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    [quote name='leschirons' post='1125526' date='Feb 12 2011, 10:55 PM']Still got mine and I love it. Best of luck with the sale. It's a great price for some serious kit.[/quote] Thanks, I agree – It's the ideal lightweight but powerful combo for gigging
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    Hope that you lot are right about these preamps - just got one thru the post from Mark @ Bass Direct today...!!
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    Generally the problem is that the stingray's pickup poles don't align properly with the G-string I've just put in a passive EMG pick up in my ray, keeping the MM curcuit - sounds great and no more G-string issues!
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    I have a really good pro quality 4U rack for sale for £60 It has a few minor battlescars, but a very well built and virtually indestructible top quality rack case – would cost upwards of £150 to get one made up of similar quality these days Any shipping, paypal costs, etc to be paid by buyer – happy to meet up at a motorway service of your choice (within a reasonable distance) for petrol money……… Cheers – Pete
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    Bump - no one interested in this ace combo? These used to sell like hot cakes a couple of years ago...!
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    Justin has just picked up my SWR Goliath 610 cab Nice guy (as was his bass playing dad), easy to deal with, no problems at all..... Cheers - Pete
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    Tuesday night bump...!
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    JTUK & Eddie are right – Goliaths are great cabs and if I had a more sensible car I’m sure that I wouldn’t be selling and still gigging this cab now! I hope that I haven’t misled any one about the speakers! I was told that this cab used special lightweight speakers and I understood this to mean that they were neos (it is not that much heavier than the two Goliath 410s that I have owned). At the time I knew nothing about the difference between ceramics and neo speakers. The speakers are definitely the originals and it makes sense if they are ceramics as I do prefer the sound now that I am aware of the difference. Anyway, it's a great cab whatever the speakers are and I am sure that it will do great service for Justin…..
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    I am reluctantly moving on SWR Goliath Snr 6x10 bass cab (1000w @ 4 ohm). It seen a fair bit of gigging action in it’s time, but is still in pretty good condition and more to the point still sounds great, powerful with plenty of punch! The speakers are still in great condition, so need for re-coning, etc for a long time yet. The last time I used this cab was with a blues rock band on a big stage at the Dundee Blues Festival last year, where I got loads of compliments about what a great sound I had! I know that that this type of gear these days sometimes gets overlooked in favour of new lightweight gear but this is still a way of getting a great onstage sound for a very reasonable cost. It is probably a bit lighter than you might think (due to its neo speakers) and will fit in most hatches – I can fit this cab, a 4u rack and two basses into the back of my Celica coupe easily enough! This has got to be one of the best sounding cabs that I have ever played thru and at £320 is very good value……. Due to size, etc I would prefer the buyer to pick up if at all possible (I’m based in Bradford) Cheers – Pete
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    I am buying and selling a few bits of gear at the moment and first up for sale is my Mark Bass CMD103H combo It is in excellent condition, great tone, very loud and transparent – I’m sure that most people here know what Mark Bass amps are like and this is basically a great piece of kit, not to mention highly versatile and portable This combo would set you back at least £1,150 new in the shops (RRP £1,353)...! For technical details please see: [url="http://217.64.194.186/products.php?lingua=en&cat=3&vedi=38"]http://217.64.194.186/products.php?lingua=...t=3&vedi=38[/url] I am looking for a very reasonable £680 and would prefer the buyer to pick up (I’m based in Bradford) but will consider any nominated courier (obviously shipping and insurance at the buyer’s cost) – I am quite happy to meet within reasonable distance for petrol money if that is easier Cheers – Pete
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    [quote name='Bilbo' post='1086119' date='Jan 11 2011, 09:34 PM']I'll see what I can do with Cubase and a drum machine. And the drummer in the function band has a Zoom thing so can record the tune on the next gig (its not until April tho'). Should be interesting!! A Chic duel [/quote] Now that does sound like fun...!
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    [quote name='Bilbo' post='1085572' date='Jan 11 2011, 03:04 PM']Fun is overated. I think it should be something you have when you are doing something satisfying and of value and not just an end in itself. Fun, on its own, can be pretty boring and aimless. I never watch comedies because they don't seem to have much point [/quote] An interesting view point, although I do sometimes fear that you may have missed the point...... Not just with this issue, but life in general.....
