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Mind & give the board a wipe over first to take any grease, etc off. Once you've stuck the Velcro on, give the glue a short while to set.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1390179450' post='2342418'] I'd get a 410 or 2 210's. You'll get a lot more punch and attack out of the 10's. [/quote] That really depends on the drivers in question. If they're from the 80s, then definitely.

I've got the poly tune app. It's good, but you're better gettingGuitar Toolkit. It has a brilliant tuner & you get a lot of other useful things too (metronome, chord chart/finder, scales, etc & it does several instruments). Well worth £5.99.

Heavy Duty Velcro should do the job. Not the cheapest, but worth it.

What's your favourite soup? Mine's a Markbass 2x10.

The Markbass combos use the jack socket to connect to the head & I use a jack to jack lead to connect another cab (the speakon on the LM head is a dual speakon/jack socket. Before speakons came to be, all cabs & PA systems used 1/4" jacks.

I use my combo at home for practice (it does go quiet too ). I turn up with the combo I one hand, pedalboard in the other (which also has the cables to go to both bass & amp in there) & the bass is over my shoulder in a gig bag. You can always add one of your cabs for the big gigs too. If a 2x10 combo is too large (mine is the same size as a large 2x10 cab), then It might be worth considering a good 1x12 combo & adding a 2nd 12" cab if you need to at the bigger venues.

There's many good lightweight combos that are plenty loud enough for gigging without PA support. The reason I went for a combo was due to needing something that I could turn up with at a gig without having to make 2 trips to the car & easy to get in/out of the venue with. I got a Markbass 2x10 BTW.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1390121653' post='2341559'] But only while we are still in the EU. [/quote] You've got a point there! It's got me thinking, what happens if Scotland goes independent? I would no longer be in the EU. But more importantly, there would no longer be an UK, which would mean it couldn't be Basschat.co.uk anymore. Basschat.org? That would solve your problem.

And it depends if the fx you have can be replicated in your DAW. It's a lot easier for me to plug my board in than it is to try & get VST fx to try & emulate filter sweeps & Murf sequences (which would probably be impossible without Moog filtration).

Hear about the dyslexic viola player?.... Voila!

Most of he effects that bassists use are not dedicated bass fx. Effects like EQ & dirt can be of benefit if they're bass specific, but it depends on what you want to sound like. The only thing on my board that's a dedicated bass effect is the Moog Bass Murf.

I think you can get Basschat.co.uk in Germany too.

As BFM pointed out to me, think of it like redlining your car. What happens if you run into the red for a sustained period? Some cars can handle it for a period, most blow the head gasket.

It's a mix of both. If either sound rubbish, then there's no way of making that part sound better. So a lame amp through a good cab will still sound lame, just not as lame as it would be through a crap cab.

Why not just use both outs on the back of the LM3? One to each cab.

+1 Get another 2x10. You wouldn't put 1 roundwound on your bass if it was strung with a set of flatwounds.

A lot of my last band's songs had simple basslines where it could be straight 8s or just holding a root note, but then there was some songs that the bass was playing something more melodic or required a good bit of practice to get to tempo. It's one thing to play less & make the song groove, but for me to play straight 8 basslines in every song I think plodding is the right word. Variety is what's required. BTW, I'd also hate to be in an AC/DC tribute band, but I enjoy playing a couple of their songs. [quote name='matski' timestamp='1389973013' post='2340186'] These type of basslines have their advantages: if you also use open strings while playing them, your fretting hand is left free to use for a multitude of other tasks. For instance: taking a quick swig of your beverage of choice, picking your nose, flicking bogeys at the drummer, scratching your nads, waving to members of the audience, fiddling with the knobs on your amp, fiddling with your own knob, adjusting your coiffure, throwing gang signs to your homies.... The list is almost endless! [/quote] Now I like your thinking!

I've seen that bass in Bandwagon & had it been a 5 string, I might have bought it (there was a 5 in a shop in Dundee a few years back). When I first moved to Perth, the 1st shop I found was Bandwagon, went in & had a blether with Tes & came out with a fridge. Not an 8x10, but something to keep things cool in my new house.

It really depends on the music & what you're practicing. Try playing Dubstep/Electronica without effects. At home, I'll practice just general playing techniques with just bass & maybe plugged into the amp. If I'm practicing an idea for a song, then I use my normal set up with effects. At band practice I always use what effects I'm needing for the sound. It's hard to make the bass go wub acoustically.

I mainly use sound cloud too, but it's worth having a couple of others too. I use MySpace & Reverbnation as well.

Get yourself to some good bass shops & try some gear out (take your amp). I like Markbass, but not everyone does.

I can't hear videos at work, but at first I thought that was Chubby Brown on bass!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1389775610' post='2337669'] What about Status Quo and ZZ Top? I love playing that stuff. Add me to the list of plodders, I'd be happy to be mentioned in the same breath as these guys.. [/quote] That's part of what I was trying to find out. How many of us enjoy playing a simple dum dum dum dum for every song & not having anything melodic to play? I don't, but I don't expect everyone to be the same. I have a lot of songs in my repertoire that are simple straight 8, no frills bass parts & I enjoy playing them, but it would bore me to do it in every song. Now I know I mentioned U2 as one of the bands, but Adam does have some very melodic simple basslines that are fun to play too.

I'm in agreemen. As I've said, I'm a musician & know a bassist is contributing to the end sound that the punter hears. I wasn't talking about putting twiddly bits at the ends of verses etc. I'm talking about how it might be to be in a band where every song has an uber simple bassline. Yes, there's a lot of good songs that only need that, a Hysteria by Muse could have had that sort of bassline if it was by Stereophonics, but it doesn't & it's driving the song. I appreciate a less is more approach & knowing when not to play.