Mudpup

I don't quite understand why they've straight chamfered the edges either. It immediately looked odd to me. It can't be as comfortable as a curve and any dings on there will really show

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

18 minutes ago, lonestar said:

Very nice vid.

I like those Cort A basses

 

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. 

🙂

3 hours ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

A NUX Mighty Plug or similar and decent headphones is great for such things. 

I've been known to try out instruments in Cash Converters etc. with it, much to people's  bemusement.

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

2 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

It’s a Sans amp clone isnt  it? 

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.

First bit of feed back for Elliott!

He just bought an amp from me, lovely bloke and dead easy to deal with. All good and welcome to the money pit!

Sold!

The guys on the 2024 Gear Abstinence thread must be sweating 

How is this still even here? Best bargain of the entire year 🙂

Update.....

Day 2.....

Still in....

Yay....

🙂

And you snuck in just before the 2024 Gear Abstinence thread went live, super classy!!! 🙂

Now sold

Sony wireless outfit - bought as a back up as i've used one for about 10 years but I've never needed to use the spare one! (I knew that would happen)

Part of my grand 'New Toy Relief' cash generating exercise....

https://pro.sony/en_GB/products/dwz-series-wireless-packages/dwz-b30gb

What's good about it?

Bombproof metal transmitter powered by 2 AA batteries (I use rechargeables and can reliably get 2 gigs and a couple of rehearsals out of them so well over 8 hours).

The battery door won't fall off and if you drop it you will break your foot not the transmitter.

It has a metal strap/belt clip and is also small enough to be comfy in a pocket.

The receiver goes on the pedalboard and runs from standard 9v or 12v power supply or even batteries.

Easily switched frequencies to avoid any clashes and it also has a DI output.

There is a cable tone attenuator if you need it.

It comes with a pouch thingy.

In 10 years (about 50 gigs a year) of using my original one I have never had an issue - no taxi's, drop outs, odd noises or dead batteries mid gig. Not a single one....

It's massively cheaper than a Shure GLX system.

The price includes postage within the UK.

What's bad about it?

Nothing.....apart from you'll probably use it forever and that takes all the fun out of getting something new

You're welcome to come and try it out whilst emptying the biscuit jar and I'll knock the postage off

Thanks for looking 🙂

Here's a review...Dood looks a bit odd in it though

SOLD

You know what these things do!!!! The secret sauce pedal....

Velcro on the undercarriage and has been on the pedalboard since day 1 so used but VGC

I'm trying to generate some dosh for a new toy (and only really need an emergency DI so happy to entertain an exchange for something with a DI output and cash my way)

Can post at buyers cost or you can come round and empty the biscuit jar too

Thanks for looking 🙂

Count me in, I'm nothing if not a trier!!!!

6 hours ago, Jimelliottbassist said:

Both basses are Nitro finishes. 

My apologies - I only remembered seeing the black or honey blonde as the nitro Lacquer options

5 hours ago, silverfoxnik said:

Aren't these the same model as the one I bought from you earlier this year Jon? 

 

If so, then all I can say is that these will be great playing & great sounding P Basses.. 

 

I love mine! And so do most band members and sound engineers that have heard it at gigs and rehearsals ! 

 

GLWTS 👍😊

The black nitro one is the same. I think the Fiesta red one is a poly finish