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The necks on my Seis are the best necks of any basses I've played, with the Antoniotsais being a close runner up. Looking at 5-strings, I haven't played a Jazz (Fender) or Rickenbacker, only played a Stingray briefly (I liked that), no Alembic, played a Fodera but that was just a 4-string (and I didn't like the neck), no Ritter. Edit: no Gibsons either.

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave.

On Saturday night, my AT800 uttered a few horrible noises (even more horrible than my normal playing) and then ceased to emit any noise whatsoever. Yesterday was diagnosis day. The combo has an amp in a sleeve at the back, with a jack plug connecting speaker and one output. With the jack plug unplugged and a speakon cable connecting the amp to a known good cab, I got sound. Reversing the experiment and connecting the jack plug from the speaker to a known good amp, I got a little sound from the tweeter. I extracted the main driver and checked for continuity - open circuit. The driver is a Sica, custom made for GR Bass. Considering this amp has only done about 50 hours of gigging, keeping up with a medium loudness drummer, this is rather disappointing, and I'm trying to get a replacement driver from GR Bass as a warranty issue. Fortunately I have a spare amp and cab which I was intending to give a run out to anyway, so I'll be using those until I get a replacement speaker.

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I would say that 1 and 2 are subsets of 3.

BCF2000, the X-Touch's predecessor. Good for sliders and mutes, not perfect for reconfiguring mixer channels, especially when you've forgotten how you set the other ones up in the first place. The X-Air app crashes all the time on my Android 13 tablet (it's fine on an older one, which is what I use), going to try Mixing Station.

Well, since then I've discovered MIDI drum patterns.

An electronic drum kit, bought several years ago so I could try and play drums a bit for recording purposes. It's packed up in a cupboard somewhere and Mrs Zero won't tell me where it is, and at the moment we don't have the room for me to put it up anyway.

Emergency switch to putting the bass through the vocals-only PA last night (XR18 mixer, Alto TS408 FOH, Alto TS308 monitors). Something was amiss with the routing of all the channels except the three vocal channels and I couldn't get any sound out of them, so unplugged my mic and put the bass through that channel. Remarkably good sound as it happened. We do need to address speaker and mic positioning though, singer put his stuff well forward after I'd put the speakers out. I think I'm going to wait until everybody else has set up to position the speakers and do the wiring, I ended up with a tangled mess of mains cables under my little mixer table.

Gigs on Friday and Saturday (as a weekend warrior band with a rhythm section of two OAPs, we try and avoid this). My car had decided to play up so all the PA and my bass gear had to go into Mrs Zero's Nissan LEAF, which it did comfortably. Friday's gig went OK, last night was a bit more shaky. About two-thirds of the way through the first set, the bass suddenly started sounding horrible. Quick bass change in case there was a battery issue - the same. The band went into "Time of your life" to give me a little time to sort it. Putting the bass wired straight into the amp gave the same result, so I tried putting the bass through the PA (Behringer XR18, Alto 408 active speakers) but there seemed to be some issue with the channel routing and I couldn't get any sound from any channel other than the three vocal channels, so unplugged my mic and put the bass through that channel just in time to play under the solo of "Tennessee Whiskey", the first set closer. Tried some more fiddling in the interval but still couldn't work out what was wrong with the routing so left my mic off and the bass in there. Bass sounded fine even through the 8" Altos which I'd high-passed at either 60Hz or 80Hz (can't remember which). It did lead to one one amusing (for me) moment when a woman from the audience decided that she wanted to sing too, so came into our stage area and commandeered my mic. Singing her heart out to "Sweet Child o'Mine" to no avail. I told her before the next number (first encore) so she went to the second guitarist's mic instead, and her friend got her off the stage before we did the final number. Diagnosis about to start on the amp, and I shall work out what the issue is with the mixer.

Flatwound or roundwound Post-Its?

I turn up at open mics with words and chords on paper for my solo spot (me and my guitar). I'm not going to learn the chords and words of "Africa" or "Two out of three ain't bad" for the sake of what will most likely be a single performance of it. I can do my own songs and a few others without reading them.

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https://www.thomann.co.uk/thomann_gigbag1_bass_heavy.htm perhaps?

The dad rock band I'm in is mainly songs where I'm following the chords - some with very definite passing notes, eg Run to you, others which are pretty much root notes only, eg Summer of 69 (those are our only two Bryan Adams songs). For me, it's a case of getting the chords off Ultimate Guitar [1] and copying them into a cribsheet, then playing along a few times. In the case of songs with defined grace/passing notes (the aforementioned Run to you, and Don't stop believin' for example), I may check the bass tab if I can't work all the notes out. That's generally enough. Then the cribsheet comes with me to rehearsals and hopefully I can play the song without consulting it. I also play at an open mic night where one or two of the other players give me advance warning of the songs they're doing. For those, I also put the chords in a cribsheet but I don't make any effort to memorise them as it's unlikely I'll ever play them again. [1] Other tab sites are available

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Leo got his Post-It notes right first time.

Prince - Purple Rain, When doves cry, Time

If Chris Squire turns up, don't let him eat your brains.

The current band manage OK. I think I've lent one guitarist a capo at a rehearsal and that's it. However, I did find a shortcoming in my own preparation at the last gig - plugged in spare bass to get it tuned up and the sound was absolutely horrendous, as if something had gone horribly wrong with the amp. Main bass was OK and as usual didn't have anything go horribly wrong with it so played the gig with that. It was the battery, and I wasn't carrying a spare - something I have now rectified in my little bag of bits. PS: This bass is terribly profligate on batteries. It's the second time it's run a battery flat (first time also at a gig), so now I'm on the third battery since 2007, which is shocking.

Looks like you've pulled, Snorks.

No, I disagree. The correct word is "envy".

First things first. Take the yellow and blue wires out of the "IN" and "OUT" connectors and connect them together, and see if you get a signal - I think you did that right at the beginning, worth checking that things are all still well. Also, have you connected the various tone pots up? Also, check that you've got 9V across the +V and GND on the tone module when the jack plug is inserted.

You may want to move away from the 2.4GHz band to 5.8GHz. I'm a cheapskate so the three 5.8GHz wirelesses I have are Lekato WS-50, Harley Benton Airborne Pro, and Lekato WS-90. Both Lekatos are bug type, the Harley Benton has a pedal-type receiver and bug transmitter which can be recharged in a cradle on the receiver between sets so is better suited to a pedalboard. The WS-90 is a bit bigger than the WS-50 but does have channel selection. I haven't had any problems with any of them.

If you don't mind a length of string sticking out, you don't even need string clippers if you're doing it at a gig. Personally, I've also never broken a string and I have a spare bass with me.