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I saw a band down at Alfie's in Soho on Saturday night and there was an absolutely superb band i'd never heard of before called "Happy Garden". All the band members were effortlessly brilliant and they worked so well together as a unit and when soloing. I plan to see them again asap even though it was a long trip down to London, on the train, and an overnight in a hotel. It was worth every penny. The bass player was great, really responsive to what was going on and really held the sound together, plus his bass sounded awesome and used effects tastefully. No idea what the bass was though.

I watched it last night. Excellent insight to the legend. Thanks for sharing. If you want to watch it without the ads put a - between the "t" and "u" in the youtube like this yout-ube and you will see the video without the ads. Works on all youtube videos i've tried. Sometimes it gives an error message , but just refresh the browser window and is ok. You can thank me later 🤓😎

This was my bi-amp setup. Mine is based around the sending each pickup to it's own cab. Neck to the Dubster II and the neck to the Big Baby II. The rack consists of an Alembic In2 which is a both a power supply for my bass plus it is a switching unit that allows each pickup to be sent to speakers via a in a number of permutations through pre and power amp(s). It has 2 Alembic F-1X preamps which have a separate channel of the Alembic SF-2 Superfilter in their send return loop. The SF-2 has independant Low, High and band pass filters for each channel. I haven't used that setup many times so not really got an optimal setup worked out, but potentially it should work fine. I have since replaced the two F-1X preamps with a single Alembic F-2B two channel preamp which to me sounds slightly warmer. I tried the setup more with a BTII instead of the Dubster and that seemed to be a better match. More experimenting to do.

I bought a 20m length in a black plastic box that you just pull out a strip and cut off from B&Q about 3 years or so back when I was building my guitar pedal board. I don't remember the cost but it wasn't expensive at all. It is really heavy duty though and I've used lengths of it to fix led solar lights to the outside of my house.. Might be worth looking for some there. The brand was Diall and whilst their web site does not seem to be showing the one i bought but there are a number to choose from.

Good idea.

Only on alembic series basses.😃

Allison Rayner Quintet at the Albany Jazz club in Coventry. They were just brilliant. Superb musicians and jazz rich in harmony and multiple time signatures but still grooving along. `Steve Lodder on keyboards was astonishing! Next gig will be the Santana Tribute band called "Very Santana".

Jaydee are across town from me and i’ve taken my basses and guitars there for many years. I know his sons have been working there for many years with John so I would be inclined to think they are more than capable of keeping up the standard set by John. That said there is lots to be said about age and experience. John’s designs, ideas and building methods were developed over many decades and no doubt will continue to evolve over time sons. So it would be interesting to see if the sons stick to his classic designs or come out with new models in the future. I have yet to own a Jaydee and there is a part of me that wants to but i’d prefer something different from the classics.

Belated Post, if that's allowed 🙂 I went to see the Allison Rayner Quintet yesterday in Coventry. Absolutely brilliant. I've seen them once before and they have a great sound and the compositions are so intricate whilst being easy to listen to. Got their latest live album and bought the T-shirt.

2. If it was me i would just use a 5 string.

What's the middle pickup and how does it switched into use with the rest of the controls?