nick

I'd recommend a WEM Dominator. Great little combos, not particularly fancy, proper retro look with a lovely tone. Only 17watts, but a loud 17watts - think of half an AC30! Can still be picked up relatively cheap on Ebay, though have seen their prices starting to climb a bit recently. Certainly a cheaper alternative to an AC15 or a classic Marshall 1974 18w, of which it's design was allegedly borrowed heavily from the Dominator.

[quote name='Finbar' post='496171' date='May 23 2009, 05:41 PM']I've come to a conclusion that I really just don't like compression at all for live work. I've tried really hard to like it, and I bought a few compressors (ranging from supposedly bad to supposedly good) to get an idea from more than one pedal, and it just doesn't do it for me. Its either too subtle (regardless of what anyone else says to me, subtle effects don't work in a full band mix for loud noisy aggressive music), or full on too much squish. I don't have a particularly noisy chain, but it usually just serves to raise my noise floor up to more annoying levels too. Question is do I sell the compressors I have, or do I keep them for when they one day might be useful? :/ Am I the only person who has this point of view? [/quote] I'm pretty much the same as yourself too - like to feel the bass 'breathe' a bit. However, I think it can also depend on style of music, playing technique etc. Recently, in the covers band I'm in, found myself occaisionally using a limiter for some songs. But, in my originals band would never use a compressor/limiter, prefer to have plenty of dynamics. [quote name='timloudon' post='496289' date='May 23 2009, 08:33 PM']Can they not be used just to even out levels of other effects? I know that my Micro Q-Tron gives quite a volume boost, although I don't have a compressor, I'd like to be able to level everything out.[/quote] My Q-Tron like all of them is the same, the boost is too much. I'm going to mod mine with a simple output level pot, just to bring volume down to sensible level.

Quite a few years ago, I used to borrow a friend's Washburn B20-8. Lovely bass, but did like to neck-dive. Great tone. They're pretty rare, found a photo here [url="http://www.davedemarco.com/8string.html"]Washburn B20-8[/url] Seems like there might be one currently for sale in Andy's, though probably at a typical Denmark St. bonkers price!

Not even mid-priced, why not try a nice old (80's) Ibanez Blazer, preferably natural finish, ash body. IMHO these certainly give a decent P-Bass a good run for the money. [url="http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Electric+Bass/product/Ibanez/Blazer+Bass/10/1"]Ibanez Blazer reviews[/url]

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='484505' date='May 10 2009, 07:15 PM']Have you seen this [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220411103180"]Commodore[/url] Nick? it looks very similar to the bass in your avatar! [/quote] Well spotted. It is virtually the same apart from colour & mine has 'lawsuity' scroll headstock. That one also looks like it has had a control plate on the back added. I like mine it has quite a nice tone & perhaps surprisingly plays alright. Be interested to see how much that goes for, it's already more than what I paid for mine.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BASS-GUITAR-FENDER-STYLE-70-S-HARDCASE-AND-GIG-CASE_W0QQitemZ120415250984QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item120415250984&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1688%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50"]Nice looking lefty no-name Precision copy[/url]

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='480080' date='May 5 2009, 04:52 PM']Just buy a Nano Small Stone phaser, I got mine for only £38 new online! You could try to build your own but it's a lot of components to squeeze onto a small board.[/quote] +1 Quite a bit to cram into such a small enclosure! I also personally don't think it's that cost effective to build a phaser, though guess that also depends on how much you value your time. Now, cloning 'boutique fuzzes' ; that's a different matter....

Good luck with your relocation. Hope everthing pans out OK. Best

Rob just bought my Black Widow cab. Nice guy. Straight forward deal - no messing around. Had a good chat - some lovely reptiles! Cheers

Nice fella. Bought a Trace Elliot 1153 Cab - good (hassle free) deal. Cheers

I'd give the Bad Monkey a go. I did the bass mod on mine, but to be honest it did sound on bass good prior to this. Plus they can be had cheap. Having said all that, hoping to finish off building a Fulltone Bassdrive clone this weekend. Heard good reports on these too. Essentially another Tubescreamer variant...

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='476726' date='May 1 2009, 09:47 AM']But the Red Hot Halapeno Brothers are also rubbish, always have been. Nothing to do with selling out. Fortunately, racism, bigotry, cruelty and war don't effect me, but Green Day do. Occasionally I listen to the radio (only in the car - no CD player) and occassionally Green Day are played. This means I have to change radio station, which takes effort. Effort takes energy, gained through eating food. The way I see it, skateboarding tossers like Green Day owe me a small refund on my food bill each month. That's why I think they should probably be killed.[/quote] Hence, my previous comment regarding pit of lime disposal method. +1 on all the above. They truly are cringeworthy, excelling in tastelessness in all areas. Personally can't really relate to mentions of sell-outs etc, as for me they've always peddled sh*te - probably one of my all time most hated bands. And, as for anyone mentioning this bunch of turds in the same breath as The Clash & The Skids; now that's unforgiveable. Really glad this thread was started.... I really do hate Green Day!

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='476275' date='Apr 30 2009, 06:38 PM']It's the "zany" faces that wind me up![/quote] [attachment=24609:Twats.jpg]

All three Grade A tossers should be buried in a pit of quicklime.

[quote name='urb' post='474619' date='Apr 28 2009, 09:52 PM']Anyone had a similar experience with other famous brands and preferred something cheap and 'nasty'?[/quote] Had an on-off love & (more) hate relationship with Trace Elliot gear for nearly two decades, though love the V-Type set up I've got now - just a nice sound without much messing with it's (albeit) basic EQ. An amp I personally rate ,had & very much regret getting rid of is H/H VS Musician 100w head with [i]'valve sound' [/i]. Killer amp (IMHO). Will undoubtably buy another, when I find one at a sensible price i.e. cheap! Cheers

[quote name='Bass_In_Yer_Face' post='465418' date='Apr 17 2009, 07:31 PM']Cheers, being a Roxy fan i knew about this one[/quote] Then it's obvious you have impeccable taste sir!

[quote name='KevB' post='465267' date='Apr 17 2009, 05:27 PM']This is a new one for me... .... flippant ps at the end saying that they might not be in the original keys but the person contacting me didn't now which were the actual keys they played them in (must be the snger I guess!) Sounds like fun...[/quote] Uh...oh...just read that bit. Had this happen a couple of times myself.

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='465272' date='Apr 17 2009, 05:30 PM']I'm getting a bad feeling about this... S.P.[/quote] Not necessarily, I say definitely give it a go. You may just lock-in with the drummer, you never know. Plus, if the the band are a reasonable bunch, & understand the importance of bass player - drummer relationships; they should at least allow you both at least a few goes to tighten-up. Sounds like fun & quite a unique experience - hope you enjoy it whichever way it goes. Good luck too!