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I would imagine more and smaller ports maintain the integrity, the rigidity, of the panel.

Yes, the SPL is the thing to balance out. People get confused when a Barefaced cab can have the same SPL as an SVT810. One's bigger with more drivers so it must be louder?! Right?!! The sound of a cab is determined by the design of the driver and the design of the cab, not the size of the driver. There are a lot of parameters that beat driver size before you arrive at the sound of a particular cab.

What do you think the 15 will give you that another 210 won't? I replaced a Mesa Boogie 210 and 115 with EV's with an Epifani 410 and got a sound with twice the amount of low end. Because that was the way those cabs were designed. I then replaced the 410 with 2 Berg 112's and reduced the low end but got a much better and balanced sound across the whole range. So size really doesn't matter. It really doesn't. The sound of the cab is the only thing that matters and ears are much better than spreadsheets for working that one out.

I would have thought he solution was obvious. If you really don't like the volume drop off, back off one of the volumes until the "drop off" goes away. But. . . you need to take a step back and understand what the volume controls on the bass are for. They are not there to get you the maximum volume. They are there to balance the pickups in a way that makes the sound you want. After that you use the volume on the amp to make your sound as loud as it needs to be.

As OBBM says, if you are running an 8 ohm cab and a 4 ohm cab together you will want an amp that can deliver 2.67 ohms. The 4 ohm cab will receive 66% of the volume and the 8 ohm cab will receive 33% of the volume from the amp.

I found her and a lot other great bands on youtube. Look down the videos on the right hand side and you'll find a few gems.

Sad news.

He plays in those old lead diving boots.

yes and yes snap!

A great R&B bar band. Quality bass playing.

Up until now the depth of the neck has never had an effect on my playing. It seems my left hand doesn't require much consistency in the necks I play. I just adapt to a wider grip and to wider spaced strings at the nut and on the fret board. I guess we can all relearn, but the one thing my right hand needs, is for the strings to be 18mm or 19mm at the bridge or that will affect my playing. After so many years playing Fender type basses I'm locked into that one.

Lovely tone from CMcB and beautiful flowing lines.

Tony Joe, one of my favourite songwriters. The is very sad news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRvxe4dRfY

IME Markbass amps are good amps. While they have a puzzling marketing philosophy, they've discontinued more gear than most companies make in their lifetime, I've never heard anyone getting a bad sound out of a Markbass amp. As you're adding "a little blended tech21 Vt" to get your sound, I guess they are not exactly right for you?

Tell us what it is and we'll let you know.

Can be one or the other, but usually both. "Developing an ear" is about listening and adapting your playing to the guys around you and the music they are playing. If you do something for long enough you should start to notice more nuances. That learning process will be shorter if you have a natural ability, but with an open mind, asking the right questions and playing with the right people you should be able to easily learning this stuff. I spent 25 years thinking drummers just hit drums. Then a drummer explained the differences between different techniques, drums and tuning and a lot of what makes a good drummer started to make sense. There are successful professional musicians who know none of the technical stuff but have a good "ear" and a natural ability to play. If you are playing bass at the hobby level you really don't need to get into any of that stuff, but knowing at least some of it does make being a musician more interesting and fun.

Don't put it in your gig bag. When I use it, I carry mine separately. After a couple of very near misses, these days I just put the bass in the gig bag when it's not being played. Safer that way.

Nooooooooo. . . . . I've had other guys tell me that, but it's not true. What you've got left is better than nothing, which is what you'll end up with if you don't protect your hearing. Even at this late stage protecting your ears is an important thing to do.

I used an SVT Pro-3 for years with one or two 8 ohm cabs, depending on the gig. IME always a good sound.

I'm talking about ACS because that is where my experience is. There are different forms of hearing protection and as long as you pick one that works then chose your brand. A glance at the Knops site makes me think they are not doing anything different, clever or special. Just controlling overall volume. They don't seem to "process" different frequencies differently, so I don't see how their results can be any different to other products on the market. I might be wrong. Buy a pair and see what they do. Let us know. I would be interested in buying some if they are effective and actually do what their marketing department is claiming. We are all playing for different reasons. My intention when I was learning was to play in bands. My ACS plugs are very effective and allow me to do that. I have no interest in giving that up and "playing at home".

Nice. I liked it. Beautiful bass sound as always from Mr McBride. Good to see that guys at this level can also have timing "issues" when playing stabs over a drum solo.

Im currently using ACS PRO17's. I was using foam plugs for years but they were worse than useless, been using ACS for over 10 years. You've got tinnitus? Welcome to the club. Like a lot of people I delayed and started too late so I have "issues" with my hearing. In the past I've met several players who had ACS plugs but didn't use them, for lots of reasons, mostly based around how they didn't like the way the plugs changed the sound. These days they all have very serious problems with their hearing. Of course ACS plugs cut out ambient sound. How do you imagine they would differentiate between what you want to hear and what you don't want to hear? ACS are a hammer to crack a nut, but currently they are the best hammer we've got. If you think you need ear plugs now then you should have bought them last year. Your hearing is already damaged and unless you do protect yourself you will carry on accumulating more damage. I'm not going to lie, ear plugs do change what you hear. That's what they do when they are doing their job. For me it's manageable and I don't have a problem with that because I'm not ready to stop playing, which is what I would have to do if I didn't wear them.

I was chatting to Nick one lunchtime and a guy came in wanting to sell a Wal Pro. He only wanted about £300 but was told they couldn't sell them and they weren't interested!!

The rehearsal studio was on the ground floor, entrance in the side road and the basses were upstairs. After it all switched around I knew the guy running the drum section of the school upstairs.

Park on the outskirts of London and get the underground.