ARGH

Personally I dont like either,I guess the Redhead is a lot more versitile for studio use,IMHO,I feel theres better stuff available at similer prices,SWR's sound has never really caught my ear,and It dosent have the muscle or grit I like. Must you go combo? I take its a 2x10. What musical styles/situations are you going to be playing in? We can only offer opinions and ideas,If you like it or either,blindfold yourself,turn you back and get the staff to switch you from one to the other..whichever you like..purchase. ^_^

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='26719' date='Jul 3 2007, 09:07 PM']RAWK! Very nice.[/quote] Thankyou. Are you In Petersfield? Winchester?

[quote name='finnbass' post='25054' date='Jun 29 2007, 06:34 PM']It is DIY and you do detect some reverence. Everyone I know who has built one of BFM's cabs has sworn by it and often sold off their off-the-shelf boutique cabs afterwatds. If you search for BFM on here you should find quite a bit of info and he has his own forum on my site with a lot of build diaries.[/quote] Whats the low end on that sort of thing like?

I tried a G&L for under 1k and that was very nice.

[quote name='rodl2005' post='25855' date='Jul 2 2007, 06:59 AM']Nice rig Argh!!!!!! I'm sure too 300w thru a 4x10 AND a 1x15 would be HEAPS!!!![/quote] Thankyou and yes its WAAAYYY loud enough. The 15" is a recent addition as the 9s coming I felt I needed more low end,I downtuned my fretless B to F sharp and thundered the shop when testing it out. I only ever use rigs for stage volume as most of it gets DI'd as and when needed,its about taste and tone at the days end to fit in with as many musical situations as possible onstage. I could and will eventually get the footswitch to channel change,but I dont like to change basses or controls onstage that often (Unless I get bored or fancy a change/Challenge or a tune really needs it) as I prefer to use what onboard eq the Instrument has to fit as many tunes as possible*. (*Less basses onstage=less stuff to carry,less stuff to get nicked on a gig)

When its done,both I suppose (Walking upon as in Bassline) As Ive said before,that splinter beside it is a Les Paul fingerboard,just to understand the size of whats being built.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='26177' date='Jul 2 2007, 07:13 PM']My thoughts exactly! Alex[/quote] Oh you mean you were thinking of seeing this? In its completed state?

Thanks BD 300w is enough (I run a DI off the head and go through the monitors,it has the famed SansAmp curcuit fitted as standard) and I find 600w head would be far to much for pubs/clubs etc you are never going to need that amount of wattage on small stages,unless you just want to go deaf. MP The 4x10s handling is 8 ohms/400w capacity. Ive run the rig up against an Ampeg on the Ampeg setting and feel its superior and alot more versitile,I would get the head as well as the cab,as they are both VERY reliable,Ive never had a problem,I know the SansAmp is by far,more widely known,but compared to EBS/Peavey/Ampeg/Hartke/Mesa/GK/Trace/SWR/Eden rigs ive tried its just plain better,this has paid for itself many many times over (If your gonna pay about 2k for a rig you should try everything thats to hand).

Heres mine,dont see many of these about, Specs are Tech 21 Landmark 300 head Tech 21 B410 cab (4x10 innit) Tech 21 B115 cab (Neodymium speaker,and its got a Furry finish)

I SAW THAT ESH Astoria london december the 30th,1996,supporting Type O Negative.

Dave Peacock of 'Chas & Dave' Just been listening to "Rabbit" and "Gertcha" and he's everywhere,solid,and has a great 3 bolt late 70s tone. Warm and middy. Cant listen to these 2 play without seeing fagash and pint glasses in my minds eye.

[quote name='lukeward2004' post='25019' date='Jun 29 2007, 05:19 PM']Nice - she has character![/quote] Yeah,and scratches,dings and dents! I love it when about 5-6 years back it was not cool to be using Fenders. It never let me down,We've been through an awful lot together,the Scratchplate isnt stock (I remember fileing out the neck pocket to get it to fit in a shop I work for in Guiseley on a sunday) the pickups been replaced as has the nut and jack. The ends of the fingerboard are worn from slapping,and ive had the frets stoned twice. Workhorse.

Or mine Mucky old dog isnt she......pays the bills though

Yeah I'd buy a full set,rather than have to wait to kill off the brightness of a single.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='24936' date='Jun 29 2007, 03:03 PM']Which - unless I'm very much mistaken , is the handiwork of the owner , John Robinson. He played it in his band - The Outfit - and I had a quick go on it. Tale from the life of a would be rockstar... I had a 6 string guitar (sort of) stolen and the rock factory got it back for me when a guy tried to sell it on there. Grateful bunny that I was I took them for a beer at a local hostelry after work. Then another beer , then another etc etc. Woke up in the middle of the night , room spinning , couldn't quite work out why someone had moved my window but set off to the traps , pleasure bent. Somebody had moved my lightswitch too. Odd. All of a sudden I've tripped on something in the dark and Neil Peart's doing drum solo. Toms,snare , cymbal crashes...the works. The light goes on and it's John's wife. They'd scraped me up off the pub floor , taken me home ,put me to bed and in the dark I'd wandered out of their flat , into the drum department and fallen into a drum kit!!![/quote] Tenner says you got dragged from the 'Crimea' (either that or the Lion)...But Im betting on the former,Yeah Jim keeps a wicked set of Ales on,shame I cant really join in on them,coz hes got "Scapa flow" on now and again and thats a knockout pint. Floodwaters??? Theres nowt in the 'Factory' I want save a Fender,but I already have one and I just feel 2 of the same standard/specs is excessive,NOW IF GALAXY WENT then I would be ransacking the place,That Black Ricky (Its NOT a 4001...its a 4003) the early 90s white P,GOLD topped LESPAULS,White Vs and a vintage Vox PA...all in a shop that smells,looks,and feels right,and is so small that when you,shopkeep and two of his mates are in (and they always are...chatting) its essentially full. Boot And shoe for me tonight,if only to watch Les stagger,Export are on. Do you ever feel that the Lion and the Crimea's stages are really small and boomy! utter basstraps?

