chris_b

Congratulations. I was going to do this course but pulled out when they told me Green Onions wasn't a good audition piece. ps Not really!

I have several cabs to choose from but my one cab, cover everything, solution is my Super Compact.

Start up one of the online metronomes and play to it.

I bought my first BF cab in 2013 and have used them exclusively since 2015. I'm gigging with either a BB2, SC and/or SM. What cabs are you currently using? What are you looking for in a new cab? I can't guarantee that you will like the BF cabs but I haven't heard better. These cabs will see out my playing days. Buy a new cab and you get 30 days to return it. Buy a used one and you'll find they keep their prices if you want to move it on. It's a no risk move.

Got a photo?

Sadly Roger Hawkins died yesterday. You might not know his name but you've heard his work a million times. He was the drummer at Fame and Muscle Shoals studios, and played on 1000's of classics, including When A Man Loves A Woman, Mustang Sally, Respect Yourself and many more. Another large part of my history has gone.

If someone phoned up tomorrow and asked me to play Wembley Stadium, the last thing I'd do would be to use a rig I'm not familiar with. So I'll bring my usual rig. I want the stage sound to be as per usual, with monitors for the other instruments and I'll DI through the FOH.

So you haven't got a Ric. I don't see why that means you're missing out on anything. More players haven't got one than have. I'm not a fan of Rickenbacker basses (the look or sound), and I've noticed that none of my favourite bands feature Ric's, and none of my favourite bassists play them. This is just a symptom of cabin fever. Now the lockdown is ending you'll get over it.

Selling my Wal paid for the patio.

Bending strings doesn't feature in my bag of bass tricks. I use the fattest strings I can find.

GHS Precision Flats feel good and make a great sound.

I've just been in the shed. . . . and I'm loosing my memory and marbles. It's the Mike Lull bag that is crap not the Sadowsky one. Sorry for the misinformation. I think I'll be keeping it now.

4 of us got together last week to film 4 songs for a promo video and we all had to take a Rapid Lateral Flow test and show it to the drummer before he would join us. His daughter is quite ill and living at his house, so I can understand the caution. I feel that me and my family have safely come this far. Messing up right now and getting ill would be a crazy thing to risk. I have no advice to the OP re band members, except chose professional players. But even that isn't a guarantee of finding "normal" people!

If that's anything like the gig bag that came with my Sadowsky Metro, forget it. Buy a Mono M80 Vertigo. Seriously better protection. Recently there were a couple in the classifieds.

If you think one sounds good? Use both. Even better.

I'll play anything I'm asked. Listening for pleasure? That's a much more specific thing!

I bought an aluminium foam filled case for my RH750. Cut the shape out of the foam and you have a well protected amp. My cabs have Roqsolid covers.

Tort dust is the best.

Hopefully mine. They certainly weren't appreciated when they came out!!

Looks familiar!

Around 2007 I compared Epifani and Bergantino 112's. Epifani used bigger cabs which gave more low end, but sometimes, on acoustically poor stages, the low end was harder to manage. My preference is to use smaller more controlled cabs.

The peeling tolex issue should be settled by now. I can't comment on your dealings with the company, but if you want to sound good, put that behind you and try another Two10.

If there were no bass guitars, there would be another instrument playing bass lines. As has been said, people might not hear our instrument, but they always know the music isn't sounding good if we drop out.