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Post subject: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:56 am
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When my stuff konks out I have to have a back up gear. If I take my good P out and it dies for some reason I usually don't take my best bass as a backup ( even though I don't have any junk basses)- BUT I will usually bring a Jazz as a backup to my Persicion. In my case it's either my 01 J sunburst or my 12 J custom with a p neck. If I start with a Jazz I'll still bring a Jazz as backup- usually not a P to back up a J.
I do not have a backup tuner, amp or cabinet at a gig- I can use the other guys tuner or play thru the PA.
What do you all use as back up? OR even if you don't gig- What do you do when your stuff breaks-? Not Play or what? I've done that before.

Just wondering and the same old threads are getting boring. :D


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:21 pm
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My Fender gear doesn't "konk out". For many years I had only one bass, my trusty 1976 Precision and only one amp. From 1979 until I sold it in 2005 it was a Fender Studio Bass Amp. Never a problem. Always Loud; Proud, and Reliable. 8)

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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:29 pm
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Used to take 2 cabs and 2 heads. Could do with one head and one cab. Technology has changed and lightened the load.

Now I take a small combo and XLR out to the PA. One of the processing pedals I use has an XLR out so that is my backup amp now. I could patch out from the pedalboard XLR to the PA and get bass put in my floor monitor and get by fine.

I always take 2 P-basses, sometimes a 3rd active bass. Which ones I take depend on what and where the thing is. Outdoors I take one of the less valuable ones. Playing outdoors is far rougher on gear. Most festival gigs are outdoors of course. Number 1 bass never changes but number 2 will depending on venue. Outdoors I have a P/J that goes as #2 a lot. Indoors I'll take either a 51 RI or a 04 Standard P-Bass. I bring extra cables, tuner, strings and hand tools in my gear bag. I still move a lot of stuff but it isn't as heavy. Amp stand, combo amp, 2 basses at least, pedal board, one gear bag, music stand sometimes and I usually bring a mic bag, mic stand, mics with XLR cables, high velocity personal floor van and a stool too. That's enough. Love my fan. It doubles as an outlet strip with several outlets on it. Probably should bring a backup fan now that I think about it. Can't do without it on a warm evening.

Passive basses themselves are pretty solid but I've had strings break a couple of times so it is good to have a backup ready to avoid down time for a string change.


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:56 pm
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I forgot about my fan. I have a good strong one I got at Lowes. I have to say- speaking of fans- I played with a guitar player that no matter what had to have his fan blowing on him. Winter - Summer whatever. I never saw the guy swet a drop. Well eventually I figured it out. The fan was for blowing his hair back as he played. He had to have that guitar God thing going on. I started calling him Stevie Nicks. She has the fan thing too.


AND now that sheets of linnin mentioned it. I have only had very few instances of a Fender failure. One time a volume pot went bad and the thing just screeched so loud it wasn't funny. The other time I broke a string. I've probably only had 3 broken strings ever. I'll still bring 2 basses though. One just never knows. :D Maybe a car would crash into the stage right where my bass is. It could happen.


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 2:11 pm
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stroker vance wrote:
I forgot about my fan... One just never knows. :D Maybe a car would crash into the stage right where my bass is. It could happen.


You let Fenton drive again, didn't you? :lol:

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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:22 pm
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Yeah a fan like this is the one I use:

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On high it will blow your fretboard marker dots off. LMAO


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:43 pm
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Almost always take one J and one P. Sometimes I will take a third, Performer usually. I carry extra everything in my gig bag, even a backup tuner. One combo amp, direct box to PA. I have never had a bass fail, but, for the first time, I have only one along this trip, so place your bets.

I gotta get that fan.

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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:54 pm
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brotherdave wrote:
Yeah a fan like this is the one I use:

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On high it will blow your fretboard marker dots off. LMAO



That fan really blows! I'd get one but it's about $100 isn't it?


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:04 pm
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linnin wrote:
stroker vance wrote:
I forgot about my fan... One just never knows. :D Maybe a car would crash into the stage right where my bass is. It could happen.


