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    Yes, yes and yes! I used to have technical rehearsals with my old band whenever I got new PA toys or there'd been sound issues on a gig. At the gig I would be the bass player, backing vocalist, lighting guy, sound engineer and band leader so anything that simplified things beforehand helped a lot. For the technical reheasal I found it best to get a pub / bar / big room to do this in undisturbed for a few hours. The first time I did this there were grumbles from certain band members about us wasting time / bored / we could do this at the gig etc..... all duly ignored as this was MY practice time to make the band sound better. I set the band up as if we were playing a gig with full PA and monitor mixes but had the desk out front so I could hear what was happening and adjust accordingly. I could now spend some "me time" understanding how the combination of mics, effect, monitors, feeds etc interact and get used to what desk changes work and what dont. Familiarity with the equipment was first done by reading the manual beforehand 😲 and then in action during the rehearsal. Trying to adjust or fault find, under pressure on a gig is not fun. Band members could also get themselves a long lead or wireless so they can get in front of the PA to hear and understand the difference between stage mix and FOH. It also seemed to reduce the instances of "phantom volume changes" during the gig 🤣. Proposing a technical rehearsal (or even soundcheck at gigs) with my current band has fallen on deaf ears.........
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    Yep, ASC Pro17's get my vote as well. I must have used them for the last 15 years both playing, rehearsing and attending gigs. 👍 Just finished rehearsing tonight with a bunch of very talented musicians that I've been with for 2 years. Unfortunately I'm seriously considering giving it up. 😢 I can see so much potential to take the band from "good" to "excellent" by working on the sound, both the balance, dynamics and overall volume levels. However only the singer is appreciating what I'm proposing. Her husband, one of the guitarists, has serious hearing loss in one ear and is refusing / ignoring / "still in teenager mode" as far as volume, guitar tone and sound levels are concerned. The last few songs we played tonight I mimed. Yep, I turned my bass down to 0 and pretended to play along.......no-one noticed and I even asked the other guitarist how the overall sound of the songs were....."Great" was the reply and then I told him I'd mimed.......😲 I asked myself "If they couldn't hear a difference, do they need a bass player?" Sorry for the grumble....back to the OP....I use ACS to protect my hearing but feel in some situations I shouldnt need to. I find that many of my peers have hearing loss and play louder to compensate.....thus compounding their hearing loss so then they turn up more The usual response is "We used to play this loud in the 70's". No you didn't because the gear you're now using is twice as powerful with more headroom and the old WEM 3x10 PA columns maxed out at 50w per side wouldn't allow the vocals to go higher. I've been playing for over 40 years now and am tired of the "quantity over quality" being dictated by ego's. But then, is it just MY ego that's saying "my way is the right way?" 🤣🤣
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    That's probably one of the nicest grain patterns I've seen on a Thumb. GLWTS
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    Best not look at BassBros then....😲 I have a Puma 900 and its a powerful and great sounding amp 👍
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    I have played this bass and like it a lot. As Ian says it's got a wide and varied range of tones which surprised me as I'd expected the Darkglass pre to be very "metal voiced". Nope, you could use this anywhere. I would have been very interested in it had I not just got an Overwater and I'm trying to keep control of the numbers (both basses and £ 🤣) GLWTS 👍
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    I totaly agree. It's a shoddy attempt at slapping random bits together. You should be ashamed! As a fellow Yorkshireman I will take one for the team and forward my address so you can send it to me and I will deal with it appropriately..... .....and back to reality....that's a really nice looking bass! The body reminds me of a W&T I had. What makes you think its "not good enough standard"? If it was mine I would try selling as-is first before stripping it.
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    There's a T-shirt to buy? Where? What size? Vintage? Is it any good for metal? Darn.....looks like I have T-GAS now! 🤣🤣
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    I'd love to try and go IEM for gigs but unfortunately don't think my band will entertain such new fangled stuff.....at the moment.....but I am working on it 🤣 I may have read your post wrong but are you only providing on stage volume for the drummer and not yourself? If its just for the drummer then you're being very generous looking to buy a GRbass for essentially their use only! 😁 If it was me I'd look to provide them with a jack / xlr output from my rig or the PA and let them choose / buy whatever monitoring they fancy. 🤔😁
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    If your multi effects has a midi IN then yes you can use the Midi Moose to send program changes to it. The first 5 pedal buttons (known as a group or "bank") send program changes to your multi effects. The last 2 buttons are used for changing between banks. As there are multiple banks you can, in effect, have up to 128 extra footswitches. 😲 You don't have to use them all of course. 🤣 I used this with a TC GMajor and to select the programs I needed I only used 2 banks max.
