Newfoundfreedom

I think that's the thing, as I said earlier. They've been around for so long, that which ever albums were current when you started listening to them are the sound you associate with them and usually like. For a lot of the (ahem) more mature basschatters, it's the early Paul Di'Anno albums. For me it was Seventh Son. Then I worked backwards from there, next getting into Somewhere in Time and Piece of Mind. They're still my favourite 3 Maiden Albums, even though I then bought and regularly listened to their entire back catalogue. I went to see the Dance of Death tour but couldn't really get into the album. I really really tried to love No Prayer for the Dying and Fear of the Dark, and although i liked a lot of the tracks, the album's as a whole never had the same impact as the first three I got into. The Blaze Bailey albums, I didn't listen to at all, they just weren't Maiden to me. Then all the post Brave New World stuff just kind of passed me by entirely.

I'm like that at practice every week. 😆

I think you just summoned a demon.

Is the tray any good for metallic paint?

I love ABBA. Cheesy pop tunes disguising deep and disturbing lyrics, written by two couples being torn apart by bitterness and divorce. Which made people tap their feet and sing along, with absolutely no idea what they're really singing about. Genius! I'm looking forward to hearing this one.

Natural for me. I can live with a fine colour wash that still shows the grain. I can't stand anything painted. It always feels cheap to me. I know in reality the opposite is probably true. But I grew up playing really crap instruments that were always painted bright and shiny colours to make them look better than they were. I know that in reality, this has nothing to do with a good quality, well painted instrument. I just can't get over the ingrained feeling that paint = cheap and tacky.

Sorry. Double post and it wont let me delete.

I still use 2 core mains cable. But it's black. Still no chance of confusing it with an instrument cable, apart from the fact that it's much heavier cable, all my instrument leads are braided, and the speaker cable has speakon connectors.

The thread is 12 years old! I suspect the bass has been sold by now.

Hmmm. Must investigate further. 🤔

Yippee! Soon to be more than proficient. There's a first time for everything. 😆

Does anyone else get an annoying power hum from their ms-60B? I've tried everything I can think of and I can't get rid of it, it's even there running on batteries, so it can't be mains related, and it disappears if I take the pedal out of the equation, so can't be bass or amp related either.

I've been wireless for a couple of years now. I always take spare cables just in case. But barring any technical difficulties, I'd never play "plugged in" again.

Wow! I know we live in a very different world today. But how did they ever think that was a good idea, let alone get away with it?

Following. I've got a few patches set in mine but it's mostly experimental at this point. It usually goes something like. Compressor Effect (chorus / octave etc ) Amp SIM without cab Noise gate or reverb

Have you tried turning up the mids? Yes. Have you tried turning up the volume? Yes. Have you tried turning up with a lump hammer and smashing up the guitarists ridiculously loud cab?

Do you mean your two cabs have a total of 4ohms? (i.e 8 ohms each) or that you are using 2 X 4ohm cabs? If it's the latter, then that's why it's overheating. The minimum load of the amp is 4 ohms and running 2x4ohm cabs gives you a load of 2ohms.

It's been mentioned a few times in the "what's good on Netflix / prime etc" thread. Interesting listening to Paul tell the story of how the songs came to be. Given his career, and the sheer amount of music he must have created spanning decades, the man's memory amazes me.

Nobody died, but given the amount of stuff I've seen Andy shift in the relatively short time I've been here, the financial costs must at least be in the same ballpark as the Tet Offensive. 😆

I have no idea what a Kemper power rack is. I have no idea how to use one. But I now want one!

Yeah they were great. I used to trade stuff in and they'd often give me more back than I paid them for it in the first place. With hindsight, probably no wonder they went out of business. 😆 Great shop though. Shame they went under. I used to spend hours in there in my teens.

Filling it full of Trace watts would totally negate the point of a lightweight cab. They're all fat and heavy. 😆

Yes. Bulgaria. But before that I lived in Lincolnshire for 15 years, which is even more the derrière end of nowhere. The last time I went in a well stocked music shop was Electro Music in Doncaster about 20 years ago and bought a lovely Warwick. Sadly the shop and the Warwick are now both gone.