Wayne Firefly

Good lord !!!

Got sets of Silver Slaps on my cheapo beater and my Sparkleking, just gone to look at a new set, price up from £125 to £175 ish !!! Looking at Supernils now for my beater, anyone got any honest reviews or advice ? I've had Presto / Eurosonic ultralights and like them but I fancy trying Supernils.

We have a Samson XM910 powered mixer/pa head and may get some decent active pa cabs to cut down on weight/size/hassle etc. We sold the giant, hernia inducing Peavey cabs we had and before I search for a passive mixer, I was wondering if we could line out from our little pa head into active cabs, bypassing the internal power stages and just using it as a mixer. If we need monitoring in future, we can use the power section for those and line out to the active foh cabs. Is this at all possible or am I going mad ?

Superb stuff !!! Cheers !!!

Found it. March 1992 copy of Guitar World. I would LOOOOVE one of those. My grail Ibz.

With the state of the world right now, we have a plan to nip out and do some guerrilla busking gigs with our 3 piece rockabilly style band. Guitar, double bass, stand up kick and snare on a strap, 3 vocals. Streets, pub beer gardens etc. We were thinking of a single 15'' cab, class D, 500 watts-ish, rechargeable etc to run bass, guitar, 3 vocals. We are thinking Sansamps for the guitar and bass. What are the best examples best suited to our needs ? Anyone got any ideas ?

Anyone remember this old Trace Elliot advert ? Old stuff like this made quite an impression on me back then !!! Anyone got a better scan of it ?

Unchain the night, cos tonight's the night, everything's gonna be alright, so lets fight the fight, Im a prisoner of love so put the blame on me, Im a victim of circumstance, but the night's on fire, in chains of love, and so on.

I remember someone who had the bass... a red one.... back of the neck was shaped like a 20p piece..... make your own conclusion !!

Im not going to make jokes about wooden balls

To hell with them !!! 'Its for the dog'.......

I may just do that !! I love ideas that are outside the norm but are so simple. Its all, 'Why didnt I think of that !!'

Brilliant !!

I think sounds to me like its along the lines of snobbery. You'd think it wouldnt be a problem, but hey, you learn. I ordered a foam floor mat off ebay for very little, I'll be making a set of them as soon as the mat arrives. You know, the interlocking floor mats you can buy for camping etc. I have some ideas about making them to fit my needs so I may take some pics and post them sometime.

Right. out of the emails I have sent out, I got one reply saying they could not do it due to their workshop not being big enough for working on double basses, although they advertise themselves as being a double bass repair person. Their website advertises they work on a local orchestra's basses. I'm guessing its the cold shoulder from the classical snobs....

Superb !!! I saw this actually, brilliant idea.

I have no problem with my bass being a little quieter acoustically. Its only ever plugged in with the band anyway, and the band is kind of loud. I may have a crack at some DIY F hole foam plugs, seen plenty of threads on such things.

I'll try some ringing around and see how I get on. I'll post any fun results or whatever !!

Interesting replies !! I'm in North Wales but easy to get to North West or Midlands. I'll try ringing around a bit. Also interesting and as I possibly suspected, is what I'm asking somehow sacrilegious to their ideals of a musical instrument ?

Need to speak to a luthier somewhere about properly fitting a second soundpost for loud rockabilly feedback busting. Sent a few emails out to some near-ish to me to no avail. Are they too busy or have I asked for the tattoo equivalent of a facial swastika ?