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 !!

1 minute ago, jrixn1 said:

I did try to source a wooden-coloured tennis ball.  However they don't seem to exist so I ended up with a yellow one as well.  Business opportunity for any entrepreneurs out there!

Im not going to make jokes about wooden balls

Just now, 6feet7 said:

The only problem is that everyone will ask you why you have a tennis ball stuffed there

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 !!'

Just now, 6feet7 said:

I've wedged a tennis ball between the tailpiece and the body. Cuts down the vibration and feedback from the the top of the body beautifully. Cost nothing and totally reversible.

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. 

15 hours ago, Blartfactor10 said:

Crikey! get a bit of 2x1 cut it to the right length (it will take a few goes) and stick it in the Bass side F hole next to the bass bar, It should be tight enough to stop vibrations of the top and slack enough so as it doesn't fall over (or vice verse) A luthier will charge you an arm and a leg for making your bass sound quieter and less feedback prone when everyone else is trying to make their bass louder. Other than that, try making some F hole covers. A quick scroll down the EUB D\Bass page will give you some idea. I don't want to put any luthiers out of work but this is real basic stuff.

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 ?

In fact I think I want one of these !!!

Excellent, cheers fellas, that's great !!

Im trying to sort out a lightweight rig to take out with my rockabilly band to stick my double bass through. I've got a Gallien MB500 which is ace, Im after a cab to run with it. Anyone got any honest real world opinions about the Markbass NY151 1x15 cabinet ?

Projection, volume, bottom end, efficiency etc, you know what I mean.

Good answer !!    Guess I'll have to leave them in the useless pile and stick to the set of EMGs.

Ive also got a '91 SR600 and a '91 SR800, both with knackered preamps too !! I dont have a great track record with active IBZ stuff although they are awesome basses all round !!

No, just a standard 9 volt square battery.

Why would they fit 9 volt batteries as stock then if it was wrong ?