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I picked up a second single 15 Subway cab. Brings my situation up to two single 15" and one 12" SW cabs.
After playing through the combinations 1-15" + 1-12", both 15" together, and both 15" and th single 12" together I have come to the conclusion that they all sound great together. The thing about the two 15" cabs together I love is the different way the mids sound compaired to the 12 + 15 combination. I'm keeping all three cabs for differnt situations. I think the mids with the two 15" cabs has a different presence that I can't quite describe. It's still clear but has a certain thicker tone to it. Something makes me play a little differently. I dig it. Both settups will be used for sure.

SactoBass said:

Very cool! After you posted that, I YouTubed it, and you are spot on!

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Yeah, I realized that a long time ago, but I had to recently point it out to my wife, as she and I(and probably a third person)are going to perform it at an area music festival in October. Thing is, we’re not a surf band(although ironically Dick Dale’s son Jimmy is slated to perform at this event), we’re a duo of guitar/bass and her on electric harp(with alot of effects pedals), plus a possible added cello player(using effects as well). Our goal is playing spacey ambient improv pieces, with occasional cacophony thrown in, plus structured songs fading in and out to anchor the proceedings.

On the original recording, there is a ghostly Wurlitzer electric piano functioning as counterpoint to the lead guitar, and it struck me how much it sounded like a harp, so that’s why we’re persuing this madness. Plus it’s unexpected. Why be normal? Normal is boring. We will end the set with an Eno tune, then the next band is an all-female Clash tribute, Nuns of Brixton.

Greetings from Poland
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Quite interesting.

*Fender enters the chat*

Mr. voodoobass said:

I think pay to play kind of started with eventide h9? I have two of them since forever and they started in basic form and got upgraded little every month.
Until eventually getting ”max” status. As much great things I’ve got out of them, I can’t say I liked the pay for effects thing was.
I would never go that route again…

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Thankfully the H90 and the new updated H9 seemed to have ended that model for Eventide, at least in the pedal world!

Mine start out better than I leave em he he he

The Reverend Jazz Bomb is one of the best I’ve ever heard. The 7 combinations in this video should help… the four string has two neck sized pickups, the five has 3 bridge sized pickups. What is your preferred order of unconventional? Is it Tone, look, or technology? These cover the first two.

You might look inte the Lace Aluma J for looks a tech at least.

JAZZ BOMB PICKUPS IN THE REVEREND TRIAD… VERY INTERESTING.

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ClassicJazz said:

If you want to take that bass to the next level, drop in an Audere preamp. Pretty much plug and play, you will have an entirely new bass in regards to tone.

I put Audere preamps into both my Japanese Bacchus basses. They both sound incredible!

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Hey nice Handmade WL DX4 I have one also, the Handmade series are very much one of the best Jazz ever made. I’ve watched factory tour and it’s impressive how much attention to details they put in crafting their instruments without CNC machines, if they were to be a western brand they’d easily be comparable to Sadowsky NYC/Fodera.

Thumpin6string said:

Still never heard of him or the Tony! Toni! Tone'!.

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You're not alone. I'm 50 so I don't care anymore. I've been out of every possible loop for decades at this point haha

Smallmouth_Bass said:

I like them both. I'd go for the British Racing Green if I had to choose between the two.

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The ox blood is cool, but I attracted to the racing green. Would probably get a matching racing stripe. Decent price for a Fender these days.

I’ve had a Venture V7 and the MG800. The Venture was very under powered in comparison ( massively so ) and felt cheaply made. The MG800 is a beautiful looking amp and sounds awesome.
What do I gig with, well it’s Ampeg but a V4B RI rig and at 100w all valve it sounds awesome with a different sound and feel that only a valve amp gives (3D kind of sound )
My MG800 is now my back up amp

When I picked the bass back up last time I had a friend who was a drummer and we'd get together in his basement and he would give me a beat and I'd try to keep up. It was some of the best training I had early in my restart. It was were I learned to count without really counting. I'm sure that does not make sense but it's the only way I know to kinda sorta describe it.

Put this thing through the paces at another band practice (where we introduced a new member). Some band members wanted to experiment in drop A (AEADG), so I was afraid of everything being floppy and muddy.

But even despite my Aria being a 34" scale with a 120 B-string, it didn't sound or feel floppy in drop A! It sounded good! So yay! This is why I say things like scale length only tell part of the story with regard to 5-strings. I've played 35" scale 5ers that felt and sounded floppy in both B and A, even despite setups with strings like DR DDTs.

This bass continues to surprise me in all the best ways.

I got it switched, and “new” drivers loaded in this evening. Thanks for the help!

TroyK said:

I am impressed with Rumbles, especially for the price, but they do greatly benefit from a high pass filter.

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Same for the GK MB 112. I’m playing a gig tomorrow with an Ampeg RB112 that I haven’t gigged with before. Curious about how it’ll sound.

agedhorse said:

There are no factory recone kits available, all of the aftermarket kits I have seen are poor to abysmal. Just beware.

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I'd take poor over abysmal any day.

I'd call that livin' large!

Hopefully not derailing the thread, but I’m looking seriously at the Trickfish 3K and the 1.5K… playing some larger places, and at present I’m gigging with an Epifani Piccolo with the 1000 watt mod… any opinions on either of these amps from you veteran bassmen? I really appreciate the input!

As usual, CNN has it wrong. The singer actually fired the drummer and is chucking his kit. He really means it this time.

been getting this one multiple times today. No warning. I navigate to a thread, start reading and scrolling as normal then POP it clogs my screen.

Aloe said:

I wonder if it can be used as a tie clip to pitch check a vocalist.

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If you string him high enough, sure

I picked up another Gator case, this time for my 5 string pro player. Note the fit here is not as good as it was on the 6 string custom. The main differences are that the 5 has a slightly thinner body, and the combination of the 33 inch scale with the volute on the back of the headstock mean the neck does not sit in the cradle the same way because the volute lifts it. I considered trimming the case so that the neck fits better, but for now I solved it with bubble wrap under the neck and around the body.

IK, old thread, but I just had to learn this tune for a gig. I have been diving into Larry's playing of late after listening to him a bunch. Larry is a monster and his playing is great here as always. It's obviously a five string and to me sounds like just a really tasty and warm active five string tone w roundwounds--could be a Yamaha, MTD, mighta been a Tobias-I think he had one back then. Don't think it's a Sadowsky - many Nashville cats used those(and still do) but this doesn't have that sound to my ears. I hear no effects or amp sound, just DI'd bass, but you know it's going through an as-good-as-it-gets front end, comp, eq, etc. Brent Mason is no slouch on guitar either

There’s been nobody online here recently that you had issues with, have you? Wouldn’t surprise me to see someone go to such lengths to inconvenience you this way. To set up a dupe account, that is.