Beedster

Having recently done Yes and Warren Zevon, the next stop on my 70's music odyssey is Steve Miller. Admittedly I was listening to this on bloody nice headphones which helped put the bass front and centre, but the bass tone and the bass part itself are just lovely, bass tone pulled back to about 1% away from being muddy, and just works. And I didn't expect a bass solo 2 mins in

My Barefaced Super Twin (2x12) is marginally bigger than my old Mesa Boogie Powerhouse 1x15, weighs marginally more than a postage stamp (my 7 year old daughter can lift it), and underneath an SVT-2 Pro is the full, fat bass tone that was always in my head. None of the other cabs I've used have given me that tone, and that's everything from Ampeg, Bag End, Boogie, Fender, Mark Bass, PJB, and loads more I forget, and in just about every combination of speakers. They come up used on this forum occasionally, and even new are well worth the price. I know what you mean about small boxes sounding boxy, that's my experience also, there's no point compromising on cabs when the rest of you gear is quality

Yep, must admit I didn’t hear magic, great time, but nothing that would make me think ‘man, I gotta get me one of those PUPs’ . Might get a can of the snake oil he’s used perhaps

Fair point

I think this one does it better https://thebassgallery.com/products/wilcock-the-mullarkey-short-scale

Very gender biased Dad Again, experiment Nicko, depending on what voice you're going for, a pop filter (spoffle as Hugh Laurie apparently named them), can take a little bit of the air away from a voice as well. I guess like filtering, don't put something between the source and the desk unless it improves something

Probably not a helpful post Nicko, but trial and error is the only way to work with mics, there are general principles but there are people, rooms and equipment that fall outside of them and you won't know whether yours do until you try. There is certainly comfort in believing that the set up that you're using should be correct for the parameters in question, and that's a good place to start, but that doesn't mean that it is. I've got four five decent vocal mics, on paper an SM7B really shouldn't be my first call for my own voice - in fact it should be the least suited to it - but as soon as I started using it about three months ago people who were listening to my suff said "voice sounds like you're in my head". Just worked for a whole load of reasons I won't pretend to understand

Guys, with apologies, the guy I'm interviewing called me yesterday and said he can't download Loopback, turn out his Mac is a PC!!!! Any thoughts on equivalent options for a PC?

Exactly, as per my point above it's not just about the courier's T&Cs, but about respect for the buyer. I can't believe the completely useless packaging that some gear I've bought has arrived in. Shops often send instruments in quite poor packaging - for example an acoustic guitar in just a box - but at least you're generally covered if it gets damaged, it's really no fun having to contact a member on this forum to say 'the bass/amp/cab is badly damaged and frankly it's not because the courier was crap - they're always going to drop things or put heavy boxes on top of fragile items - it's because you didn't take the time to pack it well with that in mind'

Yep, I thought it was a shorty form the original vid, now I look at at in full length it screams neck dive and possibly a PITA to gig as the result. I wonder if that's why it never made even a short production run. In the photo above - curiously posed in front of two oil tanks - it reminds me a lot of a 3TSB Shergold Marathon I owned years ago. Sadly, now that I've made that connection, all I can see is a Shergold body with a Fender neck, and you know what, suddenly it looks all wrong

Yep. Re some of the previous posts here and elsewhere, the maths might explain why you hear what you hear, but in my experience will rarely predict it with any reliability. Trial and error is the best bet, and the best place to start is the gear you already have, adding extra cabs will always make a difference, just not always the difference you want

Proud Mary. CCR

What a load of balls

Ha, timing! Where is that available?

I don’t think they come as any model

Leave it alone until you actually need to do something, then take it to a luthier?

Flats, this year's rounds

Fair point, lovely playing and lovely tone either way

Will your amp run happily at 6 ohms, I'm no tech but I remember a thread on here a while back about 6x10s which were rated at 6ohms and a few folks seemed to think that some amps simply won't do it. I might be wrong

Amp, mic, processing. I doubt that being a Fender employee he set out to show it warts and all?

Surely that is a shorty?