markytbass

Now that the Christmas break is over we have started adding to our current set. Some of the new songs are:- 1.Down in the tube station at midnight 2.Town called malice 3.Rock the casbah

The only Warwick I have played was a Dolphin and I liked the feel and shape. Other than that I like the Thumb.

I have just started out with a covers band and we have been going to open mic evenings just to try stuff out infront of an audience. Alright we are not getting paid at the mo but it is putting our name around.

Hmmm! they don't look too bad.

I never really had a problem the actual riff, it was the stops that got me. They always seemd slightly long

We have 4 in our house. Stingray, Ibanez, cort and a short scale encore. =1185

I play a 4 string Stingray and just drop D tune with the band I am in at present. In hind sight it would have probably been easier to use a 5 string. I will probably look for a Stingray 5 in the near future and sell the 4 string. So my vote will be for a 5 string.

The reason I ask is that I bought a used Workingman pro15 combo just before Christmas. I have yet to crank it up as I am not rehearsing again until after the new year. I have heard that there is a difference between the pre-Fender and the Fender one's. Has anyone used both?, what if anything is different between the two?.

What are the songs in question?.

My first set up was a Marshall valve amp and a 4x12 cab. I think it was a 100W guitar amp and at the time I didn't really care too much about sound, I wanted to be loud like Lemmy. After that came the Carlsboro Stingray and a 1X18 cab which weighed a tonne. I think the speaker came from a P.A. I don't know who works out where handles should be on combos and cabs but I don't think much thought goes into it. The Laney I had, had one handle on the top which was useless. I see the newer ones have two, one either side. Castors seem the best solution.

sh*t the bed thats nice!. I like burst colours.

Thanks for the replies so far. I was curious as to what others use. I personally try to go for portability, I do suffer with a bad back so my days of lumping a cab around are over. I did have a Trace Elliott BLX130 with a 10" extension cab and that was great. However I had to sell it when moving house . I have an amp and 1X15 cab at the mo but its only been out of the house once due to the back issue. I will be looking to get a combo soon, something more portable (or a roadie).

I have been playing bass since I was 17, had a few years without gigging when kids were young. I have had 5 amps/combo's in this time and they have all been under 200 Watts. Ive played small pub venues to outside gigs and never really felt that I needed anything louder. I have read several threads on here and have noticed the variety of amplification used. So what does everyone else use and why, combos or amps and cabs?. Do you really need a 500W+ amp to play a pub or hall gig?. I have played at an open mic night at a pub where we used a 60W combo, it sounded a bit over driven but did the job (how long it would last doing that is a different matter). I also went to a mate's B'day party at a very small pub (the quaker in Darlington) and the guy playing bass had a full Hartke stack (4X10 or 12 and 1X15) and that was way too loud so loud that my ears were itching and it was making me fart. I understand that some like the over drive sound and others prefer a clean sound, some are happy with a small combo whilst others may want a 8X10 or two. So as the topic title says "What and why"?.

If he wanted over £700 why didn't he put a reserve on it. I saw another auction on ebay where the seller didn't put a rerserve and wrote in the discription "I won't be letting this go for peanuts". So in other words "if I don't get what I want I won't follow the sale through". It stinks!.

Also if you look at morkeal's feedback musicgearguy left feedback for him on 24th aug on another sale. Either this is purley a coincidence or they have done something similar before. I was looking at a car on ebay a few years back which kept getting relisted and the same guy won it 3 times. If you don't want to sell something for peanuts then stick a reserve on otherwise people soon cotton on to what you are doing.

Depending what I'm doing, a gig or open mike. For a gig:- 1 combo, 1 bass in hard case with strap leads, 1 D.I. box (which fits in hard case) incase of amp failing. For open mike evenings:- 1 bass in hard case with strap and leads and 1 D.I. box.

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='97314' date='Dec 1 2007, 06:04 PM']ned's atomic dustbin 'nuff said[/quote] Yea I was about to say Neds.

Ive just seen this on ebay, he says its a Japanese. An Ibanez Jazz copy. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JAPAN-JAZZ-BASS-DEAL_W0QQitemZ200180036655QQihZ010QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JAPAN-JAZZ-BASS-DEAL...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

This is where I got mine from, bought it late Wednsday night and it arrived today. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CLEAR-2MM-PLASTIC-ACRYLIC-PERSPEX-SHEET-500-X-500MM_W0QQitemZ140173231210QQihZ004QQcategoryZ26258QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CLEAR-2MM-PLASTIC-AC...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]

Firsrt bass played and owned was a CIJ Fender Precision and I wish I still had it. I think it was a 1989/90 sunburst maple neck and fretboard.

Just found some 3mm A4 size perspex for £1.25, so even if I cock up and have to get another it will be worth it.

I saw The Dubliners a few years back, not a bass in sight, no drums either. Lot's of singing and drinking, songs included Black Velvet Band, Seven Drunken Nights, The Wild Rover, Phil the Fluter's Ball and the most upsetting one of the night The Pub with no Beer. The Clancey Brothers, Tim Finnegan's Wake has no bass in it either (thinking about it I don't know if any of their songs have a bass in it). Syd Barrett, Dark Globe. I prefer the Placebo version basically because the guitar is in time with the vocals. I could go on all night, Nick Drake is another.