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Difficult but I’ll go 2 for Flea

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A very good point there, in pubs & smaller venues with no FOH it’s only band members (and more often than not the lead gtr) to blame.

That`s the ideal for me for a covers band set-up, the main bit being non-heavy hitting drummer, worth their weight in gold.

That exact thing happened in a band I was in, guitarist put in ear plugs to “save his hearing dudes” then proceeded to turn up 3 times louder than the rest of the band cos he couldn’t hear himself.

Think you made the right choice, if volume is painful whilst wearing ear protection then that’s way too loud.

Yeah I’m hoping at some point they’ll give it another go, firkin love my XR3!

11kg for a 210, amazing, certainly no need for bad backs nowadays

Excellent, glad it went well @Leonard Smalls

Nice looking bass Clarky

Forsooth, I spy The electric lute

Indeed, good call Mick

It was after about 20 or 30 mins - it wasn’t helped by the fact it was snowing outside so the customers were all outside playing snowballs. New guy just wanted to close up as only people left inside was us.

That is one seriously nice rig

When you’ve been bootlegged - at a gig Knock Off were playing someone turned up in a bootleg t-shirt of the band, a knock off of Knock Off if you like.

Hammonds in Watford was a great shop, bought my first decent bass (1987 Yamaha BB1100s) & amp (Laney Linebacker 115 combo) there, on HP.

In an old glam band I was in we played a venue where the managers had changed and the new guy, whilst honouring all existing bookings, didn’t want music so did no promotion. Not only didn’t we get asked back, he asked us if we’d accept £100 to stop playing and go away. Quite proud of that!

The Duff McKagan bass is a good example of this Tim

Yeah I’d give the steel Fat Beams a try, I find nickels on Precisions to both lack the top end I want and to be a bit too warm in the mids so always put steels on them (Elixirs in my case) for a similar bright & clear sound.

Bizarrely I found that the higher the compression was set the more volume I got, with just a smidge it completely ruined my tone and volume.

Painted necks Mismatched amps & cabs - but not if the cab brand don`t make amps Stickers on basses - look great on other peoples basses, but not on mine Amp/cab overhang Blue basses - I don`t support Chelsea Green basses - I`m not Irish Pau Ferro - just looks like an imposter that`s failed to master either maple or rosewood properly All of the above are completely irrational

I`ve found that my US Precisions seem to put the needle into the red on the hardest notes with the Input Gain at 3 o`clock. This with the Shape enabled, and Valve Drive fully on.

Just sold James a bass. Did a meet approx half way for the handover as we`re about 150 miles apart and of course had a good long chat about basses/music/gigs etc. Great transaction all round.

Yep that`s how I ran my ABMs and my current RM500, I find it`s a much better, fuller, more dynamic tone this way.