The Badderer

It makes more sense to put the bass into the line in as the guitar amp etc. is less important to getting a good sound to a bass player. you can use any decent bass preamp and you'll have a good sound to run into the line in.

If the guitarist uses a decent preamp and is able to get his sound the way he wants it, then there's no issue with running it into the Line In, because the preamp will boost the signal up to the right level. he could then run a line thru into his amp effects loop in and use his amp as an on stage monitor, he just needs to be aware his sound to the audience will be what comes out of the preamp not from his amp. I don't know if this is a simpler cheaper solution than buying a new desk. The other option is you could get a standalone vocal preamp which you could then use in exactly the same way as the guitar preamp above, but it's a bit more complicated. Also as Phil suggested above, put the mandolin into a DI (assuming you don't need to Mic the mandolin) and run that into a line in.

TBH IMO etc.... so much of the tone comes from what you are playing the bass through that a P Bass is a P Bass and there will be some difference tonally, but playability is far more important than the tone of the individual P Bass. Once you put it in the mix you'll hear a P Bass tone, it just depends what it's running through and how the sound is set up that will really control where it sits in the mix. Obviously a massively generalised opinion.

The fact there is a song written about this topic and that it is regularly performed, does not mean that anyone who performs it condones slavery, rape or prostitution. These are topics it is important to actually talk about and for them to be present in our society as a pointer back to the past, and for it to be ok to be talked about. Sweeping it under the carpet is the wrong thing to do. What about all the millions of women who are still in slavery and sexual slavery today? This topic still needs to be in the public eye. Are we supposed to ban the Blues? That is how I would talk to a disgruntled punter about it anyway.... http://www.globalslaveryindex.org

If you want a cheap decent starter amp with a decent sound you can't go wrong with a 2nd hand Marshall Valvestate 8080 they're cheap as chips, fairly reliable. I got 2 2nd hand, 1 for £60 1 for £90. Get a great sound out of them for none of the hassle of valve amps.

As it's a back up amp situation I would be choosing the amp that was the most versatile with the most features. The Demeter is your go to amp so you want to choose the amp that is easiest to cover all the bases if that goes wrong and is able to give you the most varied sound as a contrast to it in case you got a gig that needed you do something a bit different.

Great post. I've always wanted to give a stereo bass a try, without having to fork out Mega bucks for a Ric or a Billy Sheehan Yamaha etc. May have to give one of these a look next time i can buy a bass....

oh i'd also get a strymon timeline and big sky too if money was no object

the EQ is definitely worth it. allows for extra tweaking to get the sound just right. The VMT works fine for a lot of people, but there are some who have expressed frustration with not getting it to sound just how they want. For the extra quid i think it makes it a much better pedal.

at this moment in time i'd probably get a Livid guitar wing and a Behringer FCB1010 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/FCB1010.aspx at this moment i have all the pedals i need but want to get into live performance using MIDI to launch and play tracks that I write / pre-record and then play them live.

vintage deluxe lover here too! they sound great on a bass and guitar (obviously tweaking the EQ section helps!)

well.... what position are you starting from? do you already have certain things, do you need a whole pedal board for that money? do you want the latest custom built boutique pedal?

If we spent our time worrying about all the muppets on the internet trying to flog overpriced crap to people, we'd have no time left to do anything and would probably be pretty miserable. Someone can price something on t'internet for anything, if someone's stupid enough to pay it, that's their issue. You know the bass isn't worth more than what you traded it for, so I wouldn't worry. You got a working bass at an equivalent trade price. Not worth your time even worrying about it! If you want a laugh, just go to the Ebay weird and wonderful section on here and have a laugh at the prices people put up basses that have obviously been put through a GCSE woodwork sanding class and now they was £750 for a rare relic'd Jap Squire.

