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I am pretty sure I'd have had worse. "Little Chef" anybody? That obligatory stop for anybody driving on the motorways in the 90s. It made Tunnocks Tea Cakes seem proper gourmet stuff.

The Link IO looks similar to the iRig, which is only around £30 I think? I had the iRig a few years ago, it did a good job. I've also seen something from TC Helicon called GO Guitar, which is the same idea, but it's £18 on Amazon. You probably won't need any of them, as the Behringer interface should do the job, but if you end up wanting to try that option there are cheaper units than the Fender, which is nice.

Update after some more time passed... BOSS Dual Cube Bass LX... barely gets used after all. It's the loudest and the only one I'd consider from the lot if I wanted to play in the park, and it's fun to just trigger the basic rhythm machine to practice, for timing, but I'm not in love with it. I can EQ it to be more pleasant, but I just can't shake this feeling that even with all FX etc turned off, there's 'something' still going on. Between the unit itself and the bluetooth adapter I could have saved around £300... ah well, now I now. For busking I actually have a QTX QR10, rechargeable battery powered "mini PA" speaker. It's not the best sounding bass amp, but it works well enough, and with a little Zoom unit then you can make this sound pretty nice, and it cost me about 1/3-1/2 of what the Boss cost... and this one IS loud enough for busking with a 7-piece band. Caline S8B is great. Small, rechargeable battery, and it can sound very good. I like the 2-channel thing. It lives on a shelf above my computer monitors, the front-facing controls make it ideal for that. But it's the other two that really see a lot of action these days. The Joyo one was the cheapest, and it sounded quite alright. The one drawback was the lack of bluetooth. It does have an AUX socket, so I got a little rechargeable bluetooth receiver for under £10 and now it's bluetooth-equipped And the Headrush FRFR-GO... I've been using it a lot with guitar and multiFX to provide the sounds. I then found this little M-Vave Tank-G... basic FX, nice selection of amp sims and IR cab sims (it can load 3rd party ones too), it runs on an internal rechargeable battery, which is nice to reduce amount pf cables. I normally use it with a guitar wireless system, so the Headrush is wherever (internal battery), with the Tank-G plugged into it, and I can move around. The Tank-G is around £40, and it acts as a USB interface for recording. So with one little speaker, the Tank-G and a phone/tablet you have a pretty portable practice and recording setup. If I had had access to something like this when I was a teenager, I would probably still not have a girlfriend 😂 (ok, slight exaggeration, but you know what I mean ) edit: oh, I forgot, although the Tank-G is designed for guitar, I made a couple of presets for bass that sound quite good through the FRFR-GO

Yup. Filing the nut slots carefully (don't hurry, take your time) should fix it.

do we get cake in the end too?

I like DR Sunbeams because they seem to lose the initial zing quickly and then stay in that 'ideal place' for a long time. I like flats, various types, but none feel like a substitute for older rounds, they just do their own thing. Having said that, Ernie Ball Cobalt flats are probably the most round-like flatwound string I've tried.

Blatant plug... I just happen to have a 2-channel Joyo delay which does reverse for sale on the market place https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/512155-joyo-d-seed-digital-delay-with-2-channels-£45/#comment-5474799

They feel like they're made of helium. Personally I'd go for the longest scale you can find, if you go fretless (23-25" feels ok to me, less than that it gets tricky, but fretted is fine). I'd also consider one of the GoldTone offerings. I have an M23 fretless, solid body, and it's pretty cool. They also have hollow body versions for even lighter propositions.

Looks good, I'm already almost set on using the Fender Studio app, but I'll give this one a try too, thank you!

I've only did a quick test last night and it works well, and the price is good too Thank you!

Yes, that should be good to go. If you want to power it directly from the USB port of your phone/tablet you may need to change the settings but that's all. My phone (Nokia XR20) needed to be told to supply power, but my tablet (Nokia T21) just did it by default.

That's interesting, it does seem to do what I want very easily. All the other stuff... I'm not interested, in principle, but could be interesting to explore, thank you! This is part of my portable home rig: Using a M-Vave Tank-G as the core of it. This is a little multiFX that runs on a built-in rechargeable battery (or USB-C) and acts as a sound card too, DI, etc etc. It's designed for guitar, which it does nicely, but I set up a couple of presets for bass that work quite well. So guitar/bass into the Tank-G, and Tank-G into tablet for recording. I often plug the Tank-G into a small bluetooth speaker (Headrush FRFR-GO), and it is a nice sounding tiny rig.

Interesting little gadget, but not what I'm after. Still, thank you, it's always good to know what else is out there!

unfortunately not

Recording one track at a time is fine for my purposes, and I used to use Cubase years ago (I switched to Reaper) so the basic functions I'm probably already familiar enough with. Do you know if you can import a project from Cubase LE? Or export to Cubase LE? Not a biggie, but a guy I work with a lot uses Cubase and I was wondering whether the Android Cubasis could be used to share stuff directly (again, without an VSTs etc, simple tracks recorded as they are). I might never use that, as I'd probably just sit at the computer as usual, but I'm curious about the possibility. I saw too many reviews about Cubasis crashing and freezing, that's why I was a bit hesitant.

Looking for recommendations for a simple multitrack recording app, for a tablet running Android. It doesn't have to be free, I do not mind paying for an app if it does what I need, but I'm NOT a fan of subscription models so I'd rather avoid those but I'd still consider them (it depends on the actual monthly fee to some extent). Cubasis LE looks nice and familiar, £25 outright buy, but the reviews are very mixed about its reliability. BandLab looks decent, but the free version has so many ads that I gave up testing more than a few minutes, and you can't just buy it, it's a subscription model. I don't recall the price but I remember thinking it was more than I was willing to pay per month. I tried another "Wave..." something, but it had the same issue with the ads making testing very tedious (waiting 30 seconds watching a video at seemingly every other click on the menu) and the subscription not attractive enough without having being able to test it well. The closest software I know must be n-track, which looks like it can still be bought outright for around £30, but I am interested to see if there's anything else out there. My needs are very simple, this is just to quickly record ideas/sketch songs, no no need for deep mixing capabilities or FX etc... simple record, volume and gain, pan and if there's some basic EQ I'm happy.

That is my view too. I got a Nokia tablet, refurbished by Nokia with new battery etc for a littl;e over £100. Is it the best tablet? Clearly not, but for the needs of a gigging tablet it does all that's required and more. At some point when it starts getting a little older I'll just switch off updates entirely. The only network I need to connect to is the mixer's router.

I just use a small cushion

No need, he sounds like a good one so he'll move to another company soon

That's the one where a Terminator I personator chases individual members? I'd like that one!