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  1. [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1331920864' post='1580992']
    Born in Winson Green and lived in Northfield, Erdington, Moseley and, washed up in Brighton via Leeds, Lancaster, and London
    [/quote]

    I grew up round the corner from there.

    My first job as an aprentice -1968-was above a West Indian Cafe on Dudley Rd, Blue beat juke box running all day, rumbling up through the floor. Spent a lot of my time repairing Blus Spot radiograms. Always blamed me getting into Bass on that job. B)

  2. [quote name='mybass' timestamp='1331863689' post='1580195']
    Also, I have found that some jack plugs are ever so slightly 'thinner' than say neutrik jack plugs when measured with a digital vernier gauge. This can lead to the jack plug being loose within the barrel. In fact it was a gold plated jack plug that was thinner than a normal neutrik jack plug.
    Soundcraft barrel ones are pretty good.
    [/quote]

    I've heard this before and wondered if its actually a difference between metric 6.3mm jacks and imperial 1/4" jacks.

  3. Cant understand why some people are fussy about their lead, then plug their gold plated super dooper jack plug into a probably tarnished chrome plated jack socket that aint been cleaned in its life, then through the amps internals, which contains ordinary wire, none of your oxygen free special dielectric cable in there mate. Then play into a room with dubious acoustics at best.,

    Or even DI into a desk 50 yards away, along whatever the multicore happens to be, through the desk, out again, 50 yards more in the multicore, slave amps, various patch leads and speaker cables which could be anything - often as not theyre orange mains cable as in your lawnmower.
    But yeah, that 10 metres of lead will sound better if its not curly, and if its special low capacity oxygen free whatever whatever blah blah kings new suit blah blah anorakiebullsh*te…….
     
    Sorry, I still reckon its MOSTLY cobblers. As long as its reasonable quality and you aint got a £1.99 curly lead from 1972, you wont hear a difference.

    Of course, thats just my opinion.

    Still whatever turns you on, if it makes you play better, use what you like - I do.

  4. [quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1331823440' post='1579481']
    I don't care what anyone says or how expensive they are curly cables are not a good thing, unless they can literally defy the law of physics. In which case they are the work of the devil.

    :dash1:
    [/quote]

    But if you run along the stage, then sort of leap up and backwards, you can make it look like the springs pulling you back.

    Now you'd look silly trying to do that with a wireless......Wouldnt you :gas:

  5. Havent come across many, and always managed to take a feed from another room. Tried playing with one once, but just the the snare by itself set it off.

    I have heard that a wet bar towel around the mic works well but never tried it myself. Anywhere that expects you to play with one of them in the room, doesnt really want a band, If I couldnt find a way around it, I wouldnt do the gig.

  6. [quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1331808966' post='1579110']
    Using the same one here. For gigs as far apart as Brentford, Croydon and Kingston (upon Thames. Not Jamaica)
    I've got the toothpaste one as it was on sale a £10 off.
    [/quote]

    So...

    Its a [i]Signa[/i]l cable then. :P And now yourv playing has a [i]Ring of Confidence[/i] about it.


    Oh all right then, I'm going.

  7. [quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1331766088' post='1578719']
    I kitted out my studio with cables, mics and headphones from Tandy about 30 years ago.
    Still got most of it and it's still working fine.
    I was recording the band recently and we didn't have enough headphones so I got one of the old Tandy specials out - huge closed style (and with a curly lead).
    The 17 year old guitarist didn't believe they were real, he thought they were a toy :lol:
    [/quote]

    At the time everybody thought Tandys stuff, Amstrad, Waltham, etc was crap. Compared with some of the UK made stuff that was available, it was.

    But compared to the build quality of a lot of 'Better' brands, and chinkeese junk thats around now, it was usually bloody good stuff

  8. [quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1331761783' post='1578621']
    Do you mean Humbucker Music of Green Lane Rd?

    Thats where I bought my Marshall Super lead and Moore & Stanworth 4x12 from. I also bought my s/h Precision from them for £240 in 1979.
    [/quote]

    Think it was called green lanes music back then (around 1973 or 74) could be wrong though, there was a Green Lane Music in Brum, and it all merges into one after all this time.

    It was in Green La Rd though, and was run by a father and 2 or 3 sons. me and a mate used to go there and buy faulty amps and PX stuff from them now and again. I thought they had the 4X12s they sold made up just for them, good solid cabs, looked a lot like Marshall ones, with a choice of Celestions or Goodmans G12Ps.

  9. Its all cobblers, I cant hear the difference, nor can anybody else. a few pf per metre difference ? an ohm or two ?? on a 15' lead...awww c'mon get real.

    If you buy a cheapo straight lead with moulded plugs and really thin cable it will be crap, It will crackle when it moves, it will break etc

    If you bought the cheapo curly ones in the 70s, with moulded plugs and thin cable they were crap. they would crackle and break

    Get a half decent one and it will be OK, put it behind your strap, and under the handle on your amp or whatever to prevent strain on it or it will give you problems....Obvious.

  10. Just a few weeks ago I lost my favourite lead and bought a couple of Rotosound curly leads as a stopgap.. Theyre fine, and I aint trod on my lead since.....

    Course, I dont use any pedals.

    Some of the 70s ones were crap though, but not all of em.

    Anybody comes across my one off dayglo green lead with Neutrix plugs,which I'd recognise anywhere i want it back please. probably left at either The Wharf in Walsall or The Roadhouse.

