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    [color=#222222]I switched from using a SWR 4x10 and a 1x18 to using two matching 4x10s after reading something on here (from Alex I think), which I interpreted as speaker cabs with different size speakers will always be slightly out of phase with each other whereas matching cabs will always have the speakers working together i.e. moving together at the same speed.[/color] [color=#222222][font="Times New Roman"][size="3"] [/size][/font][/color] [color=#222222]This seemed to make sense to me and it did seem to sound better (or at least more efficient) but had I understood the reasoning for doing so correctly??[/color]
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    Mars Cowling (original Pat Travers bass player)
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    [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1349273161' post='1824084'] Have a wee read at these & things might make a little more sense to you. http://barefacedbass.com/technical-information/speaker-size-frequency-response.htm http://billfitzmaurice.info/forum/viewforum.php?f=10&sid=239e993b6a548da81514b45176b314cb Smaller drivers give a better dispersion than larger ones. 2 10" drivers vertically arranged in a cab the same size as a single 15" will give out a better dispersion. It's nothing to do with driver diameter on how low it can go, but how much it can move. The reason behind 15's & 18s is that cabs are cheaper to produce with a single driver. [/quote] You do realise that you are arguing with someone who makes his living working with high end pro audio hire / installation companies??
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    I am thinking of moving on my Fender Am Std Jazz, which has been worked on extensively by Jon Shuker. My brief to Jon was to make it the best bass it could possibly be and now it sports Seymour Duncan Basslines pickups, an active Seymour Duncan circuit and a Schaller 2000 bridge as well as having quite a lot of work done dressing the frets, etc. It is in extremely good condition, the only dink I can find on it is a tiny one just below the tone controls (see photos). I didn’t even realise that it was there until I inspected the bass this morning! This is a very cool looking unique bass that plays and sounds great. You get the quality and playability of a Shuker with the looks, feel and cache of an American Fender. Don’t underestimate that last point – there is someone on this forum at the moment that is looking for a bass player who stipulates that they [b]must[/b] play a Fender, nothing else will do! That may be a bit dumb, but is not uncommon – when I was playing a lot of blues gigs last year, the band leader always preferred it when I pulled this bass out of the bag rather than my excellent Mayones Jazz. Much as he would deny it, the main reason was that it had Fender on the headstock! This probably won’t appeal to a Fender purist, but I think that it might suit someone who is looking for a jazz bass but something a bit different, maybe an American Deluxe with knobs on or is torn between a Shuker super jazz and a Fender and wants the best of both worlds. I’m pricing it at [b]£850[/b] plus shipping to anywhere in the UK (which is quite a fair bit less than I have spent on it). PayPal welcome if you pay the charges. The only reason I am selling is that I now have too many jazz basses and would like something a little different. However, I do still gig this bass and I’m not that desperate to sell, so I won’t be accepting any silly offers. Cheers – Pete
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    Seriously thru, if you are short of funds and need a decent gigging amp then forget Ashdowns, etc - the Hartke is the one to go for!
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    [quote name='MikeBass' timestamp='1348853045' post='1819209'] cheers pete- wanna buy it!!?? [/quote] Afraid that I already have one - kept in a mate's rehearsal room as a 2nd spare! We used it as a house amp for a recent party / jam session. I don't use it now but for the money I would get for it I would rather keep it as a spare.......
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    Great amp for that price!
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    [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1348771090' post='1818051'] But you usually get a mediocre singer doing the same old....... I mnea, when was the last tme you saw Ronnie James Dio doing a BT gig in Lanzarote? [/quote] A mate of mine is an excellent, much in demand singer but a few years ago he was was living out in Tenerife doing a solo act with BTs for a living......
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    [quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1348679456' post='1816882'] Most of the Med is saturated by this type of thing unfortunately. USA has some great music cities. France has some really good open air gigs in the summer. [/quote] As does (mainland) Spain and Italy, especially the Tuscany region from what I understand.....
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    [quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1348667926' post='1816673'] If i'm fooled in to thinking a performance is entirely live (and I would include live triggers in that) then I don't care if they're playing to a click/BT - obviously I don't care because I don't know. E.G watching a band play to a click with some BVs on a BT, and someone miming the BVs - I probably wouldn't be able to tell, and it would be infinitely more entertaining than watching the lead singer sing along to a BT on their own. You'd still get to see the musicians do their thing. [/quote] FWIW - I have it on good authority that a lot of metal bands playing the big stages are using backing tracks with additional BVs & keyboards live!
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    [quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1348608613' post='1816045'] You're right knowing the actual names isn't important, unless you're trying to verbally communicate them to someone else. For anyone interested - a little mnemonic device (of my own creation) which helped me to remember them: [b]I[/b]onian[b]; D[/b]orian;[b] P[/b]hrygian[b]; L[/b]ydian[b]; M[/b]ixolydian[b]; A[/b]eolian[b]; L[/b]ocrian [b]I[/b] [b]D[/b]o [b]P[/b]lay [b]L[/b]ike [b]M[/b]y [b]A[/b]unt [b]L[/b]ucy [/quote] Fortunately, I don't generally need to identify them by name to other people - it's generally 'that minor scale with the natural 6th'! However, that is very useful to know so many thanks.....
