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Oh yeah. Of course. That too

Friday evening. Only depped for the band once, got asked back! If you do come you'll know which one I am because I'll be desperately trying to A) Stay awake and B) Remember any of the songs

They've told us to plug into their speakers but not if we need powered mixer or if they have powered monitors. They did say we need xlr cables which leads me to assume they must have powered monitors. Thought I'd ask here rather than try to find out from bar staff over the phone!

Anyone played at Whelan's in Uxbridge before? Have a question about the house PA...

Bought a lovely little Trace cab of this most excellent Basschatter. Lovely guy, fair and honest and easy to deal with. Buy and sell with confidence.

I am looking after it very well. Thank you. In fact I'm playing through it right now.

The op could have been me. All my musical life I've felt folk just didn't want to listen to my opinions and ideas. I got lucky recently and found a way to let schit go, not try to change anything unless folk want it changed and just roll with it. What happened? I started playing for the money not as a hobby or release from work. Now I take any gig and realise if I want to improve the band I can only do that through my bass playing. I can't control anyone else. If they ask I tell them otherwise I learn my parts, keep my car running and my gear working. Since I stopped caring about having an opinion life got a whole lot easier.

Derail away I love it. That Elf makes the cab look huge too

Oh God no.

Just assume that I don't, for the benefit of those less well travelled

You were right too. And boy it sounds so good!

This was all a bit of a whirlwind romance. I only found out about her yesterday and here we are happily ensconced in my room already. A Trace Elliot BLX 110 which sits daintily beneath my trusty Series 6 head and makes it sound like a normal bass amp but with honey on. Not light, not by any stretch but the easiest lift of any TE cab I've ever owned. Two of these would make for the most adorable and Tracelicious stack ever seen. I have a 210 coming to sit beneath but honestly I think that will be overkill. I know the trend will be away from back line in favour of the Sony Walkman, or whatever young folk use these days, but luckily I'll be dead and buried long before it catches on. In the meantime I'm going to gaze adoringly at my green and black beauties, and sigh with contentment every time I hear that deep satisfying badouff as I flick the power switch to on.

So, I ended up letting the overpriced 110 go but scored one for a sensible price from a fellow Basschatter instead - result. Not proud of it but I do enjoy a game of Ebay roulette where I bid for things I can't afford/don't need to see how close I can get to the winning price without actually winning. I usually bung in a bid a few days before so I get alerts to remind me as the end game draws near. I had no intention of playing for the Trace Elliot 2X10 so I left my bid untouched knowing that there is always a flurry in the last 30 seconds or so. Imagine my surprise to find I've won that too. Luckily I have a couple of sales going trough so I ought to be able to steady the ship but two gigs cancelled this weekend made this a bit of a dodgy game to play with my finances.

75 is about right.

Too rich for my blood.

I have my fingers firmly crossed for this one.

Yeah I thought 50 and I'm well happy. Especially as I had a gig just round the corner from the seller. Winning both would have given me a TE 3x10 set up which I rather like the sound of!

I'm not bidding against a fellow BCer am I? A 210 TE ending tomorrow and a 110 TE ending today? If so I shall withdraw. No sense in us driving the price up!

Yep, me too.

You are utterly, completely, and unequivocally correct. I withdraw my statement that are no right answers. Now please come to Somerset and tell my colour blind band-mates that my salmon pink bass is not orange.

Yeah this is what springs to my mind too. I suppose it's diverting to chat about if you have tried these two amps (and a host of others for purposes of comparison) over a long period in many different settings. I think the variables are limitless. A recent example: I played through a class d amp at rehearsal on Saturday with a cheap Harley B jazz bass and it sounded utterly sublime, as it has previously with my old Aria. Same evening put my Bruce Thomas Profile through it (a superior instrument to the HB in every aspect I can think of) and struggled all night to pull the same quality of sound from it. Some amps suit some basses better than others. Go figure. Anyway it's all subjective, so just as a bit of fun these conversations are quite harmless. But really you had just as well ask which colour guitar is best. There is no right or wrong answer.