Owen

Whoa-oh, livi...... sorry.

Every time I try to do anything further than intonation and setting saddles without buzz, I have to pay someone to do it properly. One day I shall pay someone to teach me. I would pay someone to give some of my basses a general, good set up, but there is no one local I trust. I understand that it is easy. It is not easy for me.

I would be all over that like a bad rash.

It was going so well.

Oh, absolutely, but back in the day D&B were using DSP, and Mackie where whacking drivers and amps into cabs. Now DSP is the norm. If you handed present day mid range stuff to bods in the early year of this century then there would be jaws dropping right left and center. I am not saying that today's £1k 15"+horns are right up there, but they have to be 80% of the way there.

I like the way he is covering his right hand so we cannot cop his speed techniques

The best sound I ever got was through a couple of d&b Audio 12" cabs. It was astonishing. Headroom for days. We pushed them harder and they just got louder. I was hammering my bottom B on my DB. Now, for the money they cost, they should sound good. But this was 17 years ago, so the middle end of the market has to have caught up with what the grown ups were doing 17 years agao.

It is a taste thing. My taste has improved over the last 20 years as well!

The 745 without subs get a lot of love.

That looks like a tight bridge spacing. I have only played one Aria from that era. A student brought it in to work. It was his dad's and clearly loved by all the family. I was intrigued because I had never seen one close up. I could not get it back in the case quickly enough after making some polite chatter about it. The bridge spacing was (for me) extraordinarily wrong. Just astoninishingly so.

Sometimes your 3rd and 4th fingers on your plucking hand wave around a lot. If you put a pencil in your palm and hold it with your 3rd and 4th fingers it lets your 1st and 2nd fingers get on with the job.

Nice rig!

Thanks Caleb, these look really useful. I would love to give you more suggestions, but these will keep me busy for longer than I want to admit to myself, let alone anynone else.

Bottom B is good. Bottom A is better. I have a D tuner on all my 5 strings. I even had one on the 6 string tuned to bottom F#. So I could reach super bottom E.

If you want a nice amp, far be it from me to stop you However, an Alto claiming to be all that and more at that price is on a hiding to nothing.

The IP112 would be superb for this sort of duty. The IP310 was backline par-excellence!