Bassman68

Looks to me like it has a stacked bass/treble, so not one of the original Energy series?

It’s a ‘92 John

Yes, The wharf. At least we’ve managed to reschedule for early December..

We’ve had to cancel tonight’s gig in Tavistock due to fuel issues, we played Neath in south wales last night. The issue being, getting down to Devon & then the returns home. Anyone else having problems due to the current fuel crisis?

More theatre dates for me last weekend, Friday night was in Telford & then we moved onto Stockport Plaza Saturday, A fantastic old theatre with beautiful decor….

Had a busy weekend heading west for me. Friday night in Maidenhead, Then onto Exmouth on the Saturday night, A quick overnight stop in Bridgewater, where we managed to bump into Martin Fry & ABC, who’d been playing in Exeter, Then rounding things off with Sunday nights gig in Western-super-mare.. Heading North next week…

Tbh, I can probably count on one hand the number of opportunities I’ve had to get away with driving a ‘Big rig’ on a stage? It’s complete overkill in club’s & pubs especially with decent P.A & foldback & almost every sound engineer I’ve met likes to keep a fairly quiet stage to avoid feedback issues? The outdoor events I’ve played this summer have had fantastic monitoring, both wedges & IEM. Over the years I’ve become less & less precious about my sound as what I hear on stage can be completely different to what an audience hears? My tone these day’s is down to the bass & strings I play & I certainly don’t miss the humping of gear late at night?

No backline for my current gigging situation, Everyone’s using IEM’s. We’ve all gained an extra tablet to control our monitor preferences. So now it’s.. Basses Smoothhound Boss GT6B DI’d feed to desk It doesn’t half make set-ups & pack-downs quick

Shattered today after two days of gigs & driving.. Drove from Essex to Aberystwyth to do a show Friday night, with an overnight stop in Walsall to do Saturday nights gig in Market Drayton before driving home last night. Still wouldn’t change a thing though 🙂

Had a busy week, last week, with 3 festivals & an outdoor theatre gig. The highlight once again was playing to 30,000 people at Carfest South on the Friday..

I use an IPad on stage most of the time for set lists & chord charts, scanning files & pdf’s. Last night, the mic boom gained another tablet for the bands in-ear monitor mixes. It’s all getting very hi-tech to a ludite like me?

Sad news RIP Martin MB1

Too late, I’m afraid I have an Affinity inbound this week & besides, I already have a burgundy mist Jazz bass..

Really toying with the idea of one of these, infact the very same…I’ve got a real hankering for a white bass with a maple board & the voice in the back of my head keeps telling me “I need a P-Bass” 😄😄 Thanks for a great sound review. Now I have to work on my white bass GAS, I’m considering Squier P bass (as featured) Sire Jazz Fender Mex Jazz Sadowsky Metroline

I wish them the speediest of recoveries & hope you get back to gigging soon. We’re also booked to do Carfest south on 27th August (ELO again tribute). Have you got South booked as well?

I had the pleasure of playing Carfest north on friday, It was my first gig since lockdown & to see so many people out there enjoying the experience gave me hope for the future. Backstage many still wore masks & there were sanitising stations everywhere.

He was playing Carfest north yesterday, as was I 😎

I’ve recently started using the steel roundwounds on my 4 string basses (Jazz & Stingray). Can’t quite understand the pricing difference between 40-100’s & 45-105’s with Strings direct but I’ve found them a good string, not too rough on the fingers/frets & very reasonably priced compared to the D’addario & Dunlop strings I’ve used up to this point? They’ve lasted quite well in brightness, definitely better than Roto’s or Elites in my experience..

My first bass was a Stagg Jazz bass, bought secondhand in 81. It was a nice natural finish with a bound maple neck/fingerboard with black block inlays. It had chrome pick-up covers & even had a strip of foam under the bridge ‘ashtray’? I very much doubt whether it was from the Stagg brand that we know today but it was made in Japan, as stated on the headstock. It also come with flatwound strings (which I knew nothing about at the time?) It was only when I tried a friends bass, sometime later, that I realised the difference in tension compared to his roundwounds...Learning to play slap with flatwounds proved disappointing & I couldn’t believe the difference when I finally broke a string & replaced them with a set of Rotosounds. Looking back, it was probably a decent,almost ‘Lawsuit’ copy, which I p/xed for a Squier SQ Precision, a couple of years later, going on image more than versatility? I wish I’d thought a bit more as the P-bass choice won over an Aria SB600 & a Westone Thunder 1a..

You can do this with the B3n if you build a patch with the looper near the end of the chain but you can only fit limited fx in before as the looper & drums take up nearly half of the signal chain?

Can’t vouch for the Boss unit but the Zoom B3n has a looper & drum rhythm section that can be used together. I have a couple of patches set up for practice purposes, work a treat 👍

Have a good’un & don’t forget to enjoy yourself 🤘

Probably quoted before but… ”All the money’s in the first 5 frets”…

Like that 👍

I sometimes have to tune BDADG only because it’s simpler & cleaner to have an open low D to play for certain songs, no different to if I played them on a 4 string in drop D.