Downunderwonder

A newfangled 12'' wipes the floor with any old 15 if you give it enough wattage, in a cab you can throw farther than you can spit.

If you didn't try a different amp with the cable and cab then you are still at square one of trouble shooting. Test the amp with a good cable and cab before looking to fix the amp.

I think you need to edit the thread title to include the word SOLVED in there.

If it's a "signal splitter" nothing really adds up does it?!? XLR's are fiddly little bastards for a first soldering project but have at it.

Sure. Turn the lights off.

That might be the source of my confusion. My Dad got Joe Jackson Jumping Jive around the time we went to Rodger Fox. Somehow the name Graham Maby for a bass player tickled me.

That's either a helluva coincidence or he lived in NZ in the late 80's?

Some shocker court case outcomes make me wonder about the musical competence of the judicial system.

I wouldn't be the slightest bit uncomfortable with that situation. Plenty of times the hook is coming from the groove created by the band and substituted lyrics would do just as well. Not many books of poetry got sold while albums sold by the millions. A talented tune writer still needs a band to come up with ideas or he's a songwriter that has no use for a band and is going to take off on them sooner or later. Since yours is happy to co create and share the spoils, simply count yourself lucky.

I think it rather depends on the number of applicants expected. For a lucrative gig there would be no shortage and the 'kinda abusive' filter only reduces the workload on getting down to the audition list. I haven't seen the listing so any assumption the gig is lucrative is based on previous postings.

There's a Crazy8 in the classifieds that can do low level gigs as well as practice duty if you cart along a micro amp. The reason it got called Crazy is it has a very stout 8'' Faital in a very small box to put out like a dog on heat. Kinda pricey though.

There's a reason mechanics wear nitrile gloves these days. Personally I would avoid all 'mineral oils'. Thankfully none of my basses require any dressing, mainly due to an aversion to rosewood.

Should start a poll. 'Who has seen a fret sprout'. I never even heard of fret sprout before internet.

If they were a bit brighter they might have said ''Only email enquiries will be registered, no FB, no comments''. Anyone not reading to the end is eliminated. Anyone ignoring the instruction is eliminated. Anyone who can be arsed opening up their email to reply gets a shot at the gig. Those players will be the ones best suited to playing ball in a cover band. Surely one will be a good fit. That's the logic without the 'tude.

Linseed oil is potentially very dangerous stuff. Even after washing, a rag used for linseed oil application can spontaneously catch fire. Evaporation of linseed is exothermic, wicking off cloth fibres turns them into little candles. NZ Fire Service goes to 60 spontaneous rag fires a year.

Hand me the crackers!

If you can make a niche out of selling exotic basses all power to you. You get known as the place to find something fancy. Better keep keep filling the shelf with them! Then every other shop gives away the fancy end of the market entirely. Hell it must be tough to be in retail. I vaguely recall going to visit a few shopkeepers with my Dad to see if retail would be a career for me. It wasn't!

I am sure Gibson have some crafty elves to make anything look like real deal vintage.

I do. By not buying buying them. Take that, expensive bass makers!

There's other possibilities. He could have been turned down for an endorsement deal and the cheapy is his big finger to Gibson Inc. Or Gibson Inc might have asked him to play a custom shop Epifone for a worthwhile fee. I don't even know if Gibson Inc do endorsement deals. I am pretty sure it's not universal for big manufacturers to have an 'artist program'.

I have played some inexpensive basses. They didn't come up to the mark. I have played a couple of really pricey ones. They didn't do for me any better than my mid range ones. For me so long as it is stable and plays well it's all good. I have had a few Fenders, to wind up with a Fender that I got relatively cheaply. It's a bit heavy so I may look for something lighter one day. What I haven't seen here is any of the new miracle CNC pretty competent house brand stuff made cheap(ish). I wonder if the hardware will let it down. As my Grandfather said.... 'Ye pays ye money and ye takes ye choice'. My opinion of fancy wooded expensive basses is 'fine for you, not for me'.

You are basically trying to imply there should be no consumerism involved in basses. What makes basses different to almost everything else you can buy?

You wish. If they tuned them they might discover the intonation needed to be set.

Methinks this means not what you think it means. It's entirely logical not to stock something that they only sell one every five years. Unless you mean they must be telling lies about 5 string sales?

I think it might be more a case of Mesa lost the designs for the weird Master vol. There is a narrow band of useful overdrive between 9 and 10. The pirated preamp schematic is freely available but it stops short of the Master. Either a bunch of stuff was replaced on your amp or the tech is one of the ones who makes everyone's life difficult doing mods to perfectly good amps when we would all be better off if he took a job at McDonald's. Some of the D180 did come with a full set of 12ax7.