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Ace, can't wait to hear it!

I played The Old Courts in Wigan on Saturday. I've never been in a better sounding venue. The room was great, the PA was great, the soundman was great... Get yourself a gig there, it's great!

I am in awe of this cab

A sansamp is an amp simulator, which you don't really want as you like your amp... Can you tell what's missing when comparing the tone you have to the tone you want? Maybe it's some high frequencies? Or "punch"? I wouldn't say you're missing out on anything by not having an active pre, except for the EQ options it gives you. I guess an EQ pedal would be a lot cheaper than the sadowsky pre!

If you can't get the sound you want from your amp, then some sort of tone shaping pre-amp is what you need. Whether it's in the bass or not shouldn't really matter, that's just your preference. I'd play about a bit more with your amp, you might be able to find the sound you're looking for

When I hear someone say "behind the beat" I think it means "behind the metronome/click". If the drummer is behind, then the bassist should be too. The two will be perfectly locked together, and yet still "behind the beat". Is that bollocks? I play drums in a band where the bassist is always ahead and the rhythm guitarist is always behind. It's OK when I have a click in the studio but a bit of a nightmare without

it could just be that the way you have it set doesn't sound great. If I add more pedals into my pedalboard, I often have to change settings on the pedals which were already there, in order to make them sound good with the new additions, so maybe you just need to do a bit more playing about?

I'd be programming music on a computer

This is all about the size isn't it. Sort of the opposite of the mental 8x15" cab, what about a 1 x 15" with totally over sized proportions? How would this sound? Like a 6 ft high 1 x 15"

So you set your tone print on the amp, and play through it, and this sounds fine. Then, you turn on your effects pedal which is between your bass and amp, and it suddenly sounds muddy and farty, right? Do you notice if the Peak light is on more often when you turn on your pedal? Just thinking it might be over driving the input of the amp Could you tell us specifically which pedals you tried? And did they all have the exact same effect?

I'm a bit confused, but I guess you've been changing the patch on the amp using your phone, right? The phone is sending a signal through your bass down the cable to the amp. If you put pedals in the way, this will interfere with the communication, and so your phone won't be able to speak to your amp properly

I have this on an acoustic guitar and just put some card under the string, works just fine. Doesn't look great though!

This is disappointing. You didn't annoy the LL?

the point is more about how alcohol affects your hearing, as opposed to your playing. I'm surprised that the alcohol would have more of an effect than the deafening sound levels at most gigs these days. If you're not wearing ear plugs then your ears will be as good as a drunks' within a few minutes IMO

I would have thought the effect of fatigue on your ears from the support band, or maybe the first set if you're on one of these long "bar gigs", would have just as much effect. I just remember not to tweak the sound once we've checked.

the main difference between a keyboard and a bass is the dynamic envelope of the sound IMO. Adjusting your playing technique, and some clever use of a compressor should be able to get most of the way there. If you had the attack on a compressor set pretty slow, you could kill off the sustain of your notes. Roll off the tone, play very, very cleanly, maybe with a pick, being very consistent with your picking velocity. Then you could add some modulation and dirt etc after to shape the sound of the "keyboard". I've not actually tried this but will give it a go ASAP. In the past I've always gone for more synthy sounds, so octave down, play higher up, put a load of dirt on, sounds a bit synthy, but definitely not like real keys

some sort of 2.1 system, so a mono sub, and two stereo high passed drivers, all in the same cab. Guitarists gets stereo cabs, so why not bassists? I just don't want the very low end in stereo

I don't think they're that bothered as they're doing a lot of stuff for EMG etc, I'm just too small fry The pickups do really sound ace, very, very aggressive. Well, I assume it's the pickups and not just the bass or pre-amp. I'll whip them out this weekend, my girlfriend reckons she knows of some chemicals we can get to dissolve the resin and leave the wire intact. Might as well try!

wow, that was quick, and helpful! They don't use G&B much any more, and the moq is 10 units so I wouldn't be able to get anyone to order in just 2 pickups. So I think that rules out getting hold of the G&B pickups I want. I'd quite like a go at bodging up the pickups I've got, and then if that fails I'll order some of those australian ones. I'm gigging all weekend but maybe next weekend I'll have chance to check them out, in which case I'll keep the thread updated

they don't mention any others on their site, it looks like an end of the line thing to me. I'll contact them anyway on the off chance. Thanks!

well no-one's getting back to me about the G&B pickups. Anyone got any more ideas I could try?

I was once asked to get my low ball offer

Not done it myself, although it's a service I should offer! I was just going to say - try EZ Drummer, it sounds ace

just a thought - you're not overdriving the input on the cabs are you? I would max out the cabs, then slowly bring up the the output of the desk ...but yeh, sounds like they won't cut it anyway

Many options! Fuzz pedal, play chords or diads, boost pedal, get the drummer to ride his crash or open hats to fill it out, get the guitarist to stick a bunch of reverb on for his solo I think the current fashion is to get an octave up pedal and put this through a guitar amp.