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Absolutely agree - always things to learn! It was watching some videos which made me realise I got it quite wrong yesterday 🙃

Venue-provided! That Trace head has well and truly quelled my bass amp GAS, even with @silverfoxnik flogging his Handbox R400!

That’s the only rig pic from last night I’m afraid. I’ll find the link to the original build thread 🤓 EDIT - build diary here

That’s my Zoot Funkmeister 😎

Wicked little gig at Pizza Express Live (Holborn) for the first “Nashville Meets London” gig of 2023. A packed house, Katy’s fan base right at the front singing along to every word, great sound onstage, brilliant fun. Used the house Markbass CMD102P (I think?) and was pleasantly surprised. A few vocal bits for me to brush up on, plus my stage presence game was sorely lacking for some reason yesterday, but all in all a great fun evening 😎 https://www.katyhurt.com

Has anyone mentioned Victor Wooten? (If so, I wholeheartedly concur!) He would be amazing!

Thoroughly enjoyed that! Another vote for both Doug Wimbish and Cass Lewis - I feel people who have a decent history behind them will have some wonderful stories

But what does “decent” mean? 🤓 To person A, decent means a flat response amp which faithfully recreates the bass and any effects/preamp tones. Hence a preamp is maybe part of that signal chain. To person B, decent means an amp with character to help define “their tone”. There will be person C, D, E etc with slightly different tonal goals too. I used to be person B. Now I’m closer to person A (maybe I can be person C?!) - my Trace TE-1200 is a stupendous amp which sounds amazing on its own but also takes whether I throw at it. I want a clean but ballsy tone? Amp only. Some grit through to a hairy mess? add a preamp in front of it.

Probably the cab. Put them with a decent cab (Berg, Barefaced, et al) and they are epic

@Quilly I’d be inclined to save the money and use your Two10 in portrait orientation

Noisy good fun. Pub rock covers but a generally more modern take on it, none of the usual suspects until the last few songs. A lot of stuff people wouldn’t necessarily know beforehand. One lovely little faux pas turned out quite well… We forgot to switch the main PA on for the second set, so the vocals were only coming out of the monitors. Happily they were so f-ing loud it actually worked fine, and balanced better because we weren’t overloading the PA with the guitars and drums as well. Actually sounded better apparently 🤣🤣

Pub gig, wheeled out the big guns.

I suspect standard is whichever parts they’re able to get per production batch!

Just bought two Hercules wall hangers from Phil; an absolute pleasure to deal with. Super quick comms and delivery 👌🏻

stop it 😂 🙈🙉

Always a great show! Next for me is Those Damn Crows in Feb with a group of friends. And then again in March, a week later, with MiniMert 😀