chris_b

Nice bass.

I'm currently learning a set for a new band. 99% original songs and the band leader/singer/songwriter doesn't always use the 4 bar structure. The stuff you don't have to learn. Where you can feel the changes. Usually learning a set is about patterns but this guy is using different structures, 6 bars instead of 4, sometimes 5!! I'm also contending with double length bridges, half verses, missing choruses and bridge sections that sometimes have rules and sometimes don't! I've written charts from the YouTube and mp3's supplied. The first gig, in 2 weeks, is the audition. I'll either join the band or it was just a dep. Failure is not an option so I'm playing the full set every day. I intend to know these songs better than the guy who wrote them and play them better than the last bassist. IMO it's a good band so it's worth the effort.

I briefly (for 12 hours!) owned an SWR Studio 220 and a 410. The next day I took it all back to the Bass Centre and swapped it for a Mesa Boogie 400+ and RR 210EV which went nicely with my RR 115EV.

In over 15 years with Laklands I never touched the trussrods.

I've actually got 4 x One10's. I used 2 with the TH500 last week in a Rock n Roll/Blues band and it sounded very good. Next week, in the cover band, I was thinking of trying out 3 x One10's and my Aguilar AG700, at 2.67ohms.

I use an Aguilar TH500 with my One10. IMO they are a great pairing.

Like it.

Nice move. I sold my SR5 to fund a 55-94, which was my #1 bass for 14 years. I briefly owned a very nice 55-02. IMO Lakland's are very special basses.

Sadowsky SBP-2 preamp pedal, a bargain at £50 in the classifieds. So good it almost makes my £200 bass sound like a Sadowsky.

Touring, like everything else to do with bands, is what you make it. There are always ups and downs, but if you're serious about playing in a band, think you've got something for an audience and if you've chosen the right guys, you'll make it work. As Charlie Watts said when the Stones were celebrating their 25th anniversary, "5 years playing and 20 years hanging around!" IMO the end justifies the means. 8 hours driving to a gig and 8 hours driving back again depends on the gig. A good gig and it's worth it. A bad gig and you put it behind you and look forwards to the next one. If you can't do that become an accountant etc.

So that's why my lights dip, when you switch your gear on!

Maybe front vs rear doesn't sound different when you are standing in front of them, but I've been told by several drummers that rear ported bass cabs, when set up next to them, don't sound as good as front ported. I prefer front ported. I was always moving guitar cases, covers and other pieces of gear stowed behind my cabs, in the space I left for the rear ports!!

Noooooooooo!

I don't play with attitude or aggression, but I do remember when I was that shape. Oh for those days again!!