BillyBass

Fired my new RM800 EVO II up in rehearsal yesterday, with a Super Compact. My initial impressions playing the pair together at home has been reinforced. The Ashdown head works well with the tweeterless, 4Khz max, Barefaced cab, and this is a much more suitable pairing than the Super Compact and my MarkBass Little Marcus 500, at least for the stuff we play (mainly rock). I've never had a head with a notched volume knob before and I like it. It enables me to turn the volume up and then back down to exactly where it was before. I am really pleased with this rig.

Our drummer wore ear plugs for the first time at our rehearsal yesterday, so possibly my acquisition of tinnitus will have helped to stop or postpone someone else getting it.

My favourite three King Crimson albums: Discipline, Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair. This was the first stuff I'd heard by the brilliant Tony Levin.

I'm looking forward to this. Its all taste after all but my taste is that Californication is their best album and By the Way and Stadium Arcadia are also very good. One hot minute is also good and Blood sugar sex magic is quite good, stuff earlier than that I am not into.

Looks gorgeous. Is the bridge also a pick up?

You know you are going to have to learn the Batman theme tune on bass now don't you.

Wow! Googling 'Ronnie Rondell' I see it was real! I had assumed the flames had been added afterwards by some clever bloke developing the photo. He lost his eyebrows and part of his moustache doing that shoot.

I take my Elf to rehearsals in case the studio's SVTs fail. Our guitarist couldn't believe how small it was and how loud it goes. I don't think guitarists have such things.

Welcome to the forum. I'll second @ezbass's comment, solid first bass that. My first bass was chosen for a few reasons, one of which being the wood stain matched our furniture and the missus wouldn't mind it so much! I almost never play it anymore.

What might the budget be?

reckon this will start an avalanche of law suits of similarly abused individuals by exploitive bands

The Sweetwater site will display the weights of basses if they have two or more identical basses in stock. The U.S. versions do appear lighter than their tribute counterparts, though that may be down to the current basses they have in stock. A couple of years ago I borrowed a natural ash L2000 tribute from a friend, it was built like a tank.

I'm sat here with my laptop on my lap staring at the Super Compact and RM EVOII in front of me. I am very pleased with my purchase and I imagine most others would be too. Be aware, the bargain basement £286 I paid is no more. They are now charging an outrageous £289.00 for it. It's still in stock though, they must have had loads.

if you don't buy it then someone else will and he'll have it and you won't. Thats a suggestion why you should buy one.

I must admit too being quite envious of you. I was a punk as a teenager 40 odd years ago and got to see the Damned, the Ruts and probably many of the bands you are covering. My covers band does 90s stuff, which I like but punk was my first love and it remains. Couldn't stand the Skids though, saw them once as I liked their support band, but the pretentious tw*t sang 'Into the Valley' in French.

I thought that might be Joe Dart incognito but Joe Dart has less hair.

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Jains believe it's wrong to kill sentient beings. Buddhists believe it's wrong to intentionally kill sentient beings. Nevertheless, doing something without intending to kill but knowing that it will result in death is sailing close to the wind. This is why when discussing 'right livelihood' the Buddha didn't promote farming as a job. Me too. I don't believe in trying to change the world, however, I don't like to see beings suffer.

Unlike many of the Vegans posting in this thread I am a meat eater who has been criticised by judgmental vegetarians for much of my life. I became a Buddhist in 1987 and spent years in Buddhist communities, mainly in Asia; I was a Buddhist monk for 13 years too. The Buddha wasn't a vegetarian and didn't insist the monks were but many Buddhists erroneously believe Buddhists should be vegetarian. There is no justification for killing an animal to eat or make a bass strap out of but there is no such thing as food production that doesn't involve killing animals. Every time you flood a paddy field or run a plough through a potato field thousands of insects and worms etc are killed. It might be unintentional and killing worms may not have the same emotional impact as the death of a cow or pig but it is what it is.

Everybody needs a Super Compact😉 But seriously...I've only played it at home but was really pleasantly surprised just how bright and punchy the combination is. Super Compacts aren't bright, they are pretty FRFR and have no tweeter. I don't like the sound through the MarkBass amp I own, but if you play Motown with a P bass with flats, it might be right for you. I like a brighter punchy sound for rock and, at least at home, this combination sounded fantastic. I will have to take it to our next rehearsal for a sterner test. Is this an end to my amp GAS?

My RM800 EVO2 Musik Productiv purchase arrived this afternoon: I managed about an hour through it when I got back from work early. I really love the sound. Compared to my MarkBass head through the Super Compact, the RM800 is considerably more punchy and bright, though it is warm too. I thought the punchiness might be due to my compressor's attack/release settings so I turned it off and the punchiness remains. The Super Compact and RM800 EVO2 seems to be a match made in heaven.

We have just started doing this. Our singer is in a Christian choir and I think she does it with her church, so she suggested we do it too. Fits with our 90s covers remit.

Welcome to bass chat @MANTIS. Why don't you go over to the 'Introductions' forum on the Homepage and introduce yourself to the rest of the community. If you are MantisKungFu from SBL, then hi!

And governments get away with even more. Their taxes on beer make the stuff, which is 99% water, more expensive than petrol.

You've got a good drummer, that's the difficult bit. Guitarists are ten a penny, guitarists sans ego are more hard to find. We started off as the drummer and me and we have recruited via Gumtree and Joinmyband but we're in London so there is a bigger pool of musicians to tap. We had to go through a few guitarist auditions/phone conversations before getting one that didn't think the sun shone out of his a*se.