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I don't play with 2 guitarists but my guitarist in the rock band plays a Les Paul through a Peavey 5150 which is a 120w combo and I have absolutely no problem being heard and don't have to turn up that loud either. Another vote for a Schroeder 1212L cab. I've got a Vectra but I can get my amp which is in a 4u rack, the cabinet, my bass, cab stand, keyboard stand to sit my rack on and my bag of leads in the boot without folding the seats down.

My bass gear to date: Peavey TNT160 combo - lasted one gig before being traded in for Trace 7210 combo and then added Trace 1048H to give me a 6x10" set up. Band got a PA so I downsized and got: Gallien Krueger 800RB and a Trace 1153 and swapped out the 200w 8ohm speaker for a 300w 4ohm one. Used that setup for years then after a particlularly bad gig sold the lot and bought: Hartke HA5500 and a Behringer BA410 cab. Amp was good but really heavy. All 4 aluminium cones in the Behringer cab blew. Kind of reminicent of the scene at the beginning of Back to the Future when Marty plays a chord through that 10' speaker with the little guitar. They sent me a replacement and I immediately sold it. Then bought an Ashdown RC Evo 500 blah blah blah with 2 15" cabs. Sounded wooly, blew one of the speakers. Decided that small, light and good quality was the answer so bought a GK700RB II and Schroeder 1212L. Best looking set up was the Trace in all its 6x10" glory. Worst sounding was the Ashdown stuff. Shoddiest was the Behringer - you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Lightest, Best sounding, best quality, easiest to set up and easiest to adjust would have to go to my current setup. I'm also with Born 2B Mild as most of the controls on the GK are set flat. In fact my setup is so good for what I want that I don't need any controls on my bass and if GK did an amp with just gain, output volume, a tuner mute, active bass pad button, boost, an input from the bass, a speakon output and a DI out then I'd have it. Easily the dirtiest, punchiest and best all-round sound that I have ever had. Can't wait to get my Warmoth '56 P bass up and running when it's ready.

how about the Schroeder 1515? [url="http://www.schroedercabinets.com/1515.htm"]http://www.schroedercabinets.com/1515.htm[/url] only 31kg

I had my bass at Jimmy Moon's for a fret dress and because some nutter had installed a Warwick JAN III and put it in the wrong place so I had him do this and check the electronics as the same nutter isn't very good at soldering. Very impressed with his work but it is a bit out of the road if you don't have a car. Its about a 5 minute walk from Crossmyloof train station - yes you read right - Crossmyloof. It looks the type of place to harbour soap dodgers and could be the home of the infamous 'Glasgow Shower'

Have you tried the Trace website? [url="http://www.trace-elliot.co.uk/support_3.php?flag=GB&lan=UK"]http://www.trace-elliot.co.uk/support_3.ph...g=GB&lan=UK[/url] its listed under discontinued products in the 7-band range.

A similar problem that i have been encountering for the past few years is that a large number of hotels seem to be selling off land to build houses on. They then have to fit sound level meters as the people who bough the houses then complained about the noise!

Last night's gig was fantastic. I've not been happy with my sound for a while now as I have had to keep the gain low and the DI send low otherwise it would overdrive the desk. I usually leave the adjustments to the guitarist but decided to have a gander at the desk. I pressed the 20dB pad button and went back to my amp. I was able to turn the gain and the send up quite a bit before getting anywhere near the level it as at before. The resulting changes enabled me to get the GIVE overdrive to kick in on my GK 700RB II head and I was back sounding like my old self again. I had also been trying TI flats on the bass for the past couple of gigs but they're like rubber bands to me and I just couln't get a decent sound from them so I had changed back to a fresh set of Optima Gold strings yesterday morning. Anyway, to the gig: Everyone was really up for a good time and loved everything we played and because they were so into it and we really enjoyed the sound and everything else, it definitely rated as one of the best gigs of the year. We got asked for about a dozen songs that we had never played before, luckily we knew enough of them to have a bash. Something that may be a bit of good advice - if you're asked to play a song by someone try to avoid playing one in an unusual time signature. We got asked to play something by Pink Floyd and I started playing "Money". Not easy if you're not confident playing in 7/8.

