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Must be the only thing miss about working in our office since going fully remote , Scrounging in the Waste electricals bin , Pretty sure this old surface pro came from there too , but yes a 4 is a bit slow for actual office work these days . So much great stuff used to get timed out or taken out of circulation due to mergers / policy change , Non standard gear couldnt be refreshed and we weren't allowed to sell it on as business had to prove it had been " ethically disposed of " , / lots of forms stating it had been manually disposed of by one of the team. The TPM Module fiasco had me fill by boots with I7 Thinkpads , which i'd rebuild for friends and family as chromebooks with either Flex , forced upgrade to Win 11 or Nix for the more adventurous. My Current home theatre projector used to live in the main boardroom ... but apparently " wasn't bright enough" Translation They wanted a 4k 100 inch telepresence screen like they had seen in another boardroom , one chromecast later and i've been using it as a smart projector for the last 3 years.

Aye but you said it better .... " 🙆‍♂️

This is going to be super heavily genre / band dependent .... If i used the tone I need for for example " Placebo" or some other Pop punk in a some blues funk /jazzy number ... the looks i'd get from the audience and my band mates would turn me to stone . There's only so much that can be done with Pick > fingers and onboard Eq , not everyone needs a Fuzz / synth pedal but for some gigs i'd be lost without them

no worries , it's not super needed i figured it'd just be nice to have a second one to save me unplugging it

I will actually take this if its still going , i've just done a Clean " FORCED " windows 11 install on my old Surface Pro 4 ( would be Chrome OS flex if it didn't brick the touch screen ) Its only getting used for dinner table Iplayer / youtube duties at the moment but it would be good to have a spare . Drop me a PM

If your looking at doing this on a budget , Can i recommend a Valetone Gp-5 , Im using this is a 70 quid IR loader / amp sim tool , https://www.andertons.co.uk/valeton-gp5-multi-effects-processor-amp-and-ir-loader/ have a watch of this it should jump to the bass settings section at about 15 mins in. I use mine ( hell i use the finger bass preset ) in place or an amp straight into a the PA system , my setup is this on the end of my pedalboard straight into the rehearsal space PA . I can adjust any of the settings straight from my phone i dont bother with any of the effects which are a bit " meh " but as a tiny amp in a box its fantastic.

So Gigged mine again Saturday night , Straight into PA using the GP-5 as my Amp and Cab sim , Setup was a cheap Yamaha Stage 300 PA ,supported by my Markbass cmd121P acting as a subwoofer out of the monitor send daisyed on to an 80's era powered peavy wedge for some foldback. Both guitarists were using sims ( one fancy and expensive the other cheap ) My only downside was that I couldn't easily tweak my EQ , my active 2 band couldn't cut any more out , if i'd had my phone connected i could have easily done so but i'd turned it off and shoved it in my gig bag to avoid that " Da da da " lesson is now airplane mode with bluetooth connected within reach. For anyone carrying a backup amp this device is a no brainer ... I have found that im struggling to find good quality combined Sim and Cab files even ones of tone3000 seem a bit " crap" compared to the out of the box option so im just using the fingerstyle or pick preset with my own tweaks , anyone got any that work well ?

I've wrapped scratchplates before , I had a ebay bitsa with an " interesting screw layout " , bit of cheap matt black worked wonders and it wore well for years. I ended up giving the bass away to a friends daughter who was playing guitar and wanted to expand her vocab to bass as well i bet its still good. Oh found pics from .... " weird pearl to black ... dont worry the status didnt go anywhere it was in a gigbag after a run out

My next attempted solution is now going to be shoving a Valtone GP5 into the Fx return ... and just using the power stage.

Our local rehearsal studios has these Laney digbethsin combo form in each room .. some kind of sponsor / deal / package from Laney .. all their gear is now Laney .. I'm really struggling with it. Is there a secret trick ... Why does the head had a mid control but the combo does not .... The lack of mid control means that I'm struggling really hard to adjust my tone .. I don't play a mid focused bass( old smoothie ray) I imagine it works great on something that is .. like a precision but I'm having to stick an EQ up front to do anything with it ..

I know you have suggested that a Markbass combo might be out of your price range , what about used ? I regularly use my older Markbass CMD121P for practice at home ( use seperate amp and cab out gigging) when compared to the various newer rumbles around the local rehearsal spaces , it blows their socks off in terms of clarity at volume . I have to say when I know were going to be playing in a place with a rumble 100 I commit to taking my own markbass as it can be frustrating as no matter what i do with the EQ they seem to stay very wooly as the volume goes up , it could be the way it reacts to my active bass rather than a passive fender style one ... but i wouldnt say i love the " tone shaping options" I used to have a bunch of behringer ultrabass combo's both the 800 and the 1200 i loved the kickback feature and they were very loud , but yes lacking in tone options A solution to do what you want on a budget could be to you use the power section on those Behringers bypass their EQ and use a more modern device like a valetone Gp5 or perhaps their more analogue dapper bass instead https://www.thomann.co.uk/valeton_dapper_bass_mini.htm , the Amp in port on the back will let you harness the poweramp section direcly bypassing the EQ if my old foggy memory serves

Im sure the more seasoned amp knowers will be along shortly but ill ask a few pre-reqs 1 , What type of bass is it Active or passive , if active it could be that your active battery is low ... on my older stingrays this is how they go before they cut out. 2. Are we talking zero sound / noise at all or is the volume is incredibly low 3. Have you tested the cable / bass on another amp or even just by unplugging the bass itself and touching the jack to see if you generate feedback noise.

That Sounds excellent , All our test runs went really well , I settled on the pick bass preset rather than finger preset , a bit of EQ magic , on the Gp-5 to push my own mids Then Going straight to our rather modest PA with zero on stage amp ... i've donated my markbass CMD121P Combo to act as a powered Woofer going into its return ... and it sounds really rather tidy. This is all in aid of a Gig with no provided PA support , in a small pub , I also had a go with the guitarists fancy new quad cortex ... lots of good options the Simulated SVT and it sounded VERY similar to the Rig Capture i'd uploaded onto the GP5 .. All in all im confident enough to gig it.

I used to have one of the 2000's era Squire P5's that they did for a while calling it a P bass for the body shape .. when its got J pickups i found the Low B pretty flubby , https://reverb.com/uk/item/83693497-2000-squier-5-string-precision-bass-special-sherwood-green-w-jazz-bass-style-soapbar-pickups?page=1&filter=all

@kiat Is That running straight into the Pa and Monitors ... basically the setup we are looking at moving towards .. i'd love to hear some of the tones you got out . I have a dry run tomorrow which is going to be real interesting , rather than waste our singer and drummers time we've got a midweek tech rehearsal , which is setting up in my living room Amp less Modellers into PA practice ( other half is away for a few days) We have Me with my new GP5 , / Trusty old Zoom b3 .. /// Our guitarist with his brand new Quad cortex // Another guitarist with some other modelling solution Our tests are ... can we all share space in the PA .... Guitarist A is trying to convince me try out / share his QC as he keeps saying it supports ! 4 people but im not sure i like the idea of not having control"