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Yeah. I think that it makes a difference at the beginning, perhaps, when you're just starting to play and trying to persuade your hand so do different things at the same time. I still think that they've both got an equally complex task to perform and an equally important role in hoe you sound, though, which makes the handedness arguments seem very arbitrary.

It's sounding good so far, but I've only just started playing with it. It's so nice to be able to use the crazy aggressive effects without affecting my bass tone at all. I've been using the patch with the distortion whose rate you can control by using the expression pedal, and it sounds fabulous. I only wish I could somehow use the super-down-octave feature (like on the cryceratos patch, 9B?) on the bass cab, and a distortion on a high one. That would be mighty!

So I bought the Flitesound 1x15 from Wildman (who is a complete gentleman, by the way) on Saturday. Before then I was just practicing, using the Little Mark II into the cabinet part of my brother's Marshall 1x12 guitar combo. As you can imagine, that was not at all satisfactory. Saturday was spent irritating the neighbours with the wonderfully bassy sounds I now have at my fingertips. She sounds great! Especially with the VLE (vinatge-y) know on the LMKII bout halfway up, and the neck pickups down by about a third) Harmonics chime though it! Double-stops are amazingly clear! I'm a very happy bunny. Next I tried to plug my Bass POD in and see what cool noises I could pluck from it. Sadly it didn't sound too great. I didn't have time to tweak and tweak and tweak, an important part of BODding, and I lot some of the wonderful detail and warmth form the bass. My eyes fell back on the guitar speaker. With some tweaking and messing about and tangling of leads (and thanks to the awesome 'Tuner Out' jack on the back of the LMKII) here's what I managed to come up with: It's not sounding quite right yet, but after I've set up the noises properly (and eq'd the guitar amp's ingoing signal quite aggressively) It'll be monstrous. At the moment I'm just making ambient fuzziness with the 12" and letting the Flite play gorgeous uncoloured bass joy! Hurrah! Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. It isn't a real shot of my rig, has a bit about my bass, a bit about my cab, a bit about my effects. Feel free to move it!

I'm a left-hander playing right. Why does it matter, though? Shurely you have to use both hands to play the bass, and they both need to be equally dextrous? I've never understood why you'd learn to play the rarer, more expensive instrument, when you need to train both hands from scratch anyway. Just to be contrarian, like.

Just weighing in to say how much I like mine! Also, I love the manual! It's really nicely written, is very enthusiastic, and has a great section on the amps they modelled, the fx they used etc. Great stuff!

Thanks guys. Turns out there you can buy etymotic-type ones on Denmark Street. Hurrah!

Awesome! Sadly I'm busy that day, but I wish you all kinds of super-luck! Knock 'em dead!

'Bass' - like the fish. My topic rules! In future I will describe my amps not by the speaker configuration, but by the total surface area, expressed in functions of pi. So a one-by-fifteen would obviously be 7.5²[size=4][font="Times New Roman"]π[/font][/size]" I'd obviously prefer a 50[size=4][font="Times New Roman"]π[/font][/size]" array. Stacked vertically, naturally.

I can have be on words sometimes that are too long. Transparency a virtue, no? Nuance also valuable? How to toe the line... But yes, Buzz is a handsome fella, and looks like he should be. What?

Excellent. Vindication. But I like the cut of your jib too, Buzz

How do you say 2x10, 1x15 etc in the real world? I tend to say 'four-by-ten', 'one-by-eighteen'. And you?

Also, +1 to NJW. I don't care about how I sound at the moment, I'm just trying to play in time, so I'd much prefer a place that's £7 an hour with a Peavey 4x10 than £50 with a PJB rig. You have to decide which market you're aiming for. Cheap'n'cheerful? Pro? Common sense tip: Make sure everything's at the same quality level. No point in having a gorgeous bass amp in a room with a janky drum kit/ cheap guitar amps. The low-end fella may love you, but his band won't be back.

Woah! I got censored! how weird! s[Thora Hird]y pretty obviously ought to read st u rdy.

I've used a number of practice rooms, and the gear varies enormously. Ampeg B5R + 4x10 Peavey small 1x15 (not a TNT) Marshall ageing Tube head + 6x10 cab Ashdown ABM 1x15 + 1x15 cab Ancient Peavey + mystery cab. To be honest, they were all fine except the peavey combo, which was just not powerful enough to get the job done. You want something Loud, S[Thora Hird]y and Reliable above all things. The places I go they won't let me bring my own head and plug it into their cabs - annoying.

I (heart) Manics! Up to and including Nicky Wire!

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I'm going! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Sardonic would require being packt in too tight. Oh, whatever.

There you go - everything from punk to mowtown. Get out there with some clattery drums and frantic guitars and you'll tie them together perfectly. Jam with some mowtown mothers and hear that beauty thump away, never obtrusive, never underpowered. I want a P-bass!!!!!!

It's satire so razor sharp that I've lopped off me thumbs. I feel like a human flashmob.

Won't somebody please think of the children! Damn your eyes, Dood!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhh! My beautiful thread!

In this thread there will be no mention of Jaco or Billy Sheehan or that guy from Dream Theater. Whoops. Well, I tried.

Cool. Apologies for the misspot!

Whilst I'm sure those cabs are lovely, he seems to be using a GK speaker that costs around £130, and is thinking about buying another one for £130. (apologies if I've mistaken the model and it's one of the higher end ones) I'm not sure if those high-end ones are necessarily in the budget. Hey PhillBillBass, how does it sound? Modern-y? Vintage-y? Boom-y? Detailed-y? Interested parties would like to know...