Muzz

I loooove Bobby Vega...

Been in bands with musical dictators, and musical collaborators...I don't bother with the first type any more. As has been said, it's usually indicative of wider personality issues, and to be avoided in the long run. Constant undermining of another band member is nothing short of bullying, and you don't have to put up with it.

Very nice...does she have a sister?

I had a white 3000A from new for about twenty years, great basses and very underrated - the build quality is terrific.

I started with really noticeable tinnitus a year or so ago, and now I gig with in-ears so I can control the overall volume. It can be done pretty cheaply - I use an OBBM double lead and a Behringer headphone amp in my rack case so I can mix more me into the overall band mix, and even on the gigs when we don't run everything through the PA I can still hear most of what's going on. At a real push I use my attenuators just to drop the whole volume level down instead. It's a problem, and a pain, but it doesn't have to mean the end of playing, hopefully you'll be able to work something out.

We've played holiday camps before now, and turning up as a full band seemed to surprise everyone from the organiser to the staff...we've also played a showcase at the Hilton (IIRC) in Blackpool for a wedding fair/entertainment agency bash, and of the 9 acts on, we were the only band. They put us on last 'because you've got the most gear to pack up and we don't want the delay' and most people had fecked off home long before. If our gear hadn't already been on stage, I'd have left early too...

Depends on how much you have to spend - as Nancy above says, if you can afford a Gibson, go for one (but try and play it first). If you can afford the Mike Lull T4 at Bass Direct, go for that.

I've been looking at the latest setlist for a wedding tonight, and it's occured to me that we do a fair spread of music as part of our normal 2/3-set evening. I'm curious to know if any other function/covers bands operate on such wide parameters? Here's a rundown of some of the artists whose songs we play (and I mean play as closely as we can, rather than do a 'rock version' of them, or whatever) - these are in no particular order, and I'm sure you can guess which particular songs they'll be: Avicii Pharrell Bon Jovi Daft Punk Johnny Cash Nirvana Guns and Roses Luther Vandross The Eagles The Pogues The Dubliners/Trad Irish ACDC Bruno Mars Van Halen Streophonics Peter Gabriel Michael Buble Journey Stevie Wonder Lynyrd Skynyrd The Police Doobie Brothers Green Day REM The Smiths Toto James Oasis Are we just ADD/daft?

As well as the Pharrell and Daft Punk thing (and Avicii) which are all a bit 2013, we do Rude by that popular beat combo Magic, which goes down well. And I get to play some reggae*... * in the sense that Moondance is [i]definitely[/i] jazz, etc...

I use a Hercules iPad holder, on a normal mike stand. I'd rather not go too cheap on a holder and risk failure. I was looking for a longer Sonic Port -> iPad lead (didn't find one), but with the holder above, I can position the iPad near to the Sonic Port, which I have on my amp/rack.

Need? whaddya mean, [i]need[/i]?

The best low B in the business, IMHO, is on a Dingwall...just sayin...

Oh, here's an idea: Streamliner and Schroeder, or Streamliner and Barefaced! No, really: I had a 1515L with my Streamliner, and it worked very well - the low mid push of the cab tidied up the bottom end of the amp nicely, and sat very well in the mix, in kind of the same place a sealed 810 would. I also used a Super Twelve T with my Streamliner, which was very very loud indeed, and opened the sound out some more. I'd suggest the Big Twin T would, as has been said, crush the rest of the band...

I've played with a pick forever, but when a song needs it, I can play with fingers. Since playing in function bands a lot, I've also learned some slap and tapping when the song needs it. No sense restricting yourself to one technique. Oh, and I love playing the funk stuff with a pick - I'm much, much better at the ghost notes with a pick. I play with a few different drummers, pros and good semi-pros, and several of them have expressed pleased surprise at the result, despite their initial prejudice. Bobby Vega's a good example of how this can be done (with the appropriate EQ).

Yup, I'd second that advice - I use a Markbass F1 live (mostly for the 1U rackmount size), and I have it set flat (VFP and VLE off fully anticlockwise) and use the EQ on the bass and the seperate preamp - mine's an iPod with Jamup modelling software, but the principle's the same - to tweak the sound when the band's playing.

Very busy summer - normally two weddings a weekend, with the occasional Thursday pub gig. Loving it - and the cash!

My Dingwall is 7lb 9oz, one of my Shukers is 7lb 11oz, the other is 8lb 4oz, and my Thunderland (Lakland-necked T-Bird) bitsa is 8lb 6oz All good, can't be doing with heavy basses.

Not sure what strap you have there exactly, but normally the thicker end goes at the front (on the horn) and the thinner bit at the back, where a bit of excess doesn't stand out...

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1407847905' post='2524584'] Behringer amp and the most roadworn 112 I've seen . It sounded good and the band are booked to be on Jules Holland next year. [/quote] What's the odds on them using this on Jools, though? On the OPs, topic, though - I'd be able to buy all my gear twice over at least (secondhand, of course - I don't buy new) with what I'll make gigging this year. And I have good gear. I also have some cheap gear, and that's good, too, in a different way. I'd have happily gigged the £250 Roland combo I had for evermore but for a) loading the van down a fire escape at 1am (yet again) focusses me on how important light, compact backline is to me and b ) it got nicked.

I've never carried a backup head, even back in the old valve days, these days I just have a BDI21 in the bag just in case, even though I have two heads to pick from. I'd suggest your previous amp failure might be making you super-cautious. As MachineHead says, if you really must bring two amps, you could pick one which could come close to the original head sound, but possibly give you something else just for variety's sake. Maybe, as has also been suggested, just buy one head you have a bit more faith in, and a £25 DI box? The BH500 head is heavier than my Compact...just saying...

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1407340759' post='2519613'] They certainly do. My old band got told we`d have to turn down once, whilst we were wheeling our 412s across to the stage at an outdoors gig in a field facing nothing but more field. They thought we were going to be loud just due to the cabs we used. [/quote] Hahahahahaha...that's fantastic: the earliest we've ever been asked to turn down is when the drummer hit his snare once (unmiked and not very hard) - it was the first sound we'd made setting up...