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Stumbled upon this by accident. Some sweet bass playing & gets pretty funky at 2:50.

My valve amp only has an on/off switch. No "Standby".

I just got one of these. Much less overspray.

I use one when recording, but not live. If you're looking at getting a compressor, try & get one with a meter, it makes life sooo much easier.

Or a porn film.

Fill the thing with shaving foam. 🕺🏻

Stack em! 😎

I agree that the Z matcher is not an ideal choice for matching a cab to an amp. I don’t agree that you need a minimum 300 watts. Though there’s plenty of threads about that already.

For the gigging musician, go specialist (New Moon, Music Guard, Musician's Union, insure4music, etc. If you're willing to take the chance or just jam now & again, then getting cover under your home insurance may give you ample cover, but often only covers in a vehicle if in a locked boot & out of sight. I was covered with Blue Moon, but as I'm in the latter camp for the present, Home Insurance it is.

Any usb mixer or audio interface is going to do exactly what you want. For a budget route, that mixer is a good choice, then in the future, if you get more into recording, you’ll have a better idea if it’s a mixer or interface that you require. Ped’s shout for GarageBand is a good one, not least for the bass amps on offer.

It’s like a small guitar with the E & A strings missing & a capo on the 5th. Then the G string (which would have been the D string) is an octave up. Then the other uke is a bass uke. It’s tuned just like a bass guitar. You also get tenor, concert, super soprano & pineapple ukes, but they’re all pointless unless you’re playing in a ukulele band (which is also pointless).

Magic Eraser would ave removed it all in one go.

Magic Eraser will remove it without issue or damage & can be bought from most supermarkets & budget swag shops (B&M, the range, etc). Isoprop & rubbing alcohol will also remove it, but you’ll find a lot more uses for a Magic Eraser. Clean the white on your converse to like new, clean the inside of the car windscreen with no streaks, remove scuff marks or permanent marker. I don’t even sell the things!

Have you hard this chap. I just discovered him a couple of weeks ago. Ventura is a fantastic album.

When I lived in a flat, one of the previous downstairs neighbours liked to play his music a bit too loud. After a short while, I decided to play bass along with the songs at a decent volume (decent enough to make walls rattle). Didn’t always play the same notes as the songs, as I could just hear the beat.

I think he’s always wanted to play bass & thought he could widdle up the neck.

Got home from work at about 8:30 last night, 2 cats come running up to say hello, I go over to the Mrs & one of the cats puts his butt towards my bass (which was standing up) & did a full on parney. Filled up the bridge pickup & soaked the body, strings & strap. Chased the cat away & then spent the following hour & a bit stripping the bass down & giving things a good clean with dettol wipes. It even got underneath the bridge! The strap is in the washing machine along with a guitar gig bag that he managed to include. Anyone else have such fun with their pets?

My church has a Behringer X32 desk. All the musicians download the X32 app on to their phones & there's a loom goes across the back of the stage where each instrument has a DI & a headphone jack. The app gives each musician their own mixer to balance the instruments/turn down bad singers. The downside is I'm one of 5 bassists, each like their own volume mix (there's one who basically has bass, MD & click, nothing else), so I can spend a bit of time trying to get a decent sounding in ear mix.

Been listening to Anderson Paak’s Ventura album. Some fantastic bass playing on it.

It’s a good idea, but I don’t see enough synths in the “Other musical items” marketplace section to make it worth doing.

Quite liking this girl’s current album. Good mix of styles & she has an interesting voice.

Here's mine. Played the lead line & fx on the Roli Rise.

Cool. Was the first thing I noticed when popping on the desktop site.

I had one of those. Truly 💩 I gave it away to a spoons player.

With amp modelling, it’s easy to recreate the valve pre. So this makes a valve pre is just a bit of bling (& there’s nothing wrong with a bit of bling). Amp modelling does struggle to create the sound of an output valve. They sound different to S/S amps (there’s nothing wrong with how S/S amps sound either). My choice would be a good amp modelling preamp pedal & a power amp. Not overly fussed if valve or S/S, as long as it sounded good. If I were going for hybrid, I’d probably choose one with a valve power section rather than valve pre. But, like is said above, get the amp you like the sound of & if that’s one with a valve pre, get it. I have an all valve amp just now & my previous amp was class D & no valves. Both have gotten compliments from other musicians.