silverfoxnik

[quote name='johnnylager' post='387608' date='Jan 21 2009, 03:19 PM']Can't wait to try it with a Big One and [s]give it some proper f***ing welly[/s] undertake a thoroughly scientific & objective aural assessment of both the amplifier unit and the bespoke loudspeaker cabinets [s]abilty to causing hearing damage[/s] merits.[/quote] Good to see Dr Lager maintaining the quality of scientific research at the highest level..

[quote name='ieuanmacey' post='387031' date='Jan 20 2009, 11:58 PM']Bought Pete's Sandberg Cali JM5 tonight, very easy to deal with and very hospitable too so would recommend to everyone Deal with confidence! Cheers Ieuan[/quote] +1 I bought a bass off Pete in 2007 and he was a pleasure to deal with! More recently when I had a serious PC problem, he offered to help sort things out for me and get me up and running again, which was absolutely amazingly good of him... Enough said!

[quote name='ieuanmacey' post='386950' date='Jan 20 2009, 11:10 PM']Bought Pete's Sandberg Cali JM5 tonight, very easy to deal with and very hospitable too so would recommend to everyone Deal with confidence! Cheers Ieuan[/quote] +1 I bought a bass off Pete in 2007 and he was a pleasure to deal with! More recently when I had a serious PC problem, he offered to help sort things out for me and get me up and running again, which was absolutely amazingly good of him... Enough said!

[quote name='Al Heeley' post='386845' date='Jan 20 2009, 10:27 PM']Beautiful! I love the look of oiled wenge, its stunning, but I hate working with it as I get my fingers full of splinters. Lovely work! Classy, not over-flash but very tasteful pieces of wood.[/quote] +1 Simple and elegant, definitely....

[quote name='johnnylager' post='386255' date='Jan 20 2009, 03:35 PM']I've said it before & I'll say it again - Mark IV head + Sunn 2x15 = tone heaven. Or is that volume heaven? Never used any effects then either.[/quote] I still have the Mark IV head and I really love it.. Wouldn't sell it (not that it's worth much mind) as it's got such great features and I like the sound of it a lot..

Very poignant!

I've had 4 Mike Tobias basses over the years and they've all been excellent..

Looks very G&L like to me, but very cool in it's own right too....

Nick just bought a Radial BigShot pedal from me and it was as smooth a transaction as could be had on a smooth day in Smoothtown! Thanks Nick - much appreciated! Cheers Nik

Wayne just bought my Boss AB2 pedal in super-fast, hassle free time and was a pleasure to deal with throughout! Cheers Wayne - hope to deal with you again at some point... Nik

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='384700' date='Jan 19 2009, 09:29 AM']Bought a splitter pedal from Nik fantastically fast deal and great product.[/quote] Cheers WPD! It's been a pleasure..

[quote name='Monz' post='384340' date='Jan 18 2009, 08:46 PM']Pretty basic but boy did it ratle the room a bit once I'd snuck the master volume up a bit [attachment=18825:bass2.jpg][/quote] In no way does that rig look 'basic'. Quite the opposite in fact; it looks great...

[quote name='mathewsanchez' post='383515' date='Jan 17 2009, 07:45 PM']I want that G&L.[/quote] Me too... Lovely looking bass!

[quote name='alexclaber' post='381912' date='Jan 15 2009, 11:39 PM']A good example is to just think back to when you started playing bass and how much harder you found it to hear the basslines in recordings compared to now after years of experience. Have your ears got better or has your hearing got better? Alex[/quote] Ears, definitely due to more experience..

[quote name='Boneless' post='381043' date='Jan 15 2009, 10:04 AM']Seeing that not many people know what a Peavey T-40 sounds like (not even as a vague idea), I made some samples (I know, I know... they're awful ) just to give, yeah, a vague idea of the T-40's tone. Played sh*te Here goes: [url="http://www.labibliotecadeserta.com/manico-beat.mp3"]Neck pickup[/url] [url="http://www.labibliotecadeserta.com/manico+ponte-beat.mp3"]Both pickups maxed[/url] [url="http://www.labibliotecadeserta.com/ponte-beat.mp3"]Bridge pickup[/url] Tones are maxed for both pickups. I have replaced the pots with new ones (I stripped the tone pots of the coil tap function, it was useless, since the "single coil" mode is really too much lower in volume and it has a "brittle" tone, and I put 500K pots instead of the 250K that were installed in the bass before). Tone cap for the neck pickup is a .22uF now, it's better now since it doesn't "mud up" the tone as much as before. The strings... erm... the guitar tech put some "handmade" nickel strings, and they're awful I'll definitely put some nice ones as soon as the current strings are gonna be too awful to put up with Oh, here's how I recorded the samples: Bass -> Behringer MIC200 in the "valve" mode (it slightly scoops the mids, but it sounds better, really, the T-40 is best amplified with some colour, it doesn't pair very well with "hi-fi" preamps, IMHO) -> Echo Indigo IO -> small Linux app that dumps all input in a file on disk, alongside a Hydrogen demo drum loop The neck pickup sample is played, maybe, a bit too much close to the neck, it probably sounds better when playing over the bridge pickup, but I wanted to "define" its tone better.[/quote] Thanks.. Sounds great to my ears and I really like your playing! I had one 2 years ago and it was really great but very heavy as has been said earlier. I didn't mind the weight but it wasn't getting a look in for gigs because I was mainly using 5 string basses (still am) and if I needed a 4, then it'd be my Wal.. Been regretting letting the T-40 go ever since though...

[quote name='charic' post='381640' date='Jan 15 2009, 07:25 PM']Who knows why we percieve 1-2khz as being loudest then? Latest theory I heard in acoustics (back in uni) is it is approximately the same frequency range as a baby crying. Course were still not sure how we percieve pitch so all of this is irrelevant lol[/quote] That's right.. A babies vocal range is designed by nature to be at the most attention grabbing pitch it can be, purely for survival reasons..