Jack

I posted this in the gig thread and didn't notice at the time, but the backdrop here is relevant to this thread. Nirvana, ACDC, Rolling Stones, Prince, etc, some of the biggest artists of all time. Who's that in the top right? 😁

Interesting regarding the 745s. When I downsized from my Barefaced rig I was tempted by the 745s as I kept worrying that any other pa solution wouldn't cut it as a bass amp. In the end I went with a pair of QSC k12.2s (for a variety of reasons over the RCF) and even they're overkill for my needs. I think now I'd buy the 10" model of whatever made the most sense, I've never needed that much stage volume. Funnily enough I now accidentally own a really nice RCF sub, so I'd have been better off if I'd bought the RCF tops as well in the first place. Digital mixers are where it's at man. My hard rock band uses an all Alto pa system (2x TS115 and 2x TS118a), and my pop punk band uses RCF (usually 2x 910a and 1x 705ii but we have options) and if you offered me the choice between the budget Alto speakers with my digital desk or the RCF system with an old school board I could 100% make the cheaper PA sound better.

Gig? Unimportant. Venue? Walls and roof, next question. Audience? Yeah there was an audience. Great, now that the preliminaries are out of the way let's talk about the really important things. I put LEDs on my board. Fiiiiiine, photo of everything else. Post setup, pre tidy.

Buenas. I am trying to install my preferred Dunlop Dual Design straplocks on a bass, but I have run into a snag. The Thumb seems to have threaded inserts inside the bass and the 'screws' that hold the strap buttons in are not screws at all but rather bolts. Unfortunately I can't reuse the same bolts as the heads are too big to sit inside the new strap buttons. Urgh. My first thought was just to go to a hardware store and try to find a bolt with the same thread that does fit through the strap button but it occurs to me that this may already be a solved problem. Has anyone on BC come across this problem and beaten it? Does anyone know the size and thread pattern of the threaded inserts? Can the inserts be removed? Easily? By an idiot? Just looking for any guidance from the Basschat hive mind please. Thanks! Insert Standard pins Old and new fittings Old bolt in new pin

All fine, but as ever it would be wise to remember that BC is not representative of the wider world. It's not even representative of most bass players. Me and my wife go to London most years a few weeks before Christmas. Shopping, drinking, that kind of thing. We sometimes catch a show and in 2017 we saw Metallica in about October time. A little early for us to go down but hey, Metallica. A year or two later we saw that the Muppets were doing a live orchestra show. I love the Muppets, big part of my childhood and an embarrassingly big part of my adult life, so my wife looked at getting tickets and she was shocked to see that they were more expensive than Metallica were. "For f@#@ick PUPPETS". I reminded her that, goths and rockers that we were, if you asked anyone we know personally, they would almost certainly take the Metallica tickets. But if you show the average person on the street a photo of Kermit and a photo of Hetfield and ask them to name the people in the pictures you'll get about 99/100 knowing Kermit and maybe 1 or 2 knowing Hetfield. This is a forum for bass nerds. We might prefer Claypool, Lee, Pastorious or Jackson. Most people don't have a clue who we're on about. Primus never had a Vegas residency.

The... erm... Art Tube MP preamp?

He's probably in the top ten most famous bassists on the planet, it's not surprising really. Lovely bass, needs a maple fingerboard.

Second number? First one is the series.

Yes sorry I saw that, I was commenting on the benefits of going from X12 to X32. Either way, shiny new gear is always fun.

The indie band that I was in until recently went from 712 (the drummer's) to 732 (which the guitarist bought for another project) and I was skeptical that it would make much difference but actually it was quite profound. (No, this test wasn't double blind, yes, my expectations and room will affect.) You might be surprised at the upgrade. I will say though that nothing has changed my gigging life more than getting a digital mixer 8 years ago. That's where to go first IME.

That's easy, what did your contract say? It's easy to do a pub gig on a handshake but when it gets into things like this I don't think we handle it very well as a breed. I think because for most of us this is our hobby and not our job. There's a local band who buys PAT test stickers from ebay and fills them out themselves.

But again, most things aren't auctions now anyway.

I got this today too, my first thought was that it was great but then I can't really remember the last time I sold anything on eBay anyway. It's already just another AliExpress.

We played a charity night for a good cause I'm Cullercoats on Friday. Sarah's Stars are a little charity that help people with terminal diagnoses. The singer and I are both NHS so we were happy to help. It was nice to have another good gig under our belts, this project has been struggling to find its feet since we started. Our guitarist's son recorded the medley of songs at the end of our set and edited it into a nice little video, shame there's no bass on the phone mic but rest assured it was sufficiently pumping in the room. Hey, I'm the soundman. Bass all round. Sorry about the song choice, the medley is specifically for songs that were kind of feel obliged to play as a party band, but that we don't want to do full renditions of.

Can you explain the problem with this please? Not the physics, that bit I get, but the install? When one is installing a large system such as this do you tie all the power together first and then plug the system in? I just can't see the issue if one side is on one and the other on the other.

I had an R5 2x10 combo as a stage amp for a few years, and this same R1 practice amp for many many years, Laney stuff does its job exceptionally well.

Yeah but the problem is I'm always drunk. I know my locals (not that I'm a regular) and call them direct. But after a gig or when I'm somewhere that isn't my house then Just Eat is easier.

Pretty much this. Stomp in a pinch, lt or full fat to do it properly.

Well this was unexpected.

My brother has those, whilst he now also has the matching sub they were great without. Superb little things. Gives my monitors a run for the money and mine were £300+.

Took advantage of the good light today when I was unloading my car to get some better photos. After a LOT of gigs, the rack itself is starting to show some pretty serious wear. Gator should offer cases that look like this when they're brand new and charge extra for the privilege. From the front there's the ethernet, usb and aux channels permanently wired in through a very badly drilled hole. Those rack ears are tough. At the back there's a power strip with everything plugged in all the time, the router, and some cable tidying that's optimised for durability if not neatness.

I do worry about mine getting hot, part of me thinks that in about 8 years it's always been fine, the other part of me thinks that I should look after it more as it gets older. Are the xlrs permanently mounted? Do they fit in the depth of the lid? According to my Amazon history, my ethernet cable is this one. There are probably better deals out there if you look. No Apple products for me, I'm a tech nerd even more than a bass nerd, my house has a few Mikrotik products and I've had two in the xr18 rack as well.