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As a matter of interest, would one of these provide enough juice to power a stomp if you combined the outputs? Or is that going to make 18v / 2A and toast it? https://www.musicstore.de/en_GB/GBP/Rockboard-Power-LT-XL-Mobile-Power-Supply/art-GIT0036988-000?campaign=GShopping/UK&ProgramUUID=HADAqJarPzAAAAFlea9yjI.G&gclid=CjwKCAiAodTfBRBEEiwAa1haumUQC0AfWO5weTlwuXYequfiJ3hMhtRKmxyVA9IYTRE5D7qLC_3aTRoCPfEQAvD_BwE A battery pack would make this a great portable practice rig when there's no mains available.

I ordered mine from Andertons about three weeks ago, they advised they'd have stock on 20th November and kept to their word as it arrived today. Its pretty easy to use compared to most small format multifx (I struggled with my zoom ms60b). I managed to get around it without reading the instructions, not bad given that Im probably the lowest common denominator. The pc app is very good, connects instantly and makes editing a doddle, plus changes are fed to the pedal in near real time as soon as you make them. I can imagine I'd do most of my tweaking on the laptop. Haven't scratched the surface with the fx yet, but the bass amp and cab sims were impressive. For me, the three main cycle/toggle modes (patch / snapshot / stomp) would be enough for my gigging requirements with a bit of pre-planning, so I probably won't need to augment with further midi foot switches etc. Very nice piece of kit and I can see myself gigging it instead of my full pedal board once I've had done time to set it up.

Lovely. And yes, LPB and tort is a killer combination!

Totally agree. I've found that in a live situation, best instant bass sound upgrade is when everyone's levels are spot on, especially the edrums. Having said that, I own four basses and up to recently had four sets of very decent genz/pjb/gk/bf amps and cabs!

Here's a few of my 4HH in different dress to help you in your way!

Four here. A sadowsky metro hpj, a '93 Ray, a 2010 4hh stingray and a bongo 5hh stealth. The sadowsky is my main gigging bass, the others don't get used so much. I can't sell the two rays as one was my childhood bass and the other is my wife's wedding present to me. The bongo is amazing but doesn't look right for the music we play, but if we start playing more songs that need the B, then I think I'll get over that and start gigging the beast. There's room for a five string jazz, then I'm done, with all basses covered!

Great shop and many fond memories like the rest of you. I was just a snotty 17yr old when I first went and too innocent at that age to feel in the slight bit intimidated by all the high end kit and pro players around me. Nick was a star and always happy to talk shop and let me try out gear despite my tender years. I paid back the generosity by purchasing a '93 Stringray 2EQ and a Trace 1215smx combo with the proceeds of my first summer job (doing the night shift packing food in a refrigerated warehouse)! The trace is long gone (sounded ace, but weighed a ton!) but the' Ray is still with me and I'll keep it till I get shipped off to the old folks home.

I was lucky, sort of, that from 21 to 35 I had my wilderness years where I stopped playing and gigging. Probably would have done untold damage to my hearing in that time, judging by my peers. Picked things up again in 2012 and have been gigging regularly with a band with E-drums and a guitarist who goes straight in to the desk. Minimal stage volume and all our rehearsals are similarly painless. I was also in a band who rehearsed in a soundproofed garage where the guitarists had 4x12s and with a big hitting drummer. It was insanely loud and I started using earplugs from the second rehearsal onwards. I've learnt to keep always have a set of earplugs in the back pocket even if I don't think I'll need it. We did a gig last year where we were using the house pa and some kind soul decided to jack up the volume mid set. I was right underneath one of the mains and had ringing for days. Never again!

You have some fine taste in music Bubinga5. Always loved this album, along with D'Angelo Brown Sugar and Tone Toni Tone House of Music. I think those three albums all came out within a year of each other... Happy Times. We bumped in to Maxwell at Fresh and Funky when it was at Hanover Grand, what a dude!

Dude, I took you up to 666 views on yer Aces High cover. Now that's metal.

My Bongo is happy. Another bass to take up the Toilet Seat award.

