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^ this I do this with our acoustic Americana’ish trio on double bass. I used to use the TC BG250 208 for ‘personal monitoring’ but now prefer to use in-ears with the bass going into FoH via the Stanley Clarke’s DI.

If I remember correctly, the Shaftsbury’s were bolt on necks?

Just a thought, but before you worry about eq, are you sure you have the gain set right, and that all of your Anagram patches are putting out the same level?

So the LEDJ 211’S arrived this week and I used them last night when I was “Dad’s Disco” at my youngest daughter’s 30th birthday party (wife’s suggestion, an upstairs hump 😤). Unlike my old iColors, the LEDJ’s use five-pin DMX and you need a minimum 6-channel controller so more expense buying a new controller and three five-pin to three-pin adapters. Anyway, I’m very impressed with the lights, they filled the dance floor beautifully and were bright and colourful. Interestingly, they are almost as heavy as the iColor’s they’ve replaced which I was not expecting, but the level of built-in control more than makes up for this.

Might help if you tell us which model of Overwater you have. Also, things that I’ve had rattle in the past include tuner bushing, tuner gear, tuner ‘ear’ (the ones that have a little screw in the top to hold the ear to the shaft), truss rod cover, truss rod when loose, string through body ferrule, neck plate screws/neck plate. I’m sure I’ll probably come across more sources of rattles but that’s the first 47 years worth of bass ownership experience.

I have one of these which used to get lost with the electric band but works great with the acoustic trio

So at our last gig one of my old iColor 3’s took a stage dive and is no longer with us 😪 Having hummed and haa’d about upgrading for some time, I have finally bit the bullet and gone for a pair of LEDJ 211’s. They put out quite a bit less lumens but we never ran the iColor’s at full power anyway so I am hoping these will serve well as stage wash lights. I will report back once I’ve tried them out in anger.

Not a single pair of long trousers between you - people will be getting the impression that we have a summer up here, and before you know it we’ll be overrun with ‘tourists’

There was of course that crazy design with flippable frets that went from fretted to fretless at the flick of a switch from Mickey Guitars of Toronto. There was quite a bit of noise about this system in the early naughties.

I had a similar experience when I went from the KZ’s to the Sennheiser IE100’s. The sound is just ‘better’ all round to my tired old ears, and as they as less bulky they are easier to wear.

Having never really used anything smaller than 12” tops, I’ve always been a bit reluctant to try 10s as FOH but when a pair of mk1 Italian made RCF Art 310A came available locally for a give away price I decided to jump on them. Fast forward to this morning, and we held a ‘technical’ rehearsal for our acoustic Americana three-piece to test these out alongside my recently procured Behringer Flow 8, ahead of a gig next weekend. Firstly, these things are amazingly loud (probably louder than my EV ZLX15P’s), and also much clearer. The line-up is female lead vocal, male BV, two acoustic guitars, and me fumbling away on double bass. The guitars needed no eq whatsoever, and only the lightest of fairy dust on the vox. The 310’s handled the bass admirably, and I was able to get a very natural sound. The Flow 8 (should really be called the Flow 6) continues to amaze me and took no time at all to set up. With five of the six channels in use, plus FOH, and a single monitor feed, this diminutive little mixer coped brilliantly. So I now have a complete setup that will fit in the car without losing the back seats, and will arguably sound better than my ‘big rig’ for the types of gigs we play with the acoustic band 😎

Weakness in the hands suggests it could be carpel tunnel related, but pain around the elbow could also be tennis elbow. I used to suffer from tennis elbow quite a bit, despite not having played tennis for over 40 years. I found that an Epicondylitis clasp like this helped, in fact I still carry one in my gig bag just in case. Like @Burns-bass my elbow (and knee, and back) issues disappeared once I started using the gym regularly with a personal trainer.