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Meant to edit, quoted instead. Move along folks

I have not. Firstly, in this particular case it seems like FNG would be expected to pay new prices for what is to them a second hand pa system. Secondly, as a more general point, is this new person expected to cough up for the business cards that were bought last month? The rehearsal rooms that were used last November? The sponsored Facebook posts that were bought last year? All of these things have benefited the band before the new person has joined, and the new person will be receiving some benefit from them. Thirdly, OP, if you are going to expect this of someone, mention it EARLY. I'd be more than a little angry to, say, spend time on my evenings learning 5 songs, driving to a rehearsal room and spend an hour playing to only then be told that you're expecting me to pay for the mortgage you took out in 1992 because the band once had a party in your house 3 years before I joined.

Add me to the "giving £600 to some strangers I met down the pub in the hope I'll get some gigs soon seems like a bad idea" camp.

I was surprised actually. I mean, that is unquestionably a LOT of money, but it's less than a lot of big brand heads (at least their top level stuff) and it's way way less than almost every other small manufacturer. And that's just SS, I can't remember the last tube head I saw for anywhere near that. Good value for sure.

I was quoted £758. Including shipping, excluding taxes. So roughly £900.

There's a new batch ready next month, could go new if you wanted?

IME, try to avoid split ownership. My hard rock band bought a set of speakers and subs for £1000 after we had been gigging for a bit. I bought it and all gig money went to paying it off until it was paid off. 7 years later the drummer left and demanded to be bought out, leading to strong language and general miserableness on our behalves. In the end the 4 of us chucked them £50 each just to be done. It's a real shame because it left a bad taste, money ruins things. In my indie band I own the mixer rack, the drummer owns the tops and the guitarist owns the subs. All bought outright and all looked after by ourselves. The only shirker is the other guitarist but then why make him buy something when we all own it already? Small items, like new cables or something, come straight off the top from a gig payment by mutual agreement beforehand. I think my new function band does it the best to be honest. The singer owns the entire PA and lighting rig and gets £100 right off the top of any gig for maintenance, carrying and setup. In return for a £25 cut in pay I can have no carrying, no maintenance fees, no subs in my house, no worries about leaving stuff in the van? Result.

Thinness, compression and drive when connected to a mixer? Sounds almost like it's a level or possibly impedance mismatch somewhere.

Sorry I deleted that when I realised it was an ancient Facebook post from Leszek and he no longer offers the upgrade with the '2nd gen' wb100.

Thanks

Quick question. You know the metal of the amp box inside the wooden sleeve? Is that a complete box all the way around the amp or are some of the walls missing so that the innards are exposed to the wooden box?

Hard to say! I should have said "the ones that came in my Squier originally" as I have replaced them. My Squier was my first bass and, as my tastes developed a little bit, I started to notice the inherent noise in the signal. In one fell swoop it got new shielding, a new loom and the pickup from my MIA P (which didn't need it as it has a DiMarzio Will Power). I think the pickup was probably fine (and if you want a quote for your for sale ad feel free to use that one! )and I think the problem was the shielding, but I was tearing the thing apart anyway, and I had the MIA pickup right there...

Yeah they look the same as the ones in my 01-02 Affinity P.

It's wild the different approaches to this. I play in two covers band and whilst I'm never anal about being 100% on anything I do try to make an effort with my helix to match tones a bit and do some of the wibbly synth parts. I switch between pick and fingers and I'm also mostly ampless. However, the very nice guy who deps for me plays a Sire V7 (100% fingerstyle) into a Markbass with no effects of any kind and doesn't touch the eq all night. His stage volume means he's not in the pa much. I'm not sure anyone in the audience has ever noticed that the bass player is different, never mind the difference in tones.

I used a 712 as backline once and it was lackluster. The 732 or the 735 is where its at. Having said that I went qsc for the superior DSP (which I never use) Oh well.

Change the problem. If you put the looper after the Zoom instead, then you don't need an aux in pedal, you need a headphone amp.

Sorry the first I've heard of the retrovibe was googling it just now. I can't comment on better, worse or comparative value but I can tell you that the MMSR is superb. It's in my number one gigging bass and it's just wonderful.

Don't sell your first bass!

I've gigged with wireless systems for about 20 years and only had 3-5 issues. That's probably less reliable than a cable, but not by much. The pros outweigh the cons for sure.

The Electric Blue stuff from Ashdown was bottom rung for its time, can you maybe stretch to an Ashdown MAG combo? Old, heavy, covered in carpet. But you can get a 2x10, 1x15 or even a 4x10 combo that will provide around 180W internally and about 300W if you add a cabinet later. The 4x10 would pretty much cover any gig I've ever done and sound great doing it.

Truly god-tier routers there, guys If the mixer connects fine using a lan cable, why don't you use that method to add your home network wifi details to the xair, then you can flip it to client mode whenever you're at home and hopefully stop those issues with various devices not connecting? Mine is on client mode at home, because I don't want the hassle of changing any control device over to a different wifi, I just want to be able to fire up the app on say my desktop pc and not have to choose between mixer or internet access. Live it's a non-issue because it will presumably be wired to your router.

Weird gig at The Gunner's Club in Sunderland. Turns out it's not just a name and they take the 'gunners' bit very seriously. This was not the place for a stray acab joke, that's for sure. The pictures were all taken during either set up or soundcheck, it absolutely filled up as soon as we started the first song and everyone came upstairs from the bar below. All in all a good gig, and when the free pint was drunk the next one was £2.90, ahhhhhh social clubs.

I'll buy a good bass regardless of the name on the headstock.I would never buy a bass because I like the player. Back in the day when you could get a pristine used one for £250 the Ibanez K5 was the best B string pretty much under £1000 despite the Fieldy connection.

Not the bestest Everything went great first set, started the second and I though "I'm really quiet" and I realised that my stage wedge, a QSC K12.2, had the power light flashing rather than steady on. When we got a minute between songs during some singer/crowd banter I flipped it back over to see an error message on the screen. On dear. I put some of myself in the singer's wedge and got on with the gig just fine. However, the QSC has a problem. If you turn it on it says "Speaker damage, can you hear the 100Hz test tone clear and undistorted?" Well, I can't even hear anything. It's as if the speaker is completely disconnected. Now the question is: authorised QSC service centre (London) or local repair? Balls.