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  1. Beer of the Bass
    Mine was from an eBay seller called solsound_limited. It was a pre-cut piece though, so I don't know if they do big enough pieces for a 2x15" cab.
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    You could always dispense with the metal grille and make a wooden frame to stretch the cloth over like the old Fenders etc. I made a frame and installed silver grille cloth on my old Peavey 1x15", it wasn't too hard and the results look good.
  4. Beer of the Bass
    I never quite understood why AI claim to offer 300 watts output (at 2 ohms) from an amp where the rated power consumption is 250 watts. My Clarus does this too...
  5. Beer of the Bass
    Thought I'd stick this up here, as other bassists are always curious about it. It's my late 60's Carlsbro CS100 valve PA, atop an old Peavey 1x15" fitted with an Eminence Kappa driver, new side handles and sparkly grille cloth. One channel of the amp has been modded to a Fender style tone stack (with the mid control effectively pre-set to 10 with a fixed resistor in place of the pot). I like to overdrive the front end of it with a DHA DI-EQ box when I want a bit of grit, as otherwise it's a surprisingly clean amp at my normal gigging or rehearsing volume. I had this up for sale a while ago, but I'm glad I hung on to it, as it suits the vibe of my current band well.
  6. Beer of the Bass
    It took me a while to realise that the biggest difference in sound between 10" and 15" cabs at the low end of the market (peavey etc.) is that most manufacturers 2x10" or 4x10" cabs have a tweeter and most 1x15" cabs don't. This is a bit of a sweeping generalisation, but is true for most of the cheaper cabs that are knocking about at the kind of gigs I do. And it has nothing to do with the driver diameter!
  7. Beer of the Bass
    I think my home made bass guitar is a keeper, partly because I love the way it sounds, but mostly because it's quite crudely built and weighs 12 1/2 lbs, and is thus unsellable! I put it together in my parents back room when I was 18 (12 years ago) and have slowly improved bits of it since, adding better pickups and bridge, re-shaping the neck and dressing the frets. Most of my other instruments, including my double bass (late 19th century German) I would move on quite happily if something I liked better came along.
  8. Beer of the Bass
    There were some pictures on Talkbass of Herbie Flowers at the O2 arena playing a Squier affinity...
  9. Beer of the Bass
    [quote name='simon1964' post='1105315' date='Jan 27 2011, 05:43 PM']Agree with your comments on the bridge, but I'm not sure what you mean by the neck collapsing into the pocket. Rics are through neck, so I don't follow?[/quote] There's a big, deep rout for the neck pickup which leaves a very small area of glue joint where the body wings meet the neck. The neck can flex forward as the glue joint creeps, and the action creeps up and up. I don't think it's fixable without major surgery. This happened to an Ibanez rick copy I used to have
  10. Beer of the Bass
    For general practice and playing I try not to look at the fingerboard excessively, but I've used pencil marks on the upper positions during recording sessions. It's a bit of a crutch, but my logic is that anything which gets the part down in fewer takes is justified when in the studio.
  11. Beer of the Bass
    OK, question for the sound guys. I'm getting in to using some overdriven valve amp sounds with my current band, so I feel I'm justified in wanting some of that sound in the FOH (though I'm not averse to running a clean DI in conjunction with that). Is it worth either carrying a speaker level DI box around, or getting my own mic to minimise hassle for the sound person?
  12. Beer of the Bass
    My band Jen and the Gents recorded some tracks last weekend, at the Depot Studio in Edinburgh with Garry from CP productions. Our drummer had a camera running through one of the tunes and has put together a wee montage with the finished track. Here it is:
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    I have a Dave Hall DI/EQ box, in fantastic green/yellow splatter finish. Possibly the best way to describe it is to link to Dave's eBay auction for the same box. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DHA-DI-EQ-balanced-XLR-DI-and-3-band-EQ-Q-pre-amp-/310287008723?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item483e8c03d3"]DHA DI-EQ[/url] It looks identical to the one pictured and is in great condition. It's useful as a DI box, or stuck in front of my old valve amp to overdrive the input and add some EQ, and even does a good job as a preamp for piezo pickups on double bass. But what I really need for my particular setup is a good basic DI box, either passive or one which can be phantom powered, with a switchable pad. Not a Behringer please. The current price for a new DI/EQ is £69.99, so it would ideally be a DI which retails for a similar amount, or with a cash adjustment. Anyone got something suitable?
