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Good point. I'll change my way of thinking on this to I *hope* it's a great amp that sounds like a good old fashioned TE. And I really do.

If Peavey released a premium Trace rig that really sounded like a Trace but had modern features such as lightweight, a 2x12 cab because nobody wants 1x15s anymore (wtf is all that about?!) they'd be up there competing with the best. Maybe it's our little BC echo chamber though... Maybe no other bassists actually care about TE like we do? Or they see it as something that's been and gone?

Spare a thought for me, a Yorkshireman, having to play Parklife. In Essex.

No thanks! 😂

I respectfully disagree. I am at this point with my current band. The set list is falling to the lowest common denominator of all the shittiest songs every other shitty pub band does: sex on fire, dakota... We do some real shite, Parklife, Shotgun (George Ezra... I only agreed because it has fretless bass on it but I can't be bothered bringing it most the time)... Then "recent" songs from the top 10. Well, if by recent you mean 2008... Its just all a bit sad and middle aged try-hard, instead of having fun playing music that needs more than just an auto-response from the audience. By that I mean doing a great version of a song people love but might not be expecting to hear, or putting a new spin on an old favourite. That's what I enjoy. I could be a lot busier for gigs, covid permitting, if I learned more of the pub band classics repertoire but I don't want to do that to myself. It's not my living, it's a paid hobby, and I want to enjoy it.

Exactly! Proper amps!! When I started out seeing Peavey across a speaker, whether bass amp or PA, meant sturdy, quality, and loud as f@%*!

Hang on there... A Seat is a VW chassis and engine assembled in a lower cost country and sold for a lower price under a different brand which is targeted at a different group of people. I could understand where bass amp companies are bought if they did a "premium" brand and a budget or lower cost brand... Say Trace Elliot is Peavey's top range amp and their own brand stuff was "pile high sell cheap" effective for beginners and weekend warriors like myself... But I'm just confused by the whole arrangement. Peavey made fantastic bass amps for a long while, why did they need Trace if they're not going to make it sound like a Trace any more, and Peavey are still making their own bass amps.... Makes no sense to me.

I like that a LOT!

Gorgeous looking bass. Some sizes look a bit cartoonish in their proportions but that just looks perfect. It is a Spector though, they all seem to look perfect!

Keen prices!

Never seen or heard of those before. Love the body on it.

Or brought a chord sheet....?

Whether it's the cable type or the switch I'll need the trs cable anyway for a replacement switch... If that makes sense. Hang on... Get the cable everything works, hurrah. Get the cable still doesn't work, get new switch and already have the correct cable type, hurrah.

Edited an earlier post to include the cable type just as you were typing this. I'd have assumed that patch cables were stereo but not so certain now! I tried another patch cable type and even the jack lead for my bass. No difference. The pedal that works is sticky though.

Good question.... I'm using a flat patch cable. I'll try some others... This is the main cable type. No idea if it's stereo or not, would assume it is https://m.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_fpc18_flat_patch_cable.htm

Hmmm am sure I've done a few.... Went in to one of the Denmark Street bass shops and half glanced at something and said "is that a Westone Thunder?" it was a Wal.

Tearing my hair out here... Bought a Mosky two Button external footswitch for my Stomp. It was 2 weeks late arriving. Now its here and... Only one button works! I've followed a YouTube instructional video on setting this up so I can use this to change presets up and down. I've gone through global settings, ensured it's set to switch and not expression, whatever I assign to the right side button works but the left side button does nothing. Unbelievably frustrating after waiting over three weeks for this. This is the video I watched. I think firmware may have progressed since that one but the gist is sound... Anyone think I've missed anything?

But in a small pub you are going to take two bass amps and have a PA running subs? Seems a lot of gear for a pub, most I play in don't even have enough mains sockets for the bare minimum of kit in a 4 piece band, nevermind space for spare guitars and additional amps. Also, assuming all kit has reasonably equal power you're only sending your effects to 1 third of the output gear, and not the third that's up front and centre sending sound to the audience. I can understand bi-amping etc but I just think you'll lose the effects in this set up, making having them at all almost pointless. Surely better off finding a way to mix the sound on your effects board?

Yeah... Except over a year of practice for just a handful of poorly attended gigs. But still, never met a drummer that came close to the quality of this guy.

Used to love covering Hendrix in my first ever band. The guitarist was phenomenal, that's a given, you can't do Hendrix unless you can do it well, but the songs just allow the bassist and drummer to jam together. I learned so much from playing with this unbelievable drummer, we got so tight we'd drop out and come back together, coordinate our fills... None of which was ever discussed it just came from practice practice practice. Audience reaction was always good too. Shame the guitarist was such a poor singer!

Why aren't you sending an effects signal in to the PA?

Practice rig.... Well, it's my only rig! The Helix Stomp is the main thing, that has an outboard tuner for muting and freeing up a footswitch on the Helix and an AMT bass wah. This runs in to an Ashdown RM500 at incredobly low volume which is usually only coupled up to one of the RM 2X10 or RM 1X15 because driving both for practice is a bit too much. If I don't want to use the amp I have a pair of Ashdown Meters cans with a superlong cable knocking about. The amp is my gigging rig and it manages just fine for lowish volume practice at home. I have had small bass amps too but don't want to go too small to lose all the depth of sound, then dont want too much stuff cluttering my office.

Have watched a few reviews but even through good headphones and speakers I think I'm missing some naunace. I'm thinking about upgrading my RM500 to a really flexible amp that can give me a good warm P bass type sound and a powerful, modern, clean sound for my Stingray and Headless. I've looked with interest at some of the hybrid valve amps but to be honest a valve is just another thing to go wrong. I don't need my amp to distort or drive because I have pedals for that. I don't think a pedal can give me the full clarity, punch and sparkle I'd want for my clean sounds. I'm not a slap player though I play some stuff with slap phrases in, I just like that kind of tone for its clarity. The old school function to me sounded like rolling the tone knob on a P bass but I couldn't pick up any added warmth from it. The Millerizer also, I guess that provides scoop, poke and high end but probably due to how I was listening to it I wasn't wowed by it.

Anybody here using the MB Marcus Miller heads? They seem quite a reasonable price and I'm wondering how the Old School and Millerizer effects work for us mortals who are not MM himself.