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Unfortunately this is the answer and only you can really decide yourself. I've been regularly using a single 8" cab with a 130W amp at rehearsal and it's been fine, a 2x8 should be better. I've gigged small venues with a 1x10 too, so it can be done. To an extent it depends upon the drummer, some are more controlled than others and the difference in volume can easily be 10db playing the same songs. It also depends upon your 'sound'. I tend to roll off the bass below 80Hz and use HPF at 50Hz to keepthe bass clean. I try to leave space for the kick drum in the lower frequencies. This alll makes it easy for the speakers. I love the space ship @Dan Dare Dan Dare should always have a ship

I've been using the NUX for almost 2 years now with no problems. That includes some large stages and a couple of outdoor gigs.

Over the past 30 years, I've had two guitars and two basses custom built for me. The fact that I still own three of them after a massive clear out of musical equipment and instruments some years ago should tell you everything. The bass that I did let go was a wonderful musical instrument, but it was built specifically to suit the music of a band I was playing in at the time. Since the band folded 15 years ago it had come out of its case a handful of times and, although I've used it twice on recordings, I couldn't justify holding on to an instrument that mostly got played for fun at home about once a year. My advice to anyone contemplating a custom build: 1. Pick a luthier who is already building something very close to the instrument you want. That's what they do best. 2. If the wood is going to be visible pick something that you like the look of. Otherwise it really doesn't matter and leave the selection up to your chosen luthier. On three of my builds I picked ebony because I like the look of black fretboards. No other reason. For one bass I went to the luthier with a photo of an instrument whose colour scheme I really liked (orange and grey) and woods were chosen to achieve this through a combination of natural wood colour and staining. What those actual woods were didn't not interest me beyond achieving the correct look. For any tonal characteristics they may have given the bass I trusted the luthier to make the right choice. 3. If you are going for high C rather than low B make sure that the pickup(s) and electronics are suited to this. IME most bass pickups and pre-amps tend to make high C sound like a bad jazz guitar and not very pleasant to listen to. Go and play lots of basses strung with a high C string and see what works in your opinion for getting the sound you want. Good luck with the build.

Sold a Trace head to Nik. Collection was delayed but understandably. Coms were great and money paid in advance until collection could be arranged. Had a nice half hour chatting Rickenbackers - a good guy to do business with!

If anything was plugged in and powered up it is providing a signal, that might be just a bit of hiss (noise) but if that device is faulty then it could provide the fault for the desk to amplify into the speakers. You'd have to switch everything off or better still disconnect it to be sure it was the CQ causing the problem. The Zoom appears to be lit up which is one reason why I suspected it, I also know from my duo partners rather random approach to fx that the Zoom can be driven into instability if you come up with fx chains and settings Zoom never dreamed of. I used to do a lot of repair work when younger and earning my living as a part time sound engineer/speaker builder. Hence my hatred of intermittent faults, they never happen when the tech has the device. I do suspect B-stock as a result. Someone returns something to the shop and it lays around until one of the shop assistants decides to have a look. They run it for 24 hours (ideally) and nothing goes wrong and it becomes B-stock. You run it for a year and the fault doesn't happen, and then it does. It could be the desk but until you try it without anything connected you can't be certain. By all means talk to a tech, if they repair a lot of CQ's there may be a known fault but I'd be running it just conected to the speakers for a couple of days before I took it in. The spare desk is a great idea, I have a spare M18 in case mine starts playing up and I've transferred my settings to it so it is ready if I ever need it. I'll get my money back if I ever upgrade When it comes to repairs I'm strictly analogue though

Fantastic playing, Joe! Even on one pickup, a Series 2/S2 will cut through anything and everything.

It's news like this that has made me glad that I have decided to stick mostly with the plug-ins that are part of the standard installation for my DAW. I have made a couple of exceptions, which make life easier for me when recording but none are essential to my workflow should they stop working tomorrow.

Steve do you like the Florid Natural Low Gloss Finish? The colour specifically not necessarily the bass

Alternatively have you considered a small usb-c audio interface like the iRig hd-2 or fender link I/I both around £80 and then you can connect your bass to your smart phone or tablet/laptop and use any number of apps. Alternatively I've never tried em but the mooer prime always looked pretty nifty for pocket handy effect or for that fact a Valeton GP-5 is probably isn't bigger than the pandora but also doubles up as pedal you can also put on the floor.

Just want to have a whinge to get something off my chest. As previously posted on this thread, I have the Ibby BTB 5 string on my radar. however something about the finish of the (very) many models of this bass are in - IMO- the dull, drab, boring, natural flat brown finish. I'm talking here about the later models not the earlier ones. I mean why would you produce so many variations of the same bass and finish them all off in just the one colour which amounts to a dull insipid brown. Especially one that looks like a veneer belonging to a throw back from the 1970's, reminiscent of the old Sapele internal doors (remember them ! 😂). Little wonder the BTB sales were no where near what Ibanez predicted. Thank goodness they introduced some colour to a handful of their models There. I feel much better now ☺️ Thank you

Thanks for the heads up on this. As a daily Izotope user I think it will be a smart idea to download and archive some offline installers this morning, just in case… But I can’t see a company with such well established products disappearing completely. Another triumph for private equity.

Good tip. Also get the iron properly hot when soldering to pot cases, 420 degrees is good but be quick, don't leave the iron touching the metal for too long.

surely no one would ever think of such a thing😂

I was very nearly tempted by a Stiletto Session fretless 5 being advertised months ago (of all places up for sale with Cash Converters) What made me decide against it was the narrow string spacing, plus a Diamond fretless I'd bought a couple of years ago. That one was heavy and I just couldn't get on with it. Nice Cherry red colour though. I like Schecter. They're fine basses. Well made with a good reputation. They always seem to me to be a bit of an 'also ran' a bit of an outsider.

Hard to see them disappearing, you'd imagine they'll get acquired by one of the bigger conglomerates. Kontakt seems like such an industry standard that someone will want the IP at least.

Has it gone ? I thought I saw it still for sale last night 🤔

:But I'm not talking about Yamaha basses in general. I'm a fan of the brand but specifically the TRBX605FM wasn't the one for me from a feel point-of-view. If that model works for you that's great.

Yup.