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An eight loaded top is sufficient for pub gigs, provided the woofer is of high quality. The same applies to eight loaded subs. The trick lies in knowing the quality of the woofer, as manufacturers are loathe to reveal what they're loaded with. Eight loaded tops are less directional, as the angle of dispersion is inversely proportional to the size of the cone/radiating plane . As to throw, the inverse square rule applies to all driver sizes. The advantage to 'stick' systems is they have very wide dispersion on the horizontal plane, due to the smaller driver sizes, along with narrow dispersion on the vertical plane, due to the taller radiating plane. That aims more sound into the audience, less at the floor and ceiling. The disadvantage is most use woofers too small to do the job, at an unjustifiable price. A very good arrangement is a 2x8 top, which can give output equal to a 1x12, with wider horizontal dispersion and narrower vertical dispersion. The same applies to 4x6.5 inch tops. But those are few and far in between, as their advantages are very much unknown to the average user.

Yeah - a 4 string “wav” version (albeit maple rather the graphite) would be cool. but then again, looking at my bank account, it’d need to be in 10 years time 😆

Play them on it over bluetooth from your phone. If you press the bass knob it goes into Bluetooth mode.

I have a usb powered air purifier that runs of usb and uses carbon cartridges. That could run in a car.

Could work. Importantly get a good clean cut. I used decent sharp electrician's cable cutters. I also think ezbass's recommendation above of a dab of superglue & maybe a bit of a tape is a good idea. Obviously you're not gonna get as much windings of the silk on the tuner posts. Particularly on the E string.

Honestly I would say Wilton Felder definitely deserves a spot among the greats of the 70s. “I Know I Want You Back alone” is iconic but his work across Motown, RCA, ABC and beyond really shows how versatile and influential he was. Some of those lines are just timeless and you can hear their impact in so much that followed.

I'm seen her a couple of times, both great gigs. Is that possibly the world's thickest and heaviest guitar lead she's using in the photos above?

Of all the various mutes and devices I’ve got I usually resort to my trusty foam, but it’s good fun to try these things

My piece of foam has been working well for pennies for about 10 years. I'm not sure I'd want to spend £££'s on something that does the same job.

Could you survive the War of the Dead?

Was anyone lucky enough to have a successful bid on any of the bows on the Amati online auction ? I bid but wasn’t successful, although I was never going to bid big money on a bow I hadn’t had the opportunity to try. Looking at the (partially redacted) usernames it looked like a dealer was bidding on most of the German bows anyway.

Currently relearning Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. We did try it a few years back but it didn’t seem to work without the vocals, so now we’ve a singer giving it another go. Which is great as I love this song.

I've gone a bit disco lately amongst other things : Money by Pink Floyd, interesting time sig and is OK until you get to the boring guitar solos (like most PF tbh) Staying Alive by BeeGees, have isolated the bass and its not really what I was expecting, glad I haven't tried to wing it You should be Dancing by BeeGees Stomp! Brothers Johnson - its cool but on a five string muting is a challenge Sofa by Wolf Alice - they have lots of nice bass lines / parts (Beautifully Unconventional also v cool) Flesh for Fantasy by Billy Idol - love this, its not hard but its fun Been working on getting Queen 'Its a kind of Magic' accurate and up to speed, I feel like i need it in my back pocket I need to get some flares .....

As far as I can tell, it's just making light contact with the G, I'm ordering one now so I'll report in later when I get it.

Well, no pictures (was I even there?) - we played in a local pub last night, it wasn't our gig, it was the drummers other bands gig, but their singer got a cold and she didn't want to sing - there maybe more to it then that, but not my issue. Anyway we could all do it so we took it over to not leave the pub without a band (and it is the pub we practice at). Easy enough setup, cramped but we have done it before so know our place, would be easier if the rest of the band didn't stand in the way chatting while I was setting up I thought I would mix things up - so I took the new rickenbacker, which shockingly only has 4 strings (at the moment), the XVive A58 and the XS-1 octave pedal, so testing everything I got recently. The XVive, perfect, no noise, no having to work around the noise the lekato that I had, absolute winner. The ric. Well, its ok, it wasn't cutting through that much, and obviously thee is the lack of string thing. I didn't realise how much I relied on the 5th string, so a few mistakes were made, quite a few on one song, but at least with brick in the wall, I played the whole thing an octave up with the XS-1 an octave down and it sounded pretty spot on. Some of the rest of the gig I played with an octave up, and mix down to give a bit of bite and it worked well. The second hand I went back to the Maruszczyk and it felt more comfortable and easier to get a good sound, I think maybe because the output is higher everything is set up for that, so the ric wasn't cutting it much. Still, it was nice to play, but I may leave it for the other group, where i can use it as a drop D bass, I think the loss of the 5th string is something that adds a complication gigging. Anyway, second half there were more people, more dancing, and everything went more or less ok, so pretty good, and actually ran out of time without realising it. Not a bad night, and we have another gig tonight, might try the same things, and see if I get the same result - maybe increase the input gain of the pedal.

It looks good, I do like the muted sound especially on my P basses, unless I’m not seeing something, how does it mute the G string if it goes under it

maybe if i just cut so there is a small amount of silk just to hold it together ..?