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[quote name='lownote12' timestamp='1501661366' post='3346226'] [color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Looking at Norfolk Band Network on FB and I'm depressed by the number of groups who proudly ID themselves as 'cover bands' or 'influenced by...' [/font][/color] [color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Imagine if all the seminal 60s and 70s groups had been cover bands. " We're called The Who and we're going to be doing Chuck Berry numbers..." [/font][/color] [color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Now clearly there is a market for really good tribute bands. It's probably an art in itself. But you get the impression with the cover bands I'm talking about that what they're really saying is "we'd like to play something and the easiest thing is to copy someone else, probably badly.". [/font][/color] [color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]By way of balance I am impressed at the number of young bands who [u]are[/u] inventive, either in versioning or coming up with originals. And covering someone else's work but with skill and creative variation has got to be OK . Last Sunday I saw the awesome Dove and Boweevil do Stormy Monday so differently I didn't recognise it until half way through. [/font][/color] [color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]What bugs me about 'covers bands' is that they're so proud that poor imitation is a valid musical identity. [/font][/color] [color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Am I being a Victor Meldrew here? [/font][/color] [/quote] Yes you are. I've always played in covers bands and enjoyed the vast majority of it. I've never ever wanted to be in an originals band. In fact most of my playing career has been split between a wedding/function band and a rock covers band. The former is also heresy in certain parts apparently but you try playing originals at someone's wedding and see how many bookings you get. The biggest challenge in playing in a covers band is trying to play something different to what last week's band did. no one wants to go to a pub and hear Sex On Fire or All right Now every week. TBH the problem you have with covers bands is your problem but if you don't like covers bands then don't go to listen to them. Music is music and most bands do covers. Motorhead are about to release an album of covers they have done over the years, GnR have done Knocking on Heavens Door since they began playing, The Chilis released an album a few years ago called Under the Covers which unsurprisingly is entirely covers. I doubt there are many bands who haven't released covers. Hell Muse covered Feeling Good FFS. I don't understand the snobbery associated with playing covers. I enjoy it, the rest of the band enjoy it, the audience listening to us enjoy it so what's the problem?

I'm wondering if the neck has come loose at some point as some of them do and instead of gluing it back in, someone has fitted a metal plate and screwed it on

They are pretty heavy but can go very loud if you can manage a couple of them. I think they're around 35-37kgs each.

Either a Fender Rumble 500 combo with matching 2x10" cab or a GK 500MB with your choice of Barefaced cab up to the limit of the budget.

There is absolutely no way I would ever have or would do 4 hours without a break. I've done quite a few 7 hour gigs but there were always breaks. Apart from having to pee you occasionally have to take on fuel as well and for £100? Last time I played pubs was 2014 and it was £80 a man for a 3 hour gig with 2 short breaks so realistically I'd be looking for £150ish to make it worthwhile and cover the cost of the incontinence pants so that I didn't have to stop playing

The Nexus Cabs are amazing. I used a 15" and a 4x10" with a Hartke LH1000 and there was a ton of clear deep rich sound from them. The only reason I changed was that I didn't need something so powerful anymore or I would still have them. I think they've changed them slightly but I had the original NX115 & NX410 cabs

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1501229091' post='3343386'] Over the last 15 or so years I have bought and sold somewhere in the region of £25k worth of items on eBay. [/quote] I've just had a look and in the 15 years I have been on Ebay I have sold £38,520.42 worth of stuff. Mainly basses, amps & cabs. That's ridiculous and made worse by the fact that I've sold a lot of stuff on here as well. Probably another £5-10,000 worth. Not to mention Bumtree sales I think they all have their uses for different purposes. I think here is the best for UK & European stuff, Ebay for worldwide and Gumtree for things that are too large to post.

I was just about to post something like this - I had one of these bags for my GK 1001RB II. Given the weight of that amp these bags should be suitable for most amps

Love them or hate them the best sound I ever had out of my 1001RB was with 2 Ashdown MAG410s. I preferred them over the ABM ones plus they are cheap as chips but 37kgs each or thereabouts

What would be the point of spending all of that money on gear to get the right sound and all the practice if you don't want to be heard? I want to be heard when I am playing or I wouldn't do it

When I used flats I bought individual Chromes to be as balanced as possible plus allow me to drop the E to D. They were 45, 60, 80, 110 and were pretty much spot on tension wise from string to string. No I'm back to rounds D'addario's 165EXLs are perfect for me, even when dropping the E down to B

I played for years with someone who I thought was a great drummer. Anyway he had a midlife crisis and I've fallen out with him forever but - we got ourselves a new drummer and she has an incredible touch and feel, playing all of the parts exactly as they should be played without having to resort to hammering the hell out of her kit whilst playing far too fast which our last drummer was also notorious for. It means that I no longer have to wear ear plugs and we can have a sensible volume on stage. Everyone is happy and we can hear each other. As mentioned in a previous thread, I depped with a band where I had to have my GK 700RB II absolutely cranked through 2 Ashdown ABM410s just to be able to hear myself on stage. Really unnecessary to have to be that loud.

