uk_lefty

They are cool no matter what anyone says!! Mine comes out every gig. I've got a hohner b2a and its great with ghs boomer strings. I would prefer a bodied headless so am personally lusting after a status... My mate is shifting a hohner the Jack soon with case, I'll let you know when it's available.

Would be good to know where you can get the ebs session 60 so cheap! Personally never got on with line six amps, but ebs are quality

My latest band gets bookings for local festivals and parties, there is a varied audience and you don't quite know what they'll react to. We want our audience to sing along and dance (both ideally). We are a bluesey rock band by nature but we are finding we need to play a diverse range of crowd pleasers but with a bluesey rock flavour to keep people happy. We made set list adjustments on the fly last gig because we had five hundred people staring blankly at us playing songs we love, but going mental for songs we didn't think woukd work.. strange thing is I only enjoy playing the song live if the audience enjoy it, regardless of what I would want to listen to alone in my car or noodle my bass along to at home. I want a set where our audience sings and dances along to every song, that's what I enjoy most. It's no big ambition and not very sophisticated but it suits my band and our audience.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1468924722' post='3094300'] ^^This^^ I found the same. When I first hurt my back badly I wandered in the class D head wilderness for a few years, tried all sorts of manufacturers and ratings, never quite got there. To my knackered old ears a TC RH750 got close but not close enough. I bought on here an AH300-12 SMX that had been rack-mounted into an ABS case, making it 12kg. A nice balanced one hand carry when I have my Barefaced Supercompact in the other hand. Couldn't be happier. [/quote] Sounds like an option I could explore of trace head plus lightweight cab. Just interested in how much of the tone comes from the cab itself...

I have Bartolinis in my MIM Jazz and they're lovely. Vintage and punchy with a bit of growl.

I sold my trace rig some months back because I live in a second floor flat and it was just so unbelievably heavy, too heavy to cart around and I have had back trouble before. Ok, my Ashdown combo does its job well but last night I played through a trace GP7 head and trace 4x10 cab. Wow. My drummer and I LOVED it. Playing a jazz with bartolinis through this combo, hartke vxl for a touch of eq, stainless roundwound strings, it was tone heaven. Is there anything that comes remotely close to trace Elliot sound but in a lightweight unit? Has anyone paired a trace head with a lightweight cab successfully?

I've got to gig one tomorrow that is a capo4... You can work it out until you find the internet sourced chords are not matching what your guitarist actually plays... Played to fill in with a band of sixteen yr olds who gave me 24hrs notice of three songs to play and six hrs notice that they played in flat tuning. Made me think about what I was doing, good learning experience with zero pressure.

On the rare occasions I use a pick I go for a great big dorito shaped Fender .71mm I have had for well over ten years. I find it does everything I would want a pick for such as a clicky harsher attack or a rattling speed line too fast for fingers.

Try Joe white guitars near Aldershot.

Chris replied to my basswah wanted ad within a day and gave me a great deal on a Dunlop bass cry baby, posted exceptionally quickly. Trade confidently with this top member!

There is a trend in the last few years on eBay of not necessarily the worst type of scammer but everyone trying it on with "oooh this is slightly worn, can you knock a tenner (or more) off??" particularly on items that would be a pain to repost back. Sold a bass to a guy who lived in a city I once lived in... He claimed an electrics problem and said he'd been quoted twenty five quid for repair on his eighty quid knackered bass... I said fine, I'll call the shop and sort it because I used to live nearby and was a regular there. He backed down immediately...

I see what you mean. I have four basses and am not allowed any more... Having said that I've made good investments in my basses by buying at good prices and having potential to sell on should I need to. My P bass does everything I need to in my band but I long for the days of us I my fretless all the time. Thing is, if you get basses that you love playing and they may hold or increase their value (and we don't have to be talking five grand Wals here) it's better than keeping your money in the bank. I sold a German Warwick for five hundred quid in 2010 - kicking myself now.

