Happy Jack

Late to the thread, sorry guys. I am starting my 2022 GAS refusal right NOW!

Sending to lines independently can easily lead to problems with monitoring, unless you've done a fair bit of prep work beforehand. If you're running your bass through backline (with a DI to the PA) so that your bass rig supplies the monitoring you need, then running your synthbass through the same backline gets rid of that (potential) problem.

Yup, unless it's a 4/4 or has an unusually deep body for some reason. If you were closer, then I'd happily flog you mine at a big discount (after testing, natch). Maybe find another Basschatter up East Anglia way who has one and will let you try it?

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/hercules-ds590b-double-bass-stand/53065?gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=CjwKCAiA2L-dBhACEiwAu8Q9YKPCYFwLrMhaZRolmuh5gD5-SL4av8vcA3bYuAnV214oDuBgsUDEiRoCBrsQAvD_BwE Whereabouts in the UK are you?

Damn! I just missed it ...

I've used one of these for years. https://www.thomann.de/gb/km_stehhilfe_14045.htm Built like a tank, easily adjustable and very comfortable, especially if you get the optional backrest.

Have a progressive day, people.

Yamaha Reface DX https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/music_production/synthesizers/reface/reface_dx.html The most fun you can have without your bass on.

I was all ready to post a silly comment when I saw the cricket-ball control knobs and fell in love.

Best set list software I ever found was an obscure product by a software house you'll never have heard of. I think it was called 'Excel' or something equally silly.

Best thing is when you turn up at a jam with a bass that looks like you found it in a skip, and when all the guys with their Stingrays and Dingwalls and Sadowskys have been up and played root+5 for their three songs, you provide 10 minutes of aural chocolate ...

Playing a big pub in Ickenham (just outside Uxbridge), first time we've played there so should be interesting.

£2k for two sets? Huh. Kids today, eh, they don't know they're Bjorn.

Spoiler: This isn't going to end well. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64063660

A lot less than you think ... NZ$ is worth 52p.

Where's the loo? Couldn't hold on if I wanted to.

Mind you, given the age range of the guests perhaps it should be Gimme Gimme Gimme A Nan After Midnight.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/12/22/money-money-money-abba-spat-goes-to-disputes-tribunal/?fbclid=IwAR2DyZEOtxKjrLv9wDyR0_SAjYhm8P2k4z_-FdPQVtwMzxrGmJ3XzMpcYLY

Different world now, with crowd-sourcing and loads of freebies on that there Internet thingy. If soundmondo didn't exist then the Reface DX would be an awkward beast supplied with a wide range of fairly useless sounds as standard. A couple of hours on soundmondo and I have every sound I am ever likely to need (playing in general covers bands and a specialist soul band) and all with no need at all to learn how to 'tweak' any parameters, still less actually program anything.

That's an 8-string uke-bass, right? 😂

Just slave it to a 76/88-key unit with the (supplied) midi break-out cable. That's what I do with my Reface CP. I hate midi and don't even begin to understand it (AFAIK those are 5-pin DIN plugs) but even I could manage that much. 🙄

Crackling is usually caused by coating with olive oil and sea salt, and then whacking the temperature up very high for the first half-hour. Hope that helps.

Some years ago @Silvia Bluejay and I did a tour of the Fodera workshop in Brooklyn. Silvie wrote it up afterwards, but I can't remember where it was published. They're lovely people, it's a very nice production facility, they make great basses. I had my choice of them all to noodle on for an uninterrupted hour, which I took full advantage of. I could have bought one had I really wanted it, but none of the ones I played made me think I couldn't live without it, which rather surprised me. I've had basses by Alleva Coppolo and especially by Mike Lull which were far more my cup of tea. My experience has always been that it's individual basses I fall for, rather than brand names or reputations. On that same New York trip I played a Warwick Jack Bruce Custom (and yes, that really did exist) which I confidently expected would be complete pants (I hate Warwicks), and it just blew me away. I also played a Fender Custom Shop Dusty Hill Precision which was just ludicrously overpriced at US$6000 or something, and Silvie had to pry it out of my hands and frogmarch me out of the shop. Don't you know you never can tell ...