Downunderwonder

Same enough for me but I never actually owned a bonafide P nor A/B'd one against a P/J.

Definitely not an expert but you are dead right about needing an appropriate gauge. I tried putting a new end on a cable with some thick stuff and had to cheat it onto the iron because the wire insulation was melting before I could get it to flow. Ugliest mess ever. You don't want that with your nice new bits and bobs.

Fdeck published his schematic for free use by DIYers btw.

Smoked a capacitor. I wonder how that happened? No chance you poked it with 18V by accident?

Lightning strike. Nuclear explosion. Flat batteries in your basses.

1 per cabinet.

I think power compression is when the speaker does not respond linearly to more power. At that point it is turning the extra power into heat instead of sound at a greater rate than it does at lower volume. The extra heat makes things get tighter and then it gets quieter, sometimes to the point no sound comes out at all if the player ignores the warning and turns up some more instead of taking a break.

That's because they are the same thing with a different label.

Never played a cajon?

Doubly luck to be alive then!

I toured south coast of Wales on foot. Damn near fell off a cliff in the dark when I lost the trail and was making my own way trying to pick it up again. The moon came out just in the nick of time or I would not be typing this and never even played a bass.

Plenty of players want to give it a bit of a go. Some keep going with it and keep it, some trade it away or trade up and some start a FL collection, either way there is a steady market for used fretless basses with buyers and sellers. The perception of FL being rare beasts in a rarefied market is only down to relatively few sucessful uptakes, most giving up completely so the price is depressed. Good for the collectors and inspiring for the wannahavapropergoers as cost of entry is easier.

Not almost. There is no way of DIY'ing what the teacher does. Interesting that what Dad does post gig out of necessity is a good Alexander exercise if done correctly. Lie flat with a thin book or two under your head and knees up. Everything must relax into the floor. Have someone take out one of the books as your neck relaxes. Just lie there and breathe. If your legs don't self stabilise over your hips you can do it with your belt around your knees so they can rest out against the belt That lets your hip muscles relax. Then the last book. After 15 mins roll over and stand up ( the Alexander way ). You will be about 3/4" taller. Few people naturally perch their head on top of their spine past childhood. They emulate adults cranking it forward and down. Some worse than others. Don't see too many musicians that are all that bad though. By typing this all I have rearranged myself to be 'more Alexander'. It is as much a state of being as anything else. I need to work on myself some more!

I hear Bretagne is nice this time of year... Alexander holliday? With sessions over a few days you could get going with it. Take the train. Driving is a good way of undoing good work.

Aside from possibly being saved by Paul you could perhaps invest in part of the PA now. That would give you an active monitor that could turn around and be a PA cab when you are on IEM. I assume the venue is ok for FOH, and rest of band is going to be IEM with the new PA as well.

It's all the other stuff you are doing that is unnecessary for angular control and acceleration of the stick that is tuckering you out. A lot of that is down to timing so you have to learn timing and groove without the extraneous motions and tensions. The stick still has to arrive at precisely the right time angle and speed. Every time. Neat trick! You are in for a real joyous discovery. I don't think you can get it from a book or video though. The teacher guides you in inhibiting wasteful action that is subconscious so you learn to recognize the feeling of doing it right instead. One of the first lessons they will literally guide you in getting up out of a chair after doing some teaching motions that rewire your brain. Note not help but guide. You will be blown away how well your leg muscles can actually perform when given a chance because they are not tangled up in stabilizing your overactive core. Sitting, standing. No intermediate wrestling match with yourself. The teacher shows you how to apply that to your drumming. You know how you can recognize drummers blind. Someone is going to come into the room and be surprised to see you on the kit because it won't sound like the old wound up you. It will be the new fluid you. You are going to like it!

Every chance, but only if you go to an Alexander Technique teacher to unleash your inner non tensioned drummer self.

No guessing at all. You made the best of it you could and got a booking for your efforts. That other landlord probably only came in because he heard you from the street and wants some of that for his place.

It shouldn't be all that hard to suss the PA situation. Then decide what you're going to do about amping bass. You are covered with your IEM but everyone else may not be thrilled by the PA.

That BAM plot is dubious. Having no tailing off below 40hz calls into question if there is any accuracy to it. Phil says that himself. You can bet your lunch there is a filter somewhere down there or it would happily pump infrasound.

They show the relative strength of signal output across the frequency range. The scale along the bottom is logarithmic as to match the musical scale in pure numbers and fit on a page and we can read it. 10hz 100hz 1000hz 10000hz becomes 10¹ 10² 10³ 10⁴ becomes '1 2 3 4' along the axis. The vertical axis expresses relative loudness as we hear in dB, also a logarithmic scale. A perfectly flat amp would be a straight line across all the way down to 1hz.

None of them is without an inbuilt HPF or their lines would go more or less flat back to 10hz, 10¹ on the charts for the mathematically challenged.

Refretting could be not so simple depending on what was used as filler. I think I would leave well enough alone.

Sounds about right. Bruno Mars' band strutting all over the stage with the dancers, studio sounds, Beeb style.

Difrnt strokes. I love jamming out tunes and getting them mostly right enough to fool everyone that I am some kind of bass god. The more you do it the better your ear gets. One time I walked in on my drummer giving a lesson using a recording of a tune we play. I thought it was us because the bass lines were "my lines" on a tune I had learned off just the chord sheet and playing along to the band. I play it differently but similarly every time. Then I realised it was a better recording than anything we had done and the bassist wasn't making any flubs. Interesting that he and I have the same taste in bassline from any number of alternative ways to compliment the melody and get from one chord to the next every 2 bars or less. So my point is there is as much to be gained by listening to the tune as the bassline when trying to figure out your part.