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EHX bass soul food - £49 new when I bought it

Strangely good that...!!

My weekly practice with my originals band is most Thursdays. On the weeks we can’t all meet, me and the guitarist meet at home and work up song ideas. I record them as voice memos on my phone. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working thru the better ideas in there and turning out some great sounding songs that we’d more or less forgotten about but which are now coming together really quickly. Excellent!

perfect strangers - Deep purple

I found some pics of the tuners on your bass (I think the 5 uses the same tuners as the 4 string version) Hipshot HB6 ultralites would probably be a good choice, but check the dimensions of the existing tuners & the holes they fit in to ensure that they'd fit. The US-made ultralites are reversable so buying five would enable you to reverse one, but there is also the cheaper 'licensed version' which is not reversable. https://allparts.uk.com/products/hipshot-hb6-ultralite-bass-machine-heads?variant=54942187880831

Valentine's day update! Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love | Douggie Reece Kem - Love Calls | Fred "Rodriguez" Robinson The O'Jays - Forever Mine | John Williams Scorpions - Still Loving You | Francis Buchholz

I’ll have to check those out, didn’t know they did a Para Driver clone as well.

I’ll see your BDI21 and raise you the ADI21. It’s behringer’s Paradriver clone and it’s brilliant. I also picked up a DHA VT1 dual custom in need of some TLC from the ‘bay for £50 that eclipses everything. Took me about 6 months of careful circuit tracing and building an active eq circuit for it but it’s easily my best £50 purchase.

This is based on a message I sent to @JohnDaBass. My first outing at Open Mic night . I used a single Sub with two tops for an open mic on thr 12th Feb. I took one sub, it sounded good. I hade the sub set to 125Hz and in hindsight should have used 80Hz. I also had the HPF on 90 Hz on the Wharfedale’s and should have let the sub’s crossover take care of that. Over all the sound was good I did not want it Bass heavy but in the event had to boost a bit around 100-120Hz. In My band currently have no gigs until May at the moment so next outing is March Open Mic on March 12th. I will probably try feeding the sub(s) from an aux feed then. It was frustrating not to be able to just go and turn the sub up at times. Using Aux Fed subs means I can use the PEQ on each output to suite both subs and tops, rather than relying on what different manufacturers choose for crossover/ LPF/HPF frequencies. In a band setting, I would not be out front so the Open mic is great for learning what the gear can do. I did put the Kala UBass through it and it sounded nice, although I don’t expect bass will go though it that much at Open Mic. One of the performers had a Fender Acoustasonic guitar and it sounded great through the system. In reality I did. It really need the Sub, there was plenty of bass coming out of the Typhon 8 AXFs. However there may well be a couple of keyboards coming next month so will take one or both. On Thursday, I could have made do with just the Typhon 8s. There quoted response +/- 3dB is 65Hz to 20 KHz, enough to be used as a bass cab in all but Dub.

Much the same for me but they regularly don't deliver on the date they email me let alone the time. Its ok if its my regular postie that delivers the parcel but when its Parcelforce van delivery its a bit vague but usually gets here the following day. Their tracking system leaves a lot to be desired tho. I like the tracking system that one courier uses where it shows me a map and where their van is and how many drops before mine altho that's been wrong too but at least i know the van is in the area. Dave

Sure i heard this or something very like it in the late 60's / early 70's psychedelic / jazz fusion era. Nothing new here for me but have to admit i do like it. I guess for a generation it was different from the usual rubbish in the charts at the time. Dave

They always do… plus, I like the sound of my cab. The mix is 50/50.

For me: Fender 2 MMan 0 ! 😃 Very well played, only one thing: a bit exagerate middle frequency on Elite slap: suppose its strings prbl; but i don't like MM sound: too personal (when Mr Fender created it...wasn't like this). Bravo !!

Interesting that the sound team have put a mic on your cab. I guess it’s to-be-sure, to-be-sure? In all the years that I did live sound I never mic’d a bass cab, always DI.