Johnny Wishbone

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Had mine for a couple of months now and it could well be the best £40 (bought it used) I've ever spent. I liken the difference in sound to that between a CD track and an mp3, if you see what I mean? You don't think there's any real difference but when you switch it off you realise how much it's adding to your sound. The Xciter widens the range of tones adding a lovely, punchy low end and nice, sparkling highs. I've had punters and other bassists complimenting my tone at most every gig since I bought it, and sound engineers seem to love the signal from the DI. I seem to be able to hear myself better onstage too. If I lost/broke it, I'd buy another one tomorrow.

[quote name='Russ' post='79233' date='Oct 25 2007, 08:44 AM']I know he has one of his Jazzes strung up in BEAD tuning, so that might be what you have to do...[/quote] +1.

Linda Perry. She's written songs for a lot of successful pop artists.

I'd just give 'em a copy of Bloodsugarsexmagik and have done with it!

H-Blockz - The Power (Snap) Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails) Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel) Lemonheads - Different Drum (Linda Ronstadt) Tricky - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Public Enemy) Quicksand - How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths) Rage Against The Machine - How I Could Just Kill A Man (Cypress Hill) The Specials - Monkey Man (Toots & The Maytals) Tool - No Quarter (Led Zeppelin) Only just, mind.

Monster Magnet - Evil (Is Going On). I think this was originally by Willie Dixon. China Drum - Wuthering Heights Faith No More - War Pigs. It's largely a direct copy of the original, but Puffy's drums are just so powerful and full of life, driving the song really well, whilst Bill Ward sounds like he's playing cardboard boxes in the original. Plus of course Mike Patton is a waaaaaay better singer than Ozzy! Allister - I Want It That Way. Cheating slightly as it's hard to imagine someone doing a Backstreet Boys song and making it sound worse. There was a band called Spoiler (Dutch, I think) who did a brilliantly ironic Stoner-ish cover of the Grease song "You're The One That I Want" a couple of years ago. I remember seeing it through a drunken haze at about three in the morning on Kerrang! TV, but I've never managed to find a copy of it. It was fantastic.

Got a couple of days off work coming up soon - I've challenged myself to learn the bridge to Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" in that time. Pretty sure I haven't got a hope in hell, but then I thought I'd never get the hang of Muse's "Hysteria" and that turned out to be a piece of p*ss after slowing it down and then building the speed up gradually. I guess to an extent nothing is really impossible if you put the work in. Still don't fancy my chances with Sir Duke though!

Over the years my bands have supported nu-metallers (hed)p.e. , blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa, Ex-Terrorvision singer Tony Wright's new band Laika Dog (twice) and German prog maestros RPWL. Even more tenuously, we've also played with a local (Sheffield) band called Rise To Addiction, whose guitarists both used to play in Blaze Bayley's post-Maiden band Blaze.

Yep, what he said

He was kind enough to give me a load of flightcase hardware for nowt! All I had to do was refund him the postage. A true gent. Cheers G!

[quote name='ZPQ' post='49536' date='Aug 23 2007, 01:54 PM']Sounds like a reasonable plan. What cabs are you using? Maybe someone has something similar and could throw in some suggestions for amps. (just had a look at your bandsite - looks like things are going well...MM endorsement too, very nice!)[/quote] No name cabs (custom made) with Eminence drivers, not sure of the model names or anything though. I got a good deal on the amp and cabs when I bought them years ago, and they've served me well. I regularly get complimented on my tone (more so than my playing!) and the no-name cabs do get the gear-heads talking. Yeah, things are picking up for the band nicely at the moment. Couple more endorsement deals in the pipeline too. Might hold out and see what comes my way amp-wise in the next few months before I go and splash some cash. Pay little heed to the MySpace tracks by the way - they're a couple of years (and band members) old now, so don't really reflect our sound that much - the bass tone in particular isn't great! Still play a couple of the songs though.

Great, so bearing in mind I have 2 x 300W 8 ohm cabs I should be looking at a head that puts out around 300W at 8 ohms (I tend to use only one cab for gigs unless the stage is big enough for a full stack) but can go up to about 600W at 4 ohms for when I'm running both cabs? I know that with amp heads it's not as simple as double the impedance equals half the power (my Crate puts out 220W at 4 ohms and 150W at 4 ohms, for example) but that's the kind of ballpark figures I should be looking at, right? I'm thinking of getting something like the Gallien Krueger 700RB-II. Most of the time my Crate pumps out more than enough volume when using 2 cabs, but I've had a couple of gigs recently with a tiny stage (hence using only one cab) and vocal PA only and the Crate has struggled to be heard. It's a rare occasion when my current head doesn't give me enough volume, but I'd rather have the extra power and not need it, rather than need the power and not have it.

[quote name='philbillbass' post='49442' date='Aug 23 2007, 11:59 AM']Well both cabinets are probably 300 at 8 ohms so that means that yes in total you wil have 600 watts at 4 ohms power handling.[/quote] Magic. Cheers mate. I figured that would be the case but thought I'd better check before I went out and bought something that my cabs can't handle.

OK so I'm looking at getting a new amp after years of faithful service from my old Crate head (don't laugh). I like the sound but lately I'm starting to feel it's slightly underpowered. Finally got my head around the whole impedance thing, but I've never had to think too much about power handling before. I currently run my head into a 4x10 and a 1x15, both rated at 300W. My question is this: Is the maximum power handling of my speakers 600W (ie the total wattage) or 300W (ie the total wattage divided by the number of cabinets)? Many thanks in advance, Matt

Thanks mate. Pretty happy with it for now. In addition to getting the two forthcoming pedals I need to sort out the cables a bit - some are a bit long and could do with smaller jack plugs to free up as much space as possible I've left a small gap under the raised section which is perfect for tucking the daisy chain cables out of the way (not done it yet though!). Reckon I could probably squeeze a further 3-5 pedals on there if I needed to as well, depending on their size.

Just finished building this one today. Made it from an old guitar case our singer had lying around. I've always stuck my pedals to a piece of wood, but this is my first attempt at a "proper" pedalboard. Couple more pedals (Tremolo & Delay) to add when I get them in a couple of weeks, which will both go in the space at top left.