chris_b

A very unpleasant colour scheme!!

Love this guy.

If you need the official info. . . . https://aguilaramp.com/pages/manuals

Hi Rob, the AG500 and AG700 are both good to 2.67 ohms, so connecting 1, 2 or 3 x 8 ohms cabs is fine. I did this with the AG700 for many years. The volume you play at is your preference

There is an audience for this music, as there is for Jazz and Classical. No one's looking happy on a Royal Philharmonic gig. There was never much of a stage show on a Miles Davis gig. Maybe we should be looking at CB and his genre in the same way, instead of lumbering him with unrealistic expectations.

Me neither. Seems to me the OP wants better tone and hopes more speakers will deliver. I think that will true on a gig, at stage volumes, but at home. . . . maybe it's over kill. At home I run a Barefaced 110 and my TH500 turned down to 1. Great sound but still too intrusive for playing at night. I'm thinking of switching to a headphone amp for silent playing.

Eh? I trust an 8 ohm cab to be an 8 ohm cab. You do, we all do! I also trust an amp to be able to run within its specified ohms range. If that is 2.67 then it is absolutely safe to run 3 x 8 ohm cabs. I have done this for years with zero failures. If you had problems you weren't within spec or your gear had other problems. It was nothing to do with the subject of 3 8 ohm cabs and amps running at 2.67 ohms.

All you need is 3 cabs at 8 ohms each and an amp which can run at 2.67 ohms. That's it. All you need to know. No bravery or technical knowledge required.

Do 3 cabs sound better than 2? Well you are moving more air, so if that air sounds good, more will probably sound better. In my case, I used to run 1, 2 and 3 Bergantino AE112's, depending on the band and venue. 2 cabs sounded great, but 3 sounded better and was my favourite config.

GHS (about 11 years old) and TI (about 9 years old) are the flats currently on my basses. Both sound good to me. My next set will probably be Labella Deep Talking Flats. I'm interested in some vintage thump. I also put foam under the strings at the bridge.

Last year saw some buying and selling, but the only thing I remember buying this year was a Korg clip on tuner.

Sales of a superlight range of Precision and Jazz basses, with top quality build, components and materials, wold tap markets Fender are ignoring. The "oldies" have the cash, have played Fender in the past and would probably buy a Fender again, if it suited their requirements.

At a festival in July I played with 3 bands and did a gig with one of them in the evening. Never say no to a gig! So far 2024 will total 80 gigs with 18 bands. On the other hand, I'm in 3 bands and had to cancel 16 gigs, due to 2 band leaders having surgery and one falling ill and sadly dying! I need to start playing with 30 year olds!!

There are never enough good gigs in the diary. And yes, this year I gigged on my birthday .. . twice, afternoon and evening.

And as I said earlier, they aren't even very good at that. Look at all the P and Jazz basses being made by other companies!!

The issue could be your amp. Which one were you using? Barefaced cabs are not coloured. What you put in is what you get out. We often rely on the limitations of the cab to get our sound. An amp can sound very different when the sound isn't being altered by the cab.

Alembic were experimenting with brass plates attached to the back of the headstock, but the Fatfinger was developed by Groove Tubes.

IMO it's unlikely that Fender will "innovate" that successfully. They tried various things in the past without success. They need to relaunch their lines to Fender fans who aren't currently playing Fenders. There's a huge multi layered FSO market out there that Fender let slip through their fingers. The innovation that is actually within Fender's grasp, is to do what their competitors are doing, but do it better. I know their management of 70+ years just wanted to chuck instruments out the door, but they should raise the quality of their instruments and recapture as much of the FSO market as they can. I couldn't find any Fender 5 string basses in the 1996. As a Fender player for 26 years, I wouldn't have bought a Sting Ray 5, probably wouldn't have bought a Lakland, Lull or Sadowsky if Fender bothered to make equivalent versions. There are a lot of players who left Fender because of their cavalier attitude to quality and their customers.

You do. You really do. . . . if you and the band play your best and the audience likes what you do.

That's the sensible option. My suggestion would be to retire knowing you owned and gigged the best bass gear you could buy. . . . whatever the cost.

IME you'll have longer than you think if you buy the right gear.

It was a regular in band sets from the 60's onwards. We played it all the time in my school band. Audiences loved it from the day Wilson Pickett's single was released.

My Fender Precision is still wearing the same set of rounds that were on it when I switched to 5 string basses in 1996. I've lost count but the set of TI flats must have been on my Mike Lull PJ5 for at least 12 years. Perfect P bass thump. I've had a set of NYXL rounds on my Sadowsky Jazz since 2018. They sound nice and mellow, but still have a little sparkle if I crank the treble control.

Good suggestion. Stretch the Bergs out for a few more years. I've been using this Wolfcraft for over 10 years (nearer 15 years). . . . https://www.diy.com/departments/wolfcraft-foldable-hand-truck-100kg-capacity/1483870_BQ.prd. I sometimes use it with the Barefaced cabs.