Rollin Thunder

For me started around 9-10 years old 

Iron Maiden as they where my first real band obsession and everything that rolled for me musically started there. slightly about AC?Dc and as much as AC/DC are truly great Maiden always had so much more about them. this Led to Judas priest Kiss Def Leppard all the way through to thrash death grind core out n out hard rock and metal that's 80% of my music still nowadays. Before that it was shaken Stevens and Adam & the Ants (no bad thing specially Adam Ant)

Next The Manic Street preachers, around 19 years old first real none metal band totally changed and opened my mind to other forms of music and what else was out there. Led be backwards onto The Clash (which i am blasting out as i am typing) The manics biggest inspiration, then backwards to the Who, west Londons predecessors to The Clash and the Who off course need no introduction the most important and inspirational band of all time for me more so than the Beatles.

Then Thin Lizzy the band i discovered later in life in my mid to late 20's circa 2000 Ish i was always aware of them and had passing liking to (how could you not with such an impressive list of banging anthems) but started to really get into their albums, pre 2000 had a best of and live n dangerous. really Indulged them over the last 20 years and they are second to not many, arguably the greatest Hard rock band of all time, ahead of some pretty stiff competition. It just shows the bands that have the biggest effect are not always the ones you start listening to when your mid teens.

I don't like the Beatles much overrated but i was brought up on my dads Beatles records and these where the first music of any kind i was introduced to at a very young age when the Beatles had only been split 5-6 years earlier, there influence is on everything to just about everybody, but too music hall and lacking any sort of edge at all for me, the Beatles simply don't rock.

I am sure the usual suspects will roll up on this one ie fender rumble, but I would highly recommend anything in the Peavey max range, great features great natural tone great price range, fantastic little practice amps and the 112 & 115 vesiobs can be used for small gigs rehearsals.

the new Ashdown combi range looks great as well.

18 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

Use the effects send to go to your amp. Main send with a TRS-XLR to the desk

what it will let you do too is add any blocks that you don’t want going to your rig after the send. eg if you are playing through a cab you probably don’t want to put a cab sim in your rig, but you might to the FOH

So if you go instrument out through the send output does this essentially bypass the Stomp completely, or I guess you can route two signal paths, one via send output and one in standard left or right out.

Also following this as I want a to send my signal to GarageBand but want to still play using amp rather than headphones. 

14 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

Not in the Helix Effects they aren’t, which is what I was talking about. I have done what you do with my Stomp though. 

Sorry miss read, using the darkglass as a preamp without the distortion or using it really low level distortion like gain at 1-2 max gives plenty variety as a pre amp. 

I was originally just going to get the helix effects as I was not initially bothered about amp sims as I like my current amp, but effects was out of stock so took a punt on the stomp which I prefer now and really enjoy the amp sims.

19 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

I mean the Darkglass and BDDI sims. Both are technically bass preamps. Not sure if the Ampeg Screamer counts.

All the amp sims are available as a pre amp only, this is pretty useful for getting a nice cleaner bass sound and eq/preamp. The Pearce on clean channel and GK are good for using as just a preamp, this is what I use then run effects into it, bit of light grit from the heir apparent works great. 

On 04/09/2019 at 20:44, Jus Lukin said:

This might help though...

Wow, I used to love moschops when I was a kid, though I was the only one to remember it. 

Someon shouls make make a distortion pedal in honour 

18 hours ago, bassfan said:

I’ve got some time tomorrow. Growler and tron down look useable!! 👍🏻👍🏻

I have used and saved as presets and used them as a base to tweak from. Still not quite nailed a Jon lord Hammond organ yet.

Been fiddling about using synths to get a Hammond organ sound,thinking Jon Lord or a bit Iron butterfly. Not quite getting there, but having fun experimenting. Has anybody got a setting for a patch. 

Got this for sale, awesome pedal light drive to fill on, only selling as i have a helix stomp 

Peavey max 112. 300 watts, 18kg very loud £280, I bought a rumble 100 and the Peavey to A B them and the rumble went back. Nothing wrong with the Rumble, but the Peavey beat it hands down in every department, the only thing the rumble has over it is a send return, but the newer Peavey has that now. 

Great sound on its own as well the Peavey but I mainly run it pretty clean with my stomp but not it. 

Its right price right watts (loud) cannot recommend it enough. 

On 11/11/2019 at 20:15, Mickyk said:

The one i'm leaning towards is the C115 ,weighs in at 28 kg but i might just use it for home practice, interesting point about noisy fans,?would you say it is louder that a computer case fan,because i've just sprayed mine with some silicone spray seems to have worked .

See your point about the 210 it says it weighs in at 35 kg.

 

 

Fans not that noise, computer tower yes that's a fair comparison, it not seems loud at low volume practice, don't notice when it's cranked a bit. 

22 hours ago, Mickyk said:

Hi guys,As a follow on really from my last post about trying to get that old school vintage sound,i have decided that i don't need another bass,i just put some  Adagio Flatwound Strings on my Yamaha BB424x and i have followed members advice on here.However i,m not quite there yet so i feel that a new Amp may compliment that for me illusive vintage sound i'm after.

