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I love showy things, I love the colour and flip flop paint, but that surface on the warwick is horrible. There is a honda civic down our road that someone pained themselves with household emulsion that looks just like that. Hope it looked better in person!

If you sell a bass in this way then presumably you have: 1. Decided that it's a desirable thing to do (presumably because you feel it improves your chances of selling your bass in some way); 2. Decided to take advantage of the reputation and/or facilities your chosen agency offers; 3. Decided to accept their terms and conditions of sale; and, 4. Decided that the net price you will get from the sale is at least as much as you would get from selling it yourself (and without the inconvenience of having to advertise it, field dumb queries from the great unwashed or arrange delivery/courier/collection yourself). If you're unhappy with any of the above, then without wishing to be rude why are you doing it this way in the first place? Why not just sell it yourself and be done with it?

MiniMert and I quite enjoyed the Little Stubby. The overdriven tones are sublime and it goes quite loud, I’d say louder than the CTM30 but I’m basing this on fuzzy memory only. The feedback control is very cool, it literally feeds the signal back through the preamp valve (pre EQ) to thicken up the tone and add more “girth”. It also adds more volume too. The drive control seemed quite sensitive, below around 10 o’clock there seemed very little if any signal passing through, then it suddenly burst into life with warm thick valvey goodness. After about 12 o’clock you start dialling in more and more grit and overdrive - this thing is a monster for a hellish dirty tone. It’s not something I use a lot of but I can see myself trying it more, hehehe. Anyhoo, the pic is of MiniMert, sensibly defending his ears from the slapathon, giving my the all clear to buy it 🤓

So... For the impatient amongst you I have a little video! It's just what i've been working on composing today, so not incredibly real-world for most players and just on an iPhone. However, plug in some headphones and you get an idea of some of the warmth and the cleans it produces. I will do some proper/more in depth but talk-free demos, as per the rest of my channel, later this week! T

You bought this from them at the LBGS? It looks like a nice tidy wee unit. The inevitable sound clips request has officially been lodged. side note LBGS just makes me think Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Slappers (bass or otherwise) I have an hilarious image of the LGBT community showing up at the London bass guitar show being massively disappointed and confused!

Damn! Not Tina then ...

Undoubtedly to everyone's utmost surprise, I've got a pic of the whole bass. Edit: click on it to see it in full resolution.

Isn't the B1on just the best value for money thing any bassist could ever buy? After my Vox amplug suffered a prolapsed input due to me standing on my cable I recalled folk here saying the Zoom can do the same job and more. At £45 I thought why not take a punt. I'm stunned. It is a superb piece of kit. Perfect headphone amp, with aux input. Now with Audacity on my pc and this beauty connected to the sound card song learning has never been so easy. Oh and it has an excellent tuner too. Oh and the effects are really nice and easily customisable. And did I mention it only cost me 45 quid? Brand new? In the future people will describe any wonderful and innovative novelty as "The best thing since Zoom B1on" trust me.

Not a quest I've ever been on! If it ain't saturated, I ain't infatuated.

Roasted swamp ash body, stained flamed maple top, roasted flamed maple neck and fingerboard. All passive Nordstrand MM + J blades. I want them as lightweight as possible!

Angry Birds?

Yes - Spitfire.

I was planning to go on Saturday only but there were so many good masterclasses that I went back yesterday as well. Joe Hubbard and Yolanda Charles were both completely inspirational. Scotts performance/session in the SBL room yesterday was fantastic. I really enjoyed Chris Childs masterclass as well - a great insight into his role as a gigging & session musician. Overall, a really great show (although I found it a completely humbling experience because it highlights to me how little I know and how basic my own skills are!!)

So the biggest unanswered question.... were those the Warwick special discounted show prices...?

Probably the packaged weight. I bet those aren't the bass's actual dimensions either. I mean, I could be wrong but 5.5 inches deep?

Yep, just got home after having attended both days. Arrived quite late yesterday and missed all the workshops/seminars but got in a couple of hours worth of gear-drooling. Spent some time with Alan Cringean of ACG who was an absolute gent and had some glorious basses on display. I had the pleasure of playing a lovely red P-Retro 5 string which I fell a little bit in love with. Just before closing time I got chatting to Scott Devine who asked if I was coming to the pub afterwards. The answer, obviously, was yes. So off we all went (many of the show’s exhibitors, SBL faculty as well as ordinary folk like myself) to The Albion. On arrival it transpired that the pub were hosting a LBGS jam night, kicked off by Dave Marks who had to promptly leave for a gig after playing the opening number. Before long one of the guys I’d gotten chatting to earlier in the day started spreading a rumour that I wanted to sing. I soon had a small rabble of folk peer-pressuring me to get on stage! To be fair there was a distinct shortage of vocalists so after putting it off a bit I obliged. Got to close the evening with a bit of Never Too Much followed by a blagged rendition of Superstition. It was great fun and I got to meet some great musicians! When the pub kicked us out many of us trawled to the Hilton for another bevvy. Got chatting to Thomas Eich who was happy to talk shop, clearing up a few questions I had re: the Tecamp/Eich split. I didn’t stay long though as I wanted to get to the show a bit earlier today so as to sit in on a couple of workshops. So today I saw the Scott Devine workshop followed by Rich Brown who was incredible. Wanted to stay for Henrik Linder but got caught up in a wild goose chase looking for John East! In the end I never did find him, much to my dismay. Spent some time at the Aguilar stand, wincing at the prices of their pedals. Also, wincing at their ludicrous signal path: Filter Twin > Chorusaurus > Octamizer > Agro > TLC Compressor > Grape Phaser. I was gagging to tear their board apart and reorder the whole lot . To be honest I was mainly there to try the new Grape Phaser but it was borderline impossible to tell if it was any good or not because there was too much ambient noise and I felt like the TH500/SL112x2 setup wasn’t able to cut through it with any real clarity. It may have been wise for Aguilar to do what many of the other exhibitors were doing and provide a couple of Phil Jones headphone amps. Towards the end of today I had a chat with Nick Smith (haven’t seen him in about 10 years) with whom I lamented the absence of several British companies. The likes of Barefaced and Alpher Instruments, amongst others. Bit of a shame not to see them at LBGS to be honest. All in all though, a great weekend was had. I met some lovely people and saw some great playing. I was a first-timer and it wasn’t the mad slap fest I had anticipated, though of course there were moments of it. I’d happily go again next year.

If you want that dull thumpy flats thing just buy normal Roto rounds and play one gig, job done

After going to The London Bass Guitar Show 2018 ( Sunday ), i promised one of the organizers i would join the site ,,, thank you

First outing for our seven piece swing band Sunday afternoon.Most of the two swing sets were charts by the arranger and composer Dave Wolpe and I would recommend them-good arrangements and a good challenge with lots of key changes and interesting timings.All but two of us have music degrees and everyone reads well with me as the weakest link but I managed to get through with only a few minor problems.I was using my Yamaha SLB 200 EUB and went straight into our Bose PA along with the piano.I had a busy time as I am also the frontman and did the between song chatter. The third set was a Dixieland/Trad set and I switched to tenor banjo and one of the horn players switched to tuba. All in all a good afternoon with a sold out hall(OK,it was small but packed with close to 100 people)and we got a standing O at the end of the gig and are being booked back in June. Trying to keep live music alive here in Canada... Bob

Who's gone for top end speakers? Pro's have gone in ears and helix (or similar) into full range PA. Dinosaurs down the pub knocking out alright now are where the high end cab sales are these days

D'you know, I'm not even going to listen to it. I'm past caring. Next up: Did Paul McCartney die in 1966 and get replaced by a doppelganger?

THREAD DIVERT ALERT! Isn't 'FOUNDATION' a wonderful word to describe all things Bass! I remember during my youthful years in the late 60's VOX produced a range of bass amps and cabs called Foundation. A bassist hero of mine at the time used a Vox Foundation amp and cab. The amp was 100w (?) and the cab was an open back 1x18. My hero was such a heavy percussive bassman that he removed the top and bottom rear panels of the cab and used to hammer 6 ins nails to nail the cab to the stage floor to stop the thing from bouncing around and (sometimes) OFF the stage. Oh happy days ! Those dark times before HPFs!! Enjoy your new bass Shaun!

I had a Rumour until recently and miss it already - it was a joy to play with a unique tone

Music to my ears

Haha too late now brother! It's mine all mine! Just used a damp microfibre cloth on it..

Very cool. Pitbull do an RD bass kit, I’m tempted to buy one as the basis of a self build Jolana homage 😊

Oh my dear lord...

Grrrrrrr! Its the Lane Theatre in Newquay mate, not exactly local, but a great venue and people. We did the gig for a local Parkinsons disease charity, the guitarists dad is a sufferer and lives down that way, his dad was there and it was the 1st time he had ever seem his son on stage..was quite a night and we raised nearly a grand! Not bad for a 140 seater venue!!

Just bought a Squier Precision from Rich, he dropped it off on way to family over the weekend. Bass is in great shape, a far better set-up than I would have thought possible on a lower range instrument, plays like a dream. Great transaction all round.

Contact Jon Godsland at Orchid Electronics in Exeter - just his sort of thing.

Good evening, Bean9-70, and ... Plenty to read and amuse you here, and lots to learn and share.

No demo yet, but I do need to do one as I have two Franz basses (I have a fretted 5 too). My bass is a standard Sirius with upgraded maple top, whereas the RG model has a Rheingold pickup and no volume control. All Franz basses are chambered and use thermo treated woods, so they are really light and very resonant. My fretless is 8.25lbs, so nice and light. It really sings, has no dead spots on it at all, and is just a joy to play.

That would have been 22+ Rolls of film in the old days!

It is all about the bottom end after all!

Does it come with a Sony Walkman and will I get it in my Mini Metro?

I just don't tell mine anymore.... she never seems to notice anyway

20 weeks on.... mine was due for delivery today - but it has been cancelled because of the snow!! I would have thought only non-essential deliveries would have been cancelled!

Not really a fail, but I've stopped going into my most local music shop even if I happen to be walking past the door because it's boring. Unless you happen to have an unusual fetish for Eiphone Tobies or bottom of the range Ibanez's, the bass section is boring. Unless you want to pay over the odds for a MIM Fender, the guitar section is boring. They must sell a lot of keyboards, brass instruments and kazoos to stay afloat.

Hope they don't take any flack, they have been informative and played with a straight bat. I think that's all we can ask for, as well as good customer service

Not good news but currently BF cabs can cost less than many other quality cabs, for instance Mesa, Aguilar and Genzler. They are a better buy than some cabs that are cheaper but in order to get the equivalent performance you'd have to buy 2. Sadly, Brexit is going to screw with lots of companies price lists especially if they use imported components in their products and the economy won't see the worst of it for several years. This was an entirely foreseeable situation pre Referendum.