JohnFitzgerald

Well, from my own persepctive, it went well.
When you have the desk next to you, you're not going to have a bad sound.

I have to say that the Spector through a couple of 1.2KW crown amps and some [url="http://www.logic-system.co.uk/"]http://www.logic-system.co.uk/[/url] pa cabs has never sounded quite so mighty.

Plenty of clarity, voice and endless depth. I was utterly surrounded by my sound. I had a little back through the monitors too whcih helped too, no doubt.

This gives me a problem.

How do I square my amp wants / amp needs ?

Don't get me wrong, I'll never not have an amp, there will be times when I won't have that PA to rely on, but it' certainly clear now that with that much firepower in the FOH, you can gig pretty much anywhere with no amp.

Incidentally, I used no sansamp or similar. This was bass right into a line input of a Mackie CFX12 with the input clipped and the eq dead flat.

My preference is try before you buy.

Two sealed boxes with ostensibly the same instrument inside could be entirely inside the box.
A sealed box holds no attraction for me at all.

Merchant City Music in Glasgow set up every guitar before it goes in sale. How it should be.

It's a very thin top veneer, but yes indeed a pretty looking bass.
Regarding the price, I always believe in a fair price.
If you got it at a good price then karma says you sell it for a good price.

Let's say I didn't cut my throat here and the new owner didn't pay a fortune either. As it should be and I get a nice new Trace cab with the sale proceeds.

Lovely bass.

The thing that surprises me most is the bridge. Lovely high mass bridge.
But completely similar ( verrry similar) to the one on my old Squier Jazz deluxe.
Same with the string retainer.

Dang purrrrty.

Nobody needs a bass amp.
Do I want to be without one ?

No chance, that's why I've just bought another cab for a proper old fashioned stack. See freshly amended sig for details.

Sometimes what you should do and what you actually do are two different things
Besides which, I have a couple of festivals next year. Not doing those without a proper amp behind me, no matter how good the FOH is.

The covers band is playing in a pretty tiny pub tonight and it was apparent that we really need to have things under tight control to avoid an escalating volume firestorm.

Had a rehearsal during the week where we brought along the proposed setup.
Roland TD12 drums complete with rubber cymbals, my Spector right into a PA channel, two guitars DI'd from two tiny little practice amps to give a DI output. No real volume from these.
Logic PA with subs and mid tops and 2.5KW available power.
Pair of Behringer 12" powered monitors.



We'll see how it goes, but the other night it sounded as smooth and controlled as I've ever heard it.
Hope that's echoed tonight.

He does that.
Always makes the effort to be a good guest I have to say

Hi

I'm now in a position to but this if it's still for sale.
I'll arrange and pay for the courier of that makes it easier.

Sold.

Dang purty.

Ok, on the basis of the interest so far, let's go to Dutch Auction format.
In compliance with forum rules, I'll deduct £10 every 36 hours until someone blinks and buys it.

Now £110 plus delivery.

Glad it's not just me.

Plays lovely and looks lovely, just not for me.

I wanted one of these for a while and finally got one.
Unfortunately, I got it around about the same time as I got a 6 string Spector.
I'm sufficiently hooked on the Spector that the OLP isn't going to see much use.

For that reason, I'm selling it for what it owes me.

If anyone happens to have any of the following, I'd be interested in doing a deal.

1) Trace Elliot 2103 cabinet. Ideally green carpet covered.
2) Small ish bass combo.
3) Fretless bass of some sort. Would be very keen on a Vintage VJ96MRJP.

For the purposes of value, I would be looking at [s]£120[/s] £110 for a straight sale.

Here's a wee clip of how it sounds.
Nothing too elaborate, but I reckon a pretty sweet sounding little bass.
[url="http://snd.sc/10N9LRu"]http://snd.sc/10N9LRu[/url]

And some pics. If the link doesn't work. I'll edit to make sure it does. I understand the importance of pics.

See my other thread.
Found another locally which I now have and I have to say I'm loving it.

I started to practice in front of a mirror, to give the same perspective as someone viewing my playing.
I guess I don't have as much of a left hand issue as I thought I might.

Still not sure about the right hand.

What I did pick up is that the ring finger on my left hand is a bit underused with the pinky seeing far more use.
This is odd as when I'm playing guitar for example, it sees no end of use when playing rythm but then falls slightly into disuse when playing any sort of line. Same on bass, it gets a bit less use than the others. I'm going to concentrate my efforts on that.

47 years old, been playing for about 35 of those years and every day is still a school day.

Larry and his band were fantastic.
Just look at the audience - and the other bands.

They all lapped it up. The funk does things to people. Good things.

Feel good music at its best.

This is one white boy that was checking out Larry's white suit and realising I could never in a million years pull that off. Much to my regret.

Larry's the man.

The only of the modern PA amps, aka powered mixers, I have any experience of is the Mackie upright job.
2 x 500w class D amp sections in it apparently. This runs through Mackie C300 (I think) PA cabs.

This is in the rehearsal room.

Doesn't make much of a noise for 1000W I have to say although quite a pleasant sounding thing.

Much prefer heavy iron power amps for PA I have to say.

Just bought a Trace Elliot 1153 cab off Nicky.

No problems throughout.
Item was exactly as described, shipping was prompt with tracking numbers provided and communications were good throughout.

No problem proving first positive feedback.

Now arrived.
Looking the part under my identical era AH150.
A matching pair at last.

Now, to find a same age 2103 for a similar price

Will do. Thommorichards I believe. Seems a no brainer.

Think I might need to be getting myself one of those.

And on that point, what might the options be ?
Clearly, the current two volume knobs is a nonsense, but it does rather conveniently provide a suitable place to mount a 1 x volume two band eq on there.

So, suggestions for a preamp ?
I know of Nordstrand.

Others ?

I've just sold my Peavey 410tx for £60.

A truly awesome cabinet, but a wee bit heavy shall we say.
If I had a resident gig somewhere and didn't need to move it, I would have kept it. No question.

I believe that I got the going rate for it.
Sometimes on sale at a bit more than that, but they don't sell.

Having said that, if I had your £200 budget, that Genz Benz from GAK looks a no brainer.