Happy Jack

I'd love to ... but I suspect that I'd be stepping out of my league!

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1395696555' post='2405301'] Got it. It was quite well hidden, as if there should be some prior knowledge on this? [url="http://www.martamp.com/index.html"]http://www.martamp.com/index.html[/url] [/quote] Mmmmmmm ... chickenheads ...

Bwahahahaha!!! Good spot - I never got that at all.

Understood Lemmy, but why would he get someone to come round and remove a date written on the fretboard unless he knew it was a fake date?

When you need a P, there's no point in fighting it ...

I've played venues that are smaller than that rig ...

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1395603141' post='2404253'] Amazing how we often think the worst of people, sign of the times. [/quote] [i]"Ok so having been asked by so many people about the date written on the end on the fingerboard I have had someone come round and remove it ..."[/i] It's quite hard to read that sentence without a certain amount of cynicism creeping in. No matter how hard I try to put a positive spin on it, it still translates as: "[i]Oops! someone spotted it - damn!"[/i].

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1395660705' post='2404715'] I think he's selling an amp (or three, I'm not sure) which may or may not have a 'almost no distortion' switch. That feature sounds almost useful. [/quote] Yup - entirely on board with that feature. I do wonder though, what happens when you switch OFF the 'almost no distortion' function?

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1395668637' post='2404829'] Top TP tracks (maybe) not already mentioned: Strangered in the Night [/quote] One of my all-time favourites, but with lyrics which (in one place at the very least) were pretty damned borderline even in the 70s and wholly unacceptable now ...

Yup - I had one of these years back and was actually pretty impressed. Essentially you have (I think) 16 different capacitors, each one of which results in a fairly distinct change of tone. I seem to recall you could get a smooth-turning control or one with [i]detentes [/i]to give a click at each change. The conclusion I came to was that the system works, but is of limited value in a live setting. I was a bedroom noodler at the time and it was fun to be able to click around until I found the "right" tone for each song I wanted to play along with. Once I started gigging regularly I quickly realised that it was just a distraction and could actually do harm to my sound in the band mix. If I spent a lot of time in recording studios I think I'd get another.

When he "dimed the mids", WTF was he talking about? I've never dimed anything in my life, and I'm not sure I want to start at my advanced age ... ps: That's a very good demo, Gareth. Roughly the equivalent of walking into a decent bass shop and being able to play with the amp for five minutes without some clown starting to slap on a Markbass rig ten feet away. One question though ... how did you record it? I'm guessing that's a Zoom Q3 or similar so you're working within the confines of the on-board (very good) microphone. Some lovely tones there.

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1395394822' post='2401892'] ... and then handed the XLR to the guitarist who plugged it into the desk. [/quote] Well[u][i][b] there's [/b][/i][/u]your problem ...

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1395349217' post='2401523'] @Happy Jack, This is going to get embarrassing, I can tell. I have a Behringer BD1-21. It's entirely possible I don't know how to use it. I plugged my bass jack lead into the IN socket and then ran an XLR lead from the BAL OUT socket into an available XLR socket on the desk. I have no idea whether it was a mic socket. [/quote] OK, that should have worked. The XLR inputs on most mixers are there for mics, and they have independent Gain controls - usually a fairly small black knob at the top of the channel strip. You may simply have plugged into a strip where that Gain control had been turned right down for some reason. The input signal level from a mic is absolutely tiny, so a mic channel strip should be more than man enough to take a signal from a DI box and boost it sufficiently. One possibly irritating suggestion though - you mentioned that it is an active DI box. So what state is the battery in?

I'm puzzled. Any DI box should do exactly what you wanted. You did plug into one of the mic sockets using an XLR, didn't you?

I managed to keep a straight face until I reached the shot of the back of the headstock ...

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1394728404' post='2394534'] ... with Keith Emerson for a sofa ... [/quote] Had Keith repeatedly stabbed his sofa with one of Lemmy's knives?

What condition is the fez in?

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1394723210' post='2394432'] I don't find haggling friendly in the slightest. [/quote] How about a little bit of haggling? Maybe a bit more than that? Oh come on, I'm not asking much - just a bit more?

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[quote name='6v6' timestamp='1394722098' post='2394418'] 100w would probably be fine. [/quote] Yup. That's why I play through the lightest Matamp GT100 in captivity ...

20Kgs is bloody excellent for something that powerful - congratulations.

So ... you de-tune your B-string to Drop-A, then you set the pedal to "2 Octaves Down", you stomp the pedal, hit the open string and - what happens next?

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1394715763' post='2394315'] ... this is the BC marketplace not a souk in Marrakech... [/quote] You lie through your ill-fitting dentures you pox-ridden son of a camel-trader's granny ...

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1394716805' post='2394331'] I also believe that the state of the toilets are a good pub indicator. [/quote] If you can check out the state of the loos within 30 seconds of entering the pub, you're likely to be greeted with "[i][b]Oi! You buying a drink or what?[/b][/i]" as you leave them ...