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We do two sets and repeat the formula of build up to three or four crackers at the end but have enough decent tunes to either keep folk dancing or singing along. Our fiddle player sings some tunes too so she does a couple in the first half to warm up then a wee mini set in the second half of three or four in a row. Breaks the second set up and gives the crowd a new focus and different feel to the gig. I'm confident you'll be already on the right track. When/where you next out in Edinburgh? Might pop along

I'd the same thing happen been rehearsing since July but turns out the drummer was having difficulties with his marriage and announced three weeks ago at a rehearsal that he was off to Oztralia that coming Monday! He will return in three months (and in my mind he will then have to find a place to live, nowhere to rehearse along with three months of not playing etc.) and the guys have all been keen to re-group upon his return. I'm not waiting for three months (why should I his wife hasn't *zing*) to them spend another 3 months for him to get his chops back. He was the weakest link in the group and I've taken this as a blessing and bolted. The point is if he's having diff's in a relationship its either and sorry to seem so pejorative, he's a bit fly with the ladies and can't be trusted by his missus or she's been out playing about in his absence... ultimately any band related absences will keep the tensions in that relationship. I've seen it numerous times in bands since I was a teenager. *I do hope his partner doesn't have some awful cancer or else I'm gonna look right a right c-unit*

I don’t use one but I believe the big version is more flexible in terms of features. Whether or not they’re all useful for bass is another question but it could blend into a rig quite well.

Scrap it 5 pages in and he’s switched gear. ?

I’m a big fan of using the tone control. My 4 string p has the best most usable volume control I’ve experienced. Great taper and useable all across its range. If I’m playing with round wounds I’ll use the tone knob more (generally) than if it’s an all flats gig.

I play a p bass into a decent amp which has a 3 band baxandall eq, normally set flat for my regular gig and tweaked for some funny rooms/stages when necessary. My pedal board adds a wee bit of comp and a bit of transformer based goodness...the salt and pepper if you will! My favourite live sound was captured at the last ever gig with my old band. It was a packed house and I was playing my old 78 p bass into an Ashdown Evo head and cabs. For one tune it was just Drums and bass while the singer was doing an intro thing and I did a call and response to a line he said. The natural break up from the amp, the notes I played to the improvised banter he delivered was just perfect. It never occurred to me to buy an Ashdown rig but who knows maybe my ideal tone lives inside an Ashdown amp in a sweaty wee room in Belfast ten years ago?

I’ve said it before but as far as Clayton having Fender sig basses let’s not forget Bono and The Edge are on the Fender board. I’d defend Clayton as his bass lines work for the music and to overplay on those if you’re noodling at home sounds wrong. When he played the Lakland DJ it was nicknamed the ACDJ and it was a handsome bass

What about a good clean blend pedal to retain the bottom or something like the Lomezo? There’s the whole dual band drives but they seem to be quite expensive. Woukd an LS2 or something like the Tyler @Cuzzie switched folk on to be useful? I feel a trip to fxpedalrental is on the cards to check out that Tyler plus I believe they have a discount code. @tonyxtiger is the man to discuss that with.

Al Krow will be along with some sound advice as he’s in the process of buying every drive pedal ever made ?

Not in my experience

If you’re ever in Edinburgh drop me a pm and you’re welcome round for a homebrew beer or a coffee and a go on the Ding ??

Yup I use that to power one of my pedals at the full 18v. Luckily my other pedals do that whole doubling internally so they don’t need the higher output. Be interesting to hear how the HGBM changes running off that 18v tap!!

Al krow I do believe some toggle between 9v-12v and the outputs have varying mA draw too. Come on man read the manual! ?

The beauty of playing one is the hand position doesn’t really need to switch and it all feels pretty natural pretty quickly.

I’ve got the 63 AVRI and was considering a Babicz z bridge. The bbot does the job but I was thinking of something a bit more solid but with minimal ‘footprint’. I don’t see me selling this p as it’s fantastic but don’t want to muck about with the look too much. oh and I believe it has the spitfire tort guard as the original owner spent £80 on it.

Yup I think it just works better in that 0-5 range and played with a pick .....it would be my choice but not a tone I need right now. On a mini board providing some bite and edge I can only imagine 18v will be great. Do report back when you try it with the band pushing the 18v!

Al Krow I was convinced I’d mentioned the 18v operation on the HGBM but maybe it was just in the ad. I’ve not tried it at 18v as other pedals were using that. I’d say it’ll give you more headroom and dynamics if you juice the wee bugger ?

I'm tempted to rent one from fxPR and give it a go. My basswitch does the job of providing loops for my basic tones but those filters seem like a fun way to add stuff. I can see octave and clean blended with drive being fun but alas not a tone I'll be using in the foreseeable future.

My worst moment was using a replacement bass, my regular rw jazz got nicked. I went to tune the E down to D instinctively but realized that my rw had reverse tuners. I’ve no idea what I tuned the E string to. Plus my tuner was nicked along with all my gear intact so I was totally lost until the song ended. Managed to play the rest of the tune off the D string so got by!