Low End Bee

The LP Junior is my favourite guitar. I've always thought an LP Jnr would make a great bass version. This looks all out of proportion and very wrong. Pelham blue is a great colour but it looks minging on this. If it had a slimmed down headstock, one 4 screw P90 looking pickup, was in TV yellow or cherry and had a sensible bridge we might be on the right track.

All three Len Price 3 albums. Saw them a couple of weeks ago at the Fiddlers Elbow. Best live band I've seen in donkeys.

[quote name='paul h' post='1218779' date='May 3 2011, 04:23 PM']So how is the trilby/Retrovibe combination working out?[/quote] Very well. The Precision works better with a pork pie though.....

I'm currently enjoying the Bailey 'Wynn' trilby at gigs as above in addition to my diamond crown porker. Gawd bless yu Village Hats.

My sansamp programmable bass driver. I know I can get a sound I'm happy with in the studio and it's a great portable back up for gigs. Stick it in a lightweight class D amp like Clarky suggested and I'd be a very, very happy bunny.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1212582' date='Apr 27 2011, 01:35 PM']You lot are [i]so[/i] ****ing cool. When I grow up, I want to be a Jetsonic.[/quote] If you grow up you can't

Sequel 0p video filming planned for next week if the weather's nice. We've made a 'steady cam' from a broken broom handle, a screw in hook, an old paint tin, some hairy string and gaffa tape. Works a treat.

[quote name='Bassmonkey' post='1211214' date='Apr 25 2011, 08:59 PM']Cheers Gerry. Anyone know anything about these?[/quote] Yep. Use it any time the signal is too hot for the desk. Works a treat and fits in the front pocket of the OTB handbag.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1208070' date='Apr 22 2011, 10:49 AM']Why don't Tech 21 wake up and smell the coffee and make a small Class D amp with a Sansamp EQ section? They have one of the strongest brand names for DI/EQ and yet insist only on applying this to pedals or relatively heavy (>20lb) 'old school' type amps[/quote] That would be right up my street.

As long as the songs are fairly catchy and accessible to the audience I think there is no reason not to do originals in a pub. We're doing two sets without a single cover in pubs that have formerly only put on covers and tribute bands and it goes down very well. If we did 'difficult' music I agree it wouldn't work.

I use a DOD FX64 ice box. Although it's a guitar effect it doesn't seem to steal the lows. You can usually pick them up for not much on ebay.

Pick players. Embarassed that you can't play fingerstyle and fit in with other bassists? Simply screw a couple of these on to the end of your plectrum and you'll be envy of all.

[quote name='Raggy' post='1196728' date='Apr 12 2011, 12:54 PM']What about that GK MB200?[/quote] £200. That's more like it. If they lost the EQ section and £50 it would be spot on.

[quote name='Merton' post='1196718' date='Apr 12 2011, 12:47 PM'][url="http://www.swrsound.com/products/search.php?partno=4415050000"]SWR Amplite[/url] ticks your boxes I believe [/quote] It does.........apart from the cost. 500 notes. Ouch!

I was having a think. My ideal backup would be a small, gig bag sized single channel power amp of 250w plus running 4 ohms with a speakon out.Just a single volume control on the front. Maybe a class D thingy. Be great for rehearsals too, My thinking was I could run this via a pre amp/DI pedal. A sansamp programmeable in my case. Anyone do anything like this? Would there be a market for it. I would expect it to be fairly cheap with no pre amp or other gubbins.

Nice one Mr C. Best band of the night judging by that review. International fame, fortune, scantily clad groupies and strops about brown smarties on your rider can't be far away.

[quote name='simon1964' post='1192962' date='Apr 8 2011, 03:29 PM']Looks nice IMO, but given the weight of a standard LP bass, that's going to be a real back-breaker![/quote] It says it's got big holes (tone chambers) in it. I'm guessing it'll still be a little on the porky side though. I think it would look far better with a couple of 4 screw P90 style soapbars instead of plain topped hummers. They never look right on a bass.

I like it. I'd want a white one though which they don't do.

Nice. Looks like butter.

I had one of these when it was only a couple of years old. Match it with an ex sound system 18" bass bin with a smoking revolver painted on it for my early signature sound.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1189300' date='Apr 5 2011, 05:07 PM']Perhaps a BassChat hairband? Here's MacDaddy, silddx, Low End Bee and Happy Jack at the King George in Chiswick last week [attachment=76742:Tuff_Pho...am_Hames.jpg][/quote] More like this...

Thanks chaps. It was an epic night. We did a great 100 mph show and got some tremendous feedback. I can't remember a support slot ever going so well! As for the main event. I forgot what a jaw dropping drummer Ratty is! Great set. A lot of middle aged punks reliving 1977 beer everywhere and pogoing. Sound of the Suburbs was thrilling chaos.

There's a couple of covers bands who do the local circuit that both have a small following and will go to whatever pub they're playing in. So I'd say yes.

Quite looking forward to this one. Nice to be the support and not be the one's worrying about the numbers. It's been ages since we did just a 45 minute set and we're only playing the newest stuff written. Our start time is being pushed a bit later too which is all good.

[quote name='Soliloquy' post='1184123' date='Mar 31 2011, 11:47 PM']I tried an RS210 cab and didn't like it. I found it to be very bright and quite aggressive sounding....[/quote] That's exactly why I love it. works great with an Orange Terror.