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The "top-of-the-shelf" stuff such as pre-CBS Fenders, certain Ricks, '60s ThunderBirds, Wal, Alembic is likely to stay on the expensive side. Other gear will eventually drop in price, since less people seem to have disposable funds for vintage stuff, and those who do want the pieces that I was referring to above. That's a very pretty instrument you have, but an EB-2 is not an easy bass to sell. Never was. It's not even a matter of price in most cases, you just have to bump into someone looking for that unique appeal that these instruments have. I was lucky to find a buyer for my '68 two years ago. Good luck.

i don't really understand the question?

I own seven right now. That's about half of what the count was two years ago. What I'd *really* like is to get down to three, but I don't see it happening since it's tough to sell anything bass-related in my neck of the woods these days. As for everyone else...you know your limits...I guess...

I still have a few valve amps keeping me company... 1) A 1964 Hagstrom Bass 210, 10W (1xECC83 + 1xECLL800) 2) 1968 Gibson Thor, 50W (2x6EU7 + 2xEL34) 3) Circa 1971 Carlsbro CS100TC, 100W (3xECC83 + 4xEL34). I own two of these, this is the better-looking one. Each of them sports a unique character and is well-loved by silly old me. In all fairness, I do own a couple of SS amps and a hybrid one as well, so I can't say I'm an "all valve kind of guy"...

I'm sure it sounds great...however... DIY stuff has never been my cup of tea, since I'm a clumsy ox. Secondly, at the prices that used L2/L4 heads show up in this neck of the woods it wouldn't necessarily be a cheaper solution...since I'd have to get someone else to make it for me. I'll eventually find space for one...somehow. Soon enough.

It does, but that is no different from an ABY pedal or just connecting the direct of one effect to another, its the same signal. You can put a different effects on different parts of the same signal, but ultimately it will still sound like one bass with different processing on it.

A gallery full of victims could help the judge form an opinion that this is no ordinary shyster before him.

A highpass filter will help you with the big booms and save on stretching cabs into distortion. Next problem becomes overheating which manifests as getting quieter despite turning up, until no sound comes out. Before that happens you need to get the stage volume under control. No way you should be unable to hear yourself properly with a stack of speakers and 700w amp.

I think they just get better each time I see them. Great gig at the De Montfort Hall in Leicester tonight. Awesome!

I vaguely remember that photo 🤔 Could it have been Nick Smith?

I like seeing your boards and living vicariously through them!

Heh, I do appreciate it more now I understand that not everyone does it, but it comes with mixed blessings and curses when it's all you have to work with. The most obvious issue is that I'm stuffed if I can't hear myself properly on stage, but having to commit every song I play to memory, to the same extent, irrespective of whether I like it or not, does occasionally make me wish I could just read them on the gig and then not be humming them to myself for the rest of eternity.

Lots of folk run parallel effects chains, and I’ve done it a lot in the past. My most common application was to run one long chain of pedals, then have an octave down in parallel so you can ‘kick in’ the sub under a line. Blending dirt pedals together in parallel is also very common. There are loads of blender pedals out there, but the most easily accessible is the Boss LS-2, which does a million things and everyone should own one, just for trying crazy routing options out when an idea like this hits. Though you have two outputs, I think using them for two chains will be less flexible that just using something like an LS-2 or other blender to split one output, due to the fact that most blenders will let you swap between just A, just B, or A+B mixed at the press of a button. I assume the value in your dual output is really to run one to amp and another straight to DI and FOH.

Awesome. I’ve had my eye on it for a while. Really appreciate the sound clips!

We have our own X32 and we supply the engineer with a 16 tail snake/loom with each output individually labelled up. We plug ourselves into our splitters>X32 and sort our leads for IE. Prior to getting this you are generally at the mercy of the engineer giving you a mix (or mixes) but I've not encountered a situation where we get to do our own mixes.

I have to take issue with the idea that Neil Peart could be bettered as a drummer in the sense that it's not a case of good, better, best. There are better drummers than John Bonham, but none of them could have improved Led Zeppelin. There are and always were much better trumpeters than Miles Davis, but he was Miles Davis. Niel Peart had a style and a delivery that made him iconic. It's not just what he played, it's what he represented at a particular time. Put a "better" drummer in Rush and their music would be diminished, not enhanced. I thought most of his lyrics were bloody awful, though. I am sure this semi-reunion will be rapturously received but I think it's a bit of a tragic to be yearning so strongly for the past. I never imagined Rush would go this route. I suppose Geddy must be bored of polishing his basses. I just hope the intervening years haven't diminished Geddy and Alex's prowess. I see so many artists who go on performing after time has robbed them of what once came so effortlessly. It's painful to watch.

Rock Lobster - B-52's

Rock Bottom - Eminem

Plenty of other fantastic basses out there for much less!

Once you plug it in you will think "hmmm, that sounds lush, perhaps I could keep it for special occasions".