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statistically - i'm in the group that is indicating within a couple of years my body will no longer be able to cope with the riggers of gigging and I will give up, I will then move into the group of old farts that nobody wants to see flood lit. But I'll tell my friends the fun had gone out of it for me. I had a good run , mustn't grumble

All chops and no soul but on the flip side there are those half your age just starting out that seem to have crammed a life time of experience into a couple of years, we call them gifted as it makes us feel better.

Proel - they do air damped and non air damped look exactly the same, but I would go for the air assisted it allows you to pull the pin and the weight of the cab to push down so you can lift the cab off easier at the end of the night. but maybe £50 v £70 I have two sets the oldest now about twenty years no probs, my son has the non air set for his disco and not as well constructed.

Very impressed with the quality of the neck finishing, nice to see he is still keeping his hand in.

My first Schack

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I bought Clarky's Rob Allen of Chris, easy to deal with, real nice guy, Always enjoy his contributions on here drawn from his playing experience and the different gear he has owned.

I think this is a great example of you being conned by the manufacturer - selling it as a version of a popular 4 string bass, It may be the same model and same colour with an extra string but unless they have approached the construction as a 5 string bass then it could be a real Lemon. [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1454118015' post='2966726'] There are no upsides or downsides. . . . only preferences and choices. Try several. If you like one. . . . get it. [/quote] Try some top end basses and some cheap mass productions and then you will be in a better position to know what you want to spend. Having said that Yamaha are the best of the low budget basses i have played also check out Cort.

That's OK then I played in an Orchestra on trombone and took great pleasure in reflecting the the light from the setting sun from the counter weight of my trombone on the the arse's of the young girls from the local convent school sat in front, particularly the bassoon player. So I have this picture of you with your Phil Lynott custom mirror scratch plate setting fire to school kids in the string section. I thought i should edit this to say I was 14 at the time.

Can't imagine turning up at an orchestra rehearsal with an electric bass and amp - I think most would frown when you walked in door

Nice to see the return of the 4 x 12" cab my old Tech soundsystem 4x12 was still the best i have owned and If the Primitivo is as good as your gear can you bring a couple of cases to the show

This also only happened when using my Markbass, and not when using my GK amp but did not figure this out at the time as I thought it was one of two speakers farting. That said have not had any trouble since changing to new 2 pole speakons.

mrtcat - yes quite right, 4 pin speakons are designed for feeding separate high and low signals to a speaker cabs via a single 4 core cable so bi amp bass amps e.g. a GK would utilise this system, my problems with a 4 pole speakon maybe just be age and use and could have occurred on an old 2 pole plug, but I wondered if failure is more likely due to the twist action where a weak spring trying to apply pressure to 4 contact fingers may leave the two you require to not get the pressure required to make good contact, I have just got a bit superstitious! about it and feel if there are only two contact points those are the ones that will meet up when i twist it into place.

I would say only go for two pin 1+ 1- Only that i had some real issues with an old 4 pin Speakon I used from an old PA cable that was about 15 years old. basically lots of intermittent sound problems plugging into my Markbass head which i would guess is a two pin. It took me ages to find the problem due to using a combination of two cabs, two amps and two made up cables sometimes Daisey chained.

Boss - light blue thingy

Love my MB LMK always seem to use the VPF at 9 o'clock. habit but tried without and always come back to that setting. As a two channel amp I set the top channel VPF at 12 o'clock for funkier stuff and can just jump on foot pedal to swap over from finger style setting ( 9 o'clock) on the bottom EQ which also has slight cut on low mid to 11 o'clock. I use this for most playing. also boost upper mid and the high a smidgen when on the funky top EQ setting.