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    Not much of a shock as I knew he was desperately ill, but still very sad news Me and a couple of mates met him a few years ago after a Y&T gig and a couple of things stuck in my mind: 1. He always looked huge on stage but that was more of a perspective thing – the rest of Y&T are dwarves! 2. He was indeed a lovely bloke – we drank and chatted with him for quite a bit (until they closed the bar in fact) and talked about everything from music to travel to how most Yanks just can’t get British humour (the rest of Y&T for a start) I remember him laughing that he had been reduced to drinking Southern Comfort as he had already drank all of the rest of the dark spirits behind the bar! Great guy…………
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    For what it’s worth…. I played for quite a few years without any idea about tone and was happy with anything that sounded half decent! I then saw an article by a guy called Jimmy Bain where he gave examples of amp settings that he said provided the 4 basic bass guitar sounds. I tried out all four, decided which one I liked best and that has basically been ‘my sound’ ever since! If I can use any amp with a bit of thump, a cab with 10” speakers and a (preferably active) bass with roundwound strings, I can generally sound like me! I can’t agree that there is no such thing as tone, but I would say that many people waste too much time and money chasing something that they will never find…..
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    Local gig tonight for the Blue Angels bike club xmas party in Leeds then a drive to Cumbria (from Bradford) tomorrow for a gig in Cockermouth!
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    [quote name='Sibob' post='1053166' date='Dec 9 2010, 06:22 PM']This thread reminds me of Jeff Berlin's reply to a readers letter in the back of this months BGM......has anyone read it?[/quote] Nope - would you care to enlighten us??
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    For me it would be the gig with someone like Whitesnake - great players, big gigs, touring & getting to see the world in a certain amount of style and a touch of fame without the intrusion. Not sure if the money would be as good as you might hope, but it would raise your profile in the business that would pay off in the long term! The new bass player, Michael Devin, used to play in in Kenny Wayne Shepherd's touring band - another gig that I wouldn't mind!
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    Kinda like a superior Saturday afternoon in the bass section of a music shop in the 80s!
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    [quote name='arthurhenry' post='1036875' date='Nov 25 2010, 08:19 PM']Who needs tab? You can look up just about any song you'd need to learn on youtube and learn it by ear. Probably quicker than using tab too.[/quote] Very true - looking at a decent tab first just makes it a bit quicker!
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    I will sometimes use tabs off the net to save time if I want to learn a cover quickly, but the problem with sites like these is the accuracy of the transcriptions (this is the same with tab or squiggles)! I quickly looked up a few tabs on this site – some were quite good, some were overly simplified and some were just plain wrong! On the other hand, where would you find such a wide selection of transcriptions in standard notation on the net for free??
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    I bought a very nice Mayones jazz 4 string off Mark recently using this scheme I was going to save up some money from gigs towards such a bass but I saw the right guitar and because of the scheme I could get it straight away when I needed it and it is now paying for itself thru the gigs I use it on! You have to take responsibility and work out if you can actually afford anything you buy on credit, but if you can (especially if you were going to save up for it anyway) why would you not take advantage of interest free credit? It's giving you free use of the money in effect and therefore daft not to........... By the way, Mark is a great guy to deal with & really knows his stuff - even if he will disagree with virtually everything you currently do, he will make you think about things you take for granted and give you different ideas!!
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    No one has said the obvious - in the 60s & 70s there was limited choice (only ricks, gibson & hofner - all pretty flawed basses) & Fender was the industry standard bass guitar Then in the 70s, Leo put the MM stingray on the market and people became aware of Alembic and a different take on quality and then come the 80s there were so many companies that just started making much superior quality basses! The Fenders of the era were not too great & suffered badly by comparison Fenders still retain a certain charm & are the reference bass guitar sound for many, but you can buy so many much better sounding & put together basses!
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    It is the bog standard pub that seems to have been hit the hardest! Most established music venues seem to have held up recently well as have the better run real ale pubs, etc. Punters seem to be happy to make the effort to go out for anything that seems to be a bit of an event but will stay in & drink at home rather than go to see a band they don't know playing in a corner of a small pub!
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    Generally yes... a bit! The recession has generally hit all gigs over the past couple of years (not to mention the smoking ban) and there have been poorer turnouts as a rule, thru not at the gigs that we have always done well at, they seem to have held up OK! My rock band hasn't played as much as usual due to guitar players work commitments & the singer's problems with his voice, so we've tended to stick to places where we know we are going to do OK - the new blues rock band has played to a few pretty empty pubs but the bigger gigs seem to have pretty well attended....! How have yours been - I imagine that you will generally play the bigger curcuit gigs??
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    [quote name='JTUK' post='1021366' date='Nov 12 2010, 01:20 PM']We can ( collectively ) get a tad too anal... [/quote] That is certainly true!
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