Al Krow

Your set must be gobsmackingly amazing then

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen @mcdaddy - dunno if it's worth collating the suggestions into your OP, so that you don't get the 234th suggestion of Valerie as we get to page 33 of this thread? 😁

"You talking about the guy who's playing the 5 string guitar mate? Well he's not very good at chords is he?" 😁

Yup gonna be using it on Sat (haven't restrung my Yammy yet which needs to a good seeing-to on that score). But if it sounds totally sh*ite it will have nothing to do with poor bass technique and be entirely down to me not using a compressor (again).

Hah - you spotted that link far too quickly! Not sure whether your particular fetish has any linkage to baldness but, if so, it would explain a thing or two... But please let me assure you, good sir, that whilst the krispn and I may have exchanged electrical items and the occasional fluids over the years these have been limited to bass pedals and his own tasty beer.

But 16.5mm string spacing? You can get an identical spec used one for a lot less (just sayin'!).

Nah - it can just turn into a "Best-buys 2020" thread 😁

Wow deja vu!! There's this geezer, who's not a butler, but likes playing up to Egyptian gods in his spare time who posted a review of these exact same 3 amps about 3 years back (excellent review btw). Let me see if I can dig out... The right answer, in case you're wondering. is the GM 800. (I obviously got it wrong and bought a DG M900) Here you go:

Thank gawd for that. Ok folks, we can all relax now...😁 Are you feeling lonely out there? (Btw are you Finn or Dave or Dave Finn or the obvious Finn Dave?? If the latter - what's the story?)

Don't you have to be "in" before you can be "officially out". Or is that different to what you've been told for the past few decades? 😁

For sure. But this was a really good explanation of the further discussion: And, in particular, around the subject of having a pedal board with a compressor on it which is perhaps the most relevant point for your average BC'er.

Ah but it's about the journey as much as the destination, right? 😉

Great news - well done mate! But are they really giving you a 2010 PS-6 to review? (Nice feature set but it has pretty dismal latency. There that's one done 😁).

Many BC'ers swear by compression. Others never bother and haven't lost any bookings or sleep over it. 99% of bass players can't dial in a compressor to save their lives. 99% of the bass players @chris_b has come across in 40 years of bass playing don't use one live. @51m0n has the patience of a saint. Mostly. Did I miss anything? 😄

You just got a new piece of gear to try out? Haha you're defo out 😁 As Dave said, though, spill the beans and post a pic!

The only question I'd have relates to the trades point - which seems to be the most controversial area by far! Where you trade something for another piece of gear that you actually want and are going to be using => clearly you've just got yourself a new piece of gear! ("Trade to keep") That seems to me to be quite different to where you have something up for sale but the buyer only takes it off your hands in part-ex e.g. cos they don't have the £readies and no else has made you a decent full cash offer. So you take a piece of kit as part payment knowing that you're not really going to be using it and will be moving it on as soon as you can. ("Trade for payment & move on traded item") What say we peeps?

Congrats! Oh dear on hitting exactly the same question I did a couple of months into owning my first Spector, also a Legend. It didn't end well for my wallet!

@krispnnot sure that you and I are saying anything different here? My point is that we are foolish to think that becoming a competent sound engineer is something we can do overnight. It seems to me you're saying you've got there over 25 years. No conflict whatsoever in those two statements!

That sounds like a really good idea. I think @bassfan is about to be doing something similar. Dunno if there's a way of capturing what your guitarist's mate is doing differently e.g. maybe by you guys setting things up in the fashion you normally have and taking a pic of your mixer and compressor settings and then seeing what the sound engineer changes? I'm of the view that becoming a very competent bass player is something that takes consistent effort over a period of years; there's an element of arrogance to think that we can become competent sound engineers in a much shorter period and without equivalent effort. I guess we can get to "good enough" on the mixing side in a shorter span just as we can on basic bass. It then becomes a matter of our priorities as to where our passion lies and where our time gets spent.

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Simon - I would offer you my spare (cheapo) one. Except that it was consistently a little bit sharp or flat (can't remember now) - but fine when you made a mental note to adjust. And it's a plug in not a pedal. If you're interested despite the health warning PM me and I'll pop it in the post.

No tougher than the treatment of your Aggie DB751 the moment a HB100 showed up... 😁

Don't think anyone (not even me - haha!) is going to begrudge you a replacement tuner.

Nope. I would describe the 1025 as being both more 'civilised' and with additional harmonic richness. I found the 1025 to be very close tonally to the P35 pups. So if you compare your 425 to your P34, Dave, you'll have a pretty good idea of the difference between the 425 pups to the 1025 pups.

I think we concluded that trades unfortunately were out a week or so back. Can't have one rule for Walshy and one for the rest (or can we? 😂) So it's nice been knowing ya @ead, thanks for stopping by, mate.