u/maclargehuge

I'm using a sansamp v2 which is great. Honestly, I love it and I have no complaints. The issue is that I have a few places where I leave pedal boards for rehearsals and performances and am looking to get a new preamp anyway simply to make my musical travels easier. I could definitely just get another sansamp, but I'm curious if there's amps that fit my style.

I'm firmly a flatwounds player. My main bass is a fender pj bass (1987 MIJ Jazz Bass Special). I play finger style almost exclusively. I'm a big fan of the "rolled down tone knob on a p bass with flats" sound of Duck Dunn.

Is there a vintage-style preamp for R&B guys like me?

It needs to have XLR out. I would like the parallel output that a sansamp has, but it's not a deal breaker

I might be searching for the wrong thing here, but I'm coming up empty and I need some help. I am trying to find videos of people conducting in various time signatures. I'm trying to improve my ability to follow a conductor as a bass player. I am great with a metronome, and have played with drummers for many years, but I'm very new to playing with a conductor and it's obvious I need to practice, and it's hard to waste the entire orchestra's time as my personal "learn to follow a conductor" practice.

When I try to find something like this, I get lots of videos on how to conduct in various different ways, but I can't find anything that is intended for beginner ensemble musicians to practice with. Just medium-length videos of conducting patterns with no lessons or fluff for newbies to lock in to.

Perhaps this is a silly thing and I'm better spent with another method?