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I randomly had a missed FaceTime call from Michael at 5am. I must drop him a line!

Letting your bass playing naturally wind down is fine. It has the opportunity to come back and flourish and flow freely. So that’s ok. It’s when you are being forced to stop doing something you love by others is when there is a problem.

Have an amazing time at the show everyone. It looks like the best yet.

Absolutely awesome and will definitely be a quality product, that I know for sure.

I wonder if it is what Chris and I discussed a couple of years ago? (I really don’t know at this point as I couldn’t go to the show.)

Pop to The London Bass Show this week. There will be no shortage of folk showing you they are better than the next person at slap bass lol. #ProudToBeASlapFreeZoneAtLBGS

I have to say that I always go straight for my music collection and play my favourite well-known tunes through my cabinets for the reason you mention above. My usual system to listen to music through is a set of studio monitors, so it's very easy to tell what a speaker cabinet is doing to the sound in comparison. As @EBS_freak says, 90% of bass cabinets on the market are highly coloured. (the other 10% are coloured too for that matter ha ha)

I'm listening to the (blatant plug) brand new album from the band Ostura called "The Room" which is available to buy, download and stream from this very link: https://umusicmena.lnk.to/TheRoomFP Featuring, of course myself, my long time dear friend Thomas Lang, Marco Sfogli, Arjen Lucassen, Michael Mills (from Toehider and Ayreon) and these rather awesome lovely people below. Oh wait... and The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra!!!! https://umusicmena.lnk.to/TheRoomFP iTunes, Spotify etc etc

Go to The London Bass Guitar Show for starters!

Plenty, many.. they don't come to BassChat though.

I managed to bag my LT on 24 months interest free via PMT! Bonkers and so pleased I did when they offered it!

Buy this immediately and then get the gold hardware. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Japan-PB70-70-BLK-Made-in-Japan/183049189614?hash=item2a9e94f8ee:g:7ecAAOSwDVtacy8I

oh, p.s. if you are using the Micro Di, come out of the preamp out on your amp and send the DI to FOH. If you are using a preamp pedal then have that create all your gritty sounds and send that to FOH, don't use the DI on the amp (which I suppose could then be left with a clean sound..) The latter not being the cheapest option and would have you replicating gear. So I'm going with the Di route. Also check out the Mooer Radar pedal which is getting some great reviews at the moment.

The brand new Darkglass Omega Ultra allows you to install an IR in it's signal path. You could send that direct to PA. Or, if you want to save a few pennies and are on a serious budget, I often use a Fender re-badged Mooer Micro DI which is a DI box that has a speaker emulator on board. The emulator is supposed to be a 4x12 but the good news is the low end roll off wound upset most bassists at all.

Thank you so much indeed! The @Bergantino Audio HDN212 is a superb cabinet. For reference everybody, here's the article in question with the video: https://www.guitarinteractivemagazine.com/issues/issue-45/reviews/bergantino-audio-b-amp-and-hdn112-cabinet/

Thank you - I really do want one of my own too actually!

You'll be able to work out what off the shelf D'Addario strings to use at that tuning with their very helpful http://stringtensionpro.com app. You'll be able to balance up the tension and tweak it to your preferred feel. This is of course working on the assumption you are on parallel frets, as you may come unstuck if you have a 37" scale length. Then, in that case, Si's suggestion to talk to Newtone is highly recommended. They actually made me a 145 gauge string for a 34" scale bass that maintained tension down to F# which was quite awesome. However, a string with more mass made for the tuning will sound better. I.e., I'm just using up the last of my 183's for my F#.

Is there a good link out there regarding the differences to compare as I'm not familiar with RCF at all really.

Whilst I'm here, I find this to be an idea solution

A friend of a friend makes custom knobs for instruments: http://www.endlessknobbing.com