bothered! Here's a link https://www.thomann.de/gb/eurolite_dmx_move_bigfoot_foot_control.htm And this is what we do with it....

Second gig of the year for Yellowhouse and another packed house in a good venue in Essex - we were expecting January to be quiet but it's been great so far. We've been running with dep singers for nearly 5 months now as ours is broken and it's been a really positive experience. It's got us off autopilot and learning to keep our ears open much more and i've really enjoyed it.