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It also depends on how large a neck profile you are comfortable with, plus the additional weight a 5 can bring. Both those are important to me, more important than the need for the low B. As has been mentioned above, a Hipshot Drop D tuner gives me all the flexibility I need; I have one fitted to all my gigging basses (and I play all sorts of music). YMMV, IMHO, etc, etc...however, I'd definitely be going to a music shop and trying some out...

If I was being very, very sensible, I'd sell the ST and the Compact and buy a pair of SCs, but since when has sensible counted for all that much? 🙂

Just spotted a typo I can't correct properly - I meant 'under 4 ohms' rather than 'under 2 ohms'. A ST and a Compact is 2.667 Ohms, so there's a few amps'll do this (a lot of the newer Class D 8/900w modules will) and my Walkabout is fine with it. Yep, it's complete overkill, but a proper bass stack that weighs less than a single 410? Falls into Just Because I Can territory... 🙂 Sadly, the SC doesn't stack properly onto the ST*, otherwise I'd have a SC instead of the Compact... 😕 * Yes, I know: I'm OCD and as shallow as a puddle...

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... 😕🙂