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I have different bands: My main band - a fiery soul/blues trio in which I share lead and backing vocals alongside bass, work on songwriting with the singer, and have a fairly free rein creatively to bring whatever I bring to songs. I also provide the PA, lights and transport. My solo gigs - I choose to do (or not do) whatever I like, as it’s just me. No one to have to run anything by apart from my wife in terms of gig times/dates. My PA and my gear, mix of my own songs and covers, all sung and played by me. Tribute band bassist - all the publicity and marketing is done by the band leader. I just learn my lines and show up, and do my bit on setting up, taking down and transporting kit. Dep bassist - again I have little to do with promoting or influencing the band’s direction, and just turn up when they need me to provide bass and backing vocals, and help set up and take down the gear.

If you have a patch on the HX stomp with both Left and Right loops on, and they are bypassed And you plug in something to one, but leave the other unplugged. And then try and use say the left one, with the right one unplugged.- HX stomp goes a little bit crazy and does all sort of noise, like feedback or DC in the signal or something. And if you've just built a pedal and are testing it - and get the sound of electrical pain coming out - of course you're going to spend 2 hours tearing your hair out trying to work out what you've done wrong. The answer is compete the other loop with something, or delete the other loop block. I guess it must be the ground connection it's after. but year - that was a crap evening!

Thanks - will check tomorrow.

Hohner fretless six-string, the first one I've ever seen for sale. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/397042940781?itmmeta=01K4TQFWCFA820ZNAER3E5432D&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAAwMHg7L1Zz0LA5DYYmRTS30l4n0J6VsC8kafy07RwDvvFQUZ6i%2B%2FIUb2mQazEKrf%2FF%2B79xQIpTJNg5fNcgKtNbIXzjT%2FKZ7NsCDtmowCNZcFJiDj4D4ImtofnoDXwOPCIOwApWyEvU%2FHAln8%2FMUZiT0Bygjjq0ud4lz8kT3yInD2Jw5fU6pXFTA4NjOc0jD8ocEZtVK2QH2aOzsSzEcPY18Ty41pLhkx4ERmO8XrWhZv6a7ng7URxfAmhFkVdmCZrVg%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7bGv9emZg

I did try wireless in the end but it all felt a bit 80s to me so I went back to a trusty old cable. I respect the level of effort that has gone into this. It will not be forgotten.

As the almost exact target market for a bass like this I'm seriously conflicted. It looks stealthy and super slick and cool, and I am a HUGE fan of the Jackson headstock over all else. Nice binding and luminlays too, real sexy. I'm also a big proponent of the Jackson "sharktooth" fret inlays, so sharp and much cooler than dots. But £1400, really? The body shape is nothing special and aside from the inlays and headstock shape I see no real benefit over a Fender Aerodyne or even something like the black Yamaha BB734a. Hell if you want something rock and roll get a used MIJ Charvel with the same headstock, real 80s heavy metal/shred heritage and made by the real Jackson before they became part of Fender. And most importantly cheaper too.

Do what? Bunkum chap! You're totally right the cut gets bigger as the frequency gets lower. That's exactly what an impedance mis-match does! But look at it, EVERYTHING below 1k is significantly cut. That is a huge loss of energy at the bottom end. LUFS meter would plummet with all that meat gone! Honestly, if you could hear the audio of those signals, it was a really big difference.. like someone rolled the bass and low mid knobs on your amp down to 1. So I answered my question: YES the JOYO has a normal / general purpose (ie low) input-impedance (presumably 220kOhms). Perfect for bass guitar, or pre-amped signal, but rules out using it without a buffer/preamp/active circuitry between the piezo and the transmitter. For me. 100%. Cos otherwise it's only sending a shadow of the signal coming out of the pickup (as my ears clearly told me, and the spectrum shows). If you had to, you could EQ it to boost those missing low ends, or cut the mids and highs to level out the signal before boosting everything... but you're building a noisier, more feedbacky signal and it's all just a bit... urghh. Why throw away half your signal then try to artificially boost it back? 😆 Course it doesn't matter a jot if you HAVE got a preamp BEFORE the wireless, or active electronics... or even a mag pup like whot you got. I just want as little crap as poss hanging off my bass ... even if the Schatten MiniPre is only the size of a sardine can. 👍 I shall enjoy using the JOYO with my bass guitar, as I'd intended in the first place. Thanks for the recommendation!

There’s a Hole in my Bucket - Traditional

Can’t help you with your tone question, unfortunately, but

Loves an SR, got a few, Son has a SR306

The Sweep

I have taken the decision to rid myself of additional delays, fuzz effects and additional drives now that I am doing more ‘meat and potatoes’ rock music. The result is my smallest board since about 2011. Tuner, drive, compression, Sansamp. Not especially original, but it works! Forgive the cable spaghetti…

Paddington says he's not stopping you from starting a new thread with whatever rules you like

Hole in my Shoe - Traffic

Lovely job. Respectful to the original. Didn't Nick Lowe refer to one of these after getting a massive shock on stage? Probably an urban legend, unless someone else knows better. These are the lines I'm referring to from So it Goes.

I bought a Sub Phatty on a whim. It is proper lush!

Not seeing anything in the logs here that relates to that. The 'Sorry there was a problem reacting to this content' is an error caused by mixing http and https, but I can't see why you would be doing that. if you force reload the page and click does it do the same?

Massive difference imo, they really do look the business, very nice

Paging @Phil Starr. You seem to have a good understanding of cones and horns and the boxes they are mounted in... Andrew (above) is search for his holy grail. Failing that... he'll settle for a good reproduction of Andy Fraser's tone

Hi folks. I just wanted to show an idea I developed and turned into a product having had some issues with guitar stands damaging my basses. Id love to be able to get it to market and I’d also love to hear some feedback from you guys ..