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Franz Ferdinand do what I suspect is put fabric covers over road cases. Sorry that they don't work for you, but please don't try and tell those of us who are doing it that it can't be done. It's possible to create excellent stage sound using a variety of approaches. Those 'farty' frfr cabs are the same ones that do mains pa duties on thousands of stages across the world.

I really like the powder/baby blue that the Sire MMalike basses come in. Purple would also look great.

Not sure what you mean by 'North' but my mates in alternative originals bands can't always count on pa support up here, it's a world away from swanky covers in posh wedding venues. If you know what you're getting in to then fine. If not I wonder if it's worth having a nice rig (say a darkglass head and 2*10 cab or whatever) and then picking up an old 810 or something for super cheap for the gigs where you have to loosen fillings on your own. If you're sure you can get away with stage volume then don't sleep on the modelling combos. The Fender Stage, the Boss Katana and even the Blackstar stuff can all do proper grindy, compressed rock tones for little money and even less weight.

Someone is selling a G&L SB2 in the classifieds, that would be a superb bass if you decide to go that route. I've used mine on plenty of rock music gigs. Maybe an Ashdown combo if you decide to go with the amp. You can get a pro level amp for budget prices with those and again, great rock sound.

Not beyond the realm of possibility I suppose. The blend control will be first in the circuit and have two wires coming out of it going to the pickups. The pickup might be wired per coil and the tech just connected the wires up either without thinking or without caring.

Great pedal. Mine has just replaced a Darkglass.

The main board (that I got told off for posting last time!) has finally been upgraded to a + version of the Shure wireless, really do appreciate that auxillary input. I've also got rid of the overhanging xlr cables, making everything much neater. It's now 100% balanced using the EBS flat trs cables for all 3 cable runs. My analogue board has had the overdrive switched back to a TC and I've managed to squeeze the OC2 in as well. This doesn't really see much use these days, but sometimes I like a simpler thing if I'm recording or whatever.

Indeed, that's where I'd seen it, but the first post in here mentions ebony, rosewood and pau ferro. No worries, I'll stick to the one thread :D. Thanks again.

Kiwi, sorry to bug you when there's so much to be done. Can I please ask why these ones have wooden boards and not the peek of the other necks? Would it be best to have a central discussion thread for all of these questions, and then keep the separate threads just for ordering? I wonder if you've already answered the above somewhere where I can't see it and I'm sure none of us want to waste your time answering.

Or presumably import duties?

Assuming we can 5+ bassists to agree on anything, is there a rough indication of price? I think around £500 for a 'standard' one was mentioned in the other thread? Never mind, just seen the £480 in the thread titles. Otherwise, I'd like mine as much as possible to be a normal Stingray neck, just graphite. 3+1 tuners, normal nut width, etc etc. Whilst I don't feel super strongly, I would tick a luminlay option box if such a thing existed, but that would be the only difference I'd want and even then not really that much.

Yeah, this is what I think. The side jack isn't too egregious, plenty of Rays have side jacks so just get the controls sorted.

You think about these things too much my friend. I'd forgotten this thread existed and I was too busy mocking someone for having a tort guard on a burst.

Also happy to help if you're anywhere near Newcastle.

Take spares of anything you need to get through a gig. For me that's bass, 1/4" cable, xlr cable, tuner, di box. For you it might be a different list. Mark your stuff somehow. I put a blue cable tie around everything I own. It doesn't stop someone walking away with it, but it means I can categorically say "that's mine, give it back". Do a technical rehearsal before hand. What's a technical rehearsal? A practice gig. Rent a large space like a village hall or a social club, take all your gear and play a whole fake gig. Fake setup, facing a fake audience, fake soundcheck, play a fake set as if there was an audience. A normal rehearsal is for solving problems like "what key should we play this song in?" or "how long should we make the middle 8 break?". A technical rehearsal is for solving problems like "I have used my gear rather than the stuff in the rehearsal studio, I have just realised I don't have the right cable to plug x into y" or "if I stand here, where I thought was sensible, it turns out I can't see Z, I need to remember to stand closer". And most commonly: "we thought we had enough songs for 45 minutes, turns out they only last for 30".

Colour me interested. I always wanted a graphic neck for my various Stingrays, but then I found one with the most amazing neck ever and sort of got over it. I'd either try and get this one recreated for the Ray or I'd buy a standard sized one and build a bitsa around it. Good work though!

You're blaming the cramped space on the pool table and not those boards?

Rudy Sarzo put a shift in like, he was up there for ages.

Well that was fun.

The 'for sale' section here is a really valuable resource. The previous listings contain what is surely the second-biggest archive of sold basses in the UK after ebay and the best archive of, you know, good basses that you might actually want. However, often when something is sold a seller will just remove everything. The details, the images, the price, the condition. This makes it difficult to value something you want to sell, difficult to track a unique bass' history and difficult to find information about something you've just purchased. Of course most of this applies to amps and the other for sale sections too, just there tends to be fewer unique or rare pieces in the other forums. Is there maybe a way this could be stopped? Maybe just limiting the ability to edit posts in those sections? I get that it is probably hard to do from a technical stand point as the system can't discern the difference between correcting a typo and deleting the whole text. I also understand that the bloat of old posts probably contributes a load on the basschat servers. But like, it just seems such a waste.

Nothing to do with accuracy, you don't know which one of us has the better ears. What if I don't want singing, I don't want punch and I don't want a bottom end? I'm not arguing about whether basses sound different, I'm arguing whether one bass sounds objectively better than another.

What is objectively superior when talking about feel or sound? I can see being objective for something like build quality, paint finish, tuner reliability, bridge adjustability, etc etc. But "better sound"? I dunno.

Sorry, I meant 'sleep on', I will correct my post.