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Some more Steve Rodby. The track is 'Sometimes I See' from the 1993 Pat Metheny Group album, 'Quartet'. A simple ballad and one of the easier charts to read if you are still trying to get your basic note recognition nailed. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/sometimes-i-see-pat-metheny-group/

Welcome, love forum lurking. My record is 8 years (from joining to first post), its a slow hobby though. J

Gigging with an SVT was my weekly gym workout and the tools of a young fit man. Like Sam says, I found that when you get used to moving an 810 about they are quite easy, but you do need a little help from band mates. The workout is a price to pay if you want that sound and a good trade if you ask me.

don’t panic , me and Mrs Lurks have had a pre-anniversary day away in Blackpool and have stayed over*. so I will be back just after lunchtime. * not IN actual Blackpool obvs, I mean, we have standards, no, we have taken a room on an industrial estate a few miles out 🙄.

Hi AQ I have had a Gnome for ages, never even knew it had a fan, not sure I have ever heard it anyway. To be fair there is some very minor background noise in my room as I run a PC, but I have honestly never heard the fan on mine. I don't work it hard at all mind you, even at low output its very loud. As far as amp/cabs go, I don't really move my Gnome around anymore since I bought my Fender Rumble 100 - has been fantastic, use with band as well - enough power with the bonus of being nice and light EDIT : I am mostly a junk room musician (rather than bedroom) J

With much inspiration/guidance from this excellent thread, I'm now 4 gigs in with IEM, with the last being a silent stage at a venue with particularly tricky acoustics. I'd say that so far the success rate in terms of my experience/sound in my ears is at about 60%. Areas I know can be improved are FOH chap not altering my levels mid set (!), seal of the IEMs (if I insert them just right, then there's a definite improvement, getting better at that), then finally the actual tone in my ears. The last point is the one I'm after advice on. DI from my amp sounds ok but very dry in the ears. It's not so bad when I've got stage sound as some of that leaks through to a fairly pleasing effect. Last gig and rehearsal before it I tried using my HX Stomp with cab and amp sim engaged to try and get a more pleasing sound to my ears (silent stage this time), but in rehearsal guitarist thought my tone suffered out front with the cab sim on, so I ended up running just the amp model, and it wasn't much really much different to my amp DI. No surprise there really. My question is, what do you all do to get a satisfactory bass tone to your ears?! Would a decent DI with cab sim likely sound better than the Stomp, do I just need to experiment more with the Stomp? Answers on a postcard please!!

Four grand. Jeepers. It's an SB-1000 with his name on it. Can't you pick up an original one for a quarter of that? Maybe this'll be the start of something for Aria. The Buggles edition. The Planet Earth edition. Take a stock(ish) instrument, slap a facsimile signature on it, sell it as something special.

Haha... that ought to be added to the IEM megathread.

Good man! Well resisted.

https://musictech.com/news/gear/groove-thing-music-buttplug-namm/

Well, as NAMM 2026 is more or less done and dusted, my personal opinion is that it was pretty underwhelming from a bass perspective. The majority of (new?) basses just seem to be reissues/reboots of decades old designs and the amps/processing all a bit meh to be honest. Where's the innovation?

You want something new and different instead of just re-releases and new paint jobs? .....we'll, this is what you get: https://musictech.com/news/gear/groove-thing-music-buttplug-namm/

I have to agree. I like quirky. I like different. Traditional style J and P basses are all very well and everyone has/had one but sometimes we all yearn for something different. But lets face it, is it really all down to looks. We're choosing a musical instrument. At the end of the day and shouldn't we should be prioritising what the bass plays like, sounds like, etc, etc.... As the old sayings go, 'looks aren't everything' and 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. Having said that gut reaction tells us we ain't gonna pick up a bass every day we haven't fallen in love with 😍Yep, bass players too are shallow people 😂

Just excited to hear the Mantle

This is not correct for the Nobel preamp- it bb is not a parallel out. The xlr goes via two valve stages, the Jack out goes via all 4 stages.

I don't think so. As long as you knew what you personally were looking for in a band. For me the 50 mile round trip would have been an issue. The deal breaker for me would have been the no gigs on the books. My question use to be how many gigs has the band played in the last 6 months and how many new gigs are booked. It sounds like it was a start up band. Daryl