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Behringer did or still do one that fits the bill. We had it in the band to save floor and car space from big monitors and it helped get vocals in tune. I wouldn't pump bass through it though. Anyway, fifteens... I hear all the arguments on speaker size but to me something just sounds deeper and more rich in my fifteens than it does with smaller speakers. It's rare for me to play without PA support so I want the sound I like from my kit. Lightweight and compact cabs mean it's not as impractical as it used to be.

We do option 2, but we do it by playing a song that's not on the set list for the night. Me and the two guitars are wireless so we will wonder about to get a feeling for the sound. The singer tells everyone it's a soundcheck so if we stop abruptly to adjust something or start over again it's generally accepted.

I use 2x Ashdown Pro Neo 15s with an ABM 600 head. Sometimes I only take a single cab. I used to use the Ashdown Rootmaster lightweight cabs too, both the fifteen and 2x10 versions, they're also good and very cheap second hand.

Our drummer has an LCD monitor in his kick drum. It can play a series of different still images and video clips that are stored on USB drives. It doesn't sync with the music. It gets lots of comments. I was looking for a photo of it but that kind of defeats the point to demonstrate it's a video screen!

I don't think anyone is getting ripped off here. Unless there's a BC kids TV show starting featuring all of these puppets...

And here it is... Original and Not-a-Muppet-but-something-similar Interesting how it's changed my jazz to a precision. It's repaired my jeans, and made my stubbly facial hair almost beard into the lush kind of beard I can only wish for.

The band I am in is called the Desert Penguins. So here's one I prepared earlier while I wait for Chat GPT to recreate me as a puppet "inspired by the Muppets"

Agree with Beedster. The thing is if he wants to do a huge guitar w@nkathon he can do it at home and stick it on YouTube. That is not what you are paid to be performing at Weddings and the like for. We all have to compromise on our ideal to get paying gigs, so the sound should be balanced and clean so that it's enjoyable for the audience who have booked and paid for a function band. As others have said, I have no idea why a lot of bands can't have this grown up conversation.

I have a positive grid spark also. Its really good for my incredibly limited guitar ability, not so good for bass. I also have a Fender bassman TV 12 reissue which is very good for guitar (in my opinion, I'm no guitarist) as well as bass. There's the Peavey Vypyr modelling amp that claims to cover both guitar and bass, I have no experience of it though.

Scent and flavour are not the same thing when it comes to bleach

Thousands of years ago the rock for Stonehenge was moved from Wales to Salisbury by a system of rolling it along felled trees. If you buy a few mates a drink maybe they will help?

A new and improved Fender P bass... In a different colour!

There can never be enough Dread Zep in the world.

Oi! That was one of my short-lived bands in the 00's. I used to play in a covers band and book bands at the pub I worked in, but the best local live music venue would only really do Tribute acts on Fridays and Saturdays. We thought, at the time, it was a clever send up of all the lazy tribute band names we saw advertised which may as well have just been "Not U2" , "Not...(Insert whatever band name)". What made it really subversive was that we would never play any Mott the Hoople...

There's a very distinctive guitar sound across most of these groups. I'm liking it, but would like to hear something different from time to time... I like the basslines and bass tones, a lot more variety.

Quite a while ago a friend who I share music back and forth with sent me a playlist with Thievery Corporation and Arc Du Soleil on. It's blown me away. Really good music, mostly instrumental. My questions are... Anyone else into this? What is the genre? How do I find a band/ group who wants to play this kind of thing?

I would love a fretless Stingray!! Lovely sound on those recordings, and in general, really decent tracks! Will listen some more tomorrow!

Damn. I know some people have had issues with them but I never did, sad times. Even online retailers dying out now, soon there will be only Amazon left.

Never heard of them.... Will be researching, thank you!

I don't know how they fell off a cliff in terms of never seeing their stuff around. When I were a lad in the late 90's every PA, bass amp, guitar practice amp, speaker was all Peavey as far as the eye could see. In those days GAS was contained by what was in the only music store in town and what you saw your mates or other bands using. I have a soft spot for Peavey bass amps from the 80s and 90s and I used one of the later TNT models a few years back and was quite impressed with it. My first "proper" gigging amp was a 150watt old Peavey of some sort with weird controls like "pyramid". I always admired the Peavey Grind basses, they seemed to be very much of their time with the Nu Metal stuff coming in with loads of five strings and wooden finish basses.

That looks special. I admire your patience

Great job @Bloobybobi love how you've arranged them by tuning too. Thank you!!

Every month, hands down. Beautiful collection.

Really? I just clicked the link and it's available for £7,500? Weird.

I own two Fender jazz basses and a Harley Benton jazz..... Nerdy? I don't think so. Also I have a Harley Benton jazzmaster guitar. If someone wants to call me a nerd for playing a jazz bass so be it, but I'll be on the stage playing and they will be paying to watch my band so....