Owen

G-bitch, Toasted and Loz. Thanks for your kind offers. I am feeling the love. Toasted, I might well take you up on that offer next year.

[quote name='G-bitch' post='104084' date='Dec 13 2007, 09:16 PM']Where do you live?[/quote] Bangor, North Wales.

I have always used a ported cab. I did some gigs over the summer where backline was provided. Ampeg SVT rig. Was it lush? Was it ever! I realise that it is not Hi-Fi and all that, but it did it for me. Do I want to carry a fridge around with me? No. I know that the 810 does not go down as low as "all that", but the whole rig had a certain je ne sais quoi (sp?) that I can't seem to let go of. It had a real punch to it. I know there was a huge valve amp with massive headroom pumping out creamy valve goodness on top of it. How good an imitation of an SVT stack does a Berg 610 + Aguilar DB750 do? I know only my ears can tell me. I do not live anywhere near anywhere that will have anything like this in stock and this is just a sort of preliminary musiing.

[quote name='Buzz' post='101549' date='Dec 9 2007, 12:05 AM']Woah, nearly 4 grand for a case. Methinks perhaps only worth it if the instrument is something extremely rare and worth about 10k +[/quote] Easily done with a violin!

I like the look of your avatar! [quote name='TimmyC' post='98993' date='Dec 4 2007, 05:21 PM']Sweet, I like the look of these.[/quote]

Thank you very much for that and the sound samples. It really makes a difference when you can actually hear these things.

I use a Wood and Tronics one. Very nice. In my experience (x 2 of them) Tribal Planet bags are fantastic. Tribal planet zips are rubbish.

I'd thought of using one of these, but I have found the answer with the old tempo thing and tapping and all that malarkey. I am doing a gig with a keyboardist and with a laptop who is running Ableton so he will be opening all sorts of effects on my behalf and then I just play them.

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='86498' date='Nov 10 2007, 03:37 PM']Im sure someone else had the same problem with the same Gotoh bridge. Gotoh themselves were as much use as a a chocolate teapot iirc. Try a search - bit of a long shot I know. Sometimes searches work better on google.[/quote] That was me. It is no longer made. I looked and looked and looked. Eventually I bought a Badass V (£30 from Ebay.com) because it was the only thing I could find that would cover the real estate of the Gotoh. The good news for you is that I now have a Gotoh bridge with 3 working saddles on it so should be able to sort you out for nowt it you still need help. Let me know.

I will probably have a word with Mr East, but I'm looking for the Fishman because this one actually does what it says on the tin and I figured if it works, don't fix it.

I recently bought a Bolin NS. I LOVE the piezo pick up. It has a Fishman internal pre that Fishman will only sell me if I am a bass manufacturer. The Bolin is very nice indeed, but not nice enough to sell 2 other basses to pay for it so it is going ( [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7971"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7971[/url] ), however I want to install a piezo system in another bass. Does anyone have a lead on where I might find a Fishman pre like the Bolin one (5 individual trim pots on a board.) I used to have a Bongo with Piezos. It was underwhelming, but the Bolin Piezo sound is outstanding. TIA If you see this on different bass boards, forgive me but I'm casting my net as widely as poss.