stingrayPete1977

Or stupid?

Looks in great nick, D and G strings have never been touched

I'd hunt down an 88 SR5 myself, ticks all the boxes then. An 88 will have a proper Alnico pickup like a regular ray unlike the later ones with the ceramic one like a Sterling.

What about two different sized cabs, one on it's side with a bigger one on top over hanging that and a head perched on top wider than that one, one tolex cab, one black cab, one silver cloth and one black cloth and none of the badges the right way up?

First rule of Barefaced club, "thou shall not use a head that duth not overhang the cab" broken!

There's a mod I believe for those to stop the preamp being so hot but I'm not familiar with the non USA SUB. Maybe have a google for it?

I'd just raise the E a little bit on the saddle, measurements are all well and good but feel, sound and playability are more important. Fwiw I clank on all five strings on mine, lol. The EQ can boost the issue too, how have you got the bass /treble set? It might also need a tiny bit more relief in the truss rod but it's hard to say without it in my hands.

Jot down what you've got, speakers, mixer, power amps, monitors etc and post them in here and we can argue I mean discuss the possible outcome.

I use a Genz Benz 1x12 as my monitor on most gigs now, I'll even put out at head height sometimes if there's a suitable spot for it.

There's often a reason why things are rare.

I love the look of it, classical meets industrial.

He's in a mariachi band!

So what we've learnt is that a speaker designed to relay an entire live band at volumes higher than the band itself can easily cope with just dealing with a single bass guitar, who'da thunkit?

I'm the same, I'd be much better if used the headroom of the amp but I'm a ham fisted thumper now after that introduction to jamming.

An xlr lead from the Di on the back of the amp (strangely labelled line out on there) into your pa mixer will have that sorted so it's just a matter of hearing yourself, the obvious options are; 1-Bass cabinet under that head as normal. 2-Put your bass through the monitors on stage that face back at you if they are decent. 3-Get some in ear monitors that are fed from the pa mixer. It mostly depends what PA you have?

You've killed rock and roll, you bastard!

I had a D string break where it goes over the bridge saddle years ago, I found a meccano nut and let out enough to tie it on and tune it up, it stayed on the bass for about 6 years like that no problem!

Which string is which?

I'd certainly try a 5 string version too, I'm a bit fond of active basses though I think.

There must be a whole raft of instruments aimed at those who are less financially buoyant, maybe try and hook something on line or the net?

I've got spare double bass strings in my bag, I've never tried changing one myself so it would probably be more entertaining that my playing watching me try on stage!

There is a flip side from a listeners point of view, whenever I've seen RHCP Flea uses some crazy sounds and I'm sure it sounds ace in his in ears or fake GK bass cabs on stage, lol, but more often than not the heavily fx laden sounds don't cut through, at Knebworth I'd rather someone had given him a humbucker equipped bass and just mixed a good core tone audible around the whole park and left it at that! He's now gone back to basses with MM pickups full time, the jazzes have gone and the new ones have musicman pickups in the musicman position, other than that he still uses the Modulus basses.

Certainly, as long as the crowd are happy it's job done

Yeah that would work but I don't think they're losing many sales from it, Fender ones don't line up, my USA Jazz 5 certainly can't because the string spacing is adjustable!