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It really is in how tough your hands are and how tough you want to make it on yourself. Ideally everybody would be like Lee Rocker - and have a ridiculously high pain threshold and a devil may care attitude to the quantity of minced finger and claret spread all over their bass. Because if you were like him - then you'd use steel strings and amplification without feedback would be so much easier - as magnetic pickups (the less feedbacky option) only work on steel and steel core strings. For us mere mortals the options are down to some combination of nylon or nylon and a wrap. I have tried Weedwhackers ... which to my ears sound okay on G and D strings - but have too subdued a note on the A and E - They do a Weedwhacker Pro set which have an extra thick Kevlar core - but I haven't tried those. I took a friend's advice and bought a set of Rotosound 4000 strings and aside from bumping the set (A becomes the E string all the syrings move down one and a C for a 5 string is added as the G). To me this combo is ideal. Quiet for at home practise unamplified, and loud and rounded with a beautiful woody slap when amplified (I use a Shadow Rockabilly Pro preamp and pickups bridge mounted. It's an utter game changer. I have a set of Superior Bassworks 'Dirty Gut' synthetic gut strings I'm going to try on the bass I'm rebuilding ... I will let you know when I try them - but I suspect I will simply end up taking them off and put a set of bumped Rotosound 4000s on that bass too!

A fair while until this one, but that allows folk to make a space in their diaries Great venue.

I’d say @brule_lentement has landed on his feet 👍

Good shoot actually. In central London. Not many music stores are around anymore. Guitar guitar in Camden, the bass gallery, wunjos guitars in Denmark street. That all I can think about regarding cabs. bass direct would be great if I was closer

Mine has a bit of a quirk where upon powering it up I have to pull the power out then plug it back in and it works perfectly. I think I’d sent it back to DG to have the pedal looked at due to an issue which turned intro be the power input connector. I wonder if it’s just a fault on these.

What if you like playing more than one type of music?!

Thanks mate. Ive started the search for a used one10. Would love to try one but I doubt anyone is near me with one. From what I’ve heard on barefaced YouTube channel it sounds warm yet articulate.

I find it hard to believe that anyone's *so* busy they can't find an hour somewhere to look over some stuff they'll be playing live! Unless their other bands are Dragonforce/Dream Theater tributes, in which case, I'd probably believe them!

You are trying to tick the boxes and are only considering the positives. Look at it from the other angle, what can go wrong, and what will you do when it does! Tick all the negative boxes and then decide if you want to risk your cash.

No. In general that's not an issue with modern digital units, even the cheaper ones. You may notice it sounding very sligthtly brighter, if you're used to long cable runs, but for the most part is not significantly different from using a cable.

They’re all so busy with their other bands😬

I can see that rule working in a hobby band, if someone treats playing bass as they would the occasional game of golf, but not if you are remotely serious about being a working musician. I've done the one band thing. We were gigging 3 nights a week which could be 4 or 5 on occasion and often twice on Sunday. You don't see many bands being that busy any more, so multiple bands it is.

I’m not aware of the maker or the model, but I’m guessing the design brief was “can you make a bass out of my nan’s side table and lamp?”.

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I'm in lots of bands/dep occasionally and the golden rule (as others have said) is: If you've said yes to a gig and it's in your diary, you do it. I've just had to turn down a well paid wedding gig as I'll be up in Manchester (playing for next to nothing - an old mate's originals band) next weekend. This gig was organised months ago, so I'm doing it. If you start ducking out of gigs for better paid ones, people will quickly stop asking you to gig... you're only as good as your word. Use Google calendar and encourage everyone else to - this makes everyone's life a LOT easier and cuts down the potential for oopsies in my experience. As someone above said - if someone in your band is getting offered stuff like IOW festival.... that'd be a different matter. I'd imagine they've made that pretty clear from the outset! And as someone else said - get a few deps on board! As for people turning up to gigs/rehearsals without having practiced... that's just laziness, surely?!

amazing, well done everybody

Is that Daphne blue, or some sort of metallic? Slightly muted guard looks really nice. Darkening up that fretboard might also lovelify it further, too.

Love that venue.....I played indoors there last year with US blues/rock guitarist Dudley Taft!

Can't say I'm looking forward to tonight - had a stinking cold for the past couple of days and while it is abating, I'm still only operating on about 75% strength. Wireless shenanigans may be curtailed - hopefully won't need a chair.

I thought all this stuff but some Chinese factories do good copies and you would not expect high quality for that price. Just happens to be my dream acoustic guitar….never heard the bass

Only just spotted the post! never mind it has saved me some work! - I just can't resist figuring out faults, and possibly retaining a useful spare part, finding a new replacement at such a good price was handy. Polar seem to be selling off all of their old stock spares ATM so probably the last chance to get some of those hard to find items.

I hate it when you trip up and your credit card falls in the card reader. Nice score there.