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[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1453927247' post='2964394'] Surely, the total tension on a six-string guitar neck is substantially more than the tension on a four string bass neck? [/quote] A quick bit of research with the D'Adarrio tension chart shows 6-strings with a .010 top E are about 18 whatevers tension per string while 4-strings .040-.100 average just under 40 whatevers per string so even girlie 4-stringers are about 1.5 times as much total tension while proper manly 5-stringers are almost double. Any more than 5 strings on a bass is pure narcissism so you can do your own arithmetic.

The new Eich 1000 - 2x500W at 2 ohms or bridged, 1x1000W at 4 ohms. Not a cheap option though.

Peavey Grind BXP, either 5- or 6-string.

58, gigging now more than I've ever done in the past (although at 20-30 gigs a year that's not up to the three gigs a weekend that some have managed). Would rather like to do some original material as a side project but I think I'll just have to do that in the studio with Mrs Zero as I can't interest the guitarist.

If there's a reserve on it, it'll say so. I just use a sniping tool.

I asked Zoom about the possibility of a B5 and also asked them about the MS100BT to see whether they might ever do Android software for it. No to both (the latter certainly surprised me, you'd think that they'd do something about the fact that they're ignoring 50% of the market). Never say never though.

Peavey Grind BXP, certainly well within your budget. I think the Cirrus (both BXP and USA) is the same string spacing and width but the neck profile is a fraction chunkier.

Since I found a 5 with a neck that compared in playing terms with my Warwick JD Thumb (the JD has a very slim and shallow neck which I love), I've settled on 5s. However, I'm not selling my Thumbs as if I should ever go back to 4-strings, they're the ones I'll want.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1453740764' post='2962334'] Ah, I see this has turned into another covers band thread. [/quote] Not really, I play in a fairly typical pub covers band and it's utterly irrelevant to me because we use backline and vocal PA, not full band through the PA, except for the very occasional occasions where there's an in-house PA. So the reason I have a 900W amp and speakers that can handle about 2/3 of that is that I'm not going to have to worry about whether I've got enough power to do some venue or other.

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1453316365' post='2958412'] I'm not sure how this sits in the scheme of US gig ticket pricing, but that's £180 at today's exchange rate. [/quote] That'll be because they play for four hours in the US, not just the 90 minutes we get over here.

[quote name='KK Jale' timestamp='1453171106' post='2957129'] I think it's the highest possible calling for a carefully-crafted inanimate object to be gradually worn out in the heat of battle. If my Precision finally falls apart at exactly the same time I do, that'll be a result for both of us. [/quote] Not if it's the consequence of some drunken punter breaking it over your head because you wouldn't let him have a play on it...

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1453368322' post='2958737'] I have UPS delivering a bass today, I'm not in so can't sign for it. The only option I have on their website is to collect the bass from Dartford... not very useful as I live in North London. [/quote] Go to UPS's website - you can set yourself as a user (I think it's called UPS Choice) and opt to have parcels delivered to one of their collection points if you're not there to take delivery. Here you go: [url="https://www.ups.com/content/gb/en/tracking/ups_mychoice.html"]https://www.ups.com/content/gb/en/tracking/ups_mychoice.html[/url] I selected a local corner shop which is open till 9.30, so far I've had four parcels via them.

I have the Markbass which is backup to my Tecamp Puma 900. I used it at one gig to check that it could do the job and it can - the Puma only ever runs at tickover though. Physically bigger than the Puma, not unwieldy though, plenty of oomph.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452968049' post='2955225'] Absolutely right and proper. To err is human. Just because the OP had a problem logging in - as he had his cookies switched off for some reason - and then rather egregiously blamed his two-year-old child for the error is neither here nor there, is it? Water under the bridge. [/quote] You don't think that this thread should be preserved until the poor child can read it and properly repudiate the allegations?

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1453123437' post='2956521'] I do everything I can to avoid dings and dents in my basses... Dents, dings, scratches and fading I think add character to a color finish bass, but they don't really do anything for natural wood basses. [/quote] I'm the same, but I buy natural wood basses rather than painted ones because if they do get small marks, they're not noticeable.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1452978566' post='2955336'] Probably my most favourite number in our set. PG is my favourite solo artist by far. [/quote] I keep trying to persuade the others to do Sledgehammer. Excellent song.

Primarily the music, although sometimes the singist has poor diction and consequently the words are indecipherable, and I find that annoying. I need to be able to make out the lyrics, though I may not actually listen to what they're saying. I write lyrics myself and I want the lyrics to be heard properly in my songs (in case anyone actually bothers with them), and it seems to me that anyone who writes lyrics would also feel that way.

I think Eich Amps have taken over Tecamp USA's Facebook page, possibly accidentally. [url="https://www.facebook.com/tecampusa/"]https://www.facebook.com/tecampusa/[/url] which is where you finish up if you search for "Eich amplification" on Farcebook and then select Eich-Amps.

EA iAMP 800 and a brace of GK 112 Neo mark IIs, with either a Peavey Zephyr 5 or a fretless Mazeti 5. But I have no regrets whatsoever about having none of those any more.

Town GAS - a desire to visit the Bass Gallery. Noble GAS - a desire for equipment with the best possible intentions.

Nice big live room (perhaps with a vocal isolation booth) and a nice big production room too. Perhaps have a storage room where bands can put their cases so they're not just sitting in the live room. Also a relaxation room with fridge, kettle, sink, mugs, milk and tea-bags.

[quote name='The-Ox' timestamp='1452269339' post='2948352'] haha, if I told you the one bass I have was an ACG would that make things better? [/quote] I trust you'll be coming to the Moffat Bass Bash to increase your desire for an ACG...

[quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1452107423' post='2946541'] So basically my point is - If you can tell the difference of a note - e.g "C" played on a piano and that same note (frequency/pitch) played on a trumpet and clarinet, Bass guitar. We can all Identify all those instruments blind, So it is not just wavelength and frequency, It is the harmonic information that is telling the brain this is a clarinet, it may be harder to identify a note played on an Alder bass with maple neck made in the 50's,60's,70's,80's,90's, etc but we could differentiate the difference, good bad and indifferent. [/quote] A lot of the information about what instrument it is, let alone which variant of that instrument, is gleaned from the ADSR envelope of the sound - attack, decay, sustain, release. If you just hear a sustained note without the initial part of the sound, you'd find it a lot more difficult to distinguish between, say, a bowed string instrument and a blown woodwind instrument playing the same note.

Beaten to it for most of my selections - Fever, Another one bites the dust, Money - but I suspect "With or without you" would be quite well known. But play the bass to the verses of such well-known songs as "All right now", "Honky tonk women", or "Highway to hell" and who will recognise them?