Woodinblack

How daft. That is so unlike the original, I bet PG spent a few quid with what he had available!

Looking at the diagrams, 1 is correct (assuming the pentatone is wired like that), and 2 I am not sure how the volume is making any difference at all, other than working as a tone bypass a higher 'volumes'. There will be a loss of volume in some of the settings on the tone control, that is how a passive tone control works, it takes away more or less of the signal at different frequencies..

I am prepared to accept that might be the case, we all have off nights, but I wouldn't be in a hurry to see them again.

But they don't though - they can't. They play with a lot of 50 year old equipment that would have worn over the 50 years. When genesis played with that, it was new equipment that would have sounded different. Unless they play with newly made reproductions of the old equipment it wouldn't be anything like the same Not what I heard when I saw them, but then to be fair, I didn't actually see genesis in the 70s, but if they sounded as lifeless as that they wouldn't be one of my favourite bands!

To dig up an old thread, for one thing and another, I hadn't got a chance of using the Evox 8 until yesterday. I used it a practice, and it worked out well because I forgot my bass speakers (who does that? Me apparently), Worked well in practice, but we were in a bowling alley that the new guy is redoing so he ripped off the floor and wall coverings, so it was a concrete box, echo chamber. We had two gigs last weekend, PA on one of them, pa provided in the second. Got to the first one and the singer me me (good news bad news, you brought the pa for nothing), so I got to transport it around! This week, the first one was a pa provided, the second was a local club so the first time I have used it. Didn't have much time to set up, it was the second gig, I was really knackered by the time I arrived, I didn't even bother with the mix. So I had the RCF Evox one side, the Alto 212ts and behringer 12" sub the other. Went out the front, wow, was it clear, it was not something we had heard before. Did the first half of the gig before realising that the bass amp was way down from the gig earlier, and the mixer had the bass way up in the PA (from the practice), so I was almost entirely through the PA. At the end of the gig the guy who runs the bar said it was the clearest and best we have sounded (he also said that we seemed to have amazing energy considering the first gig, I didn't mention I was drifting off 3 songs in!).The singer couldn't say enough good things about it, although he sang further back as he could hear himself so well (in fact, maybe too well). Honestly, if I had another Evox 8, I don't think I would bother with the bass amp any more.

I agree with the concept rather than the terms - I don't think I am ever going to particularly like tributes, its a bit of a copy of the original - as you say, faithful to one gig at one point in time, like an acted video or a play. I find that Hacketts stuff is more original, I wouldn't say cover band as they are his songs so more like an original band doing their songs, never quite the same as these things evolve over 50 years, so I find them more interesting.

I saw the musical box and hacket in the same year. I thought Hacket was great (even with Nad, of whom I am not a fan!), and the Musical box, I don't think I would bother going to see them again. They did what they did fine, effectively a theatrical performance of an old genesis show, but it didn't have life and I didn't enjoy them.

I doubt it, I don't think it meant anything to him

On a desktop, on the top left above all the status messages theres a 'whats on your mind' box where you can type a status in

I do too, as TOTT is clearly their best, but that is back to my prefered Hacket ere!

I don't think he means you have to like it, I think he means that there is something about the composition of that song that appeals to a lot of people, which means there is something about it that is probably worth listening to / working out.

Almost certainly an issue with the amp (or maybe whatever is going into it from the jack socket). However, it is much easier to rule out power supply in and jack socket in, so do those first, run a really long extension from the house or something, and change pedalboard / bass. Or try it in a different rehursal space - in fact you could just leave it on in the house, doing nothing. It still sounds like the amp though

I never really got the issue with changing singers, PG or PC, both were fine. For me, genesis were genesis with Steve Hacket, and something else later.

Certainly pretty unique there, not quite up to the level that me and a couple of friends managed! Maybe you can say one of the great things about yes is that Howe didn't do much singing! (and also there was a really wierd edit near the beginning).

not being able to see the legends at gigs is sort of an Ashdown thing. I always have to use them from memory as i never found white on light blue showed up on any light unless you happen to have bent down and put your face right up to it during a moment of totally clear lighting!

Duke was the first album I bought by genesis that I couldn't get into - it remained one of my most unlistened to albums, and I never really went back to it. Maybe I should give it another chance at some point.

Yes, its a great price, would have snapped it up and I already have one (ok, mine is a MS but still). the nordstrands are excelnt, they have the bite of the Big Singles without the hum, which is very good.

The backbeat is a vibrating thing on your back, so you feel the signal. It also has a headphone output if that is what you want so that you could hear the bass. I use one live, but I don't use its output as my (separate) iem carries the sound of the rest of the band as well as my singing, which is something I want to hear but not feel!

I just messaged him on here @SmoothHoundChris - but he doesn't seem to have been around here much recently.

I am guessing just second hand stuff, the price of some other stuff (like the spector) dimensions has gone up

Yes, thomman had the 5 string Rick 4003s/5s last year for £1600. I would have got one but it was before they had their vat thing sorted (ie, they would have been £1600 once you added vat), by the time they got it sorted (and they were still £1600) i had gone off the idea. The prices of anything that has been there for a few months starts dropping routinely at bass direct. Its one it is easy to compare as you have an email trail for it.

I have some really cheap chinese wireless transmitters, 5Ghz, they are wider than the 2.4GHz ones (but a lot smaller than the HB ones), I just got them for noodling at home but now I use them for gigging as they work perfectly and a really light, and i lost my smoothhound somewhere - they also don't need the separate floor space as they are just plugs. I liked the idea of the WL20 style plugs but they don't fit in ibanez SRs, which means they would need extension leads, which removes their convenience.

Its all fairly ironic as I got a B stock ABM600 from PMT at under half price, and the only thing wrong with it was a nick on the tolex, and the DI socket was loose. I guess they are doing something different on this sale, as people said, head office clearing up stock on their books that had been there a while.

Probably would mean more to me if I had any idea who that was!

Almost all the basses I have bought have been sight unseen, and I have used PMT loads of times (as well as loads of others). You get the occasional hassle here and there, but nothing that was never sorted, and as irritating as things can be at the time, you get over it pretty fast. Maybe if you live in a big city, going to a shop is an option, or if you have enough time to travel somewhere, for me it isn't, I can buy it online or not get it. When I think about the basses I currently have, none of them was bought in person, i have a few guitars that were.