Recent content by Doogal123

Or Leland Sklar. Plays exactly enough notes, not any more, not any less, everything clean clean clean

James Jamerson is famous, (listen to his lines on early motown, wow, where did he come up with that stuff), Of course Berry Oakley, knew when to go light and when to get low and push the band, didn't overplay, Jerry Penrod of Iron Butterfly (first album) check out the line on Unconscious Power...

Tiran Porter- Absolutely underrated. Great lines, great percussive style, interesting approach, knew when to be light, when to be powerful

In my experience, get a Fender precision, load it up with wirewound strings (like Rotosound RS66) and scoop the midrange a bit. Open up the tone and volume all the way on the bass. If you play with a pick, you can come very close. Add in a good bit of bass and a little bit of treble...

I would guess from the way they sounded (P-bass player here) that they were RS66 Rotosounds. Not a lot around back then when the first album was out. I always wondered about his gear, was suspicious that he was using JBLs in there somewhere... Can't remember what he was using live when I saw...

From the one photo, looks like he's using a 1 U preamp on top of a Crown DC300A. When I saw them at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, it looked like he was using marshalls there, but I always wondered if he was using JBLs in the cabinets - maybe some of those K145s... But it was definitely...

BTW - the one I bought had a 'lifetime warranty' for the original owner, (which I was, got it at Manny's in NYC). Service later on (in the late 80's early 90's was denied by GK claiming I had to have my original receipt even though they had done service on it before in California (had it...

As one of the folks who was around in the early years of ABB, seen them live with Duane and Berry, and also having used JBL D140's, I would bet cash that the speakers were JBL D140's. I saw them (ABB) at Lehigh University in either fall 70 or spring 71, and Berry was using those vertically...

As one of the folks who was around in the early years of ABB, seen them live with Duane and Berry, and also having used JBL D140's, I would bet cash that the speakers were JBL D140's. I saw them (ABB) at Lehigh University in either fall 70 or spring 71, and Berry was using those vertically...

I would check out getting a 2nd mesa 15 for this cabinet so you have a matched pair. A matched pair of Mesa Speakers designed for this cabinet will give you the best results (unless by some miracle the JBL specs match with the cabinet). On my first bass cabinet, I had the same issue - a used...

I have a Bass 350, an early one (a '94) and have done a direct comparison between it and a WT-300 with an Eden 210XLT, and with both amps flat, I liked the Eden's sound better - a little fuller naturally. I felt like I had to push the 350 to get the depth I wanted. I liked it so much that I...

My 600B was labeled GMT 600B (made by Gallien-Krueger). GMT was like a model or line of GK amps. Loved that thing - till many years later it needed service one and they wouldn't fix it - supposedly didn't have the schematics, even though it had a lifetime warranty. I had it repaired once in...

I used to own one back in 78, really strong head, and powerful fo r the time. Sun Coliseum and SVT were the only heads around with that kind of power. Used it back then with a Cerwin Vega B36 with an 18 horn and a front radiating 10, along with a 2x15 medium throw PA bin loaded with gauss...

When I saw ELP in (fall 71 or Spring 72) Greg Lake was using another intricate rig. It was a straight bass horn with 3- 15" speakers in the throat, about 5' tall, on top of which was a Big Altec Multi-cell horn and 2 JBL ring radiator tweeters. The amps I saw next to this mountain of speakers...