Dood

Your cheque has just gone in the post! ;o)



Cheers!

Napper is a top top TOP geezer! Have you seen his artwork? The guy has got some serious talent!

Love it!

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just found this one, via the orginal link. pretty music!

*insert playground smut* - Never seen anone else on stage with her to be honest. lol

[quote name='Finbar' post='28026' date='Jul 6 2007, 06:04 PM']They'd get lost on a 7 string neck though I think.[/quote]

Hi!

But it'd be a shame not to try it ;o) Actually, as it happens Jon and I were going to put LEDs on Doodle, but my bass neck has so many carbon inserts in it, that there wasn't any room left for Mr Simms to drill out the neck! So we had to forget about that.

"Doodle 2" the working title, may well be a different story! lol

In some ways I am glad that it has been sold, as I don't have to try to remortgage granny to find some extra cash to buy it!

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='28172' date='Jul 7 2007, 01:22 AM']Me too, I've been talking to Jon about it this week.

What a stunning piece of maple on top. Jon was right about it looking like you could swim in it.[/quote]


Yes, that wet look lacquer is just sexay!! My (sold) Elite 6is due to be picked up soon, so am naturally looking forward to finalising the design and getting started! I reckon I'll be going for a headless singlecut design.

Gawwd this forum doesnt do ya wallet any good does it? LOL!!

Ok.. I think I am officially lusting for a headless Shuker now! Nice pics Jon!!

Not totally an acoustic bass, but sounds like one... I recently had the pleasure of Jonas Hellborg showing me his Warwick signature bass. He slaps like a monster!

[quote name='kjb' post='27600' date='Jul 5 2007, 07:55 PM']I'm considering going with a seperate pre/power amp, probably an Avalon UL5 with a [b]powersoft power amp.[/b]
However my prefered option is to just buy as transparent sounding head as possible, my options here are an Epifani UL502, or an Acoustic image either a Clarus or a focus.

I use an Epifani UL310 series 2 cab.

The idea is to just amplify my bass, I have a very versatile pre fitted to my bass, and I think that it's very easy to completely ruin your sound (without realising it), by over enthusiastic tone knob tweaking.

Anyway, has anyone any experience of the above gear.

I only play jazz and funk, so I don't need masses of power.[/quote]

Hey KJB, I'm going to put a vote in for your modular approach. We pretty much know that most quality power amps (like the one you mentioned) are 'transparent'. I like having the ability to chop and change as I like, so being able to split the pre from the poweramp is a bonus.

I'm having great fun with this signal path at the moment:-

EBS Multicomp compressor > Alesis digital EQ (half rack) > Powersoft power amp.

No preamp at all! I use the EQ to 'EQ for the room' and then boost top and bottom for different styles on the bass. That is as transparent as I am likely to get to be honest.

Oh.. and I have recently relearnt that transparent is good. HiFi is good. Flat Response actually, for me isn't. 3 very different descriptions of tone!


I'm still using the Trace Elliot V-Type preamp for particular sounds. Awesome for a bit of recording bite. The signal path above is really tastey though!

[quote name='lukeward2004' post='27832' date='Jul 6 2007, 11:16 AM']Withi that price Bracket, i would go with the Hartke 410xl or 4.5 XL.

Push the boat out a shade and it would be a Tech Soundsystems ND410 cab (like Doods old ones) and ill hopefully have one soon![/quote]


+1 certainly!

Unless you are playing in a very quiet band, I cant see any 'off the shelf' studio monitor being able to provide enough volume. Just not designed for it, I don't think.

Agree with Ped.. Sometimes a little adjustment of technique is required, but it is very much possible. Don't let anyone tell you other wise. I slap on a 7er (16mm spacing) . Bill 'The Buddha' Dickens slaps like a crazy mofo on a 9 string! (I reckon he'll have some clips on you tube.. possibly)

yeh, pm sent.

Congrats! Thats great news!

I'm lucky to be endorsed by Shuker Bass YAY! I still have a deal with Rotosound but am just sorting out a new deal with The Bass Centre/Elite strings and Warwick (for the Dark Lord strings).

All of which are bloomin excellent and have been brilliant with me. I change my amp gear so much I haven't given that side of things much thought what so ever. The Shuker thing is very important to me though.. 'speshly with Doodle n' all. ;o) Jon maybe a small company.. but..well... you know what I think! Genius!

Hey Luke, I think that's the least of his worries! ARGH has no head!

This is a reviews forum mate.. I'll move you to the amps and cabs forum, as you'll get a better response.

Hey Trevor.. your KingBass has not left my mind even now!!! Soooo sweet. Good luck with the search!

[quote name='Hamster' post='24848' date='Jun 29 2007, 12:42 PM']I'm watching the 'For Sale' section like a hawk for this one !

Found this on the web for you [url="http://www.urineoff.co.uk/urineoff.html"]http://www.urineoff.co.uk/urineoff.html[/url] Hamster

edit: just found another [url="http://www.petfresh.co.uk/petfresh.html"]http://www.petfresh.co.uk/petfresh.html[/url][/quote]



The tag line for those products surely would be "Now, it's not just your fellow band members that take the p*ss out of your gear"

thanks.. that'll be another coffee drenched keyboard! Off to the quotes thread with you!! tickled me no end.

ah! a difference of opinion! I'll go with the masses then lol...

okie doke. cheers!

I suspect it was the usual issue of too much through the foldback under ya nose, getting in the way of what was coming from the backline. I have had the displeasure of having to play some really poorly engineered monitor mixes.

One venue springs to mind where they would keep asking for the backline to be turned down so low, the drums themselves masked everything! honestly! Then we asked the nice engineer to cut us just a little slack, he proceeded to shove everything through the foldback, which was a row of 'budget' 12" cones, cranked to the max. Those little boxes dont like bass, as ya know. Then he had the audacity to suggest he wouldn't rebook the band as it sounded like we had no idea what we were doing. What a *swear swear swear swear swear* !!!

I have skimmed the thread and it makes for good reading! I do love 'gadgets' and a valve amp has bits you can fiddle with!!! ;o)

The only sweeping statement I will add to this thread, is that the 'biggest problem with valve amps are the myths that seem to surround them'. lol.

My own feelings towards them have already been echoed several times. They aren't better, just different to SS. Long live amplification!!