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Nice review! I've got an iron in the fire for the exact same rig, second hand at the moment.....Reading this has done my amp GAS no good at all!!

A fellow BC'er visited me a while back, and let me try his Orange Terror Bass out, which I plugged into my Ampeg 610HLF cab. We also had my Ampeg SVT CL out as well. The Orange did sound very good, didn't really get the opportunity to crank it up though, as I live in a semi, and think my neighbour may have objected! Sound wise, I thought that it didn't have the clarity, punch, and low end of the all valve SVT CL, but they are pitched at way different price brackets, so perhaps A/Bing them is a little unfair. I did like being able to pick a bass amp up easily with one hand, rather than having to use a spine shattering heave though! Cranking the gain on the little Orange did produce some nice over driven grit to the sound. I have been considering having the little Orange bass amp as a back up though Really liking the look of the Ashdown 427 at the moment, but that is one serious price tag....... I'm a big lover of the glowing bottles of goodness, but as mentioned above, there are a couple of crosses to bare.....The serious weight of a valve amp, and also, if you gig regularly, you will have to have the amp serviced from time to time, and replacing valves gets costly. Valve amps also occassionally need the bias between the valves checking and adjusting. Some amps it is possible to do DIY...The SVT CL has two little LED lights, and trim pots on the back, so you can bias the valves yourself. (I'm now ducking for cover, having mentioned Ampeg, and SVT more than once....... ) I used to have a Trace Elliot V Type AH600 many a moon ago, which had a valve pre amp. With the matching 4X12, and 2X15 cabs, that was plenty loud!

Nice!! The one trick pony thing is right.....But what a trick Ref: the high gloss finish, and finger prints, Autoglym Super Resin car polish will be your best friend. Works wonders with nitro cellulose finishes. Hope you have many happy hours rockin' out with her

[quote name='bartelby' post='1044313' date='Dec 1 2010, 08:46 PM']I'm more of a fan of these guys though:[/quote] Nice! Can't beat a bit of Sunn 0))) to chear you up in the morning. Good Call!! Love the guitar tone.

Off the back of the RIP Armando Acosta thread in Off Topic

Worked this one out the other day....Not a Mogwai fan, but love this, and the tone from that Ricky And here's another classic from the vaults And a bit of Yob for ya. Love this one, just builds, and builds

[quote name='bartelby' post='1042051' date='Nov 30 2010, 10:22 AM']Definitely! Once I've finished listening to some Tom Waits, Spirit Caravan and then Wino's solo stuff will be played.[/quote] Yeah love the new solo album. Plenty of YouTube footage of live shows about. He seems to be throwing a lot of old Obsessed, and Spirit Caravan numbers into the live shows.

[quote name='bartelby' post='1042015' date='Nov 30 2010, 09:47 AM']Oooh Spirit Caravan! Nice! I can't wait to get home to see what the other links are...[/quote] Cheers! I'm a massive fan of stuff that Wino has been doing over the years. The guy seems to know how to lay down some of the heaviest tunes known to man, without having to resort to uber drop tuning. Very talented guy. The Crowbar track is one of my faves....Definately lives up to the Crowbar moniker of "tune low, play slow"

Some more from me This one is best heard through some decent speakers, to get the best from the bowel shaking Gibson EB2 Seriously old school Seriously heavy......Beard Of DOOOM!

Another classic by Prong;

Why, thankyou sir! Absolutely love The Obsessed

+1 for Motorhead's "Bomber" lighting rig. There's some footage on YouTube somewhere, Lemmy climbs on it, up it goes, and he machine guns the crowd with his trusty Rickenbacker! Here's some drop tuned, killer grooves; And a somewhat bluesy Motorhead......Love the bass sound! Not particularly a Rush fan, but love this one

One for Mr Foxen this one I have rather an eclectic taste in rock music, and this is at the more extreme ends of my taste....Rather interesting bass as well! Make sure you crank this one all the way to 11 Starts off nice and slow, stays slow, and gets rather LOUD!!

Don't know how much help this will be but......... Try a set of DR DDT's, with a 110 on the bottom. One band I am in tunes drop C. I have used these on a Gibson, and currently have a set of these on my Rickenbacker, and they're great. No floppyness, even on the slightly shorter scale Ric. They didn't pull the neck all over the place either. Also using DR DDT's for drop D as well, on a 105 set, equally good results. The 105 set works with drop C, just a little too light

For me, I like to do the best I can with the money I've got........This is where the whole Fender thing falls apart for me. Don't get me wrong, I really like Fender's. Comfy to play, and what looks cooler than a 70's Jazz with block markers and ash trays Problem is, when you look at how much a '75 reissue USA is for example, then have a look around the second hand ads, etc, or look to what is available from the likes of, say, Ibanez, etc, for a lot less money, I can't convince myself that a USA Fender is worth the money. When you think that you can get a second hand Alembic for around the same money as USA models, it's a bit of a no brainer really for me. I really like the look of the new 5 string deluxe models, with the block markers, etc. They look uber cool, but one would have a hard time justifying to me that it is worth the dosh.

+1. To Hutton's comment Quite a few valid points made, but some smack of trolling to me..... Been on this site quite a while now, and sorry, one or two of the comments on here have been the nastiest I have ever seen on BC. Poor form

Funny enough, had the same conversation last night...Having recently gone over to 5 string, which has taken me a little out of my comfort zone, having been playing 4 string bass the maybe 20 years, I have found myself struggling a little on dark stages... The bass I am using is an Alembic Orion, which has no dot markers on the fret board face, and the side dots are tiny, which in the dark are next to useless. Going to start practicing in the dark, or make sure that I don't look at the fret board when I am practicing, so hopefully this will help....... Probably gonna sound like Les Dawson on bass for a while!!

So what are they like?? I keep looking at the five string model, and thinking yummy I love a Jazz bass with a rosewood board, and block markers.... Doesn't seem to be much out there on the net about them TBH

I was, and still am, a massive Motorhead fan, and seeing Lemmy out front, trusty Rickenbacker being strummed within an inch of its life, I always thought how cool is that! Steve Harris was another good reason. Hearing bass lines for the likes of "Number Of The Beast", where the bass just rules the song from start to finish, also made me take interest. My School mates were all into the goth stuff, like Sisters Of Mercy, and Fields Of The Nephilim, and I especially noticed the bass pounding along on the Nephilim stuff. Hawkwind, with either Lemmy, or Alan Davey got my attention too. So that was it, hooked! My first bass was a Precision, with the "Legend" moniker on the headstock, and still have it to this day. My second bass is the Rickenbacker that I still own, and the Rickenbacker certainly inspired me to start taking playing bass a bit more seriously, and it was so lovely to play after learning the basics on a cheapy. I still sit up and take notice when I hear music where the bass is at the front. I can remember years ago watching a TV music awards type thing, and Mogwai were on there. Got it on video somewhere. The bass player was using a Rickenbacker, and switching between nice clean sounding melodies, and raging, overdriven power chords. Just how a Rickenbacker should be played

Been wondering what to do about the pick ups on my Rickenbacker for some time, as the E string has gone a bit weak. Looks like Andy @ Wizard is the man?

I recently had to make the move to a 5 string, as both bands I am in have songs on the set list that require a low A, but still require the G string. I'm playing hard rock/ metal. I managed to pick up a second hand Alembic Orion from the for sale section of this site, and it's an awesome rock bass. Loads of growl on offer, and so easy to play. Made the switch to 5 string really easy. The build quality on Alembic's is sublime, and they are real bargains in terms of second hand values, and well within your budget. Seem to remember there's an Alembic epic 5 string on here at the moment, that is well within your budget