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I bought Vigier Passion II, and strung her with D'Addarios, because the system stays in tune for ages. Marriage made in heaven. My choice was Neutrik plugs and Gotham cables, because they do not break. Another marriage...

I have met the designer, and I have tried one. I also know some acoustics, because I studied it in university. Toob is made for g-word. It works somehow, but the design is not bass specific, like @Bill Fitzmaurice said. Photography has its rule: ISO - aperture - exposure bass cab has similar: volume - sensitivity - lowest reproducible frequency If you change any of the three parametres, at least one of the two others will change, too.

It is small and light in weight. The sound is fine for home and a small jazz club. Rock and a bigger venue, no way.

Really? PA speakers are known for their output rather than response. Don't get me wrong, flat hifi response means drastic cutting of several frequency regions, which equals low sensitivity. It is OK, because the power (loudness) level at home is low, maybe a watt or even less. Sensitivity can be fractions of percent, like 0.1 %. PA (including instrument amps+cabs) has to be powerful. If you want flat response and you want loudness, the low sensitivity would equal enormous power levels. A PA speaker may have sensitivity in the 2 - 3 % level. This can be something like 30 times more than in a hifi system. Would you like to haul a PA system that pushes 500 watts/side or 15 kW/side to a club gig? And this was only the amp. This FRFR nonsense is a joke. It is OK to claim a system is FRFR = funny response & funny range. But before I see a measured response, I need to be alert. Learn, measure, understand. or Spread the marketing stuff, believe everything they say, get disappointed.

But I use rather Neutrik than Rean, if possible. Rean still feels too Chinese after the real thing.

GHS has similar set, I think it was named as contact core.

I just have to thank you @ChrisDev for every single transcription you have made available to us. Well done, please keep it up!

Travis Bean/Kramer Al-neck, Steinbergers, Flying V...

Danelectro, some acoustic basses, and double basses. SG, ES-335 looking lower brothers, Ken Smith, Surine, Hamer (shortscale)...

Bass playing is sports just like running. You need to warm up, keep your finger and hand muscles in shape, and train some more. Faster equals only more training.

Just bought a used Bruel & Kjær unit. Have to refresh some old acoustics courses and measure my Glockenklang Soul, and the cabs I have. No, there's no anechoic chamber around, but certain measurements are still possible even in a room.

No no no, ze order auf ze words wrong totally ist: Ich da strings für ze bass vont. I learned some German from Herbert aus Karavan.

Your amp may have tubes/valves, but it does not mean it has a tube power amp. TT800 has a class D power amp. A head consists of a preamp and a power amp. Preamp is for signal modification (gain, eq...) and power amp is for driving the cabinet. Your amp has powerful solidstate power amp, it is not to be attenuated with that external attenuator. You can just turn the volume down. Tube power amp is working so, that it starts to distort at its limits. Because that amount of power is quite a lot, many g-word players crank their amps to 10, but use the attenuator in between to get a reasonable sound level. Other power amp types sound worse at those limits and that's the reason your amp can be simply turned down. The effect is not the same. But you can drive the preamp to its limits. Please study the preamp section and what it does. Start from setting the vol to, say 1 or even less. Then crank the gain and bass' vol to 10. There's some distortion for sure. Remember: eq section is also like set of bandwidth limited volumes. If all eq pots are at 0, the preamp level is low. Turn all pots to noon, and start tweaking.

Actually, I have played in front of elevators, and our sax players named us as The great elevator band. Yes, we played smooth jazz to the audience which wasn't listening.

Shouldn't these be named Fendre, or Squire series?

Oh dear, flawless GRP jazz! I thought this was left to 90's.

Long ago Rhonda Smith was in Bass Player. She told she had a bass made to her, which was exactly like the original, but scaled down to fit her measures. I find this brave, as there are people - even here - who think Leo's ancient instruments are relics that can not be changed. Not at all. There are many classical double bassists, who are not so pop, and not in news all the time. But really hard working professionals. https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/05/17/478337126/jane-little-longtime-orchestra-musician-collapses-on-stage-and-dies https://whttps://www.ninaharries.com/bioww.cutcommonmag.com/meet-the-women-in-bass/ https://www.talkbass.com/threads/double-bass-women.247695/ https://m.famousfix.com/list/women-double-bassists https://slippedisc.com/2021/10/vienna-philharmonic-lets-a-woman-into-its-double-basses/ https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/An-annotated-catalog-of-works-by/9983776851102771 https://fmq.fi/articles/jazz-bass-player-kaisa-maeensivu-band-leader-and-sidewoman From the popular side I downright love Kate Davis after her version of All about the bass. If anyone loves statistics, please study this: https://www.zippia.com/double-bass-player-jobs/demographics/

Oh my... this guy does not understand much about electricity, but is eager to tell others about it. Total bull. Lots of copy-paste, close to zero information, and very little understanding how things actually work. The microwave article was hilarious. Beware.

Can you please lead us to that piece of knowledge that we all really want to dive into? The energy going into the system through the few filter stages... how could that limit your amp's frequency response? Maybe if the filtering system would limit the power going into the amp, some strange behaviour would be in order. But a current limiting filter system?

Bass brother @BigRedX has many good points in his comments. If the signal path is designed well, the adjustments are feasible. But it is not so uncommon that the path is cheap as chips: "Here we will use basic carbon track pots, they are 25 pence each and, hey, this preamp costs a tenner, let's put this in and call it active!" Tone stack is one more amplified stage to the signal path. Any extra amp will add noise. So will a cheap pot, too. From UI and UX point of view the local adjustments are handy, although the amp sure has better performance. One comment seems to need a better argument, and it is about batteries. Battery does not hum, or create extra noise, like many power supplies. There are no ground loops. A fresh battery and a modern circuitry can be very good in quality and performance. Yes, they have limited lifetime, but a spare does not even cost much. They aren't that bad.

The first lesson I got was: "Where's your own cable? I don't bring any to you!" Then we went through scales and arpeggios, chords and progressions. I had been studied piano and theory for 13 years before bass. If you have nice and relatively easy songs for the beginners, they will love you instantly. I had lessons at home, and I went to few pupils, but whatever fits you, go for it. Amp is not a must always. Dry sound in a quiet room may be just enough. Dialing a sound from amp is one really good lesson, but that's it. No need to carry much stuff around all the time.

Which page will reveal the pricing? How long do we have to wait?

If you want a really cheap one, Artec has one band fully parametric pedal. Cheap as chips, and functional, although the instructions are not in line with the specs. Yes, I measured mine.

SWR Interstellar Overdrive should be here, too.

While working in Outside Broadcasting, I made and fixed quite many cables: 1/4", Bantams, multicores at least up to 24 balanced channels, digital... We used connectors from LEMO (yes, those tiny ones), Amphenol & Souriau (yes, the big ones), Neutrik etc., so I think I am now able to build some cables. We also fixed mixers, as well as built and fixed patch bays in cars (very uncomfortable!). Once we were building an OB car and went to a local dealer to buy two boxes of Neutrik XLRs. Came back to the office just to find out that we needed a few more boxes. The next week the same lady behind the dealer's desk said to us: "You can solder them twice or even more, you don't have to buy a new one every time." Thank you anyway, very polite offer from you.