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I've only got the neck of a Fender player P but it's a lovely, lovely neck.

I did it because there was barely enough space on stage for my size 9s and definitely not a pedal board (Boss GT10B at the time which has some size to it). I liked the simplicity, I didn't like tuning via my mobile phone app though. But I kept it going with that band, all the effects I used were EQ based anyway so nobody really noticed except me. I would lose something with the band I've just joined though if I didn't have my effects available. I could probably get away with it as I use an Ashdown head unit and I could use it's built in drive and sub features but it wouldn't be the same.

Dividing profit out by the number of pints sold is just an easy way of conceptualising it, especially if pints are what they sell most of. Then it's easy to think up how much extra you need to do to be able to pay the bills and brewery fees for the next month or close down

Maybe because everyone on Reverb low balls?

What if you complained on stage about needing a pee but you were in the breakdown of a Rage cover so.... https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sophia-urista-brass-against-fan-b1957226.html I do not in any way condone, enjoy or glorify this behaviour.

Winner!! £50 cheaper than the Epiphone bag... And it actually exists. One retailer says they will have the Epiphone ones for end of the calendar year, another says six months, one says Epiphone has closed their order books for the year so they just can't say when they can expect any in. They all want me to buy now though.... Hmmmm.

That is awesome! Sometimes I try to cull my collection of basses etc but when I see things like this I go all warm inside.

Would that fit a full scale bass? Still searching in vain for a case for my Jack Casady!

You should be able to sell it easy, they were quite hard to get hold of. I find mine quite handy. I've now got a song where I use the sub through the whole thing! 😯

This looks interesting... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-VOX-BASS-RARE-LEFT-HANDED-VOX-SYMPHONIC-BASS-GUITAR-1960-BASS-VOX-JMI-/124981449608?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

I've recently left my band of 5 years and joined another. I've gone from standard pub rock covers, where a jazz or p bass sounded right and the Stingray was a little too much, to now doing "pop goes rock". The new band have really thought about rocking up pop songs, i.e. they're not just using a bit of distortion and shouting the lyrics, there's a bit more songcraft. My Stingray is just perfect for this band, and I am encouraged to use effects, that's the biggest change. In the old band there was too much in the same frequencies and too much distorted guitar for anything but a polite clean bass tone, but now the guitarist loves the Helix SVT Beast pre set, the drummer loves the full punchy sound of the Stingray, and the singer likes it when I use fuzz or even wah in the right places. Because these guys gig more frequently than the last lot I've upgraded my cabs too. Sadly my headless Status/ Washburn doesn't have a place in this band, nor my five string fretless. My dimarzio loaded PJ bitsa with flats on will be my backup bass. If I dare take it out the house my Jack Casady could do something in this band too.

Or a zoom?

You've shopped in Scarborough, I see

Go for it! If you want the Ampeg sound later down the line you can get close with effects pedals, so you're not missing out completely. Beginners today, eh? Spoilt for choice. Back in my day you got a dusty old Kustom 15w amp from under a pile of dead rats at the back of the shop.......

Definitely. Used one last night for rehearsal, very happy. There's a bit more depth and roundness to the sound than I had with the Rootmaster cab. And I liked the Rootmaster cab a lot. This is just a step up from that.

I get that whole drunk punter wants to join the band thing. I have no problem telling drunk punters "it's left handed so you wouldn't be able to, sorry" as a first response followed by a two word conversation ender if they ask again. But another band on the bill is a different prospect, I don't know what I'd do. It can be someone else's fault of they're under-prepared or just dim, but a genuine equipment failure that I could easily help with.... I don't know how I'd feel saying No even if I really want to!

I use the 500 head with a pair of fifteen inch ABM Pro Neos. There's a NCD thread about it.

I wouldn't like to be in the position of everyone in the room: venue staff, other band, punters, all looking at me going "come on mate, he will take care of it, don't be a tight b@stard it'll ruin the night if his band can't play and empty the place". Saying "not my problem" in that scenario wouldn't just make everyone say "yeah ok, fair enough" I'd hate the badgering. Having lent my amp out before I was sh!tting a small brick watching some clueless bassist keep the VU in the red for his whole set. It was bothering me so much that when the smoke machine came on in my set I was sure for a split second my amp was on fire!

That's something I'm learning a lot more about. I was never thrilled about distortion on bass and I love a good clean tone, but if there's space there for it and it's appropriate it can really lift things. Also, listening to some isolated bass tracks you hear the imperfections and often a lot more grit than you'd expect on some tracks and it just makes the whole mix work. Also helps if your two guitarists aren't just creating an impenetrable wall of sound (didn't want to say noise there... The guitarists in the last band were v good, there just wasn't room for the bass to breathe as much as I have now).

The band I've joined does a pop goes rock type thing and they're very good at it, having been at it over ten years. In my old band a clean Jazz or P bass sound with no effects was 99% what I needed, otherwise there was sonic mush against two guitars. Now, working with two guitarists again, one is the singer who drops out of guitar playing a lot, there's space to be filled by big, fat, hairy bass. Because I'm not always copying the bass part I'm trying to emulate some synth bass and synth fills I'm using fuzz a lot, and some wah, and there's almost always some overdrive going on to fill out the sound. I auditioned with a big hefty sound and the drummer liked it so I've kept it up. It's all Stingray, and now through two fifteens, that should do the job!

@Lozz196 we just know an ABM 600 is the next step for me. Let's not pretend here... 😂👍

That is just mind blowing. Considering Bowie could have hired pretty much anyone he wanted as a backing vocalist or whatever to do that track, to be able to play bass and not just sing but to deliver that performance.... Mind blowing. I've got a new favourite bassist.

New band, lots of gigs booked... I was time to upgrade the cabs. I was using Rootmaster cabs and regretted selling off my second 1x15. The sound of two 15s was exactly what I wanted. I tried a 1x15 and a 2x10 and always felt something was missing. Those have both been re-homed via Basschat. I happened upon a deal for an ABM Pro Neo. I received it a few weeks back and it was good. But I bought the last one. Then a second turned up as B stock and I just had to get it. So now my rig is a Rootmaster 500 head into TWO 1x15 ABM Pro Neos. Same weight, or lack thereof, as the Rootmaster cabs, but there's a solid metal grille to protect the blue speaker and a bit more authority to the sound. I had the Neo and the Rootmaster side by side for a few days and could feel a difference. Can't wait to push the rig a bit, not that the volume will need to be going above 3 or 4 notches, and feel the bass presence with the band!

Well, I know what I'm doing today.... Thanks everyone for this thread and the links!

I was already half way out of my last band but then some minor incident happened that stuck in the memory. I had put in the band calendar I was away from a Thursday to Saturday "at wedding". I wasn't asked if I would be back in time and willing to do a gig on the Saturday night, the words were "pretty long f*cking Wedding". Same question, very different effect.