Al Krow

Agreed. 1. fingers 2. venue acoustics & PA 3. your signal chain, from strings to your cab 4. spoons

Now, you're just stirring! 😁

Nah completely disagree. A musical instrument is not a spoon.

Amazing that you've got yourself a gig - very jealous! What difference were you hearing with the cab sim engaged?

Lot of well put points. Aside: found myself disagreeing with the analogy of the bass and a spoon in cooking! A quality musical instrument can make a difference to our sound eg Stradivarius vs £50 violin; they're not the same thing. A great violinist will sound very good regardless. But he or she will sound better on the Strad played with a top notch bow (which can, by itself, cost more than a high-end electric bass). And you can blind test that any day of the week. But that's, of course, not a comment on 4 vs 5 vs 6 string basses.

If £250 is a touch on the pricey side, there's the Zoom B1-4 for £65. Excellent headphone amp. And get a tuner, drum machine and bunch of fx thrown in for free!

I've had both the VK 210MNT and the Berg CN 212. Both excellent but for me, no question, the Berg edged it. For a smaller very capable one-stop-compact cab solution, also worth considering either the Fearless F112 or a Barefaced BB2, which should both easily handle the output from your AG700. Be interesting to see what other AG700 owners pair their heads with. What sort of music are you playing and are you currently in a (loud?) band?

I'll have you know I recently joined the neo-luddite bass club*, chairman @dodge_bass. Membership currently open. *for folk with an aversion to PC editing of pedals (although I still do when I must) and use of anything midi...

And Queen Victoria never travelled by air. What's your point caller? 😄

Hah! You now have me stumped, as I've only ever owned / played Yammy BBs. Maybe @AndyTravisor @dave_bass5can help out with that one.

+1 ^^ I guess the drummer was particularly ugly, which is why he's been kept out of the limelight, or any light really...😁

Good man. An Ibby or a Yammy? Hmmm...not going to find me objecting: that's 50% of my herd, right there!

Oooh that is exciting news!

Tbf being a dad to a young family + new demanding job = major new responsibilities + tiredness. Spread over a long period, it can be v. draining and lead to a loss of motivation on lots of fronts. Then add to that the stress and uncertainty of Covid-19. It's not necessarily anything more. No instant cure. It's a phase of life many of us will go through or have been through and are now out the other end, celebrating our mid life crisis with our basses and bands!

Dave - if it makes you any happier ICE was always the stuff I put in diet cokes and generally sinks Titanics.

Noooooo!!! If you say midi amp then you will have the Morningstar MC6 & 8 midi crew (led by @Quatschmacher and his minion army) up in arms! D class it is, my good man. Lump it. The rest of us have to!

Shame about the DG. If you don't want to de-rail a thread then you can't refer to something like this as a microamp: This is a micro-amp!

Did you just buy that really competitively priced DG M900 v2 in the FS? If so, you could be in for a very pleasant surprise!

Oops, thanks Jack. I actually meant RCF 735A - what happens when I'm posting in the wee hours! I've corrected my earlier post.

Yup it's very good! I posted this a couple of years' back in case of interest: The Becos kit, which is another comp with ratio that can be set to infinity as @ped mentioned, is worth checking out too - has replaced my Keeley. Feature rich and really useful led monitoring. Great review here:

@lee650if you're thinking about FRFR, this thread is definitely worth a trawl! And plenty of practical suggestions / tips for what works from folk who have one. Or you could save yourself a bit of time and just get an RCF 712A 735A

Well SEVEN is the number of BF cabs to beat I believe, so you'd better get a move on!

I picked up these six flat patch cables for under £10. Pedals are sitting on my board a whole lot more comfortably now!