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Depends on the energy of the band though.... There is a minimum volume and if you have to go below that..I'd question the point of the gig and why they have the type of music they have booked. These are all questions you should pretty much have covered before you accept the gig, IMV.

Yes... I'd go with utiising the chassis and binning the cab as that is where all the weight is. I think it would be far easier to find/buld a cab around a decent unit.. than find a speaker to fit the cab.

Well, they are a pretty inexperienced studio band at this point in time, I'd guess, and that is the treatment they came up with and got left on the tape. That is the problem with recorded snapshots ...they stay forever. About par for the course, at the time and the comment about Jamerson is probably close to the mark.. The 'producer' probably suggested in after 16 takes...

Go with it. If they have asked you to the rehearsal, they must be considering you for the gig... If you want to be a bit forward, ask them if you should bring a diary or check a date. If they haven't done this then they aren't sure... Depends if you want to play the open ended game... so you should do the rehearsal and see what comes from it.. if they still can't commit, then they don't really fancy you but you are a back stop for them..?? I am all for thinking things over, but it doesn't take that long to decide whether you are right for them, but other bass players in the mix with explain the to-ing and fro-ing in their process...??? What other options do you have...??

Way too many absolutes here for my liking. Keep in mind what you can offer before you put too many restrictions in the way. You could be ruling yourselves out of the equation. The idea is to be able to pick who YOU want..not have them turn you down. I think you need to be very open and although you can have preferences, and maybe you aren't that sure what you want.. All you really have to do is find a way that the combinations really work... Personally, I could have a high maint player as long as he was basically an ok guy... if he played well enough for the hassle. What I couldn't cope with..or be bothered with, are dicks..!!

You have two choices... you either go through the same thing next time or you don't play the gig. You can't expect the LL not to be aware that volume, percieved or not, is going to have an impact on his business. It is his venue to call as he sees fit and it is your decision whether to accept his terms. The first thing you need to check out at any pub gig is where are the neighbours and most pubs are unsuitable venues, but sometimes they are worse than useless and bands shouldn't be so desperate to play them if they don't work for that band..

Decide how much you need to spend to replace it and then decide whether you like the desk enough to get it repaired. A good tech will probably have to have access to modular parts but then this type will probably share parts with Peavey and Mackie to name a few...so they should be available...or he will be able to tell you easily enough and then that might make the decision for you..??

Don't go too light, light in body tends to be light in sound, IMO..you need some sustance to the sound and actives are only a little way to work around this... You need something for the strings to react and resonate against... I'd be putting the money into core excersises as well... as you need to build the back up. Not saying that you should play with a 11lb-er for 3 sets but up 9 and a bit lbs should be. Other ways you need to manage this is 1 hr sets and maybe a maximum of 2 hrs ...

Tape it and then sleep on it.... Not sure a decision tonight is that good an idea.. and if you have tapes to review, then you'll need more time.

I'd sell the 115 and only ever double up with another 410, if it were me. Assuming the 410's were the same cab model and compatible impedance

That's crap...but couldn't help laughing

Weight is not an unknown issue in musical intruments ( or amps and cabs ) so I'd expect most shops who know what they are doing to be aware that weight is a factor in their products. Have they not heard of class D or Neo marketing blurb ..??? so, it isn't rocket science to realise a pair of scales that can get a pretty accurate reading is going to be useful to achieve this. I'd suggest this is a shop who don't pay much attention briefing their staff about such things...and if they can't do that, they may be amiss in quite a few other things. File under basic customer service...or not..!!!!

I don't do this on the spur of the moment and so if I am asked prior to the set, I will check out the bass and decide whether I want to do it.... but that is only for the one number type things.. I was recently asked to fill in on a charity gig for a blues band ( bass player called in sick ) and I said I'd have to go home and get my bass which the gtr didn't get at all.... but then he thinks the whole band is about him..and it is tbf, so I didn't really worry about how their gig went with the other guys that stepped up. I think he worried a bit more about bass payers after that, tho...

Depends on the hall...... I'd be thinking about £150 for the hall and £250 for the P.A. It also depends how much of a P.A you really want, so that can be a variable. If you were banking on 100 ppl, then a decent vocal P.A would do. Village halls aren't normally the best halls for music... by a long shot. Too many hard surfaces typically...

