Downunderwonder

You are an interesting cat. Obviously not a bassist at present but that's by the by. I am curious what strain you previously caught and when? Also what your vaccine history has been. You are very exposed to whatever is going around in the gig environment ie Delta, Lambda..... Xray Zulu.... this thing is going to be around for a while yet. In my case I think I got the original back in March. Although I tested negative I was definitely exposed to a positive case and I had a full set of mild symptoms. Looking at the timings I think the guy I was exposed to was likely patient zero in one of our March 2020 outbreaks, before we knocked it down. There was a Brazilian village that got smashed in the original outbreak. Just about everyone got Covid with some dying and the rest recovered. Then months later they got the UK version iirc. It was seven shades of stinky poo again. Keep in touch!

You're a trouper. Being somewhat too old for that chit I might have bunked down in the van but I would have found a motel for the night once the boom boom started.

Being Antipodean I am immune from the siren calls of Bass Direct. Those guys at Golihur Bass in the US however...

The place was built as a holiday home so it may have had the fridge and freezer on the same run as our amps.

Looks like all your amps bar the Marshall are class D. That makes a huge difference in draw, still sounds a bit dodgy with that long list all running off the one lead, as much for the lead and your multibox as the outlet. In our case we had to run a cord from another room on a different fuse circuit.

Doubtful unless your gear is all LED lights and class D amps. Back in the day: 1 50w Marshall 1 Trace 250 1 Fender 30w SS combo 1 Peavey PA and a mixer No lights. Enough to blow the fuse on a 10A circuit if we got too loud!

There's no free lunch with 4 ohm single driver cabs. The attraction is in getting full power out of a tiny amp. Complicating things, the 4 ohm versions are usually built stout which lessens their relative output to power. Given an adequate amp you don't get any less volume from the 8 ohm version.

This. As I recall it was more modern times at the time, maybe late 90's or early 2000's. They were rehearsing for a tour and it wasn't cooking in the rythm kitchen.

I saw a doco on the Stones years ago. The only thing I remember is Keef doing his nut over the groove not being right during a rehearsal. Must have been some temp on bass or one of those 'invisibles' they have on 'extra fill out guitar'.

Meh. If the speaker isn't moving there won't be any sound at all! I think it comes from the rice test. The rice sits on the cone at resonance because it gets a nice smooth ride, not because the cone magically stops moving.

Does a RCD still work if there is no ground?

It's not quite that simple as the back wave starts out 100% out of phase and the port / box system puts a delay on it within the useful range of the port tuning. That was the question, how the heck it works.

My drummist can swing like mad but try to get the bugger to play 1234 without me, not happening.

You've figured out you can drink aperitifs before dinner and shots after dinner, or neither.

Only to be expected!!!! ??? One man's warm tone is the same man's cone destroying tone it seems. The best thing for you is to get to high pass filter town where all the old pro's live. A Rolls Sx21 mini crossover will live happily in any amp's fx loop. Feed back the high output, job done.

The staff poured you into an uber after the gig and you left the gear in the boot?

I've always assumed it was an all around bad reaction to the song that takes the pish out of aspiring to be a rock star when they were already rock stars.

What's your EQ doing?

Because no low B string is a pita covering many tunes. OP already tried DADG and it doesn't work for him.

Wot a steaming pile of bollox. FOH PA's don't reach down to 30hz except in exceptional circumstances. For the same reason Trace Elliot put a red button on the 30hz slider. When a cab is advertised with a -10dB response at 28hz that means you aren't going to hear any 30hz at all. To boost the EQ up to where you could hear 30hz would take a buttload of power that would destroy the speakers. Hoorah for highpass filters that end the nonsense and leave a nice FAT 60hz intact that along with the higher harmonic series in the low B give the sensation it is all there when it ain't.

@jazzyveeseems to have forgotten about his clank.

Not happening then. You are struggling because you are feeding yourself conflicting information. You have a favourite bass, a most versatile bass, an actually most versatile 5 string bass, and a best sounding bass. That's 4 basses that are all ''the best'' at something. If the storage issue is truly critical sell all of them and buy the Fender Roscoe Sig 5 in the classifieds. If there's room under the bed for three basses in cases. Keep the lot. The one that sticks out as surplus to me is the 'versatile' Fender 4 Jazz. The Limelight should cover there just fine.

Not so much epic bass sound as epic forward in mix bass.

Someone monkeyed with the SMX preamp! Mind that 30hz slider. In the approximate words of my SMX manual, ''it's there for cutting not boosting''. The cab doesn't make 30hz. You can prove that by playing a 30hz sine and then a 60hz sine. They will sound suspiciously the same but the 60 will come out very much louder. Turning up the 30hz will get you a mess of 60hz distortion.