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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.

I think by default there are depressions in the wood in a couple of places, maybe they happen at the factory, not really an issue, although nothing that is above the paint. Mine was bump free when I got it.. for a few days, when I dropped a large metal hard drive on it and put a dent in 😢 - to be fair, I think it helped as I have never been precious about it since! The Mid frequency boost / cut has a detent, but the frequency itself doesn't - Its handy for me, as I have a shuker which has the same stacked bass / treble - mid / gain control but the knobs are in a different order - I always spin the control before I start to remind myself which is which - if it has a detent it is bas / treble!

The shavo head has been around for years, I have played through it (sounded good), still quite tempting if I was any good at painting front panels! Yeh, clearly, its a december 2019 bass, and they have been out of stock a couple of times in that time. However, if it is a showroom bass, you think they would notice the lack of back panel. The dents maybe they could get away with - the body is really soft and does dent easily. They are terrible days to order, it is just after pay day so noone is concentrating!

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I am in that minority too. It gives variety in that I can also use the flat part of my finger if I want soft.

I assume they are made the same as before behringer owned them, but even then, I have no problem with behringer kit, I have run the X18 for years (and now the XTouch) and it is fantastic stuff (wifi excluding), as well as other bits and pieces by them, like the P2 and a couple of their synths.

That is a bit odd as noone lives there - why would anyone complain about the noise? When I was young there was a rock night there, which always struck me as a bit dangerous having a lot of drunk people on a pier.

Just because I am curious - I am from Portsmouth (but now in the west country) and have never heard the term 'Portsmouth pier' before (as it has 3 and they are all in southsea), was this at South Parade pier? Interesting if they are doing more there now.

Well, todays were interesting. We had a 1 hour gig 20 miles out of town from 2:30 to 3:30 and another 3 hour gig 20 miles out of town the other way from 5 to 8 today! First was a liitle pub that we had played at recently, they were doing a festival thing and got us on first (they wanted us later, but we were already booked). It was going to be tight going between them to break down the PA and get to the other one, whcih had a PA, but got there and it turned out the last band had a big PA and decided to set it up straight away, so did the sound for everyone else - so my PA had a free trip around the area today. The first gig started with a wedding proposal, which was good, (we had a yes and no song lined up to start - we got to use the yes song!), but all went down well, then a mad dash to the other one. Also in a field but with a stage built, and a big PA, but so hot, was really flagging by half time. luckily after a break, got a bit of second wind, so the second half was good, and by then at least there were a lot of dancers and people were joining in. Not a bad day as I am home by 9!

Well, that is why they said they had that name on their website about info!