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    One of them does, I think it’s the pm55se version. Mine doesn’t, but it’s not been an issue yet.
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    This is precisely how I do it, in fact, I have one of each - a designacable and the Ernie Ball one, it connects to my Rolls headphone amp on my board where I can mix my bass signal with the band. Its a nice, elegant and simple solution that works for me as I don't need to stray too far or leap about anymore.
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    Odd one for me last night, private do in a local pub, so nice and close, but our engineer was unavailable and it’s never quite the same with the stand in guy, good as he is. I couldn’t seem to get my IEM levels quite right, it was all a bit odd. Crowd were into it, but in a subdued way, plenty of dancing, but otherwise no other interaction at all. Strange night, but we were liked and handed out cards and got paid and fed, so fine.
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    Thought I’d chip in that I’ve just upgraded my kz10s to the pro x version and they’re way better! Less harsh sounding, more ‘thump’ and generally smoother and nicer. Plus they’re smaller and lighter too.
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    Pedaltrain novo 32, board only, no case. Good condition, sadly collection only from Cheltenham, I’ve no packaging or time! £50
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    Local massive warehouse gig last night, like playing in a giant loo. Crowd were a bit too lively after the rugby so we knocked off a little earlier before something expensive happened.
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    Wow, I’ve not seen one of those necks in a while! I custom ordered a signature bass from the infamous eBay seller back in the day, but it didn’t stay. Love the way your bass has turned out, very cool.
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    I’ve had a change around! Super flexible set up with four possible DI out locations, options for running out to my frfr cabs in mono or stereo, or to an amp, or as I use it, to my IEMs through a separate route to my FOH signal. All mounted on a Pedaltrain novo 32 with a choice of soft or hard cases.
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    I can relate! The tangling drove me nuts, so I upgraded and I'm SO glad I did!
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    I get a bit of screen time in this live clip from the jubilee, sound is oddly muffled though.
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    Couple more pics.
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    Thanks, I thought about that, but my skills are super limited and I could cut this with a craft knife 😂😂 (as you can tell!) If I tried using anything more I’d slice off a limb and burn the house down 🤣
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    It’s not quite a perfect match 🤪But I finally got something sorted that’s more substantial than the cut out ice cream tub lid. I consider it a mk2 variant, I may make another and work on improving the fit and maybe spray it black as the stain doesn’t take the same way as the body. Just need some flat head screws next to stop my clothes getting snagged.
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    Same here, I used to lug a mahoosive trace stack around, sometimes two of them!…and a 2x10 combo as a bass monitor!! (Such a fool!) At least they were taken in a truck and handled entirely by roadies on some tours, which helped. Then I went through a pile of class d lightweight rigs, markbass, genz, bergantino etc, before switching to a pair of headrush frfr 112s when the gigs started to get a lot more frequent and I got older!! That quickly switched to one 112, and now my rig has vanished and my pedalboard has shrunk and I’m on IEMs, which is amazing!.. Same sound every gig, at whatever volume I choose, load in is quick and easy, as is a quick line check, and packing up is just putting my bass in it’s bag and zipping up my pedalboard. it’s ace. I don’t miss an amp other than for looks factor. I truly regret not doing it years earlier.
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    It now has a bartolini preamp and sounds fantastic debating some nordstrands and improved tuners next.
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    Can’t wait to see it.
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    Many times in the mid 00s when I was having a lucky spell with a band I was in. We got to do the whole all standing behind the merch stand at some big venues with a long queue of folks each wanting to say hello and to get each of us to sign their albums. It was all very surreal. Some would still be waiting around the loading bay gates when it was time to leave, or would follow us from gig to gig in their T-shirts. I was stopped in public a few times too. Cool, and a life experience that I’m grateful for. But still, very surreal.
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    Everyone else’s bass I’ve ever played ever, I swear! I just don’t get it. Everyone else’s action feels terrible to me!
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    My set up has a few routing options depending on whether I’m DIing from the zoom or the boom avenue, or running out to a pair of headrush 112s from the sonicake switcher. Mostly it’s run using a (bloomin expensive!) custom made multicore signal/headphone cable so the signal goes into the Sparrow DI (only switched on if I’m running a passive bass) and the out to the zoom for all the signal processing. From there it’s on to the horse EQ (again only used to subtract v low and hi frequencies if running to the 112s, otherwise it’s also off.) Then to the boom avenue preamp for punch, and DI out to the desk. But the signal splits at this point from the boom ave’s 1/4” out to the caline EQ which is for keeping my IEM signal as close to foh as possible so I don’t don’t make per song eq changes on the bass that might sound strange out front, here I can tweak what I’m hearing without affecting the FOH. From there the signal goes into the Rolls PM50 where I receive my monitor feed. The headphone section of my multicore cable goes in there and allows me to mix my own level against the rest of the band as I wish. I can also use a wireless and single headphone cable if I prefer, or Di straight from the zoom and use the boom ave and EQs for iems. Or should I wish, I can stereo out the zoom into the 2xfrfr speakers and run stereo, or take a mono out and use the other monitor for fold back, or a single speaker using both channels, one for bass, one for fold back. But mostly It’s run ampless as seen. It’s a very flexible, yet simple set up. At present, the board is all housed on a squashed up Harley Benton spaceship 60xl for portability. When festival season comes around and it’s all getting chucked in a van day in, day out, for protection, I move the whole lot over onto a much larger Pedaltrain in a flight case. I forget which model, but it’s big!
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    We do it pretty straight with a nice big synth bass sound. It’s fun IMG_0584.MOV
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    Someone had previously screwed a ramp into this bass and then seemingly cut/snapped the screws off and filed them flat to the body. It actually looks pretty good with the whole ‘rustic’ vibe, but I added this felt malarkey as an experiment to cover them, and actually really like it. Easily removed too should I prefer the look without.
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    Had a random gig between Christmas and new year that was packed and would’ve been fun had I not been so rotten ill, I even sat down for a few songs. This Saturday I was feeling much better and was back to business as usual. Standard pub rock covers, great fun was had, great crowd up dancing from song one, the sound in my IEMs was fab. All good as far as I’m concerned IMG_0635.MOV
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    Due to (very!) long covid/PGCE, I’ve decided to knock off acoustic gigs for a bit. Which is galling because I’ve just bought the greatest acoustic guitarist accessory EVER!!!! Behold…The laser stomp. Sounds ace, doesn’t require a sub for big bass as the sounds are samples, requires no effort to play (so much less painful than a regular one!) and won’t slip around the stage!! It was expensive, but worth every single penny! Utterly brilliant and works off a standard pedalboard 9v too. (No power included) Beautifully built too, very gig ready. Surprisingly so given it doesn’t even get trodden on, you simply break the beam. It’s so cool! £150 plus a fiver towards postage.
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    Not had this long, and it’s amazing, but it’s not getting any use as I always gig my tatty old SR500 and SR1200. It’s too good to languish in a rack. I’ve owned a few SR300s, but this one sounds different somehow. It’s ‘beefier’ sounding, quite stingray ish - no idea why!! It’s dead stock. The stunning colour is hard to capture in a pic, it’s so pearly/metallic and shifts in the light. It’s amazing and the main (only!) reason I bought it!! No shipping I’m afraid, strictly collection only from Cheltenham. The only trade I might be at all interested in is a Hohner Jack with a bit of £ from me. One small mark by the jack and the usual (very!) faint swirls etc on the back, it’s a collectible stunner.
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    My most recent set recently gave up the ghost after about ten years, they were on my blue jazz and used as the backdrop for one of the fretfx website pages. I’ve used them since they first appeared, but don’t have any at present. They’re cool though.
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