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Just the right age , were both 30 and our singers 25 , A female fronted covers band , playing the local area and about as far out as Egham , We rehearse out of a studios in Ashford which is 3 stops away from Twickenham, they Do kit hire if he hasn't got access to his own , We have gigs in the pipeline which were now worried we cant honour ` but will probably end up being delayed ' Ask if he's interested in a chat and fire me a pm we could arrange a beverage or call. Lyle

How old is he , we just lost our drummer today :'(

Fair few of us in Kingston / Twickenham Really aught to organise a drink up . I'm born and bred in Twickenham ( Isleworth really, the nasty bit near the sewage works ;-) I've moved to Kingston now. Its a pretty good place for live music , the eel Pie / patch provide the bulk of it , its a well known quiet-ish overflow area of Richmond Very popular with early 30 something's who want to be near London but not "in London" . I think it depends on your age when I was 18 it was a bit too quiet, I headed into to Camden for my night-life , Kingston is 15 mins on the bus If your looking for nightclubs / bars after for 12 you will need to go to Kingston or into London "proper" about 15 mins on the train. If your just turning 30 and a bit over the club scene, So looking for great pubs , bars and live music its pretty good. Sadly Twickenham lost is only music shop a few years back , so once again new strings its a trip to Kingston . I keep meaning to try the jam night in [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][color=#282828]The Oak , but last time i was in there the beer selection was Carling or Stella and the live band was playing brass in pocket slightly off key , Far too loud for the 6 or 7 folk in there so I walked on to the boaters . [/color][/font]

Lets hope its a stonker when you have finished doing it up , did you manage to test the electronics ?

I've recently got my status back from Rob who was fixing a problem with the active circuit , he was able to tell me exactly what my bass was born to use, Those happen to be status hot wire Half wounds in 45-105. May I suggest a quick call to status with your serial number might allow you to quickly order a set .

So spill how much was it did you get absolute bargain due to it being " nut-less" , * bom bom tish. [i]* ill get me coat*[/i] It looks really interesting I'd suggest you might suffer the same issues I do with my telebass ... without the Pick-ups there's Nowhere to rest your thumb. I'm so accustomed to resting my thumb on the Pu cover on my J that whilst i play floating for the top 3 the E string that it feels very empty indeed.

I just think the Boss bass effects are little long in the tooth these days , released in 2008 , at least the zoom b3 was released this decade , I cant say that i've used one but i do love my B3

I bought one of these new a few weeks ago .... The Piezo seems to be part snake .... I asked one of the guys at work, who has experience running PA systems from a former life of being the sound and light guy for a touring act. He Suggested if I didn't want to disconnect the tweeter ... thus void my warranty a baffle will do wonders for killing hiss , but not the bass sound. Test it by placing your hand over the tweeter on the grill ... If the hiss is drastically reduced ( which mine was ) . Buy some Foam and cut it to cover the region of the tweeter, attach this inside the speaker grill' back with duct or double sided tape . I bought this and cut then taped .... it to fit [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/BLACK-NEOPRENE-PLAIN-SPONGE-RUBBER/dp/B00I0WWG0M/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1460650564&sr=8-16&keywords=foam"]http://www.amazon.co...6&keywords=foam[/url] Hiss = tamed Now if only i could silence that fan ...

Hot tip for anyone who can get to Guildford , Andertons I decided to leave it and bought a CMD121P Markbass combo instead .... it was more money but i just got on with the tone better. There's a Rumble 500 head and the matching 15 cab that I was looking at today, Somone has traded it in but the condition is immaculate, it includes cable , covers bag for the head etc and warranty for £349 , I'm pretty sure thats a bargain right ? Here's the advert http://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-cabs/pid45242/cid686/second-hand-fender-rumble-stack-500-head-38-115-cab.asp

Oh , i didn't say I wasn't keen on a combo , Just not excluding separates from suggestion of looking at when i'm at the store.

