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I got a Future Compact case a while back in glorious Blue, and it's cracking. Let me keep my FI on the smaller board! @GisserD makes good stuff. IIRC I did a little work on the screw holes so the screws would fit nicely and everything bolted together wonderfully.

@colleya - interested to know your ampless setup on the HX stomp - did you use an XLR adaptor, or do you have a DI box you use?

I literally had a first dip gig with Full Flavour last night and they have these. I was wondering where they were from! BTW - if anyone gigs in the Camberley / Blackwater area, Mr Bumble is a nice venue to play - audience skews slightly older, so the classics go down well - and for a 5-piece we got £75 each, so for a pub gig, that's pretty good. Appreciative audience, good beer, and they have 3 pool tables out back, where apparently if the band stops everybody asks why the music stopped, so there's that! Here's the setlist (ignore the key sigs, we sorted that out later :-D) - indication of what works. The Weekend track (blinding lights) was amazing (no rehearsal, first go!) - the keyboard player I know from the Alanis covers band, and he'd spent some time on the synth sounds for it. I'd found a great Moog patch for the C4 synth pedal which swelled beautifully and brought in the texture with harder playing, and it all sounded amazing. Lovely when that happens. Has anyone dug out the tools and adjusted their bass action halfway through a gig? First set (I didn't get the chance to warm up properly) I realised the action was a little high, and after a quick quarter-turn down on the bottom 3 strings, things were a lot less difficult (I keep the neck really flat on my basses). Always take tools 🙂 Set 1 Let me entertain you 125 E 💯 You should be dancing 125 Gm 💯 Don’t stop me now 151 A 💯 I’m still standing 89 Bb 💯 Video killed the radio star 131 C#/Db 💯 Cosmic Girl 120 B 💯 Angels 150 E 💯 I feel good 142 D 💯 Dancing in the dark 149 C#/Db - write out the structure Superstition 100 E 💯 Baby when you’re gone 125 C 💯 Hard to Handle 104 E 💯 Simply the best 120 F 💯 Blinding lights 171 D#/Bb - write out a structure (not a complex song) Uptown Funk 115 C 💯 Summer of 69 139 D 💯 Set 2 Final Countdown 118 F#/Gb 💯 All right now 120 D 💯 Mama Mia 138 D 💯 Pinball Wizard 123 C - write out the structure and watch for the modulated last verse Don’t stop Believing (Journey) 119 E 💯 Sweet Home Alabama 98 G 💯 Remember us this way 130 C - write out the structure, not too complex Rebel yell 166 E 💯 Man I feel Like a Woman 125 Bb 💯 Don’t stop (FMac) 119 A 💯 Proud Mary 171 D 💯 It’s my life 120 C - write out the structure Highway to Hell 116 F#/Gb 💯 We will rock you 81 D 💯 I love rock and roll 94 E 💯 Bat out of Hell (Introduce band??) 172 F - DEFINITELY write out the structure - LONG SONG Sweet Child of mine 125 F#/Gb 💯 Sweet Caroline (Last tune) 63 B 💯 Extras:-, 500 miles 132 E 💯

I did the same on my board! Works a treat and very handy.

Been there! I know so many amazing drummers down here in the Thames valley. Lovely times ❤️

Fascinating. I’m late to the party on this one, and it’s been many years since I was in this kind of situation, but the memory is fresh. It’s always interesting to me that some musicians develop enormous egos, some pass through that stage, some don’t. The ones that don’t are often the ones who don’t progress musically anyway - which is usually a sign they’re not that great. They’re the ones who still crank volume WAY too high and rehearsals and gigs, take ludicrous solos (and yes, you always sigh inwardly during the gig when that happens) and generally have the diva thing going on if there’s something else in their lives bothering them which has FA to do with the gig. My take is always to be the coward. If that stuff starts rearing its ugly head, wait until you feel like it’s not fun, then bow out and find something more fun to do. Tell them you need something fresh, or you need a change of direction, anything useful. The egomaniac will know, in their heart of hearts, exactly why you’re going, but it won’t make any difference to their behaviour, and you’ll hear whispers about the whole thing fizzling out a few weeks later. Sesame Street: A is for a*%hole 😂🤣 (jk)(a bit)

I’m on SBL, and I created a Google Sheets thing with automation with schedules the courses I work on. I do maybe 1 to 1.5 hours a night - sometimes it’s not courses, but prep for gigs (like tonight), but I’m always trying to improve my weak spots. I’ve played since I was 18 and I’m 55 now, but I only started really practicing with intent back in 2017 when I joined SBL. Prior to that, it’d be warmups (from an A4 sheet I created), then playing along with songs. Since 2017, I’ve learned to walk bass properly, retrained my slap from Flea to Marcus Miller (still perfecting but it’s come a huge way), and loads more. part of the driver is reviewing how far you’ve come. It’s like looking back down the mountain.

