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Played with a pick (not exclusively) for years & will use anything between 0.4 & 1.5 mm, but my fave is the yellow .73. Get a few different pics & take em to your next rehearsal.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1390343445' post='2344424'] I'm proud to be a plodder. [/quote] Your avatar says otherwise!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1390342518' post='2344402'] But, as I posted further up thread, not even ZZTop, Stereophonics, Muse, Status Quo, Rush, U2 etc, have setlists entirely of songs with straight 8 bass lines. Is Rocking in the Free World straight 8s? I've certainly heard some bass players murder it by plodding. I'm sure I don't play straight 8 roots. [/quote] I'd never said that they're all straight 8 basslines, it's bands that have the poor bassist as a filler & provide a simple bassline that sits in & doesn't do much else. Fine if you're getting paid to provide those basslines, but to play them all night for a beer? Another fine example is a band that I really like, REM. Poor Mr Mills is a great bassist, but how many of us on here have you heard say they want to play just like him? Duck Dunn & Pino Palladino are 2 examples of bassists that have provided basslines that are just what the song requires. Do they plod?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1390338700' post='2344308'] That's what drugs are for! [/quote] Cocodimol?

They can be fun & there's a lot of ways to play a straight 8, but what if every song in your set list was so simple to play that there was no challenge (that's regardless of your ability)? Don't you think by the end of the set you'd be plodding rather than playing? In my last band we did a folk cover of Rocking in the free world. I enjoyed it, but I never listened to the original song & made a bassline to go with the vocals & the mandolin.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1390309854' post='2343809'] On mine it doesn't actually say built in input, just built in mic. [/quote] Most strange. Does your Mac have an audio input (other than the AI unit)?

Just a thought... With Garageband open, have you went to "Preferences" > "Audio/Midi" & then selected the Input Device as "Built In Input"?

I had an Alesis imultimix mixer/interface, but I get much better results plugging into my old imac's "mic in". Anytime I have latency issues, shutting all the unused programs fixes it.

If it's an actual Neutric Speakon, if it says Combo on it, then you can pop a 1/4 jack in it.

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.