The place we rehearse has one in one of their rooms and I played through it on Thursday night with their SVT350. On it's own I absolutely loved it but with the whole band playing it was just rumble. Plus I couldn't get it a a decent volume level where I could hear it but it wasn't overpowering the rest of the band. I think I'll stick my my 10kg rig thanks. I can have it as loud as I need to be able to hear it on stage yet 5 feet away you can hardly hear it when the whole band are playing.

I remember depping with a really loud rock band. I had to crank my GK 700RB into 2 x Ashdown 4x10"s just to be able to hear myself on stage. It was rediculously loud and nothing less would have been enough.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1498920776' post='3327992'] If a Yamaha BB425 is too heavy a Stingray 5 is going to be even heavier. [/quote] True - exactly why I changed from a Stingray 5 to a Sterling 4 with a Hipshot so I could go down to Low B when needed

One night I actually forgot to lift my amp so the drummer let me use his Thomann own brand wedge monitor. I ran it at full whack all night and it was flawless. Very impressed, not my usual sound but perfect for getting me out of an otherwise sticky situation

I've owned a Fender Rumble 500 combo and currently own a Barefaced One10 and I wouldn't use either without PA support. Loud as they are I just don't think they can kick out enough volume for anything but the tiniest of venues to give a decent bass sound without stretching them too far. A big 4x10" or Barefaced cab with a couple of 12"s is the minimum I'd use with no PA, unless it was a tiny venue and we're not a loud band but you need a decent bass presence.

How about a secondhand EBMM Stingray 5? That'll be well within your budget for a standard model and you won't need to change the electronics. Depending on the year you can choose from ceramic or alnico pickup

Definitely the Jazz for me. the Fodera to me sounded too restrained and a tad muffled at times but then that's why we have so many to choose from because we're all different. Incidentally I've never had a sound I've liked with a Jazz bass

[quote name='only4' timestamp='1495836217' post='3307040'] I just wondered what leads a manufacturer to choose the string gauge they send their basses out with from new? Cheers [/quote] I'll take a guess at whatever gauge they can get for the lowest amount of money

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1495401453' post='3303525'] Perfect! Cheers. Daft question do you just drill the screws into the bottom of the cab? [/quote] Most of the time I have but for anything really heavy I've removed one of the drivers to get access to the inside of the cab and used big penny washers inside to spread the load and nuts & bolts

I've only had my Sterling just over a year but the longest I have kept a bass was my Stingray 5 that I bought new in 2000 and kept for 6 years. Coincidentally both basses are/were black, black scratch plate, ceramic pickup and rosewood fretboard I have had about 120 basses in between those two ranging from amazing to dreadful and it wasn't necessarily the expensive ones that were amazing and vice versa.

I've been using D'addarios for years - mainly flats but have changed to rounds again. I've been using EXL165 on my Sterling and they are pretty bright and the smoothest roundwound string I've ever used - I've lost count of the number of wasted strings over the years trying to find "my ones" I changed my strings in the middle of December during the Christmas gigs and only changed them again last week. I could've got more out of them but wanted to give the bass a good clean, wax and lemon oil the fretboard.

I was having a lot of shoulder trouble towards the end of 2014 so I bought a proper wide neoprene strap and changed my Stingray 5 for a Sterling 4 and added hipshot ultralites. Also, as been said before, move around as much as you can as this shifts the weight from one part of your body to another. I have also found that relatively light weight training with dumbells has helped my posture and I don't get the usual pains that I had been suffering from. As you get older (I'm only 41 but have been playing for 29 years) you have to do as much as you can to make sure that bits don't start seizing up or falling off Everything I gig with combined weighs less than the lightweight 15" cab from my previous rig in this picture [URL=http://s927.photobucket.com/user/Delberthot/media/DSC03676_zps285a8a04.jpg.html][IMG]http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/Delberthot/DSC03676_zps285a8a04.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1492964710' post='3284448'] I understand going the DI route for gigs, but surely these little cabs have very little throw and sound quality has to suffer when you're up against a busy drummer. [/quote] My bass goes out front to the PA so I don't need a huge powerful cab or cabs like I used to. I find that the One10 has a pretty short throw so that I can have it at ear level as loud as I need but if I step 5 feet away from it, it isn't overpowering the rest of the stage which makes it perfect for me. I stand right next to my drummer and I have both volumes at 3 with the active pad switch engaged - it's really loud! If I went back to the kind of band I was in before with no pa support then I would definitely have big cabs again.