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    Mev Taylors in Edinburgh used to do a rental scheme that was not too expensive, but only with the entry level instruments. I'm not sure whether they still do it though. Edit; yes they do - link [url="http://www.mevtaylors.co.uk/rental.htm"]Here[/url]
  15. Beer of the Bass
    My favourite response to "That's a big guitar!" is "That's an original comment".
  16. Beer of the Bass
    I regularly carry my bass in a 3-door fiesta, either in the passenger seat with the scroll in the footwell, or with half the back seat down and the scroll between the two front seats. Unless it's a smart car or an old mini, you can probably get it in. Buses or trains are usually workable, and it fits in a black cab too!
  17. Beer of the Bass
    Like other posters, I think there's a gap in the market in between small studio amps of 30 or so watts, and 300 watt big-venue gigging heads. So somewhere from 100-150 watts would be great for the size of venue most of us actually play. And a good DI out is essential.
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    [quote name='dan670844' post='1077811' date='Jan 4 2011, 08:21 PM']I was also thinking of the G2 as a first go, but the sound clips don't sound so could it put me off! it sounds very middly even for a guitar amp but maybe it was badly recorded, whats the power tube a ECC82?[/quote] The valves in the G2 are 6n1p and 6n2p - obscure Russian surplus valves! I didn't find it excessively middly - I can get a good crunchy marshall-ish guitar sound out of it, though it was a bit squashy sounding for bass, which is hardly surprising. The type of tone control it uses doesn't scoop the mids like some do, so that may be what you're hearing. Though if I was starting afresh looking for a tiny valve amp, I'd probably use one of the [url="http://www.ampmaker.com/wf-55-4w-tweed-style-amp-830-0.html"]Ampmaker[/url] kits, as their turret board layout looks much neater than the G2's point-to point style.
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    I haven't built the bass preamp, but I have built one of their G2 kits (a 2-watt guitar head). I thought the kit and instructions were well thought out, as it went together without too much difficulty. It sounded great, too. I was tempted by the bass preamp, though I suspect you could put together something similar for less than the cost of the kit (though maybe not - rack cases are surprisingly costly).
  20. Beer of the Bass
    I had TI jazz rounds on my archtop guitar for a while - they were quite different from any other other roundwounds I've tried!
  21. Beer of the Bass
    On the subject of post power amp DIs, does anyone feel there's much benefit of this approach over taking a line out after the preamp if the amp is being played pretty much clean? I'm considering building a box using this schematic to use in between my head (a 100 watt Carlsbro) and speaker. This would be used when PA reinforcement is required, or possibly for recording if I like the sound. Though I could also use a standard DI box from the echo send (preamp out) of my amp.
  22. Beer of the Bass
    I'm about due some new strings, and was thinking of getting some from Status. Can anyone who's tried both comment on the difference between the round-core and hex-core roundwounds?
  23. Beer of the Bass
    If it's one of the better laminated basses with an ebony board, and it doesn't need any work doing, that price seems OK, I'd say.
  24. Beer of the Bass
    Is it considered that rude for a band playing earlier on to leave before the very end of the night? While I'd like to be able to hang around every time, I've usually got to give other band members a lift home, take the dog out before bed and then get up early for work, so it's often not an option for me.
  25. Beer of the Bass
    The bass which has been my main electric for the past decade weighs 12 1/2 pounds, which I guess qualifies as heavy. I built it in my parent's shed aged 18, using a 50mm thick piece of walnut for the body. I never used to notice the weight, but more recently I've found my shoulders aching after rehearsals. In some ways I'd like to find a lighter bass, but I'm kind of attached to my 12 1/2 pound beast, and I get a sound which I like, so I'm sticking with it for the moment. There's a particular unplugged tone quality I've noticed in basses with dense body woods (though I'll accept it may not apply to all) - mine is very bright and sustainy, in a Rickenbacker-esque way, and sounds nothing like any Fender I've played unplugged. So perhaps there's a perception that the lighter Fenders will lean towards a particular tone?
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