  11. Did I really see this on TV ?

    Some time during the 1980s or maybe the 90s. On a quiz show of some sort, definitely on a saturdsy.

    A guy was blindfolded, and by listening to a Bass Player play various Basses, through Various Amp and cab combinations at random. Recogniswed which Bass / Amp / Cab combination was which.

    Anbody else see it, or was it just another one of my strange dreams ?

  12. [quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331602564' post='1575811']
    You know what - I'm surprised that we ever found room to be able to play with all that kit piled up everywhere.
    If technology hadn't downsized and increased in power, I reckon bass players would have evolved into being no higher than 4' 6" and weigh no more than 6 stone by now...
    [/quote]

    Thats Shortist. 4'6" Bass players are a minority group.

    and there are those on here that will [s]claim to be[/s] be offended

  13. [quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1331597579' post='1575758']
    Surprising as it may seem today,big old valve amps were highly unfasionable in the late 70's and many a bargain was to be had.Selmer Zodiac 100w head,with push button eq presets,Traynor (Canadian,I believe)100w head both passed through my hands for small money.70's cabs were sh*te though.I still have a wardrobe sized Marshall 1 x 18 which required a Cortina estate to fit around it,which handled all of 100 watts.
    [/quote]

    Yeah same here, A Marshall super lead for £30, and that was from a shop in Brum. New Marshall lookalike 4X12 from Green La Music in Leicester cost me £45. Solid state Vox Supreme from the same shop £15, but that was cos it was faulty ands they couldnt repair it. (A lot of engineers back then were not great with solid state gear) I bought a Viking, and a couple of FAL 50s from them as well, but thats another story. Once git offered a Bass AC 30 for £30, which is what one of my neighbours had been offered for it asa PX, and turned him down, it was a bit too small for what I wanted.

    My 4X12 sized 1X18 had a Goodmans speaker in it, 50W of raw power..

  14. [quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331581477' post='1575341']
    I thought Lorenzo was a Japanese make but I could be way off the mark there.
    I do remember that they were imported by Fletcher Coppock & Newman who were also importers of Hagstrom and Westone.
    [/quote]

    You could well be right, but its in my head that its Iti... Its buried in the spare room at the mo, aint been played for a few years. its not all that good tbh, orrible blue colour with a scratchplate like a hummingbird. Not nearly as good as my EKO 12 wss.The wife bougt it for me at an auction somewhere, so had to keep it.

    Odd times I pick up an acoustic, its my old 70s Yammy FG180. Nice to play my 4 chords on, ctisp and loud, but Very battered from where a mate used it to beat his wife with.....really !

  15. ear and who was associated with what back then, some people only bought albums[quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1331555774' post='1574605']
    Sunn, Ampeg and Kustom amps were very popular with Motown/Soul players. American amps took a long time to get to the UK and there weren't many brands available in the market over here. Vox, Orange, WEM, Acoustic, HI-WATT, Marshall and HH were probably the most common amps seen on big stages over here during the 70's.
    [/quote]

    People were snobby about gear and who was associated with what back then, This cant have done Kustoms image a lot of good..Impressive looking Bass rig, but
    Donny Osmond as a Bass player - Very uncool.

    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNnDpIW918"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiNnDpIW918[/url]

  16. [quote name='razze06' timestamp='1331568420' post='1574968']
    My earliest memories of kit are full of old italian names, none of which would anything to anyone. Davoli? FBT?
    [/quote]

    Yeah there were a few Italian brands still around, very likey spin off from the accordian business, which was still going strong into the late 60s. I'm told that there was an Italian semi acoustic Bass that was partly made of hardboard.

    I still have a Lorenzo acoustic, A lot like an EKO ( were they italian as well ? I - think so) I used to repair a lot of Bontempi organs and keyboards for Woolies and mail order catalogue firms in the 70s and 80s. Real quality kit they were. :P

  17. [quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1331553237' post='1574528']
    Oh I remember the Ohm stuff too, I thought it was 80s though so I didn't mention it. My dad had an Ohm for a while he traded it in for a Polytone Minibrute 1! [b]Weren't the ohm cabs concrete lined or something?[/b] - they were very heavy iirc...
    [/quote]

    There were a few odd ideas like that at the time. There was definitely a cab that had 2 'skins' of plywood with a cavity full of sand between them, and I know of at least one Bass Player who had pieces of paving slab inside his cab. one of the sales guys in a shop I worked at was running a mobile disco using a 100W marshall and a 1X18 that was literally full of old carpet offcuts. weighed a ton and sounded rubbish.

  18. [quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331513949' post='1574129']
    The OHM stuff was pretty pokey for it's size and sat between Laney and Peavey pricewise.
    I can remember using one for a pub gig one night just to try it out and it was pretty reasonable, just not as good as the Peavey stuff.

    I'd forgotten all about FAL, not sure if that's old age creeping up or whether[b][i] it was just a brand that really needed forgetting...[/i][/b] :lol:
    That's a 'long gone' British company that's probably best glossed over.
    They were an extremely odd company, PA speakers, guitar amps and disco decks all featured in their product lineup - they just never really decided where to aim.
    [/quote]

    Yep.Although it did get a lot of people going who would never have afforded a good amp at the time.So as entry level kit I spose it served a purpose. I can remember seein a band at Barbarellas who had about 2 kW of Fal amps and speakers for a PA, sounded awful.

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