i'm going to have a rectal exam from a doctor later on today... do i qualify (just joking i'm perfectly fit and healthy)

man i might have to give the prog EQ a try just to see what it's like. I've heard all good stuff about JHS pedals that looks really nice. Fortunately for me i'm not buying squat at the moment so have no GAS. All of my music is happening through recording and writing at the moment, so no need to spend money as i can tweak EQ's to my hearts content once recorded Glad you found the right one for you

clarify if they mean, provide your own amps, or provide your own PA. To clarify for you. Amps are just the things we plug our basses / guitars etc. into in order to amplify the sound of the particular instrument plugged in to it. A PA is what takes the sound from people singing / playing their instruments and projects it to the audience through a larger more powerful system than the individual amps on stage. A PA at a small festival sort of size will be made up of microphones for singers / drum kit / amps, a mixing desk, possibly a few power amps to supply power to the speakers (or possibly powered Active speakers), Floor monitors / foldbacks to allow people on stage to hear themselves / each other. This is the basic gear a PA would require and you only use one on a stage because as you can imagine, setting one up for each band would take longer than each set. Hope this helps. I can imagine why a festival organiser might have got their terminology wrong or want to wash their hands of the whole thing. You can imagine the parent of little Johnny coming up to an organiser after their kid comes off stage moaning about the sound and parent who has no idea about anything chews off the ear of anyone who will listen. As others have said. If no proper PA is supplied then walk away. If PA is supplied clarify what they actually mean and how will it be working. Also they probably need to clarify with all the other bands that they mean AMP not PA if they have accidentally told everyone to supply their own PA.

Screw this I WANT THE GIG NOW!! I'm gonna send them a message RIGHT NOW!!!

looks great man! good call

Ditto. 2nd hand german warwick from on here is your best bet. in comparison to what you'll pay new it'll blow it out of the water, don't overlook corvettes either standard or $$. plus if you get it from someone on here locally then you can try it 1st as opposed to getting it shipped from Germany. If you insist on going with 1 of your stated options i'd go with an Ibanez as their low-mid range stuff is good bang for buck

isn't the G string naturally going to have less sustain than all the other strings as you get up to the dusty end? My thoughts would be if it sustains acceptably 1-3 frets lower, you may find it's down to how much a thin string can naturally resonate the shorter you make it. I would imagine a heavier lower string will resonate for longer because there is more energy involved in general. I would only be getting worried if it was sounding completely rubbish about another 3-4 frets lower.

If it seems too good to be true.... it is. Listen to your gut on this one, it's just a scam trying to suck people in, hence all the spiritual stuff. It's just trying to make someone feel special and get them interacting. Remember all the scams where people in Africa were emailing 40-60 year old women and building an emotional attachment, convincing them everything was real, and then taking them for £000's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam

It is a pedal i really want when I next enter a phase of buying pedals (i'm being good and not buying anything for a few years ). My understanding from owning about 5 different source audio pedals is they are all aimed at working well on bass (excluding some of the new One series pedals). You'll also notice on the programmable EQ it has a bass mode where it lowers the frequencies that it works at. I'd be inclined to say get it as i have no doubt it will work fine on bass. there will be Bass examples on their website or online.

Remember that a POG is going to want to be exposed to the cleanest signal possible if you want it to track well it needs to be at the front of the chain (i stand to be corrected as I don't own one, just applying knowledge from other pedals). I'd also check power supply for your pedals, try running the POG on its own power supply or a decent power brick to make sure it's not a power supply issue. you've done the right thing double checking your cables. Noise will enter the equation if you are introducing noisy pedals close to the start of your chain and then applying something that boosts this noise later on in the chain.... i.e. if you are running a compressor or drive / boost pedal or a buffer towards the end of the chain. I think you're right taking a break, and then with a clear head come back and build your board 1 pedal at a time, thinking/experimenting with each pedal as you add it to see which combinations work, and which pedals add noise. hope something in that is helpful and makes you feel it's not a gigantic pain in the ass!! we're all learning