Frank Blank

Lord, talk about start with an outlier, excellent idea.

Ok, I'll start. I was assuming someone else might but, anyway... If I spent as much time practicing bass and writing music as I did reading and commenting on Basschat I'd be a far better player! I realise/appreciate that BC is a powerful and hugely useful reference guide and tool for any bass player but hell, I spend so much time just mooching on here and essentially wasting time. So I suppose the resolution really is to practice more and, of course, that doesn't have to be at the expense of BC, I just need to prioritise.

The important point is not to give up and walk away, playing with ‘better’ players than you will challenge you for sure but it will be a really good way to improve the skills you feel you lack. There is one exception to this of course, you have to be able to discuss the structure of the music with the other players, if they won’t stop and help out, give you pointers and stuff then fvck ‘em. I’ve played with some brilliant players who expected you to be as brilliant them right off the bat without the slightest help or advice, I find these kind of players fall into a general wider category, that of cnuts. Inside musical circles or outside I try to avoid cnuts at all costs. Play with more advanced musicians for sure, no better way to improve, but don’t think you have to tollerate cnuts. Musicians who sneer at those not as advanced or are intolerant of other's abilities or just plain unwilling to help are to be avoided.

Excellent. It’s almost odd how making such a fundamental change to your set up seems to be so easy. I’ve been looking for something like this for years, I suppose the tech has finally caught up with the idea some of us have had for a long time, that of power/clarity/compact portability and all in one unit. I put my AER amp up for sale in order to fund the K12.2 purchase but I sold a couple of basses (the last of my standard scales) and that paid for the QSC so I was thinking of withdrawing the AER but it’s just sitting in the corner not getting played so it might as well go somewhere it’ll get use, can’t see myself going back to it.

Quite an interesting thread running on talkbass.com specifically about the QSC K12.2, seems to have been running since mid 2017 until Dec 2018. I thought it was worth a mention because one of the contributors is someone who works for QSC who answers a lot of the queries put to him... https://www.talkbass.com/threads/qsc-k12-2.1287735/

Heh. Only too happy to oblige! Oddly I have enjoyed quite a few things on Jools, Unthanks, Sleaford Mods, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, I just don’t like the Hootenanny. Then again I just don’t like NY.

Mind you, dripping in fosters as I am, @BassX2 is quite right, we are being right grumpy about Jools.

Indeed, keeping it pissy in 2019.

...pre-recorded toadying, ego-stroking cow poop at that.

Me too, as much as I was laughing I think most of it was precisely because it was uncomfortable.

See, now, I’d watch that...

Just had a rehearsal and wrote the bridge to our latest song, it was just one of those rehearsals where it all clicks, bliss.

The Hootenanny is always dull imho, the addition of Marc Almond just means one more reason not to watch.

...and stay out of the Woolworth.

Fopp? I don’t use Fopp. I’m a Dapper Dan man.

Hmmm there is more than ‘barely any’ when I do the same check on mine but that may be because it’s on a pile carpet, I will check on a hard floor... ...no, you’re right, not enough pressure to worry about, thanks for this. I have angled jacks and now I’m happily looking at angled XLRs.

Do you use angled power leads or adapters to solve that?