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NancyJohnson

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  1. NancyJohnson
    Why do you insist on posting something, then going in seconds later and changing/appending the entire post? I suspect it will change again while I'm typing this. My quote (as detailed above) was THE ENTIRE POST, then you go in and change things adding I'm now largely ignorant as well as suffering with hearing problems. In closing, this from your last post; it's not like you have a licence to dictate which kind of subjects people are allowed to post threads about, as long as it is relevant for the topic of the forum. I mean, what? Who is saying what you can or can't post? You're making these posts that people are struggling to understand, they're offering advice and you're responding by saying people are jerks (Geezer Butler pickup thread) and now you're effectively bellyaching because members are critiquing your meanderings on a semi-public forum. You really aren't endearing yourself to people here, especially when you start quoting James Joyce at them because that's the way you write.
  2. NancyJohnson
    Good grief.
  3. NancyJohnson
    Yeah, I have. Amazing really. No sorry, I made that up. What I meant to say was, can't say I have and don't really care.
  4. NancyJohnson
    Ooh, I clearly touched a raw nerve. But yeah, all said and done, you're spot on and I haven't got a clue about anything. How stupid of me to think otherwise considering the 30+ years of playing, live production and studio work under my belt. (Oh, and as I'm still playing nice, I'm not even going to rise to such juvenile comments about the BDDI and tone being all about the mids.) I'll reiterate what I've posted here and elsewhere many, many times; tone is subjective and a very personal thing...what you may strive to achieve in isolation or believe you're bringing to the game means nothing in a full band context. Your endless tweaks will just disappear and become lost in the mush. Sure, you'll feel good about yourself, but trust me, pretty much nobody (well, except maybe members of the bass player collective), is ever thinking the bass sounds good, period. Anyhow, moving along, as @krispn has posted twice, sound clips would make a difference; let's hear it rather than read it.
  5. NancyJohnson
    No, no they don't.
  6. NancyJohnson
    I'll say this first off, I couldn't finish reading the original post; it's like when you're watching a film where there's a mad scientist with a blackboard covered in unfathomable calculations and he's screaming that in a few hours he'll work out how to time travel. While I'm sure the OP harbours a passion and an element of madness for his/her tone, I'll pass along something that I've learnt from my long and varied experience of bass playing in bands and studio sessions, it's that (read carefully); nobody except you cares what you sound like. Truth hurts, eh? Understand that all these boxes, these nuances, these dB tweaks that you're throwing in are going to be lost in a band context; if you want a gnarly but polite Jean-Jacques Burnel tone, just dump all the existing outboard gear and buy a Tech21 Sansamp BDDI, roll back the drive and plug it into the effects return on your amp.
  7. NancyJohnson
    Rickenbacker aside, everything sounds pretty much the same, or more to the point, I am able to dial my desired tone from any pickup configuration.
  8. NancyJohnson
    ^^^ This.
  9. NancyJohnson
    A couple of days ago Rick Beato premiered Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone is his series of What Makes This Song... Despite my punk musical roots, Spotify tells me that this and Love Song by Sara Bereilles were my two most played songs of 2020. Go figure. This is a wonderful, wonderful song. Original: Rick Beato
  10. NancyJohnson
    Weren't there some Planet Hollywood leather jackets that keep popping up?
  11. NancyJohnson
    It was Neephid (a member here) who renovated a Ripper. Send him a message! @neepheid.
  12. NancyJohnson
    If you haven't already done so, I'd shoot a message to @neepheid about the varitone; mine isn't fitted to a bass, it's on an Epiphone Phant-o-Matic guitar: You've not been specific about what the issue is, but maybe if it's a general fault with an existing one, rather than repair, just consider replacing it. They are available easily enough (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-position-VARITONE-switch-for-guitar-and-bass-Longer-Thread/254905423963?hash=item3b598c185b:g:v6AAAOSwH2VcBFiW).
  13. NancyJohnson
    Not used Rotosounds for years. I have D'Addarios on my Lull at the moment simply as they were in my box if stuff. Failing this, Elixir Nanowebs.
  14. NancyJohnson
    Opening myself up here, but with amp/speaker/cabinet advances you have a ton of options available to replace a 400w, 2x10 combo weighing 80lbs (80lbs!). Ask yourself what your budget is, how much power/headroom you need, size/weight/portability, what you want it to do (subjective, but what style if music do you play?), do you need a combo as opposed to a head/enclosure set up. ...answer these and you'll have dozens of members chipping in.
