Downunderwonder

Farcebook is the goto place to fence stolen goods in fine plain sight. They may also be dumb enough to try pawning it. Having a police report is part of laying claim to it isn't it?

There's a clue there that you will get your answer quicker from the sensitivity spec.

Result also depends on Blackstar. If they did the same as GK did with their active bass expansion cabs you're SOL. Those require the hyperactive output of the matching GK combo extension output. I don't know of anything that will substitute. What's the input sensitivity spec of the cab amp? It will be very obvious from that if you have a chance. Later versions have quasi "Line Out" Level switch which has some oomph to it but not proper Line Level. So it's a definite maybe if a Sansamp can kick it. Sensitivity is the key.

Jeebus. OP has two amps and two 4 ohm cabs. The solution is trivial and has been given three times. Only requires a spare 1/4 patch lead to link the amps fx send of the bass input amp to fx return of the slave amp. Now that's four times. Give it a blimin bone!

I wonder if your speakon cable is NFG.

Never thought about it, but good shout.

I got a knock on the door only once. I was testing just how loud my amp would go and got a bit carried away. My bad. The neighbour's ADHD kid made fairly regular bumps and screams that carried so I guess we were even with my practice amp carrying now and then.

Get ye to BC classifieds. With paying gigs some here would even let you pay it off.

I played for almost a year solely through house rigs , if I was lucky, or the PA at open mics, when I only had a practice amp of my own. So I got a little bit of experience and out of the blue I get offered a gig that was paying some real money! So I had to make a decision on what I was going to spend my hard earned on, with a view to carrying on as a well paid bassist. Enter Messrs Trace and Elliot. They beat out Mr Marshall by virtue of a dealer driving to me. I was living way out in the sticks on contract. He demo'd the Trace and I was sold. < I only learned about Trace and Elliot being fictional characters that rolled well off the tongue many years later when the internet happened >

I think something could be lost in translation here. Reading directly "they didn't need you<r awesome chops>". Perhaps the singer thought he was doing you a favour by releasing you to find a better band?

Ime the line isn't fine at all. A bassline that is a bit different is nothing like the odd festival of unmemorable it has been my misfortune to witness.

There's an echo in here. Job done. No need for any more gear.

Without the white noise they could ask proper money for it. With the white noise it's a non starter for me. There's no excuse for a brand new amp that sits there hissing at you with nothing plugged in.

Bears repeating actually.

Absolutelism fail.

I read he went around threatening the people who were badmouthing him for being a scamming so and so. So I will be quite happy to read of him getting the bash one day.

Get off your high horse and acknowledge the rest of the world that often has no stage as such just a corner of the pub to set up in and play some tunes. You assumed a stage with FOH and monitors. Why does every hotshot assume everyone has monitors?

You assume far too much. Way far too much. My amp fills the room just fine when it has to. Nobody has to bring anything to hear bass or make bass heard aside from me. I still cook on a fire when I feel like it too. Damn it tastes good. I made no assumption that IEM is only for big shows. It's just a fact of life that most small shows don't have them. That's because most of the small shows are played by people who might play a proper big stage twice a year or twice a decade. The best compliment I ever got was playing to a 200 seat theater. Soundman came up to me to tell me it was the best bass sound he ever heard. Do you seriously believe we should kit everyone with IEM when only bass, piano and singer is amplified? That's what you're saying!

Actually you have to drive so you can stop in the clear distance you can see, within the speed limit and traction limits of the surface, with regard for intersections and other hazards. Any faster and you better have a much better reason than I like driving fast.

You must never had heard the story of young Jimmy. His parents got him a bass and amp for his 16th birthday along with some lessons. After his first after school lesson his Mum asked 'what did you learn'. "I learned a quarter note riff on E" comes back Jimmy. Next week it's the riff on A. Following week Jimmy doesn't get home until midnight. Mum is beside herself. 'What the hell Jimmy where the f have you been?'. "We did the riff on B and a turnaround and I had a gig at the Dog'n'Duck".

Your choice would leave you gigless in my backwater same as OP.

I did in fact play through pedals direct to my PA on a very good very small gig with no guitars or vocals. Effectively I was playing through a backline amp with no monitors, not really applicable to the OP.

Because otherwise without all your gear they would find a bassist with an amp and carry on. Not rocket science.

It's common for the original artists to play it a bit differently every time too. I don't hear much in the way of overplaying as I understand the word. To me overplaying is stomping all over the arrangement and over someone else's twiddly bit. If you think you are overplaying maybe you are. Sometimes a little extra empty space is mighty effective too. An open mic host referred to an overplaying bassist as playing like an American. The kid could play alright. Bippity bobbitty all over the place. Meh.

It's not ethics. A complete beginner may have the wherewithal to buy nice gear if they choose. No seal pups were clubbed to death. A somewhat lousy player may decide his lousy gear is wholly or partly to blame and invest in nicer gear. He could be wholly wrong, or only partly wrong if his gear was all that hard to get nice noises from. Either way NSPWCTD. An old pro could be still playing with the first ge ever bought or getting a shiny new one every couple of years. Again, NSC... No ethics at all.