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Baby Snakes - Zappa

and in my experience, Andertons, Guitar Guitar and Wunjos do.

Maybe its the not answering - I know several things I wanted to buy that I emailed about didn't get bought because the shop didn't answer, so I went elsewhere. Wheras I have bought quite a few things entirely on email, so don't really have a problem with it. If you don't want to use email, thats fine, don't put an email out. However, if you do put an email out, don't ignore it.

Baby shark - Pinkfong

Yes for two reasons: 1. My name is fairly boring 2. I decided a long time ago that it’s probably not a good idea to have your name on the internet where possible

No, because it is exactly the same signal. You would need a variable delay or pitch modulation between them to make them sound like two basses, because two basses can't possibly play in perfect unison and your brain knows that.

Back on topic again !!! And as already said I’ve decided to get a second amp not a DI or preamp pedal which was my original question !!

Hmmm, apologies, it works for me. Try... https://tinytone.co.uk/

I see a bass I like at a price I like then I rarely if ever care who is selling it and I will enquire,specialist or not. I do however like Will's pricing structure so I always keep an eye on his stock levels. Anderton's have never answered an e-mail from me straight away since you mentioned them 🙂

Think the TB had the cool tube preamp…seemed to kick in about 2005. you used to be able to choose your Takamine guitar and then choose the preamp separately… it confused punters - and I think I did 6 or 7 stock takes counting the unsold preamps and guitars…

Just like @Kiwi said, the structure can be enhanced with a metal mesh or carbon powder or many other things to make it more or less conductive. To source a suitable material and parts is another story. Money talks.

Clarky So the diffce between the T and D is the preamp, as you mentioned

Yes, I have seen basses which are ergonomic and the tuners are protected. That seems to be an easy solution to move the neck towards player and save some weight in the body end. (As said, upper bout is against this idea.)

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The derail continues. You seem to have a real point to prove here but I don't know what it is. Ok, one has a really loud saxophonist on a particular stage, fine. Now, will that stage be overall louder or quieter if a hypothetical two guitarists and one bass player are playing through backline or playing through digital modellers straight to the board? If the guitarist can't hear themselves they are free to ask the saxophonist to play softer whether they have backline or not. BUT, if the saxophone won't play ball then the guitarist might want to turn themselves up to match. When using backline this affects everyone, when using IEMs this only affects the guitarist. You are now going to say "yes but then everyone will need to turn up their IEMs and risk hearing damage" and again you are correct but you are correct whether there's IEMs or not. The problem in this case is the loud saxophone, not that somebody else in the band is using IEMs. Again, nothing about live sound is perfect. I reiterate that you can have good and bad mixes using every single approach that I can think of and probably a few that I can't even conceive of. I posted in this thread in response to a post suggesting that ampless was only for big gigs, I dispute that. None of the rest of this is really relevant. As you correctly point out live music can be really loud, dangerously loud. You don't have to go to a metal show to get hearing loss. I am in favor of more options for more people to not get hearing damage. Ditching the backline is one possible way to achieve that, there are plenty of others.

That sounds fine for me.

It really depends if people are on the dance floor or not. Giving people's ears a rest for a few seconds, a chance for them to clap, or tell their mate how awesome the bass player played on that song, is ok. But yes, uncomfortably long pauses where it is obvious that the band are waiting for someone faffing, before they can start the next song, isn't a good look.