chris_b

So if I'm reading this right: the OP has a bad back and because of this wants to investigate a move to lighter cabs. That's reasonable I've been down this road myself. His current cab weighs into the mid 40lbs and people are suggesting a 65lb cab as a solution? IMO that's not good advice. I understand the "big cab with built in castors is easier to move" idea but when you're planning something like this you shouldn't look at how easy it is to do something you look at how difficult it is. A big cab with wheels would be great on a flat, even and solid surface but when you need your back, ie when the ground isn't level and you're facing stairs, stages, narrow doorways, wet grass or gravel etc etc, a big cab is the worse solution. Anyone who increases the weight of their cab because of a bad back hasn't got a bad back in any way that I understand. IME multiple small and light cabs and a trolley would be the set up and method of transportation that would test a bad back the least and get the OP safely home after every gig.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1502033236' post='3348859'] Funny you should say that - it was one of the main reasons I fell out of love with the P bass in the early 70s - [/quote] Don't blame the tools! A bad soundman can even make active basses sound bad.

From what I see, learning to play the piano would be a big help to most bass players and even some guitarists.

[quote name='handman' timestamp='1501962101' post='3348536'] . . . . ordered some Hipshot tuners, chrome, tuners arrived 3 chrome and 1 chrome and satin upon contacting Bass direct there first suggestion was to send back the incorrect one and they would send me the correct one, now call me old fashioned but I think they should have immediately offered to rectify there mistake rather then asked for a return of an incorrectly supplied item. . . . [/quote] Err. . surely that's exactly what they just did. Send us back the wrong one and we'll send you the right one [i]is[/i] rectifying the mistake!

On a serious note, and to be really dull. . . . I don't believe how many of us are still playing Russian roulette (with a fully loaded gun) with our hearing. For anyone who doesn't like the sound of what they hear through ear plugs. . . guess what. . . that's better than you're going to hear normally if you carry on without hearing protection.

[quote name='anzoid' timestamp='1501793965' post='3347457'] as blokes get older they can't hear their wives/girlfriends so well, and vice versa... [/quote] You'd better be able to tell them apart though.

I use a large laptop bag for leads, strings, tuner, screwdriver, other spares etc etc.

I missed out on TE gear. I was using Musicman, Dynacord and Mesa Boogie at the time.

[quote name='lownote12' timestamp='1501661366' post='3346226'] [size=4][color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Imagine if all the seminal 60s and 70s groups had been cover bands. " We're called The Who and we're going to be doing Chuck Berry numbers..." [/font][/color][/size] [/quote] But they all did start out as cover bands and continued to play covers as they became better at originals. The Beatles covered rock and roll, the Stones Chuck and Jimmy Reed, The Who covered Motown, etc etc. I love these threads. I'd rather see a good cover band. They usually play better songs. Too many originals bands are not original at all.

In the early days Later did a road trip to New Orleans. I wish they'd do that again. We had the Motown studio guys over for a gig at the Festival Hall in 2000 and the Hi, Stax and Muscle Shoals studio bands over a few years later at the Barbican. Legendary players and a once in a lifetime gig. Someone from the UK should have filmed those gigs. A whole generation of significant players has passed and no one in UK TV gives a crap.

What would your bass sound like if you made it passive and used a preamp pedal.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1501582892' post='3345630'] I'm getting maybe 2 months use. . . . [/quote] That's not good. The battery on my Lakland used to last more than 12 months. I don't know if this made a difference, but I kept the volume on the bass low and pushed up the master on the amp to compensate.

Details in post #6 http://basschat.co.uk/topic/307602-south-east-bass-bash-2017-jubilee-high-school-addlestone-surrey-230917/

What about on Harpchat?

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1501537642' post='3345427'] Does this end thread ?[/quote] No. . . . too soon. . . . keep it going. Go around again!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1501426220' post='3344584'] [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/Cutout_zpsfk4hq2l8.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] My wife says I don't look like this.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1501513016' post='3345167'] I'd recomment a lightweight folding sack truck. If it won't slide under your cab then just get some bigger feet fitted to lift it a little.[/quote] You can tip the cab slightly and the trolley will slide right under.

I wasn't so fond of my BB2, but one thing I'll agree on. . . . my 2 SC's start to sound much better when driven harder. I was using my Sadowsky when a guy came up and said, "The band sounds great. The bass sounds great. I'm not listening to the others, I'm just listening to that bass". Again proof of not a lot, other than; get good gear (any gear, within reason), get the best sound you can coax out of it and you will sound good. Play well and that will be the difference, the thing that makes everyone sit up and take notice.

+1000

They seem to have brought it in-house and moved into direct sales.

But that is Muzz's point. Everyone else is telling you what they think. Unless you know someone who exactly shares your taste and opinions then you can read a lot of reviews and you still won't know anything for definite. Dave Bass5 has a totally different take on Barefaced than I do. Nothing strange or unusual in that. You can start as many threads as you like but in reality the differences between most cabs is small and in the midst of the noise of a band those differences will become even smaller. Buy a good cab and gig it. What ever your first choice is it will work as well as your second choice and even your third. Get over to the Bass bash in Addlestone in September and in one place you'll hear more cabs than most bass players hear in a lifetime.

I don't know the nature of what your back injury but speaking generally, IME you can never make a bad back 100% again. The best most of us can do is to stabilise it, ie stop it getting any worse. With that in mind, going heavier is a crazy thing to do with any back problems. Firstly, the obvious. . . . bend from your knees, not your waist. I assume you already know that. Then wear a wide belt around your waist if you are lifting, like weightlifters do. Then only hoist, ie lift when your other hand/arm is supporting you on another object. So one arm on a flat surface and lift with the other. That way during the lift phase, which is the dangerous bit, you're taking the weight across your back, shoulder to shoulder and not up your spine. Move to good quality, more powerful, smaller, lighter cabs (30lbs or less), and use several of them. I've been on multiple 112 cabs for the last 10 years and as a strategy for a back injury it really works. Always use a good trolley and try Pilates. It works.

There are jam sessions on most days. Bring your bass and play.

If she wants to see some live music there's al lot of it at the Swanage Blues Festival in October. http://www.swanage-blues.org/

[quote name='SH73' timestamp='1501441368' post='3344694'] . . . the nowadays money grabbing music industry. . . . [/quote] Nowadays? There has always been a "money grabbing music industry". One that at best "uses" and at worst "shafts" the artists. From Malcolm McLaren to Simon Cowell and Colonel Tom Parker to Norman Petty, Don Arden to Alan Klein etc etc and right back to the beginning. The very next day, after that guy discovered the log sitting outside his cave made a good sound if he hit it in a particular way, an agent turned up offering to make him rich for a stupidly large percentage. Modern pop bands struggle these days because there is no music industry any more and the great public expect their music to be free. For too many of them music is just a background noise that has no relevance in their lives other than to prevent and break up the silence.