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By massive coincidence the band I'm now in covers this song... and did before I joined so it wasn't me pushing for it!

Most people try to sell over multiple platforms. If it's on Facebook and you're going to go pick it up, great. With Reverb if you pay for it and it's a scam you've got a level of protection. You don't have that with Facebook.

Came down from Hertfordshire to play the Brewhouse in Cardiff last night. Incredible experience, absolutely packed venue in the heart of the city centre where it's just utter carnage around all the bars. Great gig, decent crowd, probably going back next year.

Venue looks good. Wales won in the rugger so the mood is good. If you're remotely near Cardiff tonight we'll rock your socks off.

Jeez my eldest brother had this on 45

The amps my teenage self lusted after!!

How much were you looking at paying for that job, if you don't mind me asking? Just ballpark...

Overrated: Sansamp. I just don't like the sound. I get it, I understand why it's popular, but it's just not for me. Underrated: Fender Bronco modelling bass amp, really good bit of kit and if you can get one secondhand snap it up! Boss GT-10B multi effects, yes it's the size of an aircraft carrier and some guy on Talkbass had to make his own edit software for it but that was one very, very serious bass multi-fx pedal that nobody seems to talk about. I got a Helix Stomp which is more modern and does more, but the Boss had better stock bass sounds.

Our second foreign gig of the year, this time Wales!! The Brewhouse in Cardiff. 9pm on Saturday. Indie rock and pop goes rock

Sorry this has now gone to a new home.

My number 1, the US Stingray 3 band EQ. The pickguard is a custom mirror pickguard by Gig.ink with the band logo. The sticker is a nod to Sir Paul. I'm not one for putting stickers on my basses but for some reason I just really wanted to do this.

I've got the itch again... I really want an unlined fretless but cash is tight at the moment. I've got my eye on a few possibilities: buying a decent bass body and having someone make a neck for me to spec, or buying a good value second hand bass and having it defretted or ideally board ripped off and nice unlined board added. Failing that, just a professional defret. I'm trying to get a rough idea of cost for these options: Make a jazz style neck with an unlined fretless board; Defret a fretted bass and finish nicely; Take the fretboard off a bass and replace with a nice unlined board. Any inputs gratefully received, and may stop me doing something stupid. Thanks!

"Influencers" perhaps? Have to agree with others, it looks lovely but there are a few too many strings for me also.

For my two cents.... the compressor is a bit of a last resort. If you have a compression pedal you like you don't need the amp compressor. If you're going through a desk and have a sound guy they'll likely put some compression on. Personally I don't put it above 9 o'clock which is barely anything, just to leave a level of control in there after the amp EQ and drive. Sounds like the one you tried out was a bit old and tired, the valve drive on mine does its job perfectly though if I was being fussy I'd maybe want to change the tube for something that can make the sound a bit hairier. I play an ABM600 through two Ashdown 15s, I have plenty of clean headroom. For a long while we didn't own subs for the band PA so I just ran the amp for all bass, no problems at all even playing in a tepe out in the country where bass sound can just disappear into the ether.

I didn't end up using them but Bass Bros offered me a good price last time I enquired.

Do it! I went straight to amp for my last few gigs and I didn't miss much because of it. A good tone always sounds good.

Gold.

Donner power pack for pedals... I think only three of the ports are working. Happy to give it away, it's barely been used. Will keep this up for a week, if nobody wants it I'll dispose. Ta

I used to hate tribute bands and be quite snobby about it. The best.musoc venue in town when I was in my late teens only did tributes on Friday and Saturday nights and on a Wednesday they'd charge anybody else to use their PA to play their venue, only £20 but still cheeky. I used to promote an acoustic night in the pub I worked in and included "No Tribute Bands" on all the posters and flyers. These days I'm a lot more open minded. Hand me a Hofner and I'll be "Paul" quite happily! My band now plays only covers and we are good at it. We get gigs in pubs, rock clubs, festivals, functions and weddings. People sing along and dance along. We get paid. I miss writing songs and performing them. I'd love to do that again but right now I don't have the time for that. And, while some have seen too many covers bands (and I hugely get it, Sex on Fire played badly once more...) I've seen too many originals bands that sound and look great but I can't name a single song. Or too many acoustic singer songwriters with their self-indulgent songs about a girl from school days who wouldn't touch them by accident. Parasites? I don't consider anyone having fun performing to be a parasite for that fact alone. We are all just doing our own thing (or covering someone else's!) and not everyone will like it.

I have very little practical skill and confidence with woodwork/ tools etc. and managed a pretty good self build. Being left handed you can't just get all the goodies righties can get so I went on to Guitarandbassbuilds.co.uk and bought a great quality body then went around sourcing other parts and used crimson guitars woodstain. It was reasonably satisfying up to a point. I had to get a professional to finish the job and set up because it's not just IKEA flat pack if you want a really nice playing bass, things like neck shims and so on are a real ballache if you've never done it before. My conclusion was that I'd probably spent more than the equivalent Sire bass but still got something nobody else has in the end. I guess it depends how much you want the finished product, how long you want to spend of your own time, and if you know someone who can rescue it for you! The guy I took mine to was pleasantly surprised. He told me he gets tons of people just bringing him boxes of bits because they start kit builds but never get very far.

No.

Oh my goodness. That is all the bass in one.

I've used a few but come back to the LMB-3, it just works and it's subtle. I tend to stick to the recommended settings in the manual, using the Enhance setting for fretless and one of the limiter settings for fretted.