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bassmayhem

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  1. Is the Warmoth Jazz Bass body routed with 60's or 70's pickup placement? I cannot find any info on their website. It would be nice to get a body from their big "surplus stock", but NOT if it has 60's bridge pup pacement...
  2. Check this: http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomastik_jf344.htm
  3. There are preamps and there is Jule Amps Monique. Simple as that! This unit is the best I've ever tried. I played it through a Crown power amp and two Mesa Boogie cabinets. No bad tone what so ever, everything sounded beter through this unit. Expensive? H*ll, yeah! Worth it? You bet! Sell a kidney or eat porridge a year... [IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/bassmayhem/Monique_zpsgz7n8vfu.jpg[/IMG] No! I am [b]NOT [/b]affiliated in any way with Jule...
  4. I just bought a Little Mark III after having sold my CMD121P combo a few years ago. I regretted selling that combo, and when I had the opportunity to get another LM I just went for it. Why? Simple: it is simple to use, it sounds good, no bells and whistles, weighs just some milligrams - or so it seems - and very versatile tonally. The two filters, the "old school roll of" and the "smiling face" used just a little, by themselves or in combination, are all I use to tweak the tone. The eq just for room anomalies. TC is a good beast, but I prefer it simple...
  5. This is a really good tube compressor; I got one myself. Otherwise I'd bought it from you. I like the way it can go from real squeeze to the point "you only hear it when you shut it off". I bump it for you...
  6. [size=5][b]Price correction due to new exchange rate: 4200 SEK = £326 = 450€[/b][/size] [size=5]Plus shipping, that is...[/size]
  7. [quote name='timbass' timestamp='1428599548' post='2742908']The long-scale Kremona looks amazing.[/quote] Thanks! It is a very nice instrument. I once had a Wilfer bass; another one like my old was at the store too. When I played that bass, some £6000-ish, I thought: "It sounds like my old one. The things I didn't like is present in this one too". When I played the Kremona, that cost me some £3700, I thought: "Wow! If a bass that is two years old sound like this, how will it sound then, when it is 102...?" It got that Avishai Cohen kind of tone when you dig in... (NO! I don't compare myself with him; thats blasphemy...) I've changed to Evah Pirazzi Weich on this bass. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
  8. [quote name='ambient' timestamp='1428537036' post='2742310'] I think there's a guy who plays Chapman stick uses a similar Bose rig. Sounds like a really nice set up. [/quote] I started playing Stick again for a while, after some 27 years hiatus, and used my Bose rig. But - 27 years is a long time, so I sold the Stick...
  9. I have been using a Bose L1 Model 2 system some years now. Mostly when I do chusch gigs, or more acoustic type of gigs. I have used the system with electric bass and my NS electric upright, but now I have started experimenting at home with my Bulgarian Kremona acoustic bass. The Kremona is a big animal, special built for its first owner, with a 3/4 body and full 4/4 scale. (110 cm) I fell in love with this bass in five notes. It has a big full tone, but demands some power to play. It is not a bass for virtuoso playing - not by me anyhow - but more for digging in and making TONE. The bass has a Realist pickup, the cupper one under the bass foot of the bridge. When I plugged it into my Bose ToneMatch mixer and set to the David Gage Realist patch it worked rather well, but the amplified tone was very bass heavy and there was a "ringing sensation of ongoing feedback" somewhere in the low mid register. Anyway, I started to tame the feedback beast. First roll down the low band eq 3-6 dB. Then chasing feedback with the parametric eq. First I boosted the eq 15 dB, wich is max on the tone match - volume off - and set the q value to very narrow: some 1/3 - 1/4 octave. Then up with the volume so the beast awkens, play the strings and sweep the frequency control from high to low, until the feedback starts. There is the problem frequency nailed! Down with the mid band gain to minus 9 - 12 dB. Now the amplified tone is very similar to the acoustic tone. I can play really loud without feedback, standing just one meter from the Bose rig. Depending on local I have to readjust the "notch filter", but now I know it works. I will try using my Avalon U5 as preamp too, to get a better signal from the Realist into the mixer. Just another day... This bass is built in 2012, but has already a tone big as life. Solid wood all around. A big guy; some 190 cm with endpin in. Nice even tone... Simba the cat curled up in my rolled shoulder strap on the B1 subs. Cats love to lie in round things for some reason... I used my Streamliner 900 as preamp for the electric basses, but now I've gotten an EBS ValveDrive DI to use with the Bose. The Kremona and the NS EUB goes straight into the mixer.
  10. My two with matching headstocks: [IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/bassmayhem/20150106_191004_zps3a5ac40f.jpg[/IMG] Lakland Joe Osborn 5 [IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd169/bassmayhem/20150311_070730_zps1uow6g51.jpg[/IMG] D.Lakin Basses Bob Glaub
  11. [quote name='rodolfo_shanana' timestamp='1428012896' post='2737177'] the octbass still available ? [/quote]Both are on hold now. I know after the Easter weekend.
