Delberthot

One of my earliest influences as I was really into Clapton at the time. This video was the reason I switched to 5 and then 6 string http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlvvvzYEtaU

It depends what range of Laney we're talking about here. I don't have any experience of the older stuff but even the Richter range uses Celestion speakers. I use a Nexus 4x10" and I wouldn't call it budget by any stretch of the imagination. Celestion Neo drivers, marine grade ply and are still built in the UK for a little over Chinese Ashdown ABM money. And 10kgs lighter than an ABM410. They're just not trendy in the slightest so the downside is that if you buy new you're going to lose a lot of money if you come to sell but the upside is that they can be had for peanuts. I'm on the look out for another 4x10" or 1x15" from the same range If the guy is selling a Nexus 4x10" and you decide to pass then let me know.

They are alledgedly Rotosound nickels in a different packet - someone on here found a Rotosound QC ticket inside a pack of theirs. And yes they are good

And the picture has been nicked from me so its not even of his bass Its surf blue and was defretted. the first bass I ever sold on Ebay [URL=http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/JPEGImage1216521_zps72aa4a5e.jpg.html][IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/JPEGImage1216521_zps72aa4a5e.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I've recently found myself in the position of not having a regular band anymore so am doing dep work with various bands. there's one band that I'm doing a fair amount of work for doing weddings and functions. I had the feeling that i was getting less than the other regular members of the band and had this confirmed last night when overheard someone last night saying words to the effect of there's XXXXX (band member's) money and there's YYYYYY (YYYYY being me) Now in other wedding bands I'm getting anywhere between £160 - £200 per wedding which is evenly split between all members and me. I'm coming out of every gig with £100 which is still good but there's no way a fully booked wedding band is going out for £500. A drummer friend who has also played with them told me to watch out as the band leader would try to pay me less. These are big, expensive wedding venues as well. So what do I do? If I get it wrong I risk losing out on a lot of work but I've put a lot of effort and time into learning their set in a short space of time only for the band leader to withhold money that he would normally have paid their regular bass player. I'm always first there and I'm the first to help them loading and unloading their gear after I've moved mine. They are a good band and I get on well with them but I don't want to approach this the wrong way or do I just keep quiet?

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1367102983' post='2061416'] It's been widely commented on already in this forum and elsewhere, but TC's model numbers do not relate directly to the output power when measured conventionally. [/quote] I've heard that this is also true of Peavey's current combos

How is that bass tuned as the lowest string appears to be an E ? E A D G C F or E A D G B E ? I've posted this before but I love this tune. Slapping on an 8 string bass, whoda thunk it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IwObrJre5M

At one point last year I was in a wedding/function band, a rock band, a Beatles tribute, another wedding/function band and depping. The problem arises when one or more of the bands gets busier and you've got to prioritise one over the other unless the each band knows that if band A gets a gig then you can't do one for band B, they have to get a dep and they're happy about the situation. I was the latter as the rock band and tribute were made of musicians who, like myself, played in other wedding/function bands and gigged for the hell of it some weekends

t depends on whether you want the clank all the time or just when you need it. I set up my basses so that when playing normally there is no fret rattle but when you dig in, that's when you get the clank - comes from years in wedding/function bands where clank isn't going to sound too good if you're playing Moon River or other stuff where you need a smooth tone. I use roto flats as on all my basses which shows that you don't need rounds on it and I don't recall Flea using Status basses to any great degree, if at all. In fact if you can still find it, there's an earlyYoutube video of Flea using a Black Precision bass live and still getting his sound

I once knew a guy that was half French and half Polish - he was a French Polisher Thanks you, I'm here all week - what do you mean its thursday tomorrow?

[quote name='GremlinAndy' timestamp='1366640192' post='2055283'] Whether it's *everyones* description of punchy or not is debatable.....[/quote] At least it wasn't just me then that thought then.

I've been watching these for a few weeks now and you'll be lucky if it doesn't sell for three times the current £30 bid. One sold the other day for £111 + postage I'm looking at alternatives now cos the prices are getting silly

Status Quo - the recording from their live concert at the O2 Glasgow last month Aerosmith - 9 Lives Pink Floyd - Pulse Yes -Fragile RHCP - Freaky Styley

If its only for home practice then I wouldn't worry about spending a great deal. I use an 80w Meridian guitar combo. Still sounds good and doesn't annoy the nieghbours when I turn it up. Personally, spending £3-400 on something for home practice is a waste of money. I'd rather have that cash go towards my gig rig. Another "personally" from me is that when I first began playing in 1987 I had a 15w Squier guitar amp, cheap curly lead and Marlin Slammer precision copy with peeling chrome bridge. Now that we have the internet and a lot of opinons and choice there's too much emphasis on changing gear and the next big thing. Forget about all that. The most important thing is to listen to as much as you can and just play stuff you want to play and improve yourself as a bass player. I've been playing nearly 26 years and there are a lot of guys on here who have been playing longer. I've got to the point in my bass playing career where I can f*** about with this and that knowing that I have the playing side of things covered. Just play

Didn't some of the older 90s era cabs come with sidewinder drivers?

A bit off topic but I remember something Alexei Sayle said about 20 years ago:"If the British had invented the Walkman, it would have been about 2 foot square, covered in leatherette and had the headphones out of a Lancaster bomber" I buy whatever sounds good regardless of country of manufacture. My newly purchased Laney NX410 is designed and built in the UK - probably using baltic ply, Chinese wire and probably Chinese made Celestion neo drivers. The wooly Ashdown thing as well. I've used both separately and they sound good but together they sound sh*t and wooly. I had one of the chrome rack mounty ABM thingies and two ABM115s and it was terrible. Cabs on their own were good, amp on its own = good but together it sounded like they were a lot less than the sum of their parts

The Lollar ones are Top banana as well - Bumnote has one in his Precision

The general concensus is that US Fenders are made in America, using American parts by Mexicans - Mexican basses are made in Mexico, using American parts by Mexicans If you check the link in my sig to my FSR Precision, this is my main bass. I was';t overly keen on the preamp so I fitted a set of EMGs

Well if you've read my review of the Laney NX115 you'll know how much I loved that - I managed to find a mint, never been out of the house NX410 still with its original shipping box for a very good price, so good that I'd have been silly to knock it back