rumblefish Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Thx Bluejay, Great Blog of the Bass Bash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxnik Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 Here's a few photos from the Bash that I forgot to put up earlier.... Robert Vanderlinde talk on Set Ups: [attachment=202538:20150926_113750.jpg] DB talk bt bassace: [attachment=202539:20150926_132234.jpg] The Jam Room: [attachment=202540:20150926_132827.jpg] [attachment=202543:20150926_132837.jpg] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mybass Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 (edited) Thanks TrevorR for the pics, nice to meet up with new and not so new bass chatter friends. Bluejay....really good pics, I love the "Wal wall of fame" picture. I used to visit Wal basses many years ago when getting my double bass sorted out ( by Neville Whitehead who lived around the corner from Wal) in High Wycombe. I guess it helped me start looking into the workings of woods and basses though it would be a few more years before I attempted building. Your pic of my headless bass and redwood 'fenderish type' bass are two that attracted some potential buyer interest. The Claro Walnut with abalone/paua inlay is my current gigging bass with a 33" scale that is very comfortable for me. The 'real' Fender is a Japanese 32" scale Aerodyne that is very nice to play. All in all a great day for a bass bash so well done organisers. More pictures within this from Bluejay's camera work..... [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color][url="http://wp.me/p2ZbyY-ut"]http://wp.me/p2ZbyY-ut[/url] Edited October 14, 2015 by mybass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mybass Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) bumping with picture link attached: [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color][url="http://wp.me/p2ZbyY-ut"]http://wp.me/p2ZbyY-ut[/url] Edited October 14, 2015 by mybass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) Here are the clickable images of those beauties by Peter. Thanks again for your kind words, everybody Edited October 14, 2015 by bluejay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyrus Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 hi! i was there during this cab shoot-out, and i am seriously considering buying the prosound 250w passive speaker one of these days (especially if they'll drop the price this friday). i was just wondering if there is anyone here that can share me a video of the prosound portion of the shoot-out... thanks in advance. [quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1443365096' post='2874128'] So, yesterday being a great day and all, below are the results form the cab shoot-out. I`ll also copy this to a post in Amps/Cabs so that others who might not click onto this one - how very dare they - can see what happened. So, the idea was, following on from last years amp shootout, to use the same bass and amp into a variety of cabs, and see if there was a particular theme/overall winner. As such, using my 2015 US Precision into a fairly neutral sounding Tecamp Puma 900 with all eq set at midday (in the hope it would be a flat setting), the cabs below were investigated. We did a section on 2x12s which seems to be a very poular cab nowadays, 1x15s, 1x12s, and then a very small misc section. For the purposes of the test if the cabs had tweeters I set them to be full on. I`ll list each cab, and the amount of votes it got from the audience as to whether it was their fave. So the 2x12 section, starting with my very own cab: Barefaced Super12T - 1 Schroeder 212 - 8 Bergantino CN212 - 9 EBS Neo 212 - 2 EAD 2x12 - 5 So a winner for the Bergantino, and pretty fed up that I made my own cab come last! Onto the 1x15s Markbass Traveller 115 - 3 Barefaced Compact (Gen2) - 8 Schroeder 115 - 11 Barefaced Compact (Gen 1) - 3 So a winner for Schroeder Onto the 1x12s Barefaced Super Midget (Gen 3) - 3 Schroeder 112 - 3 Fearless 112 (with mid speaker, think a 6?) - 13 Barefaced Big Baby2 (Gen 3) - 7 Prosound PA Cab - 2 A runaway victory for the Fearless then. The misc section was very small, being OBBMs Phil Jones 4x5 - so it won that section hands down (well done Dave). So onto the overall faves then, putting the winners from each section above: Fearless 112 - 4 Schroeder 115 - 5 Bergantino CN212 - 20 So overall the Berg tops it, but it was interesting that over the range of cabs that Schroeder, given the lack of presence of their cabs over here, did so well in all sections. I`m sure a lot of it is to do with the cabs fitting my attack-based playing style, but overall the Schros did very well. Many thanks to Brian (Oldman) for bringing them along. So, what were my impressions of the cabs used? Well my fave for the type of music I currently play was the Schroeder 212, as it really adds a cutting presence, a hi-mid bias I would say. For bands I`ve been in previously it would have been the Berg. But there were four real revelations for me: 1. The Barefaced Super Midget Gen 3 - such an amazing amount of sound from such a little cab. And quality sound too, not just volume. 2. Likewise with the Phil Jones 4x5, real presence and quality sound. 3. The Prosound PA Speaker - apparently £60 from Maplins. Did the job fine, and wasn`t lacking in any way. 4. I managed, yet again, to get my own gear to come last. This is a pattern that seems to be repeating itself. But the main thing was, given the variety of cab brands, sizes, configurations, was that I would have been happy to use any of them at a gig. Sure there were nuances to each cab, but overall this shootout showed me that gear is gear, and sure, we all like to get our own sounds if possible, but workable sounds can be gotten from an array of different speaker cabs. Maybe we all obsess just that bit too much (I`ve certainly established that I do from this). Lastly I`d like to thank Nik and Colin for asking me to do this, it was great fun, and to get to play through such an amazing range of cabs was just amazing. [/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 All hail the D'Addario Beta Testing group. Strings arrived here today. Boom! P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldman Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Mine too, my strings aren't due for a change 'till 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Apple Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 [quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1452345168' post='2949070'] All hail the D'Addario Beta Testing group. Strings arrived here today. Boom! P [/quote] I got given a set of Flex Steels to try. I had them put on my Spector when it was set up at hte cellar. Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I received mine this morning too - as soon as I can get rid of this trapped nerve I'll be able to put them to use... Many thanks to D'Addario for giving back to the community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Got mine too. Am I right in thinking that they want their reviews in the shape of a questionnaire to fill in (the packaging gives the link of an online form) as opposed to a 300-word article/post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shockwave Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Got mine today as well. Did we all get the NYXL's? Is it basically just a new nickelwound? Funny thing is I only got around to putting the Flexsteels I got at the bash onto a bass two days ago. I don't think i'll be changing from Elixir though! They are absolutely fine strings, but don't get on with the G string tension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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