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Strings still on my bass and sounding great. Still got a good tone and the top end is still nice and crisp.

Via a roundabout route I now have this head and taking it out on my house band jam session tonight to check it out.

I use this quite often to help me price up gigs so I don't lose money and it's free. [url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gig-fee-calculator-v1.00/id981262493?mt=8"]https://itunes.apple...d981262493?mt=8[/url]

Have you had a look at mesa boogie cabs? There are a couple for sale on the forum here. ( not mine). http://basschat.co.uk/topic/291937-mesa-boogie-600w-rig-will-now-split/page__fromsearch__1 Great cabs I have one of those cabs myself.

[url="http://www.harvest-guitar.com/Bass-Bags/"]http://www.harvest-guitar.com/Bass-Bags/[/url] Not cheap but great quality and well padded and protective. I use mine all the time and rarely use a hard case.

Shame the offer didn't include prosteels.

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1479666336' post='3178287'] Like a few others, I've always stretched new strings after putting them on. Put them on, tune to standard, give them a good stretch, tune up again, stretch again, tune up again. Is it beneficial? Good question. I think it is beneficial, tuning stability is achieved almost immediately, great if you're on the road or in the studio. Does it effect your "tone"? I've never noticed any detrimental effects from doing it, so no. [/quote] I do this whenever changing strings or taking existing ones to clean the bass. I always restring my basses and guitars with the strings under tension. In other words I grab each string near the middle and pull it towards the bridge so that they fit round the tuning peg tightish. Then tune to pitch and pull them up away from the fretboard and retune until it stays in tune. For me it's as much about taking any slack out of the string around the post as stretching so that there is less chance of any string slippage anywhere the first time you start playing. Once i've done that the string pretty much stays in tune. As for tone affects, i've never noticed any problem with tone from stretching strings nor longevity issues.

Neo in the genre name of any form of music means absolutely noting to me musically, it only appears as a way of rebranding existing music to make it seem new and different. I have heard singers describe themselves as neo-classic-soul singers which leaves me no wiser about how they may sound. Hopefully you can let me know what that term means to you to aid my understanding.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1479394890' post='3176210'] That's not stereo at all, but 2-channel. Stereo requires you to have to ability to be able to "pan" each sound source two any position or mix between the two amp and speaker sets. [/quote] [size=4]Quite! [/size]

I've used "Stereo" on a couple of occasions though my implementation does not use a crossover to split frequencies, my bass has the option of a descreet output from each pickup. This allowed me to use a separate outpbuard preamp for each pickup which then went into a QSC stereo power amp. The sound engineer decided to get DI outputs from each pre-amp and also mic'd both cabs a 4x10 and I think a I used a 1x15. On stage I can't say It sounded dramatically different to a mono implementation but out front the engineer had a field day. For convenience I prefer a mono rig but if I someone else was to carrying the cab's and rack I would try it out more. :-)

If I could play double bass I would have that without a doubt.

OP: I don't know either of those basses mentioned but would it make sense/be possible to swap the hardware over to the bass you prefer so you have the better quality of hardware on your main bass?

I bought a QSC PLX 2402 used and it is fantastic powerful and clean. Apart from the weight it is a fantastic power amp reliable and you can use 2 x 4 ohm cabs per side should you wish.

I'm gutted he was a giant talent and such a shame that he has gone.

I'm with the original poster on this, Jazz funk/fusion is my favourite genre. Unfortunately up where I am in the midlands we don't get too much of that live at all and most of the big names bypass us and go further north. Although I'd listened to a few artistes like Herbie Hancock, Grover Washington Jr, The Crusaders and heard of others mainly from watching the Old Grey Whistle Test, the first album I bought of the genre was Soft Space by the Jeff Lorber Fusion. https://youtu.be/qSAN2gdwONU The first jazz rock fusion I heard was Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever and that is still one of my favourite albums to date. https://www.youtube....h?v=giup9k87MMo I remember Herbie Hancock's Headhunter album was really popular in my neighbourhood especially with the musicians who used to rehearse in a studio on my street.

Great review Walbassist, Ive just bought one tor using with my alembic bass. Generally I use a mesa boogie walkabout for most of my gigs. I have a backup/spare, peavey Tour 450, that I bought in a hurry when the mesa was out of action for a while, However i find it less clean sounding than the mesa boogie and now i have the mesa back i can put it up for sale and replace it with the PJB M300. I have a PJB Briefcase that I use mainly at home, small gigs or rehearsals in small places and I'm really impressed with the sound so looking forward to getting my mitts on the m-300

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1478545237' post='3169799'] PJB Bighead for me too. Superb bit of kit. I am not too sure re the headphones and agree better can be found. If you want to splash the cash, go Bighead! [/quote] I tried the headphones and whilst the sound was very hi-fi, i found the bottom end to be too light and distorting at moderate sound levels. I even tried them on my ipod and home hifi and they didn't give me any bottom end meat at all. I now just use my old £19.99 sony headphones which whilst not hifi or neutral sound great at the bottom end.

I try to keep my instruments in pristine condition but so far I have not dinged any but there is some light scraches in the area of the body where my fingers touch when playing. I'm not bothered about those as I thing they might be able to be polished out. If any got dinged scratched etc to the point it annoyed me I'd just take it to someone like Jaydee and have it refinished.

+ 1 on the PJB Big head it's extremely high quality soundwise and . I've had two of the Vox amplug things and whilst i thought they sounded fine, the weak point is the plastic jackplug which is extremely weak and is the part that broke on one of mine and the other was the headphone jack just pushed inside one day when I was plugging in. I wouldn't recommend them. The only gripe I have on the PJB is that I've never got anywhere near the "Up to 8 hours" that it says in their literature and when it goes flat, the lead isn't long enough to plug it in and keep playing whilst sat on the sofa.

[size=4][quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1477927685' post='3165319'][/size] My wife was a senior claims handler for 12 years, a photo of the item is standard procedure, same for jewellery, something like a picture taken at a wedding of the claimant wearing the item being claimed for would be the norm. At the end of the day there's no need for photo shop, just stick it up the loft and say it's been stolen if your a crook! [/quote] A good mate and his girlfriend had their home burgled and some jewellery stolen but they had no pictures or reciepts to confirm what jewellery they owned. Fortunately I was photographer at an awards ceremony they attended the previous year and had some pictures I'd taken with my digital SLR I sent them the pictures and I think that helped them get their claim settled. That said my insurance company have never asked for pictures of my stuff and they only have the serial numbers because I put them in my list of goodies. Anything that proves ownership can't be a bad thing if anything happens.

I always insure at full new replacement value as suggested by my insurance company. I bought most of my basses used and so contacted the manufacturer for the current replacement value if the bass were to be made today and sent a copy to the insurance company and they were happy with that.