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Funnily enough I got the eurotunnel for the cheapest price I've ever paid as well

I booked the Eurotunnel yesterday for an overnight gig November 8th - 9th... I booked it and added a few hours of extra time to allow for traffic and congestion at the tunnel, but I am assuming a week after if we did leave with no deal in place, it'll be far worse and maybe even result in us missing the sound check/gig. It is as you say, impossible to plan this stuff properly at the moment.

I've discovered how amazing it is to use good floor wedges and/ or my very cheap shure in ear monitors this summer. I always use my sansamp or tonehammer di pedal, so amp is purely for my benefit. I've got a gig this evening, last time i was at this venue, there was a wedge pointed at my head and it sounded so clear and full i muted my amp completely! My amp is already in the car but i won't be using it! Just my bass in a gig bag and my compact pedal board in a soft case, love that as much as the sound on stage!

As said above it depends on the airline, check their measurements for cabin baggage. Sometimes it can be vague regarding instruments. I always check my bass in the hold, i just don't take the one closest to my heart! The keys player I usually tour with just hires normally, and if he has too, checks his in with a flight case. People working for the same airline can tell you different things in my experience, i just check in and cross all fingers!

Herbie Flowers for me, he's been on so many amazing albums, and manages to add his own unique sound into a variety of different genres. He deserves as much recognition as possible, I keep discovering his playing on music I'm listening to (most recently found his playing on some of Harry Nilsson's records) and I no doubt will keep doing so for a long time to come.

I find that however loud i crank the 8x10 on a big stage, some people will ask for some in their monitor regardless. I would love to get a pair of barefaced cabs, even if i have just got my first pair of in ears!

I don't really ever do gigs like this where there isn't pa support, so it's just for stage. I have an epifani 1x15, first series UL i believe and it's lovely. Sometimes I toy with the idea of a second cab for bigger stages, but they're hard to find secondhand, and also most of the time I get to play a bigger stage there's always a lovely big ampeg waiting for me to just plug straight into anyway!

I have a Sansamp which I send FOH, which then means i can adjust the amp if my corner of the stage requires excessive eq'ing, and the engineer is usually happy as they normally recognise a Sansamp and like it. In my experience, they usually would only want a pre eq di if the bass player is adding excessive bass etc from an active bass/ preamp.

Personally I don't think it's unreasonably priced due to some of it's features. I'm still struggling to get my head around most of the price increases of the past few years.

That looks great, congratulations

I'm getting a new pair to replace my current ones in a months time (had them 10 years but they still work reasonably well) and this time I'm getting them through the musician's hearing scheme as already mentioned, you also get a further price reduction of a tenner if you are an MU member too, so well worth it!

I'd say persevere a bit more if you can, jazz basses are extremely versatile and while it might not be your ideal reggae tone, if it's all in fair condition and working order I'd have thought there's a decent tone lurking within it

Good band, the reggae act I've been with for years now has the keys player from Samsara.

I used a jazz for a long time playing reggae, I have a different bass now with different pup configuration but get a similar sound. I've seen people get a good tone on similar gigs using everything, stingrays and Warwick thumbs being the more surprising. Its all about how you play like with any genre of course, for me its that and rolling off a fair bit of high mid. Obviously it can get muddy too depending on the room, and the other instruments your playing with.

Most of my basses have been passive, I used a us 5 string jazz bass for years, but always used a sansamp or some other preamp pedal. I like the flexibility a pedal offers, particularly with having the DI output.

Such a shame they are dragging this whole thing out. Definitely keep this thread up to date with any progress, speaking purely for myself, as someone who was weighing up getting a new fender in the next 12 months, this sort of thing makes me thing twice, mainly down to how they have treated you. I only have 2 basses and I play for a living, if this happened to me and I was without one for 5 months, I'd be in a bit of a predicament!

I don't mind the look of some relic basses, but as others have said I personally wouldn't pay for it. I really liked the flea jazz, but the relic job on the body was too much for me to be honest. My main bass is a 70's precision, and it's very worn but I don't mind as it's done hundreds of gigs now just in the six years or so I've had it. I changed the hardware on it last year, as functionality and reliability is more important to me. I had a hair tie round one of the tuners for years, it wasn't a good look!

Really enjoying this album