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UJ type stand fitting - Tom Drum?screwed on thru or welded to the Neck Plate.

Yep, spotted this about 2 seconds after I posted the images! All sorted now... It's not at all, the E string wasn't in the saddle correctly - all fixed now. It's a great bass for the cash - would be hard pressed to find something this good for £350 new.

Because there isn't enough room for me to be further forward, I suppose. Besides, guitarist, lead singer and keys player are more interesting to audiences than I am. I used to stand in front of keys player, but she wanted to dance more and interact with the audience, so we swapped. For a full discussion regarding pros and cons of sitting down, see this thread: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/492024-playing-gigs-sitting-down-popfunk-covers-band-acceptable/ For me, I don't want to sit down while playing for a dance-oriented pop/funk band.

I think I got a couple of brass collars in with my staytrem that work really well. If you can't find some tubing to cut to size I bet plumber's tape would do it.

Well we had two of them and they were much bigger, heavier and more expensive! I think they were the 705 but the older versions, we got lucky and picked them up for £500 for the pair used. Even in smaller venues we'd use them both, not really for volume but more for the audio quality benefit. Our current sub is lighter than one of our old RCF 725 tops.

I love me some Skynyrd. I went off them for a while in about 2008-2015 when I watched UFC as nearly every other fighter seemed to enter the Octagon to Simple Man (I kinda stopped watching the sport so assume that many still do this) I do like really like Tuesday's Gone as well, even the Metallica version.

May I ask why are you hidden away in a corner of the very back, behind the keyboard player? But since you are why couldn't you just sit down on a chair and play?

https://youtu.be/1x_kg6pOvGU?si=s_UUeBJOmd6Bvik7

This look’s line a serious bit of kit, wonder if they will do a bass version? https://www.andertons.co.uk/dsm-humboldt/dsm-and-humboldt-simplifier-x-dual-preamp-and-cab-sim-analogue-stereo-pedal?&utm_campaign=GUITAR-DSM-Simplifier-X-2304&utm_source=emarsysemail&utm_medium=email&sc_src=email_13942583&sc_lid=865438874&sc_uid=BhCpN1euMH&sc_llid=21589&sc_eh=11e0b5f85ea3a42b1

Saw Johnny Osbourne and Horace Andy at Komedia in Brighton a few weeks ago, both were excellent, so were the bands (Dub Ashanti Band, and Upper Cut Band), the venue was good too - sold out and busy enough for a good atmosphere but no queing, could get right up close to the stage, and could even get a decent pint easy enough.

In fairness, with those singers standing in front of you, it would be odd if the audience was fixated on you. 😉

These are the always on effects of my "amp-less" setup: So a combination of several preamp stages makes up my "amp-less" tone, but I suppose the NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp + DI being the main one.

My updated board centred around the Helix HX Stomp. Shamelessly stole the midi controller idea from someone on here who was selling a similar setup (apologies, I can't remember the name). Thought this was me done for a while but I've been having some minor issues with the Boss WL-50 (probably down to the 2 guitarists in the band subsequently buying the exact same bit of kit). So may upgrade that at some point.

Glad it’s not just me!

I had years back a USA EB Musicman 2 EQ and it was a lovely bass More recently I had the Sterling Ray34 in hope it would sound close ?? It didn’t I found it disappointing on most points and sold it on. I still prefer a basic PBass ( passive ) that just seems right for everything! So sadly I don’t rate the Sterling Sub series albeit they are a low cost bass and a good bass for some just not for me

Me too lol Don't like the antiga one they've released. Dont like blocks on maple

Interesting that you found the RCF subs to be noticeably better. Can you remember which model you used? The RCF 705s look like a decent compromise of weight/power but won't be able to compete price wise with the Altos.

The first gig we did with them I was doing the drum levels and was actually a bit surprised at how clear the kick was, half expected it to be pure mud or fart out. Big room and a single sub as well. I can still remember the first PA we bought decades ago - Peavey HP400 with two huge subs, a floor standing rack unit with 3 stupidly heavy power amps, a separate crossover and an old Studiomaster (IIRC) desk in it and two heavy (and useless) wooden wedge monitors. Cost a fortune, didn't sound all that great, took an age to set up and was a PITA to load in/out. Our power amps kept breaking so we eventually had to add an additional one as a backup.

I've used the Zoom H4N for just this purpose and it was the experience that sent me all the way to IEM's I wish I'd done it earlier and my hearing loss would have been less. I bought the H4 as a recorder so I already had it to hand but any small recorder would work I tried my old Olympus WS-650S dictaphone thing and that works just as well, at the cost of having to record everything and then erasing it to free up the memory for next gig. I'd look at something like the Zoom H1 if I was buying something to do this now though, the H4 is bulky and over the top for this purpose and you could wear the H1 on a lanyard. Plenty of other rivals to the Zoom also, look at Tascam and Olympus too. What was stunning and should have been obvious is that I simply plugged myself in and could instantly hear everything on stage much better than without them. That was entirely down to the reduction in sound levels. to make this work you need to concentrate on getting the best for possible for your headphones, the more of the over-loud drums and backline you can cut out the better your experience will be. Using a personal mixer can be just as good. Think of it as a system in three parts Microphone>headphone amp>headphone. You can use an ambient mic and a mixer as your headphone amp or a mini-recorder as both mic and headphone amp. Using a recorder assumes that you have a decent monitoring sound where you stand anyway. If you want control over levels and creating your own monitor mix then a personal mixer is the way to go. I know at least one bassist with a mixer fixed to their pedal board for their own monitoring.

Cheers they’re Elixir 45-105 steels. Bass is in drop D tuning. Should point out that it’s not a standard mustang though (full story here if you haven’t seen it! https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/471651-modding-a-66-mustang-really-really/page/5/