The Funk

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='15680' date='Jun 11 2007, 04:05 PM']If it's not loud enough there is no replacement for displacement.[/quote] That sounds like a killer advertising slogan. I'll buy one, whatever it is.

Give all your equipment to me and stop complaining. No, ok, take the second cab along with you.

I've heard a few players who've come out of here. Overall impressions of their playing: solid with some nice touches, consistent but a bit orthodox for my tastes.

I use a studio rack compressor in my live rig.

Ok here's a silly question. What's the point in having speakers of different sizes if you're not trying to get different sounds out of them? Bi-amping is just a more sophisticated approach to it. Even if your bass rig does just act as a stage monitor, it will hopefully be better designed for the job than monitor wedges, and should result in you and your band hearing you clearly and giving you all the sound you need to inspire the best in you.

[quote name='Sibob' post='14766' date='Jun 9 2007, 07:42 PM']Mines probabley up for grabs if anyone is interested Black finish, Pickups swapped for Barts. Nice one dude on the trade! Si[/quote] How much? Was this up for sale on here a few weeks ago?

I remember stumbling onto his blog a year or so ago on talkbass. I don't think people should insult him or his playing just out of envy. His reviews are excellent AND he invites people from the talkbass forums to come round to his place to try out gear.

As listed in Time Out: [url="http://www.timeout.com/london/music/events/426142/the_colonies_the_dead_roads_the_foolish_earthlings_idiolect.html"]Click Here For Details[/url]. If you like your funk hard, your rock ballsy and your soul bleeding, then come see us at The Water Rats on Saturday 16th June. £6 entry. Same deal as always: any and all BCers who come to the gig and introduce themselves to me will get a free drink from me.

Exactly. And with a dedicated active crossover you may get dual benefits of saving money and getting more control over your sound.

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='13996' date='Jun 8 2007, 07:58 AM']£9.50 an hour, thats very good. I'm an old guy albeit a graduate and working part time in school I earn less than £5 an hour![/quote] I'm working at a law firm after 6 years of undergraduate, post-graduate and professional education and I only get £0.50 an hour more than that. Take the job and buy some really cool gear on 1st September. You might never need to upgrade. Like someone else said above, get up an hour earlier in the morning and practice then. You should remember that a lot of the jazz, blues, soul and rock legends had sh!tty day jobs - even after some people started to know who they were.

Don't buy the DB680 new in the UK. Secondhand on the US ebay is far more reasonable, even after you've paid for delivery and the extra 22.5% in tax. Also, I wouldn't fork out the money for one if all you're after is trying out different bi-amping options. Lovely preamp though.

That's good to know 'cos I'm seriously lazy. The 70s Matamp head we picked up yesterday still had 4 Mullards in the power section from years back. So I don't think valves are as fragile as people seem to suggest. As someone said earlier, they got us through WWII!

I'd like to see the results of this thread too. I'm after a double gig bag and was looking at the Ritter model, until I heard about your experiences, and also the Warwick double gig bag. I figure the Warwick double gig bag should be a good match for two Warwicks... or is there a flaw in my logic somewhere?

I love my Aguilar DB680 preamp. It has ten valve stages. I've had it a year and haven't had to change any valves yet. A time will come when a valve blows onstage just as a time will come when a 9V dies in my bass onstage. That's what back-ups are for. I always run out of the Aguilar's DI into the PA, so I always get its thick, clean valve tone. When I want valve filth, I step on my DHA distortion pedal - complete with two valves. For bass, there are plenty of good and different sounds out there that suit different people well. For guitar though, valves are a must. I've just managed to convince my guitar player of this. Hoorah! 70s Matamp on its way!

Once we've had a fair number of posts, I'm sure we could tot up the votes and induct the 5 players with the most votes into our Bass Chat Bass Players Hall of Bass. I'm sure they'd be thrilled at the prospect, especially the dead ones.

[quote name='obbm' post='12907' date='Jun 6 2007, 10:35 AM']Lets get the terminology right. Stereo is Left/Right Bi-Amp is Hi/Lo for either you need a 2-channel power amp or 2 single channel power amps. If you Bi-Amp in Stereo you 2 x 2-channel power amps. I used to run a Trace GP12SMX using the crossover outputs into a 2-Channel 300W+300W power amp into a 1x15 and a 2x10. Total waste of time. It was much better running a full bandwidth output into each channel and each cabinet. Clearer and more focussed.[/quote] I prefer the term dual mono but if someone says a stereo power amp (as opposed to a stereo bi-amp rig), I take it to mean 1 x 2-channel power amp. I don't think anyone was actually asking about a stereo bi-amp rig.

You nicked a desk from your old school? Wicked.

As far as I know - and I don't know that much about Sadowsky except that the basses look spectacular - the Metro line replaced the Tokyo line. How much it differs, I can't say.

Bloody hell, I was kidding. Still, I reckon that would be the easiest way (for the ears) to decide where in the signal chain the compression and EQ should go.

Stereo's great. It just basically gives you two sets of controls, inputs and outputs - perfect for bi-amping. I don't really see how bi-amping would be possible without a stereo power amp. What equipment do you have at the moment? If you could adapt bits of your rig to a new bi-amped rig with a minimum of expenditure, that's always a good thing.

My Hartke 2.5XL and 115XL weigh far too much. But then they do sound great. When you're driving to every gig and transporting all the band's other gear as well, it's not so bad. It's still annoying though that they're just so cumbersome.

A lot of very helpful comments. Having seperate volume controls for each cab is great when they have different frequency ranges. Bi-amping at its simplest. Did you say you have a Pod and a crossover? If you don't bother with the built-in bi-amping function and just send - the Left Out to Channel 1 of your power amp full range and then - the Right Out to your crossover and then send just the lows to Channel 2 of your power amp, and then Channel 2 to the bassier cab, you should have basically the same kind of set up as me. Edit: I have a GK400RB as a back-up. Lovely little head.

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