My bad... I thought you were straight punk. The addition of the word "Gothic" relegates you to black tights onlyPost punk gothic bandI'm not wearing those in public! I'll stick with the stockings, they're a distraction from my playing
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Thunderbird Club
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The Warlock still continues to impress. It’s probably one of the best sounding basses through the B-18. Have not yet tried my White Gibson nor my EBMM though. But he great thing about the Warlock is the Varitone… it’s amazing.
Note: Both basses in the picture are tuned to D standard.
Note: Both basses in the picture are tuned to D standard.
Well THERE'S a sight ya don't see every day...
How bad is that B-18 for weight? Can one person pick it up and move it, or would that make your colon go inside out?
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It's similar to an older school Trace in that it's got a strong emphasis in lo mids, which I find a really good fundamental sound. It sounds muscly and forward, a good deal less articulate than my SMX. I kinda am liking it better, at this point anyway, than my SMX.
There's none of the standard Trace Elliot fluff: No lights, no delicate, surgical tools on hand, no "sound management". Features have been sacrificed for size, really- it's a no nonsense, git-er-done machine, and I'm good with that at this point in my playing life.
So I think it's definitely a departure, in that really it's a very portable, feature-light, efficient head.
I'm running it into an Eminence BP-102-loaded, 4 ohm 210 cab I modded from a one-off EAW 410 cab (it was really too small for a proper 410 cab). For moving more air I run it into an Ampeg 410HLF, also 4 ohms.
The 210 is a fairly bassy hit for a small box, I use it pointed at the drummer for reggae gigs.
The Ampeg is killin' it...
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50 - 100bux cheaper than the GK MB 200. That comes as a surprise...
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Damn it Fix! How manny times do we hafta say, "Shoes"!I lost my pic of my pedalboard. I'll snap another... BRB...
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Ah yes... here we are!
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If you're gonna snap a pic of your gear on the floor, there darn well better be some shoes or toes in sight!
Do love your pedal board BTW, looks just like mine!
Christine, don't look now, but there's a Beatle on your foot!The same as mine but I daren't use pedals in these: Forgive the tights, potential stage wear and I have lost weight since then too thankfully
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I thought the same but I picked up a Fender Rumble 500 v3 head and a matching 410 cabinet, and it certainly holds its own!
It's not overly heavy, just really big. But the nice thing, is something I unfortunately don't have yet, is they came with dollies that screwed into the cab.
I am not fast, a noodler, a boutique user, I use my pedalboard for both guitar and bass, so what you see there serves all purposes, for all genres, for all my instruments. While, it's fun to experiment by turning them all on and seeing what soundscapes emerge for me to explore, the only always on pedals is my LeBass preamp (even for guitar - it adds more tubey goodness to my toneThough I personally am not much of an effects guy... I have no issue with those who are. My commentary was directed squarely at those who squeeze all the organic nature and actual TONE out of their sound, and feed us an earful of what they've turned into little more than an electronic buzz. I just gotta shake my head & laugh when I see somebody with a $3500 PRS, sittin' in front of a big pedalboard (which typically has at least 2 different distortion/overdrive pedals), running through an effects loop on a modern $3500 amp head (commonly with 2 - 4 different gain stages of its own), and pumping it through a boooooteek speaker cab with "specially selected" speakers in it. Invariably... the speed noodling begins, and guess what... they sound just like the kid you saw at GC last time you were there, who was playin' a used 200 dollar sweat-shop produced import guitar through a used 20 watt bargain basement 1x10 combo... except louder
I'm not gonna tell anyone how to spend their money... but I don't care how much it cost, what brand name is on it, or how many hours youwastedspent "dialing in your sound"... I'm callin' bullsh!t to yer face if you try to convince me that the giant mosquito that you're trying to shove in my ear holes, is "tone".
). The MixBlender is always at 50/50 wet/dry with bass and at 100% wet with guitar. All other pedals are used for specific songs or phrases in certain songs. I'm not one to lose the notes in a barrage of effects or to turn each note into some electronic buzzsaw sound 
I have actual synths for that
That's pretty good too, I sat with one of those one day. That's one that started to win me over.
Different strokes and all that.
First of all... I'd like to apologize if I made you feel like you needed to explain yourself to me. That was certainly not my intention. I want you to use anything and everything your heart desires, to make your music, your way. Anybody who tells you anything other than that, ain't yer friend.I am not fast, a noodler, a boutique user, I use my pedalboard for both guitar and bass, so what you see there serves all purposes, for all genres, for all my instruments. While, it's fun to experiment by turning them all on and seeing what soundscapes emerge for me to explore, the only always on pedals is my LeBass preamp (even for guitar - it adds more tubey goodness to my tone
My comment was geared toward guitar players and the tendencies many of them have, to go nuts with gain saturation under the misnomer of "tone". Now... if we were having a conversation in which you'd asked for tips on how to improve your tone... I'd likely be sayin' a whole buncha stuff you didn't wanna hear... but that doesn't mean I don't like you, or wouldn't like your gear, or your music, or what-have-ya. My appreciation for music begins with what comes out of the speakers... not what goes in. The gear appreciation is a related, but separate "condition".
Yeah, I know. Radical ain't it! Waddya want? They're jazz guys at heart and no place to play jazz around here. We try to throw in a few jazz-flavored things during the gig, mainly for our own amusement.What... like musical notes & stuff???
That's disgusting! Now, if it was sausage..............
Ha! my cousin Dave has now retired and moved from Hampshire (nearish Surry) to Norfolk.I was going to compare that with people from south Liverpool and how they like to say they live in Cheshire not Merseyside. Cut a dull story short I found this map
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Not familiar with"A. peg". Wuzzat?
Not familiar with"A. peg". Wuzzat?
