TimR

Ibanez put pattern machineheads on their affordable basses. It's the only issue I've had with my bass that's 20 years old. I replaced 2 machine heads with Ibanez stock machine heads when the original broke, and they also subsequently broke. I have now upgraded them all with Gotoh machineheads which are miles ahead of the stock ones. The fact that the premium Ibanez basses come with Gotoh machineheads tells me that's an upgrade.

The OP said give it a week. It's only been 4 days... If you're young - just do it. See where it goes.

There's nothing Intelligent about machine learning. If we knew what intelligence was, we would just program the massive biological computers nature has provided, properly from birth. There will be no artificial intelligence until we know what real intelligence is.

Check your wife hasn't blacklisted it on the Firewall. 😉

Fingernail length.

Have you tried turning it off and then back on again?

The way it was explained to me was: If you are a shop, your inventory costs you money, you're paying for floor space, you're probably paying for a loan to purchase the stock. If you have an item that isn't selling, its making a loss. You have no emotional attachnent to the gear. You're better off dropping the price and getting rid of it and buying something else with the money, that's more likely to sell for a profit. If you are an individual, you probably don't have a loan on that specific piece of gear (but you may have a credit card bill for other gear) and you won't be equating floor space in your house as costing you money (it is, you are paying to run your house). The costs are hidden and it's not so urgent you clear the space and sell the gea unless you need the space for something else. You also will be emotionally attached to a piece of gear. It only really becomes an issue when you run out of space at home and need to declutter, or the bailifs come round...

Last Saturday, big local pub. Loading the new car took a bit longer as it appears my cabs don't fit side by side, they're about 0.00001mm too wide. So had a bit of jiggery pokery taking stuff in and out to rearrange. Arrived at the venue about 15minutes later than intended (leaving 45 minutes to set up before start time). Parking was a bit of a struggle, but I managed to get lights set up and all my bass gear in with plenty of time to spare. There was no sign of singer, who arrived at 8:30 for an 8:30 start. 🙄 Played really well, we are well rehearsed but quite gig rusty, so some tunes and particularly endings weren't as rehearsed. Audience loved it, some singing along, a bit of dancing. Booked back to do 2 more gigs. Will see if we can move tables to create a proper dance area next time.

I played with a 'drummer' who couldn't dance. He wasn't a very good drummer either.

Probably. Did you buy as a guest on Amazon?

12 character passwords are becoming the default. https://www.lastpass.com/features/password-generator People who moan about passwords are the same people who moan when they get hacked.

Generally people can't name members of bands unless they're close followers. eg. I can name all of Iron Maiden. I can name 2 of the Smiths. 2 of Blondie. 1 of Ultravox.

Pino Pallidino is a trained classical guitarist. But we digress. Theory isn't about reading the dots. It's about understanding chord structures, song structures, the requirement for a hook, the need to capture the audience in the first 4 bars, tension and release, the increased energy in the chorus, the complementary bass line. The space. I think that's missing in modern music that relies on production, it's going to be hard to find a group of musicians who can come together and work on creating something that has all those elements. It's easier for a solo artist to come up with lyrics and a melody and drag in a bunch of session musicians and a producer to finesse it. I'd suggest that's how the majority of the 'chart' muisc is finally produced, even if the original artist wrote it all in Garageband to start with.

There are a lot of bass players here that don't know theory. That's going to lead to bass lines that don't make musical sense. The claim that McArtney and Lenon couldn't read music is often cited, but they did have a producer, and they spent many years playing covers and learning how music theory worked.

My first gig. In the 80s. The singer didn't even show up. We tried ringing his house several times. No answer. Turns out his mum had made him go to his gran's birthday party. Rock and roll baby.

Actually we nearly did kill a drummer. He was also the singer, one practice he was complaining of a tingling sensation every time his lips touched the mic. I took the PA home and found someone had removed the earth wire from the 13amp mains plug. (Used to be done to cure ground loops with keyboards)

We once played the early Sunday afternoon slot at a local free street festival. A pop/rock covers band, sandwiched between 2 children's entertainers. A fairly big audience of mainly children and their mums. Plenty of songs had to have censored lyrics.

There's quite a bit of information in the "PA Setup and Use" sub forum. https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/122-pa-set-up-and-use/

Surely every band has at least one smoke machine story. Firstly. We are playing my local, a very small pub and I tell them, no smoke machine and no vapeing allowed in the pub (the singer is a chain vaper). Within 5 minutes of the singer arriving the pub is evacuated due to horrendously loud smoke alarm. No problem found, the alarm is silenced, we all go back in, only for the alarm to go off again. Singer asks why does the fire alarm keep going off. I ask if they'd been vapeing. Yes, but have been blowing the smoke out gently away from people. Secondly. Played a another pub gig. A bigger pub with a sound guy who was also managing lighting and effects. At one point the smoke machine came on, and wasn't stopping, the whole pub was full of smoke, no one could see anything. We continued playing until finally the sound guy reappeared and realised he'd turned the machine on and walked off outside for a cigarette.

The OP states the Amp can operate at 2ohms.

It's logarithmic. A 10dB (6dB) is a doubling of power. 2x watts. This gets confusing because to actually double the sound pressure (loudness) you need 10x the electrical power (watts). Loudness is subjective. Don't confuse sound power with electrical power and doubling perceived loudness isn't just doubling sound pressure. Anyway that's going off topic.

As long as both cabs are 4ohm or both are 8ohm, your amp will be fine. I am assuming you mean cab, as opposed to speakers, and calling the 2x10 a 'speaker'.

This. Everyone should have micropore tape in thier gig bag.

With bass it's often even easier. Just hit the first note of each bar.

This is one of my favourite tracks. Theme tune to the Radio 1 Friday Night Rock Show with Tommy Vance. I don't know how many tapes I had of the show. I would go to bed at 10pm and listen to it every Friday. There's a Facebook group where people share recording and playlists. What an era.