You let Fenton drive again, didn't you? :lol:



No- Fenton backed over my tool box in the driveway of my cottage on the Little Manatee River in Florida. My x wife thought it was real funny. I didn't.


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:43 am
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stroker vance wrote:

That fan really blows! I'd get one but it's about $100 isn't it?


They are normally about $50. I got mine about 2 years ago during autumn fan clearance sale at the local Lowes for about $30. They had a huge stack of them. Walmart carries them too for about the same price and if you search their website for "Lasko U12100" it will come right up. I like how the air outlet moves up and down so I can point it where I want it to blow. It moves so much air it will drive even a SM-58 mic crazy with wind noise, so it is good you can adjust it up and down to keep the rush of air away from mics. The whole central part of the fan assembly rotates up and down with precise click stops built into it, so not just the vent moves. It is a good flexible design to control airflow. I use it as an outlet strip also. Plug in fan, plug amp into fan, plug pedal board into fan. I hate gigging outdoors in warm weather in the central Carolina humidity, but not nearly as much with this fan. I'm actually pretty sure it saved my life at two extremely hot shows. I sweat a lot and this helps. The humidity here is awful most of the summer. My father who grew up in southern Alabama and lived near Atlanta said this was the hottest place he'd been to in his life. Avoid playing in the Charlotte area in the summer if you can. I lived in Cocoa Beach, Fl for a while and it feels much hotter here. It is frankly too hot to play golf in July and that my friend is hot.

You can see it in action here, just to the left of the floor monitor in front of me:

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There is another one on stage in this photo, off to the side of the drummer, but it isn't visible. The keyboard player has one now too.


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 2:46 pm
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It's pretty pathetic and egotistical if you have to bring your own fans.

Oh, wait a minute, I misunderstood the question.

Here's my backup gear!

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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:25 pm
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oxfan wrote:
It's pretty pathetic and egotistical if you have to bring your own fans.

Oh, wait a minute, I misunderstood the question.

Here's my backup gear!

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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO.


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:31 pm
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brotherdave wrote:
oxfan wrote:
It's pretty pathetic and egotistical if you have to bring your own fans.

Oh, wait a minute, I misunderstood the question.

Here's my backup gear!

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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO.



NICE> Try to mount it on a stand. ALSO the pic of Daves band is a first. Nice. They be ROCKIN">!! :D :!:


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:35 pm
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brotherdave wrote:
stroker vance wrote:

That fan really blows! I'd get one but it's about $100 isn't it?


They are normally about $50. I got mine about 2 years ago during autumn fan clearance sale at the local Lowes for about $30. They had a huge stack of them. Walmart carries them too for about the same price and if you search their website for "Lasko U12100" it will come right up. I like how the air outlet moves up and down so I can point it where I want it to blow. It moves so much air it will drive even a SM-58 mic crazy with wind noise, so it is good you can adjust it up and down to keep the rush of air away from mics. The whole central part of the fan assembly rotates up and down with precise click stops built into it, so not just the vent moves. It is a good flexible design to control airflow. I use it as an outlet strip also. Plug in fan, plug amp into fan, plug pedal board into fan. I hate gigging outdoors in warm weather in the central Carolina humidity, but not nearly as much with this fan. I'm actually pretty sure it saved my life at two extremely hot shows. I sweat a lot and this helps. The humidity here is awful most of the summer. My father who grew up in southern Alabama and lived near Atlanta said this was the hottest place he'd been to in his life. Avoid playing in the Charlotte area in the summer if you can. I lived in Cocoa Beach, Fl for a while and it feels much hotter here. It is frankly too hot to play golf in July and that my friend is hot.

You can see it in action here, just to the left of the floor monitor in front of me:

Image

There is another one on stage in this photo, off to the side of the drummer, but it isn't visible. The keyboard player has one now too.[/quot



Charleston is hot like that too. The only thing saving you down there is the breeze on the beach AND that's where I plan to be here shortly. The big Flea market down there is a real burner too. I'm still going though. :D


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Post subject: Re: What is your backup gear?
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 10:01 pm
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No gig right now...but I'd be carrying a couple extra 9volts and an additional cord..or two.


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