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Hiding behind the sofa adding secret bass parts on your baritone? 😂

I acquired a stan Clarke from bass chat before Xmas. Quality bit of kit. I've only done one gig with it, dB into A and eb into B. It will take a mike with phantom power too and is also a di box. Must say, being able to set independent gain and eq for both basses and then between songs, mute, swap basses, swap channels, unmute, play ( with no clinks or pops) is brill. The notch / HP filter is quite subtle. Our sound guy wants my bass through the pa so DI to the mixer and normal output to my little pjb flightcase for use as a stage monitor. Clean sound,no distortion, no hiss.

Yeah, it's been "Lost" somewhere along the line. 😥

Or “good luck” even

Yes…..very easy. If the existing pickup is a Musicman example as suppled from EBMM, then the cover should not be glued to pickup and will be a straight swap. I’d advise taking a few measurements of the pickup height before you start, so you can return it to where it was before the cover swap. Good lick.

Or on a 5, +1, and that works well.

Hmm, bag pipes and cow bell this time? 🤩

Boss Poly Shifter to the rescue. -4 semitones will be pushing it though. Be good enough for live.

Yes, I do miss being able to pop into DV247 in Romford - was an excellent store.

Last night we played at the Musketeer in Leigh, Lancashire. It's always been one of those gigs where the crowd turns up 5 minutes before the band starts. We had been talking to them about taking our long-established jam night there, but we couldn't get timings that suited us all. We did a well-received first spot and a lengthy second spot. We certainly blew off the cobwebs in the place. It was great that the 'new' line-up of the band was so readily accepted at one of our favourite venues. It was a bit of a special gig for us, as our guitarist's wife gives birth next Fri (planned birth) and so we are taking the band off the road during February.

All seems part and parcel of having a sale to me. They know the rules re distance selling and so must factor sale-induced returns into their calculation as a cost of doing business. Anyway I have a lasting wariness of musicstore after the prepackaged bankruptcy they underwent as DV247 for the usual screwing-people-over reasons, part of which was about shedding staff cheaply and closing their physical shops where you could go and actually try things with salespeople who were generally real musicians, gear nerds and helpful.

The bass part is made more difficult by the switch from QOTSA's down-tuned version to standard tuning. This one's not for the faint-hearted mate.

Yes I will do that..sounds Phenomenal🤟😊

Remembering it's the hardest bit - and lugging around a bass tuned ridiculously low in order to play it!

What tuning are you doing that in? I have done it a few times in its original, but that was when I had an actual tuned to C bass. I guess now I would just do it with a 5 string with the Boss XE on +1

Yes thanks, it certainly does, I'm a very lucky man🤟😊

This date is now in my calendar, boys and girls. 😉

Oh god, that reminds me, that song's on my to-do list as well. Fscking bricking it, mate. Apart from some of the intricacies, it's as much a memory test as anything else!