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All my basses have East preamps in them - I use a fair spread of tones in the function band, and I don't want to faff with my backline to do it - especially if we're using in-ears without backline I don't have any axe to grind either way; it is, as has been pointed out several times, all down to personal taste and preference.

If you want a more elegant cabling solution, OBBM will make you up a dual lead with the instrument and phono leads - it's very very handy indeed, and it's how I like to run mine.

Cheers guys - yup, BRX is correct in his assumption that I'd like to add to, rather than replace the bass. Soooo, nothing particularly cheap, then... I might have to look at one of these instead... https://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/12-step/

Soooooo, the trio I'm in want to expand the repertoire, and I'm looking at connecting the bass to Mainstage, for which I'm assured I'll need a decent Midi interface. Anyone having success with a particular type/model? I was looking at the Sonuus B2M, but I'm reading tales of latency and tracking making it iffy? Cheers, M

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1484003521' post='3211951'] On the other hand, I would probably pay good money not to have to watch your band. [/quote] Oh, now hold on...I think I sense a new earner... On the 'fame being relative' thing, I did a gig at a big awards ceremony at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground last year, we were introduced to a load of (mostly huge) young fellas with expensive suits and haircuts, all of whom I just said "Hiya" to. I thought the Event Manager looked a bit downcast, it was only later I was told they were mostly England cricketers...

It's all largely irrelevant to me, as I think they're two of the worst bastardisations of the Fender design I've ever seen. If you gave me one I'd sell it immediately. Fodera owners may well love them, and will probably be able to afford them. Good luck to em, it's their money.

Although even in the serious trib world it doesn't always happen - I got chatting with the singer/bassist from Limehouse Lizzy, who plays a black and chrome Stingray. I asked him why... "I don't like Precisions" Ummmm...OK... I play any bass I want in any band (I've used my Shukerbird for wedding gigs and acoustic trio sit-down ones, too), pretty much on packing-the-bag impulse, but I have to say I do like slinging said Shukerbird around low with the 70s/80s Rock band...it's just so much more rock'n roll...

Having owned a few Schroeder cabs - tho not the exact one you have, I've had smaller ones - if you're playing loud through it, then I can't think of a single 210 which will perform at the same SPLs. If you're not pushing the volume levels really, really high, then yeah, a good 212 or a couple of good 112s will do it. My Bergs and previous BF cabs would do it, certainly. Tone is another matter entirely: Schroeders have a strong character, a different maker/format will take a bit of re-EQing...but then that's half the fun

The build quality of the Magellan 800 is exemplary, so I'm sure this'll be quality, too...love the slight tiltback...

I have four main basses and four other (much cheaper) project-type ones (and zero bass GAS), I have three Berg 112s and two amps, a Magellan and a Walkabout. I'm covered for everything I need now. The only thing I might consider is lighter cabs, though I'd still look at 3x112s, or a 2x12 and a 112...

[quote name='jay-syncro' timestamp='1482925776' post='3203534'] Jazzy AND funky. This is outrageous. http://youtu.be/QRuM2rk2miQ [/quote] That was terrific...

We've just started using Band Helper to co-ordinate our set lists for the 3 and 4 piece function band, and it's highlighted the fact that the 4-piece has a repertoire of 178 songs right now, and the 3-piece somewhere North of 150 (not been updated yet). I have a lot of those in my head, but it's nice to be able to have the band react to requests (within reason, and those 178 plus the buskable ones) by having a quick shufty at my iPad... When there's an, erm, set setlist, I won't use it, but I have it handy for when the band leader likes to go 'off piste'... In my Proper Rock Band, and the originals band, I don't use it.

I've never taken to 5s (despite owning three) because I don't like big chunky necks, and find a Hipshot can cover everything I need. Having said that, I wouldn't have an issue chopping back and forth: I have a Dingwall, and at first I'd imagined (easy as they are to play) that my muscle memory would get fritzed switching between 36-odd scale and 34/35s, but it's never been an issue: I'll use the Dingwall and another bass on the same gig without even thinking about it. A strange and wonderful thing, the brain...

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1482505175' post='3201140'] what the... [/quote] I know...I was waiting for the punchline...

There was no need to take the funk out of Uptown Funk, but they went to the trouble to do it...

I don't disagree...I've had them both, and moved them both on. Lots of folk want that exact sound, though. Incidentally, I thought the Tech21 head was pretty barky and weedy...and that's a lead-sled Proper Transformer one... Maybe another thread for 'Big Transformer Heads That Don't Have Much Heft'... I can think of a few I've owned...

[quote name='gapiro' timestamp='1482501615' post='3201111'] Its well played, but I dont see the point. It juts misses the whole point of uptown funk. ie that it is funk. Any well drilled function band with a horn section will do it far better, and is something great to play in when everyone knows all the little riffs etc that are there. [/quote] All very much true IME - I'm waiting for another one in this series: the punk version of Take Five, when the band shift it to 4/4 and get rid of all that jazzy hoohah...

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1482501629' post='3201113'] Yeeeuch! [/quote] Oh, I dunno - if you want the sound of The King Of The Big Old Valvey Heads (tm), then it does just that...the one with the mids control is better all-round, though.

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1482421275' post='3200446'] I like the ethos, learning a song quick and then recording it, but this jazzed-up version just isn't to my taste. [/quote] Pretty much this...Uptown Funk with the funk removed.

Normal M-F XLR...

I had a Streamliner 900 for a long time - you don't need a DI box, just run straight out of the back of the head to the PA. You can select Pre or Post EQ (i.e. a flat signal of just your bass, or a signal after you've EQ'd on the front).

Having used Class D stuff possibly more widely than a lot of folk on here (I make it ten or eleven different heads, IIRC), I've now got two heads, a Magellan and a Walkabout, which I use for different bands, both with either two or three Berg 112s. I'd had a run of rehearsals with the 'proper rock band', for which I use the Walkabout (it just suits the band sound) and I was thinking 'Ooooo, the heft...', etc. Then I gigged at the weekend with the function band at a big Xmas do, where the band leader forgot the big mixer, so I wasn't FOH, and I had the Magellan with me...and that did it, too: huuuuge. The newer Class D stuff is much, erm, 'heftier' than a lot of the first gen stuff - FWIW, I thought the TH500 I had was the weediest of the Class D heads by some distance, I'm not surprised people see a difference when they move from one of them back to Class A/B - the B&O ICE 800w power stage is a helluva thing. As far as cabs are concerned, well, in a world of roadies I'd have an 810 just for the sheer look/hell of it, but in the real world, there's no reason for anything over 50lbs a pop these days - those 1/2" marine ply dinosaurs are just that.