Recent content by smike

thank god i never saw or read that crap when purchasing heads and cabs for my rigs.... "lift it with one hand (60lbs)'?!?, with the rest of that is just AI crap that cheapens the brand (IMHO). sigh.

definitely off-topic... but years ago i was in a band with a guy who had a mint-condition '57 B3 organ ... in an anvil road case. we played a place once that was down 15 stairs. it took six guys to get the thing down (and then back up) the stairs. those were the days. back on topic: if i were...

this... plus, your hands are free to carry other stuff... and you have room for your power cord and speakon cables

thanks for the perspective… Just to confirm, you are saying that running the signal through the additional circuitry and pots of the barometric EQ section would do nothing to the signal? And that it's probably just one of the PEQ pots' center position not being dead center as expected? Is it...

sorry, don't understand… When I plug in my little plug the parametric EQ is bypassed. What three mid-level pots are you talking about? I am saying that I have been running the amp as purchased, with the parametric EQ engaged but all of the pots at 12 o'clock. When I plug in my little foot switch...

ok, did a little more A/B-ing. with the parametric EQ bypassed, i get maybe 2db more gain... and a clarity/transparency bump. if i weren't having so much fun playing through my 'new' (ahem) amp, i could have made and posted some recordings... here's how i'd describe it. going from a D800+ to...

WD-800 with two 12" cabinets (stacked tall), custom built 35" scale 5-strinrg. just made a parametric eq shorting plug and got a noticeable bump in volume and tone... not big, but i'm definitely leaving that thing plugged in from now on. as someone previously said, it sounds more tube than solid...

sorry, wrong information on multiple counts. I've owned two of these, and still have one. The only problem I encountered when playing these professionally was the same problem as with all acoustic guitars played at volume in an amplified setting: feedback. The tops are very resonant. As for...

the sounds that can be described have nothing to do with your (generic) bass or your hands or your rig or the room you happen to be playing in, or the music you are playing. I don't understand the posts where people don't add their information when talking about the attributes of the WD800...

probably not as knowledgeable or versatile as a lot of you... but here's my take. i have a fender american deluxe jazz V. i use dunlop strings. i have an eight-piece steely dan tribute band and that's pretty much all i've been playing for a very long time... all fingers, never a pick...

dude - i'm not alone on planet B5-40... cool! not sure about the type of fingerboard, but both of mine look like yours. i've been playing americana lately, and the sound (with the thomastik strings) is truly awesome. you can hear me playing through a pignose 'hog' on a rough practice track...

thomastik acousticore... great feel, great tone. only downside is price ($115-120 for a 5-string set)

i now have two of these, as well as more information on them... from martin, a martin historian, and richard johnston's martin technical reference. there were 54 built between '91 and '95. four were prototypes. two built in '93 were fretless. the best-but-expensive strings for them are the...

do you still have your B5-40? lmk, thx, smike

no matter which acoustic bass you get, the secret is the strings. i played a friend's martin b1 at a jam, and realized that the strings were singing under my fingers... it sounded like a fretless or upright bass. he told me he had thomastik acousticores on it, rather than just larger acoustic...