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Panicked at Rebellion when setting up, no volume from the bass at all, due to start in less than a minute. Hadn’t pushed the jack plug from my lead fully into the tuner.

Same here, on my Ashdown RM500. More than once! And more than twice!! I`ve now typed up an instruction on that Dymo ticker-tape stuff and stuck it on the front panel saying to check the mute button if no sound.

Jazz Basses - I`ve learned to love them, but it took me a while (and a good few) Stingray Basses - The third member of the holy trinity, I love how they play, love how they sound when others play them, just not when I play them Flatwound strings - I love the playability, but can`t get on with the sound, though have heard plenty of other people sound great with them Compressors - no matter how they`re set, either by me or by someone who actually knows how to set them, to my ear they never sound as good as the bass without them

Well since the above I’ve decided to leave both gigging bands, leaving me in just one band (classic rock covers, no singer) which doesn’t gig and had no intention of. Still playing and having a laugh, none of the stuff I no longer like.

Difficult but I’ll go 2 for Flea

Scumbags

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.