Happy Jack

It's not a problem - it stands on the floor. 😂

I do hope so, but my aluminium 3/4 DB weighs roughly 50% more than a plywood 3/4 DB. Just saying ...

Sooner or later, you'll have to tell us what this beast weighs ...

I take a cheap folding stool (something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASAB-Portable-Folding-Breakfast-Cushion/ ) to every gig. It hardly ever gets used, and it's light enough to be casually kicked out of the way in a crowded stage area, but if I feel any sort of back trouble coming on it means that I can sit down for just one song to relieve the situation. Since I do the setlists for the bands I play in I can actually go farther than that, and program in a song suitable for 'sitting-down playing' around the mid-point of each set. You'll never see me sit down for anything by the Stones or Status Quo, but I'll frequently play Lola sitting down because I can, and it works visually.

If you're serious about just putting the vocals through the PA then a pair of powered 12s is massive overkill. A pair of passive 8s or 10s with a small powered mixer would be lighter, simpler, and (probably) much cheaper.

18 hours in and nobody has yet mentioned Valerie?

Have you checked down the back of the sofa? 😉

I agree with almost everything in that post (natch ... Mama didn't raise no stupid children) but I don't know whether or not Lemonrock is a thing around Glasgow. It's an extremely useful resource/tool in the Home Counties and also in the SouthWest but its coverage elsewhere is distinctly patchy. The 'cut-off' is really sharp, too. Heading North out of London there's loads of bands & loads of venues as you move through St Albans up to the Chilterns; get to Luton and it just drops off a cliff. If you don't have copious Lemonrock coverage around Paisley then perhaps there's an equivalent to look at instead?

The guy who did that moved to Perth years ago. Strangely enough he's back in England (I think right now) visiting relatives but I don't think he'd be up for it. 😉) They call that 3D holographic. Post my photo on the right FB pages and you'll find someone, I'm sure.

If he can do laser etching, then with the right design it can look breath-taking.

Check out the first two videos:

She's met me?

@Bass Wielder seems to be having a clear-out of gigbags at the moment ... one of his might tick your boxes?

Nah ... it's just @Kiwi.

All joking aside, that's better than anything I've ever written. Not claiming to be God's Gift to song-writing or anything, and I'm setting the bar pretty low, but if that's where AI is at in 2024 it'll be fascinating to see what another five years brings. For context, 30 years ago the Internet basically didn't exist, 25 years ago most people had no idea what a "website" was, 20 years ago everyone at my firm had a Blackberry and made extensive use of email, and so on ...

The ultimate in scooped mids.

I'm very sorry to hear your news, and well aware that it's coming for all of us in due course. "Best" is one of those words. Basschat is "best" financially if you want a single (very modest) fee to then sell without limit for a year. Given your circumstances, that would be a good fit. It's also "best" if you want knowledgeable buyers who (in the main) are not time-wasters, tyre-kickers or low-ballers. Essentially, selling on Basschat is a more pleasant - or less unpleasant - experience than most. eBay and Gumtree are "best" if you want to reach the largest audience, or possibly if you live in a remote or obscure part of the country. I've heard Beds called many things, but not remote or obscure. I'll asl @Kiwi or @ped to jump in with the registering-as-a-seller thing; it's been so long since I did that. 🙄

https://www.cases-and-enclosures.co.uk/roc-cases-grey-flight-case-l550-x-w220-x-h175mm-with-foam-insert Incidentally, if you happen to be running TWO Nano+ boards (which I do, one for my bass pedals and one for my vocal pedals) then you may also be interested in https://www.cases-and-enclosures.co.uk/large-protective-flight-case-l590-x-w360-x-h235mm-with-cubed-foam although I notice that this seems to have been out of stock for a while.

... for those musicians unfortunate enough to have gigs this weekend in Chobham, Weybridge, Chertsey and Woking. 😱 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nrd0n7299o

Dreadful news.

Isn't that the answer, then?

Surprised to read this. Both sets of strings are stainless steel and, while I don't doubt that there are differences in construction, I'd have guessed that they have similar compliance levels. Are you sure that the problem doesn't lie in the way you play those basses rather than in the strings? The much tighter string spacing on the Hofner leads to a very different technique than on a Mustang.

I love Radial kit but their prices (both new and pre-owned) have gone right through the roof over the last few years. For less than half the price of a pre-owned Tonebone you could get an equally flexible and high-spec'd pre-owned EBS MicroBass II. Those things are good enough that I have two of them. For my purposes, the Mk.III is a step down and the Mk.II is a much better product.