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    I guess we're uncool then 🤷‍♂️ 🤣
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    Just sold my Sadowsky to Livio. The deal was smooth with good communication and quick payment. Hope you have fun with the bass. Thank you 👍
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    I too was there! Don't remember seeing you though...lol 🤔🤣🤣 The bands I can remeber being on the bill were Accept, Y&T, Van Halen, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC. Quite a line up.
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    I can understand not wanting to go through the change of personnel too often. It's a bit of a pain and inconvenience, however: How many bands stay together for 3 years? Can all the current band members guarantee that they will still be in the band in 3 years time? If the band can't guarantee the above points 100% then why expect it from anyone joining the band? If you find a great singer and they're only going to be around for 1 year then I would go with it. It gives you 1 more year of active gigging and 1 year to find a replacement and get them up to speed. If your band already has a name that's known in your area I wouldn't "rebrand" due to changing 1 member as it will take time for people to become familiar with the new band name etc. It sounds to me as if you've been blessed with a great front person who can really sing. Not always easy to replace but some of the singers I took into my band took a little time to settle in, open up and then they really shone with a bit of patience and support. Good luck
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    Definitely not gender specific. If you advertise for a male <insert instrument here> you will undoubtedly come up with many male chancers who have no idea about being in a band. It gets frustrating trawling through them to find the hidden diamond but does that mean that all male <insert instrument here> are full of "weaponised bovine faeces"? Nope, same with women. The band I ran for over 15 years had, at any one time up to 3 females in it. Throughout the 15 years we must have had up to 7 female fulltime / deps. 95% of the time absolutely no issues....the other 5% were just normal problems you have between human beings and not gender specific. Most of the problems I had usually came from the male element of the band @Happy Jack I think I could quite easily use all your comments but change out gender / instrument as required and apply them to many people who have applied to bands I've been in.....you're not alone! 🤣 I once auditioned a drummer who could not drive, didn't own a kit or have funds to buy / hire a kit and had his kids on a weekend so Friday and Saturday gigs were out .....but wanted to be in a band. I had to say no which was a shame as he was a great drummer and nice guy.
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    My band were in a similar situation where after a line up change (me and the drummer) our first gig in 2022 was to headline a local festival in front of 2000+ paying punters! This tends to focus the mind 🤣 Are there any local band jams you can go along to and play 2 or 3 tunes? We did this and because there was no pressure we were able to play, enjoy ourselves and most of all realise that as a group we were ready to do the big gig. A couple of mistakes were made, none of them critical or life threatening and it just helped us focus on a some areas we needed to improve. You seem to be prepared and rehearsed musically so I dont see that being a problem. As @rushbo says have a think about what can go wrong mechanically eg: your cable fails, string breaks and think of alternatives (but dont overthink the problems 😉). If something does happen on the day you've got a solution already in your head. We played the same festival again this year and 2nd song in my wireless decided not to work. It took me max 30 seconds to unhook the wireless and run a cable I had ready. Minimal disruption and one of the guitarists hadn't noticed until he saw the video several days later!
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    @Mickyk I'm not sure if this is the same thing but here's a thread on finger / hand positioning ideas that might help - Thumb Position etc. Some good advice in the previous comments about 1 finger per fret and taking it very slow. If the stretch at the lower G is a lot to start with move up to the C on the 8th fret. Your hand and fingers will be in amore relaxed position there. Once your comfortable doing that then you can start moving the excercise around the bass and increasing speed little by little. Good luck, hope this helps.
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    As you've been playing 5 strings for so long I don't see any advantage to "learning on a 4" unless you plan to move back to 4. You're already familiar with playing a five so its one less thing to think about and confuse yourself whilst learning the new stuff. Any new bass line is difficult until you've learned it! 🤣 Some tracks do take days or months to get all the notes down, this happens to everyone whatever their level. Even Mr Wooten needs to work on stuff. What speeds up the "brute force trial and error" part of the process is knowing note names and positions on the fretboard, scales modes, arpeggios, intervals etc. This theory stuff might sound boring and it can be a bit of a slog to get through. However when things start to fall into place and you get lightbulb moments where you are able to recongnise what the next note should be (and know why) you'll find yourself grinning and enjoying playing more 👍 Who said you should learn on a 4? I would say its more common because there's more 4 string basses out there. Don't let that stop you playing the 5.
