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Really cool! Enjoy your new purchase. I'd hate to think how much a string change sets you back. Hopefully you like the sound of worn in rounds 😃

So very much this. SBL (which I like overall) is awful for it, with Scott the main culprit although the absolute worst is a reggae mini course which is excruciating. Old white bloke playing bass with a Jamaican (from memory) drummer and dropping the "Ya man" like someone from a 1980s comedy sketch show with blackface and one of those dreadlock hats on. It's not even a particularly informative course. Literally any of the Donstrumental YouTube videos has so much more value in a tenth of the time.

I used to work with an aussie who just called everyone by the C word. "Hey, do you c**ts want to come to the pub. Im meeting a bunch of c**it's to watch some c**t sing some old s**t"

Oooh, lovely Boogie retro 👍

Absolutely - when did this start? Only had this said to me on a few occasions, and each time by either a young person or ( even worse ) someone nearer my age who thought they were still ‘hip’.

Cat? Hey daddy-o where all the hip cats at?

Not around in the early 70s then!

This looks very very cool https://www.gibson.com/en-gb/blogs/gibson-gazette/how-the-mesa-boogie-bass-800d-channels-50-years-of-bass-amp-innovation

Wow, that would be something! If I can sell 24 necks before next August, it'll set things up nicely for the following 12 months

You could use something like a Rolls PM351 or PM50 if you want wired. Rolls is nearly always the answer for this kind of audio routing thing. Otherwise I think you're looking at a mixer (either a normal one or a little line mixer like the Rolls MX54) which then runs into any normal wireless IEM system.

Ultimately if you're not happy with it, then chatting about it with the band is the best thing to do, just to get everything out in the open. See where the land lies and go from there. Personally I think if it's done well and with the best intentions then it's cultural appreciation rather than appropriation, which is a fantastic thing. Life is a shared experience and it'd be a terrible shame if we didn't learn from and grow with the people we meet and the cultures we come into contact with. If you wrote a song that became globally renowned, would you ever hold the view point that it shouldn't be performed by a band based on where they live or the colour of their skin?

Yes. That's where is got them. Not exactly cheap...

Have a listen to a couple of the clean guitar amp sounds (sans cab or replace in a amp/cab mix), I think it is Placater (whatever that is) that worked for one of my set ups (still creating and comparing). I also like the sound of the GK800 and I'm using it in on various other set ups; oddly I'm not so keen on many of the big bass cab models, again I like some of the guitar cab tones or possibly the Epi 112. re. DI from Stomp - I carry a TRS > male XLR for going out to stage boxes but tbh most live engineers can sort that easy enough.

It was not Ray Thistlethwait but the guy was similarly breathtaking. I feel a bit harsh by not being able to at least share his name. I'm sure someone can find out... I saw Thundercat last year in Wolverhampton and he was fabulous also.

I go into the office every few weeks or so, I've teams in Sheffield, Manchester and Croydon so regardless of where I work, I'm usually on a Teams call as somebody isn't in the location I'm in. We have a lot of older kit and I know full well there's cupboards full of older stuff like Surface Pro PSU's, It's just a case of finding them. I like old Thinkpads, I was at IBM for 15 years and they made great laptops, Even when they flogged it to Lenovo, they were still good laptops. The cases were thicker and made of better plastic. Not as stylish as the Dell's but a lot more robust. When we were out on site, we'd see Dell's and other laptops with duct tape holding things together like compartment lids, never had that with an old Thinkpad. Easy to change the keyboard over as well. The only downside was their love of DisplayPort over HDMI, they would not drop DP in favour of HDMI for far too long. Anyway, I have put the word out and am asking around for a PSU. Rob

I've recently been thinking along similar lines albeit making use of a 4u rack case I have lying about and filling it with goodies for a "silent" stage rig. So far three spaces would be used with a sansamp RBI, tuner, and compressor, but then I would like an in ear system to complete the rack. But this is where I am faltering as what I would like to do is to be able to mix in my own bass level with whatever the desk is sending me so that I am not reliant on the PA operator to give me my own level. The closest I can find to this functionality is systems that take a L and R feed in, but then allow you to be in "mono" mode and mix the L and R to your own liking. But I'd be interested to know if anyone knows of a specific IEM system that has it's own mixer built in specifically.

This has a look of ‘death to false basses !’ about it . Embrace your inner pinnick/ Petersson / manowar , and turn to 12 !

Rich bought my HX Stomp. Paid immediately and was a great communicator.

Finally made a start on building my second bass, about 25 years after starting (but never finishing) my first. I've decided to buy a neck for this one to save time, money and effort. But I am aiming to make a neck next time... This is going to be a replica/reimagining of the Musicman St Vincent guitar - there were rumours they were going to make a Pino-backed bass a few years ago but it never came to be. I've only seen two other homemade ones, both look very nice but I'm going to try and go one better. Firstly it'll be a 5er, partly because I've always wanted one and also I got a deal on some Fishman Fluence 5 string pickups. The neck I found (£70 on Reverb) has a reasonably good MM-shaped headstock so the overall look should be fairly authentic. The body shape may however be slightly different, as I don't happen to have a genuine St V lying around to copy. I've looked around online at all the plans and photos I can find, and I think it'll be somewhat closer to a modified/truncated Explorer, rather than a straight copy of a St V - no particular reason for this, it just felt like a nice shape to me (I wonder if that might be where they started with the original St V design process anyway). It's still all on paper anyway so who knows? I'm also going to do front and back binding, partly thanks to Basvarken and his beautiful Explorers. Colour will be a deep metallic; I'm undecided between red, blue, green and purple but red is currently in the lead. After watching a bunch of Matt Estlea's videos about sharpening and setting up a plane, I've started smoothing the top and back of the ash body. Feels good to actually move some wood around - I recently redid our front hall with some lovely herringbone T&G, the woodworking genes kicked in hard. Next step is to finalise the body shape and geometry - any tips for establishing neck angle? (saddle height is 12-17mm over the body according to Schaller, bridge is a 3D-5). I've also got a bunch of other things to work out and research, like doing the binding. Everyone says to use acetone for gluing, leave it a hair's width proud of the wood and scrape it back, and do the finish after the binding is on. But should you scrape it flush then do the finish, or finish then scrape? And clear lacquer over the binding or leave it plain? I'm also going to paint the headstock to match the body, should I bind it too? Progress will be slow so don't expect weekly updates! If I've got the body routed out by New Year's I'll be happy.

My plans changed earlier and I replaced the battery box in the Hamer. It had green corrosion on the copper connectors and wasn’t right and I just happened to have an identical new one in my spares. It’s 100% now. I’ve already had a mess around with the HX Stomp today. What you say above is what my first thoughts are after running a few different iterations of bi-amping patches. If you give the sound engineer a premixed signal then he should expect to treat you like he does the keys player or the backing track; just adjust for the ambient rather than trying to get the bass sound that is in his head. I think more sound engineers are getting used to modelling and going that way. It makes life easier for them. The patch I’ve done this morning uses that same split at 500hz. Mandarin 80 for the highs with 412 Mandarin Cab and Mandarin Bass 200 for the lows with the 6x10 Cali Power. Then I’ve saved another patch that is just into the G Cougar 800 with 6x10 Cali Power and as good as it is, it’s not bi-amped and doesn’t have anywhere near the same impact. I’m happy to share these patches as starting points if anyone wants them. One question on the HX Stomp. Do I need to carry one of those jack to XLR DI boxes to give the man my HX stomp out? So, as in HX Stomp “Send” (front RHS) to Behringer DI100 type of box?