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6 minutes for a song! It better be good. I usually get bored after 30 seconds. Only kidding. I'm not bothered how long a song is (some of my faves go on well in excess of 10 mins). I've got mine sorted out in my head, but can't get started until the weekend at the earliest. I'm gonna have to try & make the acoustic sound like an electrik geetah for what I want to do.

I used to fit a 4x10 Trace Elliot combo in the boot of a corsa. The TE combo was guff. Get a decent 2x10 or 1x15 instead.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1352281644' post='1860964'] The trap most bass players fall into is that they listen with their eyes. The [i]big is best[/i] mantra is so ingrained that the first hurdle these days is to [i]believe[/i] that a small cab can make a great sound and be loud enough. Some 112 cabs won't be up to the job but there are plenty that are. For anything louder than a quiet gig I would always use 2 112 cabs. My Bergantios are powerful enough together to cover all but the loudest bands, they sound great and they only weigh 30 lbs each. Thanks to good modern cab and speaker design, unless you're in a heavy metal band, there really is no downside to using good 112 cabs. [/quote] +1 Id probably even say that you may even be able to use them in a heavy metal band also as the bass usually has more of a mid thaing & not so much low end (not always though).

Like the above say, ignore the watts, get more speakers (or more sensitive speakers).

But would anyone really notice the difference in volume between an 8 ohm & a 4 ohm 2x12 (both of the same brand, etc)? Regardless, one of either would probably be adequate for most gigs.

I think being able to read helps you understand music better. You might never need to read in a band, but knowing a little theory behind things can give you more freedom to play what you want if your song doesn't need to be an exact copy. It's just like any language, people speak English without knowing how to read.

Had a melody going through my head all weekend too. Ba ba da, ba ba da, Jim'll fix it for you, and you n you.

[quote name='he man812' timestamp='1351985059' post='1857670'] ahh it seems i need to go try some things down the shop then. Although you come into problems when you want to buy second hand but you can't try it because its not in the shops [/quote] Try as many as you can & get an idea of what you like. The good thing about buying s/h is that if you don't like it, you can pass it on with a minimal loss of £s (if any). I bought new as it had to go past the Mrs & she wouldn't approve of s/h at the time (she does now though).

[quote name='he man812' timestamp='1351983961' post='1857662'] haha, don't mind me with my lack of knowledge of bass amps Is your 2x10 the [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Markbass CMD102P? or something different?[/font][/color] [/quote] I chose the Markbass after spending many months trying countless rigs from Ashdown, SWR, Ampeg, Trace Elliot, GK, Eden, Phil Jones, Euphonic Audio & a few others. A lot of them make good rigs & it's down to what You like the sound of. I like the MB as it handles whatever I want from it & it's probably the loudest combo I've ever used.

Cheers. That was an interesting read.

I heard 15s are more punchy too! It depends on what it is (how well it's been designed, etc). My 2x10 has a lot more bass than the 2x15 I had before. A 1x12 combo with a 1x12 cab under it can be a very good rig. Especially if you're playing in tight spaces.

Try one first. I had a TE 4x10 combo & it was a fart monster. I'm not a fan of them, but if you are, try Ashdown. They're the old TE engineers.

Congratulations! Now you can get on with what YOU want to do & not trying to do it with folk who don't want to do the same as you (that's a bit like pushing a truck up a hill with the dead man on). Best of luck with getting a good band together.

If you can stretch your budget by @ £200ish, you'll be hard pushed to get anything better than a 2nd hand Markbass CMD102P. They come up on here from time to time for @ £600 & it'd blow that TE back into the 80s.

Very true.

Cutting doesn't have to be untidy. If you cu one side flush & the other @ 1-2mm longer, you wont see it. You could even pop a little shrinkwrap over it.

I used to be a roundwound fan, but got sick of the zingyness & how it can sometimes get noisy (& even spoil what the vocal/guitar is doing) if not kept in check. I'm now a flatwound user (Tomastic Infeld) & wouldn't go back to rounds. They have plenty of definition & despite what I had heard, aren't wooly trebleless things.

Not sure. PLI is more to cover damage that your gear does to punters, like a PA top falling on someone.

Like Mart says, & cut one wire slightly longer than the other so they can't short (& make sure it's unplugged 1st ).

There's a couple of options available. You could fit a midi pickup (Roland do one) & that plugs into a converter which you could then plug into any midi synth. There's synth access instruments from the likes of Godin (works on the same principle as the above. There's midi guitar controllers that look like a bass, but have rows of buttons instead of strings & frets. Or you can buy a few fx pedals & route them to make your bass sound like a synth. Quite a few of us on here do the latter, as it allows you to build something that has your own sound. Basic pedals for getting there are dirt & filter. Octaver on a wet setting also helps get more synth sounding & then you can get carried away. Shep (Pantherairsoft) has a good blog for explaining how to use effects. Jarman Donohue from Men Imitating Machines uses a full midi setup, Shep did an interview with him on his blog. He can be found on Organic Bass Wobble Facebook page if you have any Qs about his set up (he's a helpful & friendly chap).

Have you got a printer? Pop to hobbycraft & get some beige 200g paper & print a cheque. What about a P.O? fair enough it costs a few £ more, but if it's gonna get you the gig...

I've only used the effects in Garageband on my iMac when recording, but not very often. Would be interested to see how something like iRig or similar sounds live & if there's any latency issues.

Play with the EQ & turn the mids down a touch, see if it helps. But like you say, it might just be the cab.

Don't listen to them, they're trying to fool you. They're just jealous & trying to get you to blow your rig up!!!