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I run my Walkabout with a Barefaced 2x12, and it's very, very loud (as in 'keep up with a loud drummer' loud, which is all anyone needs before PA and monitoring pop into the mix*), and not inherently boomy at all - I'd concur with the 'set it flat and just use the bass, mid and treble' controls. The only thing I do with the Para (unless I'm in a truly horrible room) is dial the two left hand knobs fully anticlockwise, to cut 30Hz. I then add this back in if the room/stage can cope. Oh, and with the 212 it's also very portable - I bought a padded plastic toolbox thing from the now-defunct Maplin, and it's a very easy safe carry, especially with a 38lb cab (with wheels 😀) * Although I also have a BF 115 to pop under the 212 when I'm feeling I need a stack, and then it's even louder...stooopid loud...

Whilst glaring at the drummer, obv... 😀

Completely agree; I think the technical term is 'fwubbb'...

I took my lad to see Oldham a few years ago (and no, they didn't lose 😏), the same as when my Grandad took me when I was a kid*, and he was much more interested in the halftime pies...I gave up then, and looked at it as a lot of weekly cost saved... * His first choice was OT, us being Manc Reds and all, but OT in the early 70s wasn't exactly a kid-friendly environment...

I play in a function trio which covers (har har) everything from Johnny Cash to Muse, and I've moved to a Helix Stomp (via a Zoom B3/MS60B) which allows a lot of flexibility, especially around songs in dropped (or raised) keys - the Stomp has a fantastic pitch shifter. I won't need anything else; just one small box for the lot. Plus it's a whole lot of fun playing around with the sounds...and it works with backline or DI/IEMs...

The last time I saw George Ezra it cost me £6...he was good and all, but I don't think I'd spring for £253 to see anyone...

We're on for a pub gig that night, but it's always a 10:30 start/1am finish, so it won't make much difference. Plus it's not exactly a hotbed of Liverpool/Spurs support locally here, so it'll be more casual interest...actually, saying that, the place doesn't tend to show the football, so it'll be full of ladies till much later on, I'm guessing. Win-win... 😀

This, except for the 'to high standards'. At least in my experience, having bought (and returned) a brand new 4003... I'm sure there are good ones out there, but they aren't all good.

That's a chair leg he's peeping out from behind...

Although, judging (yes, I knowwww) by this pic, with the aesthetic restraint of a hyperactive magpie...I haven't seen such bling since that TV crew were invited into Five Star's communal house back in the 90s...

There's free postage, though...

There would possibly be an unseemly scuffle should one appear for anything less than Well Upholstered Collector Money...I've never seen one of those before, and I love it...

Let's give the man a break; he was writing some 60 years before the event... It's possible he was thinking 'chequered' with respect to QC...

Others, I am not the first, Have been by John Hall's comp'ny cursed: If in the breathless night I too Shiver now, 'tis nothing new. There is, however, in the first draft, a note pencilled in the margin which would seem to support the 'separating the man from the machine' thoughts above. It reads: 'Though I'd happily torch Shrewsbury to get my hands on a minty Mapleglo 4001 with chequered binding'

Sounds like a plan; I'd say all three songs would be much more interesting with fretless, too. I wish I could co-ordinate bass changes (not to fretless, but it'd be nice to use different basses for different parts of the set*) but our BL calls songs as he goes - mostly from the setlist, but sometimes more off-piste - it's a kind of DJ thing: he's good at reading a crowd/room, and building the energy, and it works, so I don't really mind, but it means sometimes I literally don't know what's coming next. I generally watch the presets on his Helix... 😕🙂 * I only bring two - not exactly Claytonesque, I know, but I have to carry them myself...

Or mount it on a skateboard, put a couple of ramps either side of the stage, and you've got a show right there... 😀 Even better, add a battery-powered backpack-mounted amp, and the busking possibilities just open up. Ideal for avoiding those tedious conversations with Council officers keen to discuss performance licenses...

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Robert Oppenheimer, from The Bhagavad-Gita 😁

I loved my Magellan; had my band circumstances not changed, I'd still have it...

Ideally stage left for the aforementioned Drummer Contact thing, but in the trio I play with most, I'm usually stage right, which suits me, because if (when) the Singist/Guitarist gets 'creative' with the setlist and chucks stuff in we either haven't played for an age (or, on some choice gigs, we've never played at all) I get to watch his left hand for the chords...

So I traded a bass for a Jack Casady, because I've had a semi-acoustic itch I've been wanting to scratch for a while (steadyyyy...), and I'd imagined it'd become a pleasant-looking but kinda oddity bass in the collection. I put some new D'Addario nickel rounds on it, plugged it in and had a play. The 50 and 250 settings on the VariGain switch were a bit Meh, but I tried the 500 setting and Blimey Charlie what a sound! I'm predominantly a pick player, and it's got a terrific bark to it that I really like. What is this mystic voodoo? All my other basses have very versatile active 6-pot EQs, and this just nails a great sound with one switch. I'm gigging it at the weekend to see if that sound's all in my headphones, but hopefully not. Does anyone know what that pickup is? I'm presuming a single coil of some sort...I'd like to know more about the fixed VariGain/EQ point, too; anyone know what that's actually doing? I'm going to be going back to my other basses now with a view to seeing if I can get that sound from them.

I'm sure if Genz Benz were still in business, the bloke who designed the Streamliner probably would... 🙂 I used MB amps and cabs for a while (LMIII, LMT, F1, the NY15s and a 410) and while they ultimately weren't the sound I was looking for, I couldn't fault them for what they do. I have a friend in the music retail business, and he put his finger on it when he said 'They make everything sound better'. Admittedly he wasn't in the rarefied upper reaches of boutique stuff, which is where a lot of BassChat lives, but in the middle ground, it's true. I still have a vague hankering for a TTE... 🙂

Upper fret access you say? 😀

Zoinks. If they made that with a maple board (or I had the self-control to wait an age to get one made) I'd be in serious, serious trouble. And so would my ABZ... 😕😁

Ooooh, even better 😁

I rather like them...tho they'd work better, as has been mentioned, if they were the other way round on a bass with the triangle inlays...dots just look wrong on a Ric... I like the Schaller 3D-ripoff bridge, too...it might be nice if they'd put a chrome surround on the bridge pup; not a big impractical one like the original, but a flatter one with a visual nod to the original... I'm kinda stuck on the body: visually, I think the bound bodies look much better, but then there's that horrible sharp edge to cut into your right arm...this one looks much more practical, though...