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I had one and it was pretty awful. Just a poorly put together, wuffly sounding mess.

I’ve just switched to iems and happily the foh sub is on my side of the stage, so I get a lovely mix of feels and hears

My MiJ Geddy Lee needed tweaking every five minutes, and any stingray or Ibanez soundgear I’ve owned too. But otherwise I’ve never had them move around much. My mij fender ‘trigger’s broom’ neck has had virtually no attention ever.

I’ve started using the cheap £30 odd quid lekato too. No dramas with it so far.

Same here. Just moved to two headrush 112s and am very pleased indeed:)

On the other hand, I’ve just sold the nux! I preferred the sonicake strip in the end, so went with that.

Thanks. It sounds epic!! Not been out with one yet, but I wouldn’t think twice about it tbh.

The middle one was the house monitor on that side. I just left it there and set up around it. This is how they are sat now waiting for tonight’s show.

It’s been a long time since I posted a pic in here, so here’s a more recent, post long-hair, post COVID recovery shot

My current setup, I’m really pleased with it, even coming from Bergantino.

My last one was a lovely pub-garden job on a nice big stage with a great PA set up. The engineer was the band’s old one, which was handy! The sound was great, we played well, there was bunting and very Cheltenhamy folk sipping wine and beer with mud in and folks cheered and danced. Good times I snapped a shot of my setup, which both myself and the engineer were pleased with. I could’ve gone with one headrush, but as both were handy I just ran both flanking the house monitor.

This was a bit of an extreme case 🤪

Mine was horrendous. A private birthday do that turned out to be something akin to a scene from ‘shameless’. Lots of drunken, testosterone fuelled angry men wanting to fight each other amongst a forest of greasy, wailing harpies loving the peacocking efforts intended to impress them. We cut short.

OnSong is superb

I use the ‘over’ app on an iPad, works very well is so so easy.

I once owned a white B2A. It came in a flight case almost as big as me 🤪😂 EMG pickups and a great sound, I couldn’t get on with it then, but wish I had it now

I have switched to two headrush 112s. So far I’m one gig in and it was an odd one, so not a good benchmark. (I played on a skate ramp). The main issue I found that caught me out was, when daisy chaining the two cabs, the second one was a LOT quieter than the first. No idea why! I switched them round, changed inputs and cables, but always with the same result. Anyway, I’ve solved the problem two ways, with an ABY pedal to run both in mono, and a second preamp to split the signal path between a front stage monitor and one further back by the drums, or to run in stereo. I have a series of typical function and pub gigs coming up, so I can report back on the pros and cons of going to the headrush cabs. (Which was all I could afford)

I plugged one in at the Princess Charlotte in Leicester once back in the early 90s and it blew the power out in the entire building. By the time it was fixed, the crowd had gone and we had 20 mins left! I ran the sound there a few times, and one of the power amps used to shoot a foot long flame out the front when you powered it up. Those were the days 😂

Same

Mine’s still sitting in a drawer from 2019! Never did like the sound or find a use, but I’m sure it’s day will come eventually!

Im doing this at the minute, but my budget is super limited so most stuff listed is waaaay out of my league. Fwiw I’m using a Nux https://www.nuxefx.com/melvin-lee-davis.html I come out of my zoom b9.1 and into the nux before going to to 2 headrush 112s. It has built in IR facility and via usb you can add more. I have a blank one set up as a hpf. The eq can be switched between the nux one and a model of the tone hammer. It’s pretty good so far, the treble control is a bit subtle and the drive is ‘meh’, but it’s doing the job I want it to just fine. (Which is be a volume control, backup di and basic room adjustment eq for me. My signal to foh comes from the zoom.)

I had a Sterling ray 34ca (I should add that I’ve owned many real stingrays) and it was damn near the real thing, but with a jazz-width neck. Sadly though, the neck was really wavy and unstable, it reminded me of the Geddy Lee jazz I owned. I later owned the cheap sterling ‘sub’ ray and, once I’d fixed the over-hot preamp, it was a fantastic bass and one I’d own again in a shot.

Mine was a Kaman GTX 53. Not a bad place to start to be fair. I did also often play marlins, the odd old satellite, Kay etc. But this was pretty good. Sometime in the early 90’s I traded it to get my sonic blue Japanese jazz (still my main bass) in a shop called ‘humbucker music’ which burnt down a few days later. E809CDE5-E171-4C0E-8101-B66D2D64C4EF.webp

Welcome. I’m living in Cheltenham now, but grew up in Lutterworth, rehearsed in Melton and lived in Leicester until 15 years ago. 🙂