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Just got home from our NYE gig in Buckingham. Boy .. great crowd , which makes a change. Dont know if anyone snapped us ...just gotta wait and see

I can try this next rehearsal

Good answers folks As stated, i use the passive input and just boost the gain on the Trace to find the clip point and then back it off so its not lighting up. If i used the active input, i simply have to up the gain to achieve the same clip point and then back it off, so i see no advantage to using the active input

This is about both amps and bass, so stuffed it in GD Both my gigging basses are passive, and at rehearsals, where i use our guitarist's business warehouse, he has a Trace combo which i plug into, to save dragging my rig there. The Trace has active / passive inputs, and naturally, i used the passive one. He asked why i used passive and i said because i have a passive bass, but his argument was because i go through a Zoom B3 first, the Trace no longer sees a passive signal as the zoom changes the impedance. I wasnt sure what he was talking about, being a bit technically deficient in that area, so is he right ..should i be using the active input ? By the way, he's a clever electronics engineer, and builds upto 48 channel mixing desks for businesses here and Europe. He purchased all ex SSL stock after they closed down ( he was an engineer there ) and builds the desks from scratch.

I agree. Comma

I've bought from Wunjo and they knocked £300 off a bass i was interested in, and then threw in a hard case that wasnt originally included. They were great to deal with.

I gig 2 PJB 4x5" C4 cabs, 400 watt and 29lbs each + Genz Benz Shuttlemax 9.2 , 900 watt and 5.75 lbs I dont have any problems with volume , even in my 7 piece band

Man oh man, these have some tension on them. I just fitted a new set and they pulled the relief on the neck so far that just adjusting the truss rod simply did not work because i ran out of adjustment. Luckily i had a spacer under the Schaller 3D and had to remove it to get the string height down. Originally i had the bridge saddles set flat ( with spacer fitted under bridge ) and with the amount of relief i like in the neck, had my perfect setup. With the spacer gone, i had to raise the saddles a tad. Good grief though, how did Fender get that much tension in Nickels ?

Eat less cake.

Gigging in a small corridor in Buckingham

Stone me ! We're outta here !

I was wondering about that as well.

My two main basses are 4 bangers, one ( Aria Proll SB900 ) is 16.5mm by default, and the other ( AJR of basschat ) built the body and i chose the Schaller 3 way bridge, which has an adjustment that can set the gauge to 16.5 mm, so both of them have that string spacing

Yeah i know. Still fills a pedal board

Whittled down to just 2 pedals ...

Got to be a pedant here and say that its a Vibrato unit, not a Tremolo unit. Tremolo is something completely different, and the effect of Tremolo is differing volume and can be set to various speeds. Some amps have Tremolo built in and and of course some Tremolo pedals can be had. My Zoom B3 has a Tremolo patch. Vibrato is a pitch changer, which is what the Kahler and all other whammy bars do. It doesnt help that to this day that these arms are still called Tremolo by the industry, and its totally totally wrong by 100% ....for instance.. https://www.whammyparts.com/faq/150-kahler-bass-tremolo-installation-guidelines https://www.bestbassgear.com/ebass/article/what-does-a-bass-with-a-kahler-tremolo-system-actually-sound-like.html

Posts in off topic dont count towards your post count, if thats any help. You need to post drivel elsewhere, as already stated. Just ask teebs

I'm afraid my Crimble No.1 has already been chosen. Soz

After lunch ya say ? Set all phones on mute, then break open and neck some weird seasonal alcoholic drinks that i never touch the rest of the year. Scoff some festive cakes that are just regular cakes, but have their prices increased at xmas. Nod off on the sofa while the body gas is building nicely. Fart and belch while still in the land of nod. Wake up later, feel like i've been fired out of a cannon, watch a film they put on every year, go to bed singing " as sheperds washed their socks by night all seated round a tub " etc Repeat on Boxing day

Thats the one !

I played Banbury somewhere in a previous band but i cannot remember the pub. The name ' The Dolphin ' springs to mind, but that could be wrong

Yup, i get the being an adult about it and all that. But i personally wouldnt do the gig. Forget all the silly revenge stuff i and others posted, but surely dont do the gig ? When the " cliquey " mob ask your band " where's Bruno ? " are they going to tell the truth and say they kicked you but you wouldnt do the gig ? Who will side with your band against you ? No one. Ballocks to 'em They made their bed. Now let the bar stewards lie in it The meek shalleth not inheriteth the earth. The meek shalleth inheriteth a kicketh in the nuts