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If you're feeling especially epic (and your amp'll go below 2 ohms), you'll find the ST stacks onto the Compact rather pleasingly... 😃

I still think they look fantastic, especially the walnut ones. Having owned and played two, however, nothing would induce me to buy another. That Kay looks poke-your-own-eyes-out awful, tho...

Very quick reply from Strings And Things requesting pics and details, including my shipping address. Fingers crossed.

Thanks for the heads-up: I have done. Let's see what they come back with...

With an odd synchronicity, my 3-holder Hercules stand disintegrated over the weekend; I've not had chance to have a good look at it yet, but it's knocked my confidence in it...

Mulligans Irish pub in Manchester city centre tonight, the Hop & Hazelwood in Tyldesley tomorrow night. Played both before, they're good venues...

2mm is as high as I like to go, I've got a couple of basses that are happy at less than that, but it's all very personal taste...

Shuker Horn x 2 Shukerbird Dingwall ABZ Yamaha BB414 Michael Kelly Acoustic Aria ZZB project HB PB50 project Bitsa PB project Which equals...nine... This means something, I tells ya... 🙂 Although I have a new Shuker incoming in the next coupla months which will ruin the theory, but do I care? 😀

Two pub gigs, both good payers: one Satdy in an Irish pub in the centre of Manchester - it was just loopy hot in there, but the place was jumping, and then last night a pub in t'suburbs, again warm (but nowhere near the over of Satdy) and again jumping - one of the punters paid us a ton for another half hour, so we asked him what he wanted to hear and busked a lot of it... 🙂

Yeah, there's a huuuge IEMs thread, with chaps who know tons more about it than me (our singist is the driving force behind it), but I have a mixer on my phone (or iPad) with which I can adjust my in-ears mix independently of the others and the FOH. And yes to the latency, tho that's much more apparent if I'm using two lots - with the in-ears feed, it's really not noticeable. It depends on kit, but we have Sennheiser in-ear kit, which is very low latency...oh, and an ambient mic stuck on the stage helps massively with the isolating effect of in-ears: we've only recently started using that, and it's a revelation... But I digress... 🙂

They're actually labelled 'Round Wound NikkL', picture of a 4-string on the packet, and the aforementioned 105/115 E/B? A top quality product all round. Buy with confidence... 😃

I absolutely love that...blimey, I might be poorly... 😕🙂

Very interested, too: I've liked the NYXLs, and kinda alternated with Elixirs - the Elixirs won out in the end, but it wasn't really a level playing field, as one was coated and one not. These new XTs will definitely be worth a try...wonder how much they'll be? And yeah, Elixirs are the best coated I've played by a long way...

Hey Dave, If you liked the Streamliner then I can recommend the Genzler Magellan - I've had both (concurrent with my Walkabout), and again, there's a lineage of design. The Magellan might not have the glass valves of the Streamliner, but you wouldn't know without looking, and it's got a later gen power unit, which I found to have much more about it than the earlier Genz, Markbass, Tonehammers, etc... I only moved the Magellan on because I went properly Helix/In-Ears, so there was no need for a 'middle ground' rig: If I need backline, it's for a gig I want to take the Mesa to; if I don't, then my backline's in my rucksack... 🙂

I've never, ever needed more than a passing familiarity with the techniques (and then only for a couple of covers, things like LVD's Never Too Much and Paul Simon's You Can Call Me Al), so I learnt enough to be able to play what I needed to play and moved on with things I am interested in. The virtuosity of Messrs Wooten, Manring, Patitucci, King et al leaves me appreciative of the talent but cold to the effect, and I can't abide bass solos longer than a couple of bars. And then again such virtuosity for virtuosity's sake is a busy playing field these days with, as has been said, the competition of hordes of YouTube players. The only bassist I can listen to playing solo is Bobby Vega, then again he appeals to me because I'm primarily a pick player, and his pick-funk is just terrific. As JamieMills said above, there's a million ways to be a great player, and none of them are compulsory...

I'm enjoying mine - bought for a specific project - more than the 1024 I had. I thought I'd need to do lots to it, but the only thing I'll be changing will be the tuners, as they're a little...vague. Oh, and that dobbing great selector switch: I've never understood why Yamaha puts that on all their BBs...other than that, it's a real PJ-killer, with a genuinely useful J-pup.

Keep the MPulse, change the cab. I have a Walkabout and a couple of BF cabs (I only ever really use the ST): it's an ideal combination when I need Big Backline but don't want a slipped disc...you can use a BF ST and drop 40lbs from the weight of your rig, without (IMHO) compromising your sound. I only use the para EQ to cut the very bottom end, too: it works very very well...

The main thing is it's been strung by a pro...

If I put the Shukerbird or the Dingwall on my left leg I can barely see the first fret, let alone reach it...

Absolutely - the sensible thing to do would be for me to move on the 15" Compact and replace it with a SC to stack with the ST; you know, they have the same drivers, etc., but...those overhangs...eeeeek. 🤔

Yep, I'd agree with lots of this: the ST is plenty for even the loudest rawk band I play in, and with the wheels is a relatively easy schlep, so I'm keeping it for the time being. The only thing I'd change it for would be a pair of SCs (which would free up my just-in-case Compact, too), but I haven't got the £££ right now... The Rumble works on the smallest stages, where even the relatively small-footprint ST is too much (and it's always too much sonically for gigs like that) and we haven't got the bigger PA so I can go backline-free and IEMs...

I've used the Rumble 100 for three or four smaller gigs now, with just a little bass into the PA (which is itself very small: a 12" RCF sub and two small Bose S1 heads*) and it's been fine: plenty loud enough, and super-convenient for simple gigs. Not sure the core tone of it is exactly me, but as I have a Stomp in front of it, it's not really that important - I'm EQing it as flat as I can get it. I was seriously considering a SC (as well as my ST) for a modular setup, but they don't stack in a pleasing way, and I know it'd drive me mental...the old Compact and the ST, however, are visually stacktastic**. * These things are ridiculous for their size/weight...and they'll run off batteries, too... ** Maaaaan, I'm as shallow as a puddle... 😕🙂

You definitely do if the singer is as unaware of the issues as you indicate. Include the setlist in your messages so that everyone knows exactly what they need to know for next time, if the three of you can present a united front, it'll help.

Over the years I've bought and sold dozens of basses, and it's been a great thing: I've owned more or less everything I've ever wanted to try - Alembics, Stingrays, Jazzes and Precisions old and new, boutique stuff like ACGs and Seis and Shukers and Overwaters, and Epiphones and Gibsons and Yamahas and Ibanezes...even a Rickenbacker 😁 And the best thing is I've not just plonked on them in a music shop, I've lived with them and gigged them; some for a short time, others longer, and I know now exactly what I like in a bass, and exactly what I don't. It's not an illness, it's a journey and an experience which, unless you're unlucky or a bit daft, needn't cost much. 🙂

I've been on a bit of a search/quest: since November, I've bought six (one's a custom build, so I haven't technically got it yet) and sold four.