chris_b

I've done this. BC is a relatively safe environment and a lot of us are interested in gear, so many sales are on spec to the curious. I evaluate stuff and if it's better than my current gear I keep it. If it isn't I'll sell it. It has nothing to do with the quality of the particular piece, just a way of checking stuff out.

You buy an amp for its sound. Then you chose the number of watts you require. I don't understand how a type of amp architecture can be blamed for not being loud enough! Watts are converted into SPL by the cab. If you have a good enough cab(s) and the right amount of watts then getting buried in the mix has to be down to the players use of EQ. I can make your ears ring with my 700 watt D class amp through 2 BF 112 cabs. I have been asked to turn down because the neighbours 2 doors away are complaining about the bass. Once, on an outdoor gig, from a house 100 yds away because they couldn't hear their TV. D class amps are as loud as you want them to be. Everyone has a sound that they prefer and that can be valves, SS or D class, but being buried in the mix isn't about electrical components.

I'd change one thing at a time. Keep your amps and replace your cabs with one good one. Your current amps are OK and you can replace them later if you find you still need to. That Barefaced Big Twin 2 in the classifieds would be my first call. But. . . . . . before you do anything else, get some hearing protection. Proper moulded plugs like ACS. You will be going deaf sooner rather than later if you are rehearsing at gig volumes.

I don't know what to suggest, but your bass isn't stopping you from playing so I doubt that a new instrument will drag you out of this malaise.

Make a list of your basses from most played to least played. Start selling from the end of the list. Only stop when you have 2 left.

Stickers? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

IMO flats sound great on record but the extra dynamics of rounds works better on a gig. I only play my P bass/flats at home, but gig my Jazz/rounds 99% of the time.

You kidding? Al can send his own threads off topic at the drop of a hat!

I discovered Dark Galaxy bars yesterday. Wow are they good. I have to lose half a stone to get back to my Covid starting weight, and I was trying to lose half a stone at that point. With this new discovery I'm not sure I'm going to make it.

I was going to do that, then it rained and I didn't need to. I knew if I waited long enough it would get done without me.

I waited a year for an SM to come up and then had to drive from Surrey to Leicester to get it. IMO so worth it.

Ampeg, Eden, Fender, Gibson, PPI, LIBOR, toxic mortgages etc etc happens when management believe that making money is more important than their products and services. When they only see £ signs not customers.

Since I bought my first SC from Merton, in 2015 (!), most of my gigs have been played with various BF 112's. They are the cabs I grab first. Both One10's are set up at home for practice. Even at low volume they sound so good in my front room. These guys will be the last ones I'll sell.

I have those cabs, plus a Super Midget. Last year I sold my second SC and both Two10's. They just weren't being played enough to warrant keeping them. Briefly I was up to 7 cabs!

I prefer heavier gauges. I currently have D'Addario 45-130 NYXL's on my Jazz bass and TI 43-118 flats on my P bass.

Hi, are you the guy with the Mothman bass?

That's 10 seconds I'll never get back!!

Never say never, but I reckon I'm done. My gig rig is a Sadowsky bass, an Aguilar amp and Barefaced cabs. My back-up rig is a Mike Lull bass, Thunderfunk amp and different Barefaced cabs. My home practice rig is either bass, a different Aguilar amp and yet more Barefaced cabs. I've spent more on lessons in the last few years than gear. That's where my GAS is.

That is a very pretty and elegant looking bass.

I don't think any manufacturer is going to do that. Press reviews and relating personal experience on the internet does a much better job of providing this level of information.

You can cheat and slow the YouTube video down. After it's in your head at that speed you can switch up to normal speed. I'd start at normal speed and just play the root notes. It's a 2 bar pattern so after you get comfortable with just the root notes you could progress to playing octaves in the first bar and roots in the second bar. When that comes easily switch it around and put the root notes into the first bar and the octaves into the second bar. When you're comfortable put octaves into both bars. It's a very simple line, but the octaves and speed make it tricky. You'll get it when your muscle memory works without having to think about your fingers. That'll take time.

Teddy Bears have never had a picnic in the woods.

You're right, it's a white strat with silver pick guard.

I'd say we were arguing about opinions. . . . . . . but I'm not going to.

I agree that many of the songs recorded in the 80's could be improved by remixing them and taking away all the silly effects, like the awful drum sounds that were so "cool" back then and IMO ruined many a great track.