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KZ ZARs tick all the boxes for me (prefer to my Shures and KZ ZS10s). Very competitively priced via Ali Express.

Morning folks. After a changeup in band lineup I am back to playing bass, which I am really excited by. However, having played guitar in this band for 2 years, and mostly playing guitar for the 4 years prior to that, I am without a giggable bass amp. For some of our gigs, that'd be fine as I have a Tonex One and DI box to run into the desk, and they provide backline for us as stage monitoring. However, some gigs we have to supply our own PA. Our PA set up is fairly basic - 12 channel mixer, 2 tops and 4 foldbacks. No subs. So I'm looking for a bass amp for these gigs. Nothing too expensive, the more I can shave off £250 the better. It's not unreasonable to find a quality guitar amp for that sort of money (Boss, Peavey, even some Marshall DSLs can be had for that kind of money). Doesn't have to be mega lightweight, but so long as I can move it on my own (so none of your ancient 410s made of solid lead thanks). Having an inbuilt DI out would also be useful I suppose. I have scoured eBay and Facebook marketplace and found: - Peavey Max 115 300w for £50 - 2 separate Ashdown Mag300 115s. Each £90. - Ashdown Mag300 210 £130 - Bugera BXD15 £180 Fwiw, I did once own a Fender Rumble 500 and Orange 410 cab. I had to sell that as I was going to Uni, didn't have the space for that rig and needed the money. I wish I'd have kept that rig because it sounded excellent. That being said, I still don't have the space or the money to justify it.

I've used Jazzes with Precision necks, simply prefer a Jazz configured that way, as was my main fretless for 3-4 years. I really don't understand why some folks seem to thing it's an aberration 👍

it must be like sharing your bass at a gig. I generally wont let strangers use my bass. I refused to let SKLF use my bass rig cause i don't know them. Perhaps the reason we lost the gig 🤣 (it actually got cancelled.) Dave

Sounds promising, fingers crossed for you it works out

You have a good memory Lozz. I did, an old 70s thing. Great bass. The previous owner swapped the necks over and I wanted the jazz sound but didn't get on with narrow necks back then.

Bit early in the day to be hitting up the shrooms?

Even funnier was they both had the same snare drum, so the evening became snare-chat!

My US L2500CLF is quickly becoming like a 2nd skin. I'm getting around to thinking that any backup bass should also have 5 strings in number and have the narrow string spacing that I'm both used to and like. Does the Tribute have the same narrow string spacing? Any thoughts on it vs the US model? Any other suggestions on narrow string spacing 5ers would be appreciated too. Peter

So I'm out , 1 allparts l/h jazz neck. Set of used Aguilar pickups. Some thomann flst wound strings and a KiOgon jazz plate .........

No reply from my WhatsApp group message to the band, which suits me just fine. I banged out a "bassist available" ad on one of the Facebook musos groups and I got this reply: "Hi there, Firstly it’s great to know that there is a Soul, Funk & Groove style bassist in the area, Most are Rock or blues influenced. I, and many of my musician friends have been looking to get a really good funky soul Band together for a while, without much success as decent bass players are very rare, And finding a soul/funk/groove influenced bassist has been like searching for the holy Grail. We are all knocking on a bit (60-63), and have had lots of experience in various bands Playing various types of music, but we all like soul, funk, jazz, groove influenced music Where bass and drums are the driving force, the engine room of the band, so to speak And everything else fits in around that groove! I hope that this could be something that you might find interesting, and maybe consider getting involved in." We're going to meet up for a chat. One door shuts and.....