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I've been fortunate to have played with some established artistes at some great venues and festivals both here and abroad. That said the only ones i had on my bucket list from way back were Birmingham Symphony hall, which i did twice with my own band, and Birmingham Town Hall with a band i play bass with. I'm a brummie so top venues in my home city is a great feeling. Other noteworthy places i'm chuffed to have played that that weren't on my list. The Greek Theatre (California) 2023 Waikiki Shell (Hawaii) 1992 Womad (Spain, Gran Canarias, Singapore) 2004 - 2006 Bullring (Tijuana Mexico, opening for Santana) 1992 Closing Ceremony for the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Try an alembic F-1X, they have three outputs, low, high and full range plus a variable crossover so you can bi-amp on frequency sending the low to one poweramp and cab and the high to another power amp and cab. Then you have still got the full range that you can send to another rig or guitar amp to get some dirt etc. http://www.alembic.com/support/F-1Xoperatingguide.pdf

I too owned that bass briefly as I found it unwanted in a small music shop in Bristol. I'm not a lefty but decided to buy it and sell it on. Which is where NigeJ got it. Even though it is the cheapest in the alembic range it sounded superb.

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I'd love a copy of the podcast if it's in English please.

It's an Alembic Elan plus.

I would suggest a well padded strap at least 4" wide. Also for heavy basses avoid straps with plastic fittings. I spoke to Pinegrove leather straps st a guitar show and asked them to make a thick padded leather bass strap of my own design to deal with my own heavy basses. They did and it has been great. (Full disclosure i'm now an endorsee).

My other half used quite a few old sets for strapping some trailing plants and a grapevine horizontally to the garden wall and fence. We fixed some small hooks to the wall and fence to go through the ball ends, and used electrical cable connector blocks to join two strings together. worked a treat.

Here are some guys i know around the city. you could try contacting them. These are facebook links.. https://www.facebook.com/israel.vernon https://www.facebook.com/vince.pryce https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076950675647&sk=about_places https://www.facebook.com/nurVrax If they want to know how you found them, let them know Delano referred them. Let me know how you get on.

I've had a look round the Jaydee (R.I.P.), place at two of their locations in the past.

Curious if you had considered going fretless?

Factory tours are so interesting. I did one last summer at the new place Rohnert Park, and also in 2012 at their old place in Santa Rosa.

I started watching it last night and finished this afternoon. Really enjoyed it.

I think it’s just something to get used to, or not. 🤨. I use one of the small non rack mount power supplies if i’m not using my own backline. Is having to carry a PSU for the bass and more troublesome than carrying a pedalboard?🤔

Other models in the range don’t have that stretch to low F. Such as an elan or europa. The lightest models i have experienced are the epic and orion basses.

Kind of, but the superfilter has low, high and band pass filters with the low end of the low pass filter starting at 45hz to 6Khz and my bass has just low pass filters with the low end starting at 350Hz and the top end 6kHz so the super filter gives me a way to access and manipulate the really deep low end The way I have it wired is through the send/return channel and you can think of it like a 3 channel mixer. The input from F-1x send to the SF-2, you can think of as being split into three, with 1 being the clean channel, one channel going to the A channel of the SF-2 and the other to the B channel on the SF-2, then the settings you use on the SF-2 channels are mixed with the clean channel and fed back into the return channel of the F-1x and sent to the power amp. I tend to use the SF-2 mainly for reggae gigs because i can eq the low end, choose how much of it goes to the amp whilst keeping the clarity of the original bass signal. There are different ways to wire up the SF-2 to give you more options.

Here is my main gigging rack. Alembic DS-5R bass power supply, Alembic F-1X Pre amp - has 3 outputs LF, HF & Full Range which is what i use. Alembic SF-2 Superfilter in the send/return loop of the F-1x. Synq 1K0 stereo power amp.

My Powersnupply for my alembic is in my rack with my preamp and power amp so it is no extra bother and I like the fact that with the PSU the bass is always working at full spec with 36v dc feedng the the on board electronics. I just consider the batteries, a backup.

Actually the series basses have 18v (2x9v batteries) inside one of the rear compartments so you can use the bass without the power pack. However they eat batteries in about 20 hours. If you have a vintage series bass tho, they came wired so that when using batteries the jack lead would only give you the neck pickup. More modern series basses give you both pickups from the jack, or a switch to have separate pickups output via a stereo lead.

The mighty Familyman Barrett. Then in my later teens i discovered Stanley Clarke

Lovely Europa.

I've been using a short scale 30.75" 4 string bass since 2002 and prefer it to a long scale 4 string. In terms of 4 stringers, I personally don't see or notice any disadvantage sonically or playability of a short scale bass over a long scale one. The long and short of it is, that, In the end we all use whatever suits us. 🙂

All my basses except one has low pass filters. I much prefer them to standard eq. I've often wondered the same thing with filter basses, the challenge of repeatability of tones so having some presets would be helpful sometimes, though would add to the complexity and cost. When playing live i tend to move the filters subtly rather than make dramatic tone changes. Taking your last comment, mIschief can inspire innovation. 🙂

I'm depping on bass with this band on Friday night in Brum. The band do a mixture of classic reggae and UB40 covers