Muzz

Yep, I did this, too...fantastic sound, it was only when I realised I was hoicking 90+lbs of speaker around (albeit in smaller lumps) that I looked for an alternative...

9lbs is my Thanks But No limit...everything I have is under that, down to a 7lb 8oz Dingwall (which is the most resonant, 'alive' bass I own) - the last one I moved on was a BB1024 because it was pushing 10lbs...the BB414 I replaced it with is my heaviest at juuuust a smidge over 9lbs...but I only play that in one band, and that rarely...

I've had intrusive tinnitus for about a decade (it started properly after an evening with a dep guitarist putting his 112 combo on a bar stool pointing directly at my head), and when we're not using IEMs, I have the ACS attenuators in...I also wear them for gigs I'm in the audience for; it doesn't half show up any bad sound production... It's never to early to start with the attenuation; once tinnitus starts, you're stuck with it...I wince these days when I'm watching a film and the producer decides to put that whine in after an explosion...I hate that...

For onstage monitoring, anything that brings the speakers nearer to your ears is a good thing...didn't TC have a thing where the 210 would stack on the 212 slightly further back to increase the effect? IIRC they did the same thing with the 210 on the 112, too... I had the opposite issue with a BF Big Baby, which comfortably filled an aircraft hangar (literally - it was an RAF gig), for everyone but me, as most of the output shot past my knees...

Exhibit A: the two verrrry small items on the left are my rig when we're (the pub/function band) gigging in-ears only. The rest of the stuff is for easy setup/small bar stuff (Stomp and customised Rumble) and full-on Rawk band (Stomp and Walkabout and Super Twin)...I've only ever used the full stack once at a big stage gig...and that was just for show, really... 😃

If you really, really want to nail it...buy a van 😃

I joined my main originals band following another bassist's departure, and started by playing the songs as they were. Over time, and as the band gelled, the bass lines gradually became my own, other than a few fills which had really stood out as important parts of the songs. Same with the bass sound; the original chap was a fingers player, I'm almost always pick, but I started with a more finger-oriented sound (tho not actually with fingers) and progressed towards my own sound. No-one complained (I'd have listened if they did), and now my sound and lines are part of the band. We were all old friends (including the original bassist), so no-one was going to compare/judge us directly, and given it's been thirteen years or so, they've probably got used it me by now... 😁

Fantastic, really enjoyed that...

Had a lady singist like that once, many years ago; she would harangue punters who she didn't like the look of, whether they were talking, sniggering, or, Buddha help everyone, heckling...we used to keep playing, so a lot of songs would go Intro, Verse 1, First Half Of Verse 2 Combined With Some Finger Pointing And Shouting, Second Half Of Verse 2, Chorus, etc... Great voice, I just don't think she was really cut out for live performance... 😕

Yep, there's a market for these all right: a loooong time ago, when I was all enthusiasm and my back wasn't made of glass, I was seriously considering four (yup, four) Peavey 118s that had just come into A1 in a trade deal and were going dirt cheap. They were the size (and weight) of washing machines, but I didn't care; 'The backline, man; think how good they'll look onstage!...' The only reason I didn't get them was an Ampeg fridge (and an old one; no handles or tiltback or wheels; just the rectangular box) came up at the same time...job done... 😕🙂

Although the alternative is The Dreaded Overhang... 😕🙂

Ohhhh, an upside-down rig! You could be starting a whole new craze there... 🙂

Now that's something I never realised...and I watched all those videos ad infinitum back in the day... I'd also have said he was a (Jetglo) Rick player, and he was for a short while (I think 2 TOTP performances, but they were what counted in those days), but then went back Jazzes...

Noooo....that's strung the right way up - it's not a right handed Strat just turned over...the pics of Messrs Dale and King shows the 'sounds right, looks wrong' stringing...

One thing that twisted my melon was the left-handed John Sykes lookalikey in a Lizzy trib, who played left handed, but with the strings upside down, too - his solos sounded right but looked allll wrong. When I chatted to him he said he'd learned by borrowing his brother's guitar and, because nobody had told him otherwise, just flipped it over.

Yeah, I did notice a teensy element of 'How far away is that Lemmy?' last time I saw them... 😃 He is an example of how to do trib stuff properly, tho...

Possibly...but we're into 'iconic' here - Hooky's whole stance is the most visually memorable thing about New Order live...I'm classing him as the (other) front man, along the lines of Slash/Angus, etc. A low-slung SG on an Angus clone, or a high-slung Les Paul for a Slashish would look iffy... Andy T could've sorted him out with a closer BB for the day, I'm sure... 😀

Yup - I thought Green Day were the best of the lot...

That's the fella....half points for a Yam, but not the right one...and not low enough...harsh, I know... 🙂 I enjoyed them a lot - I was standing about fifteen feet to your right by a tent pole... 🙂 Edit: OK, three-quarter points, as Hooky has used a black BB, but it's not like there isn't a new Sig bass out there...still too high, tho...if you're not hunched uncomfortably over, it's too high... 😐🙂

Having watched a New Order trib yesterday, I think I've found my new Trib Act Goal...the bassist spent half the gig playing lead melodies, and the other half on his phone... 😁

Yeah, I know...and I think even they're cheating... 😐😁

Pretty good timing, this one, as I was at Festwich yesterday, a two-stage Tribute band festival. Sound is always the most important, but if you're gonna go out as a tribute act then at least try to look the part, too, especially if there's iconic looks in the band (the Kings Of Leon boys, say, had a much easier job than the Queen lot - can anyone remember what the Kings of Leon look like from 40 yards away?)...there were mixed results on that front yesterday, one thing that did kinda rankle were the trio band tributes with four or even five members...oh, and putting on my IBM hat, the bassist from the (otherwise very good) New Order trib had the wrong bass slung at least a foot too high... One of the best tribs out there for sound and looks is Motorheadache (one of the guitarists I'm in a band with sometimes deps as Fast Eddie) - the bloke doing Lemmy IS Lemmy from about 30ft away... 🙂 Extra points for Murder One in the background, even more extra points for stick-on warts... 😁

My cousin was in that choir...we don't keep in touch tho*, so I've no idea how she's living with it... * Nowt to do with the song, we just can't be arsed...

Oooo, never rush that sort of thing, for as we all know, 'Fender Precision' is an anagram of 'Reinforced Penis'... 😐🙂

I'm giddy enough that my bestest Shuker was made by Jon from lumps of timber that we rummaged through his wood store for, I'd really really like one I built myself from scratch...