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I find the same with my '95 ash Stingray with Aguilar pickups/preamp. For a simple 9v bass it sounds huge with sustain for days. It actually leaves my 2023 18v Stingray Special 5 in the dust tone-wise. I think I used to be an 'eq-hooligan' once upon a time as well. Now with the Rays I tend to boost the treble and bass about 30-40%. That gives me all the shove and sparkle I need. The other little known thing about the Stingray preamps is that when you back off the treble a little from your 'sizzle point', the sound thickens considerably. Yes, the Jazz is a more polite and even-tempered beast, but the Stingray's chewy thickness and sparkle is hard to beat with anything this side of a Status.

Without blackface make up, I trust?

it's also the most middle class thing ever! If the OP feels that he has to apologise before playing a song that you might not expect them to, then perhaps they could jokingly announce the song as 'some might think it strange that five white guys from the south east of England could play a song about the struggles of people in a land far away that we know very little about... but we're gonna do it anyway! It's a great song and I hope that we can do it justice'...

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

The patches that Andy shared have been a great starting point for me. TBH I was a bit daunted at first but once I'd loaded the patches and had a look, it all made perfect sense and I started editing them to experiment. Until yesterday, I just had conventional basses to test the patches but it gives a good flavour. I'm going to try a few different methods of amping just to see the differences, not only in sound but in level of effort required to get there. 1. HX Stomp bi-amping patches. I'm going to try to mimic the TP set up by sending highs to an Orange guitar amp/cab set up and lows to various iterations of bass amp/cab. The HX will then go in the input of a GK head and out of an FRFR cab. 1b. Same as above but into the effects return to see how that goes. Effectively using the GK as a power amp. I think that 1/1b is going to be the best bang for buck as far as effort put in and how easy it'll be, portability is also a consideration. Physically it's no more kit than normal. 2. Full TP analogue mode: Bass Rig plus guitar rig with a line splitter pedal. Boss LS2, I think? I need to borrow something. Split the signal with one going to my MJW 200 (it's like a Matamp/Orange 200) and the FRFR cab and the other going through a Nobel distortion into my Marshal 2554 1x12 combo. I'm going to have to get creative with the EQ knobs on the valve heads to see what works. I haven't got any EQ pedals but could rig something up with the HX Stomp. I think this is going to be the best sound or at least give the best experience. It's extra kit, it means carrying an extra 1x12 heavy valve guitar combo (bought new by me from Wally McGill @ Rock City in 1988 and still has the hand-written receipt!). 3. Using my current gig rig (various GK heads into FRFR cabs) but getting clever with the Origin Effects DCX Bass LF and HF settings. I currently use the DCX to make my Spectors even more sparkly/gritty but these pedals are capable of a lot more and I need to have a deeper dive. This would be the ultimate solution as I could then swap between 4-string Spectors to the Hamer for different songs and not have to adapt much kit from what I'm used to gigging with. There's also other options of using the HX Stomp to do the guitar combo sound and using the physical rig to do the low frequencies. There's lots of options but I'll go with these three for now. I think if, like you, I was playing a whole set with a 12 and it was a key part of the show, I'd be more willing to take extra kit if it delivered the goods. That's the plan for now, I'm sure it'll evolve. I'd be very grateful for any steers or insight from experience too. I'll sort the B12L today and get busy with amps and cabs etc tomorrow.

Some people are slow, aren't they.

This is why i went with my EBS Microbass3. less to go wrong and all knobs are quickly accessible. It’s just feel more natural than the menu driven devices, although it does a lot less. Rock solid though.

If it's all I'm taking, I favour something 'real' that doesn't have to boot up. For example I personally wouldn't entertain the HX stuff without a backup because my very-light-home-use-only HX Stomp no longer boots - it just sits there with the backlight on but nothing happening. Support told me I was out of warranty/luck and could pay somebody to look at it if I wanted, but tbh it was never useful enough to warrant throwing good money after bad, so it's a paperweight. Fly Rig v2 is a good unit for travelling light (or at very least I like mine) but make sure you mark the positions of your settings, as the little knobs and buttons are easily scrambled in transit.

Oh dear. I suppose because I'm white British I should only be playing for Morris dancers!

Yes, for a Cheap Trick tribute in the USA, called Cheap Trip. The customer now owns 7 Brooks 12-string bass guitars...😵

I just realised yesterday that Darryl Anders of MXR has been a member of my FI Facebook group for 3 years. Now I know where he got all the good ideas from. 😂

Pianists: "Hold my beer"

I honestly find these type of people to be idiots that would only be getting annoyed by something else when they were drunk. The Corrs are hardly a traditional band playing rebel songs but mixing folk with pop. I guess Phil Lynott should never have picked up an electric guitar either and introduced that American rock sound and diluted the purity of the gaelic music.

Try waving a magnet around, particularly in corners

It should be an M2 x 2.5mm slotted cheese head screw. Closest I can find is 3mm long rather than 2.5.... on the up side, you'll have 19 spare ones though. Mind you, the postage will probably cost more than the screws... https://www.westfieldfasteners.co.uk/Bolts-Screws-Metric/Machine-Screw-Slotted-Cheese-M2x3-A2-Stainless.html

The band plays rock’n’roll and a bit of country. ’Coward of the County’ was a massive crossover hit in 1979.

Is it any good? I am kinda tempted just because of the Agro pedal in plugin form.