Steve Browning

I had the fretted fingerboard replaced with a rosewood fretless board, locally and expertly, for £150.

Seems an obvious thing to do in some respects. Does anyone do it? Why shouldn't you, if there's a reason why not.

Mine was bog standard. I then bought an HH 2x15 cab and swapped the speakers for the two originals, putting the original Eminence speakers into the HH cab and part-ex'ing it - terrible I know.

If I was aiming for the impossible - just my folks back would do me. Otherwise; 1) My 66 slab back 2) My 53 Precision back 3) A heritage B15 4) A new splitter van 5) One of John Deacon's old Precisions

It was an Ampeg (V4 I think) cab, very similar to this, that cemented my 2x15 love. I bet it'll sound wonderful.

A taster. Enjoy 🙂

This Way Upp by Upp. Stephen Amazing had every justification for choosing this monicker.

We all know that speakers distribute sound in a certain way. Habit tends to be firing straight forward. That is unlikely to be the optimal solution, so how should we aim our PA top cabs for best results?

That is certainly what I have done in the past. Probably the best practical approach. The onset of saving settings does mean (in theory) it's a single occasion at each venue.

Rather radically for me. I'd have been tempted to simply not turn up and let them figure out I'd left.

It's a shame there's no automated method on the XR18. Many years ago I was rehearsing in a terrible sounding room. They sent along someone with a Peavey unit. It may have been called an autograph. It put out white noise and a mic took sound samples around the room. The unit analysed the samples and set the eq for the room. It rectified the sound immediately. This was more than 30 years ago so imagine it would be pretty straightforward to incorporate.

You could be right. There's only Windows drivers on the website.

Is there a separate driver you need to download from Behringer? I seem to recall a specific driver is required.

I was only joking. My signature reveals my heavy use of Precisions ( have used my Jazz only to honour its original owner). A Precision does everything I need a bass to do, to put it bluntly. 🙂 For me, it's the simplicity but also the variation of what's possible with a combination of technique, strings etc. Purely my own view. I'm not an exciting player, and don't set out to be one.

I think it boils down to how we see the membership. Are we mates, colleagues or just a resource. I was interested to read about a mates rate being offered when there is hidden pricing - something is up for a certain price but the seller will sell to certain folk at a lower price. I hate haggling and only make an offer when one is invited. I would not be aware such a price was available. Naturally, anyone can sell their own stuff at whatever price they like. Like I said, I have a mental list of people (which this thread is expanding) to whom I wouldn't want to sell, because I feel their subsequent sale is again my own view of this place. As with sellers, that is my perogative.

Unhappily (for you), Leo's patent calls it a guitar! Re the question - probably not, they're very overrated!! 🙂

Let us know if you come across one. 🙂

It's never going to happen (I always aim to sell on here at mate's rates - maybe my mistake) but I would be inclined to do that myself. I know there are dealers on here and their pricing indicates who they are. I would be unlikely to want to sell to them.

None. The 66 slab sounded huge and recorded better than any bass I've used. The Jazz is wonderfully resonant. I can't compare to the original, of course, but neither bass is/was deficient in any respect.

We rehearse at a volume whereby we can hear ourselves properly. We're not a loud band anyway, but it's important to actually hear what's going on. We also set up in such a way that we can all hear each other. In the round, generally. We usually run the sets and then do new songs. We don't add new songs constantly. I guess the number of years we've been doing this also helps. No superfluous noodling or tapping, just straight to work. Sometimes a curry afterwards.

Mine is a fretless and a wonderful instrument. I had seen a picture of one years and years ago and hankered after one ever since. Managed to find one a good while ago now, but had to have it. The piezo pickup adds some great tones.

There is nobody I want to see enough to pay the price charged these days.

I suspect the headline would be very different if it had been. My point was really the shudder that goes through you just looking at the headline itself, without having to read any more.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/martin-kemp-chainsaw-accident-injury-update-b2852031.html