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I have a high sensitivity (103db) cab but it is 4R. I've gigged it with the Elf in a big pub with vocal only PA and I had it only ticking over. It's loud enough to be my backup amp... partly because the very good automatic compression as you raise the gain gives the same effect as having lots of headroom. Means the average volume can be as loud as a significantly more powerful amp.

As does the P10, but bear in mind Sire active basses don't boost levels much. The flat setting is pretty much the same as passive mode, despite being 18V preamps.

I decided that after my two-year sabbatical, I would start using pedals again. My old pedal box was a bit of a disaster as the lining wasn't as good as proper velcro, so a car journey on its side and all the pedals would fall off. I decided to go for something a bit smaller but better organised to make me cut down the pedal count (ha!) This Gokko one of Amazon was less than £40 even going for the premium orange coloured version. It has an easily removed base for my PSU and lots of 2" velcro (although I had to add some strips of loop in teh base for the PSU). It even has a matching orange padded bag. It's a mix of old school and modern, but a bit sad some of my other pedals didn't make the cut. Pedal order is not obvious, due to what I wanted at the front and practicalities of where leads go: 1 - my homebrew Death Note switcher featuring Ryuk the Shingami. His Shingami eyes light up when a lead is plugged in and the one selected glows even brighter. Unused inputs are grounded via a 22K resistor. Surprisingly complicated to figure out the wiring! 2 - Boss TU3, not just a tuner but a convenient mute switch. 3 - An, err, new addition, the Demonfx Pearl White Autowah. This is a direct clone of the Mad Professor Snow White and it's opened up a huge range of new options. Set the sensitivity low for slap or near 12 o'clock for fingerstyle and you can either get classic autowah sounds (think Fly Away) or increase decay and you can ride it rather like riding the gain for overdrive effects, except it's like a variable tone control. 4 - TC Electronics Forcefield Compressor. OK, it's a Behringer in a bullet-proof box, but it works really well adding harmonic texture without cutting the bottom end as well as keeping my crap slap under some sort of control. 5 - Joyo XVI polyphonic octaver. It does make some incredible sounds, but is definitely best used in moderation. It would be nice to have two or three set up to suit different songs - I hate knob twiddling during a performance. 6 - Ibanez Digital Stereo Chorus. Wowser, apparently these fetch about £150 these days! But you can't have it, with everything dialed in the direction of slow, wide, deep and high it will stand in for anything wanting a general purpose 'effected' sound without having to pack a phaser and a flanger as well. 7 - TC Electronics Mojo Mojo Overdrive. At my first gig using it again I learnt not to set the drive too high, but set right it can add more consistent grit with less finger battering than digging in for a whole song. A test showed it was darker than a tube screamer clone and the HM2 was just too OTT. 8 - My homebrew 'Nano Gumpinator', a 24 db/octave high pass filter with the knee at 32Hz. Takes away all the handling noise and certainly appears to be kind to my speakers. (Interesting aside, my phone camera recognised the 'Forcefield' as a face and focused on it!)

We love Crazy Train 😁

Life's tough. I have to stick to air bass. I suppose you could take up air ukulele?

Should vegetarians (me) and vegans make themslves known to help ensure the food supply is balanced?

I will keep you in suspense... I have a new borad but awaiting low profile patch leads so I can add a couple more pedals.

From videos I've seen the Zoom is quick. As fast as a Fender or Lekato clip on or a Boss TU3. Those three are my favoured brands after much seeking.

The reason I recommend the Crush 20 is I have one, and the sound was what made me choose an Orange head for my rig. So IMHO some practice amps sound good. I have also used it at open mics with an acoustic bass.

They've found a way of overcoming Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

Facebook seems to suffer no consequences.

On a forum I'm involved with the simple approach of banning the pisting of ads until your first post had been approved by a mod hugely reduced scams. Must scammers know nothing of the subject...

Get an Orange Crush 20. Decent tone, built in tuner and 20 watts RMS so will wipe the floor with any '30 watt' no-name amp.

Thanks, it was only the second time our vocalist has unleashed the capabilities of his new mixer, and a house PA as well! Basically he did the full 'sound out with white noise' then used presets. Drums were just kick and snare.

My P10 has cream markers.

Woolworths.

On Saturday we used a house pa with alto tops and a single H+H sub. Our vocalist used his desk and started by equalising with white noise and a reference amp. Then he let the system ring out any feedback automatically. I asked him not to low pass my bass, he showed me the default curve which was a hpf about 40hz, a slight dip at 4-500 to make space for guitars, then flat. Positive comments from the audience, which inclded a few musos. ! few people here have commented that my bass sounded 'really deep' on what are just phone recordings.

@dmccombe7 Most decent phones these days have a square sensor, but they rarely let you film square video. Most detect which way up the phone is and give landscape or portrait. In the last several months or more, Farcebook decided that 'live' video has to be prortrait so people watch it on their phone.

I wish my gigs were that popular!

The real question is why do phones with SQUARE sensors force you to shoot portrait when holding the phone in a comfortable orientation? Actual reason is Facebook live has stopped allowing landscape video 😞

Possibly just natural;l variation, I'm guessing the colour will depend on time of harvest and the amount of sugar in the sap, as the brown comes from the maillard reaction (cooking rather than charring).

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I meant in general across the evening. Flummoxed the rhytm guitarist a bit.

Is it set to 'private' or 'friends only'?

I try and stick to Dee Murray's original, it's my favourite 'test a bass' line 🙂 Troy's videos are excellent. Our dep drummer was running a bit fast all night and it took away some of the groove.