BigRedX

I just had a look at all the things in my office/music room that are from US-based brands... I have a load a of Apple stuff but that's all made in China. Three Dell monitors also made in China. An Eastwood bass with a Made In Korea sticker on the back of the headstock and a Line6 Helix which says Made In China on the base and anyway Line6 are now owned by Yamaha. And that's it. I don't even knowingly eat or drink anything that is any way associated with the US. All my other electronics are UK, European or Far Eastern brands and all my other guitars were made in the UK. The furniture came from Ikea.

Very little of that is actually MADE in the US

If you like the sound of your current cab but it's not cutting it when it approaches the output limit, then just buy another one the same. You may find that additional placement options means that the second cab also ends up nearer your ears.

Have a look at black anodising too. This is what was used on most of the metalwork of my black Gus Bass:

The point I was trying to make is that with bass cabs you are stuck with the colouration they impose on your sound. At leat with modelling speakers you can pick some different ones. I've found that for the sort of bass tones I want speaker emulations simply don't work. The only one I still use is a guitar one that is tied to a a combo sound I quite like. In every other case I found that turning off the speaker emulation made my sound better.

There's a lot more to bass than the tone in the OP and P-Bass with flats.

I was lucky. I've never smoked in my life. Not even one drag. At school the smokers were all IMO dickheads and losers and not the sorts of people I looked up to or wanted to emulate. After school I probably did a lot of passive smoking as just about all my friends smoked, but somehow I was never tempted. It might have been the cost. I was always skint either as a student or because I was on the dole and there plenty of other things I would much rather spend what little money I had on - like musical instruments or records.

AFAIK the C Bass and 5-string Original shapes were 36" and the standard 4-string Original was 34". However as most of the basses in those days were made specifically to order there could have been some variation. You can tell the scale length of an Original shape bass by looking at the bridge position. If the bridge is right up at the end of the body then it is 36". If there's some space between the bridge and the end of the body (as in the Facebook example on the previous page) then it is 34".

But then you still get the colouration of the speakers.

@diskwave You neatly side-stepped the age question. I'm probably only a year or two younger than you but I have yet to turn into my dad. "Young people" like all sorts of music, although IME quite a few of them don't realise that the tunes in the ads are old. In a way I am glad that lots of music is not longer bound by age, as it means the gigs I play aren't all populated by 50 and 60 year olds trying to relive their youth. There's 30 years age difference between the oldest (me) and youngest in my band, but we all have similar broad-ranging tastes in music which is why the band works. Later this month we'll be doing a gig with a great new post-punk/goth band who look like they are in their early 20s and may actually be younger than that.

They could on the Overwater I had that had both still connected. I used it for recording a straight sound whilst hearing the affected sound I was using. During mix down we would run the bass track back through the rig and the effects settings could be adjusted to suit where we were going with the mix.

Not everyone wants to drink alcohol and most soft drinks are sugary shit that's probably even worse for you. If I went to see a band I wasn't having a beer for whatever reason I probably wouldn't have anything to drink.

All laptop screens are a bit small: That's my work set-up. InDesign Document on the middle screen with the pallets to the right. Two word files which I am working from on the left. And here's the same set up for music: Logic arrange page on the middle screen. HX Edit or Logic mixer page on the right and plug-in editing windows on the left.

I ran a bi-amp system in the 90s, but that was mostly so I could put certain effects on the HF side only. Also the way I had my rig set up allowed me to have the HF speakers at ear level which allow for better monitoring and lower backline levels on stage. The dual DIs for the PA feed did tend to confuse some in-house FoH engineers so we ended up with our own sound engineer. These days it can all be done within a decent must-effects pedal and the results summed at the output for direct feed to the PA.

All about context. That tone wouldn't suit any of the music I want to play.