Paul S

Yes. My band uses a pair of RCF EVOX 8 for pa and I go straight into that. For home/situations where I need my own back line I have an RCF 732-A. Never sounded better.

I recenlt bought this Thomann gig bag and it fits all my short scale basses just fine https://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_gigbag_deluxe_egitarre.htm It is a weeny bit longer than some guitar gig bags, at 112cm. £27. My problem was I then rummaged about to find other things to offset the delivery cost

Need/want. Two different concepts. I have a Harley Benton PB Shorty that cost me £65 new a couple of years ago. It is a perfectly decent bass and would cover all my gigging requirements perfectly. Do I need anything else? Of course not. Well, maybe another one as back up Do I want anything else? Of course I do! Does it matter? of course not!

Sad, really. Layne Staley was so very good. Such a waste.

Just remembered one I used to play years ago - the theme to Inspector Gadget

Doesn't take long to adjust once you have the hang of it. Back when I had a use for all of them I used to swap between Uke bass, short scale fretted, long scale fretted, long scale fretless and EUB quite a bit and I wouldn't say I was the most accomplished of players.

If I am playing somewhere that has a sound guy, and having stood listening to drummer smacking the bejeezus out of his kit for 10 minutes, I usually play Disco Inferno as it is nothing remotely like the music the band plays. But, usually, I only just about finish the run down to the opening verse before the guy says 'OK, that's fine. Drummer, can we just do the snare again....' If it is just the band in a pub I don't bother.

My band has an RCF EVOX 8 pa system. There is some kind of voodoo with these that the stacks can be placed behind you and not feed back, so we don't need monitors, just something to attenuate the volume in your ears. In my case I turn down my hearing aids! When we play bigger venues I just use whatever monitors are provided as I am, perhaps strangely, really not bothered much by my on stage sound, only what it sounds like out front. As long as I can hear what I am playing, that is fine for me. But it isn't generally going to be a million miles away from what the desk is getting from the DI on my pedal. And if it is there isn't much I can do about it anyway

I'm another 'amp-less, get my tone from a preamp and go through the pa' type. I have the best bass sound I've ever had, no backline to worry about. it is so liberating!

This thread is a paradox. Asking recommendations for an amp without a fan means as soon as one is recommended it has a fan.

I was born in '57 so probably aware of music from the early to mid 60s onwards. My parents listened to a lot of 'foreign' stuff which, even at the time, seemed a little odd. I'm sure there was more to it than this, but these stuck in my mind - Los Paraguayos, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass , Nana Mouskouri. And, not quite the same, a lot of Bert Kaempfert (maybe that is why I like the plink of a pick on flats?) They did travel abroad a bit before it was fashionable, so maybe that was what it was about. More exotic than Southend Anyway, I had a sister who was 5 years older than me and she used to listen to lots of pop chart songs, played them to death. She got into Mowtown, played them to death. Heard it Through the Grapevine, over and over and over and over and... Not so much Beatles or Stones although she did have Sgt Peppers and played it over and over and over and... Then at senior school I got to listen to blues and heavy rock. Caught up with what I'd missed and enjoyed what was contemporary, discovered live music and that was that I like most stuff these days but blues/rock is where my heart is.

I wouldn't worry, its the internet. That always happens.

Ben bought one of my spare pickups in the simplest, no-nonsensiest kind of transaction that makes doing business on this forum a joy. Top chap, even though cybermen scare the bejeesus out of me.

My relationship with fretless is much the same as with a 5er. if I am in a band situation where I need/have use for one I thoroughly enjoy playing it. But if I don't I immediately default to 4 string fretted and anything else languishes in a cse until I take pity on them and move them on.

I'd say unlikely. I noticed that he'd joined in 2015, despite only coming out slugging just now. Grimalkin crashed through the skylight with his dukes up straight away.

I'd have a go with black nylon tapewounds - I put a set on mine, when I had one (well, a Club) and it sounded pretty fab. Lovely feel, too.

Took this to bits today, gave it a clean, lemon oil on the board, and strung it with my favoured TI Flats. Little tweak of the truss rod. Absolutely loving this, bags of character, with a clean boost and slight push of the gain it is a beast, the bridge humbucker starts to break up nicely and when both pups are on it is rather yum. Serial numbers on the pickups show they were made (thanks Jon @Bassassin for the decoding lesson) 17th and 18th of August 1976. I was surprised to find a pcb in the control cavity, proper job! Cover cleaned up nicely after a soak in soapy water. It doesn't actually look any different to before as it wasn't that mucky. Need to play it with the band, see how it sits.

A Hohner B2B has just popped up on eBay. Looks like it is in good nick. I've used my bass tokens for this quarter so not in the market for it. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115702311641?hash=item1af0652ad9%3Ag%3Aa54AAOSwQ31j5jWZ&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoKgtN5TZr9YKjaUIQSQCuZI9kPkcDQ17pfaCj2B59Z5qpYRlrRzym4Lb%2B932wia0ytYLq13wDr2Qx8ep1BbgSHf1FhGNSE2vEvAIR4LkdHQs3hZc2%2B4WG5d7wLUppJ8sYrKpBwkpcClRZ%2BbnQ7hq%2FVv55MaJOtCpnKRiN0o75CCr9Uwz4%2BC4PCVsMG0Bqy6lmVsw%2BrH4tD35iZ59YGCUQZQ%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR97hhMrIYQ&LH_ItemCondition=3000

Sold Lee a set of tuners, easy peasy transaction.

Better open a window...

I think I have worked it out, combing this thread with other similarly proscriptive nonsense. Thin, shallow necks are fast, but only if you use a pick and a music stand and play once a month. If you wear a hat you can play a narrow but chunky neck finger style every other weekend as long as you only take occasional prompts from an iPad. But it is only wide, chunky necks that allow the correct technique employed by proper, regularly gigging musicians who either sight read or memorize 300 songs, with or without a waistcoat. Did I miss anything out?

Made me laugh out loud, so all is good.

Indeed. In theory, you get yourself prepared, tense all the right muscles, bend the knees and off you go. In practice, that little turn in the stairwell, that little slip on the gravel of the car park all conspire to knacker the lumbar. I had quite a physical job for a while, which didn't help.

many thanks for such generous feedback. 🤣