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When your band says they can hear "no difference", is that between 2 x 210's and 2 x 110's or 1 x 210 and 2 x 110's?

What flexibility is there when they are all racked up? Will you have different preamps that you can slot in?

Is this bass a good one? Does it feel and sound unique? Many modern basses can beat vintage instruments on a gig. When you see interviews with the top US session guys they all have old Fender P basses purely for recording but use newer basses for the gigs.

There are 2 routes you can take; keep the bass as it is as an investment (and look out for an original case) or use it as a player. Collectors will only be interested in paying higher prices if the bass is in its original condition. If this bass is totally original then any changes at all will adversely affect it's resale value. Can you raise the bridge to clear the buzzing frets?

Fantastic Anthony Jackson video. I'll be depping without charts or safety net tonight. The Band Leader apparently sent the set list to the wrong email. If finally getting it right by the third verse is good enough then this is going to be a great night. For me I know it will be a bad night of cock ups and bodges as I don't know most of his songs. Music stands have their place.

I've played in bands where anything was OK and bands who wanted everyone to dress the same, or banned jeans, or banned charts and one where we had to do the Bootsy Collins shuffle during the numbers. Some of the least professional have been the guys trying to control the image.

It's all about image. No stands means you've learnt the songs. I use a music stand because I'm either depping, playing with occasional bands or playing with guitarists who can be rather flexible with the arrangements. I never rehearse in any of these situations, so I'll use all help I can get. In the old days I never used stands because we rehearsed a lot and wanted to look "cool".

Amps don't get damaged by music being played through them.

Good move. Should sound much better than 1 cab.

You're throwing away everything in this cab that makes the sound you love. It won't sound anything like it does now so. . . . is there really any point? I'd buy a cab that you can audition and will give you the sound you want. For me that would be a 4 ohm 212 or a the 4 ohm Barefaced Two10.

We briefly did a couple of numbers by those bands. They didn't go down as well as the rest of our set so they got dropped.

I have a trolley for anything further than 20 yds away. My accessories case is by far the heaviest thing I have to move about these days. Anyone got any Neo stands?

[quote name='White Zombie' timestamp='1467725852' post='3085646'] I've never been into amps with 50 knobs along the front, like to keep it simple. [/quote] I agree that simplicity should be the golden rule but for me it doesn't matter how many controls there are on the front of your amp but how many you have to use to get a good sound. If you buy an amp with a great natural sound then you don't have to do much more than switch it on. My Thunderfunk is one of the best sounding amps I've played even though it has 14 controls on the front and 3 dip switches. In spite of this it's the easiest amp to operate because with the Timbre control at 11 o'clock and all the other controls at 12 o'clock you only have to set the Master volume to get a fantastic tone. That's just 2 controls.

I'm only talking about the first three notes of any Chuck Berry song as well.

Yep. You could easily hear most bass lines even in a busy mix at 78.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1467795535' post='3086246'] I'm great at learning stuff by ear me, and I certainly wouldn't fancy it much. [/quote] I'd write it down then playing it wouldn't be a problem, but I know getting a number with that many changes into my old brain would be nigh on impossible.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1467796064' post='3086250'] That would aggravate my OCD to a crazy level! In fact, just seeing the pic is aggravating it now! [/quote] My OCD got fired up by the white 4 way. Black wiring on stage, people!!!!

My son went to see the Stones at Twickenham and (from off stage) Keef played the first 2 chords to Brown Sugar. He said he'd never heard a noise as loud as the whole stadium (70,000-ish people) cheering those notes.

The intros to almost any Chuck Berry song, including, Johnny B Goode, Memphis Tennessee, No Particular Place To Go etc.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1467756690' post='3086047'] Right then, a number of points the first being this a skill you develop. Break the songb down into small manageable sections, say 2 or 4 bars at a time. Then before you pick up your bass sing the baseline out loud. Basically if you can sing it you can work out how to play it. [/quote] This is how you do it. Looking at this overall, it is a skill you have to learn and you do that by repetition and training your ear. Start with simple songs and try just playing root notes of the chords so you hear the relationship between root and 5th and 4th notes etc. Work on the structure of the number first; intro ~ verse ~ chorus ~ middle 8 etc. Sections are usually repeated so you might only have to work out half of the number. Get that right and you can flesh out the notes later. You're building up the number layer by layer. Write the chords and breaks down.

Yes it will. You'll be capable of putting the full 500 watts into it which, at 4 ohms, means you can't add another cab. I wouldn't turn the amp up to the point where it could damage the cab or run the bass frequencies flat out but with those limitations you can run this cab with this amp. I prefer 8 ohm 210 cabs because then you can add another cab if you need more volume and IMO more speakers gives you a better tone.

I have a Harvest gig bag and a Harvest strap on my main bass. Both are excellent products.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1467464905' post='3083875'] One must read the fine print. They'll only handle 2.66 ohms with Active Power Management engaged, which significantly lowers output capacity. The same July 2011 Bass Gear review of the TC amps that discovered their overstating of actual RMS continuous measured output of their amps also discovered that the RS210 was 10.5 ohms, and the RS212 11.5 ohms. [/quote] Active power management isn't switched on or off. it is on all the time. Fine print not required. I owned an RH750 and ran it with 3 8 ohm cabs and it was fine. Any issues and the amp immediately goes into protection mode. Plugging in the wrong cabs cannot damage this amp. And the watts thing is irrelevant to this thread. This amp is as as loud as any 750 watt amp I've heard.

One of my bands just got a gig review, from a local newspaper in Newbury, describing the rhythm section thus. . . . [i]"For any lead musician, their bass and drum combination to die for, a rare unity of rhythm and beat, allowing the two lead instruments to relax into some outstanding solos." [/i] It's a bit flowery but I'm happy that even a guitar playing journalist spotted what we were trying to do. It's not all in vain then.

The RH750 goes to 2.67 ohms. It's on the web site. A 4 ohm cab with an 8 ohm cab is fine with this amp. Look at the table on page 7 [url="http://cdn-downloads.tcelectronic.com/media/914735/tc_electronic_bass_amp_power_rating___active_power_management.pdf"]http://cdn-downloads..._management.pdf[/url] min load column. . . . 2.66R.