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    My Spector bass

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, Chris2112 said:

    Early indeed! It's an NS-5CR. Notable for being a Euro will full maple wings and not 35" scale (is it 34" or 34&1/4", I can't recall).

     

    I thought they had the axe-head inlays, mine certainly did?  

    Soloking Roscoe Beck IV copy

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

    Stop using imperial measurements in the 21st Century then! 

     

    Absolutely correct answer!  

     

    Dumb a55 bloody Brits insisting on using Imperial measurements when we've been in the European Union for... Oh wait... we burnt those bridges as well.  ;) 

    Soloking Roscoe Beck IV copy

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Pedant alert... my pet peeve (yes if this is the worst, then I have a fine life).

     

    Weight = 8.9lb

     

    Now is that 8lb 9oz or 8.9lb as in 8lb 14 3/4oz

     

    STOP using decimal points in Imperial measurements, they have no place!  

     

    Carry on, nothing to see here.  ;)  

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    Active PA Cabs, What have you got and are they any good?

    in PA set up and use

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    If it is current/present use then I've just moved from RCF 310s to QSC K10s (mk I).  They are used singly as my personal monitor in a loud band and/or as a single/pair in a much quieter 'acoustic' duo (vocals and guitar through them).  The RCFs were great little cabs that punched above their weight and were drafted in a few times to supplement a larger PA with RCF 15s.  The move to QSC was as a result of the potential that they would be my only reference for bass + band mix.  Despite the wattage difference being 350w (RCF) up to 1000w (QSC), there was very little real world difference in perceived volume but the QSCs were all round a more 'musical' tone, especially if you put the 2 side by side and played prog music through them.  

     

     

    FRFR

    in Amps and Cabs

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    11 hours ago, Elfrasho said:

    Hopefully I can hijack/resurrect this thread and ask, what's a good option out there under £250? I'd prefer a 12" and wil only be used for monitoring, but I fancy one. I've tried the headrush 12" which would be ideal but if something out there for a good wedge cheaper can do the same job id be keen to hear.

     

     

     

    RCF310a - Don't worry about it being 10", mount it on a speaker stand at head height to the side of stage where you stand (if you move around stage a lot you need to rely on PA foldback) and you'll hear yourself no problem.  It isn't strictly FRFR but tbh I tried the 12" Headrush AND Alto speakers and the RCF was more effective and didn't require as much EQ putting back into it.  Budget wise I just sold a pair of the 310s for £380, to buy a pair of used QSC K10s for £800... they are not twice the speaker of the RCF but they can be used as a better fit for various applications that I need.  

     

    Oh and just for giggles; I've chased the silent stage/IEM/monitor/preamp/IR/Profiler for over a year... to come full circle back to using my Thunderfunk 550 amp and a Genz Benz 212 cab for 'MY' on-stage monitoring.  :)  

     

    If I need to use my rig for small rooms I can do so without troubling our PA and as the venues step up in size, my DI (which is always, regardless of room size,  fed to the PA so that anyone using IEM can get my signal) gives the option of taking the heavy lifting.

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    Is there such a thing as a simple, compact pedal that can profile/capture amps as per a Kemper profiler

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    35 minutes ago, Aidan63 said:

    I did a bit more googling and found someone who does personal IRs, and has some bass rig IRs already, so maybe worth contacting RobHobson, with the Boss IR2 pedal you'd be sorted; maybe 😃

     

    I've taken a step back from the whole digital/profile/IR/cab sims et al and had a good think.  Personally I think I got swept along by other people's desires and opinions in my bands (silent stages / IEW etc) and lost sight of the fact that I get a great sound from my gear (amp and cabs) and the new 'direction' was just trying to replicate what I already had but in an alternative form.  If an amp and cab sounds great to me and works, I can still send a DI feed to the desk which can do what it needs, why would a pedal/preamp/Kemper etc be any better?  My bass sound on stage can't detract from the FOH bass sound and if the band member using IEMs wants to hear the bass he can just blend it from the desk.

