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Is it just me seeing a lot of broken links?

That’s a good point. Aside from Sire, I always found that the pickups on cheaper basses lacked depth (bass frequencies) in their pickups. The originator of Sire was an electrician/ engineer, much like the founder of Markbass. My MIM P bass had American standard pups but I improved it a lot by swapping them for Lindy Fralin

Yeah I've got Hx Native and used to have a Stomp. Helix is good, but it's just not fun for me.

I bought an Ashdown cab off Alex. Absolute credit to Basschat. Couldn’t have been more helpful - even dropped the cab off at a friend’s house near a gig he was playing, which saved me a couple of hours of driving. Thanks again Alex

Arrr thanks very much for your lovely feedback. It was a pleasure to meet you yesterday and I’m looking forward to working with you on your next idea!!!

I'm sure a lot of you have followed the progress of our very own @Silky999's Build Diary of the 'Nitro Cellulose Experiment' Jazz Bass. Well, while on my travels for a theatre gig in Torquay yesterday, I visited Silky999 and picked this up. With so many conversations these days of basses being prohibitively expensive, this is perhaps a different route to a really nice instrument. Now complete, this nitro finish bass is a lot more than the sum of it's parts. The Nitro finish really lets the bass speak and it really does have a voice of it's own. I'd personally rate it much higher playing-wise than a Mexican Fender, and sound wise, it'd give my American Original a run for it's money. Don't expect these to be around the £300 (cost of parts) mark for long!

The only thing cheap basses don't always do well is pickups. Cheap pickups will make any bass sound less than perfect.

With advent of CNC machines quality of cheap basses has gone through the roof. The QC that Asian manufacturers achieve is down to the contract and how much the brand owner cares about quality.

Show me a Fender that looks better. On second thought, don't bother...even their custom shop basses aren't quite as nice.

The chap next Hendrix ..shaggy( scooby doo)? As for ‘Freddie ‘ he looks more like a waiter imho 🙂

I didn't examine it too closely, but it seemed to be good... the neck and fretboard work was definitely spot on.

Im waiting for @walshy to have a look at his, the super dude that he is

My home speaker is the HS7 as well. I use an HX Stomp. It’s great. I’ve got a bunch of patches for different genres and it’s great for guitar too.

I don’t think that there is any doubt that Indonesian or Chinese or Korean manufacturers can make instruments, cars or fairly soon aeroplanes or spacecraft as well as the Americans. Hence the current tariffs and other short term noise. Edit: There will obviously be some flexibility to this point in terms of budget. At the very bottom end corners will be cut wherever something is made and over time things will balance out. Wages, property prices etc will increase in the Far East as these countries continue to become more affluent.

Hey bud, congrats on the journey of learning a instrument. I started with an inexpensive squier p bass. As when I was younger and broke my left wrist (fretting hand) I took my bass to get professionally setup at the bass gallery in London. My combo I think was a stagg. When I decided I wanted to commit more due to feeling improvement I was asking myself the exact same question. I went down the bass upgrade route but in all honesty I should have got a better amp/cab or combo. I say this as my old bass sounds great with my genzler Magellan combo. The crappy combo had probably been over pushed and exhausted the speakers. A proper setup makes a world of difference on how the bass plays and sounds. I would suggest either learn to setup your bass (it’s not hard at all) or go and get it setup. You can pick up a decent combo, cab & amp for such great prices on here. The used market is your friend. Also a change of string makes a drastic difference also.

Yes, it’ll be a quality bass and usually used Sandberg prices favour the buyer - give it time !??!!