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Wouldn’t say I’m a total beginner, but not far off. I’ve got a Katana GO, which is incredible, so I can play along to music & videos, but I jump about. I need some direction & discipline. I want to learn at least basic theory so I can identify the key of a song & know what to play over it. If you were starting out today, how would you go about it? Is that BassBuzz Beginner to Baddass worth the £157? Are there better alternatives? Thanks!

Power - high voltage circuit, lower voltage heaters and the 9v for the pedal output. Nobelium replaces it with a transfomerless solution for the high voltage and heaters

Trip Throufg Your Wires - U2

Crossed Wires - Killbot&GorGorAttack!!

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

Telephone Man - Meri Wilson

Call Me - Go West

I agree entirely, but when material things have emotional value, the value lies in the emotions rather than the thing, and emotions are deeply personal and subject to change. If other people don't share those memories and sentiments it could be very hard to get your £20,000 back out of this bass.

It was our first time at the 1912 in Sileby and what a great sounding room, with a nice vibe too. They had a low stage in the corner with plenty of room to fit a band on, and more importantly plenty of power sockets in good working order (which makes a change!). The venue also put some effort into advertising the event. We had a room full, but probably 90% were our regular followers. I'd have hoped for a few more locals. With the room sounding so good it probably lifted our performance a little more than normal too. We started off with a bit of rock and prog, but for the last set got much more dancy and filled the floor. We had a great night and lots of compliments. Oh, I nearly forgot to mention. The guitarist brought along his old 70s strat which was his sole guitar when we were all poor in the 80s and only had one guitar each. We played together for about 10 years, him on his strat and me on my Aria SB-1000. Well tonight, after much anticipation, he said it left him cold. He struggled to get it to sing and ended up playing the Vintage (brand) thinline tele he'd brought as a spare. He thinks maybe he's just no longer a strat guy, although I did mention he hadn't got the old Marshall combo he used to lug around. At least he still loves the guitar I built for him - a super-lightweight LP Junior double cut copy with twin P90s 😁 And look, the lights change colour 😂

You say that as if it's a bad thing...

I bought a Shuker Uberhorn fretless last year which turned out to have a duff truss rod - in a way it was a blessing, as I took it to Jon who is almost finished rebuilding it with a new fingerboard and truss rod and a scale length revised from 35" to a tad over 34". Hoping to pick it up next week. OTOH, the Barcus 6-string fretless I got for a pretty good price (IIRC it was below the original starting price) is great. Incidentally, the ludicrous fan-fret Megatar didn't sell last time out and it's back again. If you want a straight 12-string tapper, fine, but all Megatar/Stick tunings that I've found have the six bass-side strings with the lowest string closest to the centre of the fretboard, completely obviating the point of a fan fret. You'd need chevron frets to make sense of it.

And bought back, and now is getting rid of again.

Hah! I almost said, bet you bought it in Scotland! I found a Custom LP special at a car boot in Edinburgh! They only seem to turn up in Holland, Germany & central Scotland!

Is that perhaps for powering the 9V pedal outputs?

I have both.The Lakland is a great bass if you need a polished smooth sound and works best to my mind if you have a lot of different genres to cover in a gig because it can just about do it all in my humble opinion. I really like the switching on the humbucker giving 60s and 70s single coil spacing or full HB as opposed to the usual series/parallel/single coil. The two I have owned have both had clear sounding open and fretted notes on the B string. For years and years the Stingray 5 was my favourite bass and it's still a bass I hold in very high esteem. Not so versatile as the 55-02 obviously but does what it does really well and has a quality to the sound that just always fits in a mix. The B string is consistently superb from one example to another so whatever they did on this bass back at the design stage nearly 40 years ago they got it nigh on perfect for a 34" scale length. Necks are a fair bit different on these two and they don't sound alike imo. Definitely two separate flavours worth having!

https://on.soundcloud.com/6JQCn0Lt5YfoMt2OVQ Something a little jazzy for a change, inspired by BlueNote Organ jazz, a bit of Wes Montgomery and possibly Pink Floyd and Pat Metheny for good measure. Many thanks to Phil Beavis for the Hammond Organ part, really made it, for me!

Always my favourite Wals.

I must had misunderstand what he mentioned then.. any idea what's the big toroid in the noble for?

Stunning 🤩

Looks really nice

Well this is nice, I get to report a new bass acquisition without fear of Tier 1 infraction. This Sandberg California TT4 SuperLight arrived today and is LOVELY!!! Great active Jazz sound and only weights 2.8kg / 6.2lbs too. I ordered it back at the end of August so I understand that means it’s not in scope for this year’s challenge. Yay!!!

ah cool. (Nobel preamp doesn't use an input transformer mind)