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Not saying there will be no vibration at all, but it is unusual to have so much that it will rattle the amp off the top of the cab. As you say the feet not gripping could be the actual problem. Anyway, you've fixed the problem, so all's good.

Really? Who told you that?

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1432041880' post='2777469'] when was the last time that any of us told a guitarist that they sounded amazing [/quote] I do. I usually comment to everyone if the gig was a good one, and if someone plays a blinder I'll tell them. One of our guitarists is using his 210 Fender now instead of the 410 combo, after we discussed the band and his sound. I think he gets a much better sound now. You can achieve all sorts of things with positive comments.

It's great to get confirmation from the guys that you're doing something right. Some bands do that, but some like several of mine never say a word.

I'm using a Bergantino CN212 and before that I had 2 AE112's and 2 AE210's. No vibrations at all. For amps these days I'm usually playing my Aguilar TH500 or the Thunderfunk 750. We're not quiet.

For years I've use foam under all my amps. I started in valve amp days as a way to protect the valves. But if your amp is vibrating off the cab I'd suggest you should change the cab. Those vibrations are wasted tone. The cab should be rigid and all the movement, the speaker cone, should only be pushing air and your wonderful tone and volume out of the front of the cab, not moving the walls of the cab around. As I say, your inefficient cab is wasting your tone and volume.

I played a couple of Foderas at Bass Gear. What amazing instruments. The quality and authority of the tone oozed out of them. Each note sounded sooooo good. I didn't GAS over them at all but I can see exactly what the buzz is all about. You're a lucky chap if one of those beauties is on your bucket list.

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1432021829' post='2777243'] .... there you have a 'dep set,' or a ' someone just left the band set,) all ready to go.... [/quote] We put together a simplified set if we're using a dep. It makes sense and gives you a fighting chance that the night will go well even if 25% of the band aren't familiar with the material. On the other hand, you'd be surprised how many bands (even some of the good ones) give you a list of numbers and then proceed to play completely different songs on the night. Some of the numbers are completely unbuskable; like a chord per bar and key changes. It's stupid and unprofessional really. They've wasted my time and put me under needless pressure on the night when I should be concentrating on other things.

I don't know how you learn a repertoire as a dep in bands you've never heard before. They'll probably play the numbers in different keys and may use different arrangements. Then there are dep gigs where you'll be expected to read the dots. How's your reading? I always ask for a set list and if there are any originals I ask for mp3's. I chart the songs I don't know and use a music stand. I don't care what anyone thinks about that. My objective is to sound better and fit the band better than the guy I'm depping for.

The OP seems to have gone to sleep. And we still don't know what he wants to play. This is what I think of as Country these days (as opposed to the[i] and Western[/i] type). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vulqnx4S7p4

I love these "I hate XYZ song" threads. I haven't heard of most of the numbers posted so I look, them up with interest. Some have even made it into our set list, and audiences love them. Thank you. Keep em coming.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1431946665' post='2776393'] I took some advice from Mark at Bass Direct and went with a Lull. Love that bass and believe me, I never thought I would say that about 5 string. The "B" is devastating. [/quote] 100% thumbs up for Mark from me. And owning a 5 string Lull P bass really has been the high point in my playing career.

Does your need for tone outweigh your need for reasonable price? I'd suggest looking Bergantino, Barefaced and Vanderkley, and there are 2 Baer cabs in the classifieds. These might exceed your budget a little, but are all excellent cabs for tone. Might be worth stretching the budget a little?

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1431951038' post='2776466'] Unfortunately I have recently been playing the EUB a fair amount recently for a Rockabilly band, and kind of decided now I want to get a DB and learn properly. [/quote] That's not GAS. You're tooling up for a specific reason. Lusting after DB's #2 and #3 would definitely be classed as GAS, though.

To anyone who doesn't already know, both the Bergantino CN212 and Barefaced Super Compact cabs are in the top 5% of greatest cabs ever made. Yes they are! The guys who repeatedly snipe about "issues" with Barefaced cabs (the same guys and the same "issues" every time) cannot alter the fact that these cabs really [u]are[/u] that good. Anyone choosing to play either of these cabs will not be disappointed and the choice between them will be down to personal taste. The relentless sniping is also only about personal taste and should not worry anyone doing a serious evaluation prior to purchase.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1431942315' post='2776335'] From a thread in the "Amps and cabs" section I have learnt that my Berg AE112s are dreadfully inferior to the CN112, which apparently is also quite a rubbish sound. So I've decided that as I'm happy with the sound that they produce, and I have actually had complimentary remarks on the sound [/quote] I just read in a post that experience doesn't equal evidence. We do get some BS posted here, don't we! My AE112 cabs were the best sounding cabs I'd used up to that point. I have switched to a CN212 (one bit of GAS I did suffer from) but not because the AE112's were bad in any way. Those AE cabs were a great sound and I got compliments on many, many gigs and from most of the guys I played with. But apparently none of that counts!

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1431943596' post='2776353'] Farts are universally hilarious... [/quote] +1 And always have been apparently. The oldest joke found, Sumarian from thousands of years BC, was fart joke.

Moveable anchor is what most players, even "pro" players, use. For a 5 string it's just an extension on what most people use on a 4 string and IMO it's much better to deal with one significant change at a time.

Well, that's two of us saying the same thing! Plus a 500 watt amp.

Look at videos of any top bass player. You're not going to find many using floating thumb. IMO, you're getting to grips with more important changes to your technique without adding non essential stuff. If you think this is really something you need to explore, do it [i]after[/i] you've mastered the change to 5 stings.

Hitting the wrong string is par for the course. Don't worry, put your 4 string away and work on the 5er. Practice will convert your licks to 5 strings.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1431853852' post='2775492'] I think for quite a few of us who remember when 'affordable' bass gear meant 'unplayable' bass gear, Eeeh, when I were a lad you had a couple of magazines and newspapers with pictures of bass gear in them, a crappy local shop that had rubbish bass gear in it, and that was that. You could only dream of owning a Fender [/quote] Exchange and Mart and the classifieds page in the local paper were the "Internet" back then. If you had a Burns, WEM or a Hofner with 3 strings you were royalty. Most of the "affordable" gear was totally unplayable but you still yearned for it as that was the only stuff you were ever likely to see "in the flesh".

That's good, and world wide there must have been a lot of happy PF500 users, but. . . . there were a lot of unhappy ones. Owners of very badly put together PF500's that regularly failed. As I said they seem to have sorted out the problems they had with this amp, so new PF500's would be the ones I would go for. Secondhand? It's a case of do you feel lucky today?

I'd Sellotape a brick in the place where the compressor was. Seriously though, if you're in a competition as you described, I'd leave everything as it is. This is the wrong time to be altering your sound when you need to be focusing on the important thing. . . winning. Experiment with your sound at a less critical time.