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Maybe compression is like a mullet - business like at the front end to provide a party at the back - and it looks and sounds good, but not everyone can carry it off

It’ll probably be the same weight as their first cabs they brought out so you can hold off till the second release

Ha - I would take their prime minister over ours! I was pretty sure actual construction was on these shores though?!

Either that or it’s in one location and they all move to it as it’s cheaper and more transportable to move people and a camera crew

I think it’s the same couple of cabs in all videos shipped around and rented out

Or the volume knob on your bass

So that’s why I didn’t get one, that or it sunk the titanic on its way to me

Or they are all in hospital post spinal surgery

@krispn well the first 2 points you quoted in your reply are related completely to compression, point 5 is about target market- you wouldn’t play verbatim pop versions Atomic Kitten in a Punk or Cannibal Corpse type gig venue. 3 is a given, or should be for any self respecting group. Lighting? Can’t see how that comes above - 3 recent gigs I have been to, 1 an intimate coffee shop one - normal lights, engaging and brilliant. Mark Lonergan in a big venue it was mainly just dark - lights never changed - great sound and engaging. Another band - all the flashing lights in the world, good musicians, tight, engaging - sound was absolutely awful - everyone was put off and left early. Groove, tightness, feel musically and soundwise are defo hand in hand together.

Nice What are the necks like on the Tribby’s

https://orangeamps.com/little-bass-thing/ looks nice this, few vids as well to have a listen to.

I love a driftwood shipwreck!

I like it! I may be in for that

Will The IK multimedia blue turn work? I use it for scrolling up and down through pages/lyrics/songs on a list Easy to use with feet on the fly

Not sure that is what @51m0n is saying at all. My take on what he is saying is, if you want to understand compression and get better at using it, get involved in mixing, and that can be at the dog and duck with your own mixer and not a pro-touring rig. Most modern mixers have an ability to record the channels going into them, USB stick or otherwise, this recording can easily be taken and the levels etc of instruments be played around with to see what compression does on a free DAW resource etc. If you play the same venue often you can check your mix at the desk vs the ambient sound in the room with a recorder placed out in the audience and judge how things are balanced, number of people in the room affecting it, how this should be tweaked etc. Then knowledge gleaned can be used to help on bass specifically. I think that is the essence of what he is saying, and all ‘pro’ engineers started somewhere.

Yep it was all about the ceramic driver tone....... Are they still being made in the U.K.?

Wholeheartedly agree Very very nice basses

I’m still at work now...... Say no more!

That’s because Fender being threatened by their quality actively rung up shops and retailers and said unless they stop stocking Sandberg, they wouldn’t send Fenders to them. Sandberg now have their own shape so can no longer really be called a clone unless the BB Yamaha range is also a clone. The fact is the QC and customer service I way above what Fender offers, that’s why they are still going 30 years later

Compression on amp - yes why not and some very good amps have them inbuilt, compression onboard a bass - cant see the point at all. If it was that easy to get a tiny unit it would be done by now, Orifin Effects took a fair amount of time to miniaturise the Urei1176. About it the smallest I have seen is the TC Spectracomp - maybe just rout a hole and stick it in and it’s job done?!

Played in what used to be an old prison, I had the groove locked down....

Happy to oblige in slapping Proby should the need arise again

I am going for a photo finish - Sandberg the winner - both in championship record times