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Wasn't this a marketing exercise by the packaging company? Anyway, it's as hard as wood. . . . the cardboard is soaked in resin.
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This bass has been sold. Many thanks for looking. =================== My Mike Lull M5V Jazz is now for sale. It was built in Dec 2007, a 3 tone sunburst with tort pick guard and is in good condition and has been carefully looked after but there is some minor player wear. The sound of this bass, with its 18v pre amp is huge and the range of tones is the best on any bass I've owned. The frets are in top shape and the neck is straight and very stable. The B string can be run through body for an extra fat and solid bottom, but it can be top loaded as well. Currently strung with DR Lo-Riders 45-125. Specs are as follows: - 35” neck - Alder body and Maple neck with Brazilian Rosewood fretboard - Seymour Duncan Custom Shop pickups - Aguilar OBP-3 SK/PP preamp, currently running at 18v (can do 9v as well) - 21 frets - 19mm spacing @ bridge - nut width 1 7/8” - weight is 8lb 11oz (3.96kg) - Includes the original Mike Lull soft case Controls are: - Volume (pull for passive option) - Pan pot - Middle (pull for frequency shift (400/800 Hz)) - Stacked bass and treble (bass at the bottom) All my gear lives in my smoke free back room and this bass has always travelled to gigs in my car. I bought it from Thomas P (I'm hoping he doesn't mind me using some of his photos) because I'd always wanted Lull Jazz to go with my Lull PJ5. Apart from a handful of gigs it's only been played at home. I'm selling to recoup funds after another bass purchase. If anyone wants to try this bass PM me and we can work something out. I can post (at buyers expense) but would prefer not to and can deliver within 30 miles of Kingston upon Thames, or further if I'm going that way. Will not ship outside of the EU due to CITES rules concerning the Rosewood fret board. The only trade I'm interested in is an NYC Sadowsky to replace the Metro I just bought, otherwise no trades, this is sale only. [b] Attached Thumbnails[/b][list] [*][url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_10_2016/post-41379-0-22252500-1476533599.jpg"][/url] [*][url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_10_2016/post-41379-0-23838500-1476533607.jpg"][/url] [*][url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_10_2016/post-41379-0-42113000-1476533615.jpg"][/url] [*][url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_10_2016/post-41379-0-76419700-1476533622.jpg"][/url] [*][url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_10_2016/post-41379-0-08085900-1476533631.jpg"][/url] [*][url="http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_10_2016/post-41379-0-67264300-1476533640.jpg"][/url] [/list] -
How to quickly tell what key a song is in?
chris_b replied to danonearth's topic in Theory and Technique
Don't know what you mean by "root". In Stand By Me you play the chords. -
I always keep my gear in the house. I bought a couple of cabs once that had been kept in an unheated garage over winter and they smelled musty and damp. They worked OK but surely on a long term basis that can't be good for them. Apparently our cat used to get into my 118 Mesa Boogie cab through the large slot ports at the bottom. I discovered this one night when it appeared in front of me on the pavement after I'd just unloaded outside a local gig! I managed to catch the thing and get it back into the car and back home before I had to start playing.
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I hardly ever clean my basses. Don't sweat much and always wash hands before playing, so they never get in too bad a state. Just now I'm selling a couple of basses so I decided to clean them. Wow, what a difference! It made such an improvement that I decided to clean the rest! I don't know which decade they'll be cleaned next but at the moment they look very good.
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An oldie, but romps like a good 'un. . . . Jeff Golub and Henry Butler [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGkplg4iW8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSGkplg4iW8[/url]
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You could get a Squire for this gig and rub it down after every trip up on deck.
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Put "gospel bass" into You Tube and you get every bass from Wyn and Smith to Fender and Yamaha, and that's just the first page. If you want to play gospel, it's a style, but if you want a great new bass with a good pre amp. . . . Where do you start? Fender, Sadowsky, Dingwall?
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. . . . then there's all those Country and Western songs like Wayne Carter's My Best Friend Ran Off With My Wife (And I Sure Do Miss Him). etc etc.
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How do you know from looking at a couple of pictures which bits are the same and which are different?
