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5 hours ago, Painy said:

Blimey! For that money I think I'd rather just buy for a used DB751 and train our drummer to carry it for me. 

OR... for £1169 you could buy very nearly thirteen used Trace Elliot combos and keep one at each venue. Saves carrying 'em.

9 minutes ago, Painy said:

For that money I think I'd rather just buy for a used DB751 and train our drummer to carry it for me. 

Good luck with that. Our drummer dropped my bass the other day. Luckily it fell on the guitarist, who was dead drunk on the floor.

What impresses me? Good bass playing. The method used to strike the strings is largely irrelevant. 

I had a TH350 and it never wanted for more beans. Where will it all end?
'Markbass announce 2kW RMS @ 4ohms amp the size of a credit card - earplugs included'.

4 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

I always thought you were meant to turn input volume up to “just below where it starts to clip” - or is full on with clipping part of the successful formula?

In my case, turning the Input volume to max IS 'just below where it starts to clip'. I get a very occasional red clip light at that point, or just below it. These amps seem to like a lot of Input level, much like Ashdowns do. Obviously if you use a preamp or an active bass you'd need a lower setting.

Which Mac?? Gary Mac!! 

This revelation kind of makes the whole Trace thing very easy. Plug in bass. Switch on amp. Make sure Pre-Shape is off. Make sure Graphic Circuit is off. Turn up Input volume to max. Turn up Master volume to '2'. Play. It took me more than forty years, but I got there in the end. 

Sunburst with white guard is always totally unacceptable. Sunburst with black is always badass. Sunburst with tort is great, IF it's good tort and not that stuff that looks like a picture from a medical encyclopaedia...

Update: Well here's a thing. I've been using the Trace Combo for every rehearsal and gig since I got it, and I love it and everything about it - so do the band. Last rehearsal went particularly well and I silently congratulated myself on a great choice of amp, then patted myself on the back for really getting to grips with the legendary Trace Graphic EQ. Only... when I got home I realised the graphic circuit had been switched out for the entire rehearsal. 

So Trace made their amps to sound best completely flat, played live in a band setting. Who knew? This would explain why the manual would have you make only very small changes to the graphic sliders, and not move too far away from 0db!  Every day's a school day...

That's the problem really. I made myself a 7lb Jazz bass, now it's really difficult to consider anything heavier.

I've mislaid all my gated kick drum samples, so that's me out.

Sounds like played-in rounds with a pick. Just my 2p.

10 minutes ago, Maude said:

I can't justify another bass. Or could I? 😁 

Go on, buy it. Then I'll buy it from you when I can afford it.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F143001497752

You just don't see these in this condition with the perspex ashtrays AND the perspex 'H' logo. Seriously tempted.

Fantastic necks and monster tone for weeks. If you can afford it, buy it - these are getting rare.

5 minutes ago, cetera said:

Replying 'for a friend'... He may (or may not) have brought back a number of basses from the US on more than one occasion... and walked straight through the nothing to declare channel each time...

It was you, wasn't it? 

7 hours ago, dave_bass5 said:

I thought there was a lot of irony in the fist half of that article, the bits about manufacturers making huge claims about their gear. 

And so they do. That, or the information you really need just isn't forthcoming at all...

14 minutes ago, grandad said:

...my days of GAS suffering are behind me...

I keep thinking mine are, too...

I think these are about the only strings I haven't yet tried. Ordering!

1 hour ago, grandad said:

...I'd love to try out a super compact. Keep getting tempted to buy one but I know I don't need it so I've managed to resist...

Ah go on, you know you want to! I can't think of a better UK company to support. Alex deserves his success, he worked hard for it.

On 29/10/2018 at 18:58, skankdelvar said:

...if anyone knows of a pub that has junkies of every persuasion, food poisoning, brutal violence, insanitary facilities, deafening noise, regular visits by Plod, a reeking midden in the garden and prostitute barmaids I should be glad to hear of it...

Take my hand and join me for a homophobic beating in Deptford. We'll top off the evening with a fatal heroin overdose in South Norwood.

7 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

For me its more the guitar tone and vocal lines that bore me after a while. Again, i do like them but i just cant listen to them too ling in one sitting.  

Their super-lush multi-track overdub techniques are impressive, but can certainly get a bit wearing after a while. I preferred their live work, they made an incredibly huge racket for what was essentially a rock trio with a singer.

1 hour ago, MoonBassAlpha said:

Your 'age' presumably being the 1600s?

Earlier... as far back as the Cretinous period.

19 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

Never been a huge fan, but i do like a lot of their songs. I do get bored with their sound if i listen for too long.  I find it very 'samey', although i do appreciate their talent.

Absolutely, you can't argue with that. They're old school, from a time when pop music wasn't all written by the same two people... yes there was Chinnichap and later SAW, but you know what I mean...

1 hour ago, jazzmanb said:

The test is wether its watchable not being a big Queen fan

I was a fan as a kid, but not now. Would a non-fan bother going to see it?  Queen were a little bit successful and quite famous, so I'm guessing there are still enough fanatics around to support the film...

10 minutes ago, dave_bass5 said:

Cant find any way to delete this post.

You could edit it. Change it to something like, 'Wow, I'm definitely going to see this! I loved Freddie Mercury me, and fantasised about being his boyfriend!'

Or, a paragraph or two more in keeping with your own proclivities. You know, something appropriate...