stewblack

OK. Have to report the through the belt option is not, after all, a good one. Not for me. You may love it. After doing an entire gig with an extremely light but ill balanced little bass my bad shoulder flared up mightily. The problem is the hack doesn't really cure the neck dive it tricks the bass into thinking it's cured by anchoring it and preventing it diving. So as I discovered this means the bass continues to try to dive throughout the night. Even a little weight continually dragging at one spot can mess up my delicate old bod. The advantage of my counterweight idea is that although it adds weight it achieves a balance and so the pressure is better distributed and comes down at a better angle. We live and learn.

Dammit, I would have had a great seat.

Pete and Bruce Thomas of Attractions fame. Not easy to drum with such a restless, melodic bass player and still stand out as a great drummer. In their heyday they made a wonderful team.

I have an awkward load in, no on street parking nor carpark nearby and very cramped playing area tonight. Cracking venue though. And they love the band. I shall therefore be using a rig I can carry through the city so the Veyron will be flying without a safety net tonight! One lightweight cab, travel bass! And just enough cables. I'll be thrown out of the bassist Union at this rate.

THIS☝️ This is the winner. All my other Heath Robinson stuff is out the window. Simple and so effective. Thank you @goingdownslow what an elegant, simple, effective solution. You are at the top of my list.

Fancy!

HB? Excellent but heavy. Bass centre? Just excellent.

They do look great don't they? The EEB in particular

Mine works with 8ohm and 4ohm cabs, no problem at all. Limiter, gain at all manner of levels, in fact many differing settings all round and no problems like those described. Sorry, but sounds like you have a faulty unit.

Indeed. Good job I didn't say I was upset!

I don't have a dog in this particular fight so it's been fun reading all the different views. As is often the case one thing I have noticed is that the only people getting upset about the issue seem to be those posting how they "don't understand why people get so upset about the issue". Which has a pleasant irony to it.

Damn you're good at this. First you have me on tenterhooks then you start reeling me in

Don't keep us on tenterhooks ...

I love this too! I have a semi acoustic bass which hangs all over the place and this might just be the answer.

That's flipping genius.

Some videos are very good as learning aids, others are just folk enjoying playing the bass. I don't laugh at someone who is clearly inexperienced and just having fun, plenty out there who could laugh at me if they wanted to. I prefer love and support to criticism and sarcasm - but then I'm a bit soft. Learning someone's interpretation can be a great starting point, assuming the ultimate goal is to improve one's ability to 'hear' a bassline and produce our own interpretation. If the cover deviates from the original that should be the first thing to stand out to us. We can then find where it should go and thus our skills improve. So any video ultimately can be a learning tool. Even one we might deem as 'wrong', assuming that term can actually be applied to music.

Now stop talking about it - my sellers remorse is building!! Might have to buy something just to make myself feel better.

Aw, but I want one

Ah OK. Put it to standby first, let the tube warm up, once light comes on you're good to go

Have you tried it at home at least?

Indeed it isn't elegant to look at but bear in mind I'm cycling to rehearsal and therefore minimising weight. The bottle can be carried empty or I can drink from it en route.