I joined SBL a couple of years back and took the lifetime offer when it came knowing I was retiring in 2019. As things have gone along I will actually be finishing work next week (yeah) so my use of the academy will grow out of all proportions.
It will be my excuse to the wife for not completing my daily chores (if you her of any husband beating cases in Staffordshire you will know who it is)
The also do a mosfet one for around £208.
If you do a Google search you will see a number of good reviews/posts come up.
I think there has been a recent thread on here regarding Bugera equipment.
Steve-bbb, fortunately not.
You would be surprised at the typical age of bowls players, we played somes Stones, rock and roll, Stereophonics and Muse. He followed with some newer pop and then settled on classic Mowtown.
The best really small, 20w, bass combo I have had was a Peavey Microbass. It sounded good and was way louder than is specification would make you believe.
Played an hour at a Bowls presentation.
The DJ started at 7.00ish we were on at 8.00pm and played 'til 9.00pm. Great response from the audience who were dancing and singing and we warmed them up for the DJ (no one got up in his first hour) who praised us up and instigated an encore.
Bowls club memebrs bought the band drinks and ensured we were fed - they were a terrific group of people to play for.
Our first real gig with this line up - excellent result.
Al Krow said: Is there any known therapy available, that's been demonstrated to work?
I don't know of any therapy but if 'er indoors gets a whiff of the purchase of another bass guitar she hits me round the head with the four I have. After that I really don't want to go through the same process again. It seems to have worked, would be any help if I sent her up to you Al Krow?
I have the P3110 which I use as a practice amp and on open mike nights. It is great, flexible tone controls, switchable tweeter, aux in and headphone out an can be used with an extension cab. Lightweight to boot.
Always prefer a hard copy as you feel you are actually getting something for your money. Normally transfer the cd to my high-def portable player for private listening.
I would say that having has a guitar voted the best 5 string bu the British bass press (BGM) and with the variety of builds he can offer ACG have to be up there.
I've got the VT1 Spitfire so the manual should be the same. Drop me a PM with your email address and I'll send you a pdf, or post a hard copy if preferred.
I have two ACG's with flat fingerboards and like this feature a lot, so much so that I when I play a bass with a radius it takes a bit of getting used to.
The short scale ACG's ead was talking about are typically 7.5 to 8lbs in weight. I have 30.5" Skelf and TKO.
ACG currently have a Border Reiver headless 32" scale for sale on their website. That should be reasonably lightweight.
http://www.acguitars.co.uk/project/0310brss4/
I use a Markbass Blackline 250 as a backup. Nice little amp which would suit the three styles (originals, covers....) you mentioned earlier regarding styles plus it's lightweight.