Dad3353

When did the 'one rack unit' requirement come in..? The original brief was for a pedal, no..? A mini-mixer comes close to that, and it just as simple to set up and use, I think.

Similar functionality from the Behringer Xenyx 802S, £63 + postage from Thomann. An Xlr feed from the desk into one channel, bass into a second channel. Send the bass back to the console from the Fx Send, and listen to the mix you want from the headphone socket. Job done.

Maybe I'm just lucky; the sound I hear (I can(t know what each audience member hears...) suits me just fine, either when playing bass or drums. I'm just not that 'precious' about it. It sounds good, that's all I need.

So is the room I'm playing in, and the atmospheric pressure of the day, and whether I play towards the bridge or the neck, or my mood, or ... whatever.

I've never really understood, nor 'bought into', this idea of 'tone shaping'. I plug the bass into an amp/DI/console/whatever and play bass. Too simple..? Probably, with the disclaimer that I'm a drummer. (And 'No, I don't 'tone shape' drums, either. I just play them. Tone is in the fingers.')

The drummer on the original recording was Tony Allen. Anyway, the question has come up before, with...

There are so many compositions that have real meaning ('If I Had A Hammer', 'Blowing In The Wind', 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' and hundreds more...). Personally, I'd much rather play stuff with real meaning than innocuous, bland, 'filler' stuff, whatever culture it's originally from. To me, human is human; the rest is simply coincidence of birth time and place. I see no problem here. Peace.

Human morphology has not evolved much since 1950.

If you're amp-less, how are you planning to hear your own bass..? From the rehearsal/gig stage monitors (if existant and capable...)..? With ear-phones, fed from the pedal..? Wired, or wireless..? How will the other players and (if relevant...) the FOH for the audience, hear the bass..? Standard practice for FOH is a feed from a DI box, which the bass plugs into. Is that all that you require, even for rehearsal..? The question needs fleshing out a little, I think.

Done; thanks for the 'heads-up'.

Not many of my trousers have carriers for wearing a belt. I rely on their elasticity; it can be embarrassing if this starts to fail whilst I'm carrying something in both arms, for instance.

Our Eldest held down the role of Principal Guitar in a successful Rock/Ska/Punk band (Kiemsa...) for a few years, and has never held a car licence. It fell upon his conciliatory father (myself...) to fulfil taxi duties, to such a point that I ended up carting most of the whole band to gigs, all over France, in the 7-seater Renault Espace I had at the time. I hired a horse-box-sized trailer for the hardware (PA, lights, all the back-line and stage props...), and operated the FOH and lights for them during the gigs. Do you have a conciliatory father/neighbour/partner/buddy willing and able to do likewise..?

Break a leg.

He's fettling. ...