PinkMohawk

I've done the split pickups to different amps thing before and, contrary to basically everyone in this thread, bar a few, I love it. If you set it up right, it'll sound massive. I am one of the guys who was running the neck to a bass head and 2x15, with the bridge going to a Hiwatt solid state guitar head and my 8x10, through separate effects chains on my board as well. It gave me a lot of flexibility. And, I think the trick to not making the sounds 'disconnected' as someone mentioned, is not having the neck pickup signal be completely clean, I'd do a little dirt, sort of a Sansamp sound on that side, and the result was huge. As for the 'stage volume bad!' comments, it's really not. Can it make it a little more challenging to work the desk? Sure, but on the other side of it, us engineers are used to that. If anyone here has seen Biffy Clyro live in the last couple years, Simon Neil runs 3 separate 4x12 cabs on stage, all at full volume, pointed right at his vocal mic, and they are all pushing air multiple times during their set. Jon, their engineer, was the one who suggested they move back to actual amps rather than modelling through Kempers, because the band didn't actually like the sound of the modellers but thought it was necessary for the engineer to have no bleed on stage. Plus, those on stage amps, those are your front fills when the PA doesn't have any.

From everything I've seen, Lydon's been an insufferable arse for years, so I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the other blokes never even gave him a call about the original benefit shows, doubt he'd have been up for anything that didn't benefit him. Throwing his support, little though it may be, behind Trump and Farage really just seals the deal that Lydon needs to be put out to pasture. Frank Carter has always been a great frontman, back in the Gallows days and more recently with the Rattlesnakes, so him smashing it with Pistols isn't a surprise at all.

Yeah, back when my old band were gigging, the van was never left unattended at any point during the load-in. At least one of us with the van at all times. Of course, didn't help when the cheeky twats broke in overnight, though they didn't clear us out much either.

Those all look like solid choices to me. The only additions I'd make are a tuner pedal, though obviously if you've got one already just use that, and a chorus pedal, just for some of that new wave vibe, depending on what kind of stuff you're playing. Other than that, just make sure you've got it all on a board and a decent power supply, and you're laughing.

It's standard on the pro fixtures, but those are also significantly more powerful than the ones we're discussing in this thread. Yeah, the plastic housing makes me think there's no kind of serious passive cooling in there, so a fan is a cheap and effective way to make sure that the fixture lasts long enough to get it outside of the warranty period.

Depends how much power it's actually sending to those LED's. While LED runs cooler than traditional lamps, they don't run cool. 60 individual LED's like that, it can build up some serious heat, and without proper cooling, you'll end up with a useless paperweight pretty quickly. Honestly, any fixture that didn't have some kind of cooling, I wouldn't be spending my money on.

Goodness, I had no idea it was this bass. We should set up some kind of charity for them, Bassists In Need? £2 a month and you can make sure that a bassist in need is getting the fresh strings, picks and a BDI21 to get them started.

Poor guys, I've even heard they delude themselves into thinking that it's the 'proper' way to play bass. Can you even imagine?

Surely this year, the move is that new Harley Benton micro amp, the Jamster? £33 on Thomann, doubt anyone would complain about a little practice amp that can double as a bluetooth speaker too.

Yeah, I like the idea of it, but the clean bass already sounded pretty crap, so I can't say I'm much of a fan of the distorted sound either.

It'd be worth looking at Noctua, they may make something small enough, though the Elf's are truly tiny, so it may just be the case that no-one is making quality fans that small. Noctua primarily have a reputation, amongst PC enthusiasts at least, for very quiet and very effective cooling solutions for PC's and servers, so I'd think they'd be the best bet, though enterprise focused companies may have a better product at that size.

Oh definitely, that's why I have my HPF's as my last-in-line on my board, right before it hits the DI/amp split. But yeah, I know how much of a pain hollow stages and bass cabs can be.

For sure, I run HPF's on my board just to make sure that I'm not dumping loads of sub-bass all over the stage, and any time I'm behind a desk, it gets HPF'd at 30Hz.

Honestly, I kind of respect how little they care about opening themselves up to copyright infringement or whatever the proper term is.

To be fair, I think they're fairly upfront with their 10" cabs having a vintage vibe to them, I think that was part of their original design goal. I've only ever played through a BF once, and this was a while ago, but from what I remember, I loved the sound, I've just never been able to justify the cost. For the price of one Big Twin or similar, I'd have spent more than double what I've paid for my current cabs (Ampeg and Ashdown 8x10's)

With a name like 'Fame' I'll be honest, I was expecting typical, low priced dustbin fodder, but those look lovely really. Obvious Warwick inspiration, especially with the MEC electronics, and I'd have loved to see the two piece bridge, but I guess that might have been a step too far along the knock-off line for them. Definitely being built by Mayones too. Interesting that they're selling 'handmade in Europe' instruments for such a reasonable price too. I'd like to see a walkthrough of their process to see how much hand-work is going into these for them to make that claim.

Won't lie, just teeny tiny bit annoyed that you managed to snag it at 500, but since you're about to chuck that whole lot onto the Uni Pre, I'll let it slide

Wheyyyy, finally made it happen!

Yeah, your best bet is going to a local hardware store, or even a specialist if you have one local, and asking for a machine screw with that same threading, but with a philips panhead. One other aspect you need to be aware of is how tall the head of the screw is. You can see the allan head is taller than the philips head, which could be a problem since Dunlops need to be inserted to a certain depth to engage the retention mechanism properly.

A Jazz with 3 P pickups in a strat config, with a strat blade switch would actually be interesting.

Maybe a take on the one from the old Fender Performers?

That's like, a quarter inch difference. It's not gonna matter.

Well, I guess Fender *not* doing a P bass is innovative.

Fair point, they're probably about the same in terms of popularity, though I guess we could argue that, at least Green Day's early stuff was more towards punk than pop punk. But yeah, I'd agree that Mike and Mark have probably shifted more Fender and Squire basses than just about anyone else we'd care to mention.

To be fair, I don't think Blink 182 ever claimed to be a punk band. They've always been pop punk, and as pop punk bands go, there's no-one bigger than Blink 182. Mark Hoppus, whatever else we might think of him as a bass player, is probably responsible for getting more young kids picking up a bass than near enough anyone else we could name off the top of our heads. And, yeah, it is a cool bass. I'm not a Jag fan, never have been really, but as straight ahead, bare bones P styles go, that's a pretty slick one. Black and maple would have to be offered for me to even consider it though.