chris_b

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!!

Excellent choice.

I use the same amps at home as I do on the loudest gig. 800 watts sounds fine in my front room. They all have a thing called a master volume.

Check out a Markbass 112 combo. They are small, light and you can get a good sound out of them. Add a 112 extension cab if you feel the need when the band gets going.

Good choice. Lakland make fantastic basses. This is your second and third basses all in one go.

Hi Chris, they moved the business to larger premises over Christmas and the New Year which seems to have had a knock on effect, but they should be replying to emails. The website says they haven't got a phone number for the new premises yet. I'd try email a few more times. https://barefacedaudio.com/pages/contact_us

I noticed they'd renamed a big store in town. When I told the wife she said, "They did that 4 years ago!" That's how often I go to the shops.

Oooops!!

I won't say don't do it, but many years ago I de-fretted my bass. . . . and I regretted it. Taking the frets out (with a kitchen knife and filling the slots with polyfiller) never gave me sound I thought I was going to get. If the bass wasn't worthless when I started, it certainly was when I finished. It went in the bin shortly afterwards.

You've got a chorus section with some structure. A verse with looser structure and the rest is just jamming. IMO there's no need to "learn" more than the chorus section. Just get the feel right and you've cracked it.

I still measure myself in feet and inches and stones, pounds and ounces. If it ain't broke. . . . I drive miles in the car and fill it in £'s, not those silly litres things.