Downunderwonder

Aside from possibly being saved by Paul you could perhaps invest in part of the PA now. That would give you an active monitor that could turn around and be a PA cab when you are on IEM. I assume the venue is ok for FOH, and rest of band is going to be IEM with the new PA as well.

It's all the other stuff you are doing that is unnecessary for angular control and acceleration of the stick that is tuckering you out. A lot of that is down to timing so you have to learn timing and groove without the extraneous motions and tensions. The stick still has to arrive at precisely the right time angle and speed. Every time. Neat trick! You are in for a real joyous discovery. I don't think you can get it from a book or video though. The teacher guides you in inhibiting wasteful action that is subconscious so you learn to recognize the feeling of doing it right instead. One of the first lessons they will literally guide you in getting up out of a chair after doing some teaching motions that rewire your brain. Note not help but guide. You will be blown away how well your leg muscles can actually perform when given a chance because they are not tangled up in stabilizing your overactive core. Sitting, standing. No intermediate wrestling match with yourself. The teacher shows you how to apply that to your drumming. You know how you can recognize drummers blind. Someone is going to come into the room and be surprised to see you on the kit because it won't sound like the old wound up you. It will be the new fluid you. You are going to like it!

Every chance, but only if you go to an Alexander Technique teacher to unleash your inner non tensioned drummer self.

No guessing at all. You made the best of it you could and got a booking for your efforts. That other landlord probably only came in because he heard you from the street and wants some of that for his place.

It shouldn't be all that hard to suss the PA situation. Then decide what you're going to do about amping bass. You are covered with your IEM but everyone else may not be thrilled by the PA.

That BAM plot is dubious. Having no tailing off below 40hz calls into question if there is any accuracy to it. Phil says that himself. You can bet your lunch there is a filter somewhere down there or it would happily pump infrasound.

They show the relative strength of signal output across the frequency range. The scale along the bottom is logarithmic as to match the musical scale in pure numbers and fit on a page and we can read it. 10hz 100hz 1000hz 10000hz becomes 10¹ 10² 10³ 10⁴ becomes '1 2 3 4' along the axis. The vertical axis expresses relative loudness as we hear in dB, also a logarithmic scale. A perfectly flat amp would be a straight line across all the way down to 1hz.

None of them is without an inbuilt HPF or their lines would go more or less flat back to 10hz, 10¹ on the charts for the mathematically challenged.

Refretting could be not so simple depending on what was used as filler. I think I would leave well enough alone.

Sounds about right. Bruno Mars' band strutting all over the stage with the dancers, studio sounds, Beeb style.

Difrnt strokes. I love jamming out tunes and getting them mostly right enough to fool everyone that I am some kind of bass god. The more you do it the better your ear gets. One time I walked in on my drummer giving a lesson using a recording of a tune we play. I thought it was us because the bass lines were "my lines" on a tune I had learned off just the chord sheet and playing along to the band. I play it differently but similarly every time. Then I realised it was a better recording than anything we had done and the bassist wasn't making any flubs. Interesting that he and I have the same taste in bassline from any number of alternative ways to compliment the melody and get from one chord to the next every 2 bars or less. So my point is there is as much to be gained by listening to the tune as the bassline when trying to figure out your part.

Can anyone hear the difference between a Deluxe P solo on the P pickup preamp off passive mode, and regular P bass?

This, and this for sure. Dude is a guitard holding up a sign for bass lessons on the side. Find another teacher. Reading is something you teach yourself for the most part. Not sure where you are at, coming back to music on bass not reading. Were you previously a bass player?

My gruntiest bass by far is passive piezo yet can't punch its way out of a wet paper bag without a good solid input impedance.

That's the one.

I like the sentiment but I would put a thick layer of super competent players between me and the exhibitionists.

Find a good value case of the solidity you require. Make board to fit.

There is also Vong kit if you are handy with a soldering iron.

Back up the thread there's someone selling sharply priced units on ebay. Build to order for the most part iirc.

They should have taken it back and refunded you, even if it was on commission. Misrepresentation pure and simple.

A BF Big Baby meets your criteria and you can use it to make a real racket as well. You might get one used for not too much moolah, considering a BigTwin took several days to sell for £700.

Needs merging.

There may be more than one standard. Obviously you were WRONG to label your desk, with sticky labels that could be peeled off to boot, not considering that someone else might need to come along and mix your band. Or not, guitard mate 'n'all...

You meant HPF I think as you used the correct term later. My HPF was set at around 70hz on a recent gig. Sound monkey must have boosted the bejesus out of it to get his subs pumping some obnoxious sub bass. I wound up turning him off as the stage amp was plenty big enough for my little band in his little bar of a Sunday afternoon.

You must have been doing it all wrong for him to do that.