chris_b

I totally understand why someone would want to buy an AC or Fodera. That's a no brainer to me. What I can't understand is why anyone would want to pay millions to live in Kensington or Camden when they could have a whole estate 10 miles outside the M25 for the same money. Then again, why does anyone play more than £20K for a car? The bow for a concert grade double bass would set you back more than the cost of an AC so we should be thankful these basses are as cheap as they are.

Thumb is same advice as for the pick. You'll have to mute with your left hand fingers.

Hit the E then the 2 D notes on the A string and after each D your RH plucking finger should come to rest on the E string, thus muting it. Unless you use a pick, I don't see how you have a problem with that. With a pick you'll have to let a non fretting LH finger slightly overlap and mute the E string.

I've had a set on a jazz bass since the summer. I don't play it much but they still sound nice and bright and feel pretty good to play. I'd recommend them.

Love it.

When will the CN210's be arriving?

The TH500 is good but I don't like it as much as the Genz Benz STL 9.2 through a BB2. I prefer the TH500 through Bergantino cabs, but the GB seems to compliment the BB2 better and without much EQing.

So far, I've been paid cash, cheque, had to sign a receipt for the money, had to send in an invoice and been paid a weekly retainer. I wouldn't worry about the money until I found out if the band was worth joining.

Or you could go for this for £275 and add a 210 cab when you get to the gigging stage. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/249840-tc-bg500-210-combo/"]http://basschat.co.u...g500-210-combo/[/url]

An occasional jam? What about this for £100? http://basschat.co.uk/topic/249960-for-sale-fender-rumble-75-reduced/

If you want to play at home, to records, for £49 there's this in the BC classifieds http://basschat.co.uk/topic/249519-laney-rb1-combo-l49-incl/

You seem to be making the assumption that the amp with the most stuff in it has to be better in some way. If Markbass are doing their job properly, and IME they usually do, I don't see any reason to expect a technical upgrade to be anything other than just that.

Martin, thanks for a good sale. Cheers Chris

Progress? I would expect there to be a lot of R&D going on in the D class amp world. ..... and in the analog amp world.

Big drums, tuned down, not quite a detuned as Micky Waller used to go , but that's my drum sound.

Flea uses a lot of hammer ons and pull offs, so I guess your action could be too high? I've just had my Lakland "serviced". It was pretty good to play before but it's so much easier to play now. Look at getting a set up, and practice until to can easily play what you want to play.

"....from where I'm standing...." Which is OK, and the rest of the room is OK because he'd putting the bass into the DI then through FOH. His 210 is nothing like the 210 you're looking at. So you can't draw any conclusions. This rig could work out in the room but you'd only know by trying it.

A closed mind in music is a good reason to take up golf instead.

A comparison from the Barefaced website: [i]Why this rather than the much revered Compact? The treble is brighter and more audible around the room, the midrange has more punch and also has better dispersion, the lows are just as big but better controlled and less boomy. It isn't quite as loud with the volume knob in the same place but it has more power handling so you can turn up more and it'll play pretty much as loud, despite being a lot smaller.[/i] Sounds like the Super Compact is a good one cab solution.

As far as I understand, with generation 2 cabs the way to enhance the top end of a Compact was to add a Midget. They were designed to work together, but the gen2 and gen3 aren't designed this way so they might not sound how you would imagine. This combination might sound great but adding an incompatible cab can also take away from your sound. The 410/115 idea was born out of the limitations of cabs that were available in years gone by. I see your logic and it's the logic that has been used by bassists for years, but modern cabs are better designed and you can get more lows and low mids out of a good 410 these days than you could ever get out of an old 115. I'd suggest an email to Alex for some suggestions.

I'm not sure I see the benefit of running a Two10 and Compact together. Does this mean you already have the Compact? If you need more volume I'd just get another Compact. Drop Alex an email.

Sorry, but I don't believe any sane audience member "walked out of a gig" without hearing the band, because there were music stands on stage. It might make a good story, but I just don't believe it. As is being said, the band can be good, bad, professional or a bunch of amateurs, but there are far better ways of judging that band than their use of stands. Anyone who hates a band without hearing them isn't someone whose judgement I'll take seriously.

I know someone who recently managed a world tour for a band. Half the crew didn't have US work visas due to a cock up before he took over. They still did the tour, with visitor visas for the US, but my friend made himself very unpopular with the management company by insisting those guys couldn't do the Canadian leg because leaving and returning was the problem. They deferred to my friend in the end so i guess he must have been right. You could probably get away with it if you were just playing a couple of gigs in one city (I also know a guy who does that every year) but border control and the immigration service makes things much more complicated and if you get caught you will be deported and banned from the US. You need to Google some info and experiences about this that you can take to your singer.

It doesn't matter. He gets the royalties.

I think you get my meaning......