  12. I have two nice EBS pedals, one complete with cardboard box, the other without. Both have velcro underneath. Get them both for £100 or each for £55. Plus shipping from Sweden, of course... They look like this: Happy Easter!!!
  13. Blue Joe with the new matching Reunion Blues Continental, Midnight Series...
  14. [quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1427666591' post='2732924'] The height of the Bose array makes it very limited in how well it works as a line array. It does not function the way the Bose marketing claims. As the bass modules are so small they don't function as line sources at all. Required reading: [url="http://www.diy-audio.narod.ru/litr/nflawp.pdf"]http://www.diy-audio...litr/nflawp.pdf[/url] [/quote] Well, I ain't gonna go to battle over this; it works for what I use it for. Why read about how it sounds when I can listen to how it sounds. I even have a wireless system so I can go as far as the back wall or beyond. Compared to any other amp used in the same context I find no backlashes. The (low) height of the system makes the volume drop like a traditional speaker after some 10-12 meters, but the interesting thing is the area within 10-12 meters where you won't go deaf from the volume an ordinary speaker throws out to get the same volume drop after 10-12 meters. Try it! Like it or dislike it, but try it in real life gig situations first.
  15. There is a lot of bullsh*t in the bass community regarding the Bose systems. I have used an L1 model 2 with two B1 subs for years; primarily for church gigs, and it works very well. Since the line array makes the sound spread more horisontal, you won't get that [i]rolling and tumbling low frequency rumble[/i] in the church, but a more focused sound that is easy to control. I have NEVER run out of power. I've used the rig for "unplugged" kind of gigs, more singer-songwriter kind of acts, for jazz, for EUB, for acoustic bass, and as PA for duo-trio settings in small clubs. We even used my system for bass and digital drums backing a choir in a gospel gig. Every rig has its pro's and con's. If you want to colour your tone with an amp, well, BOSE isn't your choice, maybe. Another weak link is when your guitard has a Fender Super Reverb aimed at killer volume at his calves, complaining "I CANNOT HEAR MYSELF", well, then the Bose is overrun at near distance (ie. on the stage). I use different setups: sometimes right into the T1 mixer, but that is not the best way to go. More often the DI send from a preamp straight into the analog input. I use EBS, Eden, Avalon, my Streamliner 900 (as pre) and earlier I used the Boss GT-10B. B1 or B2 subs? Definitely two (or more) B1's! They sound way better, even if the B2 "woofs" a bit more. The B2 gets boomier and not - in my opinion - as focused. Yes - I have "real" bass rigs too, everything from 150 W combo to 3400 W giga-rig, with a lot in between. Each rig in its own context. The one nearly never used is - not unexpected - the giga-rig. Here is an old pic from my living room... ...a church gig... ...and a "Sinatra" gig. (Try to find the rig!)
  16. My old Charvel 3B hockey club I bought new in 1986... I have no picture of it, but it looked exactly like this one: Neck thru, nice profiled neck, mega jumbo frets. I used it some years until the pearl flake hockey club 80's ideal kinda worn out. I miss it a LOT; I know the guy who owns it now, but he won't part with it. I changed the pups to EMG's, since the original preamp wasn't too good. It became one of the best basses I've ever owned. Period.
  17. I have four pick guards, custom made by Jeannie, for the Lakland US 55-94 and/or Skyline 55-02, at least for the Korean made Skyline basses. One is used - the white - but the others have their plastic protection film on. (The used one is unmaimed, just needs some cleaning.) Buy them all with shipping in EU included in the price above. White - Mint - Pearl - Aged Pearl £60 for all four incl. shipping in EU, £20 a piece (regardless of piece) incl. EU shipping.
  18. Premier gigged! A P-bass couldn't be better. It is very responsive to touch and playing style. A groove machine suitable for everything above low Eb. (No! It won't get D-tuner...)
  19. Now it is home. The work is top notch! The neck is incredibly comfortable to grip, with "hard oiled" surface like on US Lakland. The frets have the same old school small profile like on Lakland basses, also meticulously set, shaped and dressed. All hardware is from Hipshot, no licensed things. The icing on the cake: the weight is just over three kilograms, it has tone as a crazy and is damn good looking. The original case was unfortunately lost, but it came with a good gig bag. The package also included an original tool, which was very clever. Of this, I upload a picture when I get home. The headstock looks better in real life, just so you know... And - of course - a "Certificate of autenticity" signed by both Dan Lakin and Bob Glaub. (Not that it matters, but it's a bit of fun ...)
  20. [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1425926422' post='2712373'] That sounds reasonable to me, how much for a Jazz 5 and is there an active one? [/quote]Well, I paid [b]a lot[/b] less, but it is second hand... (£1K mentioned above...)
  21. [quote name='bobglaub01' timestamp='1424461652' post='2696677'] [url="http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/Ron-Timmerman/media/DSC03052_zps53f9a5ca.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote]They do look good together. My Citroën Berlingo for your JO4...!?
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