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[quote name='gs_triumph' timestamp='1469609240' post='3099643'] I bought a Zoom b3 as an experiment last year... Couldn't get on with it. Too fiddly. So I bought a tuner, EBS multicomp and a multidrive from the for sale section of the forum. I enjoyed them so I bought a unichorus. I was offered a dha bass valvedrive so took it. Liked that for a while. Worked well in the house but not in the rehearsal room. Sold that. Bought a BassIQ envelope filter. No idea why!? Just fancied it. Only ever use it for playing Sir psycho sexy in the house as we don't play it in the band. In fact... I don't really use effects in the band at all other than a bit of light overdrive and use Chorus on one song . Which is why I have now bought a Two Notes Le Bass from the sale section??? And another boutique drive pedal off the 'Bay. [/quote] Now you're getting used to using pedals, time to experiment with another Zoom B3, or maybe an MS-60B. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1469385425' post='3097905'] Abba might not be your cuppa char, but Rutger Gunnarsson's bass work was amazing. Dancing Queen is a masterpiece. [/quote] Agreed, though it's my least favourite Abba song.

You also have the option of a MIDI controller keyboard and synth module which increases your possibilities.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1468999766' post='3094901'] They're all on eBay looking for a cheap LS-2! [/quote] Not me, I went wireless.

I had a bad motorcycle crash in 2001, including several broken ribs and a punctured lung. The soft tissue damage around the lower part of my right shoulderblade means that I can't generally stand for more than 30 minutes or so without severe pain, so to avoid the risk, I practice and rehearse sitting down. For gigs, a high stool is one of my most essential pieces of equipment. If my back starts getting a bit dodgy, I'll sit down during slower numbers - always try to be standing for the rockier stuff though, and of course I have to stand to go walkabout in the audience.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1469623431' post='3099795'] Were one's front-man correctly to introduce Hanging On The Telephone as 'A song by The Nerves' some beetle-browed inebriate would doubtless later accost him to 'put him right', possibly involving a punch up the bracket. The vast majority of audiences (or 'civilians' as we might dub them) will unhesitatingly (if sometimes erroneously) confer original performance status on that specific version of a song which is the first to achieve mass popular dissemination and through which outcome the song will arrived at the audience's ears. Perhaps they've got it right. They're the customers. [/quote] But there's additional complexity from doing covers of covers - if one were to do a cover of Joe Cocker's rendition of "With a little help from my friends" instead of the Beatles' far inferior original version of the song, would one introduce it as being by one or the other of the aforementioned artistes, when the Beatles wrote it but Mr Cocker performed the only listenable version, and both are quite well-known? Also cf. "Valerie", where Amyl Winecellar's version and the Zutons' original were, in terms of musical ages, contemporaneous - which one does one say one is performing when one's own version falls halfway between the two? We do "Summertime Blues", but the Oo's rendition of that song rather than Eddie Cochrane's original. It gets randomly introduced as "by the Who", "originally by Eddie Cochrane", no mention of who originally did it at all, and no mention of anything whatsoever to do with the song - depends on what Mrs Zero feels like saying on the night.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1469401541' post='3098068'] Looks interesting. I don't quite understand what was done with the strap buttons (I suspect the choice of that body shape was Silly, given it was going to have all that extra weight at the headstock), and I don't like the name, but definitely interesting. [/quote] I think I can see the logic of the strap button placement - moving the attachment points relative to the centre of gravity, although it doesn't leave a very big loop to get your body through. The bridge isn't too great, intonation adjustment on all three courses of each string rather than split saddles with separate intonation adjustment for the bass and the octave strings.

Are they original Frisbees?

I saw a BMW a while ago with the apposite TWA77Y. I see personalised plates as a harmless indulgence, except for the ones with spacing messed around with and black screws in inappropriate places when it means it would be difficult to make out what the number actually was.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1469616774' post='3099711'] Not really. It could be, but It's a narrower definition. A cover band plays music it didn't originate. [/quote] I'd suggest that they play music that they neither originated nor performed the first release of (so Elvis and the Three Degrees, for example, aren't cover acts). If you wrote it and performed the first release of it, it's an original, and if you wrote it, someone else released it first so you got the royalties and then released it yourself and got even more, it's having your cake and eating it.