I'm afraid that there was 'more entertaining' program than topless darts - It was of course 'painted ladies'. We did a gig once in a used car salesroom. It was the owner's 40th birthday and his wife decided to surprise him. They cleared out some of the cars and we set up. It was really weird playing and being able to look outside as all the shoppers stopped and looked as they were passing. We played our first wake a few months ago. We were booked to play at a pub that we'd done a few times before but the week before we were due to play, the guy who booked the bands threw a seven / bought the farm / popped his cloggs / etc. They were originally going to cancel the band but it turns out that we were his favourite so they decided to keep us booked for the night. Only need to do a bar mitzvah now to have a full house of gig types

Hi i think you misread my post. Mine has the threaded aluminium piece behind the main frame. It was my old SKB one that had the captive nuts.

Another one not mentioned yet is Nathan East Anyone who can play up and down a 6 string bass effortlessly, while dancing and with a huge grin on his face is cool in my book. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMzOuWMTPYQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMzOuWMTPYQ[/url]

I was just thinking about some of the basses I've had over the years - some right crackers. Warwick Thumb NT5, 20th & 30th Anniversary Stingrays, Modulus Flea, About 6 other stingrays, 6 Rickenbacker 4003s including the greenest Blueboy one ever, a 4000, Fender 1973 Telecaster bass, Early Squier JV & SQ basses, 2x '51 reissues, a few 6 stringers, 2x 8 stringers and 2x 12 stringers amongst others. I've had around 60 basses in my time but I only ever take 1 to a gig. Always have done so having all of these basses at one time would be a waste to me. In the next couple of months I'll be down to 2 - My gold '54 Warmoth which is about to get a Bartolini active circuit in it and my vintage spec '54 Warmoth that should be here by October. One for the wedding band and one for the rock bands. I suppose if money was no object I'd have a lot more basses but only really for the sake of having them. Mainly Fenders that marked certain periods or rarities such as a '51 P, a '53, '57 single coil, '57 split coil, custom colours, '68 Telecaster. Other early landmark instruments such as Rickenbacker 1999, '76 Stingray, Gibson EB1. I think that if you're happy having these basses and they all mean something to you or have a use then there isn't a problem. If it was a case of "what the hell am I doing with all of these basses?" then I'd reconsider keeping them all.

Mine is called Goldie funnily enough

I currently play in a few different bands. In my 2 rock bands there is no PA support so my cab provides the out front sound and in my wedding band my bass goes into a desk. With the wedding band, my cab goes on a stand angled up towards me to act as a monitor. With the rock bands, it is still on the stand but facing forwards towards the audience. Now the problem is that I always keep the settings on my amp constant and adjust the tone with my bass but the different setups require me to have 2 different EQ settings on my amp - one for the rock bands, one for the wedding band. Is there something to allow me to simply press a button rather than muck about with my settings at every gig? I like to keep things simple. :wacko:

You'd have to be about 11 feet tall to carry it in its gig bag without it scraping along the road. Ideal for a Cheap trick tribute band.

Looks exactly like the ones i have. I have a 4 unit for my amp & tuner and another 6u with 120lbs of power amps inside. Never let me down. Better than the POS SKB rack that I used to have before it fell apart. If its like mine, it uses a second piece of aluminium behind the fixed rack mounting rather than the captive nuts on the SKB ones to secure the screws. The trick is to loosten off all the screws that attach this to the rack mounting as the threads are often not lined up front to back. I've had mine 2 years now and have put equipment in and out of them with no problem. As with all lower end gear there is bound to be variations in quality so you maybe got a duff one.

