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The IEM thread is a bit overwhelming, lol, I decided not to add this to it - but I have read the first section and was hoping for some advice, I have been playing 4 years (but 58 yo), and just started rehearsing with a local band which is amazing / brilliant fun. They rehearse in a small room and play very loudly (to me), at times I can't hear what I am playing and I quite worried about hearing damage. I have bought some Fender Musician Series Ear Plugs for our next session. The band mostly play through their own speakers / cabs and I am standing right next to mine which makes it even more difficult to hear. Is there a standalone / self contained solution whereby I can have my bass, some ambient sound so I can hear what the band are playing into IEM's which allow me to control the volume and what I am hearing but still hear my bass in the mix. I read the 'bible' at the beginning here and see that potentially the Zoom H6 or similar might be the ticket with built in mikes - is that right? Can it be combined with wired or wireless IEM's - could anyone suggest something suitable? I don't mind spending some money but it looks like it will cost enough to not want to make a wrong purchase! I would be very grateful for some advice on what will work well. Thank you J

Always a Dusty fan but there are many versions of son of a preacher man and when I started the car up yesterday Jazz FM played the very excellent Mavis Staples version.

@Merton's TE1200 sounded amazing at last year's Bass Bash. I probably won't be able to get my hands on one again until next year's Bash - but I'd like to spend some time figuring out why it was so impressive.

I'd go with seller 'earlpilanz' on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114490584526

In the covers band we generally get paid in cash, so the biggest problem is finding fivers sometimes. There is no band kitty, we're mercenaries, we divvy up the money on the night and it goes its separate ways. When the venue pays electronically, the guitarist handles it then reimburses us when the money finally deigns to show up. The originals band is different - there is a band kitty and all the money goes in there - no-one takes anything from it personally, it's all for the band. I look after it and maintain a spreadsheet of the ins and outs. Ins are gig fees and CD sales, outs are recording, publishing, getting CDs made if we can be arsed. It's not used for equipment - the band generally plays in venues with house backline and we maintain our own personal musical gear out of our own pockets.

I have a copperhead and I don't find it excessively bassy compared to other piezo pickups that I've tried. I think it can sound pretty good but I have to totally kill the mids on the amp that I'm using and then knock off the treble until the "microphonic" sounds from the strings, bridge etc are minimised.

There is definitely something special about the TE1200, maybe the EQ frequency points or the dual compressors but it sounds lovely. I was tempted last year but the new price put me off slightly but the purchase on here was a great deal

Yep I found my “mojo” again for playing in a band New people and better songs Great fun buying gear and discovering some great amps !

"No, it goes like this..." Yes, I've fallen foul of that one too! 😃

Those are fairly tough with the palm mutes and accents.

I knew it wouldn't be long before you got back into it Part of the fun is buying, selling, trying and changing rigs and basses. I had an ebs 360hd - amazing amp. Never got chance to gig it, but everything about it was lovely in practice. I'm still a big believer in parametric / semi parametric dials on Amps.

And love Ernest Ranglin's playing too!

Thank you to everybody for your help. Particularly Doctor J for the breakdown on how to establish which pot is which. So, it seems like this: Lower front - is the mix pot Upper front - is treble cut/boost Lower rear - is volume Upper rear - should be bass cut/boost, however it seems behave more like a second volume which doesn't quite go 100% off. Is it possible that the guy from the shop wired one or other pots to the wrong part of the central board (i.e. the blue thingy attached to a board)? Or would that then cease to function altogether?

Did someone say White Rabbit? Well, I've always enjoyed this post punk/psyche early 80's very messy self indulgent wig out by The Damned. Featuring some very up front Ric bass and lovely not quite in tune vocals by Dave Vanian.

I changed my mind about Bonham’s playing as a result of having to learn some of his parts and thus you end up doing a lot of research to get it right. Not because of the technicality in playing his rhythms, as you say jazz drummers are the masters and a breed apart, but because I began to realise how many zep songs you can identify just from the drums. As for great drummers, one of the top me is Papa Jo Jones. He was an early proponent of the hi hat and bringing the drums forward as something other than just a basic timekeeper. Also, I use his ‘trick’ of having a floor tom to the left of the hi hat as I find this is a great way of making more interesting fill patterns.

A quick update to this thread - I finally took a chance on a C2 cab and a Warwick Gnome head (pretty much the same as the TC BAM 200 but I'd heard marginally better things about it for DB). In terms of volume (at home) it's louder than my GK MB150 and has a much cleaner, more usable tone so I'm pretty sure that it'll be good for gigs too. What I really like as well is that the two are very small and light - about half the weight of the GK, which appeals to my increasing laziness when it comes to lugging gear from the car (it also makes a "one trip" journey viable with the DB even if I have to walk longer distances). No gigs for a few weeks but I'm looking forward to trying it out....

And while we're talking about Primus, some more of my fave musos - Buckethead and The Wizard of Woo, Mr. Bernie Worrell! Brain's not bad either...