JohnFitzgerald

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.

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.

I've had experience of a pretty untunable B string before. In that case it was an old and utterly dead string which had zero overtones or harmonics left in it. Pretty tuneless thing with no music left in it.

Like this one in every way. Rosewood, pearly scratchplate, maple top laminate, translucent red, matching headstock.

Thanks to the Gumtree app on the phone, I found this beauty today. Local to the office, good price and the seller offered to deliver it to me for free. It would have been rude not to. Not a Stingray sound by any manner of means, it's at least a set of new strings away from that. But it does have a lovely middly burp to it. I like

Did a deal with a Digitech effects processor with Ash. No problems at all. A gent to deal with and a great buyer. JF

To this eye, untrained in Musicman Minutiae, it looked identical. To my mind, I find the quality / price balance jaw dropping with these. I Will have one.

I tried that very bass last week. It's a beaut. Instant Stingray. Had I not had my head turned by the Spector in CC and bought that, I would definitely have pulled the trigger on this instead. Their Squier Jazz Fretless is also lovely. Both were very well set up. This makes such a difference. The ones in GG were dogs in comparison.

Thanks for the efforts of all of those who are fixing these issues. I'm reminding myself that this great resource is free and it is a Sunday, so thanks for all your efforts. I'm off to watch the F1 and will check in later or maybe even tomorrow. I'm sure we'll all survive.

I've given the twin truss rods a bit of a tweek this afternoon. Feels much better and I think I might be happier with the narrow string spacing than I thought I would be. It'll be a few days before I get it plugged into a proper amp, but so far through iRig and garageband, it sounds lovely.

[quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1353158244' post='1872199'] For me personally theres no interaction, it's the same thing over and over. A band I used to be in wanted to try the backing track thing. And my argument, which won, was that having backing tracks defeats the purpose of having a live band which is what the singer wanted. You can't just call out another chorus if the mood takes, you can't play with false stops unless the backing track was made like that. And if a singer misses her/his cue it becomes very very obvious. I know it's horses for courses and all that noise, but if it was me in that pub I'd feel really cheated for watching someone play to some CDs, which is harsh but that's how it looks to me. Dan [/quote] Dan, you're 100% right, all spontateity is completely lost and yes indeed, if a singer misses their cues, it is immediately apparent.

Nothing wrong with a cheapy. A well set up cheapy will do everything you need. Anything more expensive is just vanity. Deep down, we all know that. Set up is everything, don't be scared of your allen keys, they can transform a bass.

My new Spector being a fairly dark cherry colour seems to suck up the light. I tried taking pics indoors, but it didn't really work, outdoor light seems to have worked though. Hopefully these pics will be the right way up. [attachment=124006:IMG_0756.JPG] [attachment=124007:IMG_0759.JPG] [attachment=124008:IMG_0760.JPG]