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  1. Muzz
    I have exactly the same setup and experienced exactly the same thing (and did the same thing with the XLR subbing): turned out the BL/mixer owner had farted around with the aux channels. Output down on the mixer, volume up on the P2. Sorted.
  2. Muzz
    Jazz basses (and copies thereof), rosewood boards (unless so dark it's basically ebony), thicker-than-Jazz necks. Anything with pickups in the wrong place (i.e. without at least one in the P-spot, or very close to it).
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    It applies to both, but the pic of the short scale emphasises it: I wouldn't want to pay £23k for something otherwise beautifully made that had such OCD-tweakingly random control placement...c'mon, guys: would it have hurt to space them regularly? Were they just dropped onto the bass and drilled where they fell?
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    Firstly, I'd just like to say StingRayBoy42 wins the weekend with 'Depping on Sousaphone'... 🙂 Lively gig in a rammed pub (new venue for us, we'll be back) Satdy, despite not much room and a 10pm start once the footy had finished; luckily the crowds of blokes trooping out dejectedly were replaced by a lot of ladies in spangly tops sashaying in, so it was a good gig all round. Nice to see some pubs still thriving... On the timings, we generally play a 45 minute 1st set, break for ten or fifteen, and then play through an hour or so (usually a bit longer, depending on the audience) plus encores...seems to work OK...
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    For a given value of 'decent'...I just need a live covers band approximation with the kit I've got...
  6. Muzz
    Thanks for the suggestions, I started with Ian A, I guess I just lost confidence in my own judgement of the sounds I was getting (see 'two hours of indecisive hell' above), I was hoping someone might say 'I've got a decent Moog sound which works live'...back to the Stomp...
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    Apologies if I've doubled up on anything, but 89 pages is a lot to hoick through - has anyone got any tried and tested synth patches for the Stomp? 80s stuff for covers, mainly, things like The Way You Make Me Feel, etc... I spent a couple of hours recently having a go at making my own (octaver, some distortion and some chorus), and was reasonably close after about 15 minutes, but then that thing happened when you used to go into a record shop*, and two hours later I'd disappeared up my own derriere and at one point caught a glimpse of the back of my own head, and I didn't know what was good or bad or useable or not any more... * You strode in decisively with enough money for one album, and a good idea of what you wanted, but an hour's browsing later you couldn't decide what to buy...
  8. Muzz
    The bassist from Cadillac Three would disagree: last time I saw them his (extended) lap steel was plugged into two Orange heads with 810s...it sounded glorious...
  9. Muzz
    The new one is 'Alexa! Next!'... 🙁
  10. Muzz
    I've been known to noodle the bass intro to Tool's Schism, and no-one's ever recognised it... 🙁 Even worse, because it's 5/8 and 7/8 (ish), everyone thinks I'm playing something wrong... 🙁🙂
  11. Muzz
    A return to gigging after being laid low for a couple/three weeks (and missing three gigs! Eeeeek!) with a horrible fluey thing that was worse than pretty much all of the 4 lots of Covid I've had*, a new venue 10 minutes down the road from me, which was a nice change...I knew the pub of old as a rough one, but a new landlord's trying to turn the place round, and tho it's early days he seems to be doing well...8:45 start, 10:45 finish - agency gig, so 2 x 45, but we did an hour second set as he was a nice bloke and people were enjoying it, I even stayed till everything was packed up, and home before midnight. We've got three or four dates for the new year off the back of it. That'll do. * Yeah, I know, but I live with a Nurse who worked on Covid wards exclusively, and even now works in a mask (she's on a Geriatric/EOL ward)...ironically, she's only had it twice, I've started calling her Typhoid Mary...
  12. Muzz
    I'd have to go for a 64 Thunderbird as a YOB bass, and YISPB bass would be...a 76 Thunderbird... 🙂 Not that I've any real GAS for either, given the prices...tho a chunky Lottery win would change that... 😁
  13. Muzz
    We've only got two gigs in Dec before Xmas (so far), so it's only been a token Last Christmas to chuck in (four chords all the way through), which is a relief...
  14. Muzz
    I've played a couple of Combustions and liked them, but my Canadian ABZ is night and day better...
  15. Muzz
    Good call on the bridge; I had a Hipshot on my Shukerbird for a good while, but it just didn't look the part - swapped it for a Babicz and I'm very happy with it...
  16. Muzz
    I took my 414 (which did a tour of duty as Jam Night Open Use Bass for most of this year) to Matt Ryan up my neck of the woods, and he did a great job on it, he also did a more comprehensive job bringing my headless 1985 Westone Quantum back to life...I use the 414 and the Quantum for 90% of gigs these days, tho that's as much influenced by the gigs (unknown pubs/denizens, usually very tight spaces) as anything.
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    Just on the precious PA owners being bass-shy, the busiest of my gigging bands uses two RCF 2-way 15s (745s, IIRC), no subs, and absolutely everything goes through them: vocals, guitar, me, drums (5 mics on the kit), bongos/congas (don't ask), the lot, without backline, and we're always, always too loud for even big pubs - the BL/Singist/Geetard/PA Owner is of the 'If it doesn't sound right turn something up' school of mixing, and possibly thinks attenuation is something soldiers stand to: I'm constantly telling him to turn the mains down, while I'm looking at wincing punters*.... Anyhoo, point being those 2 x 2-way RCF 15s of ours can absolutely deafen even a large pub, so they'll handle the bass without breaking a sweat... * I have my inears in, and the volume control set to 'Ohhhhh, that's nice and clear and not very loud'...
  18. Muzz
    I notice he didn't bring his talentless wife along for that one...
  19. Muzz
    Dunlop Nylon 88s, Split-P pickup in the right position, good roundwounds (preferably Elixirs) and I'm 80% there. The rest is tweaking and window dressing, really...
  20. Muzz
    Not the guitar system per se, but a thumbs up for the Lekato 5.8Ghz stuff: I use a Tx/Rx MW1 pair for my inears (with a small headphone amp), and they're great: no dropouts, good range, etc...
  21. Muzz
    Well, I'd be looking for a S/H Helix in the store, if not, an ME-50B, because I know how they work...I doubt I'd like to be sitting around with the manual for anything else reading 'Congratulations on purchasing your XXXX Digital Multi-Effects, please turn to page 223 to get started' while all hell broke loose around me... Failing that, as above, a tuner and a DI box (I wouldn't have brought an amp)....
  22. Muzz
    Can I just say that 'with a bag of rocks', 'a shark's face' and 'a section of pebbledash wall' have all now gone straight into my lexicon for badly finished things? Ta. 🙂
  23. Muzz
    Ahhhh, I see it now: that explains the widely-spaced tuners...still a fnarr-fnarr daft headstock, tho... 😁 I like that other body, too...
  24. Muzz
    That body shape's quite interesting, but the headstock...oh dearie dearie me...
  25. Muzz
    Wouldn't be without my Stomp, it's 'my sound(s)* in a very small box' - I use it in front of big amps, into small onstage monitoring amps and DI (TRS, tho you can buy an XLR/TRS adaptor for a tenner, too), and just itself for inears/DI. You can also split the output between clean and effected. Then there's the pitch shifting, which is very good, and means you never have to transpose anything ever again... 🙂 * And Chris Wolstenholme's Hysteria sound...and Tony Levin's Sledgehammer sound...and Flea's 'Ray sound...and....and... 🙂 Caveat: the talent, sadly, doesn't come with the sounds...but I try... 😁
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