Painy

6 hours ago, adamg67 said:

I'd get one if I could blend the placebo signal with my dry signal.

Just stick a 'Blend' label on that knob. 😁

1 hour ago, danny-79 said:

I regret selling my VT.Bass. Brilliant pedal. You can do a hellovalot of damage with it ! 😜

It's my second one. Stupid to have sold the first one seeing as I didn't particularly need the money, I was just trying something else at the time.

This time, if I do ever decide to stop using it for any reason, I'll just put it in a drawer somewhere ready for when I see sense and decide to use it again! 😁

My latest setup. 

Wee Lush FX ABC pedal allows me to keep all 3 basses that I use live plugged in and switch between them for a faster change over. 

The VT Bass, Leeds and "Phthonus" (Tri-Logic Bass Preamp clone kit) are each then effectively presets for each of the 3 basses. 

And another one - kit built clone of an EWS Tri-Logic Bass Preamp 2 that I bought off the marketplace last year. 

This time a bit of a Greek theme. 

Gold anodised aluminium and 'Tiger Pearl' guards - both of which I cut myself. 

24 minutes ago, Crawford13 said:

Very nice. Especially the ramp, it looks great!

Thanks, I'm really pleased with it. It's actually the first time I've tried playing with a ramp but it feels great. I tend to play over the back pickup a lot on this bass for the feel of it but prefer the sound plucking between the pickups so it makes sense. 

As my job was furloughed a couple of weeks ago I've been keeping myself busy with a couple of little projects and thought I'd share them. 

So far I've done some custom artwork on a pedal (which I've already shared in the effects section), re-purposed a combo that I picked up for £20 as a 1x10 cab for home practice use by removing the amp and building a new front panel and today I made a ramp for my Ibanez SRMS805. 

Pictures below but has anybody else been tinkering to keep themselves busy? 

Like a lot of people my job has been furloughed leaving me with more time on my hands. 

Obviously I could be using the time to get better at playing but that would be far too sensible. Instead I decided that the hideous pink of my cheap Joyo British Sound pedal was the perfect excuse to get creative with a bit of a horror vibe. 

I had one and its one of 3 basses I wish I'd never sold. Sat in the mix beautifully with a full low end that supported everything really nicely but still cut through with loads of clarity in the mids and highs. The neck felt lovely too - really nice satin finish on the back. 

Ashdown CTM30 just arrived this week. 

40 minutes ago, 2elliot said:

Cool. Who made the sleeve for the ABM? It's just what I need for my Mesa M9. 

I built that myself. 🙂

4 minutes ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

@PainyI've just realised from the video link in your signature that your guitarist doesn't have a stadium-sized amp stack behind him. It is in fact, the door to the Gents' toilet.

And there was me thinking "bloody guitarists...."

 

You're not the first person to make that mistake. 😜

To be honest, the 100w Marshall and 4x12 is more than enough anyway. 

21 minutes ago, Merton said:

Looks badass on the Mini 48

Looks great doesn't it. I have the mini 15 to go with it so looking forward to the opportunity to set it all up. Probably overkill for my kitchen though. 

Bigger gigs I'll probably run it alongside my ABM500 and 610 as I've done before with my little Five 15 head. 

Well it arrived today just after lunch. 

Only been able to have a five minute play with it so far but it sounds amazing! Pleasantly surprised by how loud it is too - through just my little Mini 48 cab my wife was shouting at me before I managed to get it to break up with my precision.

I think, with a bit of PA support, there's a good chance it'll be plenty loud enough for onstage at most of the smaller venues we play at. Couldn't be happier! 

2 hours ago, Jus Lukin said:

I had a great sit down with the amp today with a mix of basses. It's a great core sound and easy to overdrive the front end at low volume by plugging into the 'low' input. Even the 'high' input is quite sensitive. I didn't get to push the power section hard, but the VU was just about hitting the red from 9 O'clock on the volume knob, especially with an EB-0, so I imagine it starts to really grind from there on out! I used it with the Ashdown cab, which seemed to have a bit of an air leak from the tweeter- I may just remove the HF driver, but will also try the amp with a couple of Barefaced cabs (Super Midget then Big Twin II) which may prove to be more sensitive and therefore kick out greater clean volume.
It's a lovely round, gritty breakup from this thing though, fantastic with flats or rounds!

Sounds awesome! I'm definitely looking for some nice valve grind and bite (I usually run either a Tech21 VT Bass or Leeds into my ABM500) so looking forward to seeing what kind of sounds I can get out of this.

This will now be my day tomorrow:-

Small block 427 (1 available) or BTA400 (4 available) just £1199!!! 😮😮😮

Mrs Painy would probably divorce me though - and knowing my luck take the sodding amp as part of the settlement! 😔

At least I already have a little CTM30 on its way to me now as consolation. 

In that case you also got a bargain.

I should get mine on Friday. Let us know how you get on with yours tomorrow - help build the anticipation for me! 😁

20 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

I've just bought one, too, along with a sealed Ashdown 1x15! It's set up ready to go, but I've been taming the garden today. Tomorrow will be a studio day!

Nice! That the one that's been on ebay?

As my job has been furloughed until the end of May but I also received a small bonus today, I have purchased a little something to keep myself entertained with. 

A bargain at £250 from Facebook marketplace but sadly not local enough to collect whilst out shopping so here's hoping it survives DPD bringing it to me. 

PM'd for E. 🙂

I'm a Quality Assurance Consultant working for the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). 

We use yamaha DBR12 active speakers for stage monitoring. Those little 100w powered wedges have never cut it in our experience. I think there's a bit of a gap in the market between them and a full pro setup with dedicated monitor mixer etc.

The yamahas have all the power and clarity you could possibly want as they're actually designed for use as FOH speakers rather than monitors. 

We're lucky though to have our own FOH sound engineer who also looks after the monitors so the lack of controls (other than volume) at the stage end isn't so much of an issue for us.

37 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

115mm

Brilliant, thanks! 🙂👍

Would anybody be able to tell me the distance between the screw hole centres on a chrome pickup cover for a P bass?

I want to know if I'll be able to fit one onto one of my basses with a non standard size pickup before I order it.