Happy Jack

Hi Atara and welcome. I don't tick any of your boxes, just here to say that London is a very big place - you'll more likely get useful replies if you mention whereabouts you're based, where you rehearse, and where you hope to get gigs. [I'd post a friendly smiley here if the ones on Basschat weren't so embarrassingly childish.]

価格を抑えて構築しました。

Don't forget to tell the sound guy to switch off the monitor that points at your DB!

My route is to take either a small bass cab with tophat fitting or the smallest PA cab in my collection,and put that on an old PA pole at ear level behind me, nothing pointing at the body of my DB. I normally run through a tiny head (Trace Elf, but other options exist) which feeds my mini rig on stage and provides a DI to the board. The minirig can be almost completely set up backstage while waiting for the previous band to clear the area, and then carried on as at most two lifts. I have YouTube I can share if you want it.

NO BREADHEADS, MA-A-A-AN!

Slightly more seriously, this sounds like a bass that can be customised in the process of 'fixing', wrapped around you and your playing style. If you were talking £thousands then it would be another matter, but if it's £hundreds and you could end up with a bass that's a perfect fit either for your general playing style, or perhaps for a specific purpose or genre, then my feeling would be keep it and tweak it. If you sell it and buy another, then Shirley you just go around the same loop again in due course?

And you answer: "Because I haven't bought a third one. Yet." 🤣

@Silvia Bluejay and I are Zoom afficianados. It started with my first-ever Handy recorder, the original H4 from nearly 20 years ago. I liked everything about it except that it was possible to think you'd set it running and then find (after the gig) that actually it was on stand-by. So I sold that and bought the original H2 from 15 years ago - I still have it and it still works perfectly. It remains completely idiot-proof, simplest device I've ever used. I was so impressed that I later upgraded to the H4n Pro which became my frontline recorder for years, Silvie bought herself an H1n, and when we started getting seriously into band videos we bought Q4n HD units. I liked the 32-bit Float thing so much that I took a long hard look at the new H4n Essentials but the reviews all agreed that it was a significant step down from the previous model apart from the Float technology. However, the arrival of the new model meant that dealers were selling off their old stock at silly cheap prices ... so I bought another H4n Pro. 🤣 Roll forward a few months and we were commissioned to do a bunch of pro-style video shoots of Tribute singers (a Michael Jackson, an Elvis, and a Whitney Houston) and it quickly became obvious that we really did need that 32-bit Float technology to cope with other people's PA's and their settings (at live shows) over which we had no influence at all. So I bought the F3. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoom-F3-220GL-MultiTrack-Recorder/dp/B0BB8ST1HC It's a one-trick pony (arguably) but it's a great trick and it does it so well. Rather than replacing my H4n Pro units this complements them. It's built like a tank (more like Radial gear than typical Zoom), dead easy to use, can be controlled remotely by Bluetooth from an App (very convenient when playing festivals and such), and it's tiny. But it ain't cheap.

I have often wondered recently at my new obsessions, video editing and synthesizers. But now, the hidden purpose underlying everything has been made clear to me.

I had the 8-string equivalent some years back - very heavy and prone to neck dive. I dread to think what that thing weighs. 😟 But at least there's free tetanus in every string.

Bloody Hell, Raymond, £100 for a 4/4 DB? Reckon you've done well there. Love the wallpaper, too. 😁

Agreed.

I had it the other way around ... the buyer pays £100 but the seller receives £96.

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That's WAY outside my comfort zone ...

The clickbait thing certainly has the potential to become self-defeating. At least a quarter of all videos that YouTube offers me unprompted involve thumbnails showing attractive women suffering some sort of wardrobe malfunction ... their synthetic boobs are just about to escape from their blouse, or their split skirt is just about to ride up and show her crotch. If I spent my time watching porn or clicking on insulting thumbnails like that, then I can see how that might be happening. In practice, the opposite is true. I refuse pointblank to click on anything that's obvious clickbait. End of. And still YouTube drenches me with boobs and crotches.

I get what he's saying about the importance of thumbnails & titles, but I can't help feel that part of his poor YouTube performance may be down to needing 9:23 to tell us something that requires two minutes tops. The rest is endless padding, repetition and irrelevance.

Real Pirates don't surf.

You guys need to get out more ... 😂

£5k for a 1974 Gibson ... Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Korg MicroKorg 2 I know, I know, but it does really good bass sounds too ...