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    [quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1348602971' post='1815925'] OK. So would you do that to support a particular type of chord? Or to create a particular mood? [/quote] Both, but I would say more often the former (for the stuff I play)......
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    [quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1348599680' post='1815860'] Yeah I know what they are (although I can never remember their names) but I don't know why they exist or where to use them or why that one repeating sequence of intervals can be messed with like that and still work. So I guess I know how to use two of them, that much is true. [/quote] I can never remember the names either, but it's not really important. My main use for them is that in addition to the major and minor scales you will ofter use a major scale with a dominant 7th or a minor scale with a natural 6th rather than a minor 6th.........
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    [quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1348599082' post='1815845'] We play a bikers headquarters pub in Covemnry regularly and they all love the live band rock stuff.. but when we played their festival earlier this year they had a guy playing guitar and singing to backing tracks,on in the bar for the afternoon and (1) he was fabulous and (2) everybody loved it! No body is right or wrong here ....it's just providing a service for the general(and in the bikers case not so general) public. [/quote] That's the long and short of it! Out in the islands you have holidaymakers looking for some (any) entertainment after a hard day sunbathing and drinking. The bars tend to be pretty small and it makes sense to employ one man and his BT, not to mention to try to appeal to the lowest common denominator. That is not to say that bands can't do OK because some do go and get gigs out there. My understanding is that there is quite a decent demand for bands on the main land, throughout Europe. Even in this country there is still an interest in live music - but there is a recession going on that, together with the smoking ban and our over-zealous attitude to appeasing anyone who complains about noise (or anything else) regardless of how unreasonable they are means that a lot of the live music scene is struggling right now.....
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    [quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1348566487' post='1815168'] Theory just describes what your ears are telling you play. Who honestly, when they are playing, thinks "I'm going to play an 11th or 6th now". It just flows on what you know sounds right falling off that fretboard. It should be intuitive because music is an expression of yourself, an art, not numbers, dots and squiggles. [/quote] [color=#222222]Music has a strong mathematical element – even I can see that speaking as someone who is self-taught, doesn’t really read music and likes to think of themselves as having a ‘good ear’.[/color] [quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1348565096' post='1815147'] I only really know a couple of scales and don't understand modes at all despite attempting to understand them a few times. I know what different intervals sound like and I base most of what I do on that. What would the benefits be of learning modes and more scales? Presumably I'd also need to memorise the context within which to use them, and then wait for that to become automatic, it seems like a lot of information to have to retain and I can't really appreciate from my current position what the benefits would be? [/quote] [color=#222222]If you know a major and a minor scale then surely modes are not such a great leap? They are just scales made up of the same notes but starting on a different note from the original scale……[/color]
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    I always fancied an Ashbory and then I spoilt it by actually getting one! Quite a cool sound, almost like a double bass, but I found it totally impossible to keep in tune. I tried to play it for about a month and took it to one rehearsal where it was laughed out of the room. After that it lived under a bed for a year or so before I flogged it on Ebay for quite a reasonable amount! Sorry that I can't be more positive, just my experience / opinion, etc......
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    In this case I would just let it go! At least the promoter has been honest with you and in the circumstances is not being totally unreasonable - these things happen! I would email him back to say that you're disappointed but understand the position he's in and hope to work with him in the future. Might even work out well for you in the long run.......
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    [quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1347283625' post='1798787'] Anyone try the Volume Eleven basses? Very nice [/quote] Were they the small bodied natural wood basses with EMG p/ups and very light?? If so, I did have a play on one of them. Nice bass - didn't catch the name but it might well have been something like that (he seemed to have run out of cards by then)!
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    Yep, I have a few times - always has worked out fine (obviously helps if the drummer is pretty good). I've also played several deps myself with no rehearsal, one at two hours notice! Again, got thru those gigs with no major problems......
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    Should be there early afternoon ish
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    I also have a pair of leather trousers. However, mine are in a suitcase on top of a wardrobe in the spare room – kept as a souvenir of the 80s! Fair play to anyone who can still carry them off but not me anymore unfortunately….. I have heard a couple of Kit’s tracks that Silldx has posted here. The first (a while ago), I wasn’t too keen on but the last one was great! An obvious Kate Bush influence (not a bad thing in my book) but a good song and a nice voice. I need to make a point of listening to more sometime soon…..
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    Coney Hatch bass player, Andy Curran - who also wrote songs for the last Kim Mitchell album [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1346922310' post='1794782'] The monster that is Kenneth "Spider" Sinnaeve (Kim Mitchell, Red Rider) [/quote] Good call - great player
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    I'm quite firmly in 'Genre Inspired - e.g. blues covers, but including obscurities and / or some originals' these days..... Me and a couple of mates are putting together a band to gig around town, which will be either 'General Covers' or a musical tribute to a sub-genre rather than one artist (depending on who we choose as a singer / what we think will get us the best gigs)
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    A mate of mine used to have on of these! Great price......
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