Protec contego, great gig bag that offers plenty of protection and storage while not being heavy. I've used mine for many gigs and rehearsals and it's been bombproof and still looks new. Mine was secondhand off these forums, but can be had new for about £110.

I'd heartily recommend SweetMidi on the iPad as a practice tool if you are playing covers. There's a vast selection of free midi tracks out there. Load them up in to SweetMidi and you can play along with the bass track muted for an instant backing band. Very nicely designed app that's easy to use and has most of the features that you could want for rehearsing, eg tempo and key change. I switched to android a while back and it took a while to find a good midi app, but midivoyager is on par with SweetMidi.

About 45-60 minutes for us. That's for the PA, monitors, drums, pedalboards and back line. The bass side of things is 10 mins tops and most of that is spent trying to balance my BF midget on a very portable but infuriatingly fiddly stand for personal monitoring. I find setting up a bit like doing an exam. Intense concentration against the clock. I like to have enough time to chill for 20 mins before playing, but that's not always the case and it can take a few songs to shake off the stress of set up and switch in to playing mode. Everyone chips in during the setup, but its usually me and the guitarist doing the teardown while the drummer tends to his kit and the singer chats to the punters. We tolerate this because he's great with the crowd and the chat quite often leads to cards being given out and enquiries for more gigs.

For that money, will Tony Levin be included with the sale?

[quote name='lou24d53' timestamp='1509057747' post='3396423'] What a gig, the live bass solo of Anaesthetia (Pulling Teeth) with the Cliff Burton footage was spectacular...I was loving that...tears in the eye stuff that...!! 😎🍺 [/quote] Funnily enough, I read the papers the next day and at least two of the gig write ups complained about the 'unnecessary bass solo'. Made me laugh as clearly these journos didn't know jack about Metallica or Cliff.

On the subject of headphones, I believe the PJB cans are a rebadged version of the Edifier HD850 headphones, which can be had for much cheaper. I think I paid about £25 for a new pair off ebay.

I sold my 12 band SMX combo a few years back. I bought it in the early 90s with the proceeds of my first summer job. It was fecking heavy and way too loud for home practice. A total waste of its talents as I think I only did a couple of gigs with it due to a 15 year hiatus. Ended up replacing it with a load of Genz Benz gear, shuttle 6.2, streamliner and various cabs. I can't say I miss the TE, the new stuff sounds great and is so much lighter. I prefer the simplicity of a three band eq. I now gig fairly regularly and having lugged my own kit plus the band PA (also lightweight class d type stuff) to numerous venues, I could never go back to that 30kg+ monster. But still, it was a relative lightweight compared to the SWR Red Head ) As for where my old rig ended up, im going to hell when I die as I sold it, plus a matching 2x10 extension cab to my mates dad, who is 70. That's about a kilo for every year of his life, poor fella! Did I mention it was fecking heavy?!?

Find out where he lives and shag his wife

Not strictly a combo, but a BF midget + GK MB200 head will give you something small and light and loud enough to rehearse with drummer. If you go used, it's doable for around £450 for cab and head. Use some power grip tape to fix the head to the cab and it'll have the convenience of a combo but with more flexibility should you need it. I've also got a pjb bass cub, lovely piece of kit, small and light, and dual channels are useful for rehearsing with a guitarist. However it doesn't go anywhere near as loud as the midget and, understandably, the tone sounds a bit boxed in compared to a bigger unit. A 10 inch active PA such as the Yamaha Dbr10 also makes a good lightweight 'combo' but you miss out on tone shaping and headphone socket etc. I've played through a promethean at a jam night and it packed a fair bit of punch for its size.

Good book. Covers all the bases & and presented in a fashion that I found easy to understand.

I'm in a one guitar band and the guitard is one of the rare breed who adjusts his volume to match the rest of the band and music being played. It's great most of the time. Some songs are a challenge to arrange, particularly the ones where there's more than one signature riff/thing going on simultaneously, and the dreaded 'it sounds a bit empty' situation. Most of it can be sorted with a bit of thought. If we were to have a fourth instrument I'd much rather have a one handed keyboard player than another guitarist.

Thanks to everyone who's messaged or put up links so far. I'll forward these on to my friend at the end of the week and he will get in touch if he's interested. Keep em coming!