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40 years ago with a band that arose from a hall of residence in London, playing a mix of originals and covers on a Hayman 4040 and getting paid £100 between the four of us. Not bad when beer was 20p a pint.

[quote name='cytania' timestamp='1473596270' post='3131468'] I think room resonance works with certain cabs. Room 3 at Magnet got a huge boom out of my Barefaced Compact (E flat). In desperation I patched the amp into a Peavey 8x10 that had been left there and the boom went. [/quote] Were the two cabs in exactly the same place? I think placement would have something to do with it.

I played with assorted bands at the Tamworth Rock Festival about ten years on the trot. I think the audience was generally over 1000. Also played live on Telethon '90. However, that was at ludicrous o'clock in the morning. Oh, and Radio WM, for my friend Richard Green.

Generally up to an hour - Brum and Walsall are about 45 minutes away (depending on which bit we're getting to) and that's where most of our gigs are. It did take us a bit longer than that to get to Munich.

60s to current, Sei Original headless fretless and Esh Poseidon through Zoom MS-60B to Tecamp Puma 900 and two Bergantino AE112s. Have also happily used assorted other basses, amps, and cabs. Use what you want.

I didn't fancy a party, being an antisocial git, so when we got the chance to play at Dudley Beer Festival, I jumped at it. Mind you, I still got attacked, bewigged, and silly-stringed.

Geddy Lee. I don't even know how to pronounce his first name - soft g or hard?

Old Mini Clubman estate - me, drummer, drummer's girlfriend, my bass amp (which was a guitar combo, Carlsbro Stingray, with bass drivers in), and drumkit. I have no photographic evidence, especially of me doing 90mph loaded up thusly.

[quote name='3below' timestamp='1472663507' post='3123072'] My thought was that Warwick purchase them in bulk and thus get OEM pricing which is passed on to customers. The quality seems good and they work well enough on Warwick basses which is why I also have a set waiting to go in the current bass build. Now what can I call it that begins with W? [/quote] A Wossname? I've bought a few cheapo tuners, and I've probably got them on my Antoniotsais. The quality has been a bit variable, none have been up to the quality of the tuners on my Warwicks but most have been perfectly acceptable.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1472740596' post='3123825'] It was bridged. Each 250w amp consisted of two bridged 62.5w amps. You can't bridge twice, and even if you could the minimum impedance load would have been raised to 8 ohms anyway. [/quote] Does that mean that the outputs (signal and 0V) of each power module floated relative to the other? If they did, you couldn't bridge them, but if the 0V was common, I think you should be able to invert the input to one of the modules and take the two signal outputs to + and - of the speaker - the common 0V would mean that the signals would move relative to each other. But as you say, the 8 ohm limitation would be an issue.

Zoom MS-60B using Ampeg SVT and chorus -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> 2 x Bergantino AE112 On the very rare occasions where we get to play with full PA support, DI from the Puma.

I had a Superfly 500 and a Superduperfly. The 1000 has a fan, the 500 doesn't. The 500 gets a bit warm under the collar, the 1000 doesn't. I didn't have any reliability problems with either of them. I loved the graphic preamp. You could hear a bit of electronic breakthrough on both mine when there was no bass going through them, which I think was a combination of power supply and power amp boards. I think they missed a trick not making it bridging.

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1472596624' post='3122567'] There was an EA iamp 800 for sale on here a while ago. Tiny! [/quote] I had an iAmp 800 (and an iAmp 500 before that) and they weren't tiny. Sure it wasn't the iAmp Micro? That's a bit narrower and shallower (but higher) than the Tecamp Puma.

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1472666321' post='3123124'] I think this was made custom for someone who plays the bass in a different way. Perhaps sitting down only, or hung in an odd way standing up (frets 15 - 24 played with no thumb on the back of the neck... [/quote] Someone who wants extended access but likes the horrible Fender neck join?

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1472331444' post='3120446'] Keef tended to remove the low E string and play them as a five string guitar, he did it with the famous Micawber Telelcaster if you google images of it [/quote] It's because he learnt on a guitar that was missing a string.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1472596472' post='3122565'] Wrong again I'm afraid mate [url="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/leverage"]http://dictionary.ca...nglish/leverage[/url] [/quote] It's now used as a verb. However, it is and was a noun, and using it as a verb is a bastardisation of the language (the dictionary is a record of usage, which for example now defines "literally" as "not literally", and will probably include the non-existent word "supercede" in it at some point because people can't spell). It is a noun that has been verbed, which was, I believe, my original point when I said that there is no noun that cannot be verbed.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1472468105' post='3121270'] That's not verbing anything though, it is just a noun and a verb, musician is a noun only. [/quote] Leverage isn't a verb, it's a noun. Using it as a verb is abuse of the language. So, have you been musicianing lately?

I wanted to play 5-strings for a while but wasn't able to find one that had anything like as comfy a neck as the 4-string I was playing. Then one came along, and after a while I switched to exclusively 5-string. The 4-string was a Warwick Thumb with wide string spacing, the 5-string was an Antoniotsai with quite a bit narrower spacing. I didn't find the string spacing an issue, it was my left hand that had been unhappy.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1472390464' post='3120734'] I must be the only bugger here who likes electronic drums. Modern electro kits are incredible. The only reason my drummer doesn't bring his out to gigs is that the wiring loom takes ages to sort out, even with his careful braiding and colour-coding. [/quote] I depped for a band I was formerly in on Saturday. Drummer now uses an electronic kit. We were having fun choosing a snare sound. I found it a bit of a relief on the ears not having a cymbal just by me (especially as he's quite a cymbalphiliac).

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1472279345' post='3119966'] Drummer turns up with an electronic kit... I'm out! [/quote] Why?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1472232310' post='3119722'] A set of in ear monitors are easier to carry than even the smallest combo. [/quote] But it's a bit impractical to give them to everyone in the audience.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1472242602' post='3119822'] I'm no expert but something sounds a miss to me?, lol. I waiting for other nouns to be 'verbed' , any suggestions? [/quote] Leverage.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1471945098' post='3117106'] Being a professional musician is not the same as having a professional approach (whatever that might mean) to your music making. [/quote] I see "professional approach" as meaning that you adopt the same approach to playing music as you do to whatever it is that you do for a living, because you'd still like to be doing it tomorrow - ie. do it well and don't piss people off. Well, at least not the people that pay you.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1471810717' post='3116105'] To cook and to shave are verbs, musician/music isn't. [/quote] There is no noun that cannot be verbed.

Having played at pub and club level for 40 years or so, I would find playing with no backline a bit strange, but certainly not wrong. Wish I had the opportunity (and the roadies).