A bit of background as this has spilled over from another thread * on the Rumble 500 here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/270307-who-has-a-troublefree-fender-rumble-500-v3-combo/"]http://basschat.co.u...e-500-v3-combo/[/url] Friday I've got the day off to head to the nearest good sized amp stockist to try out some gear, I ran out of volume on my Trace Gear over the Easter weekend . The summary of my issue is pretty much this [i][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Over the Easter bank holiday weekend I played a gig at a social club beer festival and ran out of volume from my Trace 715 GP7 SMC I've never before had to dime the pre-amp gain to squeeze a little more out of the amp just to compete on stage. The performance space was tiny so there was physically no way to accommodate my expansion cab , Usually the trace is enough on its own for this sort of pub / club gig, but apparently the only songs where I could be heard were Chelsea dagger * tubescreamer* boosting me and on uptown funk where its just me for large periods of song.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Our , Guitarists were running at about 6 /10 master on 100 watt fender SS gear , which we had raised , [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]you couldn't hear even hear the drummer . [/font][/color][/i] So help me shop guys, what should I try out , I'm looking around the 500 watts mark, and want to try the Rumble, I'm not wed to the idea of a combo, just coming from trace land I've become accustomed to it. Looking to spend 400-500 tops on a new amp and if it can nail the trace tone it gets bonus points. What I can try at Andertons , what should i ask them to get in from the warehouse as most of the big bass kit isn't in the tiny bass room. [url="http://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-guitar-amps/cid561/bass-guitar-amps.asp#1459279380558page-1"]http://www.andertons...279380558page-1[/url]

Mines rated for 300 , so I thought it was at least 150 @ the 8 ohm with the built-in but 300 with an additional 8 ohm the expansion cab . I've booked a day off for Friday to allow me to head to Andertons in Guildford who apparently have a Fender rumble 500 , to bring up from the warehouse . Cash is sat on the desk , I didn't fancy the weekend , I remember my last trip to Andertons of a weekend .... not the best environment to seriously try some amps I'll start a new thread .... asking for some advice on what else i should try when im there .

For the longest time I wanted a magnum ..... specifically the passive 3 in the grey-burst finishe .... but after playing one in wunjo's a few years ago the sound .... it was not what I'd imagined. Welcome , to the forums

You should trying driving my 6 series with it in the boot ... To say the front end gets a bit squirrelly and light is an understatement. Its around 42kg , So just about 90 lb's in old money ... Problem is the thing has tone for Week's and weeks , makes a rather fetching seat at rehearsals and will still be working long after cockroaches have learn to play bass post the end of the world.

Whoops SMC not SMX Its a 715 GP7 SMC , Perhaps i need to consider more watt's I dont think the Guitard's are going to be convinced to turn "Down" and were talking 100 watt's Solid state through a single a 1x12. Not my photo' but pretty much my exact amp , I don't want to drag the expansion to every gig but maybe its time for a change.

Discreet / all the other rumble users here , does anyone know the differences between the Rumble V3 , V4 V5 ? or even the 2014 edition that Thomman seem to stock . I'm sorely tempted , but trying one of these would mean a trip to Guildford . Over the Easter bank holiday weekend I played a gig at a social club beer festival and ran out of volume from my Trace GP7 SMX ive never before had to dime the pre-amp gain to squeeze a little more out of the amp just to compete on stage. The performance space was tiny so there was physically no way to accommodate my expansion cab unless. Usually the trace is enough on its own for this sort of pub / club gig, but apparently the only songs where I could be heard were Chelsea dagger * tubescreamer* and uptown funk where its just me for large periods of song. Our , Guitarists were running at about 6 /10 master on 100 watt fender SS gear , which we had raised ontop of the PA woofers in sound check because I was worried about their volume projecting into the room >.< apparently you couldn't hear even hear the drummer .

Our drummer has used these for a number of rehearsal's and uses them for silent home practice even using his electric kit was proving to be too loud "he does hit quite hard and wakes his young kids . He is now looking at getting rid of them , not because he was unhappy with the sound but because he just misses the physical feedback from actually hitting a surface ... I think he was also VERY mad when his budget laptop blue screened mid rehearsal it was a £299 Argos laptop that was strugglign running the OS ... let alone aero drums. My advice as both a I.T. professional and musician who's seen it up and running , If you install it on a Crap laptop its going to perform poorly ..... I'd suggest Intel I5 or AMD equivalent .... the other annoying thing is the light sensor ... Its rather BRIGHT ... buy good sunglasses.

