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[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1422260599' post='2670302'] Open Mics are a bit Marmite (you either love em or hate em Blue) I love the idea of musicians getting together just to play music and everyone doing a 'turn', but i'm just an old hippie really. If I'm on holiday in the UK I'll look out for them as an excuse to have a fun evening in the pub chatting with local musicians. We even got invited to appear on the local radio station last year after playing at a pub in Penzance The music standard is so variable, but I love that. I really enjoy watching people progress from their first song in public through to an accomplished set a couple of years later and my experience is that musicians are a pretty supportive bunch. Round here in the Dorset/Somerset area a number of open mics are run under the banner of Howl Open Mics. Pretty much acoustic and I was about the first to take a bass along I think. A lot more since then though. We used it to get a set together, learn three songs at rehearsal then down to the pub to try them out on an audience. Elijah the host is pretty fair in trying to get everyone who wants up on stage, there's a bunch of regulars who he'll manage to fill the gaps and/or lift the show but there's priority to get new people on and lots of support for nervous performers. Good musicians will often accompany others but it's generally more about people doing their songs than a jam session. We got gigs out of it and I played a couple more with a band formed from people I met at the open mics. I get along to fewer now because of band rehearsals and gigs but it's great to get started or to get back into music after a break and I miss the camaraderie a bit. Open mics vary from a house band doing their practice in public with a couple of mates singing a song or two through an open jam session to a series of acoustic guitarist/singers doing corny covers. You just have to go along and take pot luck but I'm a fan, and any chance to play, well I'm still keen. [/quote] Yay! Went to one of these a couple of years back whilst on holiday in Axminster. I took along an acoustic and got a 3-song slot plus a part inthe grand finale. Great fun. That was at the Ax Inn I think, and the next night they had an excellent acoustic duo (West & Black) performing - to get a decent seat you just booked a meal.

[quote name='mike257' timestamp='1420531742' post='2650249'] Not knocking the views of previous posters but I engineer at a bunch of venues and the sight of a band loading Line 6 Spiders in the door makes me want to cry. Maybe it's user error but they invariably disappear in the mix. are fizz city for high gain tones and don't convince for low gain edge of breakup stuff at all. Not a fan. [/quote] Just as well the OP is only looking for an amp for practice then!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1422198416' post='2669748'] Indeed............ and I would have said that Ampeg SVT was the bass rig standard but I don't think that is so true anymore... [/quote] Second-most-spotted pro rig on live stages and TV shows would have to be Ashdown ABM. Not bad for a 'woolly-sounding' amp!

Is there no protection for those speaker cones?

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1422108899' post='2668777'] No bass type GAS at the moment but I do fancy a Fender Super Champ X2 for my guitar GAS (although the Roland Blues Cube with Eric Johnson plug in is also verrrry interesting). [/quote] Oo-er! I had to use an X2 at a recent low-level rehearsal, and I thought it sounded shocking - made the guitar sound very thin.

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Mods: maybe merge this with the Hipsters thread?

This will require individual practice, and possibly group rehearsal, just like any other part of your performance. OTOH I recall an interview with one of the modern-day Stooges (might have been Mike Watt) where the interviewee said that Iggy was so manic on stage, it just wasn't safe for other band members to be leaping about!

I thought it was the PF500 that had the cutting-out issues - never heard of such problems with the 350.

0:38 - 'footswitchably defeatable' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_p8PgcxLCw

10kg is really not an issue. My 3 Pro weighs 12kg and is perfectly manageable, my Streamliner weighs less than 2kg, so it sits somewhere in between. If the basic sound is as sweet as the 3 Pro then it could be a contender, except for the shocking omission of a mute switch!

You could easily spend hours just mucking about with it. So, not like a bass at all.

Well played! I'm guessing that the solo section (mostly above 12th fret) was left for the player to improvise, as at that point you clearly were not reading.

