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In he's case it won't work. But if I tell him that there was someone at the bar asking about that Bb%#dim@%7min chord he took in the bridge on that song we are safe.

I have messes like that and worse every time our keyboard player helps packing after a gig. It's best to keep him occupied with something else.

Guilty as charged! 🤣

Well, I have a stack with a TC Bam200 and 2 TC208. For home practice I just use 1 208 and it works like a charm. Then I got an Ampeg PF-350 dirt cheap used and liked the sound of that one better with the 208's. Couldn't stop there so I got an Ampeg PF-210he cab to go with the head and I love it. So now I have 3 complete rigs. Yes, I have a Peavey MiniMax paired with a GK410 and a GK115 as well. I like and use them all, they are just different. The big rig stays mostly at our practice place. The 208 rig for home use or low volume jam and acoustic gigs. The Ampeg rig for most of the cover band and rock/blues stuff.

This is my happy place at home. Pedalboard to a TC BAM200 in to a TC208 for bass and a Bose SP1 pro for all the other stuff. A Nux bass preamp with aux in and headphones out for silent practice.

Downsized my “big” board some more. With some smart use of preset, snapshots and midi programming I can get all I need for our cover band from this. More pedals is more fun and might sound better but this is easy to carry and with all the thinking and programming already done I can concentrate on the gig at hand instead of knob tweeking and tap dancing. Split path on the stomp with ampsim to PA and without to stage amp makes it easy to adapt to different places.

I do think that my “big” board is compact but today I took my time to build a small one with my bare essentials. A cutting board and two pieces of velcro and voila! This together with my PJ with flats sounds marvelous!

Same here, excellent tool. For one of our songs I just shift it 2 semitones down to maintain the playing pattern for the riff with loose strings and all like the original but transposed to match our singer. So I have a couple of preset depending on how much I want to shift. If you listen closely you can here some artifacts but in the mix with a coverband on a big party? No one will notice and I can happily continue to play my 4-string p-bass. 😀

Found the amp used and really cheap earlier. Finally got a matching 210 cab and it’s just great. Have a smaller rig and a bigger but I suspect this one will get used most of the time.

Update to my board, an Empress Bass Compressor. So easy to dial in, just a couple of minutes with a looper pedal running to find my sweet spot and it sounds GREAT!

I bought the Spectrum first and then the C4. When I get everything programmed on the Morningstar MIDI controller i might skip the Spectrum but there wasn't time for that. And I kind of like the possibility to switch in say an envelope filter to a C4 sound without having to program 2 different presets on the C4. This gives me a little more ad-hoc possibilities so I might keep it this way. (Re)building the board is great fun however so next week who knows?

Quick and dirty setup and it works sitting down for practice. I left the stand with the iPad holder on the stage where I have to stand up. 😀

Setup for some late rehearsal. Christmas show coming up tomorrow. Me late? Nah...

I’m using an Airturn BT200. It charges with a standard 9v like all the other pedals on my board so I alway have it connected to the power supply. Nice feature! https://www.thomann.de/se/airturn_bt200s_2.htm?glp=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAtqL-BRC0ARIsAF4K3WG8jRi96gssEOpeF8mppvI0kBdV5fLhUNzBBWf8GxRxidua7r6jc-YaAmwEEALw_wcB

Theres a nice trick in there if you're trying to pick a bassline from a recording where it's hard to hear. Pitch up 24 semitones and apply a EQ preset for isolating bass and it becomes clear. Sounds very strange but it works really well.