Discreet , You've missed out on perfect opportunity to purchase a Green / Teal stingray ;-) SHMBO has just given express consent.

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1457942584' post='3003096'] Why would people want the massive t-bird headstock? [/quote] I'm pretty sure I'd miss the massive amounts of neck dive , I mean what's my left hand for ? if not propping up my boat anchor of a headstock. ;-) Cant say i'm a fan of the Ibanez style stock either to be fair .

I'm going to tell you to to try and find one of the Old Aria AMB50's on ebay if you can , sadly not been made for a few years so ebay will be your only hope. this type of instrument [url="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/usedphotosna/47576885_614.jpg"]https://s3-us-west-2...7576885_614.jpg[/url] I really like mine ... its a rip off of the ovation type guitar with a solid top and a moulded back. Sadly I dropped it a few years ago and split the headstock... ( its stable but ugly now) .. The ABS back really helps with projection and the onboard pre amp is great when you want to plug in to a Venue's desk , get one of the jack to XLR cables and plug it into a HI Z channel. Just make sure you set the volumes as low as possible set on desk / board and have the preamp volume at around 50% then raise channel volume on the PA until your happy with the sound. Or i guess theres always the REAL thing [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ovation-4-string-Electro-Accoustic-Bass-/201537006987?hash=item2eec8aad8b:g:2V4AAOSw-zxWpmzi"]http://www.ebay.co.u...V4AAOSw-zxWpmzi[/url]

I have one of the 70's ones of these, the more premium Mexican range lets call them " fender's classic vibes " here was my NBD post http://basschat.co.uk/topic/278613-new-bass-day-70s-jazz/page__fromsearch__1 The bodies a two piece joined very cleanly and with consideration to the grain its string through bridge, the binding is flawless , and feel is head and shoulders above a standard MiM in quality the neck is isnt a wide paddle like a P but neither is it as thin as a rake like my Bitsa which has a standard neck on it. Mine has that 70's growl which I think is more to do with Pickup positioning than anything else All in all It feel's like it should and there's nice grain showing through the finish. It find it an oddly calm bass its not over light but very comfortable I might have struggled to justify the new price at a store over a second hand American but second hand for far less than a new MiM and I'm in love with it . I'm sure the 60's has the same level of fit n finish so you wont be upset with a purchase.

Did you do the old bolt on strap button mod 40hz ? this all but solves the neck dive issue when coupled with a nice grippy strap .... [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/synthaside/media/bolt_on.jpg.html][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/synthaside/bolt_on.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I never have had or experienced bruising though ... I thumb anchor on the bridge pickup mind when not using a pick ... which may be odd for some but is much more comfortable given how tall I am.

As am I ... At 6'4 and with arms like a monkey the tbird is on of the better fitting basses on me . Well there's this poor unloved little gem if you fancy going to town with some paint thinner on the persons art and an somthing like T-cut on the bodywork. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epiphone-Thunderbird-Bass-Rare-Limited-Edition-Colour-Tv-Silver-Soft-Case-/172117792128?hash=item2813051580:g:HrIAAOSw~OVW1DOA"]http://www.ebay.co.u...rIAAOSw~OVW1DOA[/url] Dammit ...now i'm tempted to buy that and rip the hardware off for mine .... i always though the chrome pickup covers were pretty. Or this .... honest relicing ... i guess that must have been a niki sixx model ??? Its Korean from the unsung factory same as mine ... One of the better for quality control. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Epiphone-Thunderbird/231859916573?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D7cf08f852ffa4de8997a5d8da9c2ddd2%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D172117792128"]http://www.ebay.co.u...%3D172117792128[/url] Buy that ... get Ki0gon of this here parish make you up a new wiring loom for the thing , if i recall its wired identically to a passive jazz. For about 60 quid you have a pretty baddas looking tbird ..which you can take to a biker bar and beat up folk when they invade the stage without worry.