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Out of the cozy house into the freezing cold boot. Out of the freezing cold boot into the over hot venue. Out of the even hotter venue into the freezing boot and out of the freezing boot into the cozy house. Only a thought.

I always find that digital effects don't carry at all, the sound just seems to appear in a bubble around the player and don't project anywhere. The answer I have found is to send the effected signal through an analogue effect, I use a graphic pedal, this seems to make the sound project again. "But then I'll have to switch on 2 effects at the same time," I hear you say. "Nay," say I. I use a bypass switch. I can preset the multi effects to the patch I want, switch on the graphic pedal and when the moment arrives for the effects just press the bypass switch and I'm away, Switch it again and I'm back to normal.

Danelectro. Full of surprises.

Had a Peavey fire bass with a 4x10 and a single 15 cabs. I stuck the 4x10 on top of the 15 as you do. It was quite a while, a couple of years actually, after I started using it that I noticed that the 4x10 was a lot bassier than the 1x15, infact, it was only after the 15 blew and I replaced the basket, a Black widow, that I noticed the difference while checking the cabs separately. So which cab to put on top? I'd say don't use different size speakers but that's just my opinion.

Casters on both cabs and sit then on their sides when using them. Your idea has great merit until you get to a door step, door mat, gravel and cracked / crazy paved path and up hill to mention just a few obstacles.

Seriously easy to do it yourself, you just need a bit of practice.

Coming a bit late to this discussion but only just seen it. The best and cheapest place for components is Rapid Electronics, www.rapidonline.com. It will be the place that other suppliers get their bits from and sell them on to you. Order direct or open an account, next day delivery too.

[size=4][font=times new roman,times,serif]I use 2 Behringer BEQ700s and the're great. Never had a problem with reliability or robustness. Even used one as a preamp straight into a slave once in an emergency, surprising good sound actually.[/font][/size]

Start here. http://barefacedbass.com/bgm-columns.htm

A dodgy speaker cable would either work or not, it wouldn't cause a buzz. I'd suggest that the pot on your bass is shagged and replace it or just turn it up full and leave it alone.

Behringer bass graphic pedal, don't know the number but I use 2 of them. Cheap but very good. Used one to drive a power amp once in an emergency and was impressed with the result.

Matamp valve amp would be ace, not sure about a hybrid though. Try it out and see if it's what you want.

Add a power amp and extra speakers, go as load as you want!

A spare bass for me is just that. Mine is only there in case I break a string or the main bass stops working. Change basses as quickly as possible and I'm off again.

Use an A/B switch. Works a charm.

Traynor YBA 300. Get it from Thomann.

Had a Firebass break on me, sent it back to Peavey for repair and it came back still broken. Also had a Black widow 15 blow on me.

I find that how happy you are with your gear is dependent with how many gigs you do. The more gigs the less you think about other gear.

Take the neck off and look on the bit you don't see. The date will be there.

Too loud on minimum volume? Perhaps you should go for an acoustic bass and at a pinch plug it straight into the P.A.

I always find that unless you have the lightest of 'pluck', the E string on a short scale goes sharp and only returns to pitch when the vibrations die down.

Have you got enough equipment? 'No actually, I want loads more'. Can you tone it down? 'What make it bassier?' I want you to finish at 12 and I've got a taxi booked for 12-15. 'Hard luck mate, it takes an hour to take the gear down and load the van and it says so in the contract'. Dressing room? You can use the gents. 'We don't do toilets'. What's the name of the band then mate? 'There's a poster behind your head twat'. You've got 2 left handed guitarists! 'Have we, I never noticed'. I could go on.

I'd suspect that the speaker(s) are on the way out. Superbass and two 4x12s is what you want.

AccuGroove[b] sounds best to me through my Tannoys.[/b]