soulstar89

that’s a great shout. is the fretboard another uk bass forum?

put on the kettle, I’m coming over to play them all lol. 😂

So since I posted here I was able to play my preamp pedal with the Bose noise cancelling overear headphones. They are battery operated. Wow. It made me realise how anaemic my akg k52 are. The be frank they are 💩. The difference is massive when you turn the Bose on via switch. I looked at the impedence of the Akg k52 and the are rated at 32. I’m looking to get a better set of headphone and notice that some top headphones like v moda m200, audio technica ath-m50x have a impedence of 32 while the beyerdynamic dt 990 pro x are rated at 80. What would be more suitable for plugging in a pre amp or amp? i prefer playing through speakers but sometimes I have the urge to play late at night.

this popped up on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166741111138?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=r-2DIzGHQda&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Rn8UiLvPR9K&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I was looking at these amps this morning. I couldn’t find any info on what frequencies the eq was. It’s not even in the manual. So weird as it has a mid frequency selection button. considering all these comments above I’ll pass

Cheers for that. I’ll have a look those sites.

I definitely see that. I will have to search if the uk or EU have distributors of these Japanese brands. On trusting your hands and ears, I couldn’t agree more.

wow yes you really have a rack of moon basses. I done more digging I played the groove master. Compared to my law suit Yamaha p bass the moon felt light. It was just so refined. What’s a shame is that due to business moving more towards online people don’t get to try different brands. I also tried the G&L 1000 from the 80’s. It was really nice also. I have to put a search on moon basses in the bay and reverb now.

I went to the bass gallery to get some tlc sone with my bass. I played at least 8 fender p basses. Two from Japan the rest from the 70’s. Out of the 8 1 mij a pb-62 sounded nice but the neck was too shallow for me. The other a 73 which was nice until. Went upstairs and tired a moon gm4! Didnt like the colour but my days was it amazing to play. Had a telecaster neck but it felt so smooth to play. Didn’t feel massive at all. I was able to play pocket funk real nice. This bass was a custom order. Has anyone played ,owned or owes a moon p bass? It really made me think are fenders really that good? I normally have a “get to know you period” before I feel comfortable. This moon and a Larry Graham jazz from moon didn’t have that at all.

I’ve got akg k52 headphones. I used someone’s bose noise cancelling headphones which you need batteries to activate that feature. Once the Bose headphones is driven by the batteries, my lord it made a world of difference. My akg seem wanting compared to the Bose. issue with headphones is there are so many. Audio technica ath-m50 are ment to be amazing, never listened through them though.

great advise. I think I tried the markbass you own. It was monstrous. Shock the basement of the shop even with me trying to tame it. I love the sound of the acoustic control amps back in 70’s. The videos I’ve seen show them being the size and weight of a teenager lol. You are so right about how things have changed. the laney digbeth seems interesting also. I’ll have to head to Anderton’s to try it. It’s interesting that it doesn’t have a gain control knob. Just to channels (clean and tube) both with volumes so I presume the tube emulation channel acts like the gain.

I’ll check it out. I always felt that Phil jones is perceived as hi-fi sound

Funny stuff it say this as when I was in wunjo guitars the 12” markbass combo was what my ear preferred. I’ve been thinking of maybe getting an amp head and cab. Which ever is more cost effective. Also I realised I need to up my budget.

cheers for the response. I’ve seen a fair amount of secondhand ashdowns some may be an older generation of the rootmaster as the amp layout looks very similar. I’ll keep this in mind.

cheers. I’ve not played a ashdown before I’m not sure of the tone.

i went to wunjo in central london. Tried the fender rumble, ampeg, markbass. Really didn't like the fender. Mark bass was killer!!! killer price though lol. ampeg rocket bass was alright nothing like the markbass. I may have to head to andertons to try GK,Hartke and laney.

wow that is a bargain price.

Cheers bud. Gonna order now

I need to get some foam for my p bass. Dies one strip fit the length of each pickup?