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This is my current preamp and practice tool of choice, its absolutely fantastic.

That's really handy info, thanks for sharing! I've been thinking about popping a fresh valve in my ABM Evo ii too. You've just saved me a lot of research! Watford valves also do a high gain version of the JJ ECC83S. I wonder if that would be safe to use and produce a different type of grind/drive in this setting.

Interesting, so the valve drive control is essentially a blend knob? I'm interested to run the valve drive at max and back off the input gain to see if it gives a clean tubey sound. I was kind of worried I'd degrade the tube quickly if I did that, but from the sounds of it, it would probably last longer as the amount of drive would be less, because my input gain is less

Here’s an independent shop in a small English city, run by some good guys trying hard to keep going in the internet world, and being very supportive of local musicians. https://fouldsguitars.com

Just picked up a bass from Sam in Brighton and it was a tip-top A1 transaction. Really enjoyed meeting up and having a big bass geek chatfest! Always great/worrying to hang out with people as obsessed as I am… Would be delighted to deal with again. Cheers!!!

David Watts - TheJam / The Kinks

Yep, in order to keep the audience attention we now do gigs with three bands... a Hendrix tribute, a Jimmy Smith tribute and a soul/blues cover band. The fact all three bands have the same musicians in them is just a coincidence. If we put on different wigs for each set I reckon we could charge management 3 times!

Attach a simple cheap capo like this over the strings behind the nut on the head: Will very effectively make sure that the strings sits tight down in the nut slots and will prevent the strings from rattling/vibrating between the nut and the tuners.

TBH i hadn't considered the bar side of it but yep that all makes a lot of sense. What i have found is that when doing long sets and 2 or 3 nights in a row my fingers struggle. Not so much mobility but more blisters and fingertips. When we do get told by the venue that they want 2 x 60min sets its a revelation and i have no issues at all. The more i gig tho the less my fingers notice any aches or pains but it only takes a month OFF for peoples hols and i'm back to square one again (maybe not quite LOL) Dave Dave

Yes indeed! Several of us: Which wireless? - Accessories and Misc - Basschat

MartinB, Yes, that's the stuff !! Much appreciate it. I enjoy peruzing / patronizing small places like this. Thank you for the link... these places are tough to find on web searching, for me anyways..

Otava Yo - tongue twisters (live)

Yep! https://thelittleguitarshop.com/

Thanks for your replies everyone, much appreciated. I contacted Dave at Ashdown and he replied pretty quickly as usual from Ashdown. I thought his reply was worth sharing as he explained how the drive control works on this amp: I would use a JJ ECC83S. Also try using a bit less input gain, this will alter not only the amount but the nature of the drive sound. The drive control on the amp alters the MIX of driven to undriven sound and the gain control alters the amount of drive, less gain = less drive. Matched BassAdder60's recommendation, but tbh I did originally believe the Drive Control altered the amount of drive rather than how much of the driven sound is mixed with the original signal. Darren.

Sometimes I find starting work on a cover version helps, I can't sing so they are usually done as an instrumental, ideas often start to flow and the piece eventually migrates so far from the original tune it becomes effectively a new song.

Pedal arrived safe, in good time and working as it should. No hassles, recommended

Ok in the past as a user of Shure GLXD16+ I was convinced it t was the best wireless and I’m certain it is however I’ve just got the very neat NUX 5.8ghz set for £130 and I’m pretty impressed so far. Any gigging folk on here using it and any issues ?