Woodinblack

Yeh - I wouldn't let the amount of free gigs exceed the amount of paid ones!

Yeh, its only a problem if they don't say what their goal is. I am sure there are lots of groups that never want to play anywhere and just play in band together. As long as that is what they want, it is fine.

I have a TC450 and like it (apart from the volume knob falling off!). I used to go through a 4x10, and the sound was great. I now go through 2x 112s, which is almost as good, but I had to drop the 4x10 as I had a knee op and it was just too much of a pain to get around, the 112s are fantastic weight and easy to carry

A play through a fender vaporiser, seems to work for me

I would advise you to play both, I wanted a 335 (actually wanted a 345) since I was 16 and was a little disappointed when I first played one as it was actually quite late. The 339 on the other hand was everything the 335 wasn't.

I played a mid 60s 335 in london about 10 years ago. It was rather nice. It wasn't crazy money (less than 2k), I could have bought it (and it was a YOB - 65). But I couldn't justify it. Kind of regretted that

I use mine occasionally, not that much but certainly enough to make it worth it at that price

Only just saw that. I wouldn't use a fender lead if you paid me any more, I have broken 2, and I know no-one IRL who hasn't broken theirs in the middle of a gig. Awful things. I still have one (due to the lifetime guarantee, on its second replacement), but I certainly wouldn't take it out of the house

not in that condition I and as a fretless I wouldn't have thought, but then who bids on an ebay auction with more than a minute to go?

I agree with the idea of having a switchable low pass in an amp and the more amps that have it the better, but I would say that all bass amp manufacturers will say in their specs what frequency they filter, although as others have said, that will be viewed as a negative. If you see a bass amp that specifies its -3db point at 50hz then people are going to avoid it. A switch would obviously be good. A frequency control would be even better.

I think that too. And no, its not really the plan, but while the plusses are higher than the minuses, it does the job.

On the 14th August 1965 I was 10 days off my 3 month birthday. I don’t really remember what my main concern was. Probably breasts. I guess nothing much has changed

I am only 53 so I can't really say, but I just thought I would comment that in that picture, because you are leaning a bit, and your shirt is dark it looks like you are actually standing behind the amp, and the guitar has a fake set of legs attached to it!

I like that but know very little about them, apart from 2 minutes playing on one at during a bass bash!

Honestly I have always felt like the supporting cast. It is the group of the singer and guitarist.

Ok - looks like I did say that! Well, that isn't what I meant, so yes, your point is correct. But his dynamics are fine, it is just his volume. Well, his drinking isn't great but that hasn't been an issue with the band!

Thats true, but I didn't say that. I said he was a good drummer apart from being too loud, which is different than from saying the dynamics. his dynamics are fine, its just that his overall volume is too high. If he had a quieter kit, he would be perfect. No, not that sort of too loud now, after him turning up all the time I got him to tilt his amp back and also he is miked up into the PA and fed back into his monitor (and I keep trying to persuade him to get in ears, although that might be easier now since his monitor died last gig and he couldn't hear the rest of the band). It is an appreciation of the level of a guitar in the band. he will go out the front, stand in front of the PA and decide he is too quiet in the mix, in relation to the vocals, and more specifically the saxaphone. In this case he believes he should be louder, but I don't feel that the guitar should dominate in a band like we are, and he is generally the same volume as the sax, as they do different leads. Of course, this could be that I am wrong and maybe he should be louder.

Our group is way too loud, the drummer is one of those 'its only fun playing it loud'. He is a good drummer apart from dynamics. So we turn up to match the drums. I do the sound in leu of anyone else doing it, so I set the sound up, and then the guitarist complains he can't be heard (when he is the loudest thing), it would be nice if someone else could do it, but there is noone to do so. We would certainly sound better if we were quieter, but I have tried a lot and it isn't going to happen, so I just have to accept that. I certainly wouldn't come and watch us at that volume!

I was talking to them a few years ago when they were looking for a bass player, but sadly they got one just when I decided to go for it. Probably just as well, I don't have led fret markers. Or a status

Or to rephrase, the only valid use for an AC30 is playing stadia!

Funny, I was listening to a thing on Genesis the other day, when Gabriel left they left an advert in Melody Maker with 'Wanted singer for Genesis type band'. I guess some bands do!

But a UK cover band much longer. My specific cover band if we don't do 3 hours it is a short set!

Seeing as it is a recreation of how a jazz bass would be after 57 years, I would say there is a reasonable expectation that it would last at least half a century!

If your lifetime warantee cable is made by that well known purveyor of Precision and Jazz basses, then yes, they are I assume meant to break, normally when you are playing live. Everyone I know who owns one has had it break, the guitarist in my last band, the replacement of his, the 3 replacements of my current guitarist (grrr) and mine. I keep mine at home, I certainly wouldn't gig with it. And I get very annoyed that our current guitarist does. My current cables (although I am generally wireless) were some I bought made with Vann Damme Cable and neutrik silent jack sockets from ebay, they are brilliant (and non expensive) and I wouldn't gig with anything else.