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I owned a USA G&L Fallout a few years back with a tribute model as a backup. From a fetish the object point of view, I wish I still had the USA one with it's quarter sawn neck and fancy tuners BUT....sonically it was no better at all than the Tribute. My only basses now are 2 tribute Fallouts, one with flats one with rounds. It's a strange feeling, having played bass for 40 years; you feel there should be a justification for having a vintage fender ( those days are gone now for me) or some other bass with kudos. The brute truth is that in the band I'm in, the basses I currently own work better than anything else I've tried. At around £300 s/h each. OK I've upgraded the tuners, but for no good reason really. I think, like Danelectro guitars ( I read an interview with Lindy Fralin where he said the stock pickups in his Korean Dano where perfectly good enough), by their essence 30 inch scale basses are ' good enough ' at a lower price point than 34 inch scale. You can try and make them more ornate but perhaps the inherent lack of dead spots and the bloom of notes up the dusty end makes them great value and utility. Just my experience anyway.

12 o’clock does seems to be the standard move with all Markbass amps and FOH engineers are usually happy with the level they get from that. Most venues that have Markbass gear in-house will already have their line out pre-set to 12 so it must be a decent signal level at that setting

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I'm the very pleased new owner of Ian's Tech 21 XB Driver. And what an amazing pedal it is! It arrived just as described and the day after posting. Thanks Ian!

Yeah, sorry man. Didn't mention it to give you more work, more that I unsurprisingly couldn't last five days into the new year without buying stuff

Ampeg PF350. Sounded damned fine, too.

To present another view I have an Ashdown amp I’m trying to sort out for a friend who can’t afford a replacement and they don’t have the wiring diagrams and didn’t offer any help with the issue. I have maybe figured out what’s wrong but I’m not sure without the diagram and if it is what I’m thinking it is I can’t buy the replacement component anyway so the whole thing will go in the bin. Put me off getting one tbh.

sorry to hear that

Some things were just meant to be, and stars do sometimes align. I say this gets a pass, as @Machines didn't go shopping for a bass - in fact, an award might be due because of his going to pick up a g****r in broad daylight.

She did offer indeed, I was considering buying it myself and very well might have without the offer, how about this additional factor ?

That's what I said. I find the political dimension of Eurovision quite hard to follow. They're anti-Israel, right? Okay then, great, so at least we know where light entertainment in Azerbaijan stands on these kind of issues. I'm sure that makes just as big a difference to those fighting on the frontline as it does to me.

That's cool, I have both the original Clone Theory and a Golden Ratio. Both are noisy... but they do sound great 👍