Downunderwonder

adverb,superlative of much, with more as comparative. in or to the greatest extent or degree (in this sense often used before adjectives and adverbs, and regularly before those of more than two syllables, to form superlative phrases having the same force and effect as the superlative degree formed by the termination -est):most rapid; most wisely. More of it's life was spent with....

Since when did a little over half become 'most'?

Bass players are supposed to be better at maths than that.

Auto filler aka 'bog' will do the job if you're going to paint it.

Jaco couldn't spell FRFR!

My really sweet vintage gear there might be ten working ones left in the whole country, might be less? I get that from buying stuff I never saw before, never saw for sale for before, and never seen another for sale or otherwise since. No idea if they have any particular mojo of their own as I never heard another. Most likely they are very reluctantly let go of in general for a reason, and similarly hoarded with few public outings.

In that vein, in my later endeavours, I was the only to show up that could read dots, thanks to violin studies.

If your bandmates are also happy going down the IEM route then by all means take it. No bass cab lugging for you!

Watts are cheap. 200 will do most of the time but better to have a bit more just in case. The rehearsal cab could well be faulty. One blown driver will sound pretty bad as it flaps in reverse, at the same time interfering with cab tuning for the remainders. You only have to be as loud as the drums and everyone has to stay under the vocals. So really you only have to be loud enough to keep up with the vocal but that's very hard to judge while standing next to the drum set. In the bush league you rely on audience feedback to dial it all back if your vocals are being drowned out. A drummer with experience and taste will play according to what the PA can do and what the room needs. Sometimes cookie monster vocals are what the room expects. That's what you get when the PA is hopeless outgunned by the band, not my thing at all, but it is a style in some venues. 200w would not work without a bigarse cabinet.

It didn't do the shrub much good over the years.

I think they were cheeky selling it as new with those dings in it. They must figure more will roll with it than send it back. Or they are slackers.

Lofty mate! I doubt half the members here gig with bass capable PA's. It isn't necessary for pub gigs. A kick drum is a very loud thing just by itself. Don't get so loud you can't hear the kick and all will be well.

Now we're getting somewhere... Yes, get a rig proper. It has to be able to keep up with the drums at whatever level is appropriate for not being obnoxious. A 15 or 210 should be enough for most open mic situations with a vocal PA.

Not many passive PA cabs are much chop with bass. My best advice is worry about tone way less for the meantime. Make a bass noise and crack on with learning to play bass.

Read The Forgetten Manual.

I think you mean to say it is engaged as soon as power is turned on. That is strange to me as most pedals have a latching on off stomp to engage and disengage the effect. I guess yours is a momentary electronic switch and the unit defaults as engaged when powered up. Did you RTFM? Maybe there's an internal toggle for it to default the other way.

You're going to need another one to get to "grunt" satisfaction level.

Gauge isn't really part of the equation. Only because we are familiar with gauge and density is mostly fairly consistent do we consider gauge to be the variable.

I studied violin at highschool. Went off on my OE and never hung out much in rowdy bars until I got back. There was a blues band playing Rolling Stones covers and I thought 'dang I can get my head around that bass better go get me one of those bass guitars'. So I did.

Depends on what you want and how much you want to pay. Any professional car painter can do a solid or a burst, won't charge the moon, and it'll be a top notch finish.

You might need to put a couple of extra piles under the bass wall or you could wind up with subsidence.

Any car painter will be able to do a sweet job of giving your precious some stupid flashy paintjob.

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/goodbye-hello-girls-automating-telephone-exchange Could spend all day there. My old (then) theory teacher was a telephone girl. She was old enough then to tell of the time she found out Mick Jagger was "not a very nice person". Her job was monitoring transatlantic calls for line quality. Mick would place calls to multiple women telling them they were the one and how much he was looking forward to getting back to them. The way she told it you would have been in for a jail sentence if you divulged private information at the time. Perhaps they gave all those jobs to antipodeans on their OE knowing they wouldn't give a rats' about Mick Jagger.

Yup. 2 of. Your average TC amp has a pile of compression and low end filtering as a rule. This means it doesn't put a lot of power into the lows that break drivers with farty sounds. Instead you will be at risk of cooking them with midrange shouty sounds. The rule is to turn up and up until you don't hear it get any louder. Assuming you didn't already get to the fart threshold you have found the heat threshold. It's a good idea to turn back down a little from there to leave room for digging in extra hard in all the excitement of the show.

Me for three. Could be a guitar cab, which would make for severe disappointment when cranked. "Hopefully it will work" suggests you haven't actually demo'd it yet. Model number / name?