Downunderwonder

As 'bass faces' go that's actually a pretty poor effort! The aim is to look like the drummer just lost it in his shorts.

Nix the plate and get a vinyl sticker cut. If it turns out you are a fretless fiend in waiting you can screw down the pick guard in a couple of years.

Most likely you have toasted the driver. Possible loose connection. Optional recone / replace / reconnect. You might want to have a look at the crossover if it has one. Golden rule for getting loud: turn up until it's not hardly getting any louder and turn it back down a smidge. If that's not loud enough, tough. You can take out some low bass and try again but beware of it getting quieter all by itself. That means it's overheating, probably what you did.

The older I get the more I come to accept that some people are outwardly perfectly normal, not serial killers, yet a bit misguided. It's okay.

It's a maneuver for the cash strapped to be able to jump on some other time sensitive gas purchase they can't afford.

An RCD is going to shut you down in the name of you not dying on stage. But then you are dying on stage, which is vastly preferable but not really a solution.

A lot of times stuff really does go to Ebay. So I'd say it's really not working on you but who can count how many times it works on someone else?

I combine all kinds of gear on the basis of what I can be bothered carting around and it all sounds pretty damn similar with some fx helping it along. I think sonic matching is a marketing invention to sell you an amp and a cab and a bass all at once.

The 60hz harmonic is where it's at for low B meat. Cut below 60hz and your world will change. Note that the quintessential Ampeg 810 always had a good low E when it never got close to 41hz reproduction.

A highpass filter will show you some B love. I very much doubt you are getting any fundamental of D.

Bus stop right outside my house, be rude not to for gigs that don't go too late. I may start motorcycling again this summer when backline is available. Mostly use my car.

That's a cracker of a poster!

Must be hell difficult to balance dead runs against building the business. If I was him I would be mostly running up and down the UK north/south style. So Cardiff might get picked up and go via Manchester to Hatfield. Build up to doing figure 8's with two vans meeting up in the middle twice a week sort of thing.

That will work. I am assuming it's a standard mono channel amp with parallel outputs. I hope you have some very good hearing protection and are playing outdoors.

So, clean amp is any power amp so long as you aren't over driving it. Clean pedal or preamp is most of them when you keep the input gain under control.

You are free to not criticize but to me that's an oxymoronic expression. Clean is the sound of your pickups amplified. People call that sterile if they don't like it and clean if they do. Anything the amp adds is no longer clean. It's dirty, unclean, no longer sterile. So what does clean but not sterile mean? It means just dirty enough that it doesn't sound sterile. Most often it means a lack of obvious dirt but noticeably raunchy in a good way. When I was hanging on the opposite side of the Atlantic bass forum it was common for those tones to be raved about as clean. There were also a lot more threads on what the best XYZ was for Metal. I like just a hair on that gets a little bit raunchy and not too loud when I dig in. Lots of amps can do that, as can pedals.

I could show you how it would be wired but I would have no confidence that, even if you did it right, it wouldn't blow up in your face, quickly or slowly.

Exactly how I felt about it until I learned that small wins were possible with practice. Then when I throw in the odd BV it sounds like someone else is playing the bass while I am singing. Surreal out of body experience. Ordinarily I cannot even talk while playing. No way can I count myself as a singing bassist.

You must have a different meaning for geography. People who start out a little bit blonde get bleached by the sun. Back when the photo was taken it was fashionable to accelerate the process with the addition of lemon juice. Hence the blondini gang in the photo.

...is a rule you appear to claim to have broken.

Simple geography. California sun makes everyone some kinda blonde.

Jazz Ciggys do not agree with me. Ime the guys it does agree with play way too many 'jazz' notes while believing they have temporarily been reincarnated as Jimmy Hendrix.

I haven't read the thread but it shouldn't have gone much further than this. Band follows singer. End of story. If you can't switch gear to follow the singer when they mess up you don't belong on a stage. My mistakes are not mistakes, they are jazz notes less harmonious. Some noted player said something like: "you are never more than one fret away from a musically valid note".

New bass for the visuals?

Time to look for bigger venue?