Japhet

I'm not precious at all but we played a private gig a couple of years ago. During the break between sets I came back into the hall and an utterly pissed woman was dancing around with my EB Stingray slung round her neck. To say I was unhappy was an understatement. I subsequently bought a Tokai Hardpuncher for gigging duties and the Stingray stays at home.

I don't understand how Brexit (which is nowhere near happening) has devalued sterling so much and yet America is about to elect one of 2 shockingly bad candidates as President tomorrow and the $ isn't worth 10p.

Vanderkley build quality/robustness would swing it for me. Barefaced seemed a bit fragile to me but both are great sounding cabs.

I've got a Behringer octave pedal that works fine. PM me your address and you can have it for free if you want it.

Chris Duarte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYDMDpO3S4A

Some ZZ Top is quite funky like Just Got Paid. Top of my list to get into our setlist The Boneshakers version of James Browns Cold Sweat. The Boneshakers were formed after the breakup of Was Not Was and play some seriously funky stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ0Lg_Am918

Those little Hotone amps look like fun. Under £100 too.

Try swapping out everything else first (i.e. power cable, bass, instrument lead, speaker lead, cabinet) to eliminate them as the source of the problem.

Evolutionary process originally constrained by finance but later powered by GAS.

Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain was used as the theme to Weekend World (had to look that one up).

Used to do the intro to Brown Eyed Girl (audience would groan) but then straight into Lip Up Fatty. Crowd pleaser - don't know why we stopped doing it.

Playing with a really good drummer is, for me, the most liberating experience as a bass player. Everything just seems to fall into place.

Obligatory Fender Rumble mention.

I like the demos where the some simple bass is played through a looper and then the knobs are turned to show progressive changes in sound. What I don't like is 5 minutes of somebody thrashing away at their bass without showing what the pedal can do. It would also be good to see what pedals can't do - e.g. how low an octaver can track before it craps out.

We have a Google calendar. Should work well but we're now in a situation where due to previous cock ups I have to ring the singer to confirm if each gig is still on. The answer is often 'Oh, no, that was cancelled weeks ago' to which I reply 'what the f*** is it still on the calendar for then?' Driving me nuts!

+1 for the Bass Clone.

Used a TC Nova Dynamics for years which was excellent. Recently needed to free up some space on the board so now use a Keeley Bassist which I'm very happy with.

I'd liken the whole debate to the difference between petrol and diesel engines. Petrol engines may produce a lot of peak horsepower but produce way less torque than a diesel engine unable to get anywhere near the peak horsepower rating. People seem to be obsessed with horsepower, whereas torque is really a much more telling statistic. (I know much more about engines than I do about sound engineering )

Singer - The vocals are a bit too high for me. Me - We can change the key. Singer - No need, I'll just sing it a bit higher. Me - What? Like, out of tune.

It's one of the only things I've ever done in life where people clap and cheer and whistle and ask for more. I hope to carry on doing it for a while longer.

Don't some Micro Synths require more than 9v supply?

An Eden WT of some description is about the only I thing I have any remaining GAS for. I'll get one one day.

Not sure about effects but I'm really not keen on the sound of Marshall guitar amps. Seems pretty much impossible to get any sort of clean sound out of them and the distorted sound has a bludgeoning quality that I find tiresome.

We kick off with Primal Scream - Rocks. It's handy because the guitar and bass drop out for a few bars in the middle and it allows minor amp tweaking if necessary.

Roland Bass Cubes are great. The XL in particular.