Woodinblack

I would disagree with this one. I don't like locking jack sockets, so I removed the spring on mine. So I suppose you are right, it got much easier to use! Mine aren't that stiff, or hard to do fine adjustments. They are stiffer than normal machineheads thought, and I think that helps with the stability. They really are rock solid tuning. I would say that is pretty convenient. Most active basses don't have a passive tone control, so you are getting on thrown in free. I don't ever switch to passive so I have no idea what the impact is like but it still seems like a bonus there.

Indeed - heavy lobying by a few powerful people and you get something which is a pale shadow of what you had 8 months ago back, result!

Well, hope he is ok, but I would mention that in 50 years ZZ Top only had a Dep for Dusty Hill once. Last week.

One thing is clear, neither of them like not being at the back!

But that is a hell of a start! On the other hand, I have heard many cover bands do stones songs well, and when they haven't it has always been the guitars or the vocals.

Looks like a Wal to me - mk II or something. -- edit Yep - a wal active - he mentions it and that video on his website (Leo Lyons)

The BB - the others seem a bit flat.

That is always my second search. You think I would know by now!

Because it is an old track it is quite muffled in the mix:everlasting-bass.mp3

Yep. I get it every single time if I do a search and then click the 'all of the terms' button, or if I refine the search at all. But I do type quite quickly

Yes, I always get that, it wasn't an update thing, its just the way the site works.

I did it, sometimes it seems monotonous but I found it useful.

Ultimately I could sell all my basses and just stay with the one Ibanez SR1605. I mean, I could, I know I could but I am not going to! I should however sell almost all my guitars as apart from the acoustic and the indie or gibson, I rarely play them.

As a separate asside, I hate blue LEDs, and wish they had never come out. I know they are useful, but they are always too blinding. Red / orange / yellow / green, I was happy with htose.

Why would you think that? I have avoided singing for ages as I hate my voice, but doesn't everyone. As it is, from doing all the backing vocals I now do a few songs in ranges the singer can't do, and although I felt really self confident about them, that is just in my head. At the gig at the weekend, one of the ones I do is surfin' usa, and looking at the crowd, they were dancing, and doing stupid surfing impressions etc, and enjoying themselves. They weren't standing there looking at me thinking what terrible singing that was, and even if they did, it didn't seem to stop them enjoying it, so maybe its better to not overthink iit!

OK, got mine now. Fairly heavy thing. So I tried it and wasn't impressed. Then I turned the volume up! It goes actually pretty loud doesn't it! I mean just to the air even without it being on your back. I had a quick noodle with it and it certainly vibrates on the B-D strings, really strongly on the b, which is good as obviously by then the sound is dissapearing in IEMs. Obviously not enough to form a big opinion on, and a bit dissapointing that it didn't come on saturday so I could have gigged it, but there is another gig next saturday and as I am not doing the sound for that, should be useful.

Tuners. I have switched to an ABM600 (and I also have a CTM100), but I really miss the tuner on the TC450, which is why I often take it to practice. Yes, my helix HXFX has a tuner and there are clip on tuners, but the amp is always there, and would be such a simple thing to add. Plus often the guitarist checks when he forgets what key we are in! Suppose I should ask ashdown. Or maybe drill a hole on the front and put some pulled apart clip on tuner. Just got one that cost a tenner, not too much on the scheme of an amplifier, certainly more use than a VU meter.

I think that is a bit harsh. I used to work with an electronics company in the 80s that made CCD pipe inspection cameras. They were the state of the art, however they had quite a high failure rate, and that is because that was the state of the art. When we first started we had to have a gold bonding machine to connect the CCDs to the package. Of course, we could have not used any component without a fully proven reliability record, in which case we would have been sticking a kid with a notebook into a sewer, there weren't other options. Some companies are using componants that have just come out, most of the time everything is fine, but not every company can just sit that far behind the curve. In this case (and I know nothing about it), it doesn't seem unreasonable to select some LEDs to do a job and then find that 3 years later they are breaking down, if you then try to remedy the situation - that is how manufacturing is. Especially when that is not a critical part as in this case. You would not expect them to be failing, and 99.9% of the time you would be right.

What phone is this on? This is on my iPhone (XS)

I think I also play harder if I am standing up, so although at practices I am standing up, I am not at home.

Also this is the first chance I got to try the stuff I bought in lockdown. Ibanez 1505ms - absolutely fantastic, couldn't fault it, although it did sound a bit bassy, maybe need new strings. Squier CV Mustang - absolutely fantastic, but maybe not bassy enough Behringer 12" sub - certainly added to the drums and with that we seemed to have the best sound we had, so I guess it is doing its job. Ashdown ABM600 - loved the sound, haven't really explored the EQ options, but in its first time live the DI lead felt a bit loose, thought it was a plug I had fixed badly but no, one screw has come off of the DI socket, and the other was loose, so it is flapping around. XVive u4 - needed a better setup but worked almost flawlessly, even though I was a long way from the mixer where it was.

Oh thats the other thing I noticed. Although I hadn't gigged since last march, I practiced regularly, so it was quite a shock to the memory how much your fingers hurt after 3 hours when you hadn't been gigging for a while!

I would say as it happens with multiple basses and multiple cabs, the only common thing you have is the amplifier. Any chance of recording the crack sound?

Its just nice to get the band back together as a starting point!

Brilliant night, great to be back. Resurrected the gig thread in honour of it