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Nice one. Any pics ? Dave

Proper aged relic work. Many people pay extra for that kind of thing on basses. Yours was free apart from the work put into playing. Looks very nice, not that i play DB but i do appreciate the skills involved. Dave

This bass is the same. I have used it on over 50 gigs so far and it's been flawless. I play bluegrass too, so I think you're right. Few dings and dongs won't harm it!

As I am sure you are aware, it is because all this modern music is just boom boom boom and you don't need a good bass for that Or maybe it is because older music was made by fewer people, who happened to be good, like all the motown song were actually only played by small numbers of musicians, with a large output, whereas in the 80s there was a much larger democracy of players, some good, some bad, and a large number of them only playing the bass because they were the worst guitarist. Then of course, music died in the 90s, and it was just whatever the TB303 put out

A few years ago I made a guitar for my guitarist. He was so nervous when he first got it, that it was a relief when he finally put the first dint in it and could relax. Since then he has played it so much it is "mojoing in" nicely. It looks great even with the wear and seems to sound better at every outing (though I do say so myself!)

But I should give a massive shoutbout to A Strings for being super-welcoming, no questions when I asked to try the AVII precision which was one of the more expensive basses in the shop. Offered tea and given loads of time. They even set it up for me while I was there. Yes I bought it... and it was on the wall at a better price than the online retailers.

I visited Hobgoblin in Brighton. I used to visit their other stores in the past, this one felt a bit unwelcomingn staff just chatting to each other. I was in the mood to make medium spend (probably a replacement for my Marine Band harmonica... but even a s/h bouzouki if they had one) but with no engagement I just wandered back out.

A staff member in DV247 when they closed to the public (Martin) in Romford managed to nab a position in PMT around the corner and now look.

Here's a bit of the mojo on "Peaches", definitely well used but she sounds great. The colour has been called "butterscotch" as opposed to "blonde" but I think that's just the colour she changed as she aged.😊

I couldn’t decide so I didn’t…

the cost of building a pedal board from scratch mounts up very very quickly. I could only see it being a sensible option if you already had some pedals, and/or theres certain pedals you need that the multiFX just dont cover. Otherwise, a multiFX is the obvious choice in my view! The zoom stuff is greaet. I've gigged it for years although latterly I'vemoved onto a HX stomp. But, I've happily used the ms60b for the occasional gig recently when ive loaned my stomp to another band member for the set. I also dont use alot of effects, so thems60b does a grand job. It is limited though obviously. I'd 100% recommend the b3 and b3m, or even the old b9.1ut if you can find one cheap! gigged them all over the years with zero issues! the Latter has a weird 2 way control pedal that you can get quite creative with!

A Fool for your Stocking - ZZ Top

For just the basics I'd do a cheap Zoom multi, I have the B1 Four X on a little board with a Joyo Sansamp clone, that covers me for quick and dirty covers and rock stuff. My main board has a Stomp XL, which in future I'm planning to swap to an Anagram when I've got the money. As for how you manage big, complex boards live, it's usually a MIDI controller. More and more pedals have some form of MIDI control nowadays, which allows a user to program a foot controller to switch pedals on and off, change presets, etc. all with one footswitch. Prior to my current board, I was running a Source Audio Aftershock and a Line 6 M5 as well, along with some other non-MIDI pedals (Pitchfork and a couple of others). I used a loop switcher that was MIDI enabled to control it all, switching sounds with a single press of a switch when I needed to. Great live, but the caveat is that you need to spend quite a bit of time setting up your sounds beforehand.

Zoom MS60B £50-60 used... it'll do everything you need and more.

Thanks. I've never used amp or can sims, I'm pretty happy with the tone of my amp and cab. Anything helix is going to be outside my budget, but the zoom pedals are on my radar.