SimonK

Experience is everything with amps. I'm sometimes awed and persuaded by the technical comments on here, however music is ultimately a practical art and amps often just need to be plugged in and turned up to see if it works. In a way wattage ratings etc. are neither here nor there if the amp does (or doesn't) do the job. At the moment I'm rocking a mini-stack with a 1x15 (TE1153), and the classic TE2103x (which has 2x10s and 2x5 in the same enclosure), driven by my old GP7SMX with the gain set at 3/4 and the volume between 1/4 and 1/2 most of the time. There's loads of wisdom on here that talks about comb filtering, power rating etc., but regardless it just works for me!

But these are guitar amps that people want to distort/overdrive as that is where the goodness sits. As a bass player I generally want a lot more headroom with my bass amp, especially because if I do use some drive I want need some clean in there as well to keep the low end - so I would say it is all very different with bass amps.

Yes it does seem to be a rooky error, although hopefully won't fry the preamp if there is no signal (or power spike when it turns on!). I've found another picture of the back panel and they definitely do seem to be speaker out jacks. Question is of course whether anyone in the music shop (or before) may have done something stupid...

Well done - I considered for about 30 seconds driving up to Sheffield but it would have been an eight hour round trip for me. Let us know if it works!

I have to say those knobs are special... can't you find some old chewing gum or maybe a scrap of paper to improve the look 🙂 !

It is - but what a combination!!

Oh my... that's a beauty and a good price... is it Sheffield where they are based?

They are good heads - I've got one - BUT how clean they look on the outside says nothing about how well they work. I'm still struggling with getting rid of the hum on the GP12 head above I grabbed a few weeks back, and increasingly as these get older the more likely that they will have faults. The question I now ask myself is whether the amp is cheap enough for me not to be too concerned if it doesn't work and I (or my far more capable buddy) can't fix it. These are increasingly a gamble, and I think the price needs to reflect the fact you may potentially end up with a very pretty, but not too useful amp.

Having a gig in the diary and knowing what date you are working towards has always been the most important thing for the bands I have been in. You get crazy efficient when there is hardly any time left!

Ha - did that this evening, although better than breaking my whirlwind cables that are getting so expensive you can almost buy a bass for the same price!

I suspect if being an "artist" is a spectrum, there is just something about bass players that make us a little more down to earth than other artists. Certainly whenever I've been in festivals/gigs etc., being someone who goes on stage and plays something does put you with a different group to other people doing stuff at the gig. While I might not consider myself an "artist" in the same way as the mentally unstable singer/song writer who doesn't get sarcasm, I do find myself in the same general group...

I think there is a distinction between the bass player being able to hear themselves, and the bass sitting well in the mix. When I play I like to hear a lot of bass so that I can hear what I am playing, and thus am often disappointed when I wander out to FOH to hear that the overall mix doesn't have as much of me in it as I like to hear. But that just reflects that the FOH mix is trying to achieve a different thing compared to my monitor/where I'm standing mix. Looking at some of the above there seems to be some people answering "how to get the bass sitting well in the overall mix" question and others the "how do I cut through enough to hear myself" question.

I tend to forget that my Bass itself has pretty good EQ options that can be adjusted on the fly. If not cutting through I would just fiddle with the onboard EQ while playing with the band to find something that works. Once you know what that is just dial it back should you ever be playing bass on your own!

I've got a Warwick which needs the intonation adjusting but am scared of German reverse screw threads if you fancy having a look?

Do they? I've never seen it mentioned explictly although maybe I don't use decent amps?

While I seldom need an excuse for a new bass, I think this one might just be a case of practicing some more to get better technique!

I've just started using a five string also for church/gospel music. This last Sunday was the first time it really "clicked" for me, due to having a load of songs in the key of D. I found using the D, E, F# and G# on the fifth string worked really well. Also saving the low D for every now and again just introduced a lovely low end thunder. Although I had my Stingray 4 string on the stand just in case, it didn't get touched for the first time in many years... thus said I still can't slap cleanly on the five string due to the tighter string spacing.

I'm not a huge bass pedal user, so not mentioning guitar pedals everything that has ever been on my bass pedal board are the following, again using the * to indicate something in use as I still own all of the below - seems I have never sold a bass pedal! Includes pedalboard and power supplies, but not patch cables: Aguillar Octamizer Boss CS-3 *Boss GEB-7 Boss TU-2 Boss TU-3 *Boss TU-3s * Bright Onion momentary kill switch *EHX bass big muff EHX big muff pi (original russian version) *Genzler Magellan Pre Hartke Bass Attack (preamp pedal) *Keeley Compressor Pro *Line6 Relay G30 MXR bass envelope filter MXR bass chorus *Pedaltrain Classic Junior TC Electronics Ditto stereo looper *Truetone 1 Spot Pro CS7 Truetone 1 Spot

When I first got my fretless many years ago I was quite worried about my intonation, but over time have learned to just trust my ears and also slightly slide up to each note (also helps getting the mwah). As an upshot as long as each string is within a couple percent I often don't even bother tuning, albeit do have an always on tuner on the floor and do occasionally glance at it for reassurance.

Is it lined? I have a non-lined fretless and find I can tolerate fairly out of tune strings without a problem so long as I don't play the open note!

Managed to use a pick and the fuzz pedal this morning on Our God 🤘. Sadly we didn't have an electric guitar today but I tried to make up for it!

...or the tank like build quality... The new Trace amps are really Peavey, a company who I may never trust after this which possibly explains the title to this thread (a lost art!):

So I'm guessing the idea is to download songs in ChordPro format from SongSelect, and then add into your JustChords database? Are you able to increase the font size, scroll using a bluetooth footswitch, change keys on the fly (or at least relatively easily) and annotate?

Does JustChords link into SongSelect?

On Sunday I was the only person in the band without a tablet/phone for the music, albeit the singers were just using simple pdfs on their phones. The guitarist suggested I should think about getting "OnSong" (I have an ipad), so I was just wondering whether anyone here have used this and what they think about it?