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Horses for courses and you don’t send your highly trained trotter to the galllops. Most of the gigs I have done in the last 10 years have been done with 200w'ers.

I'm not a fan of it personally.

GMC are a small UK luthier supplier (one man show I believe) that makes everything in-house and they sell a very decent bass notched/straight edge combo for just under £40. https://www.guitarbuilding.solutions

Hi Dave, I'm interested in everyone's opinion. Is it ok to use AI images to promote your bands gigs? Daryl

Hi Terry Thank you very much for replying. I think you hit the nail on the head regarding the fretboard radius. I didn't know if this was common to both the TRB and the TRBX fretboards though something inside told me it might be the case. And, 'Yes' you're right, I experienced no issues with the fretboard/neck on the TRBX605 I had, and even the EQ and the hardware were okay, it was just the overall feel of the thing. So far as the legendary Yamaha build quality was concerned (prevalent in the old BB's and RBX's I have) the TRBX just didn't feel up to scratch. However the overall general consensus suggests to me that the TRB's are in a different league. So, I think I'll stick with the TRB 5 string and put it to the test. P.S. I've also decided to go for a BTB 5 string with T1's or Nordstrands, plus either a Sire M5 or a V8 5 string (but selling off my old Yamaha RBX375 plus my two Sire V7 4 strings). Thanks very much yet again Terry for all your much valued help and advice 🙏 Steve

Love the pic Daryl. Dave

My last gig was NYE. We don't have a gig until February 19. It will be my first gig at age 72. This stretch of no gigs is driving me crazy. Daryl

Frustrating, especially when most of the audience likely can't even play an instrument, so what do they know about it to judge?

Oops, have we just opened the valve on another GAS pipe? This is my gigging amp This is my practice amp This is my recording amp What have we done?

In The Year 2525 - Fields of the Nephilim

One question for the Spector gurus here. Do you know if I can put the bridge of the new Icon line on a Ethos? I know that the Euro line has bigger bridges but Ethos and Icon look the same to me...

Could well be.

Put an output block at the end of your current chain for whatever output you’re using to amp or foh. Add a return block after it and then I mapped the control to the volume or blend of the return so I could quickly adjust it. Feel free to then add some compression and light room reverb to taste.

Hi Steve. No problem at all. To answer your question I don't think it's anything to worry about too much. What's interesting here is the TRBX you tried and the TRB have identical fretboard radius' (23 5/8"). The fact that you don't recall the fretboard feel on the RBX probably means you didn't have an issue what that aspect of the bass. If you can go and check out the TRB bear in mind it has a 35" scale neck. I've noticed on Yamaha.com that that it is now discontinued.

Had some potential redundancy on the way but turns out all is good so I went and had a look at this DarkRay today (which I had reserved previously) with the idea of trading a Sandberg and a Special. I have to say that I really liked it, looks amazing and is obviously a quality instrument but for the price it didn't blow me away vs the other StingRay specials that I have. I ended up trading my Sandberg for a used Alusonic (never heard of them before but it is something similar but also different) and still have one of my Specials. They had a Gold Bar DarkRay there as well which I have to say looks the absolute nuts. If I see a used Gold Bar or in the unlikely event a used bargain Grapes of Wrath I will likely pick it up. But for £3,600 I wasn't quite enough for me. I'm kind of gutted as I wanted to love it but the good news is I still have my Special and now a new brand to play around with. I very almost picked up another Musicman but with piezo pickups in the bridge but I am happy with the advice given by Bassdirect in relation to going Alusonic. They moved a bass on with £2k less of value than they were expecting to sell and were so cool about it, long term investment from them I think as I will definitely be back. The thing is so light, has a vast array of tones, a slick neck and some sort of graphite in the neck. Amazing instrument. Just researching now and have seen that Cass Lewis plays one, along with Flea and Tim Commerford my three inspirations to play bass. https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/alusonic-django-standard-4-special-edition-high-gloss-metallic-purple-pre-owned-2/

Is recording a separate use case for a bass amp?

Not for me i'm afraid. Dave