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Nerina Pallot is great. I first met her in the early 200s when I had a room in Cable Street Studios in London. Andy Chatterley has a studio in the complex, and one day when Chris McIntyre were in visiting Andy, he introduced us to his girlfriend, Nerino. A short while later I saw Neil Finn performing at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh, and to my surprise, Nerina was the support act. She was really good, prompting me to buy her debut album when it came out shortly afterwards.

It’s a beauty and I always offer a little discount to BC members too. Both @AndyTravis and @Old Man Riva have played this at the Birmingham show.

This has been my daily drool recently https://www.vintagebassroom.co.uk/basses-1/p/1972-fender-precision-sunburst seems a bit overpriced compared to a neater looking 72 on Andy Baxters site but still has me looking longingly daily 😍

That depends. It certainly takes the EQ part of the preamp out of circuit, but I can't see any point in the pickups being wired to the PCB (as they are) if it's not to put them through buffers. The pickups feed in to the bottom connector, then wires come from the bottom connector to the blend pot. They'd go straight to the blend pot if they were unbuffered.

I've got a Smoothhound, a Line 6 G50, a Harley Benton something, Lekato WS-50s and WS-70s and the M-Vave clone of the WS-70. Almost all my basses are active although none of them are ridiculously high output. Never had a problem with any of them distorting through any of the wirelesses.

And drying your shoes out.

Looking at things from the opposite angle, I was just thinking about whether my main band would want a dep in. The two guitarists, one of whom is also the singer, really both need to be there. As the drummer gets 95% of the gigs, he's not going to book one for when he's not there, and as well as providing myself, I provide and run the PA and it's far easier not to book gigs when I'm not available than for them to work out the logistics of collecting and storing the PA, setting it up, and making it work. OTOH, the number 2 band has singer/gob-iron player and guitarist, both of whom are necessary, but the rhythm section is deppable - I came in as a dep and became permanent, and also got depped a couple of weeks ago when there was a gig conflict (annoyingly, the gig for the main band was cancelled).

Shame they don't do two-packs of the 5-string 40s.

May 2022. You still hadn't calmed down by June 2022, then you managed to let it lie until the end of September 2022, then another cooling off period that lasted till the end of February 2024. And it was an 8x10, not a 4x10.

The HX Stomp allows three snapshots and the Stomp XL four - just set a different EQ (and different effect parameters, including switching them on or off) for each. The Stomp XL has four snapshots and if that's not enough, the Helix LT and full-fat both give 8 snapshots. There's also a send/return loop on the Stomps and two on the Helices, so you can plug effects in partway through the effects blocks if you want to.

This one is a lot cheaper than the JDI https://www.andertons.co.uk/radial-stagebug-sb-2-compact-passive-di/

A Schertler Unico acoustic amp would do. I've used mine for rehearsals and for gigs with my EUB on a few acoustic folk and jazz gigs. It has A few inputs for other instruments if required. They sound great and are pretty expensive new but i picked up mine dirt cheap from an auction. https://www.djangobooks.com/archives/Unico.pdf

My alembic series bass does. I did it a few years back on a wedding gig where the front end of the backline amp was really noisy. Probably helped by my bass being powered by an external 36vdc power supply.

Look for a fuse getting dark. My 300 happened to have a one of the fuses getting dark. Now, that may have been a cause or a result of something causing the buzz. I once cleaned an old tube and it had a mum afterwards. At this point I'm at my depth on electronics. Hope you get it sorted out. Note the upper fuse.

Presumably they do because one of the links above points to a thread where one poster says that the Tributes are QCed in the USA, hence they'd presumably have to be imported unless there's some sort of special dispensation. The answer would be to export the QC jobs to Indonesia, then export direct from Indonesia, which would avoid US tariffs except for those to be sent to the US anyway.

Oddly, I just posted how I used a GE7-B pedal in the 80s/90s to help get more output from my 150W Laney Pro-bass head.

I was so glad when I got rid of mine. Heavy as a small planet and didn't sound that great.

Used to use a Boss GE7-B for such things. Was also useful to push my relatively feeble Laney Pro-Bass to greater things (along with a long gone Arion "stereo" compressor).

I've always ignored g&l for two, possibly irrational, reasons. First, the styling - logo and headstock. Second, unlike Musicman, g&l always seem like slightly upmarket Fender clones. If these are "Leo finally gets it right", why are they so conservative?