NancyJohnson

I couldn't tell you what Steve Harris actually sounds like to be honest. Geddy, yes. dUg, yes. Sheehan, Burnel, Karn, Claypool, Lemmy, all yes. But Harris? No. Even with a gun to my head, I could probably only blurt out two or three Iron Maiden songs. Message ends.

Good grief, have some perspective. It's a kettle lead; try it once, if it doesn't work, or solve the issue, throw it away. I'm not advocating openibg the amp and rewiring it. Lest we forget, most of Europe operate electrical systems on a non-earth, two core cable systems.

It's funny, but doesn't pretty much everyone here feel that Skank embodies their inner-author and that his responses are generally on point and written how we'd all want to write? Clearly P-dawg is also a vampire. 2.00am? Go to bed, man!

Nope, it was in reply to Nik having a pair of whatever he has. I wouldn't buy another Rickenbacker...

Or just mark it up 'pub check'. Really no harm in trying.

Recommended (or otherwise), while it's feasible there's an issue with the wiring at the pub itself, this can be compounded (if my terminology is correct) by having multiple earths on the same loop or even running effects. Quick question. If you're playing with a guitarist or keyboardist, do their amps suffer the same fate or just yours? Insofar as a solution goes, a quick look online shows that your Markbass head has ground loop switch. Try it. It will simply take the earth out of your power lineage and correct things. Also, rightly or wrongly, you could just carry a spare kettle lead with just the live and neutral connected (just snip off the earth and put some heat-shrink over the end.

I feel a R*ck*nb*k*r incoming. Imagine running that in stereo. Yep. Imagine.

My highlight? Seeing Sean after a couple of years and knowing he's well. This outweighed all the gear on show.

It was yesterday, not today.

It's all stable. No fading or anything...It's been a little quiet on the band front, but it's had a lot of use.

Isn't it generally a case though that most drummers don't have to space (or soundproofing!) to keep a kit set up at home and as a consequence they don't strictly play the drums, they just play the drums at jams and gigs? I mean, good on him that he can just survive on breakables alone; the drummer from the last band just bought a very cheap kit and used to gig with that, allowing anyone to use it, so fair play to him. When I went out with Rocket66 recently, the studio kit was thrashed to such a point that it was ready for the skip and the venue kit was literally held together with Gaffa tape.

From a shape perspective, while I'm more a Thunderbird kind of bloke over basses of a generic Jazz/Precision design, the biggest sticking point for me is that Mk2 headstock design. Doesn't matter how good the bass is, I couldn't get past a bass with a headstock that looked like a dog had chewed it. It's a deal-breaker. Just like Sandbergs.

I would love to have been able to play the drums, but man alive, given my levels of GAS over the years I shudder at the amount of money I would have hemorrhaged on drum kits and hardware. I probably would have ended up with a kit like Mike Portnoy. A mate of mine quit playing drums about a year ago, he had a phenomenal amount of top-notch gear that sold for peanuts; he always maintained that drum kits were like cars, you take 'em out once and they lose half their value, so I suppose his selling price saw that. It honestly must be party time if you're buying drums at the moment.

I've been following Mark Phillips for a while, both here and on eBay; I've always thought of his creations as sharing a heritage of sorts with the stuff his namesake Sid from Toy Story built.

Sunday is the new Saturday apparently. Well, it was for me last week, but Monday was definitely Monday for me, albeit being a little worse for new Saturday's drinking and eating. Maybe next Sunday will be like the old Sundays. Countryfile, Ovaltine, bed. And wouldn't it have been a thing if you'd shown up a day early. Just like the Picolax thread.

Cough. Sunday. Cough.

While I prefer a passive bass, certainly the bass that prompted my original post (a Spector EuroLT) delivers something a little more different over the Lulls, dare I say it, more shizzle/dynamic. On the subjective matter of pre-amps (or whatever you'd classify as a pre-amp), over the years I've transitioned from a wholly clean tone (straight in), through a variety of Sansamps into power amps, up to where I'm at now (Darkglass A/O head or a Sansamp dUg into the effects return thereon); in isolation, I would not expect the bass to replicate anything the Sansamps or the Darkglass does to shape my tone.

John Schnatter has gone from Papa Johns, hasn't he? You can now enjoy a guilt free Mexican or All The Meats.

I did sell up everything 20+ years ago. Stupid big rig, too much gear. Got an invite to go and play with a newly forming covers band for someone's birthday. I was kind of on the back foot from the outset, covers really are not my thing at all, but I went along to help more than anything else. When I got back, my wife asked how it had gone and I just questioned everything, even down to the point of why I was even bothering doing band stuff. Everything went...a huge SWR and Trace tri-amped rig, several basses. One guy took an old Hamer Scarab and another head (Laney, I think) and offered me a 1979 Fender Precision in a trade. This sat under a bed for a little while until I got an offer else where and it all started again. I actually found the whole experience quite cathartic. Out with the old and in with something older. Of course I went back into things with a gusto. After the mortgage was paid I was in double figures for Gibson Thunderbirds alone - all gone to fund two Lulls. I'm down to five basses now and a smallish Darkglass/Barefaced amp set up.

Just on the subject of Pizza Express, when was the last time anyone actually ate at one? I haven't been for maybe ten years, perhaps longer, and found it underwhelming to say the least. (I've eaten more pizza in Italy in that time.) Whether or not one considers Papa Johns or Dominos to be the real deal or not, they deliver, it's tasty and not too expensive if you can hit them with an, 'Are there any deals on tonight?' when you phone up.

Hey hey @TrevorR Nope, honestly not trolling. When I was a kid I remember my brother dishing out some kind of schpiel about leaving headphones plugged into my little cassette recorder would make the batteries go flat, so I guess I have an underlying fear of power failures. I've had active basses previously (Ibanez, Warwick, MusicMan Bongo, plus a John East) but - and not that I've looked much - I honestly don't have a clue about battery life. It's 2019, probably would have expected new basses to have some kind of cut out. I tend to just have a bass plugged in for readiness in the house, suppose I just need to unplug the Spector more often. See you Sunday.

Is this like a vegan burger made from 100% Scotch beef?

Didn't someone come up with having an interior rechargeable battery? You just had something like a phone charger but it had a 1/4" jack on the end, plug it in et viola battery charged.

Me forking too.

Just a quickie. If you leave an active bass plugged in 24/7, is there any evidence this will this cause the 9v battery to drain? Does the jack plug create a circuit that is always on or does something in the circuit just cut out, deactivating it?