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Thanks. Looks sound & has great feedback, should be fine

Its the new normal and you cant argue with it... however great original well written music will always be there long after these Tube heroes are long gone. Last yr I seem to remember it was a young virtuoso called Charles that everyone was guffing about. Sadly I cant remember a single thing he did.

I have managed to be a member of at least one band since 1986, when I answered my final bass wanted ad. All those bands came through word of mouth and personal recommendation. You have to meet people and cultivate contacts. Jam nights would be a good place to start. We see people attending our jam night and, after awhile, getting together to form bands.

Boris The Spider — The Who

. . . . and before that Melody Maker was the place to go.

If you're worried about damaging loaned cabs then your overall volume and low end content are more important than watt rating, you can blow drivers with comparatively low power amps if you're an idiot - ask me how I know! Most micro amps will have some sort of built in HPF to remove extreme lows, I'd guess rolling off sharply at around 30hz or something like that. Just listen for speakers distorting (may be harder if you have a driven sound) and roll off the volume/bass as needed. For something tiny which might get close-ish to your big amp the TC RH series or Orange Terror Bass might be worth looking at, they're small class D amps which are designed to sound closer to old school valve amps but go about it in different ways - the Orange uses a valve pre you can drive and the TC uses a digital approach which seeks to emulate valve compression/saturation. RH series are usually dirt cheap on the used market, should be able to grab an RH750 for £200-£250.

A bit late posting but we played another fund raiser last Sunday at the cathedral in North Bay where we played in February of 2024 to help raise money for roof repairs and this time they even paid us for our efforts. Probably at least 200 in the audience, a bit lower than we hoped but it was a beautiful spring day and I think some folks decided to enjoy the good weather. We had a vocalist with us this time and she was great as usual and really knows how to work those old jazz tunes. We did a swing set and then I switched to tenor banjo and one sax player used a bari sax to play a bass line and we played a shorter Dixieland/trad set. Good fun and the church and the band both made money. Shen SB 100 into the Bose PA and Baldwin Ode banjo. The word on the cross above the bass sums up how I feel playing some of the songs. 😊 Edit: Keyboard player is there but hidden behind the alto sax player.

Be aware of ebay and amazon when getting strings. I got fakes from both before. Hope the music shop account is legit!

JMB seems to be the go-to these days. Gumtree used to be reasonably good too, but I think people have gone off it in recent years. I do kinda miss the days when the one and only place you ever needed to look was Loot.

Oooh - you've given me an idea now.......🤔😉

The Fly - U2

Hey There Little Insect - The Modern Lovers

Just over 80 miles to pick up a Warwick Streamer from Wigan, did 400 to collect some Markbass cabs from Milton Keynes though which was more of a trek. I usually just wait until the thing I want appears closer to home as I don't like driving for more than an hour or so and train prices are silly.

The Caterpillar - The Cure

Oh god... surely, SURELY someone must have done this to a collection of Thunderbirds! 🤞 EDIT: "4" would have to be a uke bass or an Ashbory or something, obviously 😁

The current covers band was through Joinmyband, the current originals band was through Facebook when someone I'd met on a couple of open mics was looking, and the previous covers band was through open mic nights. I'm also doing a dep in June which I got through an open mic.

This. Most class D amp heads use power modules from Hypex, IcePower, Pascal and similar. The modules are readily available, proven, reliable designs and it simply isn't worth amp makers designing their own/reinventing the wheel. Most modules are at or around two power ratings - either 300w into 8 ohms/500w into 4 ohms or 500w into 8 ohms/700w into 4 ohms. Some amp brands inflate their power claims. I have a Carvin that claims 1000w, but it's no louder than my 700w Aguilar if you turn both up to the point that the clip light flashes. I wouldn't be surprised in the Peavey mentioned is the same. Watts are cheap nowadays. All amps have a volume control, so unless funds are really tight, buy the more powerful version, be sensible with the volume control and don't over-drive your speakers (you'll know when you do because they will make horrible noises). Your sound will benefit from the additional headroom and when/if the time comes to up the size of your rig, the amp will still be up to the job, saving you from having to sell and upgrade it (which always costs).