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The qsc tote bags are brilliant but not live-in, I'd get a case like the above if I had to put mine in the floor all the time but I don't. I still have the short pa stand I used to use with my Barefaced rig, they can go on there.

..... I can NOT type on a tablet.

I ran this rig for a few years and loved it. So much so that I'm considering recreating it for big outside gigs when my K12.2 won't be enough. You'll need the line outpt on your helix or some other kind of preamp.

When I saw that same functionality on the spider amps of all places it killed me that the helix didn't have it. This is a step in the right direction.

Slightly tangential but I tried one of our (great for pa tops) 712s as a bass amp on a gig and it really didn't cut it. I'd be similarly wary of the 715 based on that experience. Either the 732 or 735 should do just fine. Despite us having and loving a full RCF pa (712 tops, 705 subs and 310 mons) I went qsc K12.2 for bass and couldn't be happier.

You'd think so but no! I've got 2 singers who are the stereotypical technophobes, 2 drummers, who in fairness probably would be OK but I mean I couldn't track drums at home so fair enough, and 3 guitarists. One is great, records loads, has a full band between him and his two kids. One is not at all interested in anything technical, like he asks for help amp shopping. Last guitarist is interesting as he'll get there, but only 17 and limited by budget and experience. He's in music college though, so probably one day soon.

Nah again I think this speaks to the self selection bias on an internet forum. I work with 7 band members across 2 bands and only one of them has the gear/knowledge/inclination to record at home.

I've never had a wireless that wouldn't last from set up to tear down. That said, I felt a lot better about my Smoothound and Line 6 units that took AA or AAA as they could be 'recharged' in 2 minutes easily whereas my current Shure takes proprietary batteries. Try it!

A literal spare everything? No. But I posted a few pages back about covering that kind of thing.

Have you played the Mark Hoppus bass? It's great as-is, would probably be very old-school with a more vintage-voiced pickup. I think one of the bass bashes a few years ago did a blind (like, someone was playing behind a curtain) 'what's the best p-bass sound' shootout and the Hoppus won by quite some margin. IIRC the EA is in the 'right' place, with the DG being flipped to being closer to the neck. He's a pick player and he wanted more room. Much like the Fieldy signature Ibanez, they're FANTASTIC basses that transcend the artist that endorses them.

Subbed. Where did you get it from? I see one on the bay for about £300, is that the right kind of money?

The strat, tele, p and a few other Fenders all seem like they're done wrong* to me. If anything I'd want a slightly thinner response on the heavier strings and a little more tub from the higher strings. Reverse p should be standard surely? *Not that any of this seems to have hindered the last ~70 years of music.

If the dimensions are the same then what is the advantage of the newer 10"? Is it purely a cost thing?

I've had two basses go at gigs. Once was when I stepped on the cable from my Precision and pulled half the scratch plate out. Controls, jack everything. No way that could be fixed at a gig. I have a photo somewhere, it's horrible. It's also why I went wireless. I also once had the internal jack on my Bongo so that it was super loose and really intermittent. That could be fixed on a gig (in fact I did during a set break) but it would have been maybe around 5 minutes of downtime between songs that I really didn't want at a big outdoor scooter rally with lots of Paul Wellend lookalikes shouting for the next Oasis singalong. People always mention professionalism in these kinds of threads and I do get it but my bands aren't on that level! It's more the ire of bandmates, embarrassment in front of punters, complete lack of willing to fix anything on a dark stage in a rush and under pressure, all of that jazz. I'd much rather calmly walk over to the pile-o-carp on stage and pull out a spare wotsit. My philosophy is that anything absolutely crucial to me playing bass on that gig gets a backup. So for me that's a bass, di box, tuner, 1 each instrument and xlr cable. I go through the PA anyway, so no need for an amp. If my wireless goes I have the cable, if my Helix goes there's the DI. I have used any of this stuff exactly once. Both my rack rig and my mixer are in identical 4-space racks and so inevitably I once managed to load only the mixer by some weird mistake. Got to the gig, got annoyed at myself. Plugged into mixer, dialed in a nice rock tone using the Sansamp emulator on there, nobody cared. I do have one thing in triplicate but that's by accident really, both the wireless and the Helix have a tuner, and I have one in my bag too. No spare strap (I can sit), no spare microphone (we can do without my paltry vocals anyway), no spare effects pedals (people manage without for whole careers, I can manage one gig), no spare lights (I'm ugly). One of my bands stopped carrying a spare mixer when, at a garden party, we just plugged the singer into a speaker going straight mic>cable>speaker. The other has a tiny, battered old Behringer 4 channel in the PA cable box. I'd plug into a wedge monitor and use it as backline with no mixer. No need for spare speakers, we can turn a wedge into a main easy enough, etc etc. I really believe that you can go too far with this stuff, some people are clearly carrying 2 of everything and that's not really something I'm interested in. Of course, every situation is different. I said I can do without a spare mic because my vocals aren't critical. If yours are then who am I to judge? Bring a spare mic!

Its still possible to get airhead cabs if that's your thing. I know at least Greenboy and BFM have accounted for airheads in some of their designs. Low Down Sound used to as well.

My favourite is the mojomojo.

That's fair enough but I know that for me (and I imagine for a lot of others too) being in a band and having some sort of end goal gives focus and meaning to a practice. It's almost like having an 'excuse' to play bass as it were. I haven't played video games in over 10 years. They're not as fun as they used to be, I can't be bothered to keep buying the hardware, they're too expensive, yada yada yada. Because I haven't been able to see my 2 brothers in ages we decided to set up a weekly gaming night, upgrade our pcs where necessary (hah! bad time for that!) and get playing. Suddenly I'm finding that video games are fun again when the real truth is that the games aren't any different, it's my approach, motivation, reason for playing and social interaction that have changed. Wednesday nights aren't really about playing video games, I could have started playing at any point and I just didn't want to. Wednesday nights are about me and my brothers talking on discord, all the video games do is give us something to talk about. I guess it's the same as bass. You've said that you essentially play bass to 'zone out' and relax, great. I play bass to get up off my backside and do something creative rather than just zoning out.

Always remember that Justin Bieber has sold more records than the entire population of Basschat combined. Ain't no accounting for taste!

It's always a risk covering a real classic like that and yes it was never going to be the original but I think it's fine. The recorded version is plenty good enough (it was record of the week on radio 2!), but I still have memories of 100,000 people singing it in the rain at Download so I suppose that does bias me towards liking it.

Whoah, whoah, what's so wrong with this?

I'm another one who has almost completely stopped since March. I've gotten a massive promotion at work (I mean, yay, but for the first time ever I actually have a proper job and I'm coming in tired), we've got a new cat and there's a general malaise hanging over the world. I tried playing a little last week and I was even more rubbish than usual. Thanks BC, I thought I'd be the only one.

I mean, assuming for a second that you were already predisposed to making that cab, that would be a decently sensible (less ridiculous) way to do it.

And people say that rock n roll is dead.