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Having had to cancel all my musical bookings for the year in January due to emergency surgery, the only show I have played this year was in late June and it was a streamed performance. I had assembled a very small real life audience who were all in a social bubble and there was massive physical distancing in the performance space for the camera crew etc. It was one of the best paying gigs I've ever done. But if continuing like this is the only way I can perform my music I would have to think very hard about whether it's worth it artistically. Trying to really play out is very hard without the audience connection.

This sounds interesting, where and what is the theatre? Good luck with it all 😎

That's really sad news, sorry about the police visit.

Bumping this - Any more information on which inverter set up your guitarist went for Dave? Some of the cheaper ones I've been looking at seem dubious and I wouldn't trust how "modified" the sinewave they put out is. The more expensive ones are beyond my means. Cheers Thomas

Any videosnof these instruments in use MacDaddy? I love the D extension. Very Kubicki. Excellent work

Get a bari and definitely replace the bass 😎

Very nice!

I personally wouldn't use magnets to attach a ramp to pickup pole pieces. Over time you may decrease the power of the pick up magnets and you may still run into the decreased sustain issue. Just use tape

or playing in an acoustic environment, just like @fretmeister says. I can't use amps with fans at all as even near silent ones become noticeable in resonant spaces.

Just replaced the switch as per that video I posted. Very quick job and a massive reduction in acoustic noise. Why I tolerated this noisey click for 5 years is beyond me. Now I want to do the same on my loop pedal.

I wish I had one in the closet. If you get one and don't like it, please send me a message.

Ok well it seems I can't use Google... To answer my own question: However I'm still interested in ideas and experiences from members here

I have an EHX freeze pedal which I use a great deal. Love it.... Except for how loud the switch is! I use this with an acoustic instrument and the volume of each mechanical pedal click is almost unacceptable in the environments I play in. I'm about to do some critical recordings and need to quieten this pedal down. Has anyone replaced foot pedal switches with quieter versions? If so can you point me to what and where (I can use Google, I'm after real world experiences 😃) Cheers Thomas

That's fantastic. I have not seemed to be able to like the Alpher body shapes, but yours looks great! What's the weight like?

Nice one, Thank you for the details!! 😎

SR300 are great basses. I reckon your best bet would be to Invest in a good set up and try some new strings on your Ibanez. I had a very early 2000's Ibanez SR500 and it was fantastically sensitive to the strings I put on it. Feeling and sounding awful with nickel 45-105s, bland with stainless Elites 40-100, better with stainless elites 35-95 and absolutely incredible with Thomastik jazz flats. £300 would get you something different, but not necessarily "better". If your heart is set on a new bass Second hand would definitely be the way to go, but sadly options will be limited at shops and trade in on your bass wouldn't be a huge sum.

how has this been decided I wonder? Announced just late enough to have not saved all the theatre and event tech' and front of house jobs that have been axed these last few weeks.

not weird. to misquote Eddie Van H , if it sounds right, it is right.

Would you mind outlining what you're running here, Cheers Thomas 🙂

A friend of mine got exactly one like this from Macari's in London in the early 2000's and I was horrified to hear he moved it on a few years after. I would have bought it off him in a heart beat. Musicman position for the pickup gave such a great sound. Incredible construction standard. Lovely, lovely bass

Brilliant, this is what I wanted to hear, thank you!

How loud would you say you could get with that combo and would you have an opinion on the sort of headroom available for a given volume? Cheers Thomas

@Happy Jack Fantastic videos. Thank you for this! @Hellzero great heads up on these amps

This is all so familiar to me. Which comes first I wonder - personality traits that leads one to become a bassist or personality traits that develop from being a bassist.

This thread has got my interest up on these basses. I'm forever looking for a lighter, characterful bass to replace my instrument. Longshot, but if anyone has a B40/sb40 to sell I'd be interested to hear. Cheers