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Thanks Geek, I do get down to Derbyshire a few times a month, so good to know.

Thanks Phil - the 2 x 12s at 21 kg apiece are actually an easier carry between them than a single 905. I actually did a bit of spec comparison across 8 different 15" active sub-woofers and interestingly the three that came top for me on £price, weight, SPL and reputation for quality were: Subwoofers - 15in active summary.pdf The overall winner on my personal criteria was Electro-Voice EKX-15SP. A mate of mine uses a pair of Electro-Voice EKX-12SP, and I'm wondering whether I can sub (excuse the pun!) those two 12" with a single 15". The RCF 905 AS-3 should definitely go on the list, too, and maybe will be a case of seeing which of those comes up in good condition used first!

Looks like it went back up to normal price after it sold out. It was showing as £70, so the code took it down to £63.

Yeah could do but the filters do help shape the drive so it’s handy but yeah a spark might do the trick nicely. Worth a punt.

🎵 ‘It was 20 years ago today Happy Jack picked up a bass to play…’🎵 As Macca never sang, but should’ve. Congratulations on your anniversary, my friend!🎸

As I understand it "a) " doesn't guarantee they're not fake. They're not from D'addario, they're from Amazon i.e. It's from an Amazon warehouse, hence it states "Shipper/seller:Amazon". Also, if another seller has sent a batch of fake strings to Amazon, then they will be mingled with the real ones from D'addario. You are not guaranteed to get the ones that D'addario sent to the warehouse. Personally, I've not had any problems and the players code checks out, but it is probably safest to buy from a reputable musical instrument retailer as their stock will be the genuine article.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading about your bass journey Jack.

I can't answer that it all depends upon where you are going to use them and how they are used. There's no reason why they shouldn't sound the same at low sound levels. However making loud bass is af everything else is equal question of shifting lots of air and a big piston will outperform a little one if everything else is equal. Thats about cone area so you can work it out . Roughly thats 250cm^2 for an 8, 530 for a 12 and 850 for a 15. That's comparing like with like. The rcf 702 gives 129db, the 705 gives 131db and the 905 133db in their spec sheets. You'd have to decide for yourself whether the extra 2db or 4db would be needed. Remembering also that 2x 12" 702's are £1470 and 1x 905 is £1150. The 12's weigh in at 42kg and the 905 at 31kg so tht is a factor too. I doubt that in practice a single 12" sub would outperform the 12" speakers in your ART 932's, so I think only a pair of 12's make sense

wow how did you get it for £63? I just went on site via link and with the discount code it came to £151. I’m always late to the party 🙈.

Hey Jack, picking up that bass was a good move. Here's to the next 1000.

I've been gigging for over 40 years but I don't understand compression. I've used it in front of an octave pedal, to make the octave pedal track better but I'm not sure it worked any better (it was in the early 90s)

That's what I was reading too. Fred and some of the other guys from Peavey are regulars over there and actually did quite a bit of Q&A with Trace enthusiasts while they were developing the TE-1200. I think an 800W version of the head is the sweet spot - sell it for under a grand, then make some cabs that you don't need an enormous car and roadies to move around, and they'll shift a lot more of them. Assuming they can sort their distribution out, obviously...

Tbf - the HX Stomp should also be fine for use on guitar. But I think the GX10 will be excellent - I've always found the Boss sound to be better / less harsh tonally "out of the box" than the Stomp when gigging with the guitarists I've worked with, some of whom have been on Helix and others on the Boss multis, and the form factor with its decent size colour touchscreen and built in expression pedal on the GX10 make it really easy and fun to use.

Just in case you’re wondering what other earth-shattering events took place on that fateful day, here you are: Key Events & Themes: Austerlitz Reenactment: Thousands gathered in the Czech Republic for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Austerlitz. Ebola Discovery: Scientists identified fruit bats as animal reservoirs for Ebola in Gabon and Congo. China Tax Abolition: China announced it would end its national agricultural tax in 2006. Hurricane Epsilon: Became the 14th hurricane of the record-breaking Atlantic season.

I’d fallen out of love with pop music in the mid-80s and simply stopped listening. Until my daughter started playing ‘her music’ in the car on long drives, I’d never heard of Nirvana or Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Lenny Kravitz or … or … or … But that’s OK. I’ve spent the last 20 years playing almost exclusively the music of 1955-85 and I’m really very happy with that. I haven’t yet played my 1000th gig but it’s getting closer – two or three more years should do it. It’s hard to over-state the impact that Thursday afternoon was to have on the rest of my life. I didn’t have a clue at the time, obviously, but that decision to go up to my daughter’s bedroom led to a new interest and obsession, an entirely new friendship group, a divorce and a re-marriage, early retirement and a new career. Oh yes, and Basschat.

December 29th 2005 was my 49th birthday. I took the family out to a nice restaurant for a celebratory lunch, had rather too much to drink (yes, we walked back), and by mid-afternoon I was sitting in my study when I remembered the bass. I played honky-tonk piano as a teenager and the cowboy chords on guitar, sang in several choirs, so the musical background was there but it was all 30 years in the past and included no bass EXCEPT I’d always sung along with the bassline of songs. While my friends were miming Paul Kossoff’s string bends in the solo to All Right Now I’d be going “ba-bum da bum-bum bum-bum bum-bum” with Andy Fraser – stop laughing, you know the bit I mean. The bass was a Dean Edge that my daughter chose at Macari’s in Charing Cross Road – I took her there specifically because of the Beatles connection. I remember almost nothing about it because I traded it in p/x for a Hofner 500/1 1963 Re-Issue within a few months. The practice amp was a generic, lightweight thing with (IIRC) an 8” speaker. At the time, and in my tiny study, I was impressed with how loud it was. The tuner was one of those Korg plug-in types that everybody used in those days and carried on using until a year later, when the clip-on tuner exploded onto the scene. And the teach-yourself book? Well that was by Basschat’s very own @Stuart Clayton … Crash Course, and I can still remember (and play!) that very first bassline. My intention was solely to be able to play along to my favourite songs, especially Macca’s basslines for The Beatles. I had genuinely no interest in playing with others, still less being in a band and performing live on stage. I hadn’t been to see a band play live in years at that point (family, career, family, career) and the only pubs I ever went into were the newly-invented gastropubs for the occasional Sunday lunch with my family.