Weird take.
What are the festival line-ups the past few years?
More bands than solo artists and the soloists nearly all brought a band.
How many bands name themselves after the bandleader? Solo artist in name but factually a steady group.
The perspective is skewed from only looking at "charts". And the charts are a worthless source for information as they are just an advertising platform.
Loxx, best I've tried over the past 30 years.
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Something like those alpines is fine, though custom is better in sound quality, reliability, fit and damping.
Most on here use ACS custom molds, which can be fitted at Booths.
There's a bass chat discount I believe, and a musicians union discount? Others will supply the details shortly I trust.
I have the Harley Benton as backup amp. No experience with the bugera. It's clean, pretty small and light. Class D 800w power section as used in so many others, so no fuss just good. Whatever pre you use wil come out louder and loud enough.
I use a isp decimator 2 to keep unwanted noise under control, especially when using the hot channel on my tube preamp (Verellen meatsmoke).
Works fantastic, always on, run it at about 1 o'clock. Not the cheapest.
For 17-24 year olds that have stayed away from noise, drugs, alcohol and have no history of ear infections etc.
It is the optimal human hearing, available to about 5% of mankind.
Take them to court within four weeks? Bit rash isn't it?
How come you took no pics of the damaged parcel when it showed up at your doorstep?
Don't get me wrong, Bax should be doing everything they can to correct the situation but are you going about this in the most effective way?
I use the Dr Strings ddt 5-55 heavy and tune AEADG on my 5 string basses (Spector lx, mm sr5 and a custom).
Not cheap but I like their tuning stability and even tone and tension.
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A couple of years ago the business adjacent to our rehearsal space had a fire. This stuff got all the smell off our equipment, including my carpeted 4x12.
I've used it since to fumigate stinky second hand bass cases and gigbags whenever I bought something from a smoker.