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Caught the tail end of something called Wolf Alice earlier on. No idea what the music was like but they were giving it some stick and having a ball, so might have to YouTube them. Also caught Baaba Maal follows by some kick ass Afrobeat stuff, but again didn't catch who they were. Sorry I'm not much help am I?

Thanks for all these responses - sorry i'd forgotten i'd posted this question! In terms of the current set up, its just not as clear or distinct sounding as my Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates-equipped strat. The BM's neck pickup I do like a lot, but back to back with my SD-equipped HSS strat, the bridge pickup is just a bit generic. Not by a huge margin in fairness, so it could be opening a whole Pandora's Box searching for some elusive tone in my head, when there's a very useable one right there. Hmm.

Hello, I'm mulling over swapping out the bridge pickup on my PRS Bernie Marsden, but not sure what might suit it - i see all sorts of pickups being described as 'working well with maple necks', or 'longer scale / seven-string guitars etc' I guess the BM is much like a Les Paul in construction, but with a slightly shorter 24.5" scale. I've got a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in my strat, but that's deliberately chosen to be bright, hot vintage sounding in that guitar. Any experience of swapping out pickups in a PRS SE, and what did you find worked really well? I saw Whole Lotta Humbuckers mentioned once before, but haven't heard them first hand. Or I could just leave things as they are and enjoy playing!

Just bought a comfort strap from Daveybass. Fast delivery, no fuss, item exactly as described. Good man.

was there a 'before' picture to compare?

It's a good tune. I do it with my band but it's a sod to sing in the original key while playing bass! We're still at the stage of rehearsing it, so I reckon once we've gigged it and let it settle in it'll be great.

It'll come back round to something to suit you, but as the other guys have said, take a break and let things take their course for a bit. At least then when something good comes along you'll have time to spend on it. I took a break of about two years out of playing about 2002-2004 after a messy band breakup - same thing of half the band wanting something different from the other half, and as soon as a pressurised situation came along Boom! It all fell apart quite acrimoniously. So yeah, enjoy the break, get back into your music for its own sake, not cos you're having to learn pub rock songs, and see how it pans out. Good luck with it fella!

I had a SGC Nanyo that i used for either rough and ready gigs, or when i was knackered and fancied a lightweight bass. Cheap ish (£200 IIRC) and very very cheerful!

I have got away with using all sorts of (often less than perfect) stuff at gigs where there's back line provided, and that's fine from time to time due to the convenience etc. But that's different from actually going out of my way to buy any of that stuff. My Schroeder sounds immense, and isn't much bigger/heavier than most 1x12s anyway, so i'll keep on using that i think.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1464945020' post='3063934'] So you're too loud, then? [/quote] Ha ha it depends who you ask! I don't often get asked to turn myself up, put it that way... Nah i'm pretty sensible, but as I play most often with just one guitarist in a trio, the bass and drums in my band have to cover a lot of ground... I love fat low end and i don't think many single 1x12s in my price range would give me enough headroom and 'girth' (is that the same as 'heft?')

Having tried out a Markbass 1x12 combo yesterday I've realised that 1x12 isn't quite enough for me. I'm quite heavy-handed baboon, and my bass playing is quite prominent in the bands i play with, so i think my Schroeder 1210 is about as compact as i can get away with for now.

Come to think of it i used a Mesa Boogie 1x12 combo onstage a while back and i struggled with it a bit - i found it only just loud enough, which was surprising.

Cool, some good views here. I ended up using some battered old Warwick 150w 1x15 combo which was already onstage at a gig the other day, and it was loud enough, which surprised me, and made me think i could get away with using less than my current cab (a Schroeder 1210). But given the choice between lugging the Schroeder round, or getting a poor sound from straining a 1x12, i'd probably stick with the Schroeder. would be nice if a 1x12 was enough tho.

As it says - does anyone gig with just a 1x12? I'm looking to get a really seriously small light 1x12 to use for the support slot gigs/multi-band gigs in small music pubs etc where lugging my bigger gear is a pain. But how small is too small? We're an electric trio, but mix quiet atmospheric soundtrackish music with some full on flailing and singing. I've seen things like the Eden E series 1x12 (Bergs etc are out of my price range on this one i'm afraid...) which look decent. I've gigged many times with a 1x15, so surely a 1x12 should be ok, yeah? any thoughts?

Played at The Gladstone Arms in South London last night - a bit of a trek from my adopted hometown of Leicester, but what a great night out. It's an excellent, tiny pub, which puts on live music a few nights a week, serves delicious pies with mash and mushy peas, and serves really nice real ale. I was playing with my original band, and it went down brilliantly - always encouraging to see the audience actually watching and listening, rather than just drunk people chattering among themselves. It's small enough to be intimate and engaging too. Shifted a good few CDs too, which helped finance the whole trip. Didn't get home till 2am so enjoying my bonus bank holiday Monday off work...

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1464460493' post='3059656'] Some of the most enjoyable times I spend with my bass are doing just this - starting off with the bare bones of the tune that the band's working on and trying to come up with just the right part for it. [/quote] That's exactly it - I'm just finding it a really creative, fulfilling thing to do.

Hobbayne - same here actually I forgot that bit! People singing along set the bloody thing off too! We're not talking rowdy drunks either - probably 50 well-behaved wedding guests. Needless to say we steered clear of AC/DC, Jet, or indeed anything requiring balls, volume or backing vocals!

GAS is a part of life, especially if you're a basschat member.... But I figure I'm 42 now so sometime in the next 10-15 years I might get tired of gigging and travelling. So might as well enjoy it all fully now!

GAS is a part of life, especially if you're a basschat member....