JapanAxe

I am sure everyone will be pleased to learn that this thread can now be closed, as I have confirmed in live tests that || AMPLIFIER WATTS ARE MEANINGLESS! || On 3 recent gigs I took out a 50W valve head where I normally would have used an 800W Class D head (with the same cab). Both were more than adequately loud, although different, but neither exhibited more heft than the other. OK, please disperse to other threads, nothing to see here 🙄

+1 to both @Dood and Ed Friedland (Bass Whisperer) for excellent and meaningful demos. Actually what I really really like to hear in a demo is some fella slapping the living wossname out of a bass, just like I will be doing on my rock/pop/country/blues gig. Not.

Yes and yes.

I went from using a (non-Super) Compact to a Super Twin on most of my gigs. To me the Super Twin lacks nothing, but there is way more bass available than I generally need!

Good for you @aDx!

Anything played by Bruce Thomas on an Elvis Costello song.

They did a couple of years ago, so I bought one - MIJ FSR model.

Result!

There are established circuits for certain genres e.g. country, rockabilly. Seek out the circuit for the kind of music you want to play, find some bands you like, and make yourself known to them.

Likewise.

In short, yes. The scenario involves a foreign bank and uncleared funds. Your bank shows you receiving the money as cleared funds, but the transaction is cancelled when the foreign source account doesn't have funds to meet it. Or something like that! How sure is the OP that the potential buyer IS in Glasgow, and not, say, the Ukraine or Nigeria?

If it's a scam: Next thing he will be saying he can't make it but will arrange a courier. You will feel obliged because you have taken £20 from him. You receive a bank transfer beforehand, but a week after the bass has gone, it is reversed. Variants exist of course.

Maybe they believe their own hype, but have a read of this.

What is the 16-channel controller immediately on the desk?

70 - far canal!

I frequently report scam posts like these on JMB. However there is one user who persistently posts misleading ads on JMB that are deigned solely to drive traffic to his YouTube posts - he has no intention of recruiting musicians for his band, which is going to be the next Beatles/Nirvana/whatever.

My band auditioned 3 drummers yesterday. One of them was clearly bricking it, but as I said to him, the worst that can happen is that he gets the 'Dear John' phone call the next day. To quote Brian Eno: In music, you can crash and burn and walk away.

I've replaced two of mine so far - Tung Sol 12AX7 into V1 (original tested as 'worn'), bargain eBay 60s Brimar 12AU7 into V3 (original tested as 5hite). I've resisted the temptation to upgrade the power tubes, I'll get my money's worth out of the Ruby Tubes first. If anything dies on a gig I'll whip out my spare amp rather than mess around changing valves! I stopped buying from Watford valves after they sent me a valve in just an envelope. That's right, a valve in its little cardboard box, in an ordinary paper envelope - no bubble wrap, no jiffy bag. Fair enough it survived the journey, no thanks to Watford Valves. Also that Cryogenic treatment is the worst kind of nonsense.

I concur!

I did a lot of googling, believe me! I'm happy enough with High Sierra for now anyway

Twice. Ashdown ABM combo cut out, so I plugged straight into the PA. Sounded awful but got us through. One of the flying leads from the speaker terminals to the voice coil had come loose at the terminal end. Demeter head started cutting out, pilot lights going off, for about 20 seconds. It did this a couple of times, then was ok for the rest of the gig. Turned out the rectifier for the DC heater supply in the preamp was dying. I now generally carry a Markbass Nano 300 in a laptop bag as a spare, but that wouldn't have helped me in scenario 1.

I'm always interested when a delusional tosser band frontman offers to teach me how to play my instrument.

If you look a few posts up the page you'll see I sorted it by restoring to Mavericks. I've then updated to High Sierra and it still works fine. Roland reckons their 10.13 driver works for 10.14 too but it clearly doesn't. There are issues with audio routing within Mojave, but as @BigRedX and my Mac expert friend both pointed out, that is still quite a new OS.

Yes, I have visited that page several times in the last few days!