Merton

[quote name='Huge Hands' post='246097' date='Jul 23 2008, 01:59 PM']If you read the (real) adverts in Viz, someone already beat you to CNUT t-shirts.[/quote] Doesn't surprise me in the slightest!

[quote name='silddx' post='245633' date='Jul 22 2008, 07:49 PM']I was going to start my own fashion label to rival that of FCUK. But what I'll do is get some decent looking apparel printed up with my logo. CNUT (after our esteemed King of course). The logotype comprises that name and a graphic of a wave coming to shore and a throne. The shore is that of a red tide with loads of dead logos all over the beach. Reckon there's a market? [/quote] I got my mate a t-shirt printed saying FCUKING CNUT, coz I'm very mature I want a Status hoodie!

[quote name='Astronomer' post='244908' date='Jul 21 2008, 10:53 PM']FWIW, I don't think there's a "right" or "proper" way to play. Whatever suits you and gives you the sound you want and lets you best play the music you like is the best technique for you. [/quote] Agreed I can't slap for toffee either. I think if my life depended on it I'd be 6 feet under!

No GAS this week, I've actually clearly been feverish as I've been thinking (highly illogically) about what else I can SELL. Somebody shoot me now before something else ends up on the for sale forum.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='245437' date='Jul 22 2008, 03:30 PM']Speaking of which on the comeback: [url="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/walbassesnaturally/message/11125"]http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/walba...y/message/11125[/url] *ouch*[/quote] Ouch indeed. Hope Paul gets the support he deserves for this, he truely is a genius (I know this after he fixed my acoustic g**tar with minimal fuss where other people said it couldn't be done) and I really wouldn't want Wal to disappear forever.

I have a set of Black Beauties on my Retroactive (so the whole bass is black, save for the hardware ). They look cool and sound great but they don't do it for me enough to buy another set. Status Hotwires are just that little bit more "me"! (Though I do have 6 sets of Trace Elliot strings to experiment with...)

[quote name='stevie' post='244843' date='Jul 21 2008, 09:39 PM']I don't wish to hijack this thread, but which of the cheaper, less powerful Trace Elliot heads (including the old ones) would you recommend?[/quote] Anything up to the early SMX ranges. Preferably Series 6 and either 7- or 12-band

[quote name='Krysbass' post='245296' date='Jul 22 2008, 12:44 PM']A bit like Marmite perhaps (you either love it or hate it) but Ashdown do a good selection of wearables on their website and the t-shirts are pretty good quality. "Well, that makes a change" I can imagine some people saying..... [/quote] I have an Ashdown tracksuit top which is pretty cool. The best thing I've owned of theirs (except the old MAG 4x10 with Celestions which was stonkingly good for the money).

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='245122' date='Jul 22 2008, 10:17 AM']..said bass is now part of the Collection! Awesome! 6 strings and more wood than Wickes! Nick[/quote] Sweeeeeet

[quote name='pockethammer' post='244704' date='Jul 21 2008, 07:15 PM']Pearl Jam - Ten seems to have made it's way back onto the car stereo.[/quote] [quote name='parker_muse' post='244812' date='Jul 21 2008, 09:08 PM']Yes - Manic Street Preachers. Probably my favourite song off The Holy Bible, a truely underrated album.[/quote] Must dig both of those out again, not listenend to them for ages. THB is my fave Manics album, they went rapidly downhill after that IMO.

I'm listening to the airconditioning whirring. Not allowed music on in the office EDIT: in the car on the way home I will be mostly listing to Voodoo 6 tho

Have a look [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=198"]HERE[/url]

It's all about my Status Retroactive. The best bass I've ever played, bar none.

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='244459' date='Jul 21 2008, 02:46 PM']It's the sound you'll be left with when you've forgotten the price.[/quote] +1

[quote name='lee4' post='243483' date='Jul 19 2008, 07:39 PM']OK all you Status experts,I own a Groove,in 3 tone sunburst,and it's the Dachshunds danglers! Low action,great tone,great neck. Anyone else got one?[/quote] [quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='243492' date='Jul 19 2008, 08:10 PM']Merton is the one to talk to about Grooves. He has two - One fretted and one fretless.[/quote] That I do. A fretted 5 in black and a fretless 4 in "midnight wine". The fretless was the last "real" Groove made (i.e. one with a wooden neck!), about 2-3yrs after they stopped manufacturing them. Rob found enough bits left to "cobble it together" and in his own words "it turned out really nicely". Erm, understatement, it was the bass which converted me to Status Since then he's done at least 2 more with their MM-replacement graphite necks, but they don't count..

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='244034' date='Jul 20 2008, 08:42 PM']Otherwise, Status basses spring to mind. The rigidity of the grapite necks makes keeping the board very straight and stable very easy, so Rob Green always sets them up at the optimum height - Ie., very low [/quote] Big plus 1. My Retroactive has ht elowest action I've ever been able to get away with (coz I hit the bass so hard!!)

No worries! Enjoy

Nope. As originally Posted by Alex: [i]You can use any power ouput amp with any power handling cab. If any of these combinations makes bad sounds then turn down and/or stop cranking the bass EQ excessively or damage may occur[/i]

Cheeky bump back to the top

[quote name='Merton' post='242670' date='Jul 18 2008, 01:14 PM']Tomorrow we have 2 hours to set up and soundcheck before the meal, then we get to prop up the bar and eat food for 3 hours before the first dance [/quote] Famous last words. We turn up with the dancefloor int he area we were suposed to be setting up in. 45 mins later they have finally moved it under one of the dinner tables and we can set up. I was also told that the afternoon drinks reception before the meal was in the hotel garden "at the other end of the building to where you're setting up." Try right outside the f**king window!! So soundcheck was a little shorter than normal... But other than that the whole thing went swimmingly well and everyone loved us [quote name='steantval' post='243010' date='Jul 18 2008, 07:45 PM']Went to Nottingham Arena last night to see Thunder, Whitesnake, Def Leppard. I especially went to see Thunder and Whitesnake, but Def Leppard stole the show with a great set and stage setup/lighting. The bass player in Leppard had the most awesome bass sound I have ever witnessed, stacks of Ashdown cabs each side of the stage. The bottom end coming out of the PA made your stomach rumble and made the old trouser legs flap.[/quote] Oh yeah Saw Lep and Snake at Wembley last month and it was awesome. Sav's sound is indeed huge, he's finally sorted it out after years of weedy nothingness coming out of the PA!!

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='242690' date='Jul 18 2008, 01:37 PM']I've only got 2 now![/quote] And when I get enough money to prise the blue one off you you'll only have one EDIT: or was it the red one I liked (the one you've jsut sold?!)?