Guitarist reviewed the skinny-string version at £99 and gave it 5 stars. Review [url="http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/mono-guitar-sleeve-613878"]here[/url].

Time for a new cab then. Loads of choice out there, and plenty of used cabs in the BC marketplace.

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1421964098' post='2667299'] I just think it's £9.99 a month for access to pretty much every CD I own and a whole lot more; ... Used to spend £100 or more a month on music - haven't bought a CD in months. [/quote] Exactly! (1) Access to every CD I own - £0, because they're all on my iPod. This is the latest trend, to have people paying to access their data/stuff. (2) So what has this done to the income of people who make their living from recording music?

Not to pi$$ on anyone's chips but Spotify doesn't line up with the way I 'consume' music. I like to buy a CD and listen to it. Somehow I don't get the same satisfaction from free or unfeasibly cheap music. I think it's a commitment thing!

I have a non-T Midget but can confirm - like the OP and quite a few before - that a Midget/Compact stack far exceeds the sum of its parts. All good!

... and that is why one should always keep a gnarly old Precision available. Loved the song - congrats! Thinks: Aren't you going to need a gnarly old amp too!?

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1421936375' post='2666785'] New Beard Day, although it's got a way to go yet ... [/quote] ...before it catches up with your chest hair

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1421918857' post='2666488'] Surely the programmable tone controls and screen have been done before - can't remember what brand but someone was selling one on BC a few months back. [/quote] [quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1421919674' post='2666501'] I'm a big Berg fan, but the digital interface makes me think of those awful Ashdown abonimations. *shudder* [/quote] Do we mean this:

I use a Bose L1 Model II with 2x B2 bass bins and ToneMatch mixer. This is for my country trio - but only for the 2 vocal mics. The drums are not mic'ed up, and guitar and bass just use backline amps. We are generally playing in social clubs or village halls, but we have done a couple of gigs in pubs. I generally position the line array to one side of the stage area, pointing at the diagonally opposite corner of the room. We are then in the same 'sound field' as the audience, so the PA also acts as our foldback - no separate wedge monitors needed. The system works really well, to the point that I now look at the room, set the master volume accordingly, and off we go. I have the ToneMatch on a little tray clamped to my mic stand (not hanging off the line array as shown in the picture). The whole setup cost about £2,900 four years ago, and weighs only 50kg (less than many conventional PA subs). It has more than paid for itself. Last year we played a C&W festival where each band brought their own PA (I know!). We were on a flatbed trailer, playing to a field full of people. A friend told me he could clearly hear everything at the far end of the field! In the past I have owned 'big-box' PAs (or shares in them) - never again!

[quote name='walbassist' timestamp='1421917577' post='2666466'] Looks like the Denon HiFi amp I had in the 1980s! I'm sure it's great though. [/quote] [quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1421918267' post='2666474'] I like the hifi look. I reckon I could stick it on top of my AV Amp and the missus won't notice!! (She might notice 10m speakons winding round the edge of the room to reach the cabs though!) [/quote] Exactly! Wouldn't look out of place in Richer Sounds. Surely the programmable tone controls and screen have been done before - can't remember what brand but someone was selling one on BC a few months back.

I always keep a supply of boxes and recycled bubble wrap in my loft. My worst packaging experience was a Tele-style neck (with tuners) sent to me in a single layer of bubble wrap. The postman decided this would go through my letter box, so duly rammed it through. I returned home unaware and started to open my front door, and the neck jammed between the outer and inner doors (we used to have 2 doors - long story). I didn't know what it was so carried on forcing the door. Imagine my surprise when I found out what the obstruction was, and discovered that 2 of the tuners were now bent beyond repair. Oh how I laughed (not).

Impressive! And did you spot the Sandberg California (sunburst relic finish)? This amp is going for the same market as Yamaha's THR series and Roland's Micro Cubes, and I think the price is perfectly reasonable considering what it can do. As always, you have to ask yourself: What do I want this for? And how well does it do that/those thing(s)?