Recent content by Iain Duncan

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    Wedding/Corporate Scene-Need tips to get started

    I'll weigh in with a dissenting opinion about contracts. I expect for weddings it's pretty important, because you're dealing with a naive buyer and there's a good chance they'll ask for the moon and you have to show them your paper. But for corporates booked through agents/planners/producers...
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    Wedding/Corporate Scene-Need tips to get started

    Wow, tons of great advice in here. I've done a fair wack of corporate entertainment as a juggler so here's a few more for corporates specifically, I don't know anything about weddings. 1) Understand the buyer. For me, it's usually an agent called me, and event producer called them, and the...
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    combo vs head/cab pairs?

    Hi folks, I'm trying to find my best bang for buck for bass and archtop guitar in one unit. Currently sitting here, (in it's still returnable state, lol) is a Rumble 200. I could, for about another $150-200, switch that to a separate 200 head plus cab, which would allow me to go for either a...
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    Fender Rumble Club

    Hi everyone, I just joined the rumble club, whoo hoo! Got a 200 combo as it seems like the best compromise for both what I want on bass and on hollowbody jazz guitar (it was this or a Roland Cube, and I think the rumble smokes the cube on bass, at least to my untutored ears). Seems like an...
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    Help for newbie choosing Fender Rumble rig

    Thanks for the help everyone, glad I can stick with this one and take my time adding another cab. Will have to try out the 112,115, and 210 options. :)
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    Help for newbie choosing Fender Rumble rig

    Hi folks, I'm a newish guitar and bass player (I'm really a sax player, haha) and I wanted to try and find a medium quality amp I could use for both. I tried out various, and really like the sound of the Fender Rumbles on funk/dubby bass and on jazz guitar.I went to the store intending to go...
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    Using/Modding a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah for bass?

    Hi, I have a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah that I got for guitar, but now am playing the bass a lot more. I'm a big fan of early 70's Herbie Hancock, Kool and the Gang, Ohio Players type stuff, and wondered if there's anything I should do to the Fulltone to make it work better on bass? (Replacing...