My drummer tells me I am a "busy" bassist and he enjoys that because we push each other in to fills and stops. My singer says I drive the songs well and appreciates that every time I play something that doesn't have a simple riff it's going to come out differently. If I try to play the same baselines isolated at home then they aren't very melodic or musical but in the room with my band they somehow work.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1464392504' post='3059237'] 1.When someone asks you to do something say yes. You might not like it but say yes anyway. [/quote] Yes!! Songs I hate listening to have been fun to play with the right band. Anyone remember "foundations" by the irritating mockney Kate Nash? Good fun to play in one short lived band. Honestly.

Went for 320. We are a desparate bunch, us lefties. It wasn't me.

[quote name='Dropzone' timestamp='1467190111' post='3081714'] There has been quite a lot of hate for Janes addication, however, I suppose it is because they are not "metal", I caught the start and tail end of their set and thought it sounded great. [/quote] They had a really small crowd, which was a crying shame as I thought they were amazing. I only have one album of theirs so not familiar with all the songs but they put on a great show, including dancers, and sounded awesome. Most of the crowd were setting up their deckchairs to sit and wait for Maiden straight after.

Been fired once for wanting the covers band with two good female singers to focus on the 80s ballads they were brilliant at singing... But the guitarist wanted to play five or six stereophonics songs. I recently mutually agreed to fire a drummer. He was an ok drummer but we couldn't get on with him personally. He also suggested our talking heads/ police/ Elvis Costello covers band should play Robbie Williams "let me entertain you". We were giving him a chance on the being a bit of a tw@t front but that was the final straw.

No doubt left handed not produced :'(

Mmmmmmm custard...

Hmmmmm have had hot weather play havoc with the tuning on my jazz bass but with regards tone I don't have this problem with any of my basses. Did anything else change, like had you cleaned the strings in between playing etc?

There was a Harley Benton resonator bass for a while, not sure if it's still available

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1466190346' post='3074060'] Search Ebay for Caline Power Supply. Only £18.99 currently on there and I've been using mine for about a year now with no problems at all. Has to come from China so might take a couple of weeks but if you can cope with that then I couldn't recommend it any more highly. [/quote] I use this and so does my guitarist. Does the job and didn't cost silly amounts.

I have been round the houses with having loads of individual effects, multi-effect pedals... and now I'm trying to be sensible. Being sensible means selling off pedals I don't use (Micro Q-Tron being one) in my band and focussing on key sounds that are useful and work in the band scenario. I now want to make the most out of what I have got but make some decisions on pedal order based off the greater experience of other effects users... My current set up is as follows: Harley Benton Tuner/ Mute > Hartke Bass Attack VXL > Boss Flanger > Mooer Fuzz/ OD > Boss LMB-3 Limiter Enhancer... The tuner is fine, doing its job, no issues. Bass Attack - great for getting my clanky P-Bass tone that i like out of any amp i set flat and go in to. Not getting much from it in terms of OD though and finding it hard to find a good sound for my Hohner headless which comes out for a few songs in the set. Overall I want to keep it in the chain for making sure I get my sound when using festival backlines, PA and rehearsal room gear. Should this be at the front of my chain or nearer the back? Boss Flanger - provides a nice swirly sound on a few songs, I like it, its staying. But where in the chain should it sit? Would this clash with a chorus (thinking of getting one again) Mooer Thunderball - does its job ok, I'm not a distortion freak so it gets used sparingly. Felt this was best off after the tone shaping and Flanger? LMB-3 - a real quandary on this one. It works great at home but needs more work at volume in rehearsal room. I feel i need it to even out the sound between my P-Bass and my headless (which gets slapped a little) but I find it often "softens" the sound and can mess up volume. Really stuck with whether to keep it at all. Also, should this go at the front of the chain or the back? Does the VXL make this redundant?

Thanks for all comments. I have played it and felt the weight, its very good but not amazing, however for its price point and with a bit of tlc it could be excellent. I am mainly interested in value because it firstly makes a good persuasive point to the wife and secondly I may profit from selling it quickly or need to turn out some other basses to recover the cost.