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I put my Trace through two 15" Barefaced cabs. I can highly recommend it. As well as sounding incredible they are so light to carry.

Thank you!

Something so sexy in skiffle says I

All Around my Hat - Steeleye Span

Can anyone tell me if the bass on this track (from the Hey Jude album) was played by David Hood, or Jerry Jemmott ?

I flirted with it but the closest I got was rolled by rock and moved by metal, although not for long.

I think preset setters are on a hiding to nothing. There are just too many variables and no two bassists will want identical settings. I have a pedal I'm learning today it has only 3 nobs. I just started working out how many variables just 3 controls give me and stopped when I reached a gajillion. And that's without factoring in which bass, pick ups, amp, cab, playing style. In other words if I got the job of preset setter I wouldn't worry about whether anyone would actually use what I created.

The only way I can think is to connect the USB and record it in real time onto Audacity (or software of your choice). The B3 is its own audio interface so just locate it in the record source and BOOM!

Don't know. £177. Because it is exciting!

Thanks to Rick Beato I find myself listening to "Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". This might not sound particularly momentous to you, but for a man weaned on glam, woken up by punk, shaken by ska and only lately soothed by soul, it is a huge step.

Might be what I need to power my seat speakers.

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I used to alternate between MB NY 15" cabs and BF 15" cabs, back in the land that time forgot when we gigged several times a week. I never felt the difference was quite that marked, although when I needed money and space I kept the BF cabs, so I guess that tells its own story. As @Steve_M suggests certain set ups suit different instruments in different ways. With the Orange Terror and passive P in a soul band the MBs were actually my preference. But the BF cabs I own will be the last I ever sell.

I had recorder in school and piano lessons once a week after school. I ended up playing truant and missing the lessons my parents were paying for. Mum isn't interested in music and dad listened but never played. When (inevitably) they found out what I'd been up to, I knew to fear the wrath of my mother. It was with a certain bewildered relief therefore that the loving, gentle man my father always was, decided to handle the disciplinary hearing. He asked why I bunked off lessons when I clearly loved music. I told him yes but not that music. Two days later he came home with an electric guitar he'd seen advertised on the buy and sell notice board at work. He waited until he saw my bloody tattered finger tips after a few weeks of Bert Weedon or somesuch, and organised lessons with a young guy over the road. Oh and he built me my first amp out of an old radiogram. It wasn't just the single most important event in my teenage years, the start of a life long passion, but it was, and remains, the most wonderful inspiration for how to be a parent I could ever hope to achieve. I miss him so much, and I don't think he had any idea just what he'd done for me.

I can't tell you how much I wish I'd read this before buying my 6 X AA battery holder. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. That being said I am getting a good bit of life out of the 6. But I guess I need all six at their absolute best at the same time and once they begin to fade it'll be Goodnight Vienna.

Especially galling when you see all the tobacco being sold there.

I already love the look of this bass and you have basically sold it to me in one sentence!

The finish on the P is very very nice. If this is as good, I know it's expensive, but even so. My only concern is neck dive. I read the standard version of this suffers. Assuming this is merely a refinish and not a whole new beast then that is a deal breaker for me.

No idea if this will be of interest to any of you but I thought I'd share. Joyo produce a small head called the Zombie. It's referred to as a micro Amp, and uses a 12AX7 Preamp tube. Here's the spec: Clean Channel Distortion Channel FX Loop Bluetooth Headphone Out Built in Cab Speaker Amp Simulation Rated power：20W Speaker impedance：8Ω/16Ω I got to wondering if they had any plans for a bass version. So I asked them. And the rather interesting reply was, no. Not officially. Unofficially ... yes. So whether Joyo or otherwise I'm keen to learn whatever any of you can tell me about the world of micro headery.

Coming soon (about 3 weeks) a kind of upside down neck Thunderbirdish shaped thing. It's the same finish as the utterly stunning p bass I bought from Thomann a while ago...