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[quote name='girya32' timestamp='1491319839' post='3272086'] Quick question, [font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]I was looking at an [/font][color=#323232][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Ashdown MAG 115 Deep cab spec, and it says it cuts off at 2kHz[/font][/color] [color=#323232][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Why so low ? Is it all down to the driver or is there some other filter circuitry added ? [/font][/color] [/quote] What is the problem?
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Sad news.
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"Minimum viable wattage. . . . ?" How long is a piece of string? I usually don't work with FOH so "minimum" is what it takes to fill the room with some left over.
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No one's heard the AG700 yet, but if it's anything like the AG500 it's very clean and punchy, the opposite of the vintage like, TH500. I have a TH500 and am waiting for reviews of the AG700 to arrive from the US.
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Buy a good sound with your ears not your eyes.
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So far I've had an Ampeg 410HE, an Epifani UL410-1 and a Bergantino AE410. I'd say that is also my order of preference about 410's. If you can't get a good 410 get 2 210's. I've had the Ampeg 210 Classic and 2 Bergantino AE210's. Again the Bergs were the best. If you don't gig then there is no need to upgrade your current combo. If you really have to get a better sound at home you don't have to get a big cab to get a great sound. There is a Bergantino 210 in the classifieds that would knock the spots of most others out there and any Barefaced 112 cab will also do a fantastic job.
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If you've just bought a brand new 5 year old bass and don't feel comfortable with that then take it back. I think it's reasonable to expect that a new bass isn't [i]that[/i] old. I would buy a bass based on it's spec and condition. For me the age is only a consideration in conjunction with these criteria.
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[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1491205731' post='3271119'] So in short, if you aren't looking at ditching your rig, you aren't doing it right. [/quote] I'm in several bands and do plenty of deps. The [i]only[/i] way to make this work is to bring my own sound reinforcement. I'm doing it just right thanks.
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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1491159341' post='3270936'] Not active though, [/quote] True, but the best sounding bass I have is my passive PJ5 so pre amps aren't the only way to get a great sound. On the other hand a great bass and a pre amp upgrade could be a winning combination.
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If I might suggest a Fender American Standard Jazz V [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/303149-fender-american-standard-jazz-v-5-string-passive-jazz/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url]
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I guess it's like telling the guitarist what guitar he's going to play or you that you can only play this or that bass. Your sound, in your space, in your "office" and your choice. I'd want that to stay pretty constant no matter where I was playing. I've played without back line, through fold back, in an acoustic duo, on a festival stage, with the full professional sound crew in attendance. Not sure I'd like monitors only with a drummer belting it out right next to me and no sound crew. Also, not lugging 3 amps doesn't seem like a life changer to me.
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Retail is very slow and not in a good place these days. At least it's a good bass.
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[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1491042376' post='3270042'] Eric Clapton is not looking to well. [/quote] I saw him looking worse several times when he was in his 20's!!
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If your rig isn't cutting through in this band you have 4 options. Get a better rig, get the guitarists to turn down and/or change their tone or leave. Assuming you don't want to quit the band, I'd concentrate on what you can easily fix. You need a bigger and better rig. If the guitarists are in your frequency range you don't want to smother them with volume and bass (or they'll be telling you to turn down and the band will sound even worse), but you do need to get a cleaner and more defined sound so you can cut through their racket and be heard in spite of them. Your amp isn't powerful enough, get a clean 500 watt amp. GK, Genzler, TH500 (there are others but you need a clean sounding amp. Tubes are not the answer here) should all be loud enough and sound better than your current amp. You need good quality, punchy cabs. I'd go for 2 112's or 2 210's. The only 15 I'd go for is the Gen 1 Barefaced Compact in the classifieds, which is a powerful and punchy cab that would do what you need. I would be aiming for 2 cabs though. Do you use pedals? I'd start by leaving them out of the equation to begin with. Get a good basic sound first and add stuff like pedals later. Oh, and get some ear plugs.
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Sounds like the drummer is bored with what he is playing. Or maybe he's just bored with you guys all playing the same lines in the same songs. Do you ever swap the set around? Get him to change his drum patterns. Work on some better arrangements. Add a few better songs. You don't need to throw the baby out. . . etc, just liven up what you already do.
