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With the Bonnevilles at the Wagon Load of Lime last night - a bit tight for space with the bikes around us (that's a T140V Bonneville behind the guitarist and the front wheel of a pre-unit 650 Triton poking out in front of me). A bit more visible in this shot. Tablet is for the set list and brief notes on a couple of the songs. The all-important glasses. Should be getting more bookings next year, and some for my other band too (if we can negotiate a better fee). Same rig and footwear as last night. More relaxed as I don't do the PA. No pale ales in the pub. Sharp's Doom Bar and Sea Fury only, so resorted to Madri.

Just had a short play with it to confirm. Yes, it's boost/cut, just doesn't have a centre detente. As bass amps all have their own characteristic pre-baked EQ curves, centre detentes are a bit meaningless anyway. I think the reviewer doesn't understand the MID controls - the manual explains it, very briefly. It's a sweepable mid, with a MID FREQ control to set the frequency to cut/boost (200Hz to 2kHz) and a MID control to do the cutting/boosting.

Says that the EQ is boost only. All the other reviews I've seen say it's boost and cut. I shall have more of a play tomorrow.

You could use a powerblock - admittedly you'd still need a cable between light and powerblock, but you wouldn't need a mains socket for it. I've got five of them incoming for the grand total of £11 (two for £4.50 and a minimum order of £10), so need to think about how to power them.

For a second there I thought you were talking about well polished boots.

I remember reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time and something about it seemed odd, and I realised it was the first book I'd read with ragged right justification.

I got one from AliExpress for about £40. Just went back, looked at the order and went to the item currently on sale - £140! The difference is the unheadstock end. The A type with the bigger lump has an integral adjustable nut and clamps concealed by the cover. The B type has five little clamp things so presumably you supply your own nut. The guitar equivalent of the A type is fitted to the Jamstik Studio MIDI guitar - https://jamstik.com/collections/midi-guitars/products/b-stock-of-jamstik-studio-midi-guitar?variant=45365173125345 There's a drawing of the A type unheadstock at https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007488329170.html

I got a tiny bit of hiss but not with nothing plugged in, so it might be from the M-Vave wireless I was using with it (something I haven't noticed from it before).

Despite not being a Prime, mine arrived today two days early, which is nice. Nice little thing, definitely not a gigging amp. Sound reproduction through Bluetooth is good. I'm off to gig shortly so can't do much more this evening. Definitely not as loud as the TC BAM200 and house jam micro cab though.

It's only divisible by itself or one.

We do it (both bands, and the previous band too). Not a huge introduction, just "X on drums, Y on guitar, Ʈ on bass, and I'm Z" while playing the main riff of whatever song it is we're doing.

Another visit to the Spread Eagle in Polesworth, as always rather tight for space. Advertised as an 8:30 start, then we were told it was 9:30 to 11:30, so we went with 9:00 to 9:50ish, long interval, 10:30-11:30. A few fluffs in the first half but no major car crashes and the second half went well. And the landlady was dancing, which was a good sign. Could see through a passage into the other room, and there was some dancing going on in there too. Looks like we'll be getting some Saturday gigs next year, so less of a rush for the 50% of the band who aren't retired, and also the pool table gets moved out of the way instead of just being covered over. Sei Flamboyant -> M-Vave wireless -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. Normal footwear.

I'm in too. Close enough to home to cope if a gig should come in.

No Wals for £300 though?

Difficult to tell. The OP referred to starting bass for sessions, but they're not new to bass as that might imply as their first post was nine or ten years ago with a Youtube video, second one in 2023, and this is their third post.

I should have one in my sticky little hands on Monday. I doubt it would cope with a great deal of volume - I'll try comparing it with a BC house jam micro cab plus TC BAM200 when it gets here.

Apart from the gob-iron, that's what we do. If space is very limited, one of the guitarists goes through the PA too. Our set-up is two Alto TS308s as FOH and two Alto TS408s as floor wedges, and an XR18 for mixing. With a brace of Gravity stands, it comes in at under £1.5k brand new (with TS408s instead of the TS308s), if you got a second-hand XR12 it would be a couple of hundred quid cheaper. We've never had any complaints about the sound quality.

I tell a lie, I've used a split and two parallel channels both using the Line 6 Pitch Echo which combines delay and pitch shift. I'm sure there is another one which has two parallel pitch/delay paths, unless that's in the MOD Dwarf.

The HX Stomp has an effect which combines pitch shift and delay. I've used it to emulate a 12-string bass (well, a 15-string, but that's splitting hairs) as it has two separate parallel routes of delay and pitch shift. Can't remember if they can be diverted to L or R specifically.

Normally I eschew Amazon because Jeff Bezos. However...

Doing a search for "michael mason fraud leicester" brings up quite a few results but all the Facebook links and the links to police pages lead nowhere.

He's done many excellent videos on Youtube. Well worth watching, although almost as time consuming as Project Binky.

AliExpress special? 😁

I think you'd need a slight delay (a few milliseconds) on one channel to sound like two basses - perfect unison isn't.

Cort and Ibanez both manage to protect their tuners - Cort by having a complete cutaway (also see Hohner and Sei), Ibanez by having a scoop out of the front of the bass. Neither of them put the 12th fret much further away than having the tuners dangling off the end. The pickups seem strangely orientated - they don't match up with the increasing angles of the frets so if it was a parallel fret design, they'd be leaning over rather than across the strings. I know Warwick and Ritter both do leaning pickups (Thumb bridge, Ritter neck) but they lean the opposite way. Their Veil bass at least has pickups that lean the right way, although the body shape should appeal to even fewer people as it's singlecut.