Newfoundfreedom

For me it would be my Donner wireless system. Not having to trail and cables is priceless. I've seen a lot of people posting about the more expensive wireless systems, but I picked these up for 15 quid on eBay. 6 hour battery life, less than 2.5ms latency, and a range of about 100 metres. Absolutely rock solid, never cut out or stuttered once over dozens of practices and several gigs. Best £15 I ever spent.

Yeah, but can it dance?

Are you already using a PA for the test of the band? In which case why not just use a small class D (or even some kind of pedal) and DI straight into the PA. I often use my Bugera Veyron set to post eq and DI straight into the PA and it sounds superb. A cheap enough option and you can't get much lighter or easier to carry.

I totally agree with this. It's certainly true in my case. I still listen to pretty much exclusively the same bands I did in my teens. I've hardly gotten into any new music for years, and even then, never in the same way as I did then. It's weird, but for someone who likes playing music, I don't actually listen to much at all any more.

I made one out of an old neoprene phone case (like wetsuit material) Works a treat.

I think it certainly would if every gig were like that one.

I highly recommend it. It's certainly the best move I ever made. 😉

As some of the regulars on here may or may not know, I now live in Bulgaria, having made the break from the UK 4 years ago (hence the forum name). I'm a newborn bass player, now I'm my mid 40's, having not really played since leaving school at 16. I've tried joining / starting many bands over the years in the UK, but due to very busy work / life commitments, nothings ever really got off the ground. So, quite randomly, I met a few other British musicians out here in my local area. Now this might not sound like a big deal, but this is central, extremely rural Bulgaria, not a holiday resort. So the chances of us meeting in the first place are extremely remote. Plus my wife is the singer, having done the club scene in the UK for many years singing and running a karaoke business. Anyhow. We decided to try and get something going a few months ago and after a bit of hard work and rehearsals, we've done several gigs in the past few weeks. We decided, as a band (especially given the local pay rates) that it was never going to be about money, so we may as well try and raise some money for a good cause. So all the gigs we do go towards raising money to support a charity helping children in care here in Bulgaria. Tonight we played a local, extremely rural bar in a small village, which was probably 80% Bulgarian, 20% British (due to our promotion) audience. It was an absolutely superb gig. Outdoors in the heat of summer (30C degrees at 11pm) and the audience, both Brits and Bulgarians were brilliant, and we managed to raise a fair few quid for the charity. (zov.org.uk if anyone's interested) So here's the icing on the cake. After the gig we were given this by the owner and staff of the bar. It's a framed, printed bit of paper which is absolutely worthless at face value, but to me it's priceless. It says. Thank you MissEducation (our band) Keep doing good things. Bulgaria is as much yours as it is ours. From Krichmata (the pub) Lesicheri (the village) Best payday I've ever had!

Option 5 Send it to me. It's so purdy!!!!

I can't comment on the particular speaker you're taking about, but on smaller gigs I D.I from my amp head into the PA to save space and carting my cabs around and it sounds just fine. In fact I'd go as far as to say it sounds great, and we don't use any subs. Just standard 15" PA speakers. Granted this is slightly different to what you're talking about as it's the PA and not the amp head doing the legwork, but I can't see why it wouldn't work pretty much the same running the amp directly into a PA speaker. I just don't see what the benefits would be over using a dedicated cab. In a band situation if you are limited for space and the band already has a PA then it makes sense to utilise it. If you're taking about using a PA speaker just for the bass, then why not just use a small, lightweight cab, which you already own?

Yes I know. You said in your initial post you don't have the budget for a powered cab. My point was you don't need a powered cab. Running from an amp head into a passive PA speaker is technically exactly the same as running into a cab, except the PA cab would be full range and voiced differently. However, it would work exactly the same way.

I thought it was just me. Unless I'm seriously misunderstanding what a headless bass is.

I'm confused (to be fair it doesn't take much) Isn't that what everyone who has an amp head and cab doing? Or am I misunderstand something here? Why would you need an active / powered speaker if you're using an amp?

It's called a KYC (know your customer) check and it's all perfectly above board. It's part of government money laundering regulations to help prove you are who you say you are. Anyone who's ever used an online bookmaker will be more than familiar with it.

Nope. It's got to be kittens or you just can't hear the meowsic.

I'm not exactly sure of the science behind it, but apparently if you use mismatched cabs, such as a 1x15 and a 2x10, the result of the two soundwaves combining will ultimately bring about the destruction of the universe. Or so I'm lead to believe from similar threads. The 1x15 + 2x10 combination has always sounded bloody superb to me.

I'm sure it's lovely with chips.

I'm quite fond of the whiskers myself. Although in a much more modest respect. 👍

Right this arguing has gone on long enough now. Don't worry chaps, I'll sort it! BREXIT (Thread locked)

I still have big confidence issues, but I figure the only way to get over that is to keep doing it. The logistics of being in a remote location is probably the biggest problem. Rather than joining an existing band, are there any musicians locally that you can get together with and start something new? I live in an extremely rural area in the centre of Bulgaria. If I can get a band together, I'm sure you can. 😉

If you consider yourself to be an intermediate+ player then you should definitely be out playing with other musicians. Thais definitely where most of the fun is. I still consider myself very much an amateur but I'm in a gigging band and we always seem to go down pretty well. Welcome to the forum.

Isn't that why we have the drunken rambling thread? Unfortunately I can never find it when I'm p@ssed. 😂

With a beard like that? Get away!