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I have an awkward load in, no on street parking nor carpark nearby and very cramped playing area tonight. Cracking venue though. And they love the band. I shall therefore be using a rig I can carry through the city so the Veyron will be flying without a safety net tonight! One lightweight cab, travel bass! And just enough cables. I'll be thrown out of the bassist Union at this rate.

THIS☝️ This is the winner. All my other Heath Robinson stuff is out the window. Simple and so effective. Thank you @goingdownslow what an elegant, simple, effective solution. You are at the top of my list.

Fancy!

HB? Excellent but heavy. Bass centre? Just excellent.

They do look great don't they? The EEB in particular

Mine works with 8ohm and 4ohm cabs, no problem at all. Limiter, gain at all manner of levels, in fact many differing settings all round and no problems like those described. Sorry, but sounds like you have a faulty unit.

Indeed. Good job I didn't say I was upset!

I don't have a dog in this particular fight so it's been fun reading all the different views. As is often the case one thing I have noticed is that the only people getting upset about the issue seem to be those posting how they "don't understand why people get so upset about the issue". Which has a pleasant irony to it.

Damn you're good at this. First you have me on tenterhooks then you start reeling me in

Don't keep us on tenterhooks ...

I love this too! I have a semi acoustic bass which hangs all over the place and this might just be the answer.

That's flipping genius.

Some videos are very good as learning aids, others are just folk enjoying playing the bass. I don't laugh at someone who is clearly inexperienced and just having fun, plenty out there who could laugh at me if they wanted to. I prefer love and support to criticism and sarcasm - but then I'm a bit soft. Learning someone's interpretation can be a great starting point, assuming the ultimate goal is to improve one's ability to 'hear' a bassline and produce our own interpretation. If the cover deviates from the original that should be the first thing to stand out to us. We can then find where it should go and thus our skills improve. So any video ultimately can be a learning tool. Even one we might deem as 'wrong', assuming that term can actually be applied to music.

Now stop talking about it - my sellers remorse is building!! Might have to buy something just to make myself feel better.

Aw, but I want one

Ah OK. Put it to standby first, let the tube warm up, once light comes on you're good to go

Have you tried it at home at least?

Indeed it isn't elegant to look at but bear in mind I'm cycling to rehearsal and therefore minimising weight. The bottle can be carried empty or I can drink from it en route.

You referring to my velcro weight solution or the rehearsal room bottle solution?

I suppose the answer to that is if it bothers you it's a problem if it doesn't it isn't. The Hohner travel bass is literally unplayable to me. My left hand needs to glide freely up and down the neck not act as a shelf bracket

The bottle counterweight solution

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I've experimented with many solutions and the most effective was still a little inelegant. I have a canvass pouch designed to hang from a belt or bag whilst out hiking. This pouch holds a water bottle. So when I cycle to my rehearsal with my tiny travel bass I take the bottle from the bike, fill it with water at the rehearsal room, clip the pouch to my guitar strap (at the bum end of course) and the weight of the water precisely balances the instrument without me having to carry anything heavy on the bike (which would kind of defeat the object of travelling light). I carry the bottle anyway and it becomes lighter throughout the ride as I consume the initial quantity of H2O. So I rehearse with a bottle swinging at my hip. Perfect if, as I say, inelegant. I am therefore adapting the idea for when I'm actually gigging with a neck heavy bass. Quite simply velcro attached to the back end of the strap and a certain number of curtain weights sewn into a flat pouch with the other half of the velcro sewn to the pouch. Balanced bass? Remove the pouch, neck heavy? Velcro it on. The 'certain number' of weights is arrived at through trial and error but by using three smaller pouches rather than one big one I can stick on differing amounts of weight to suit each bass on a case by case basis. Or a bass by bass casis. A bag of curtain weights, yesterday: Pictures to follow. When I've actually done the sewing.