[quote name='subaudio' post='24806' date='Jun 29 2007, 11:43 AM']Glad Jon didn't suffer too much damage, my heart goes out to all those effected, Sheffield and Doncaster were my old stomping grounds, hope this weekend dosen't see a repeat.[/quote] How do you think I feel,the Calders 150meters from my door. The Nestle Factory and Chemical works have had to be pumped out twice,and Tigers grounds been emptied (Changing rooms are still awash) from 5 feet in the Wheldon road corner (where North and West stand ajoin). I building a boat. Im ment to have a gig in Otley on the 7th,does the canal run through there?

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='24792' date='Jun 29 2007, 11:26 AM']Arse - I just saw my Status with it's new Shukerised top floating past a kebeb shop in Doncaster high street surrounded by dead kittens and Richard the thirds!!!! We've a gig in Rotherham tomorrow night - be like Kevin Costner in Waterworld I reckon. We're doing the ZZ tribute but will see if we can sneak Quo's 'rain' in without being killed !!! My boat's in South Yorkshire so I went yesterday fearing the worst but the canal and surrounding fields are unaffected. 2 miles away dozens of poor sods are kipping in a sports centre. Our wonderful BBC local news program thinks it's Xmas - no more 'cat stuck in tree' for a while. Silly woman standing in a flooded street in her wellies asked an elderly couple.... 'You've just lost everything you ever worked for and are looking forward to a bleak and insecure future....tell us how you feel about that'. Brilliant. Pulitzer standard reporting.[/quote] Yeah Harry and co real cutting edge reporting. Two days ago the only way southwards this side was through Pontefract,and you cant get to selby of the A1 through Cas,coz underneath the flyovers 4 ft deep.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='24648' date='Jun 28 2007, 10:38 PM']I definitely agree with you both - wasn't it Carlos Santana who said that your sound comes from your fingers and he should probably know? And, when we hear a bass sound on record, in general, it's not the pure sound of the bass player and his gear we're listening too anyway. His/her original recording will have gone through any number of processes by the time it's mixed down anyway. So, copying their gear won't automatically replicate their pure sound anyway..And that's without taking into account the way each of us plays. But just being devil's advocate a bit longer - whilst there's some really good points made here (thinking graphite and synth tones for example..), I'm still not 100% convinced that there really are loads and loads of really good different tones out there. More that there are lots of good variations on a small number of classic tones that work time and again...?[/quote] If Basses were great from the get go,then there'd be no need for FX,D.I.s and all manner of studio stuff. Bottom line is a great player will shine regardless of the gear hes using or playing,the reverse of which Is rare.

[quote name='The Funk' post='24512' date='Jun 28 2007, 04:19 PM']I don't know about you guys but I tend to play differently on different basses.[/quote] What...do you play with your elbows?

I take it you like 'Bass' elements?

[quote name='Rayman' post='24423' date='Jun 28 2007, 01:59 PM']"The funk's in the fingers, not the bass" Almost every bass I've had I've ended up with a simillar sound the the previous ones, purely because I have a sound in my head that I like, and I end up with something simillar whatever I'm playing, Stingray, Precision, Thunderbird, Jazz all a simillar end result soundwise for me, although they're all "capable" of many different tones depending on the player. At the end of the day, [i]for me[/i], a precision, for instance, would be just fine for almost any style of music. Who needs anything else? Your sound's in your fingers, not the pieces of wood and wire between them. Just my opinion.[/quote] Agreed,but a stock Fender P is a tad kak at a slap tone. But all instruments,set up in the way I like with the string guage I prefer will after time sound like me,even a Ricky or an EB3. Ive liked some basses,ive disliked others,its rare that I fiddle with the onboard eq,and if I have to it means Im not liking the bass or the musical situation or the engineers useless. I still think Ibanez didnt make a 'great' Bass after the late 80s,until about 96-97. With exception to the Soundgear 800 series or above,but they have got a synthy sound that goes well with distortion.

Thats a lot of Carbon.

The 'Graphite' sound That clean thin 80s tone. Also an even sounding 5-6/ERB tone. I even believe in an Ibanez tone. You also get the 'Grind' Tone (Tool,modern metal like Killswitch) but that comes from boxes and Sansamps.

hello and thankyou Tavistock. I came from Exmoor,I hope you are all well.

Email Jim for a quote,tell him what you like,and he can do it. Try the man,I dare you.