Conan

[quote name='Balcro' timestamp='1423483238' post='2685221'] Maybe you also need this: - There's a thread on here somewhere about the BD121 sucking out the mids and this fairly simple mod. [/quote] Yeah, I've looked at that before. Looks like a very useful mod but way beyond my electronics skills! TBF, the mid-drain from the pedal is a small issue as I don't use it all the time - but thanks for the reminder!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1423481682' post='2685184'] The Fusion is more than worth the extra cash. [/quote] [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1423483395' post='2685222'] At 8 ohms I'd get the TH500. [/quote] [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1423483964' post='2685243'] TH500. No point in buying a lower powered amp for this cab [/quote] [quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1423484497' post='2685257'] i'm saving for the TH500, [/quote] I thought this might happen! At the moment my budget is pretty strictly limited to £400 as we have other big bills... The TH500 is about £200 more than the TH350, and I just can't stretch that far just now. I am also rather dubious about how much louder it would be in "real world" terms. The cheapest I've found the MB Fusion 500 is £525, which is (again) significantly over budget. Now if I could source either of these heads second-hand... Even then, I'd have to wait until next month before pulling the trigger. Still, thanks for the suggestions!

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1423484497' post='2685257']they usually have both the 350 and the 500 in stock over at the Bass Base in Pelaw if you want a proper go, [/quote] Believe it or not, I've never even heard of that place! Might have to have a look...

So I finally managed to sell my Hartke LH500! Plenty of clear volume and headroom, but lacking in the midrange. I would like to replace it with something that has plenty of mids available - especially as my "normal" set-up involves using a Fender Jazz bass with both pickups full on. I know... The two amps that I have my eyes on are the GK MB500 (not the fusion version, which is more expensive) and the Aguilar TH350. Both are available new at under £400. My cab is a Barefaced Big One. It has no problem reproducing the mids, as long at they are there in the first place! Nominally it is rated at 8 ohms, but as it is so sensitive it doesn't need a lot of power to make it sing... I'm aware that the Aggie puts out less power, but my band is not particularly loud so I don't think that this will be an issue. I have heard that it can lack a bit of "glassy" top-end sparkle, but I don't need much of that anyway. I use a BDI21 for drive when I need it, so I have no need for the amp to do this. So what would you go for, and why?

[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1423428468' post='2684689'] Maybe I should get a Gen 2 Compact with a silver grill from somewhere? [/quote] Or speak to Alex and see if you can get some of the silver cloth to put on your existing Compact?

So I guess the answer to the OP's question is ans unqualified YES!! I'm local as well, if you would like a blast on my Barefaced Big One (1x15 and 1x6.5 in a smallish, light box).

Great track - in fact I was listening to that very album this weekend... Can't help with the bass parts though - my style was (and still is) to simply listen to it and play along until I (thought I) got it right!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1423147444' post='2681414'] Hence you can have both unprofessional professionals and professional amateurs. [/quote] Our work here is done

I think that we are broadly OK in using the word professional as an adjective... but its use as a noun is fraught with confusion. So it's fine to say that a great musician, who does a great job and is reliable, [b][i]is[/i][/b] professional - whether or not he is [b][i]a[/i][/b] professional. Yes?

Just too many to mention (or remember! ) but I'm really into Phil Lynott's tone at the moment, and this is (to me) a perfect example: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqRJtUorPMg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqRJtUorPMg[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1423138567' post='2681205'] Haemorrhoids? [/quote] Naaa... to hard to spell! Anyway, I got rid of mine with one of these... [url="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=nobby"][/url]

My cricket club has had a number of professionals over the years. They get paid to play cricket. They get referred to as "pros" or "professionals". Yet they do not belong to any professional body...

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1423137449' post='2681178'] I wouldn't dream of getting involved in any kind of creative musical project if I was able to listen, react and play and subsequently modify what I was doing as a result of feedback from my fellow musicians both in terms of the notes I played and the sound(s) I used. [/quote] Then maybe you are a pro?

So being a musician is not a "profession"? I'm a teacher and a musician. Does that make me a professional musician?

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1422781972' post='2676611'] Maybe different amps give different characteristics. [/quote] They do - some of them anyway... Not sure about Ampeg (although an SVT200T I used to own had a nice rich, but slightly scooped sound). Getting any mids out of my Hartke LH500 is bloody hard work mind...

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1423124947' post='2680945'] just because you do something as a job doesn't make you a proffesional. Often you see adverts for flats to rent "Seeking Proffesionals". I'm guessing they're not looking for proffesional refuse collectors. [/quote] Bloody semantics again! We all know what we mean, and what others mean - but we still find things to argue about!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1423131168' post='2681051']If you have the ability and right mind set a good pro player can push you to be a far better player than you'll ever be on your own, and none of it ever relates to frigging speaker sizes, etc. [/quote] Oh no!! What will we have left to talk about on here??

I missed out on the whole compression/Vail Johnson thing as I was away over Christmas and had no computer access. Interesting situation! Some of the responses on that thread made me see certain members in a different light when I had respected their input previously... I think there is certainly a hard-core in the membership here who think of themselves (rightly or wrongly) as experts. Whether their experience backs up that personal [b][i]view[/i][/b] is open to conjecture, but they don't like their views being challenged by anyone - even top [i][b]professionals[/b][/i] in the same field. To be fair, those same top pros also hold views - but at least theirs tend to be supported by lots of real world experience. That kind of makes it more valid in my book! I'm no hagiographer, and yes - I do know who Vail Johnson is, having been of that age in the 80s and 90s where I was listening to a lot of US "soul" and "funk" music. Vail played on a lot of those recordings. This doesn't raise him to deity status of course, but it certainly beats most of the collective experience on here! That said, you don't always know what someone's experiences are, and there are several "ordinary" members on here who have played on a number of recordings that were influential in my musical history I think the badderer (odd username!) summed it up perfectly. And if Vail had used a couple of judicious smilies in his opening foray then maybe none of this would have happened. What can pros add? Well, maybe in terms of factual knowledge, not much - but it terms of having been there and done it, plenty IMO.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1423045219' post='2679854'] How can anyone, who watches this, say the music has no heart and soul? Ok, you might not like the band, but to say it's lacking heart and soul is just wrong! [/quote] I dunno. While you could hardly accuse the three guys themselves of lacking those characteristics - I think what constitutes "heart" and/or "soul" could be perceived as lacking from their music if you don't like that genre. And I say that as a massive Rush fan! Soul may be a long way off. I would definitely say that they are closer to the heart...

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1423058974' post='2680118'] As for using my guitar amp, I would be inclined to try it at least. It's a big, tough, understressed, hand built, valve driven behemoth of hi-fi sonic awesomeness...the amp would be more than man enough.[/quote] It might... but it also sounds expensive, so I'm not sure I'd want to take that risk!

[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1422979292' post='2679092'] I would like to do an A/B test with a Barefaced Compact and Super Compact. I would put my money on the larger speaker sounding deeper. [/quote] Some people who have owned both (I've only had an original Compact) say that the new Super Compact actually has [b][i]more[/i][/b] bottom end... From the BF site: [b] [i]"Why this rather than the much revered Compact?[/i][/b] [i]The treble is brighter and more audible around the room, the midrange has more punch and also has better dispersion, the lows are just as big but better controlled and less boomy"[/i]