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Exterminate!

For a second I thought that it said Baerfaced.
Ow never mind.

I'd have ignored the crap out of him. That wasn't the time or the place to discuss technique.
It WAS the time and place to be relaxed and have a couple of pints while enjoying the band.

The question you should have asked him is this:

IS THAT YOU MOM?

Could spray a union jack on there and have a britbox...

First get the OD pedals, then see if you will need an EQ.,, My 12band EQ on the Trace Elliot is usually switched OFF.

Here's a clip I made using a Warwick Dolphin Pro 1.
It has four parts: Direct, through VTbass for mild ampeg buzz, then through Darkglass Vintage Microtubes and finally Through the Darkglass B3K. Hope this helps you decide on what kind of tone you're looking for.

http://elevenband.nl/krupp/Dolphin_vtbass_vintagemicrotubes_b3k.mp3

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Try a Zoom
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GRMBL!

Will check out a TS based circuit if I get the chance to.

Another option is dragging along multiple basses and use the Sterling for the clean stuff only.

I lost track I think. Sold two Warwick Dolphin Pro 1 basses, an SWR WorkingPro 115, an Ibanez Promethean combo and a lot of effects.

Bought:

Fender Precision NM signature
Fender Jazz MM signature
Ric 4003
EBMM Sterling bass
A 1961 Gibson SG (not a reissue, the real thing)
Ibanez FR320 guitar
Trace Elliot AH300-12
Trace Elliot RAH600SMX
Trace Elliot 2x15 cab
Trace Elliot Brightbox
Pearl Wood Fiberglass drumkit from 1972
Roland TD4 digital drumkit
Lots of cymbals
Samson 900w powermixer with monitors
Some Sennheiser and Shure mics
Darkglass pedals
Steinberg Cubase 6.5 Artist
FXpansion BFD2

Its been a good year, in which I made my return to being a musician besides a father and husband.

Hi,

I own five basses:

- Fender Jazz Bass (active) Marcus Miller Signature Olympic White.
- Fender Precision Bass Nate Mendel Signature with quarterpounder pu.
- Rickenbacker 4003
- Warwick Dolphin Pro1 5str
- Music Man Sterling Bass

Recently I have purchased some new dirtboxes in my everlasting quest for great overdriven tone.
So far the list of dirtboxes owned/tested is this:

- MXR M80
- MXR El Grande
- EHX Big Muff
- EHX Bass Big Muff
- Boss ODB3
- Tech21 VTbass V2
- Darkglass B3K
- Darkglass Vintage Microtubes

With the Fenders, Ric I can get good results using most of these pedals, the Warwick is in a league of its own and makes anything you hook it up with sound good.

The Sterling sounds REALLY good dry. It makes you start to play Flea-esque stuff whether you want to or not, simply encourages rhythmic playing. Every note is like a kick in the butt. I love this bass!

Here's my problem: Kicking in any form of dirt (even the mighty B3K pedal!) makes it sound weaker then it is without that dirt.

My questions:

1. Do I want to solve this and if so, how? Maybe within the mix of other instruments it won't be such a problem?
2. Anyone else experiencing this type of problem with their Sterling or Stingray?

I do not have an opinion.

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Right. Cutout for a Celestion 5" is 3mm larger then that of the original Trace Elliot speakers.
Making those four holes bigger in a sensible way took some time, I did it so now they are conical and everything fits nicely.

Had a solo test run connected to a Trace Elliot AH300-12 and this little fella can go LOUD for its 120w (everything below 4kHz is filtered off).
Speakers are (of course) wired as two series pairs in parallel keeping the load at 8 ohms.
Speaker grille is currently in the garage drying, Not sure if anyone will like the colour I gave it but I do :-)

I think the Celestions will do fine. Can't wait to take the revived brightbox to the studio and test it with the 2x15.

Thanks for reassuring me Steve.

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I just got a 60B for Christmas, and have owned a B3 for a while (and have some good comments at gigs so at least one post in this thread is way off the mark and complete nonsense).
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No it isn't.

Would love to A/B that BF flagship 2x12 with a Vanderkley 212mnt. Currently playing through a Trace Elliot 2x15 which also fits nicely in the back of my car (Renault Scenic) tho.

SAHB aren't very well known here in the Netherlands. A band from the Liverpool area who were living and gigging here in the nineties introduced me to their music. The impossible dream, Sahb stories and ofc the Live album are still among my favourites.

The naming scheme used is very confusing.
I own a 1998 USA Music Man Sterling bass which has a 3 way pickup mode switch and 3 band EQ. Very nice bass with huuuge low end and snap.

Thanks man, great vid!

4 Celestions on their way here...

Stuff is worse then I expected. I just took the cabinet apart and it occured to me what has happened with this cab.
Someone tossed it around, threw it on the floor or whatever.

The glue holding the four magnets to the speaker frame came loose on all of the speakers, on the top speaker the magnet + phase plug are separated completely from the speaker frame and the actual coil is ripped in two.

So... one of the previous owners abused this poor little cab.

First the good news:

- The three other speakers still work, I just gotta glue them back together so the phase plug and coil stay aligned in the future.
- I have taken detailed photos of the strangely named "1818 XO2" crossover that's in the brightbox so I can figure out exactly what it does.
- I now know the 5" speakers with phase plugs used in a brightbox are Trace Elliot lsp-s508 and am hoping to get some parameters on them.

By posting all this I hope someone can use this information some time as none of it seems to be online.

Then the bad news:

I payed 100 euros for the sucker so yeah. I got ripped off.

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Or currently made of cheap plastic like the one on my Ric.

With the original (sixties) bridge pickup position, the bridge cover did not cover the bridge pickup.
Because this was not aesthetically pleasing Fender then chose to move this pickup closer to the bridge.

So indeed, it resulted in a more agressive and snappy sound originating from this bridge pickup, a tone that many people still know and love their Jazz Bass for.

I'd only consider the B7K if I were to play a lot using other people's backlines and use it as a preamp. As far as I know when you switch off the overdrive on it, you switch off the EQ along with it (someone correct me if I am wrong) so in order to use the EQ constantly you will be using the overdrive constantly along with it... I went for two seperate pedals to be able to kick in some mild overdrive and full on brutal distortion at will.

Arrogant? Patronising? LOL! Guess the truth hurts some. I bet you own one of these Zoom pedals? I did since some players on forum told me it sounds good, sold it after two weeks because it is one of the worst sounding pedals in the history of pedals.

These days any person can publish stuff on the internet and a lot of them do not know what they're talking about that's all I'm saying.
Someone telling you a Zoom B3 or MS60-B sound good is either a liar, sales person (thus a liar) or someone who never heard good bass tone in their life.

A Zoom B3 and Zoom MS60-B are above all CHEAP pedals that will do well with your bedroom practice amp if that's all you want... Well that is very nice but some of us are actually looking for something that can be used in real live situations or for recording.

Do not expect miracles from those pedals. They will not deliver good tone.