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That would give you 2.67ohms so set the amp to 2 ohms. 2 cables from the amp or daisy chaining will be fine.

Why do people post this sort of question without saying what the amp is?

More small venues are likely to be upset at the "ridiculously loud" bit these days. The guitarists will be triggering the noise meter power cut off thingy before they know it. If your mixer is doing individual mixes then just cut the drums out of their mix and tell them it's fine for everyone else... if they want to hear the drums they'll have to turn down. Obviously if they are smarter than a sea cucumber they won't believe you but with 2 guitarists it has to be worth a try...

https://www.andertons.co.uk/markbass-advanced-series-ss-soft-touch-bass-strings-045--105/ They are very flexible. £20.99 + postage.

The blend thing sounds like 2 because of different decay rates of each side. The drive part is being compressed a lot, and the clean isn't. Before clean blends on pedals were a thing I used the LS-2 and always had a compressor on the clean side and fiddled with the settings to get the decay of both sides to be the same. That being said, if you have a super clean low and really driven top then it will always sound like 2 sounds. They need to be closer in tonality really. I don't use a lot of drive these days, but I often found that the punch would stay with quite a nasal, almost farty drive with tons of mids. This sort of sound is horrible at home or on its own, but works great with other instruments. The Catalinbread SFT does it very nicely, (I should not have sold mine), and currently I have a £35 clone of the Fairfield Barbershop (mk2) that adds a similar thing. Generally I'm not a fan of turning bass drive on and off during a song as with a bass it always seems to need pretty big EQ changes at the same time, so I prefer to leave it on for the whole song of it needs it.

There's a guy on another forum who needs a return! Hopefully it's just something he doesn't like rather than something broken. And / Or that he paid with credit card.

I have one of those performance stands - I got it for when I was waiting for surgery. It was very useful as it meant I could keep playing. I don't use it at the moment but they are so hard to find that I'm carefully storing it, just in case.

I have the Boss ones and they are ace. Not had a problem with my active basses - they are all EMG so I suppose other types might. The charging on the dongle is via Micro USB as well. I got the guitar ones rather than bass just because I play both instruments and the guitar version can do a good enough bass sound with a clean amp, compressor and some EQ. It does annoy me though that Boss decided to do different versions when the only difference is the firmware. Now that there is some competition I hope they change that. The Boss bass version has a drum machine which would be nice to have. Amazing that Boss decided that guitarists don't want to play with a drummer... eijits. I use them a lot though, I practice far more now that I have them. My apprehension at spending that much on a practice tool went in about 5 mins.

Yeah, but I doubt they’ll make the cab sim defeatable if they are sticking with that plan.

Website no longer available. https://gak.co.uk/

I played sax for many years. So I'd see a note on the stave and play that note - and the sound would be a major 6th below what was written. I have tried to write for sax along with Concert pitch instruments and it does my head in trying to make it work. I can still play a bit but I don't own one anymore. The best get a piano piece, and then play using that. They can't play a "C" on the page because the note will be wrong - so they shift it all in their heads in real time as the play. My old teacher jumped between all the different saxes (Eflat and Bflat), Clarinet (mostly Bflat but a few odd ones) and the Bassoon family and the piano. Had no trouble transposing it all in his head. Amazing! Good image from wiki:

No drama. A claim would be statute barred now, as long as he doesn’t do something silly like admit the debt or offer to pay even a quid.

They have answered me: no plans for any new versions of the Bassrigs.

I think it used to be. I've got loads of books that contain both - all bought before the internet. Same for the guitar magazines of the day. Doesn't seem very common these days. I haven't bought a tab book for donkeys so I don't know about newer published books. Or even if books like that are still published in light of all the free stuff on the web.

I tuned a bass in 5ths after seeing some pro do it that way. I lasted about 3 days before putting it all back!

You don't consciously identify the letters in a word either. You recognise the whole word. That isn't the main problem with tab. Tab is usually lacking rhythm information and other things like accents and so on. But worst of all it has no genuine pitch information. E string 3rd Fret is only a G if the guitar is tuned that way. A G on a stave is always a G. Guitarists (and bassists) are particularly bad for this. "Play a G" - "that's not a G, we are in drop D Tuning!" It's a small wonder that piano / keys players haven't killed us all. Standard Notation provides a common language that can be used by everyone on any instrument. Tab does not. Tab can be a barrier to effective communication. Not a problem in a small band or one where all the instruments are guitar based, but as soon as any other instrument is added then the problems are there. Can't hand Tab to a keyboard player and ask him to sight read it! Don't get me wrong - Tab is a useful tool to get beginners playing something they recognise quickly. That's inspiring, and inspiration and encouragement is vital for progress, but it's limitations are massive.

Every covers band on earth has songs that a member doesn't want to play. Even in originals bands there will be songs that are favourites and those that fall down the desirability list. I saw an interview with Metallica recently when they were saying that they didn't really want to play "Seek and Destroy" anymore but the crowd wanted it so they played it. The band's enjoyment was not a factor in putting it in the set list. And for non-writing members of an originals band - it's no different to being in a covers band. Paying gigs have very little to do with enjoyment of the music. It's a job like any other and that comes with both boredom and excitement. If a person is really lucky - the excitement might even reach 50% of their day. But anyway - there is a necessary split between learning music academically and creating art. They are different things and require different approaches. I'm sure there's loads of kids who hate caterpillars, but they read "The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar" because it's been carefully written to be a good training book. Every surgeon learns how to remove an appendix on the way to be being good enough to go digging around in a brain. We all learn the rules of our primary language as an academic subject while enjoying art that was created by that language along side. But they are not the same thing.

You are not helping!

Here: Seems to be a 2007. https://guitarchimp.com/products/2007-gibson-thunderbird-iv-bass-white

Deffo a Gibson Thunderbird. The colour might not be available at the moment though.

I've never worked in a guitar shop but I did 9 months in a car dealers. Used to get people coming in demanding 20-25% off for cash on a new car when there wasn't even 10% in them at full price. They'd never believe us. There wasn't even that much in most of the used cars after the service / MOT / replace a tyre / valet stuff that was needed before a trade in was ready to be sold. Half the time it was more sensible to run the trade in down to the local auction in whatever state it was in. Main Dealers make their money on the finance packages and not on the cars. The cars are really just a way to get the punter to need credit. If there was ever a 0% special offer on a car that was a clear indication that the maker had made far more than needed and needed to get rid of them fast. It became a bit of a joke. There was a Ford special edition Fiesta that had a 4 year 0% finance offer with only £100 minimum deposit. When Ford announced it the reaction in the sales team was "So - it's a piece of shit then?"

is that all? Blimey! That's just madness! Why would you bother? Might as well have a pizza van instead.

If GAK have £30M turnover but will sell for £20M then there's a shit load of debt somewhere. Andertons don't need to take that on.