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I've read the specs and that thing has a serious ARM core on it, but there is processing delay, it's not *no* additional latency.

Dear lord, what's the latency on that?!

Nice solution! Like the patchy - I'm guessing that's your own design? I just made one for my filter board: Gave me an appreciation for guys like Bright Onion - enjoyed the process, but weighing up the cost their service is a damn good one.

Not seen that one, but I do have one of the M-VAVE Blackbox pedals, and recently got the chocolate bluetooth 4-button controller for it. Together I think they've cost maybe £80, and for a quick solution to a jam night tone, it actually works really well(!) - I still haven't really got a compressor I like on it working, and I haven't looked at any impulse response stuff at all yet. The chorus on it is pretty good, and it does have one or two insane reverbs for studio use. For something needing no PSU, which you can chuck in the gig bag, the convenience is undeniable. I've upgraded the SW in it twice and it's been a pretty painless process. The editor for the patches is good, too, and onboard edit with the screen is actually remarkably well laid out. It's no Anagram, but hell... it's a £50 pedal FFS!

Ha! Thanks for taking the shot. I finished the filter board the week before. I just wanted them easy to plug in and use, and not on a shelf. Met some good people on BassChat while buying a couple of new ones to put on there, too!

I've still got the parts from my original bass (1988) - a Hohner Arbor, which was originally in a flake metallic white. Humbucker at the bridge and a split coil on the front. Wasn't a bad bass, did well with it for a couple of years while I started trying to crank out Iron Maiden 😄 I recontoured the body because I was obsessed with Ibanez's (which I couldn't afford) and it didn't come out too bad, but I didn't seal the body that well and it is a laminate body, so it's got plenty of cracks. Haven't looked at it in years - it's in the loft with the neck(!). The body got a fretless totally flat Warmoth neck on it (a beauty, now lives on a nice allparts body) and it didn't do the neck justice at all for a very long time. Next bass (which is still in one piece) is a beautiful, extremely light 4 string Aria GTB-2J (secondhand from a friend in 1990, IIRC) - ironically also in metallic white. I still have it and it's strung very very light (30-90) for ridiculous slap and tap stuff. Early 90s, I got a Hohner B-bass V, which I put an OBP-3 in several years ago. I still have that too... bought with inheritance from a wonderful grandfather. I couldn't part with it, although I don't play it much at all now: it is wonderfully playable, though. After that, things got a little out of hand (I think I have 15 now...) - but I know it'd be some kind of world-ending event before I sold the Aria or the Hohner.

I've got a V7 Mk 2 in swamp ash / maple - it's a heavy beast, but with a little extra setup I did it's become a go-to bass. The preamp does have plenty of capability of unusable tones, and the sweepable midband is probably way too complex for most, but in terms of playability it's an excellent bass, and as a first 5-string, I'd recommend it. Hardware on that bass is good if it's like mine (it's a 2020 model secured new for what now seems like a ridiculously reasonable £463) - build quality great, and those rolled fretboard sides are incredibly comfortable. The only mod I made was replacing the plastic knobs with silver metal knurled ones - I'm not a fan of those black plastic ones. The colour on that bass is killer, what a gorgeous finish! I'd go for it.

I have this stunning Maruszczyk, which has always looked amazing but now plays amazing thanks to @Manton Customs 🙂

As a noob, can I say THANK YOU SO MUCH GUYS! That was just lovely. I managed to miss the guitar shows this year, and that really did feel like a little show! everyone I spoke to, everyone I didn’t - please connect. I love this organisation! Also: Costco chocolate cake rules. @jonno1981 - lucky you! I used to live in crowthorne, these days I’m out near Hungerford!

It's a monster, and I may be able to bring a cab for it, but I could maybe bring my Trace V4 amp in its Zilla head form (used to be a combo). The thing is ridiculously heavy though. Otherwise, I'm thinking I bring the SRAS7 hybrid bass, maybe the Ashbory silicone string bass too. Some curious! I reckon my new filter pedalboard might be interesting to some, too.

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Exactly! The loop on the HX stomp was the clincher, but there are other ways - like a pedal switcher with a couple of patchbay lines on the back of the board (I used to run a switched on my huge board), hell, you could dedicate 2 external send/return lines for extension boards to isolate them. Advantage is, the send / return is going to have good level, and on the stomp I get to put a limiter / compressor / reverb / whatever on the other side of the board. Currently I have to run the creative board (the freeze / slicer / looper) after the filter board, but it works...