Muzz

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...

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1407317188' post='2519346'] I love this build diary, the chap making this is clearly entirely insane, no one else rolls their own oil filled capacitors, but the result is a growly as they come:- [url="http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/169606-1960-jazzbass-build.html"]http://www.tdpri.com...bass-build.html[/url] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6E7iSATY7M [/quote] See, I'd describe that as 'burpy'...

Funnily enough, when I split the coils on my MM-style pickup (in a kinda compromise position in my other Shuker) it sounds much more growly in the single coil position. I'd say an active EQ with mid-freq control (like the John Easy U-Retro, tho other types are available) is very important for finding just the right mids to push, too...

+1 for the Hercules stands - I've had a triple for years, and I've never had any trouble at all.

I use an East U-Retro in three of my basses, and the latest one has five controls (including a passive pull-pot and overall passive tone). I find the East preamps suit me down to the ground, I much prefer to make any changes I might need to EQ on the bass, without fiddling round with the amp onstage - as the direct opposite of BRX, I set the amp and leave it, and just use the bass.

My Best Friends Girl by the Cars. Youth club do, and it was still in the charts, so that'd make it '78.

Just for a second there I thought the erstwhile Mr Big bassist had a new maintenance video out...

Yep, I've got D'addario flats on my acoustic (and I don't have them on anything else) - very nice and smooth. I hated phosphor bronze strings...

If you Google the T-Bird Pro V, the strap button on that is at the back, where the neck plate would be if it had one...

Even though I've been through dozens of basses over the years, I don't really have one I wish I hadn't sold, unless we can count purely financial motives, in which case the 4001 Jetglo I sold for £200 in the mid-80s or the early 70s Precision I sold for even less are a bit eye-watering nowadays... Ignoring real cheapies, the worst £-for-£ was the brand new Rick 4003W I bought and returned recently, tho it was nowhere as dull as the 78 Jazz, which was a 11lb 12oz boat anchor that played and sounded, for want of a better word, [i]brown[/i].

That opens your options out - GAK have several combos which would do the trick - there's a Warwick 15" combo for £419, or the Ibanez Promethean at £317, the Hartke Kickback 15" is £424, and the new Peavey Max 15 is £279

I have a friend who worked on the liners for a few years, before meeting a girl and settling down, whereupon he got a job at Rentokil. A couple of years later the relationship fell apart, they sold the house, etc, and he replied to a job ad asking for a pest control operative who was willing to travel. At the interview, the chap said "Well, what we'd really like is someone with your qualifications who's got experience working and living on a liner, but of course we'll never find that combination..." He got the job.

I think you'll find that's a 'Sonky', as in Wallace Sonky (also 'Rubber Wally'). There's a Shonky shop (the one run by Mr Soon Shine Sun) which is a front for the History Monks...

Played three in a day on Pat's Day earlier in the year, one was an afternoon set with minimal vocal PA a (miked) Cajon, the next two were pub gigs, one on at seven, the other at ten. In all cases, we went out as a trio and used the minimum possible gear: no keys, no subs, etc. Hectic, but fun.

To be fair, that's true of any amp with the 240/110 switching, and there are a lot of those...

No real magic: the Streamliner I have is 900w into 4 ohms with a 3-valve preamp stage, but has a Headphones out, and doesn't need speakers attached - it also has an Aux in for practice/playing along - win...