mcnach

Seems logical, that's the input gain control, if you turn it to zero...

To me a decent bass is one that works the way it's supposed to, reliably. Just that: a bass I would be happy to gig/record with.

Indeed. Yes, prices have gone up a lot in the past few years, but at the same time I don't think there's been a better time than now to buy a cheap instrument that is also decent.

I'm going to get an XR18 mixer for our monitoring purposes. I have a question with regards to what tabled to use for this. I have no clue what specs I would need. I gather that to run the app controlling the XR18 we don't need much, but I don't know what is enough. This would be purely to be used with the XR18, nothing else. I'd prefer Android, but not set in stone. I guess at the very least I need it to be dual band wifi... and I would like to be able to connect the tablet to the XR18 with a cable (using a USB-ethernet adapter) as a 'just in case' option, so it has to be able to do that. Any hints/recommendations?

You're missing my ability to misread things

I misread... see post above.

It turns out it's me who can't count... I read it as 8 basses sent for sale, and 7 out of the 9 sold within x weeks... I missed that it was 8 basses PLUS 1 amp, so sum =9. It wasn't a great joke to start with, but now it's also meaningless... And I had to explain it!!! Time to get my coat...

I hope both of you can count better than that...

I think people have lost the plot as to how much they'd pay...

Re: "vintage" Well, it's been 47 years and a bit since the Stingray was released into the wild...

Ooooh, I like your thinking!

This. As a part of an arrangement where various band members' skills are reshuffled to achieve a goal, why not. As a 'fun thing' that she wants to do... Don't even open that door a crack. It'll be hard to close it.

She can want from here until the moon. It doesn't mean she'll get it Obviously I don't know your band's dynamics. In any of mine if someone wanted to play bass on a song, really wanted it, sure, we're the accommodating type. But she sounds like she wants to do more than that. What does the rest of the band say?

Those MM pickups sound just fine without a preamp, despite what many say (makes me wonder if they tried them). You just won't have the tonal diversity that the preamp's built in EQ will give you. My 2002 EBMM Stingray has now a bypass switch, so I can play it passively (just a little 'get me home' switch, in case I mess up my battery replacement schedule). Plenty of output (of course, if you normally boost the crap out of the preamp controls, it'll be a bit quieter than that!) and if at the right spot for a Stingray, it has plenty of Stingrayness (just one of the many flavours available if you had the preamp too). If it's not at the Stingray position, then it'll never sound like a Stingray anyway, but it'll sound good.

Hmm, looking at the relative dimensions of the pickup and polepiece arrangement... it looks like it'll be 16mm spacing. Boooh. I guess it won't tempt me anymore, then.

Yes, but at least Sire seemed to put the MM pickup at the 'right' spot I had a Lakland 55-02 because I could not find a xx-76. These days I don't mind the string spacing being <19mm (in fact, 17.5 or 18mm seem perfect for me now). If they don't weigh as much as Pluto and the neck profile feels good, I can see one of these in my collection. I have a Ray35 but it's really heavy. The Hogmanay gig is going to be tiring.

What is it? I've been thinking a few minutes but I don't get it

Not a fan of the Sire headstock, but despite that I thought the Z3/Z7 basses looked pretty good if you remove the oval scratchplate. This one would tempt me, and the one in 'rosegold' too, yum.

I use those in a few of my basses. They work really well.

I'd add a vote for Reaper. It can do a lot, but if you just want basic functions they're generally pretty intuitive and there's a few great tutorial videos on youtube. I'd like to add also this thing called n-track. I used that back in the 90s! They're still going and of course grew with the times. I used it a couple of years ago when I wanted to use a tablet/mobile phone to do some recording while on the move, there's android, mac and windows versions. It's probably the simplest but still nice to use multitrack recording software I've come across. https://ntrack.com/features.php

The Ray34/35 are pretty cool, but they've gone up in price a lot recently. The Ray35 I've got was £1300... not that long ago this was EBMM money, but those have gone stratospheric... The pickups/electronics are not the same as the USA ones, by the way, but they're pretty decent.

Completely opposite experience here, that thing always sounded right to me without fuss. Playing rock, funk, ska and reggae...

I wouldn't be that fast. I've had my account blocked for having the audacity to try to pay for a bass in the UK while on holidays in Spain. It took a while to straighten it out.

Check out the Gator mixer gig bags. They're sturdy and come in a range of sizes. I used them for a MarkBass LM3 among others, fitted really well with enough room for the cables, and they have a pocket for smaller acessories too.