Lozz196

Four ten inch speakers as oppose to two - assuming similar quality - will more than likely make a difference, you`ve reduced the "bigness" of the sound by half, same as if you`d paired your LM800 with a 210 rather than 410 there would be an impact of the size of the sound. One thing to think of, although you`re having difficulty hearing the amp when playing @Suezee, did you get the opportunity to hear the mix of the band out front. Sometimes just elevating the combo and getting it off the ground can work wonders. Re another cab, double up on whatever format your combo is, if 210 then get the same cab-wise.

Yep, although I would say my US Precisions are better than my Player am not sure the difference in quality is as much as the price tag would suggest. Sure the US has better tuners, bridge, pickups, and is string-thru but does that equate to nearly a grand? And I daresay a fair bit of the "betterness" - for myself - is personal preference on neck size and finish rather than difference in quality.

I`d not heard of these til your post above, just checked them out briefly via YouTube and they sound very similar to the Elixir nickel rounds I use.

That`s a shame Dave, we use Room 6 if we can get it which isn`t too bad.

Done this once, though the band I left was well past its sell by date and split on my leaving. It had started out in about 1999 as a covers band, I’d joined in 2001 on bass, and then morphed into doing glam/heavy rock originals. By 2008 and several line up changes it was stale, hardly gigging so when the opportunity of a position in a regularly gigging punk covers band came along I took it. I told the first band, and with them all being mates (we were mates before we were bandmates) there were no problems, in fact it was almost a collective sigh of relief that there was a reason to finally stop. The punk covers band had been together since 2004, lasted til 2013 and from that Knock Off, my last band formed, taking me on a musical journey I’d never have thought. And to cap it all off, I’m now in a classic rock band with 3 of the guys who at various times were in the first band.

In my last band the singer was very good at the onstage patter, and many seemed to really like it. From a performers point of view it gave me a chance to take a breath/drink etc so I was all for it. But as an audience member, couldn’t care less.

I think I’d try a Vintera out, my Yamaha BB1100s is 44.5mm wide/shallow depth and I find it very comfortable to play.

I think the main difference will be the neck, the spec on Fenders website shows a 44.5mm neck width, so wide but possibly not too deep, whereas the Squier CV has the regular 42mm neck width and feels quite slim overall.

Done that many a time back in my youth

Nice one, decent amps, heard a good few in action and always sounded great. I’ve the 800 version and although I’ve both not used it yet and am stopping gigging I’m keeping hold, never know when I might need it. I bought it for similar reasons, good sound, lightweight, and easy to set up.

A mate of mine used a playing card on one of mine - very decently used the Ace of Spades ♠️ 🤘

Think that was two wise moves there, taking the Spector/you, and a rig that can be moved easily.

Definitely, we were very fortunate having such good music shows on the box. I’d probably be far more knowledgeable about modern music & artists if similar were still on.

I agree with @Steve Browning, Rhythm Stick at 90% is a definite achievement, as well as getting Hysteria spot on too.

Great rehearsal with the classic rock band last night, as we had a mate of a mate turn up to sing, and unlike when we’ve tried this before, he could sing. Sure some were a bit out of his range but he was pretty good on Dio, Plant, Coverdale to name a few, which is no mean feat. Given it was his first time singing with us, and this material it went great.

Instead of practicing and concentrating maybe let yourself go and play and immerse yourself just in that, a try to stop thinking and just do sort of thing.

So an update on my Superlight TT. Since I’ve had it it’s suffered with the quiet A string/loud E string thing, and no matter how I’ve adjusted the pickups this has stayed the same. But at band practice last night I noticed that on each pickup the pole pieces are slightly raised under the E, A, D strings. So this morning I’ve simply swapped them round so that the only unraised pole piece is now under the E. Made a world of difference. So to anyone experiencing the same check it out.

Beautiful dark rosewood board on that

I reckon my thoughts are the same.

I saw Florence Black support Tremonti back in Feb/March. Did have tickets for their recent London gig but reading the above about volume fairly glad I didn’t go in the end.

I don`t. Although I`ve written a good many songs, most of which are on CDs/Vinyl/Streaming etc I see myself more as a musician/bassist than songwriter/artist. This possibly comes from never really being the primary songwriter in the bands I`ve been in.

There`s def a certain type of logic there, DD

Makes sense Dave, no matter what bass I play I sound like me. I`ve been more than happy with the amount of low-end from my all-Paulownia Superlight TT, I did think I might have to use the actives to add in more lows/depth but have found I prefer it in passive mode. Only just over a year til I get my Superlight Lionel...................

Definitely, to combat this we used to have so much merch - probably 8/10 different tees, some same style but range of colours too - it took longer to carry in the merch than it did full backline!