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I am very impressed with the sterling short scale feet work. ground and black filled feet tangs were a nice touch on a bass for 650! Quality is remarkable. The main difference I see vs the American other than the badging, bridge, and control plate, is the heavier hardware, but the weight feels good on such a small bass, and make it feel substantial dispite its surprisingly small size. Love it!

Thanks - had spotted and using some of those bass specific blocks but clearly need to to delve into further! Have you found particular fx that - delivers that warm break-up dirt to add a bit of grit to the tone? - any combination that get's a decent Sansamp VT Bass DI emulation?

Watching this thread with interest . I heard a couple of porcupine tree tracks a few years ago ,and it wasn’t my bag . I have 2 Tangerine Dream cd Boxsets that he remastered, and he did a great job ! He is immensely talented both as an artist in a band situation and as a solo artist …plus as a producer ! Many hats. I stumbled across 2 live tracks on my YouTube feed over the last couple of weeks ..’Fear of A blank Planet ‘ and another track I’ve forgotten right now . Watch that track ! A fantastic performance. I’m trying to find out anything that sounds like that, and will purchase the right albums . The only thing I’m concerned about , is if he / porcupines tree etc have released patchy albums and that purchasing single tracks on downloads would be better ..

Let's start 2026 with a colourful bang! Ghost-Note Band - Loose Screws with Dywane 'MonoNeon' Thomas Jr. on bass. This is from a Zildjian demo with Dennis Chambers.

I have the sterling short scale and also the new Ernie ball custom, and it’s worth noting the new aluminum lightweight bridge on the Ernie ball is quite a bit narrower and this adds to the illusion on a much larger control plate.

I have a Cort Rithmic 4 and 5 string, Dave. And a MarkBass Jeff Berlin combo. Do I sound like him? Do I f***. The truth is that I didn't buy the kit because I wanted to sound like him, it was just that, for reasons I am not going into on here, I had to get some useable gear that didn't break the bank and this kit is all at the affordable end. I have to say that the 5-string is really exceptional but all of it is perfectly decent professional quality kit. It has really made me think hard about cost vs. value.

Good advice. To isolate my subs from floors and stages, I use semi-hard rubber tiles that I bought from a company that supplies them to schools, playgrounds and similar to place around swings and slides to prevent kids from injuring themselves if they fall. They're half a metre square, quite heavy and do a good job. The material is grippy, so cabs don't slide or move. Being intended for outdoor use, they're tough, too. Google "playground rubber tiles" and you'll find plenty.

I'm now three months in with the Protec and, while I'm very happy with it, in truth it has yet to do a dozen gigs (most of my gigs in that period have been a better fit for my BSX Allegro) so it's too early to be writing any reviews yet.

@Al Krow you need the bass amp block to find the Fat Tube amp. There's the whole bass effects section at the end of the block list if you haven't found them yet!

Thicker foam of lower density can be beneficial on particularly soft stages. But too thick can result in the cab rocking. Spikes don't do anything useful from a sound standpoint. Where they can be beneficial is on a carpeted floor, gripping through the carpet to prevent speaker 'dancing' at high power levels, especially long-excursion subs. The quasi-magical properties attributed to them by some are just more audiophile piffle.

I looked at these last year, started a similar thread to this Got some good advice, ended up with a TC BG208 which is ideal for me and it also saved me some money going down that route Tony

Been setting up a couple of drive patches on the GX10 using the AIRD preamp fx. Managed to find the Orange Stack which I had previously been using on my GT-1000 Core, but not the Fat Tube which others had mentioned/liked on the Core and I was hoping to audition - maybe that's one of the fx not available yet on the GX10? I'm finding that the Boss preset GX Dual Drive (with some added EQ to fill out the low-mids) is my current fav - it's a reach creamy drive! That comprises the OD fx followed by two of their preamps in parallel. What's particularly neat is being able to assign the expression pedal to two parameters on each of the OD and the two preamps (ie 6 parameters in total): the gain and level so that the gain on all three can be simultaneously increased while at the same time smoothly reducing the output levels on each fx so the overall output volume remains even. Combining that with one of the footswitches to kick off/on the two parallel-path preamps and I've got quite a range of drive available via the expression pedal and one stomp-switch which will be handy for live use.

Pretty certain there's some Steven Wilson hero worship going on here. I've come a bit late to the Steven Wilson party; I've loved the work he's done resurrecting/elevating the Tears For Fears and XTC back catalogue to spatial audio and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome To The Pleasuredome Atmos mix is an absolute delight, but (and there's always a 'but'), I find his total output somewhat overwhelming in a musical capacity. So much content to play catch up. No-Man, Porcupine Tree, his solo stuff, Blackfield ...and so on. I own a few albums/BluRays; more recent live stuff (Home Invasion/Arriving Somewhere/Closure Continuation Live) and some solo stuff (The Future Bites/The Overview) and I dip into Spotify for short hits of audio, but just want to throw something cohesive together (Spotify) that I can just stick on in the car, at home etc. My good lady happened to be sitting in the same room when Pariah (from To The Bone) came on - she said, 'I like this,' which was then swiftly followed by, 'I don't like this, there's too many notes,' and I can kind of see her point. Gimme you favourite tracks.

Latest incarnations of my boards. Gigging requirements keep changing, so we have plenty of dirt options on one for the 90’s grunge and alt rock set, and more of a filter focus on the other for the 80’s pop covers.

Indeed. Phil McKnight visited Cort in Indonesia. This is what I would call mass produced. Compare that to the likes of Warwick (playlist from 13 years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RTxRSp52Y&list=PL23BB5BB96FFBFC41