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    These Moderns are very versatile and are good for funky stuff. I also use it for blues gigs and I have been using it in my rock covers band......see exhibits A, B & C below. ("Killing In The Name Of" isnt very family or work safe so BE CAREFUL!!) Not the best sound quality but it gives an idea of the sound fitting in with the band and genre My wife took the first video on her phone and I dont think it came out too bad. Not sure what happened at 4:12......maybe she was drunk and fell over...lol🤣
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    You may well be correct.....😢😭
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    For sale (or trade) is my Sadowsky M5-24 Modern 5 string and lightweight “hard” case. This is one of the Japanese Metroline made basses and not Warwick or NYC. I had it up for sale a couple of years ago but withdrew it when I came to my senses...lol 🤣. Lovely bass and I have enjoyed our time together but I’m looking for a change in the gear I have. The following text is taken from the original advert along with my replies to a number of questions. I've also included a couple of videos ( @SzunaP ) as they give a great idea of the versatile sound of the bass as well as the playing being much better than I could muster. I would give it a 9.5 / 10 for condition with only a couple of small marks that I can see and have added pics. Current Warwick Metroline M5-24 are costing around £3,200. Warwick Sadowsky MetroLine Modern 5-24 Make & Model: Sadowsky M5-24 Modern (Japanese Metroline) Made: Approx. 2009 Serial Number: M3170 Body & Top: Swamp ash body with a 59’ sunburst gloss polyurethane lacquer on body Neck: Bolt on, maple, gloss polyester lacquer on neck, graphite rods Scale Length: 34 inch Fingerboard: Maple. 24 frets – 2 octave. Side and front dot markers String Spacing: 19mm Hardware: Machine heads and bridge in chrome. Strap locks fitted Truss Rod: Dual action – fully functional Pick Ups: 2 Sadowsky soap-bar pickups (I have checked but can't confirm who manufactures them eg: Nordstrand / Di Marzio / Basslines / EMG as this was a crossover time with suppliers) Controls: Sadowsky with VTC – 9 volt active pre-amp. Volume, blend, treble, bass, VTC (variable tone control) with push / pull for active / passive Strings: Fitted with D'Addario, Chrome Flatwound ECB81-5 Case: Lightweight foam “hard” case Weight: 8.8lbs / 4kg Shipping Weight: Approx. 10kg / 22lb. Shipping will be at cost. Message me with your postcode and I will get a price. I would prefer a straight sale but I could be interested in trades with a Zon, Overwater, Bogart, Modulus, JCR, Sei etc., 5 string with active electronics, 24 frets, 18 / 19 mm spacing. Try me, you never know! I’ve got good feedback on here, see the link in my signature. Any questions, ask away. 🙂
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    When I did mine I used a spray can trigger - Here! It made it so much easier to control the spray. 👍
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    It sounds as if the neck is chunky enough and that you're doing all the right things. 🤔 For me, 3mm action at the 12th seems on the medium / higher side so that shouldn't be causing the issue at the first 5 frets. I had a look at the Fender manual and it recommends 0.012" to 0.014" neck relief. What are you setting? Depending on how you play (hard / lighter) you may want more gap. I play relatively lightly but have found sometimes if I increase the relief it allows me to lower the action at the bridge a little more. On my Sadowsky (5 string) its recommended releif is 0.012". I've found setting it at 0.016" allows me to get a 1.9mm action on the B string without any buzzing. Hope you find a solution. 👍
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    When you say "setting up again" I'm assuming you mean adjust the truss rod? Are you trying to get a really low action? How low? Is it a really thin neck (front to back)? What bass is it? Maple neck with a rosewood board are pretty standard materials for a neck and and I guess will have been used on hundreds of thousands of instruments. The fretboard thickness taper does seem a bit strange but a 2mm variation in materials shouldn't make that much of a difference to rigidity and setup stability (unless the rest of the neck is really thin.....I'm thinking 2mm as a % of the overall neck thickness) 🤔
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    Theres been a few reels come up on Facebook of these guys busking in Edinburgh. Sound pretty good and tight 👍
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    Phew! Glad I could be of help. It will probably feel different for a while with the ring and little fingers but in reality not much grip strength is required to push the strings onto the fretboard even with a high action. 👍
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