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It would be great to see @lee650 as I've not seen him for what feels like an age.

https://share.google/U5owh09omz454e5Sk Not sure if that attached OK but there's a 1995 Fender custom shop Rumble head in Stoke, relatively cheap for a 300 watt valve head. I believe these had cooling problems but that may be a few modifications away for someone in the know. Interesting amp if it's your thing anyway.

Brilliant and made my day so far. Dave

100% Pete. I started going just after covid altho i've been an on/off gym goer over the years but this is the first gym i've stuck at 3 times a week. I started light with the weights and would start at 8 reps and work up to 12 reps. Once at 12 reps i upped the weight and back to 8. Its not always about how much you can lift either. The technique is more important with slow negatives offering more benefit than simply rapid up/down movements. I went for 2 yrs just doing my own thing in the gym but needed to move it forward and took on a PT for 10 sessions (2 1hr sessions per wk). Did that every 6mths - year just to push us and learn correct techniques. Then started taking classes in ABS training then HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) currently doing proper weight training class and body sculpt class. Two different styles of training in the gym. I don't struggle so much lifting PA cabs or kit these days and not out of breath when walking up stairs or even just lifting heavy objects. Went from just under 15st after Covid to 12st at the moment. Dropped from 36" waist to 32", from a Large T-shirt back to a Med. I'm now wearing same size clothes as i di in my 30's. Not bad for an old guy at 65. Dave

If @lee650 can wangle time off work, I think he might be coming with me from Morecambe. Rob

My daughter is there as well. She's at the Uni majoring in a degree in "Face painting, fancy dress, clubbing, drinking and rugby with a minor of History and Politics". Manchester is probably an 1hr 45mins from here, depending on whether some lunatic decides to close the M60 though a crash. I work in Manchester around once a week. We do have bedrooms free. The house used to be the old vicarage, converted to B&B in the 80's and we have spent a lot of time (and money) converting it back to a family home, just in time for the kids to leave home I think @neepheid is probably claiming one, that leaves another two, three, possibly four, bedrooms free. No charge but you might need to brings something interesting to play or better still a decent bottle of white. Let me know. Rob

Wow!

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/