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I can feel the rumble in my chest cavity from here.

I’ve generally bought off EBay as that’s been the only place selling the ones I want, fortunately Strings Direct are now stocking them so I’ll go back to them, always had good service from them.

Good thoughts, would make more sense that way

I’m fairly sure a set of Elixirs I bought on EBay are fakes, for some reason the D has gone a very dark charcoal colour where the rest have stayed as they should.

Efficiency (or is it sensitivity I’m thinking of). I had an Eden Nemesis 410 which was very loud indeed. I very temporarily swapped to another 410 and with the same settings it was like I hadn’t switched the amp on.

Well each cab will have its own efficiency so difficult one, it’s possible to plug into a few different 410s with the same amp and get wildly different results, some needing much more from the amp. There’s then the amount of cones working - more speakers I’ve found make the sound bigger with a greater depth, not necessarily louder, but again difficult to really judge this.

Yep I’ve had a few Squier basses, affinity, classic vibe, vintage modern, and all were perfectly good for my needs. Of course me being a Fender US fanboi I had to have these but I think back to the basses I started out on in comparison to the Squiers (and other similarly priced instruments) and its night & day.

This was the reason I swapped to maple boards, on brightly lit stages I have trouble seeing where I am with rosewood. Sadly I can’t get a bass to the specs I need that has a maple board so I’m having to now get used to rosewood again, but as my gigs aren’t quite as big now neither are the lighting rigs so I’m coping - for now……

I like the lights on the stands @markbunney, they provide a nice and subtle boundary line, something other posters on here have mentioned needing.

Good call

Good cabs, Schroeders, they just work so well and the dispersion is excellent too.

There will be a less than orderly queue on here to grab that @mikebass456, one of the best Precisions around.

Beautiful 70s ‘burst there

Agree, I’ve had a few of the 08 - 12 range and exactly as you describe. When I first got my 2015, after a 2009 model I was rather worried as it was a handful to say the least, luckily I soon found it to work really well for me.

It was heft by commando mode, you never noticed it was there.

That’s a very nice looking bass, congrats

Nice one @TrevorR, I’m sure Alfie will bring you much happiness.

That really is a fantastic cat @tauzero

No, they have “Remember, don’t indicate” tattooed on theirs, in reverse so they can read it in the mirror when shaving.

The holy trinity (and with extra strings)

That’s a decent job lot

Given that from the description the audience will be mostly getting their sound from whatever amp you’re using, and FOH just an added presence I’d go with the GK & Orchid DI option as the GK is your favoured amp. But I’d take along the RM just in case the sound engineer wants a quiet stage with FOH handling the audience sound & volume, that way you’ll get your sound to FOH (as the RM only does post-eq).