Jack

Which part? Seemed fine to me.

It lives!

Yeah man, it sounds like the problem here is the soundman of his gear, not you or yours. Oh well, enjoy the new bass amp! Where abouts in the country are you?

I'm getting to grips with it just fine. FWIW our singer has just had some throat issues that have meant we're dropping several songs down a semitone or two temporarily (it's pop punk, so it's pretty high up). It tracks better when you play with a pick, I'll say that. You can move a tracking slider between 'stable' and 'fast', so there's room to fine tune what you want out of it. I'm about 75% on the 'fast' side. Again, this is pop punk so it's all too fast and loud to care about silly things like being in tune. I can recommend it in general.

Yes I don't want better sounds on the Stomp, I just want more of them. The 8 block rule is fine if you want 8 gain pedals, but create a patch with a polyphonic pitch shifter and you might only be able to add 2/3 more blocks.

In theory that's possible, although I wonder if you might run out of processing power. If you let me know exactly what you want on each channel I'll test it out for you?

See I couldn't disagree more. Ime anyone who goes down this road just ends up thinking that the modeller (any modeller) is absolute garbage because the ac30 model doesn't sound exactly like the one they once heard in 1974. Treat the Stomp like a box that has many sounds in it.

Between a wireless mic, 3 instrument wireless, 3 in ears and the mixer we have it all multiple times over. Separate channels and scan the WiFi. If you're doing your job well there's many many WiFi devices in the crowd. The 5-10 we bring with us aren't going to make much difference.

Everything is just from Amazon. Not my style I'm afraid. I haven't yet run out of sex or rock n roll, never really felt the need to do drugs. Hah yes! I have a bottle of that somewhere too and it's brilliant you're right. It was more the convenient tin/applicator arrangement that I wanted. Maybe I should have just put that in the tins... I've done the desk since that photo was taken.

After a recent thread where I asked for string cleaner recommendations I have done some more research, taken as much advice as I can and come up with a solution. It seems to be the case that most string cleaner products are essentially mineral oil, sometimes with a little extra scent. However, if that's the case then £8-£10 for a few ml of mineral oil seemed like a bad deal to me, so I figured I'd do it for myself. 500ml mineral oil £7.99 (about 100x cheaper than any commercial string cleaner by volume) 5 lint free cloths £3.99 2 marijuana tins £7.99 In other words, for somewhere about the price of 2 lots of commercial string cleaner you can get two infinitely refillable tins, enough cloths to last ages, and enough oil to refill the whole shebang 25 times over. Nice! I poured a few ml into each tin, stuck the cloth in there so it got nice and soaked and put one in my office where I play bass and one in my gig kit bag. It's been about a week now and so far it's working just as well as anything I've ever used. Which is to say that the strings feel shiny if you wipe before you play and then they still feel a little shiny next time you pick them up if you wipe them down after you play. I'm not entirely convinced that any of these products inherently make your strings 'last' longer before going dead, but it can't hurt, right?

I have to come clean and clarify that my Stingray is my most favourite bass ever. However, the L2000 is just as good, and that's a USA Ray vs a tribute G&L. I can only imagine that a USA G&L would be amazing.

I currently own both, and that's a fair assessment.

I definitely should have put more info in the OP, sorry. I came to respond to this by saying that I would need a tuner as this would have to 'do it all'. Which to me means a tuner, maybe some effects, and an amp sim. However, it does have a tuner! Excellent. It's a but above my ideal budget but I can stretch, time to go to youtube and watch some demos. Not looking for headphones stuff, so the Katana go is out. Well there's doing homework for a band or a show and then there's playing for the fun of it. I just want something to leave permanently plugged in to my wedge so that I don't have to fish for gear anywhere else. It has to sound good really, that's all that matters. Amp sims would be on my list, but if I can manage without then fair enough. I did like my original 60B. Good suggestion, thanks.

Hivemind, I have this thing where I like to keep my gig stuff and my home stuff separate. It's the only way I can be sure that I haven't forgotten anything. I was keeping an eye out for another HX Stomp (as that's what I use for gigs) but the truth is that they're no longer cutting edge and sometimes you just want a change. With that said, has anyone used a Valeton GP100 or similar? Especially for home practice? Any recommendations for the Mooer, Harley Benton, NUX, Zoom options? Thanks, Jack

Some rack rigs through the years. Like many I loved them for the ease of setup and hated them for the bulky carry. I still have and use the mixer rack right at the end but everything else is gone.

I have some very similar ones from Hao Deng on Amazon. I have three synced to colour change slowly and one set to white as a spotlight. Can't recommend enough. The only downside is that they do rather shine up your nose.

Both of those sentences make me want to go "urgh, urgh".

Tiny little pub for us as we wind down the indie rock band, only 3 gigs left! Silly setup in a silly place, but I think we were super professional and hid the cables well enough... The singer and lead guitarist went to plug the IEC cable into his amp and the thing just disintegrated, leaving the power socket inside the amp and inaccessible. Thankfully, because I'm lazy, I still had my other pedalboard in the car from practice a few nights ago so he ended up with my Sansamp and straight into the PA. Where was his spare stuff? Good question! After the show a nice young man came up and told me that I sounded amazing and that Stingrays were his dream bass. He showed me pictures of a copy he had and everything. Sweet.

So it looks as though they're not held in too high regard! Mostly mineral oil with some snake oil?

I'm not normally that bothered about keeping my strings amazingly-super-bright but I have always wiped down after playing with Fast Fret. I kind of feel like it does something, but maybe it's just placebo. However recently a few things have happened all at once which has got me really thinking about the life extender type products. Firstly, I've joined a pop punk band and need the brightness. Secondly, strings are ridiculously expensive nowadays. Thirdly I've sort of hit a concentration of needing new strings. It's like this year when the 5 year and the 7 year cicadas will line up, several of my basses would all benefit from new strings at the moment, to an investment of around £120. It's be nice to keep them lasting as long as possible. I have used Fast Fret, Dunlop XLR8 (that felt useless) and more recently the Dr Duck's Ax Wax, which I kind of feel like it does something. Anybody else swear by anything that I might want to check out?

Ooooof. I bought mine almost 20 years ago and it was half that. Having said that, I still use it on the regular. Plenty of people offering similar functionality though.

The only sensible point that Jeremy Clarkson has ever made (that I'm aware of) is that councils and pedestrianization are doing as much if not more than the internet to destroy the town centres. The town I grew up in still had the Blockbuster livery on a shop unit the last time I went back, the high street is dead. Meanwhile there's the Metrocentre shopping mall 20 minutes drive away, Team Valley (industrial estate/retail park, 15 minutes), the Arnison Centre (retail park, 10 minutes) and Dalton Park (outlet shopping, 30 minutes) that are all absolutely thriving. Why? Free parking.

Good! I'm in the middle of getting a new band off the ground and we'll be using one of the RCF 708ii from my other band with two 910 that the singer owns. We're aiming to be quiet, but I was wondering what stepping down from either 932s or Alto 15s would be like.

My wife has gone that route before as well when her Sumup was playing up, but we feel it looks a little less professional. Agreed that it's actually better though. We regularly do an alternative market that's all witches, bedroom toys, tattoos, exotic dancers, that kind of thing. You want to know who has the best card machines? Drag queens and sex workers. They are NOT missing a tip. If you don't have any cash they'll whip out a car reader from somewhere that I don't want to think about. They all use either Sumup or Square, with a bias towards Sumup. It just didn't work for us.