PinkMohawk

Right, good point sorry, I'm a PC guy so I never considered others using it. It's what we use at Uni. No clue when it comes to freeware unfortunately, never had to go looking.

The Avolites Titan software, I think it's free, and if you get their dongle, you can use your computer as a lighting desk, with a single free universe (512 channels). With that you'd be able to set up cue stacks, program looks, stuff like that.

I had great results with both tube and solid state, so I wouldn't sweat it too much. I did run whichever guitar head I had into an 8x10 though, but still, the general point stands. Get that signal super nasty and grindy, like unusable if it wasn't for the clean side, and it'll be huge.

I dunno man, do you think you got enough?

Killer player, but yeah, he changes brands like I change socks. Got a bad habit of saying he wouldn't ever do something/like something, then later going on to do/use that thing.

It's tough to go wrong with Warman, not for the price they're selling them at. I've used their jazzbars for a while now, always sounded great through my rigs over the years.

This is the way. Two separate amps, not pushing clean and dirty out of the same speakers just makes it sound so much better.

Looks slick, I'm not normally interested in short scales like this, but something very eye catching about this one.

Mhm, it's a short step from A 432Hz is correct and 440 is evil, to flat earth, aliens building pyramids, etc. The only people I've actually heard espousing 432 are those kinds of conspiracy nuts online, and it's usually a part of how "Things are being hidden from you!!!!!" type videos where they claim that they've got the truth.

Just tune to Eb, it's always struck me as pointless, something pretentious art school types do in place of actually doing something interesting.

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)