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1401885311' post='2467816'] Very interesting thread. Spent last night googling pics of 2 x humbucker basses and it's amazing how many different position combos are out there. There seem to be much less variety in the 2 x single coil basses that I presume is down to a lot of Jazz-a-like basses. [/quote] If you have spent eons of your sound and technique, then you don't tend to value the fact that the bass has loads of sounds... you've been through all that ....and you get most of what you you do with just a few and this also defines your style and playing. The jazz pretty much is a full twin pickup sound ( and there are variations of this, of course ) or a bridge pickup and if you if want a P.Bass sound, then only a P.bass will do.... so none of this front pickup only on a jazz...

For me, it mostly prompted by the sound I could get at the time. I was listening to guys like Glover but I couldn't get the fatness I wanted so I tried fingers and it was instantly better for me...although I suffered technically for a while. Then slap came in and I was already there. If I hadn't had the sound limitations that I heard ...then I would probably have swapped a few years later when Stanley came along.. But the point is...we do these things according to how we hear them...and I think that is the best way and reason to do it..

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1401364717' post='2462812'] Wonder why so many people have multiple basses if its not worth spending more than a few mins getting a good tone. Maybe its not worth spending the time, but worth sending them money ;-) [/quote] I think you can go up many blind alleys when you don't actually know what you are looking for. If you hear a Fender type sound, then you need a Fender type bass to deliver it...and then there are the nuances within that sound template to explore. It took me a long time to realise I was fighting what I was hearing rather than embracing what I had.. and then at that point, what I had, had to go. So, for a fender sound, I binned the modern bass take on it which basically means altho the front pick up has P.Bass tendences, it isn't really it... So, now for Fender sounds, I have an active Fender clone..which is basically a much better made Fender Jazz, with an active, but I don't want the active to take over too much of the work..as that is going back to square one. Then I run the amp without a lot of bias as that gives me the core tone of the bass and I slightly enhance that. The amp and cab don't have a great amount to do and just make it it louder. I don't add masses of bass and I don't wipe off a load of top... If, after all that, the sound is off... I haven't got the bass to do the job. I have settled on two sounds.. a classic Marcus Miller Jazz and a vintage RW Fender which is quite woody and blocky and I have never been happy or had the sound up so easily and quickly. So, in that sense... I'm there.

What.... ??? must be a typo..and mean 'dim the mids' That sound has holes all over it... Doesn't make it bad, but there is a mid scoop in it for sure...

Well, I care. I've spend £££££ and hours and hours for many many years honing things and it isn't really much of a concern if most people have cloth ears.. If I feel I am sounding good and the band can feed off that, then that takes us up a level. Sounding and feeling great on stage is what I want to do it for...

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1401470522' post='2464006'] ........................... I much prefer the tone of fingers over pick. [/quote] This is why I made the change way back in my first working band... Best decision ever........ The only pick player I get interested in is Bobby Vega

Since Leo Fender got the MM so right you basically had the final draft right from the gun, so there isn't anything the G&L could add IMO... I think they do ok now, but that might be more about what EB has done with the MM brand than a need for a G&L. I tend to think the G&L basses tend to try to be everything and don't convince at most.. I am not saying they aren't decent basses...just a bit blah..!!!

Bad idea. You do not want a lot of sub bass on stage. If the P.A and stage is well spec'd you should have a mon mix engr on stage but your first duty should be to contact the P.A company, ask them about the P.A spec and how many mixes you can get... Any decent P.A will start at 4...and if they can't offer that then...?? hmmmmm.. and then draft your stage rider around that. The soundman is not going to love you if you turn up with a sub.. You want the band to hear the bass on stage, not feel it

Not as simple as just throwing a couple of speakers in a box...but some of the guys on here have decent software that can work out what chassis' would be more ideal in what size boxes. Your cab will end up as either a 4ohm or 16ohms cab depending how you wire them and you should be happy that your amp will run them at those impedences... as in, a 16ohm box used on its own will be down on watts as the resistance is high... and a 4ohm box will be the minimum load you can run with that amp so you will not be able to run an extention cab with it. As long as you have thought that through, they will want the internal dims of the cab and any ports, altho if this is a gtr cab, you will have to be prepared to put insulation in it, make sure it is braced well etc etc etc

I'd see if you could get a s/h RCF 705 on e bay ... or try a DSR12 sub in the short term with a view to getting another asap.