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...and ends before five past, when the clenching starts, if my audition experiences are anything to go by... Good luck... 😀

Ahhh, the moment Les and the Boys went international in the their hunt for The Caledonian Turnup Thief...

The only time I've ever judged someone negatively for their gear was a bloke who showed up at a jam night with a Status 5 with the full Liberace LEDs...and proceeded to plod 4-to-the-bar roots to unending blues songs. He occasionally dropped a couple, too, and the changes seemed an effort. Shallow and horrible of me, I know, and I felt even worse because he seemed well pleased with his night's work. I felt very depressed with myself, but then again, that might have been the two hours of meandering blues I'd been listening to...it was one of those jams nights...

What kind of attitude is that? This place'd be a wilderness within a week if we all thought like that... 😀

All that said, I did use to get a frisson from doing posh gigs with a Harley Benton £38 PB50, especially Dos where the tickets were £150+...but that was a bit of a novelty... I'm also struggling to beat my BB414 on the Yamaha front, having already tried and sold a 1024x which cost three times as much. I keep looking at 2024s, but it'll have to be extraordinary (and just the right one) to replace the 414...

And 'effectively' is the most personal part of it all...one man's 'effective' is another man's 'extravagance', and all that...

This, pretty much verbatim 😁

A right handed black and white Aria ZZB Custom, upside down lefty. I know, because I was gigging one at the time. I didn't hear the last of it for bloody years...

I've got an old Arbiter Les Paul which I bought for pin money years ago in a second-hand shop, which is a fantastic version. No idea where it was made, but it's a good un...

Definitely +1 for the Walkabout (and the M-Pulses, tho not as much), in the smaller/lighter Class D corner the Streamliner blooms nicely, and the Magellan does a very nice valvey sound, without having a valve in it. That Genzler bloke knows what he's doing...

Gloria and the Estefantastics?

Mr Dog has beaten me to it (and in far more detail): one of the collateral facts I picked up in my searches was that the more expensive Rumbles (200 and up) have a different league of Eminence speaker than the smaller ones, which are built down to a budget and use bottom-end (SWIDT?) Chinese-made Eminences. The 100s and smaller, though, are very much improved by replacing the speaker with a 'proper' Eminence.

Then again, they were all trying to follow Chas and Dave...now there's a Led Zep opening act... 😀

It was quite the thing with punk bands, especially round Manchester, to get JCC to support...he was always terrific. If you've never heard Beasley Street through a 10kw PA, you've never lived... 😀

I've parped on a bit about this in a few other threads, but I've been looking for a small light combo for trio gigs, which will sit somewhere between the IEM and big rig gigs, both of which are great in their own way, but I'm doing a lot of small pub/bar gigs in which the simplicity of a combo with the smallest version of our PA is a winner. I'd been using a Rumble 100, which in size and weight is perfect, but I was conscious of it getting farty and squishy when things (read: the drummer gets carried away) got a bit giddy towards the end of the last set. I was clearly pushing it a bit hard. I tried quite a few replacements (including some powered FRFR ones) but nothing under £500 was very convincing. So after a good trawl of TB I lashed out £60 or so on an Eminence Beta 12, got the screwdriver out and replaced the stock driver with it. I got to use it in anger at a rehearsal yesterday, and blimey charlie, that's the best £60 I've spent on music gear since I discovered Elixirs. It sounds bigger and louder (there's a 6db sensitivity jump to the Beta, so it should do) and it'll hang with a drummer now. It's a couple of pounds heavier, but still under 25lbs. TL:DR - Eminence Beta 12 into a Rumble 100: sometimes a replacement speaker just works... 😀

A few from back in the day, I'll have to have a think to get my dates straight, but in the last couple of years Thunder support Whitesnake and then Journey: that gig should have been run in reverse, Thunder were fantastic. The Damned supporting that Alice Cooper/Johnny Depp farce of a covers band thing (I only got dragged there by my SO, who still didn't get anywhere near JD), the Damned were still great fun, and clearly delighted to be out of the house, let alone on the big stage of the Arena... The Volbeat supporting Alterbridge, again at the Arena. Their sound wasn't great, but it (and they) were streets ahead of the headliners... Oooo, that Nuclear Assault/Slayer SOH gig...yup, NA were an onslaught...in a good way...

I'm good with the Shukers (in fact, the only 5 I ever owned was a SR505), the BB is more for a being-my-own-tribute-band thing...hence the 'VW only' rule... If I wasn't already awaiting a Shuker which is in progress, I'd be considering asking him to build a BB-alike...

Not sure pics will help (plus I've just seen that bass is 10lb - if they're all like that it's a dealbreaker for me). I thought the 1024x neck was too chunky - I like verrrry slim necks (which is why 5s will never be for me), but the 414 I can cope with... Thanks, for the suggestions, tho...I might have a look for a BB3000A, which would do the job, tho it'd be a bit of a stinger, seeing as I sold mine 10 years ago for a lot less money than they're changing hands for these days...

I have a mix of both in my iTunes, no issues with any, I'm afraid; if it's in my iTunes, it works...

Oh blimey...there was I, writing the whole project off, and there's a glimmer of hope...you've not still got the 2024, by any chance?

When you select the Jam function, it gives you your iTunes library, and once you've loaded a song in, you can slow it down, speed it up, shift pitch, etc...

OK, so here's the thing: with some more gigs lined up for the reunion band this year, I'm very seriously considering a 2024x (in VW) as a step up from my 414. The thing is I don't know is what the neck profile of the 2024 is like compared with the 414, or even the 1024x, which I had and didn't really like all that much, neck-wise. Anyone have a 2024 they can compare with a 1024 or 414, or indeed anything else? Even better, anyone got a 2024 in the North West I can come and have a quick look at? I played one in Bass Direct when they first came out about 10 years ago, but other than being very impressed with the bass as a whole, I'm banjanxed if I can remember what the neck was like...and I've got a lot more fussy since Jon Shuker started making basses for me with necks to my exact taste... I realise this is all very theoretical, as second-hand 2024xs in VW come around as often as Halley's Comet, but I'd like to rule one in or out anyway, so I could stop scouring the net for one if the neck's a big 'un...

Sounds like Level 42 to me...good job 👍

Yup, this. It's annoying, but then that's (some) people...

I've never stacked 2 Compacts (I had the Compact and Midget stack thing at one point, but I didn't like the Midget much), but I often thought I'd like to. The ST is obviously more practical in terms of hefting around the place (sub-40lb and those wheels are great), and I've never, ever thought it didn't have headroom and to spare in any situation. I only stack it with the Compact in Very Metal Situations, when I feel the need to intimidate Marshall half-stack geeetarists. With 'only' 300w (actually, the Walkabout pushes more into 2.67) the stack is daft loud (and I mean make-sure-you've-ear-protection loud), but then so is the ST on its own. In terms of response and sound, they're both untweetered, so they're in the same ballpark. It depends on your transport and budget: an additional Compact can be had for around £300, selling yours and buying a ST instead will cost a bit more and be a bit more of a faff. Two Compacts will also give you a bit more flexibility if that's something you need; one for quieter gigs, both for demolition jobs... TL:DR - STs are great, and I'd also happily stack Compacts 😀