I thought I'd seen it all [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-PRO-6-NECK-GUITAR-AND-BASS-TRIPLE-NECK-DOUBLE-NECK_W0QQitemZ190240065576QQihZ009QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-PRO-6-NECK-GUITA...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] Only a [i][/i]real[i][/i] man could play one of these. :brow: [i][/i]slightly[i][/i] expensive or does it include a course of treatments with a chiropractor?

And the green one has gone. The other 12 and the acoustic finish tomorrow and I am still taking offers on them.

Most 12 string guys use a plectrum but I have always played fingerstyle.

2 Things I don't understand about the seller: Only ever one picture of the bass which is generally at the same angle very time. Not enough to get anyone going really. Most of the basses don't have strings on them in said picture. If i was trying to get a good amount of money I would be taking lots of pictures and making the basses more presentable.

In my wedding band I don't think we've practiced since 1999. If we have a song to learn for a first dance we decide on a key and learn it in the comfort of our own homes and just play it on the night. We've also managed to keep up with chart music as well sans practice.

My main problem has always been that by the end of a gig I am totally hyper so I end up driving home really fast (within the speed limits m'lud, honest guv) this, in turn makes me even more hyper. I used to do one of 2 things, have a bevvy and after a couple of hours i could go to bed [i]or[/i] not drink and be up until 6am. I don't really drink as much now but what I do now is go through youtube finding interesting music videos such as Eddie Van Halen playing "why can't this be love" with a guitar tuned to a different key so that it sounds like a set of bagpipes. I find this helps me to get to sleep with the final video being Genesis' "Carpet Crawlers". I must admit that I'm not as physically knackered the next day as I used to be. Seems to be a combination of having lighter gear than I used to, not drinking, not stopping off at the garage for a BLT, Ginsters, chocolate milk and the other assorted junk that they sell and losing weight. There's also the mental side of it as well: I have a really good rig; a bass that is perfetly set up for me; I know all the songs back to front; I play with 3 other great musicians (well 2 and a drummer :brow: ); I arrive at the gig early and am totally relaxed. This means that all I need to concentrate on is putting on a good show for the audience.

the damage that was done in transit was done right at the binding so that's why it looks worse than it is. This is one heavy duty bass. It feels as solid as really solid thing. Some people tune the octave strings differently. Someone actually tuned one as a 3 octave bass so you had the fundamental, the octave and then another octave above that but it sounded terrible, the highest octave strings were too thin and kept snapping and intonation was a mile out as a bridge with 12 individual saddles doesn't exist. I believe that the green one is made in the same factory as the Waterstone Tom Petersson bass as it is very close in most respects.

Villex do one as well without the exposed poles

Just a quick plug for a couple of basses I am selling just now. First is my Carlo Robelli 12 string which can be found here [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fantastic-Active-Quilted-Maple-Top-12-String-Bass_W0QQitemZ140254714020QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140254714020&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A4%7C65%3A1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fantastic-Active-Qui...86.c0.m14.l1318[/url] The second is my semi acoustic 12 string bass [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fantastic-Semi-Acoustic-12-string-bass_W0QQitemZ140254714037QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140254714037&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A4%7C65%3A1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fantastic-Semi-Acous...86.c0.m14.l1318[/url] The third is my Crafter electro-acoustic [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fantastic-Crafter-Electro-Acoustic-bass_W0QQitemZ140254714029QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140254714029&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A4%7C65%3A1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14.l1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fantastic-Crafter-El...86.c0.m14.l1318[/url] All proceeds to my Warmoth '56 P bass.

I read something quite interesting a few months ago but I'll be darned if I can find it. It was about how some people collect vintage fenders because they sound different due to being played for 40 odd years and the vibrations of the strings through the wood over those years do something to the wood to make it sound different to something that would be made today using identicle parts. Someone like Stuart Spector had come up with some sort of thermal discombobulator that could theoretically replicate this to make a brand new bass seem like it had been played for 40-50 years. If true then this could be a factor as well if you were to take 2 identical basses built, say, 5-10 years apart. :brow: Interesting theory but I don't know enough about the properties of wood to know if this is correct or utter sloblock.