Downunderwonder

You're listening for the power chords on the guitar that use open strings. Been awhile so only D and A come to mind. If they are coming over as Db and Ab it's detuned. The obvious gimme is a low Eb on the bass. Or just set Auntie Google on every new tune. It really needn't be any drama.

I think you must be reading it wrong. A lot of the stuff my cover band of old did was detuned bass along with detuned guitar so it was a no brainer to detune my bass. If a tune wasn't half a step detuned we retuned standard to learn it and played it half step down at gigs. Nobody had the spare cash for two instruments! OP is playing half a step UP from recordings. My guess is OP's guitar hero learns it from chord charts on his standard guitar. So he swears up.and down he's playing in the original key.

Two ways around that provided you are onto him from the start. There is tech that can detune the recording so you can learn it on your regular bass at the 1/2 step up from recording key. Or you can get another bass for learning on then play it with the band on your regular bass. Some sensitive ear types might struggle with it sounding weird.

From the tone the OP is somewhere in Europe where used BF cabs may be thin on the ground? What's $800 in € when buying from Thommann.de these days anyway? Very confusing. A twin stack of the MB 210 cabs will do it all with the option to just take one when it's not going to be too rowdy. Budget pretty much dictates used any way you go.

Not that I have played a 100th of the PA supported gigs of some here, on every occasion the DI box has been right by the bass position. Depending on the gig they may have it all set to go DI to desk and DI to amp and be expecting you to plug your instrument cable into the DI. Depending on the gig you might be stuck with that which is why I have gravitated to pedalboard output. On the gigs where we the band or client is bringing in a sound crew for us the DI box is presented. It's on you to politely ask to unplug it and try the amp DI. You never want to just yank their lead without asking. If you carry your own XLR to go to their DI from your DI you open more cans of worms with the level that hits their desk so you don't want to be doing that unannounced either. Never had to scramble for an extra XLR cable so I don't carry one. It would probably end up with the soundcrew anyway. Afaik it's industry standard that the bassist is responsible up to the end of the instrument cable.

Sometimes you can hook the front amp feet on the front of the cab. A length of black bungee cord from the hardware barn can do a lot of stabilizing.

Putting another preamp in front of the VBA is very likely to get a lot of tone happening before the power stage. You're 'preamping' a signal that is already good for power amping when it was expecting only pickups. No wonder the input gain was set low. Likely the signal hitting the power stage attenuator is quite overclocked making the attenuator knob position unreliable also. Good idea to test your pre into the power stage. If you are A/Bing amps be very sure to power down the tube amp before unplugging the cabinet, and vice versa. You can kill a tube amp in short order by having it operating with no cab.

You don't have to be so tall, just very strong so you can pick up the top two of six while someone slots in the 4th. I don't believe you are that silly though.

Easier to take the feet off and put them on the other end. Edit: by rights the grill should come off and fit back on upside down?

They used to chuck them off the loading dock to test road readiness. If it didn't fire up it was back to the drawing board.

This is good advice.

If you can cheat by having 1/4 the tempo you get 16 bars worth to play with. Then a bunch of the suggestions from folks that obviously don't know what a bar is would work. Hats off to Little Green Bag man.

Yep. Also the possibility of driving the everloving pish out of the rehearsal cab that gets the particularly the clank.

I am doubting 100w can give enough heft to go along with abrasive clanky grit fest if you are doing that with 400w currently. That's some full metal jacket bass going on and you would have lost 6dB of headroom, sounding more like another guitar. Maybe that works for you but unlikely. Cue the "I play metal with my LAF drummer and my 100w does just fine" comments. Everyone's drummer is loud and some are louder. 6dB is 6dB everywhere every time. Assuming the cab you were using was handling all the 400w, that power deficit is literally fully the difference in heft between 100w going into a 410 cab vs two 100w amps going into two 410 cabs. Let that sink in. Same difference as your guitarist trading 50w + single 412 for 100w + stack of 412's. For me tubes do the effortless warm thing when I can be bothered. None of my tube amps are bigger than 200w and I am not trying to rearrange innards. There's pedals for aggro. I had a 50w one that was lovely at low volume and disappeared when push come to shove. Same 6dB down on 200w. It's a similar effect comparing an additional cab on a solid state amp that pretty much doubles output at 4ohm. If you want to be royally rowdy without the weight you're looking for a nice preamp and a class D power amp.

If it's 95% of the sound but only 27kg I know which one your bandmates want to help move off stage etc. They also get to hear it better without the beaming.

I didn't catch that. Shouldn't be hard to phone the Principal and explain the situation. You have a horrible noise and the only difference is the other side of the stage. There is a strong possibility the power is wired incorrectly and could be hazardous. You will test it with the socket tester but would like to do that before the next rehearsal. Any chance of meeting them before school starts, it will only take 5 minutes? No chance the school cafeteria fridge is on the other side of the wall doing a bit of budget redistribution?

Someone probably tried to order and the boss said to hell with give away string pricing. I noticed Gollihur have theirs out of stock "due to needing to sort out discrepancies in specifications on the latest batch". The mind boggles. I thought D'Addario were pretty good for reliability.

'Sounds' like something is physically loose, but mystery how picking is much different to plucking. I would think banging strings onto the pickups is more than a mildly distracting knocking noise. You might need to post a video to get anywhere with it. I definitely wouldn't rush out and buy new pickups at this stage.

That didn't last long, I just checked: now £153! £137 at Acoustic Centre.

NS strings are made shorter for NS basses with little after bridge length required and peg box being compact with BG style tuners. My NXT can string through to the back to take regular bass strings if required.

I wouldn"t mind betting there are more lows available from the 410 than the 215. A faux crossover with the EQ on the Trace would effectively turn it into a sub pretty damn well. Keep the low slider bottomed and probably the next up cut some as well. Boost the stuff up to 150hz and cut the rest hard. You'll hardly get a peep out of it, aside from the woof. Do the opposite with the H/H and you might get a better sound than you think. 15's not labouring over bass and having potentially 150w of treble up them instead can really scream! I recommend taking it easy with the loud knob.

Surely the thing to do is head to the hall when something else is getting set up, make yourself known to the stage manager, and quickly check the power at the duff spot with the socket tester you're about to buy?