NancyJohnson

Stagetrix Setting Saver Pens. Strings. Might see if I can pick up a Fishman Fission bass stomp box.

I'm still not sure whether it's actually even on sale yet.

I woke up thinking about this today (strange that). How's the project coming along? Amazingly been over a year since the last update. P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMIZ05g1Ko

I had a Gretsch Electromatic one. Hmm. I bought it as an option to allow me to write guitar stuff off a low B more than anything else. It was a novelty instrument really; wanted it more than having it. Sat in my rack for a bit, sold it, don't miss it. P

I believe many manufacturers are missing a trick here; there's a lot of bass players who have their signature tone (via stompboxes) and just need to amplify that AND there is some movement towards smaller/lightweight gear. I looked at the SWR, but was put off by the lack of headroom and eventually went for a TC Electronic BH800. I just run it with the tone controls flat. Works for me. Good luck with the search.

Anyone own one of these? I've wanted one since Hamer were actively promoting these with 5x7 handout postcards in the 80s. They don't come up that often...just interested to know if anyone has one of the original models and how well they've stood up to 30 years of use. Cheers P

OK, my time to weigh in. Bought a BH800 before Christmas. Compared to the weight of my old 4U rack, it's a dream. (I still have the old gear.) Tend to use it flat tonally and have the Duff Chorus and SpectraComp on the two TonePrint channels, albeit used sparingly. As of yet I've not found anything to replicate the input tone of my Sansamp BDDI, so at present I'm still using that for dirt. TCE don't seem to be too interested in entering into conversational poop with end users; there's loads of open questions on their forum (there isn't even a proper forum for BH users!). By the way of positives, it's light, loud and sounds pretty decent without the Sansamp. Interestingly, it's possible to blend the pickups from my Rick into the front and rear inputs. Negatives? Not enough dirty patches and there's been hardly any new TonePrints in the last three months. The BH800 is supposed to be their flagship bass amp, but will only accept TonePrints written specifically for it. The drive options are pretty poor/unusable for me, so the BDDI stays in my gigbag. P

I bought a TCE BH800 head before Christmas and have been looking at both the 2x10 and 2x12 versions of these (one of each); that pairing should give me options for home/jam/gig situations. Looks very pretty!

I've just revisited this thread. Interesting observation on the [i]guerilla marketing[/i] front is that the OP has pretty much disappeared...his last post to BC was mid-February. Job done on his part, eh? Heh.

I saw something on You Tube where some guy passed his strap behing the belt on his trousers and it 'solved' whatever issues he was having with whatever lug position, tilt and dive issues that he was apparently experiencing. Personally (and repeating what I've posted at length elsewhere), I've never considered these petty arguments about neck dive to be anything more than hot air. Never had a problem...you see I play with two hands.

Irrespective of the loveliness expressed in the previous comments, aren't Fender simply alienating potential buyers by selling a West Ham themed bass? Look, I'm never buying another Fender, plus I am a lifelong Chelsea supporter - through the ups and downs - and I wouldn't be seen dead with a bass, irrespective of how good it is, in West Ham livery. P

Fan of both bands, so win win here. Just spent about half hour watching clips, despite quality, all good. Do have some concerns about the future of Alkaline Trio too. From the perspective of Tom, I enjoyed Box Car Racer and like AVA quite a lot, so (hopfully) a win there too.

There was some nonsense circulating a few years back about the extension of the E-string gave for a more even tension...no idea as to the validity of this.

I've made preliminary enquiries with both Lull and Bass Direct - there's no black ones available, but Lull have all the bits ready to build one. I have a couple of choices here...Bass Direct price is £3.1K (eek!), but I could get a mate to pick one up and bring it in when he makes a trip over (which is frequently). The long and the short of this is that I'm going to do my darnedest to land one, one way or another. My wife has given it a conditional thumbs up, but I'm not allowed to dip into last years redundancy swag, so I'm gonna need to sell a couple of basses - probably the 4003 and one of my Thunderbirds. That should do it. Wish me luck. P