With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.
I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.
I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

