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I didn't know it was called that, but it's definitely called that from now on, lol

Last night I was back in covers band action with Nine Lives at Wilsons in Aberdeen. Night got off to an odd start, when some people noticed me and the drummer getting stuff out of the car and asked "who's playing tonight". I replied "Nine Lives" and they replied "Excellent!" Had a joke with the bouncer that they must have us mixed up with another band. Anyway, the gig went well - it was a bit of an awkward setup because some people were in the bit where we usually put our stuff, playing darts. How very dare they! So there was a lot of shuffling stuff around while we set up. Still, we got set up and ready to go at the billed time. Gig went pretty well, had some very enthusiastic dancing in the first half. Second half dwindled down a bit towards the end, but we did a thing we've done on and off and played a softer song as the second last one and we had a couple of lovebirds up dancing to that, so it worked. Then blew the place to bits with Whole Lotta Rosie, along with my usual wireless walkabout. Never ceases to amuse and entertain people, and as long as people still get a laugh out of it, I'll keep on doing it, lol. Gear was the Epiphone Les Paul (not so) Standard, followed by the Fazley Hot Rod (the "Ratlet") with a Lace Aluma P in there because it was lying around and I was bored. Usual yellow and black amplification. Footwear was pink suede Vans slipons.

A thirty quid case off eBay? Call it an accessory and be done with it, I reckon. I like to have separate accomodation for all my basses too, I get it.

I'm not a fan of it personally.

Oops, have we just opened the valve on another GAS pipe? This is my gigging amp This is my practice amp This is my recording amp What have we done?

Is recording a separate use case for a bass amp?

Because there's no message being quoted in my previous post, you can rest assured it was not directed at you, but at the thread in general and I guess the OP in particular as the instigator of the thread. I'm at a loose end, filling in time before a gig tonight, my wife's away so I've got the house to myself and honestly, I think I've gone a bit peculiar. To be brutally honest, the whole tone of the OP's initial post (and subsequent same again, but longer post) just got up my nose, and it probably shouldn't have. So, sorry all and @la bam in particular. I clearly have got too much "me" time right at this very moment and I overanalysed things. My bad.

Well, each to their own. Personally I think the whole "too loud for home practice" thing is a false argument - amps have got volume controls. Until I got my Joyo 30W Vibe Cube, I was using my TC Electronic BH250 just fine for home practice - although mostly in headphones because I couldn't be arsed trotting out a cab. The only reason I got the Joyo was because it's more plug and play so I might practice at home a bit more (so far this seems to have borne fruit). I also don't really see why a 200W amp has to justify its existence to one particular person - the market as a whole will decide if it works or not. You buy one, or don't, and that's absolutely fine. There's a whole lot of IMO going on here, and while that's fine and dandy, it just gets argumentative in the end. You don't like/get them - fine, don't buy 'em. There are plenty folk who do. Like I said, I'm going to gig my 250W backup head tonight in a pub gig with no PA support and I'll report back as to how lacking or not it was, how does that sound? Does it even matter? I'm not you after all, I don't play in your venues or in your bands, so maybe I'm just wasting my time.

Depends - quite a few basses come with D'addario XL nickel rounds as stock strings. As these are my strings of choice, I'm ready to hit the ground running. I'm not being lazy, I genuinely like the sound and feel of bog standard D'addarios and I feel very fortunate indeed, because they're relatively cheap, readily available and like I said, often come as standard equipment.

From my NBD post about the Fazley "Hot Rod" bass "Of course, the stock strings are hot garbage, thin, rougher than Rotos and went straight in the bin." "The stock strings weren't giving the truss rod much to do - after I put my beloved D'addario XL nickel rounds on it, the neck was a banana and I had to tighten the truss rod three quarter turns!" TL:DR - they're just awful, chuck 'em in the bin and put on your preferred strings - just be ready to have to tighten that truss rod!

Well damn, have I missed the boat in spectacular fashion - my first order from Thomann was in 2007

My backup head is 250W and I wouldn't worry about gigging with it. In fact tonight I might gig with it, as a proof of concept/fire drill.

Right, I've taken the screw out of one of mine and can tell you the following about the screw: Size: M2.5 Thread: Metric Fine (0.35mm pitch - course is 0.45mm) Total length (including head): 18mm Now, I have a set of GB7 knockoffs which I was going to raid for parts anyway and I took the screw out of one of those. It is slightly longer at 19.75mm, and has a slightly smaller head, but I put that screw in my genuine GB7 tuner and it tightened up fine - there must be some tolerance built into the design to accept the slightly longer screw. Here they are side by side (and length difference heavily exaggerated by the macro lens - I measured them both with digital callipers) If you'd like me to send you this screw, noise me up in a PM and we'll get it sorted. But if you just want to take the info above to find your own screw, then no worries.

What are these super special capacitors which can only be sourced from the States?

I'll update this tonight with my findings... stay tuned.