[quote name='Tobe' timestamp='1469550081' post='3099300'] But the problem comes with each 2x10 been 8 ohm. thus stacking 4 takes you to a 2 ohm load. The 810 uses 32 ohm drivers so the 8x10 is 4 ohm! [/quote] Didn't Ampeg realise that they could get a 4 ohm 8x10 by using 8 ohm drivers? It wouldn't be hard to sort out a custom wiring harness to make 4 x 2x10 at 8 ohms into an 8 ohm load.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1469602377' post='3099585'] Where are you drawing the line between making a demo in the studio and a global number one hit? He must have made some form of recording of it that Mott used as a reference? [/quote] A definition someone used was "recorded and released". That's the definition I was referring to. Presumably you don't regard a demo on a wobbly cassette recorder [1] as "released". [1] Not that I think that's what David Bowie would have done for his preliminary recording of "All the young dudes".

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1469389076' post='3097950'] But there will be a version originally recorded by the writer somewhere we just haven't heard it, I doubt Bowie described the song over the phone to them? [/quote] He let Mott do it before he'd released any recorded versions of it himself.

[quote name='LewisK1975' timestamp='1469197977' post='3096563'] If Lennon/mcCartney recorded and released it, then Cilla's version is a cover. I think this is the definition - if the song was recorded & released by someone else first, then any future version, live or recorded is a cover. [/quote] Which produces such oddities as David Bowie's cover of "All the Young Dudes" and Bruce Springsteen's cover of "Because the night". I don't think Prince did a cover of "Nothing compares 2U".

[quote name='Alan Fourstrings' timestamp='1468959946' post='3094748'] But I bought this Buzzard to play it live, and I take it to gigs when the stage is large enough, you're right, I don't want to hurt anybody . [/quote] I can relate to that, I had a bolt-on Warwick Buzzard and at most of the places we play, it took up over 50% of the stage. It was, of course, considerably cheaper than a Status Buzzard...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1468934587' post='3094441'] 'Gay' presumably meaning 'bad' or 'sub-standard' and not the archaic and outmoded usage meaning 'homosexual'..? [/quote] Indeed, that was a bit more irony. As a child that was born on the Sabbath day, I feel entitled to interpret the word "gay" as I please.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1468933388' post='3094423'] The ironic nature of your post has been lost in the telling. [/quote] I was going to go off into further exposition on the nature of irony and words, such as "wicked" being either good or bad, or "cleave" meaning either to join together or to split apart, or "flammable" and "inflammable" meaning the same thing, but I decided that was a bit gay so I didn't.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1468912845' post='3094187'] Until this morning I had lived in blissful ignorance that such a silly, pointless word even existed. [/quote] I knew it existed, but as the past tense of the verb "stink", not as a noun.

They were in Milwaukee.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468797733' post='3093441'] yes Ive got one [/quote] And you still don't know how it works?

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468796662' post='3093434'] The Behringher pedal allows 2 basses to be plugged into to the same input [/quote] No it doesn't, that's physically impossible. It allows 2 basses to be plugged into 2 inputs, one into each, and the output can then be plugged into an amplifier. [quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468796662' post='3093434'] and the levels set by the controls on the pedal, put your foot on the pedal you can switch between 2 basses, why is this muppet making an issue of something so simple!! [/quote] The levels are not set by the controls on the pedal in the way that you think. Read the instructions (conveniently reproduced on the first page of this topic), or get someone else to explain them to you if they're too complicated.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1468795562' post='3093426'] and he said he wanted 2 basses into one input! whats difficult to understand about that? [/quote] Yes, he said he wanted two basses into one amplifier input. That would mean one bass goes into input A and the other into input B, the output would go to the amplifier, and the switch would be set to give two inputs and one output. And when you do that, only one of the level controls alters a level, and the level that it alters is the overall level, not the level of one channel. What's so difficult to understand about that?

I agree with Muppet about getting all the requirements listed and getting the answers well in advance of the gig, to reduce the stress around the organisation. With that anxiety removed, you may find everything else fades away, and if not, you'll still be better placed to analyse what is still causing you stress.

Interparcel and UPS for me. Herpes have once again left a parcel for me behind the bush to the side of the front door. They regularly either do that or chuck it over the gate, ditto Yokel, neither of which I would entrust with anything more valuable than a used paper cup.

If you're changing EQ too, Zoom MS60B with one patch set up for one bass and the other for the other.