     

    In short; a digital/pedal/preamp format gains me nothing over what I've used traditionally.

     

    Don't get me wrong, some of the profiles I've heard are excellent and a profiler gives you the chance to switch from Mesa to Ampeg to Hi-watt via every amp in between BUT I personally use pretty much ONE sound for every gig and I like my Thunderfunk, so why would I need the ability to have all of the others in a 'live' setting?  Studio guys might love this flexibility but surely the studio has this facility?  

     

    Either way, I'm reverting to amp>cabs+old school pedals.  :)  

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    paying cash for a bass?

    in General Discussion

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    I could be wrong but someone trying to shift wedges of dodgy money is probably going to flag up well in advance of a meet up i.e. they'll not be ar5ed about haggling or may not even care about the instrument.  To top it all off there are probably more counterfeit F*nder basses than their are counterfeit notes!  Just saying.  ;)  

     

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    How was your gig last night?

    in General Discussion

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    Last night's gig was 'work'!  I turned up, I entertained, I got paid, I went home.  

     

    We were booked to play mixed covers (2x45) at a working man's club in an ex mining village, to an audience of regulars + the local football team's presentation award.  Well, the football attendees didn't turn up, the heating in the club was broken and as a result the few punters who turned up didn't stick around, mainly due to the fact that it was a massive flat topped concert room that could easily hold 500, hence it was 'cold'.  In fact I had to play the 2nd set with my coat on (it was a nice coat btw).  To top it off some young woman thought it was OK to ascend the stairs to the stage to take over on the vocals!  We immediately stopped playing, which is just as well because it meant I was on hand to grab her arm when she drunkenly brayed her head off one of the club's speaker cabs mounted on the wall.  As the woman was lead away by friends, the band started up again (back in on the same bar we stopped on without even a count in :) )... only to have to stop 16 bars later as the drunken lady's friends shouted abuse at us for not letting her sing!  Hey Ho, they were escorted from the building by club staff.  However, 2 songs later we stopped yet again mid song, as 3 club employees remonstrated with a drunken bloke who was staggering around an empty dance floor with a full pint in his hand ('NO glasses on the dance floor' signs displayed all the way around the room).  We got through the rest of the night, stripped down (photo of my rig so it didn't take long... thankfully), got paid, with apologies from the staff and promises to get us back as we were great and 'SO professional'.  

     

    It sounds like a whinge but it isn't really!  I've been doing this for 40+ years so I know that I will get nights like this (and possibly worse) but who knows, the next gig might be a screamer and balance is restored!  ;)

     

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    Is there such a thing as a simple, compact pedal that can profile/capture amps as per a Kemper profiler

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, spencer.b said:

    Excuse my ignorance but is the profiling thing on bass about going ampless? I get it if it's IEMs and I get it for guitar but a lot of gigs the bass is a DI going foh in front of the amp , sometimes a mic' d or a DI from the amp but IME often not even on big stages with an SVT 

    So would a bassist with a kemper give the engineer an out and get it back in the wedge and the kemper signal go FOH ?

     

    For me the Kemper was a complicated solution to a 'silent stage' set up.  I tried various modelling pedals to FOH + IEM but nothing sounded right to me.  Moved to various pre pedals to FOH + monitor but not convinced.  Kemper was the ideal solution to capturing my amp and cab sound to send to FOH + my monitor but it is overkill.  I spent a long time doing proper A/B comparisons and eventually plumped for an analogue preamp pedal + effects with 1 send to FOH and a split out to my side-fill monitor.

     

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    Turning gigs down…

    in General Discussion

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    What will the net gain be?  

     

    I've viewed some gigs as 'paid rehearsals'... but if you aren't getting paid it isn't even that!  

     

    Personally (certainly lately) I value my time and the other things in life I'm putting off for these gig times.  If you and your band mates have absolutely nothing else on, then maybe crafting your live performances  could be a good thing!  

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