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[quote name='dood' timestamp='1424296237' post='2694967'] Right! I played with the 300W version today and i have to say I think it sounded really good! Up against a D Class head it oozed body even before adding in the drive section we at the studio agreed. [/quote] What speaker was it playing through?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1425048203' post='2703390'] Here's an anagram: GEPMA. [/quote] D'oh! Where are my donuts?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1425026191' post='2702977'] Oh, I just got it - duh!! [/quote] I haven' got it at all - duh+1!

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1425030874' post='2703074'] I asked someone about these who's tested them recently and his principal comment was that it would survive being dropped down a set of stairs Didn't mention how they sounded though [/quote] Good job there's no stairs at Bassgear then Barrie! [quote name='disssa' timestamp='1425032271' post='2703104'] I got the amp yesterday an played a 4 hours practice session. First impressions: a really powerful and versatile Amp, good working EQ. [/quote] disssa, did you once own an HD130? Comparison?

[quote name='disssa' timestamp='1425024873' post='2702957'] My new test-object: [/quote] Ooh! That would look a bobbydazzler on top of one of my vintage-silver-grille-cloth BF cabs! Looks like the controls are [i]not[/i] the same as a LM3. disssa, I think I'm right in saying you have a nice collection of valve heads - how does this hold up against them? Any chance of a sound clip or two?

Just bought a bit of pedalboard kit from Sim, all good

I told the drummer in my band that I had 4 basses. He thought this was OTT, then admitted he had 4 drum-kits! I would have more, but I've run out of space.

Only joking!

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1424658298' post='2698891'] Very nice man tonight said he thought I sounded like Tina Weymouth. Result. [/quote] I hope that's not just because Tina Weymouth was the only female bass player he could think of!

I thought the Royal Oak had stopped having bands?

[quote name='grapevinebass' timestamp='1424628125' post='2698478'] Took my new wonderful new bass with top notch active pickups to play in church band rehearsal this weekend. Practice completely disrupted by squawks and feedback from the sound system. Very puzzled that turning down, and even unplugging the bass made little difference. Eventually worked out it was due to the hearing loop. It took me back to a gig a couple of years ago at a conference venue, when sound in rehearsal was dire. Then the lead guitarist riffs started coming out of the rhythm guitarists back line amp! Yes - it was the hearing loop, and we had to dismantle the sound desk to get to disconnect it. Lost most of our set up time and sound check - result was a very poor gig. So this time I had to swap my bass to one with less sensitive pickups, and stand right at the back of the stage and just about got away with it. I hate hearing loops! Are there gadgets to get round this problem? The church sound engineer said that wrapping the bass in kitchen foil solves the problem, but I felt this was not helpful. [/quote] Don't forget your tinfoil hat! But seriously, the signal from an inductance loop will find its way into anything that isn't hum-cancelling.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1423180868' post='2682066'] Definitely get rid of the Greem Mile, it might be 'ok' on guitar, but sounds horrible on bass!! Get an Xotic Bass BB Pre or a Solidgold Beta or a Fuzzrocious Demon.....anything other than a Mooer guitar pedal lol Si [/quote] Green Mile is a Tube Screamer clone, so there is big roll-off of bass and lower mids - exactly what yo don't want!

I remember these being advertised in [i]Guitarist[/i] magazine in the 80s.

[quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1424436428' post='2696270'] [wildlyofftopicforasecond] Is that 'David Bowie' or 'Bowie, David'..? Mine are alphabetical by surname or main band name, e.g. Weller, Paul or Jam, The. I do not get out much. [/wildlyofftopicforasecond] [/quote] [b]Bowie[/b] comes under B, after [b]Boomtown Rats[/b] but before [b]Garth Brooks[/b]. I would have thought that was obvious (except to iTunes).

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1424125376' post='2693043'] Perhaps just a wooden support underneath running side to side that is in contact with the floor and so prevents flexing? [/quote] I did think about something like that, but it would kind of spoil the elegant simplicity of the design.

[quote name='Moos3h' timestamp='1424106851' post='2692695'] I love a good relic. Trouble is there are so many bad ones! [/quote] M'lud, exhibit A is a website known as 'E-Bay'...

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1424106443' post='2692685'] Sound advice chaps. many thanks for the replies. Order placed after many questions from me, and sensible advice from him. Can't wait to receive the goods. I have decided to upgrade the cabs to speakon sockets, which Dave is sending me as well as the cables. Should be wall shakingly good. Thanks again chaps. [/quote] You won't regret it. Dave makes the chunkiest speakon cables in the known universe.

Each to their own on this one. Probably mentioned it before, but I own one reliced instrument and one old (1973) instrument. I bought them because they played great, sounded great, and looked great. I also own instruments that I bought new and pristine for the exact same reasons.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1424043982' post='2692021'] You might want to read this: [url="http://www.bassesbyleo.com/l2500_bridge_mod.html"]http://www.bassesbyl...bridge_mod.html[/url] [/quote] Thank you neepheid, that's most illuminating. I have flats (Chromes) on my L1505 and I was reluctant to fit them through the body in case of problems with the break angle at the points where they emerge from the bridge plate and pass over the bridge saddles. Having said that, I have Chromes on my Mustang (a 32in set to allow for the extra distance through the body) and have had no problems there, so I might just have to get an extra-long set and re-string the L1505. Unfortunately I probably don't the metalworking skills or tools to do the mod suggested in the Basses By Leo link!

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1424038120' post='2691946'] Repositioning the bridge is going to be made more difficult because the G&L Saddle Lock bridge has a sizeable route made into the body for a protrusion from the base of the bridge. [/quote] Aha! This goes a long way towards explaining why the bridge on my L1505 stays in place with just 2 screws, even with 5 strings top-loaded into it...