uk_lefty

Went last year. I'm too old (early thirties) to sleep in a tent next to an active runway, get soaked to the bone with security guards actually pulling and pushing me and others out from under cover in to the rain for no reason, have my tent moved and made inaccessible by other people who wanted the space... Saw some great bands and would love to see Aerosmith, System and others this time round but without a guarantee on the weather I can't part with the cash.

I now have the Rootmaster 500 head and a pair of the 15 inch lightweight cabs, thanks to Lozz for the second one! I used the whole lot together last night for a rehearsal. Up against two guitars, drums, three vocals going through a fairly good PA I had the volume on less than a third, and even then it was a little more than I should have had it on. Two fifteen inch cabs and the head in a laptop bag all fit neatly in the boot of my wife's corsa, with pedals and bass on the back seats. Easy! Loading in and out was a doddle. The sound is good from these but I need to do some fiddling with the eq as I think I've dropped off too much of the mids for my taste. I also need to fiddle with the tweeter settings too to get this right. The bass sound is deep and full with enormous presence and the speakers handled overdrive (ashdown built in), the octave down which is incredibly good on this head btw and tracks far better than in the mag combos, and a bit of flange and wah. It doesn't give me the clarity and punch that the Trace Elliot 4x10 does in the rehearsal room, but I should be able to get towards that with better eq and some compression. Overall for my uses this is a decent set up. I have to be careful with my back so the lightweight of the cabs is great for me. Maybe a Trace head might come in to play in future, but for now I've got a good solid gigging set up thats fine for my amateur band needs.

Thanks to the OP I now have a new chorus pedal on the way even though I've not shifted the synth pedal I'm trying to sell!! The Mrs was always suspicious of my "one out, One in" policy on guitar gear and this will completely blow my cover!

[quote name='interpol52' timestamp='1496257271' post='3310037'] My kind of thread! http://youtu.be/EIhSnaqou0I Simple and fun to play, especially the chorus. Nice low Dflat for the 5 stringers too in the breakdown. [/quote] Used to love playing along to that years ago!

I passionately hated "foundations" by Kate Nash until I played it with a group that had two excellent female singers who managed to avoid the weird mockney accent bit. Giving things a go can surprise you. I don't agree with your views on this song, very far the other way for me, but each to his own.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1495727616' post='3306186'] That I like the music. IMO pretty much everything else can be fixed later once I'm in the band, but if I don't like the music then it's definitely not for me. [/quote] Good point!

In no particular order... 1.Band is established, Gigs booked or realistic prospects 2. Good people, nobody being a d!ck to others, everyone contributes, everyone respects each other. 3. Rehearsal starts within ten mins of getting in the room, no messing 4. Competent musically 5. Don't tell me how to play my own instrument. You can suggest something, but don't tell me. 6. If it's covers there needs to be a consistent theme to the set list, not "as random as possible" but people need to know what theyre getting from a covers band, not jumping from Rage Against the Machine to the Bee Gees. 7. Enjoying the time together. If rehearsal is a chore or someone is miserable at gigs, or someone has a split personality about things it's not going to be fun. This isn't my job, but it's time I could spend with my family so let's all enjoy it for what it is

Can't see if any are available in lefty... They usually look after us, just can't see which models are available upside down? A GB custom five could be a cost friendly alternative to a sandberg

Jazzagantics

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1495182655' post='3301864'] There will definitely be something in the small print about the meter being physically read (not by you) periodically, the tamper seals and visual inspection for condition can't be checked online either. [/quote] I expect so. I can't remember the exact details of it but from what my Mrs said the guy just didn't seem credible and was being aggressive about it so she wouldn't let him in our house. Never heard anything from the power company since.

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1495055729' post='3300983'] I'd report that to his superiors. He might have simply been hired muscle (I think I've had G4S round to take readings on behalf of the small energy supplier I was with until recently). Ignoring the basses for a second, what he did was presumptuous and rude. His job is to read the meters and once he's done that he has no further business being in your property. [/quote] We had some G4S moron a few months back just days after I've submitted meter readings online. He got quite aggressive in tone with my wife when she wouldn't let him in. Am sure he really was meter reading but I don't think he knew which power company we use and couldn't explain much about why he needed to do it when we do it ourselves. You never know who is about and once they're in your home anything could happen. Lucky my wife stands her ground and she firmly told him to get off our property.

Yes.

Utter bell. You almost expect it at gigs but in your home... I'd complain to the utilities company.

I never scrolled through to the second and third pics! No need to even cut them in shape on a p bass

Just bought an Ashdown cab off Lozz. He had it all set up and ready to test and sold for a fair price. Absolute gent, would confidently buy from him again

I write and play guitars lefty, but all sports am right handed/ footed in the extreme. My first bass was a lefty tanglewood p copy in 1999. I originally wanted a righty as I thought the deep strings should be at the bottom! Then I actually learned to play and realised I'm ok with things the conventional way! Only ever had lefty instruments, but v tempted to buy a right handed bass and reverse it a la Hendrix... Or just be disgustingly 80s and have a righty neck on a lefty body

I just wedge a dish washing sponge under the strings of my p bass near the bridge. With flatwounds it gets the tone right and you can choose from a variety of colours and use it to clean your bass too.

At a recent gig where we had to fill more time than we thought we could we stretched out the intro to the first song so I could chat to the crowd and introduce the singer so he could walk on to stage to a welcome. We usually do an intro to each band member during the breakdown of a particular song. We avoid injokes with them because they're usually crap, but we do rip the p!ss on am obvious way occasionally.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1493932212' post='3292018'] But what a great choice! [/quote] It wasn't a complaint

Often thought of this as a nice to have... I'm an 84 man so suppose that's Aria SB? And it would have to be lefty also... Not a lot of choice.

My MIJ P bass is unbeatable, absolute bargain second hand too. Well worth waiting for one to come up and of course you can play around with pickups, bridge, tuners to spec it how you want.

Got sacked from a band that was going nowhere for constantly getting lost on the way to rehearsal (@rse end of nowhere with no street lighting) but never late. I don't think it was too personal, drummer and rhythm guitarist copped it too, group email from the singer. I think part of it was for suggesting songs that would work with the band, but weren't what the guitarist wanted. Also they sometimes couldn't tell when I was joking and when I was being serious... Lesson learned, gel with people first before you make "joke" song suggestions and things that you think they'll get. And if a band has a control freak with no consideration of the relative skills and styles of others in the band, get out before you get sacked.