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We played a really great gig yesterday at Oundle music festival. Once again I used my Eich 112XS combo which tilts back so I can hear myself really well on stage and the DI sound is perfect. When I position the amp on stage, I naturally put it behind me because that’s what I’ve always done. But at sound check I tried it in front of me like a monitor, and had the FOH out keys and vocals in my actual monitor. It worked really well and I could feel the bass and hear it even batter. I moved it though for the gig because it was in the way to be honest for everyone else coming on and off stage but I wondered if anyone else does this regularly? I think next time I might do it from the start and move other things around to make room. I think having it facing away from the audience probably helps reduce the on stage sound, too - I think I could have it even louder without affecting the PA sound out front.

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We put our full band through a pair of RCF 912As, without needing a sub, and they provide us with a very decent bass response. A single 912A should therefore be able to very comfortably handle bass if you want to use it as a 'FRFR' powered speaker, and will cost a fraction the price a many of the more traditional separate amp & cab set ups that many BC'ers use. But perhaps the better comparison is with something like a Markbass CMD 121P combo, in which case the price differential is not so large, particularly if you are comparing used prices.

This.

What utter rubbish 🤣

Thank you 👍

Cheers. I was struggling all week to be fair, and I’d did the gig on max painkillers. 4am pain was off the scale, I was shaking with it. I cannot fault the care I’ve had today though, assessed quickly, admitted, CT scan, diagnosed and placed on a ward. The nurses are hot on my pain management, and have told me when they are going to administer stuff through the night. Hopefully it will just be a couple of nights.

However: Playing the notes exactly as the original is not nessecarily being the best musician you can! It's the same old argument. Do you think that the Black Crows played it the same every time? I suspect not.

Sorry if it's 'suck eggs' but did you set the channel input gains so that each source only flickers into the red before doing anything else?

This is identical to my first and last Encore and first ever bass that I owned and learned on. Bought off E-Bay as part of a bundle pack. Good memories 😊

Well done, if you can do one gig, the next will be easier.

No red flags to me. Maybe he's right about the lack of soul funk groove players in Devon. What in particular is making you feel wary?

It's not wrong, it's different. Unless you are trying to be a Black Crows Tribute, and even then I'm not sure that it matters much. If the whole band play it "Perfectly" as per the CD then you might as well stick the CD on.

Glad you got into hospital, that can turn nasty if not caught quickly. Now get well!

I've been very happy with using a Turbosound ip300 powered PA speaker instead of a bass amp for double bass - I go through a mute pedal and a valve preamp and it sounds great to my ear. Bigger gigs seem to work fine just DI into the PA.

Yes, this is how i feel, and quite often i dont reach perfection but don’t really worry about it. I think iconic bits should be played, but it will depend on the song i guess. Id never even try any Jaco etc stuff, but I’ll try and learn the whole song if i can, not just a couple of bits and make the rest up because the audience wont notice etc. As a bass player i can normally get very close to the tone on a recording, so just because the singer might not sound the same doesn't mean i don’t need to worry. If you can do it, whats the issue with doing it, especially if you are getting paid to do it. I learnt loads of songs quickly back in the day, and over the years ive gone back and fixed them. When i find im playing something wrong ill try and fix it, not just go ‘meh, the audience are still dancing so how cares’ etc. For me its about self pride. There is no reason on earth not to try your best at anything you do. Worst case ive witnessed is a band i auditioning on keys last year. They were doing Crazy Little thing call love. The bass player played just repeating root notes for each chord, instead of the walking bass line. When i mentioned it (as diplomatically as i could), it turned out they have been doing it this way for about a year, at gigs. No one had ever complained or commented at gigs, although they realised it wasnt right. The bass player ‘just didnt have time to work it out’ I walked away from that one.

Funny old thing, just a week after tentative return to gigging post-stroke with my old band (just for a short sax set at a local mini-festival) I got an urgent call from them to play a private party not far away for a full gig - their replacement bassist couldn't make it... I spent an hour the day before playing along with an Audacity recording I'd made of the band, sort-of got my fingers and brain working together again, so it was off to the gig yesterday evening, fingers crossed! It actually all worked out OK, a few dodgy moments that didn't seem to be noticed in the new numbers introduced by the band since my hospitalisation, but I managed to stay on point and upright for two one-hour sets (thank you, Red Bull!) and got nicely paid, so in all a good way to ease back into gigging, with the promise of some more to come. Must say though, I was cream-crackered today...

Sort of like the Typhoid Mary of the bass world. 🙂

A skilled luthier can fill the holes in the back and you should be able to colour match the finish pretty well. Barring any major horrors under the scratch plate it’s probably all good. Reckon it could be a cracker. If not, you’d make it back selling the parts.

I'd like to think so mate

I bought a 2000 Warwick Thumb in 2006, surprisingly cheaply, and had the baseball-bat neck reprofiled to the same dimensions as my JD Thumb and defretted. Some years later, I had the unfretboard replaced with a slab of ebony by Jon Shuker. This is it with the initial defret: