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Just be sure to report that on the "BC Cats" thread.

Oh no no no… bass first, of course!

OK, you've been offered 2 basses and you don't know which one to choose. Step one - play them both. Step two - decide which one feels, sounds and looks better than the other. Step three - if you can't make up your mind, don't buy either. You haven't found the right bass yet.

Yeah I suspect they extended the run and issued them to coincide with an anniversary - and added white as an option - I recall them placing ads in the bass magazines based around a large Union flag. @dub_junkie no doubt got his from the initial run - I also recall they advertised it as a real Stingray for less than £1000 (even though it was very marginally less)!! Marcus was playing his original modified Jazz bass, with Bryan Ferry - I remember at the time thinking how dreadful the bass sound was on that - it looked like he was struggling with the stage sound as well - we were all used to hearing Alan Spenner play a Wal on Roxymusic stuff. By contrast, Pino’s sound on the Paul Young set was astonishingly good!! But then it always seemed to be, in those far off days when guitarists didn’t have to be the loudest instrument!! Pino played through a Trace Elliot stack.

Not eBay, but a nice bargain for anyone up near York even if you might have to change a couple of pots.... https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/yamaha-bb424-bass-guitar/1500666173

Yes to all three questions Dave. Only compromise was I sacrificed the coil-split function. My tech guy phoned me to say that the Aguilar M pup wasn't wired for splitting. He said "I could modify it but that would probably invalidate your warranty." To be honest, it's not something I used much anyway so all it means is that the mini rocker switch doesn't do anything. Here's a link to one of last night's mobile phone videos to give you an idea of how it sounds. Aguilar AG 4M/J-HC upgrade

I have a Hybrid II Jazzmaster and it's the best quality Fender I've owned (2015 US, 1985 Japan and several Mexican). I wouldn't hesitate in looking at a Hybrid II bass if I was shopping for another Fender.

FTFY

I hope they aren’t guitards who “ can play a bit of bass but only with a pick”

Bargain GP7 head and 115 cab for £80 in St Austell https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12HRFrmnCqx/

You have bass solos? I thought these were the stuff of legend .. a unicorn appeared, wearing a trilby hat, and then it was my turn to solo kind of thing 🦄

Lady who runs my local OM night sungs professionally, and plays guitar and piano well. One night she admitted a love of The Chain. It’s a start… she asked me to recommend a bass so since she’s quite petite I recommended a short scale jazz or Harley Benton beatle bass it’s become a bit of a running joke now that she’s asks me to sound check or solo and I play the chain corruption starts here glad that you chaps had a good time, sadly diy commitments (brick paving in a heat wave ffs) stopped me but maybe next time

Just in from a very hot and sweaty early evening gig with our southern rock band. Played to 120 people packed into Hartlepool’s south Durham social club or as its known locally “Hartlepool Steelies”. Decided to take the Ashdown Head of Doom coupled with my Vanderkley 2 x 12 cab in tribute to one of my hero’s Geezer Butler who as I think we all know, played his last ever Black Sabbath gig just over a week ago. Got everything set up, plugged my pedal board into the HoD and nothing, not even a flicker of an input Vu meter. Checked everything including plugging directly into the amp but the same result, nothing nil nada. Running out of time before show time, I had no option but to raise my level in the FoH, and rely on my in-ears for personal monitoring. The result, no one noticed, and we had a great gig. Looks like I’ll be calling on Ashdown’s legendary customer service tomorrow.

I was listening back to some old recordings from a couple of bands I was in back in the day, and the best bass sound I ever had was at one particular studio where the engineer always put the bass through an old Drawmer 1960 valve compressor. It added a lovely, valve-y, chewy resonance to the sound that I've never been able to get by any other means, including any other compressors. Has anyone come across a pedal, or a multi-FX that models the Drawmer 1960? I know there's a plugin for DAWs from Softube, but I haven't come across anything in a pedal...

She sounds automatically awesome edit: and I don’t even know her.

@neepheid Good work fella! Enjoyed meeting you all, plus the coincidence that the barstaff plays bass too. She had us sussed!

Just want to echo what's already been said - I had a fun afternoon and it was great to see you all!