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Nice! Hoping I get mine too soon! I’m so excited!

oh.. when did these come out. I will have to see what the spec difference are. Off the the internet rabbit hole 🕳️ 🏃🏾‍♂️

Cheap but good looking basses from gear4music. Nothing new about the configuration but nice new shapes. Short scale 30". Has anyone actually seen one in the flesh. About £200 a pop, could be worth upgrading?

The little known BB424xrp 😉

Summary - I don't think anyone is going to be disappointed with the SP1. The setup was decent but a little 'on the edge' for me, I felt it benefited from lowering the pickups and raising the action a bit (truss relief) to let the strings ring a bit more. Soundwise the P pickup is sublime, fat and with clarity, also the J is definitely not thin (it's actually a 6 string sized pickup from Combustion model). Blended in parallel they give an excellent balanced tone where neither pickup is overpowering, and in series it takes on a totally new character - but without overwhelming the output (which is an issue i've had on ALL Combustion based models). It has the Fender vibe to the looks and tone, but with Dingwall zest, it could easily be a 'one to rule them all' instrument. However as I practice bass polyamory, that won't happen with me. n.b. now features block inlays (Neck Illusions) and Canadian knobs

There is still an audience, but it is something of a niche these days. Blues bands are far more popular in various parts of mainland Europe...!

@Jack Did you resolve this? I can't recall it being an issue when I owned it. Saying that, it wasn't played that often. I'd quite gladly buy it back though 😉.

Amazing job you're doing.

Well, this one tried its best to be as bad as I anticipated: Guitarist forgot his pedalboard and had to make an hour round trip back home to get it; keyboardist’s setup refused to send a signal to the desk, fortunately, a spare was at hand and worked, not as good a sound though; halfway through the second set I felt my bass move, my strap had split at the strap pin and was holding on by one thread, went to use a spare from the backup bass, no strap packed 🤦🏻.

Played the inaugural Lanark Country Music Festival yesterday. One of five acts we arrived at Midday for setup and soundcheck. As usual the soundchecks were in reverse order from performance so first up was the fantastic Eagles tribute band, Hotel Caledonia. Due to some technical problems with the PA this took way longer than expected and we had a very short soundcheck. We had brought our own setup so we provided our own in-ear monitor mix and provided separate feeds for all our instruments and vocals with our XR 32 and splitters. Great organisation from the promoters with an entertainers “green room” with a fridge stocked with drinks (including beer and low alcohol verities) and trays of sandwiches. Every band had a their own take on country and Americana music and the whole event was a great success. Japanese Fender Precision, wireless to various pedals and Sansamp into the aforementioned XR 32. In-ear monitoring with X-Live and Behringer PM-16s. Footwear handmade Portuguese cowboy boots! (What else can you wear in a country band?) Horrendous weather on the journey home on the same roads and probably just a few hours before dmccombe7 (see earlier how was your gig posts) travelled on them. A few photos and a bit of phone clip from the back of the room. AQMyImm4sqAtMgabHtbBDAg22pDg5KQz0TZ9TzGLyz2qXAmPJ_7ztcI63Ewot8UUy7xZzv-ugEwI3jJ4I0aFpPpsLLS_njf9jBuMGrIG5EHViyL2WA.mp4

So I’ve had time to have a good play around with the various features of this pedal and colour me impressed. The tone control with the added harmonic distortion could become addictive. I’ve only tried it through headphones thus far, and I’ll have to see how that mod-scoop sounds live, but suffice to say she’s making her way onto my pedal board in time for next weekends gigs 😎

I am a fan of johnathan maron also. You can source the bb3000 in Japan. Bassjapandirect has a service where he finds basses you are after. Danny may still have a red one up for sale. One in video is gone now I think. I follow him on YouTube. His helped me identify some basses. I would love a bb3000 or a p/j with a reverse p pickup.

Bassist UK November 1997

Agreed, just think of that feeling a big applause from an appreciative crowd gives us. Only those of us that entertain understand it. Daryl

It amazes me how popular Blues bands still are in England. Daryl

Sometime those gigs that have " disaster " written all over them can turn out to be awesome gigs . Daryl