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Mano a Mango - Hall & Oates

Business must be slow because flatwounds are really popular again 😆

Cherry Flavored Stomach Ache - HAIM

how about if you changed the strings around on the basses you've got ?, would that count?

@Jack @Dad3353 is an expat living in France

You could always use flatwounds instead.

Yep that’s the issue with an amp di. Of course you can feed the pedals into the fx loop but having a di on the floor is so much easier. Plus you can fly anywhere and have your sound. it’s tough to beat the versatility of the capo.

I'm very strict about changing strings: Every 15 years, whether they need it or not.

Measure from the nut to the 12th fret and multiply by 2.

I’ve done a fair few dep gigs over the years. As pointed out above, basic charts should be a given for all bands IMO. What if one player can’t make it at the last minute and a dep is obtained but doesn’t know the stuff? Even more important when it’s covers and the arrangements / keys / tempos are altered from the original. I recently got asked to dep in a tribute outfit for one gig a good distance from where I live. They have no charts of any description apparently. I’m unavailable, but would have been able to play probably 90% of their set, just needing to brush up on a couple of songs I don’t fully remember. I suspect they will have trouble getting anyone who is willing to put the work into learning the stuff for only one gig ( if they’re not familiar with the material). If they had charts then at least they’d have a good chance of finding someone to do it.

I found this SMX250 for a good price because it was making all sorts of horrible sounds, even before I started to play through it! Replacing the original hyper microphonic 12ax7 valve fixed it and now it's as good as new.

Me? No. I have a shirt and everything.

With that head and cab you should be able to achieve the type of tone you desire. I wouldn't max the Vintage filter; just set at 25% and reduce the hi frequency control. Reduce hi mids a little and perhaps boost low slightly. Use both or just the neck pickup to get a softer tone. Finally I'd go back to roundwounds because TI flats are very mid present. I loved TI flats on my passive Precisions but couldn't get a nice tone with my active Musicman basses. I think you've got all the elements available to get your tone but need to experiment more without going to any extreme settings, either on your amp or bass guitar onboard preamp controls.

Bit better than those brands IIRC. Proamp were a UK company based in Essex, and established by an ex Selmer amp designer. They made mainly guitar combos, many of which were valve / transistor hybrids. The bass stuff is fairly uncommon, but if the guitar combos were anything to go by, they tended to feature Celestion speakers as standard so that may be the case here. Definitely worth a punt for a tenner…..😆

Just back from an evening with Ian Danter in Brum... most excellent night, hadn't realised he was in bands as well as his work on the wireless lol and even more surprised to discover recently one of those bands was the Three Amoebas whose bass player Mr NigeJ I've known a fair few years 🙂

Tsk, tsk. Such racist undertones. Tsk, tsk. ...

No no no, we're not taking that and we're especially not taking that from a Frenchman. (Or are you just resident in France? Sorry for assuming your nationality) Anyway you guys invented the metric system, that's why it's si and not is!

We all know how to count in many other 'bases' than ten, but most folk don't know that they know it. How many weeks is 32 days..? Easy, you say, whilst working it out in base 7 in your head. How many years have passed in 27 months..? No problem, just work with base 12. There's not much 'magic' to base 10, we had no problem counting out pennies and shillings. It did make things easier for those inventing the pocket calculator, once they'd made the internal shift from the internal base 2, binary, forcing the poor thing to use a bastard figure (10...) when 8 or 16 would have been far easier for the machine. Still, anything for an easy life, eh..? Those unused brain cells will rot away if they're not exercised. Maybe some grammar lessons have been skipped, too, eh..? Whose 12 times table..?

Groundbreaking that was. Up to then Synth players had been using guitar amps ... now all my keyboardy friends use ...guitar amps.