Happy Jack

The bass is entirely passive, but the output jack is stereo. Plug in a mono cable and all you get is the magnetic pickup (which sounds absolutely fine on its own). Plug in a stereo cable and you get both pickups; feed that through a splitter cable and you end up with two mono inputs to the amp. I'm using an AI Clarus 2-channel amp and that's just perfect for the job.

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God! I remember the good old days, when you could list a tatty Encore P-bass for £500 after breakfast and the courier would arrive to collect it mid-afternoon. £3000 Wals were flying off the shelves and Johnny Foreigner couldn't get enough of the low, low prices thanks to the collapse of the pound. And people said that Brexit had damaged the British economy! Pah! Everybody was buying and selling like there was no tomorrow, and nobody foresaw then the sterile wasteland that the Marketplace would become by 2018. Ah yes, 2016 was indeed the good old days. Or not, as the case may be.

Might be worth investigating a mixer controlled by a tablet, allowing you to do both/either.

Will you have a sound guy out front or operate the mix from on-stage?

Can't imagine what might have given you that idea ... Good luck with your quest.

I'll see your Stevie Nicks and raise you an Ian Hunter ...

Anyone mentioned Steve Hillage yet?

Maybe, maybe not. Unsupportive and/or controlling husband lets wifey audition for the role because obviously she's useless and (i) will never get the gig, (ii) can't possibly manage without hubby there to tell her what to do. Anyway, it'll shut her up for a while. Then gets all hurt and precious when it turns out that little wifey actually does just fine when he's not there to screw things up for her. Perhaps.

For some reason, I'm imagining everyone calling everyone else "Da-a-a-ahling". Probably very unfair, but there you have it. Don't blow this out after one rehearsal. It could go somewhere interesting and I imagine that you can afford to sacrifice another couple of evenings just to see? If things start to develop rapidly (which is what I'd expect with properly-trained classical musos) then you may find this initial nonsense disappears faster than a very fast thing.

What a rip-off ... no way is that a genuine Fender!

They're probably rehearsing in their school's Music Room. At least they're not banned from coming within 100 yards of any primary school ...

What could possibly go wrong?

Why does it not surprise me that you've owned such an astonishing selection? And I'm loving the idea of a bass called Gom Jabbar ...

Were TC the people who cheated on the particulate emissions test?

Hah! That's The Eagles mate, good band an' all but I'll give that a miss. Now if it was Joe Walsh touring with his own band and his own music I'd be on it like a shot.

This one's unique.

I didn't think Steve imported from the Eurozone anyway.

No acoustic bass that I have ever played (and that's a reasonable number & selection) has ever been capable of being heard properly against even a single 6-string. Against two guitars rather than one you're wasting your time, unless both guitarists are prepared to strum very gently. If you need something to play acoustically in live situations and you'd prefer not to (i) amplify or (ii) buy a DB, then I suggest a Guitarrón mexicano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitarrón_mexicano

Can't agree Mickey. I prefer both So What and But Seriously Folks. I bought So What on the day it came out, took it home along with my best friend and we started to play it. It took us nearly half an hour to get past Welcome To The Club ... we played it at least five times running before we let the album run on.

You were at school with a young Joe Walsh? Really? Respect, mate ...

If you've only just discovered Joe, then back-catalogue a bit further and check out The James Gang.