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OK one last thing to bring everyone up to date, @police squad asked about a sealed cab. Once you have the speaker's mechanical and electrical properties loaded into WinISD it's a matter of seconds to model a range of cabs so I sent him this: The purple line is the sealed cab, the red line is a 90l cab and the blue and green lines are for 200 and 300l cabs. I actually quite like the sealed cab, it has the flattest response and -3db is around 75Hz so all the second harmonics of a 4 string bass will be accurately reproduced and Eminence also have this design which they describe as "ultra clean" which is probably a very fair description of how this would sound. However you can see how much bass is lost compared with the three ported cabs and the bass hump at 100Hz will also warm up the sound and add a bit of thump which is what Martin wanted. I'd had the other two cabs there to play with different cab volumes to see if I could squeeze a bit more bass out of the cab. The 300l cab in green has a whole lot more bass and a flat response but 300l is an absurd size for a cab if you have to transport it. I'm only showing this to demonstrate that all cabs are compromises of practicality cost and sound and I suppose to say that I did look to see if there were any advantages to a slightly bigger cab.

They're incredible, they make my favourite pedals by far!

Thanks David. Martin @Mottlefeeder managed to find them too. The "small vented cab" is 45l and to 55Hz for a single driver. My first guess was to use a 90l cab tuned to 50 hz which is the approximate volume of the Ampeg cab we are copying so in this case it's reassuring to know I've come up pretty much with the same design as Eminence. It may even be that Ampeg knew of this design when it developed the VB212 but to be fair there are only so many sensible solutions for any given driver.

Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty

Go Away - Living Colour

Just-a-nut 3 on my custom bass that has bell brass frets. It also has the Warwick 2 part brass bridge. Other basses U would prefer to have a zero fret, but usually In leave everything original and won't change the hardware on my basses, the Spector Euro and MM are stock. If I don't like how it sounds, I don't buy that instrument.

voting thread is up gents what a great bunch of tracks, some to make you smile , some intense and some really get you moving, superb

Who'd have thunk it , I got to share the top step last month with @upside downer and @Baloney Balderdash. As it was a first time for Mr Balderdash , he had the choice of image for us to work on and compose to, thus... "Here is my suggestion to the image for July. A mystic contortionist, admittedly AI generated (but on my intricate description):" This has proved to be a popular image and inspired some cracking entries so have a listen through and choose your favourite 3 tracks 1 @Baloney Balderdash Flip Joint (The Contortionist).... Post Math Rock? 2 @Al Nico The image drew me to imagine a futuristic fairground organ style circus sound. Happy tune with running bass, side snare and clapping. 3 @Chiliwailer Old Age : New Age - the then young contortionist used to perform in the early 90s in ambient beats clubs. Now living off-planet, he’s a midnight street artist in the underground scene. Guitars are kind of ‘synthy contorted’ in his honour. 4 @Leonard Smalls I thought a breakdancing Gandalf deserved something with bass chords and an Ian Dury-style random vocal. Oi oi! 5 @Lord Sausage Listen to Echoes of the Altered by Dreaded Ted & The Nutters on #SoundCloud 6 Lurksalot I was reminded of the whirling dervishes and the noises I produced seem to be consistent with that 7 @Jean-Luc Pickguard was intending to add a vocal to my track, however on re-reading the lyrics I decided it was better left as an instrumental 8 @MoonBassAIpha Inspired by the picture and by a jam at a friend's house over 40 years ago. 9 @upside downer The Sage. Who is he? Where did he come from? What does he want? What does he know? Why has he started breakdancing in the old part of town? Has he got the moves? Can he still do them? Will we have to call an ambulance for the mysterious old coot? Well that drew out some fantastic material, I really enjoyed listening through ... and will do again. Choose your favourite 3 , voting will close at midnight on 31st July Dive in

I think Wilton Felder is an underrated bassist and deserves more credit with his work from the late 60s when he was given his Fender Telecaster Bass by a club owner in 1968 (which is when he began to learn bass) to playing I Want You Back in 1969 and the amount of musical understanding that he shows throughout everything he played shows that he truly deserves to be credited amongst the session greats such as Chuck Rainey, Carol Kaye, Abe Laboriel, Nathan East etc.

Bought several bridges from David, and couldn't have asked for a smoother transaction. Very helpful and communicative, just a pleasure to deal with, all round. Cheers.

At the risk of being the 5th person with recommendations 9 and 10, I play melodic metal originals using a standard tuned 5 and favour this method.. - Use a compact pedalboard with a preamp at the end to get the DI tone you want to send to the PA, rather than a particular amp/cab - Just take the pedalboard if good foldback or full backline is provided by the venue (or you use IEMs - I personally don't) - Get a simple, light, workhorse of an amp that just makes the pedalboard output loud (mine's a Markbass Nano 2 - highly recommend it) - Use the amp EQ to keep the stage sounding how you need it, knowing it can't inadvertently affect the FoH DI - Use whatever cab is provided by a venue or headline band, as it'll probably be fine for stage monitoring and you don't have to move it - Get a cab based mostly on the weight you can stand to move and the value you can stand to lend (mine's a Barefaced Two10 - my wallet is healthier than my neck/back) - If you need two cabs then get two the same, and if you like to keep your gear clean and presentable in metal venues then avoid carpeted cabs Of course, my free advice is worth every penny you paid, but all the very best of luck with the new band and the gear search! 🙂

Hodge bought a few bass bridges from me. Really timely and friendly communications throughout and super fast payment. He kindly let me know when they had arrived too. Thanks very much Hodge!