So with that in mind i have been looking at the Ashdown MAG Series of Combo amps which i intend to use doing small gigs.I must say i like the look of them with the British Racing Green Front Panel,and the prices seem competitive from my local PMT in Nottingham.

Anyway my question is bearing in mind what i'm trying to achieve,which one should i go for.There are 3 , Starting out with a single 10 inch speaker,and one with 2 ten inch speakers and lastly one with a Single 15 inch speaker.

So come on help me decide will ya.cheers.

Here's a link....https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/products/bass/bassamplifiers/basscombo?manufacturer=922

 

I had a Mag 115, amazing sounding amp loads of features, sound wise hard to beat. How ever, fan can be a bit noisy  at home for practice( fine for rehearsal/gigging)and its very heavy and award to carry, and the 210 is even heavier, it's a right workout moving it about, and I am a big strong lad.

sound wise superb.

On 09/11/2019 at 13:38, bartelby said:

The rig looks really happy about the whole thing!

It looks like a really happy robot

On 08/11/2019 at 11:03, No. 8 Wire said:

I give up!

I'll just have to order it and if it doesn't sound like a Hiwatt DR201 and come with a wrist band, spandex trousers and  free wedge monitor purely for use as a foot rest... I'm sending it back!

It does not, I sent mine back with a strongly recorded bass line of complaint.

20 hours ago, Craigster said:

Thanks guys, more good advice. Very useful. This is some of the line in /out spec for this combo... 

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• Effect Send and Return
• Line Out
• Phones out
• Tuner out
• XLR DI out
• Switches for ground lift, Sub Sonic, DI Pre/Post

According to he spec on your amp it is 150w and 200w peak even though it's sold as 250w, so it's probably a good little practice amp but not a good gigging/rehearing amp. Use the Di out to pa speaker or to a powered cab, to get the extra volume you need. 

41 minutes ago, lemmywinks said:

Sounds like you need a more powerful rig if you're after more clean volume, if your combo has a speaker out then an extension cab would be your best bet. Maybe you can try compression and a high pass filter but from your post it sounds like the crux of the problem is not enough headroom. With an extension cab underneath you'll be able to hear it better as well due to getting your combo closer to ear level.

 

I use a Fishman Pro Platinum preamp pedal which has those features and also a tuner etc but it isn't a magic wand to make your amp louder or cleaner.

This.

And also speaker size is important, not just watts, a 250w 15” or 2x10 with push more air (volume) than a single 10” or 12”  add an extension cab, Di out to an external pa speaker or unfortunately have to get a bigger rig, if you have a £150-£180 budget you can you an extention second hand or part ex on a bigger amp.  

On 20/09/2019 at 17:17, Frank Blank said:

Well the Stomp needs a ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ on the packaging. I had no idea that it was capable of speeding up time, I sat down around 11 this morning, plugged it all in and started noodling away setting up my own presets and I looked up, 10 possibly 15 minutes later, and the clock said 16:30! Brigadier..!

 

Love this pic might steal it

20 hours ago, edstraker123 said:

I completely agree - had a few guitars and basses before and never really bothered using it but on this one a pull on the volume turns it into a different beast and then the same to the 2nd volume and it's something different again.

I like coil tapping the bridge pickup and having a slightly lower volume than the neck, get a great tone like that. 

5 hours ago, grayn said:

Congrats, it looks very nice indeed.

Does this mean that Gibson have finally built a decent bass?

Oh yeah, that bridge looks the business, as does the confused grain.

I've gotta one of these in wine and red, it's an awesome bass, everything from vintage warm to Spector style thump and growl. 

Love mine and some bargains about. Got mine from Dawsons too, ordered it in to collect from Leeds shop.

Yes it's a Mexican 

I had a second hand spectre, it was ok, nothing wow, bit muddy sounding, and harsh at the same time, moved it on.  I have heard that neck thru models are better rounded warmer sound but still gave bite, my Gibson EB does that better than the spectre did. May try a NT model at some point in the future.

2 hours ago, Nothingman said:

Orange burst still up for grabs? 

It's is nut got another buyer interested so first one to paypal me gets it. Message me and f you want it.

Price dropped, £550 getting Lots off attention but no solid offers so far. 

Fender Noir ltd edition P bass upgraded with superb EMG Geezor butler pickups. With the upgraded pick ups, this bass is up there with the best sounding P bass you will ever play.

Great looking great playing Bass, just does not get played enough by me.

No trades at all.

Pickup or delivery at buyers expense.

On 31/07/2019 at 15:40, geoffbyrne said:

So,

 

Which knob is best for metal?

 

Aw c'mon!!!! Somebody had to say it......!!!!!!

Bib throbbing purple ones that go to 11, obviously!

34 minutes ago, Marvin said:

You could buy 2 of these 😜. To be honest, I don't know what they're like. The head is basically the MiniMax which seemed to get decent reviews when it came out.

 

https://www.thomann.de/gb/peavey_max_115_2.htm

Beat me too it.