  15. NancyJohnson
    It's odd how things have gone for me cabinet wise...I started on a 1x18, went through a vareity of combos with extensions, I used to have this Laney set up of a 2x15 and 2x10, then onto this huge Trace Eliot driven tri-amp set up thing (two SWR cabinets and a bright-box), Ashdown MAGs, the Hartke endorsement (1x15/4x10), then I won Alex's Barefaced Big One Protoype (which is about a metre away from where I'm typing this). My home set-up is currently a Darkglass 1x12, which is nice and gnarly - I'm hoping they'll do a matching 1x15 this year, buy that would just be a vanity purchase. As time has gone one, I've become very much a one box solution type of player (OK, while the AO900 isn't doing it for me, the wattage on tap is hard to deny when I'm pushing the dUg through it). If the Boom Matrix had been around ten years ago, then I certainly would have given it some consideration; it does tick all the boxes.
  16. NancyJohnson
    @Wolverinebass and I had a lengthy chat with Alex at a Bash a few years ago; I'm sure he'd be bonkers enough to build a prototype. I've no idea how the internals would work... I'm assuming that the 2x10s would need to be in their own box inside the enclosure? It's a tiny cabinet.
  17. NancyJohnson
    If I were gigging and my back was in better shape, this would suit me down to the ground. All bases covered. Weightwise, it's 56lbs...considering my Darkglass 1x12 is 28lb, that doesn't seem too much. Put some wheels on it, job done.
  18. NancyJohnson
    Can't we just get past the names and claims? It's an interesting combination of speaker/horn content and irrespective of heat etc. it'll easily handle pretty much anything you squirt into it.
  19. NancyJohnson
    This morning I'm on a delicious playlist of Motion City Soundtrack and Justin Courtney-Pierre. For the unitiated, the first time I heard Motion City Soundtrack they reminded me of what The Police would sound like if they'd started now and added another guitar and some quirky keyboards. Since their (temporary) breakup, singer Justin Pierre has done a couple of solo things and fronted the quite wonderful Farewell Continental. I'll say this unquestionably, if you like these two tracks, you'll like everything. The second video below is worth a watch just to try and work out a) how they did it and b) how they got porn-actress Klio Valentin to do it.
  20. NancyJohnson
    She's not 'had a go'...
  21. NancyJohnson
    Interestingly, I was just looking for Cruisebasses on Reverb and this one was up for sale by a Russian store about eleven months ago. Certainly seen some miles...
  22. NancyJohnson
    Over the last few weeks, I've just been putting stuff away in cases as I'm not playing that much (recording all done), so I only have three out, two Lulls and the Hamer. The Hamer is the only bass I've really been picking up, probably because it's always plugged in. It's had a few tweaks, several small neck adjustments (which I don't think is fully there yet) and some deep cleaning. I put some Dunlop Straplocks on it, but the biggie was swapping out the stock DiMarzios for a PJ set of EMG Geezer Butler pickups. I also took that opportunity to insulate the control cavity with copper-tape. The DiMarzios were just a bit too shrill for me; the EMGs haven't stripped out the soul of the bass, just phattened and hotted things up somewhat, so highly recommended. I haven't recorded with it yet...we haven't got anything new to record and it arrived too late for the last sessions (the guy producing likes my five-string Lull tonally, so for now that's all I've been using really). From a living-with perspective, I'm very happy, yes. 95%. While subjective, it plays nicely, tonally it does what I want it to do through my gear. It's quite light, neck profile is comfortable. It's all good. If another first-generation one came up for the same kind of price, I think I'd consider pulling the trigger on it.
  23. NancyJohnson
    Yup...they had a front facing 12" with an angled 12" behind it that fired out of a port at the bottom.
  24. NancyJohnson
    I suppose those darn Yanks just go with the big numbers (I've also amended my initial post, it's a 2x10, not a 2x12), link here: https://www.boombasscabinets.com/products/bbc-matrix/ The wattages shown say, 'Power Handling: 2,200w, Program 1,100w' whatever that means. I do remember Alex from Barefaced saying that cabinets will take a bit more than their quoted output, so in real world usage examples, 1,100w or 2,200w. Potato/Potato. They also have a custom shop so you can customise finishes/grills.
  25. NancyJohnson
    I've always pushed outboard gear through the FX return since the days of BassPods and Ashdown MAG combos, so I'd never put the dUg through the front input. The prestage will always colour whatever you're pushging through it.
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