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Yeah, think the roasting process just brought out the figuring a lot.

Had a polar white one in 80's and didn't keep it long. Just couldn't get a tone i liked. Its the only bass i have no pics of. Dave

Nerdy pic of my three Goodfellow’s. Quaint basses indeed.

Get Off Of My Cloud - Rolling Stones

Gratuitous green and red 🙂

Just a note to the OP. Ladies play our instrument too. One of them could have your answer but you excluded them with your "Hi chaps." 😒

You are quite right. I can tell you from experience that stage / out-front volumes are nowhere near as loud as they were in the seventies, eighties and (to a slightly lesser extent) nineties.

A breach of the peace is something else.

Are bands getting louder? I'm not sure that assertion is supported by real world experiences. More and more bands and musicians are going for quiet stages, modelling rigs or smaller amps, electronic drums etc. Big gear that used to be a gigging staple like 8x10" or 2x15" bass cabs and guitar 4x12"s go for pocket money prices because very few still have a use for them, and there's a whole market for gear that imitates the cranked amps that used to be normal.

Speakers need to be matched to their enclosure. With the neos. the cab could sound lovely or the speakers could just tear themselves to bits. Why buy a cabinet just to change the drivers? When you could just put together or have one made for you, a suitable box to mount the neos in? The manufacturer of the neos would probably have suitable plans for such an enclosure. It would be cheaper than this plan.

New medium scale bass on the block: https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Hartwood-Satellite-Bass-Guitar-White/6DVL. The price is very reasonable at £199 and Bass the World think it is good value: Personally I would have preferred a 38mm nut and 19mm bridge spacing to the 40mm and 20mm but at this price the bridge is easily fixed and 40mm is manageable for both P and Jazz bass fans.

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For multi-band gigs the amount of backline on-stage can sometimes be over-excessive. Therefore the band with no backline can be at an advantage. Not only does my band plus all our gear, merch and roadie/merch seller fit comfortably into a single estate car, but we also fit comfortably on smaller stages where the headlining band have already used most of the space with their drum kit and amps. I've yet to come across the SE who insists on trying to make my bass indistinguishable mush. However my current bug-bear is with the SE who IMO wastes time trying to get the perfect gain structure on every channel on the PA for 3-4 entirely different bands. We're not trying to remake "Frampton Comes Alive" or even "The Who Live At Leeds" and need the highest signal to noise ratio possible. It's a gig in a small club with probably 200 people in the audience maximum. So long as nothing is overloading the channel input, it will be fine, and if it is they can always adjust the gain setting during the set and turn up the channel fader to compensate, It will all be over in less than 40 minutes and no-one on stage or FoH is going to be bothered with a tiny amount of extra hiss (if there even is any with todays modern digital desks and D-class PA amps) because the input gain was set a bit too low on a couple of channels.

Just checked manual and it’s 30kg virtually Regarding speakers I’m not sure it would end up sounding the same as the stock speakers although visually it would look amazing !

Very nice, unusual neck grain?

I remember that transition well - explaining to the bassist another band that I was really pleased with my purchase, but still getting used to the 12th fret not being where my muscle memory expected it to be! Congrats on a gorgeous new bass, I hope it continues to please at your next rehearsal.

Well, at least, not Danish. It’s a kind of relief.