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I think you just need to be in the ballpark of your main sound with the backup. If you're in a funk band and slapping da Stingray then a Hofner Violin bass isn't really going to get you out of trouble. Especially if your main bass needs some work and you're without it for a few weeks. Might be best to stick to some sort of modern sounding active bass

Get a screen and stick the 2 guitarists in there together maybe?

We're thinking of getting it tinted so you can't see him 🙂 But yes, it's a loud kit with a couple of bonkers cymbals. It really helps control the levels in smaller venues and we've got used to using it all the time now.

Caution - picture heavy post here. Not quite the Maldives but a nice little pub in Sunningdale. I thought it would be good to get some pictures of the setup progress.......

I'm in.....odds on to make it to the finish line this time around!

My Cort A4 Plus has the model stamped on the back of the neck. Can't you just ask for more details?

Gigging together almost every weekend means we don't feel the need to mingle further. We've been trying to arrange a band Xmas curry for the last 6 or 7 years and finally managed to get everyone together last year for one - then 2 of them caught C19 that night and we missed the NYE gig as a result 🤣

I had a Mesa D800 for about 6 weeks - couldn't get on with it and shifted it on. I found it too flubby and dark for my taste and it ran out of steam pretty easily. Gigged it about 4/5 times. A Genzler Magellan 800 replaced it for a while and I found that more to my liking as the EQ was much more effective and the twin channels were useful although I just generally don't like Class D amps (apart from my Quilter Bass Block which has survived every 'too many amps' cull, doesn't behave like a class D amp and lives in my gig bag as the backup amp of choice) If you're off to Bass Direct and are open to non class D stuff I would be looking at the GK Fusion 550 and the EBS TD650 they allegedly have in stock. Just for reference I play in a noisy rock covers band and use a Mesa Big Block 750 (it doesn't sound anything like the D800). I had a TD650 and it's one of the few amps that I've moved on and would happily have back. And there's a Mesa MPulse 600 on eBay at the moment which would be another great option if you don't mind an old fashioned power amp - I've used one for a while and they're great if you want the Mesa brand.

No EQ problems for me either. Doesn't sound particularly bass heavy on Spotify or You Tube at all. I spent 10 minutes switching all the presets over to bass ones so it's ready to go straight away without the app.

Well, that's this thread owned then.....

The whole advert looks a bit fishy to me.....username, feedback, poor description, pretty much the same picture used throughout etc... Something looks odd

A Nux Mighty Plug. Apparently I can now practice in the garden or upstairs .....

We’re at the Broomhall Hutt in Sunningdale. Decent sized pub with a ticket only bash limited to the regulars. Probably just around 100 people coming for some decent food and a bit of a jump around. Should be a coked up chav free zone hopefully 🙂 I’m looking forward to it

Do you have any YouTube links to the sort of sound you're looking for?

I was looking at that too - it popped up on Farsebook Marketplace. How you come to the conclusion that butchering a nice bass adds a chunk to the value is beyond me. Still, GLWTS if you're on here....

Medium sized music pub in Essex last night for us. It used to be a bit hit or miss there - we've built up a following now so it's been a better turn out in recent years but we weren't sure how the weather would affect it last night. It's still about minus 5 here and plenty of icy roads. Our guitarist was away, our regular dep decided to go to Vietnam on a break at fairly short notice and we ended up with one of our other dep pool guys on guitar. He's awesome and I always enjoy it when he's onboard - a total pro and it showed on the night. We had sent him some video of a recent gig and he nailed all the links and little personal bits we do in the set. You could see he had been woodshedding for us and he's a really lovely humble guy with a great presence on stage too. Here's a link to his page if anyone wanted to throw some work his way https://simonjpinto.com/ Anyway, how did the gig go? Looked worryingly quiet at about 9pm, filled up a bit by 9.30, we started at 9.45 and it was absolutely rammed by 10pm. Everyone was up for it and dancing from the start but you know when you get a feeling that it could get a bit lairy? There were a bunch of young lads showing off for the girls in the crowd with all the spider dancing and drink spilling shenanigans in the second set and we had to stop mid song about 20 mins from the end of the set to ask them to calm it down a bit as we could see it was intimidating the rest of the crowd (They have security at the venue and always used to put someone inside near the band on busier nights but for some reason it didn't happen last night) Anyway, we restarted and the youngsters had been respectful and slowed up a bit. All good. Then one song later something kicked off in the middle of the crowd further back - I could see people getting shoved around and called a halt to it all again hoping security would hear us stop and come in for a look. They did but by the time they had sourced, calmed and ejected the culprits 10 minutes later we had decided to call it a day. The way our set is structured means it really picks up momentum and we needed to bring everyone down a bit rather than build them up (Drunk chavs showing off and Killing in the Name of/Enter Sandman was going to cause more problems). We only missed the last couple of songs anyway and thought it was safer for everyone - the floor was a sea of beer and someone was going to get hurt. Having said all that we totally enjoyed the gig, played really well, sound was great allegedly, dep worked out really well, the crowd really enjoyed it (and stayed safe) and I was home by about 1.30. A good night.....

I didn't buy mine to emulate anything else (I would have just bought what it emulated otherwise) I picked it up hoping It had the flexibility to get close to some sounds in my head that I could use in a few different songs within the band. I particularly wanted a synthy fuzz with a large clean derriere for Buck Rogers and a Garbage song we do and also an MXR Di/ sort of sound for Slither and some Timmy C noises for Audioslave stuff. Someone had already had a go at creating those types of in the Neuro App thing so it was an easy place to start from, tweak a bit and save to the 3 toggle switch settings. It also saved me a load of cash buying 3 or 4 other pedals just to use in a couple of songs. Oh and also because it has knobs. I'm liking having knobs after having a few Zoom things that needed menu diving to tweak stuff. Knobs are a good thing 🙂 I love knobs.....

Did it go 'So here it is Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun, Look to the future etc etc....) Cos if it does he's cheating 😂

That's a steal isn't it. Lots of love for those things on here

The very early ones can be identified by having dots in between the SUB on the headstock. Early = S.U.B Later = SUB I think it was just the first year or so of production. Mine was an early series wired one and it sounded better to my ears than any of the subsequent USA 'proper' Stingrays I had afterwards.

Just buy it, they're awesome bits of kit. You can make it as complicated or not as you see fit. All the benefits of sub menus, apps and digital editing but with knobs that you can adjust on the fly. In fact, I'm thinking about getting a SA Atlas to go with mine

Me too - Windows 11, Chrome on a laptop

Lurking in the background....the monster