stingrayPete1977

We have a member here that plays professionally full time, he has one of everything at his disposal from vintage to single cut things with weird preamps, I think his Lakland like yours goes out on every main gig. A proper tool for the job no matter what that job turns out to be. Excellent!

Amps....? Cabs.....? Nah can't remember them.

No I can't tbh although I've seen various widths about anyway, my old 2002 Teal was quite narrow iirc, it's not something I've ever been hung up on, my Fender USA Jazz V is like a scaffold plank with strings with wide spacing at the bridge but I'll swap mid set between that and a my Ray 5 which some people find too narrow and tightly spaced!

I can confirm we also had Kiss in our set too, lol.

That's grooving along nicely 👍

In ears and no amps, it's not the future, it's now!

Corey rocking it!

Very nice G&L there blue.

The Beeb could just show any of the previous year's hootenannys on BBC2 to save money towards Skanks ubernanny on BBC1, other than mikel no one would notice anyway!

I realised after starting the thread that I might not have any pictures as I would be too busy playing, whoops.

Was that tw@t with a clock face there or not?

And home....... starving so I'm going to raid the kitchen then bed! Happy new year.

And to you Silvia (&HJ).

Who's up to what then? We're playing a tickets only pub ,van is loaded up ready to go shortly. Normally this particular pub is a pain to get loaded in with half cut/cooked up punters watching the football that won't move out the way that thankfully don't stay for the gig but as it's NYE the pub are closing at 6 PM before opening again later so we should be able to load in to an empty pub,we will see. Pics and a review to follow, please add your own.

Maybe, and then their fingers chopped off.

Some kid in China will probably be having their fingers chopped off once the bass gets returned!

The two worst basses I've ever played were also the lightest, a Ric and a Thunderbird, spending all night stopping the headstock wanting to head to the floor have me more back ache and wrist ache than a previous 13lb Stingray 5 I once owned.

Or a hacked account was my first thought when the wife showed me?! He'll need all his guitars back that he gave away now and I wonder how his health is?

Hi, that's a Sterling by MusicMan built in Indonesia rather than a MusicMan Sterling built in California, confusing I know!

I normally play it slap, really I do!

The first studio recording I ever did I lumped my Ashdown rig along and mic'd it up in the vocal booth to "get my sound" , the next time we went we used a guitar Vamp like that for the guitar tracks and I used the bass version (was it green?) , I've never recorded a physical speaker since. Stingray plumbed straight into the desk and I'll play along to the track via the studio monitors in the control room.Job done.

I was chuckling to myself mid way through a song at the last gig as it sounded so good in my ears, especially the vocal harmonies you'd struggle to get even with good wedges and impossible with back line amps as front of house.

The mistake I've made in the past is ending up with a mixture of the wrong stuff, by that I mean we could argue all day over passive or active speakers and there's no right or wrong in reality but I ended up with a perfectly good passive desk and passive speakers which is of no use to anyone without an amp. Make a decision early on which way you want to go and stick to it, you might get a mixer from one place, speakers and stands from another, but you don't want to end up with a nice passive mixer only to find a great deal on a powered euro desk the next day or a pair of powered RCF speakers after you've bought the powered desk!

No the point I was making is that no matter how good, cheap or expensive the bass rig is it's still only monitoring the bass, no matter what pa you are going to use with it you'll need foldback for the other instruments and voices.

How does it sound when you put all the vocals, guitars, keys and percussion through it at the same time as the bass?