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You would think that he or the stage manager would have the power to stop the show on health and safety grounds for the audience.

Of course, there's another very dangerous connotation linked with the word, "spare"... BC'ers may be inspired to feed their GAS addiction with such heinous thoughts as, "I could really do with a backup **insert name of piece of equipment here** "THIS MESSAGE WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN THE NEXT 30 SECONDS..."

None of us will get bigger than this. A few years ago I played with an ex-ELO guitarist. ELO were playing a packed Wembley Stadium. The keys player was first on stage and had to press a button on the keys which kicked off a preprogrammed introduction and the first song. The whole band would join in at various points. It was pitch dark on stage, about 70,000 people started cheering and the keys player hit the delete button! That was it. No backup, no introduction and no first song.

Do I keep my German Corvette standard ,and get a setup to B-E-A-D ? Or do I sell and get a Warwick Taranis Corvette which is sold as B-E-A-D tuning ? 🤔

Good News - Guest Update I have confirmation today that Matt Gleeson of Monty's Guitars has agreed to come along and do a chat, demo and Q&A session on Monty's bass pickups. He'll also be telling us about Monty's future bass products (really exciting stuff) and will be listening to all your feedback on needs and wants regarding bass pickups, preamps and anything else. There'll be some Monty's booty in the raffle too. There'll be a couple of Monty's-loaded basses for you to try out and we'll be offering a pickup fitting service on the day if anyone wants to buy some and get them fitted there and then. Donation to charity £TBC for pickup fitting. We've agreed to do the demos through a couple of different amps (full valve, hybrid analogue, Class D) using an LFSys Monaco @stevie so that we get as transparent and as full a sound as we can from the pickups.

S'an instrumental piece of music. Or a song without words. Or simply, a ditty.

How does one “gently lambast”? it’s like “lightly deep-fried”

Anyone who knows my “chats” (students) will already have their coffee and biscuits within arm’s reach. Today, one of my students threw me an off-the-cuff question during a lesson. Ninety minutes later, we finally had to wrap things up—half an hour over time—because I wanted to make sure every detail was covered. The question was about using tablets, laptops, or desktops alongside audio interfaces for practice at home, recording, and live performance. We ended up diving into everything from hardware options (interfaces, multi-effects with built-in interfaces, etc.) and key specifications, to saving money with smart software choices. We covered IRs, neural modelling, Bluetooth and its drawbacks, latency issues and fixes, and even multi-path audio setups for separate signal chains and destinations (FOH, IEMs, backline). We finished with signal chain strategies for transmitting your sound efficiently and effectively. And I still wasn't done. I love these lessons, it's exciting to build a lesson on the fly.

Now the excitement starts. Work is coming on apace. Quilted mahogany front and ash body.

Very true. Yes, on a few preamps (depending on the frequency ranges chosen by the circuit designer) you can run them flat out, but most sound awful at ten tenths. Agreed re the 2eq Stingray preamp (I've got the OBP2). If you turn the treble control back down a little from your 'sizzle' point, the bass frequency richens and increases automatically as if it's filling the gap while the treble drops. It also reveals that massive 70's style Stingray punch.

Similar panic for me. Tartan Heart festival, being broadcast on BBC. Supplied backline. We're rushed to go on stage, so I plug into the supplied Peavey head and it goes through some routine of lights, like a car stereo demo mode. The bass made a sound and I didn't dare touch anything. Couldn't immediately see what any control did.

Panicked at Rebellion when setting up, no volume from the bass at all, due to start in less than a minute. Hadn’t pushed the jack plug from my lead fully into the tuner.

So, some compression chats are expanded...

This bass simply demands a crank handle.

What if it's an instrumental?

Just my two pennies. In one of his videos, Billy Sheehan said he would spend some time every day just noodling around on an unplugged bass, learning something new about the instrument, technique, etc. every time he does. I've been following his advice since as much as I can. I think it works. It doesn’t matter how good (or bad, in my case) one is at playing the bass, or understanding what exactly they do. It may well be just playing four notes per string or the like. I reckon, it’s a good way to get a feeling of the instrument. I'm sorry if it doesn’t sound very understandable. Another thing is to learn how little of pressure one needs to do with their fretting hand. Someday, I started to play some passages like Tony Franklin (it wasn’t my intention, it just happened somehow), with the thumb of the fretting hand under the neck. It might be considered as a bad technique, but it helped me.

It annoys me that they don't all come with one, I got very lucky on here and found a discontinued RokSak bag for my BH800 which fits perfectly, everything else I saw (and I looked for ages) was slightly too small or way oversized.