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Old thread resurrection - sorry! But when I read this I wanted to comment... My band have a mixture of old and new gear, but essentially we use a basic mixer, active 12's on poles for FOH and a couple of floor wedges for monitoring. The rehearsal rooms we use have a nice PA available, and it's easy to sound good in there, but every gig was a frustrating quest to sound as good as during practice. We automatically assumed that our cobbled together PA was just a bit crap and were debating spending out on a shiny new one, but one evening we were sharing with another band and they made our PA sound amazing... their singer knew what he was doing and in a five minute sound check had it nailed. We made the effort after that - read the manual(!), did a bit of YouTube research and spent some rehearsal time just working out how to get the sound in our heads out of our own equipment. Gig life is much better now and we can cope with most of the variables that real venues throw at you. So no answer to the vexed question of power, but a long winded way of agreeing that what you hear is not just about the PA... you also need to know how to use it effectively.

I use these stands too because they are so convenient if travelling light - but they are not the most secure, so you have to really (really) careful to only use them where nobody is likely to brush past... had a few close calls with people not looking where they were going 😬

I bought a lovely Retrovibe 'tribute to a well known brand' from Paul at the weekend. Easy transaction followed by a Basschat classic supermarket carpark exchange! Really nice guy to talk to and a lovely bass to boot. Exactly what buying & selling via the forum should be like 👍

Finished a pub gig with a heavy rock type band - landlord has rung the bell and is trying to get people to drink up. It's at that moment a drunk older couple asked (and asked, and asked with increasing mouth foam) to hear My Way, as if that's likely. Bearing in mind that we've switched everything off and started taking stuff out to the van etc. it's a weary but firm 'no' from whoever happens to be their focus at that moment. They persist however until another punter wanders up and tells them to p*ss off, to which they don't take kindly, and before you know it proper fisticuffs are going down, ending with the landlord throwing all three of them out and barring them. We just loaded up fast, got paid and got out of there... still got asked to go back (but didn't)!

No - it's gone... nothing in the wayback machine either. Curious

Apologies if this is old news, but I just happened across this... https://www.fender.com/en-US/electric-basses/precision-bass/aerodyne-special-precision-bass/0252402376.html I think it's kind of cool... sadly though it appears to be US only, at least right now