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If you Google the T-Bird Pro V, the strap button on that is at the back, where the neck plate would be if it had one...

Even though I've been through dozens of basses over the years, I don't really have one I wish I hadn't sold, unless we can count purely financial motives, in which case the 4001 Jetglo I sold for £200 in the mid-80s or the early 70s Precision I sold for even less are a bit eye-watering nowadays... Ignoring real cheapies, the worst £-for-£ was the brand new Rick 4003W I bought and returned recently, tho it was nowhere as dull as the 78 Jazz, which was a 11lb 12oz boat anchor that played and sounded, for want of a better word, [i]brown[/i].

That opens your options out - GAK have several combos which would do the trick - there's a Warwick 15" combo for £419, or the Ibanez Promethean at £317, the Hartke Kickback 15" is £424, and the new Peavey Max 15 is £279

I have a friend who worked on the liners for a few years, before meeting a girl and settling down, whereupon he got a job at Rentokil. A couple of years later the relationship fell apart, they sold the house, etc, and he replied to a job ad asking for a pest control operative who was willing to travel. At the interview, the chap said "Well, what we'd really like is someone with your qualifications who's got experience working and living on a liner, but of course we'll never find that combination..." He got the job.

I think you'll find that's a 'Sonky', as in Wallace Sonky (also 'Rubber Wally'). There's a Shonky shop (the one run by Mr Soon Shine Sun) which is a front for the History Monks...

Played three in a day on Pat's Day earlier in the year, one was an afternoon set with minimal vocal PA a (miked) Cajon, the next two were pub gigs, one on at seven, the other at ten. In all cases, we went out as a trio and used the minimum possible gear: no keys, no subs, etc. Hectic, but fun.

To be fair, that's true of any amp with the 240/110 switching, and there are a lot of those...

No real magic: the Streamliner I have is 900w into 4 ohms with a 3-valve preamp stage, but has a Headphones out, and doesn't need speakers attached - it also has an Aux in for practice/playing along - win...

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1405893643' post='2506316'] I think I'm getting jaded, I'm starting to rate our wedding gigs on the quality of the buffet rather than anything musical at all. Last nights was a rather simple and sightly rustic affair comprising range of breads, cheeses and potatoes. It actually worked very well. As I said to our guitarist queuing behind me you can only take prawn vol-au-vants for so long. [/quote] Ha! Yep, this...Friday was sausage and chips with overdone pizza slices, Saturday a very small pork-pie-and-sausage-roll affair. Both well below par - a prawn vol-au-vent would have been welcomed.

If the guitarist is going to need to tune up frequently, he should work on being able to do this in no more than a few seconds. Every guitarist I work with can do this very very quickly (and silently), especially as it's small adjustment tuning. 'Huge gaps' make him (and the rest of you, by extension) look like an amateur with bad gear.

At functions, we generally play a 45 first and then anything up to a 90 minute second set, sometimes longer if it's going mental and we're allowed to. Pubs are much more controlled, there's one we play regularly where we go on at 10pm and play till about 1am, with a 15 minute break in there somewhere, but that's the exception rather than the rule - 2x45 is what's asked (and paid) for most of the time, so that's what we do. Never been asked for a 4 hour set, in 30+ years of playing...must be a US thing.

I occasionally use a 900w, three-valve amp head with just headphones...

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1405886366' post='2506193'] It's in Timperley... might have something to do with the 'bobbins' repair job... you know it is, it really is! I'll get me coat. [/quote] Oh, blimey...

Dunlop Nylon 88s, for about 38 years now...you can get 25 for about a fiver on EBay. They never wear out. Well, I never wear them out. I lose em pretty regularly, tho...

I wouldn't expect to see that on a quality instrument, and I'm surprised it's got through Sandberg's QC I'd certainly be raising it as an issue.

I'm Spartacus! I'm running wired IEM with one of those combo cables from OBBM, which works very well. Switched to it because we had a double-failure of two LD wireless systems on a gig, I ended up IEM-less and suffering with me tinnitus and swore I wouldn't do it again. I use a small headphone mixer/amp on my amp to mix the aux feed from the desk and the feed from my amp, so I can control how much of Me I get in my ears relative to anyone else... I think the whole kit and kaboodle cost in the region of £60-70 (plus IEMs).

I had a M-Pulse 360 (which was loud enough for me) and found the 'solo' feature and para-EQ waaaay over the top, but then I just bypassed it and got on with it Not as 'tubey' as the Walkabout (had one of those, too) but as described above; a very nice warm, clear amp, with a very nice compressor - if my gigging circumstances changed and I was in the (unlikely) mood to lug bigger amps around, I'd have another. Mind you, I preferred my Streamliner to the M-Pulse and the Walkabout, so what do I know?

Loverly. Fantastic bass line, and hynotically good to watch, too...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1405419335' post='2501686'] Yes, I really must try that one of these days. [/quote] It's a shocker the first time it happens ("Is that ME?)...didn't half tighten up my playing...

I used to love mine, and was more than happy to suffer the pain of moving it, and the deafness after gigs - hey, you're indestructible when you're 25...nowadays one would be uttely pointless with my tinnitus as I couldn't really turn it up much, and since I moved to in-ears I wouldn't go back anyway - being able to hear yourself [i]properly [/i]is a new and addictive experience.

Gigging tonight again with my Jamup/iPad front end: versatile and easy. Giving thought to streamlining my setup by rack mounting as much as I can and using just a power amp and cab (or even a powered monitor for stage monitoring. Great articles which got me started down this road: thanks again...

It's taken years to get it down to so few: one fretless, one acoustic, a couple of bitsa 'traditional' types, and three very very nice basses. All modded in one way or another. Actually, I'm pretty sure I've owned everything which would even vaguely suit me (and plenty which haven't), and the ones left are the ones which have won for me. The list of things which have come and gone include basses by Fender, Musicman, Gibson, Overwater, Alembic, Yamaha, Ibanez and lots of others. It took me the majority of the time to work out exactly what I liked and what I didn't. It was fun, though, and actually didn't cost all that much to do, mostly because I've only bought three new basses in my life: one for my 18th, one for my 50th, and one in the middle somewhere (in the 80s).

Without wanting to tempt fate, since I got my second Shuker, I'm pretty much done for basses...they're fantastic.

I was initially startled to see that my first reaction to what'd be in the Top 20 Motown popular hits, Band of Gold by Freda Payne, wasn't on there. I've subsequently discovered that it technically wasn't a Motown record, despite being a Holland-Dozier-Holland song played by Mr Babbitt and the rest of the Funk Brothers...