Jack

Weird. Is it not just a sort of stopper for the pedal, using the same component to save costs? It looks like a switch to let the unit know the pedal is fully down, like an on/off on a wah, but you're right the pedal never goes low enough to hit it.

It can be a useful problem solver or effect pedal. The DI is great, and often I use that to run to the board and then the amp's eq can be just for the stage sound. They're also pretty useful for having some semblance of your own sound if you're using a house amp. Failing that, the two channels open up some useful sound-shaping capabilities. I'd never do a gig without an MXR M80 or a similar unit. I'm quite tempted by the Darkglass actually. And the EHX one. And that new bassswitch thing. And I cant wait to see what GK come up with.

I'm a tortex guy too, but I saw the scoring method one one of those 'rig rundown' videos and thought it was a cool idea.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1358200263' post='1934871'] If you want a stingray sound.....buy a stingray. [/quote] Or an Ibanez ATK, or one of those Sandbergs, or a SUB.

I briefly owned a 900, it only left the house once. I did use a fair bit in the house though, it sat at sensible volumes just fine.

By all means, my brother uses the Hohner copy as his main bass. I find it balances weird, I'm always hitting frets two higher than I want. Like if I go for B on the 7th fret E, I end up hitting the C# 9th fret. Sounds awesome tough.

Hello folks, I recently bought an Ashdown 1510HX for use as a cabinet to just leave in the rehearsal room. didn't really feel happy leaving the Barefaced. The problem is, I don't think there's any sound coming from the 10". The cab used to be Clarky's, but it's been through at least one pair of hands before it came to me. Hope he doesn't mind me stealing his pics. I stupidly didn't do the 9V battery test (more on this later) before I bought it, but I played through it obviously and it sounds ok as is. The 10" certainly doesn't seem to mive when the cabinet is going full tilt boogie, and I can't hear any sound coming from it either. With a 9V battery only the 15" moves out, but I read in a thread [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f15/speaker-replacement-596192/"]here[/url] discussing my cab that it might not if it's high-passed. I tired to open it up after band practice last night, but the back appears to be glued on. Forgive my ignorance, I've never had to open a cabinet before. Is this normal? How else would I get into the cabinet to check? Questions: Is there a definitive way to test if the 10" is really working? It occurs to me that if it is high-passed at 100Hz it mightn't appear to move as much. If not, how do I open her up? Assuming the 10" is shot, any ideas for a cheap replacement? It looks like it's in it's own enclosure from online reading, once I can open I can measure the enclosure volume. Gah, this was supposed to just be a cheap cabinet, didn't want to be spending time or money on it. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the info so far folks. Musicman, you're in my neck of the woods. If you're getting that kind of money would you care to tell me where? :-p

Because normally you build a bitsa for you and not for somebody else so it's not their idea of the ideal bass. And also if someone's a professional luthier there's usually some guarantee of quality, with a hobbyist not so much. I remember a top gear segment on kit cars once and Clarkson made some point about how nobody would want a car he built, but they'd happily pay for one made by someone as anal as James May. The point is you just dont know.

Yeah, pub punters in particular like to make comments. I'd prefer to be able to hear though. I have tinnitus from something not connected to loud music, but I'll do everything I can to protect my ears.

I have done a search and couldn't find much, but if anyone knows of a previous thread then that would be great. Meanwhile, I have a cheeky question. Being mostly British on here I know it's uncouth to ask but I was wondering if we were over/under charging for our gigs. Granted, the only right answer is whatever you and the person booking the gig is the correct amount to be paid but I was curious as to how much Basschatters are being paid and for what. My band at the moment is brand new and are doing the typical pub rock covers. 2 x 1-hour sets, then usually half an hour of encore stuff. We're a five-piece, so our £200-£300 per night usually works out at around £50 each. Once we've been established for a while we'd like to start doing private events and such, but we have no idea how to charge for those things. We're all new to this band but have all been regularly gigging for many years apart from our rhythm guitarist. We have great backline and can bring our own 'good' PA or we've hired an exceptional one for gigs we think warrant it. We do gigs around Northumberland and Durham, fwiw. Anyone else care to share? Is every other basschatter earning double what my band is?!

FFS, I asked him to steal me a bass........... We know two things, he's stupid and that because he's stupid he'll hopefully be caught quickly.

Sorry to hear about that. I think if they were intentional scammers more than one of us would have caught out though. Either way I hope you get either your money or your pedals. :-)

[quote name='Jack' timestamp='1357147737' post='1918194'] And this is the answer to those 'why do you guys need 3kW+ rigs?' questions that we get every week. That, and some people chase the fundamental. [/quote] A few people use hugely powerful PA power amps.

The amp models and the od pedals are in the same virtual bank. One or the other. :-(

[quote name='alexclaber' timestamp='1357146859' post='1918173']power is cheap and moving big rigs gets tiresome.[/quote] And this is the answer to those 'why do you guys need 3kW+ rigs?' questions that we get every week. That, and some people chase the fundamental.

Shameless, but if you'd like my Laney R1 you could have it for that plus postage. ;-) Otherwise, they're all much of a muchness tbh, look for a decent-sized speaker and headphone out. The Roland ones are great, expensive but worth it.

I don't really think we're clear on what you're after still. As a wise and ancient Chinese philosopher once said: "THAT tone is a chorus, you must buy a chorus pedal, THAT tone is a wah, you must buy a wah."

I have to agree with my learned colleague here. Barefaced or GK. Boy, forums sure do have fashions...............