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Mine came with ordinary batteries (still in there) and it’s not given me any trouble at all in six months

This has me seriously intrigued - just looked it up and listened to a yt demo - right up my street! Do Horrothia ever have them for sale? Sounds great!

This journey, into bass playing? What made you pick up that first bass at the start of this long and winding road? You drive me crazy by Shakin Stevens. No idea why but I'd played violin since the age of 6 and my brother and Dad played guitar so I'd always picked them up. My brother was very supportive and helped me a lot when I got my first bass aged 13 (1981) Do you still have the same fire and enthusiasm? Do you still love it? No. No fire left in me now. I play in a couple of really good tribute bands with my mates but I actually get more excited about singing these days What has changed along the way? Your taste in music, taste in basses? Discovered Fender P basses about 7 years into my playing. Swapped my Manson 335 for a late 70s black with maple board P bass. There was the sound I wanted. Always played rock and blues, The Police and The Jam and Duran Duean were my biggest influences on my playing, and still are What was the first bass? And what’s the latest First bass was a Tempest SG thing (a Kay with 2 pickups) Then a Fender Musicmaster, Then a Manson Explorer. I've had Musicman, Custom built stuff, Rickenbackers, Vintage Fenders, Gibsons and currently rocking 2 Warwicks in the U2 tribute, Harley Benton PB50 in the Police, HW built 4003 in the Jam and a JMJ Mustang for the blues/rock thing. And my 73 P bass that I had for 35 years now

This is a curiosity question about the forum mechanics. Regarding the Lorne Peakman BC Rich thread, it's referenced in Sascha's thread but the link is now saying I don't have permission to see it. Fair enough, I read it before it disappeared and don't need to see it again. My question is though, does that mean that threads can't be deleted, or they can be deleted but the info message for a link on a deleted thread shows a permissions error rather than a no longer available one? I'm just interested mechanically why a deleted thread throws a permissions error rather than a removed message. Also, can thread authors remove their own threads? We can't take our own duplicate posts out, so are threads treated as a different entity somehow?

If it has to be labelled as one, then I'd say it should be labelled as the one where the parts of the bass are in the majority. So, a 72 for yours. Or... just label it fairly! This Bass Direct bass should be titled as 'Fender bista bass with unknown body, 62 neck with new fretboard and some original 62 parts'.

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

I have a 1972 bass with 68 electrics. Is it a 68 with a replacement body/neck or a 72 with 68 electrics?

I went to the unveiling of his staue in Dublin, 20 years ago. We then saw a Gary Moore styled Lizzy tribute that evening. Brush Shields made an appearance, Wheatus IIRC, many former Lizzy band mates came on too Many pints of Guiness were had that weekend

I've always been a Precision guy. Had (and have) other basses but a Precision is always my bass of choice. I have two non-Precisions. One I inherited and the other is just for the fun of playing Pino and Tony Levin lines.

I've ordered some gel type stuff to try but thanks for that. I've never thought of a diffuser but it's a great idea

Excellent pedal, especially the fuzz side IMO!

Old school tube amps. They often neglected to provide an 8 ohm tap for the power transformer in favour of a 2 ohm one. Legacy of wanting to power the gig off the stage with twin 810 cabs.

21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson

Does anyone know if the Vanderkley 112EXT & 112MNT cabinet construction is identical, just fitted with different drive units for 300W & 600W respectively? Are the crossovers and tweeters the same? I believe the 12" drivers are made Faital but which models?

Welcome to the forum @hedgepigbass 😊 Where in Somerset are you? There’s a few of us yokels on here!

That’s a good point My aim of using a pick was to sound fuller ( as achieved with fingers ) but with the variation in tone and dynamics that a pick can only give in my opinion. The finger played tone has a warmer fuller depth to the sound as example Living on a Prayer never sounded right played with a pick but more right with fingers but then other songs such as Don’t Believe a word, Basket Case / American Idiot sounded better with a pick To save changing methods during a gig ( also changing EQ, volume etc ) making one method suitable for all is tough. I found I could do every song with fingers and some sounded wrong and when I played all songs with a pick the tone was on some songs lacking in fullness

Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon

genuine question ( from someone relatively new to amps cabs etc ) why do the last three amps mentioned " need " 2/4 ohms ? that aside,,what is the impedence of the speakers in the cab ? if they're 4ohms why not just rewire them in parallel ?

Yesterday, When I Was Mad - Pet Shop Boys

With regard to modeling software it only predicts response within the region of pure pistonic response, which is roughly to two octaves above the driver Fs. To see what happens above that use the SPL chart on the driver data sheet, which is not influenced by the cabinet. I can't comment on the Eminence software, as I've never used it. For direct radiating speakers I use WinISD 0.7.

Tomorrow Never Knows - Beatles