Paul S

UB40 made a career out of it.

Love Games might be more fitting

Much neater. You should offer pedal board feng shui services. After all, tone and functionality are merely irritating side issues.

This. Ever so very much this. You've got your tone shaping done via the pedal, all you need is to stick it through a powered FRFR. It is SO much simpler and eliminates the madness inducing rabbit hole of 'which backline'. If you already DI you just need on stage monitoring (or in-ears, but that is another rabbit hole) I took the plunge about 3 years ago and wish I had done it long ago. Then again I don't think the FRFR stuff was as good or as light years ago. It really is liberating!

Nickleback did a terrible cover of Elton John's 'Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting'. Sucked all the life, spark and fizz out of the original with just their regulation palm-muted distorted guitar riffs and the usual hoarse throat barked out vocals. Just noticed the video says GOOD QUALITY. No, it isn't. IMO etc.

Small nuts. Not being personal, but small nuts slid along the string would do the same job.

There's been a few over the years. Here's the most recent one.

That is just the ticket.

Thank you. The Lidl option sounds good - better than daisy chaining, anyway, and probably easier to set up. Soldering is off the agenda for me as my hands shake too much - I'd either end up in A&E or burning the house down.

I take that as a 'no' then 🤣

I fitted a DiMarzio to an Epiphone EB-0 some years back, more recently the Artec to an Antoria EB-3. To my ears there was little difference, I actually preferred the Artec which if I recall was around 1/4 of the price. I'd be interested to hear the Retrovibe one as all the Retrovibe pickups I have had fitted - the 50s single coil P bass and the Rickenbacker style - are absolutely tbrilliant.

Toilets are generally where rehearsal spaces let themselves down. I can usually put up with sticky rugs and a mulch of detritus in the room but to discover there has been a dirty protest in the lavs is just awful. To name and shame one of the worst, in a moment of madness I had a try out with another band at a place called London Road Music Tuition along London Rd in Leigh. Dear God. Set the bar, even more disgusting than a petrol station in the wilds of Mexico that was the previous winner - at least there is a sense of exp[ectation that public toilets in Mexico (should you actually find one) aren't going to be clean. My band are extremely fortunate - drummer is a farmer and on site is a listed 12th century thatched barn. 30ft ceilings, superb acoustics, fitted kitchen, toilets. The family used to use it for weddings but stopped so now it is pretty much a play area for his kids and our rehearsals. We keep the pa set up in there. Mind you it is bloody cold in winter! Here's a promo shot from when they used to hire it out.

So am I! In fact I will just play one but always take a back up, so I don't suppose it counts. I'm pretty much head over heels with my '76 Eros shortscale EB-3 at the moment and don't feel it is a hardship to choose it above everything else. We are recording our next gig for a live CD and I'm looking forward to hearing how that comes out.

I've been looking to get a smaller pedal board as I have virtually nothing on mine. I'd never seen one of these. It is THE perfect size for my stuff. Just ordered one. Ta!

Strange. I've had the Boss WL-50 since it came out, used it at various venues and never had an issue apart from one bass that had a recessed jack socket, which was the fault of the bass not the bug. My guitarist bought an expensive Sennheiser unit but the last two gigs has had to switch to a lead. Funny old things, these wireless.

Here is my mutant Honcore. The uber-light body of a short scale double cut Encore into which has been spliced the gorgeous 32" scale neck of a Hondo II H1015 which seems to fit my hand just perfectly. Needed some routing at the neck pocket and a new bridge shifting back and mounting on a shim but, overall, it has worked a treat. A little neck dive but not as much as you would imagine. Entwistle PBXN pickup, sounds immense - Fender flavoured but a different look. Weighs in at 3.1kg now. There's the old neck sat at the back - it was very slightly twisted otherwise I'd have most likely kept it on there but because of the twist I got it for a song.

Does such a thing exist in the UK? Is it any safer than daisy chaining leads, which I am sure most of us do even if we aren't supposed to. Something like this (but smaller):

Me too, didn't enjoy it. And Plant was ducking out of the high notes even back then. I'm also of the mind that I got into a band because of the studio material I have heard so that is generally what I want to hear live. The very fact that a band can recreate that sound and feel live is, for me, where the magic lies. There seems to be something of a divide with long established bands that I have seen. Those who consider it a privilege to be still playing the songs that made them famous and those that consider the audience to be privileged to be watching them.

Every 5 years or so, I'd estimate, so screws would be just fine Interesting...

That looks elegant - no cable ties or velcro, just held in place by the adjustable clamps?

One of the many beneficiaries of Frank's clearout, I am the new and proud owner of a Hercules mic tablet mount, supplied and delivered gratis by this kind and generous man. Good to meet up, too, after sniggering at his posts for such a long time. Thank you, Sir.

7 years on I still have it, which is kind of surprising given my track record.

I have an HB PB Shorty and like it a lot. Straight out of the box it was fine, if you use an eq and a little drive the stock pickup sounds very vintage P bass to my ears. I gigged with it a couple of times and often take it as back up. More P bass than Mustang. I recently swapped the pup for a Tonerider, which has given it more bite than the stock. Lightweight.

Interesting. What are the comparative weights, please?