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Speaking of power supplies - biggest surprise to me was the quality of the Harley Benton ISO PRO supply - it’s built like a tank and it happily supplies all these pedals. Multi-voltage too, but not huge loads at higher volts. Worth a peek, and IEC in as well. They do a modular system too, with IEC interconnects.

So you think maybe if I rebooted the Mac?

Here's my three - all 2000s era German-built, with a 2002 ltd ed on the right. The Thumb I got last year, it's got the most beautiful grain I've ever seen on a thumb. Just stunning. And after a couple of setups recently, the blonde is growling nicely. They are just the loveliest things, Warwicks, aren't they? The thumb I used on a recording recently and the producer was blown away by the tone, absolutely loved it. Other side of the room has a couple of Warwick NEO cabs and a Pro Tube IX 900W amp stacked there as well.

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@Andyjr1515 - thank you so much for an actual answer! That was truly illuminating 🥰

I’ve been thinking about this recently - I’ve never counted, but there must be a couple of hundred tracks I would be able to jam my way through. Partly I think it’s just experience - I’ve been playing more than 30 years - but partly I think it’s because I play them fairly regularly. last couple of years I’ve been called on to play a couple of Elton John numbers more regularly, and these have now “stuck”: they were new tracks to me, not heard before. I took the time to sit down with the tracks and wrote out some charts, which are hybrids of chords and the occasional reminder of an interesting little bass part which makes a verse or chorus recognisable. First two or three times I plays it live, I’ll use the chart and refer to it: I play through the track maybe 4-5 times in the week before the first gig. This seems to be enough to get it to stick - but I think a big part of it is enjoying the song, at least for me. It never feels like a chore - learning new music and finding interesting stuff in it. That seems to be what works for me, and the bonus is it really helps enjoy the gig an enjoying the music, with musicians who are enjoying it too. That infectious, smiley energy you get. Working with a drummer on the cool bits.

I've been gigging since 1989, and if I'm honest I prefer gigging over recording! Love rehearsing too. I particularly enjoy openmic nights when I'm in the house band - the variety of music you get to play is amazing, you need to be on the ball, and the audience is always ready for something they haven't seen before (at good nights, anyway!) The actual stuff about loading / unloading gear, setting up etc - I've got several sizes of gear I can take to things, and for pub gigs, it's a 15Kg cab and a 1Kg amp head, so TBH it's no trouble at all. Since I see a lot of musicians I know regularly, it becomes a lovely social event with everybody enjoying themselves - the function band type gigs I do, likewise because the band enjoys performing with each other and we get the chance to enjoy the songs with little differences on the night for the fun of it. The audience are there, true enough - but a lot of the time the fun is onstage: feedback just eggs us on.

I've got a V7 Mk 2 in swamp ash / maple - these look really nice!

My guess is the turning point (pun intended) was when removable truss rods stopped.

Thanks for pointing me at this forum mate, I have reciprocated. It's so nice to have a transaction like this go so smoothly 🙂

Just bought a fabulous Maruszczyk Elwood Absolution 5a blue burst from Quent. He made the whole purchase so easy, the bass is flawless and we even worked out a way I could get the bass direct from the Bass Gallery in London rather than have to courier it all over the place. <drool> Can't recommend him enough, we're still having a great DM conversation on basses in general even now! Top fella ⭐

I sincerely hope you don’t think Warwick truss Ross are left-tighten… https://www.warwickbass.com/warwick/data/Warwick.de/Technical PDF/Manuals/WWBassManual_en_2013.pdf “Truss rod adjustment: Turning the truss rod key clockwise (direction A) will tighten the truss rod and give the neck a back bow. Turning the truss rod key counterclockwise (direction B) will loosen the truss rod and give the neck a forward bow.” also: @Hellzero - what on earth is your problem? I posed a question, and in return I got a supercilious eyebrow raise. maybe a luthier can furnish me with an actual answer instead of strange combative responses… <shrugs>

I just bought an Elwood 5a absolution on this very site from @Quent who was kind enough to make sure I knew about this too. I wonder why reverse truss rods exist? None of the basses I have currently have one, this’ll be the first. Fascinating. I didn’t even know they were a thing!

Late to the party here, but I really like this idea. Portable, small and should get the job done. I’d be tempted to enhance the pucks with maybe a little Velcro or some other kind of temporary fixing to ensure the amp doesn’t manage to bounce itself off - a bouncy stage and a pogoing bassist could do that…

Dude! That’s my big rig! Send a picture of how you have the (admittedly complex) back set up. It should be fine, if it was good in the shop. one question - how did it get shipped? Mine got a dose of heavy duty bad shipping and I had to fix a few things, including a new valve (seriously!)

I’ve been using a Warwick LWA500 and an 8 ohm Markbass traveller 2x10 now for several years as my go-to rig for pub / small venue gigs. I’ve got bigger cabs and amps for other stuff, all 8 ohm on the cabs. Your little mark tube 800 will sound huge through an 8 ohm 2x10, trust me. The cab is back ported, so generally I have to be careful with bottom end and I’ll back the cab up to a wall - this throws huge bass out front. advantage there is you can expand with another 8 ohm cab later: I have a Warwick Neo 1x15 8 ohm I’ll pair with it sometimes for a 4 ohm load and more power. the LWA is effectively running <300w at 8 ohms, and I really don’t turn it up above 5/6 often on gigs. Your choice of head will kill on it, and be inside the power handling envelope.

I built a Synth pedalboard a while back, but it was single-chain, mixed digital and analog pedals and it sounded awful. Really noisy. So, a couple of months ago, I decided to completely rebuild it with a loop switcher and dedicated power supply. As it turns out, the Harley Benton stuff is amazing - I’ve got the FXL 8pro and ISO-10ACPro fitted. Built like tanks, the switcher is 8-loop with midi and 2 switch outputs for amp channel etc. silent. Here’s the output, front and back - and midi is fitted, the Future Impact thru-forwards to the midi host interface which then allows me to use all the patches on the Source Audio C4. The Cali76 is a brand new addition, it’s amazing. I drive the Midi side with an FCB1010 with the ROM swapped out for the Uno one, which makes programming the pedal much simpler. I’ve also got a couple of expression pedals which plug into the SYB-5 and the SA envelope filter. The SYB in particular is really amazing with an expression pedal, it completely opens that pedal up. The board is amazing now - silent, really useful sounds, highly configurable. The only thing I still need to add is a midi splitter so I can drive the filter pedal as well, but that can wait for now. I’ve got one or two other pedals I may put on another board, a black finger compressor, original Q-Tron (considering the bypass mod for that), a Markbass Super Synth (original - it was on this board but it demands 550mA and 12v which is just way too much for most power supplies). hand soldering the audio cables became quite soothing and meditative, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. If anyone’s interested in the components I used, just ask. happy Xmas! Andy

Yeah! I bought a Sire MM V7 Mk 2 during lockdown because I needed a maple / maple bass for slap work, without trying one, one the strength of the reviews. It's fitted in very nicely indeed. Heavy as hell, but a great bass.