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[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1470516422' post='3106540'] Seriously - check out the HandBox R-400. It made me sell my Walkabout. [/quote] Blasphemy! 😀😀😀

Had some wicks with wenge. If the fretboard was not full of dirt I usually played them to death, the natural oils of the hands are more than sufficient over time. In fact, wenge is a pretty oily wood and under normal circumstances does not require a lot of chemical conditioning. If the bass was used and pretty dirty, I used a tiny bit of lemon oil, very good for feeding it and making the grain pop while darkening the colour. But, even when necessary, be conscious that you must use a very little amount of oil, and remember to whipe the surface with a dry cloth after 1-2 hours, just to remove the excess

Had a few class D amps, markbass and genz benz. Even the supposedly mighty streamliner 900 sounded like heavy plastic compared to my SS and Walkabout mainly. I am convinced that the widespread generation of smps-class d amps are not suited for bass guitar amplification, whilst being a contemporary standard for FOH and other applications, but only because obtaining 5000 watts of pure class AB is now unacceptable. Massive weight, I have zero doubts that a conventional high power SS stage would be better even for sound reinforcement, but in these days carrying lightweight high power gear has raised the bar forever. For bass...still no. Waiting to try the newer class D dudes like B amp, glock etc etc but I'm so tired of these anemic boxes that I have no urge to do it

My 150 watts walkabout trough a big baby 2 is blowing the band off. I use it barely on when rehearsing and the guitard suffers the same... i suggest wisdom and more attention to global and mutual eq settings, makes a world of differencies. For example, the bass knob is turned down on guitar amps and other instruments are cut below 100-150 hz. This leaves the bass unadulterated and there is no subsonic rumble in the room.

The definition of heft varies a lot. For me,'it's not volume or loudness capabilityml. It is that punchy forceful bass that doesn't need a buttload of nosy mids to carry and push the band. In fact, I have a great hefty tone with a mesa walkabout wich has little power andca quite compressed tone but with a great harmonic content. I have no problem being heard and sounding huge even with so little horsepower...my other heads are much more powerful and dynamic (markbass big bang, peavey tour 700) but the wa is just beastly authoritative, even trough the DI only

it could be simple to think about a great tone that remains the same when mixed with other sounds. Unfortunately, It's not true. Every bass tone changes quite dramatically, from an audience point of view. It may seem the same when you have your cab pointing right at you onstage and you hear it as the loudest instrument, but it IS very different up front and in different parts of the room. It's our course. We are all damned and obliged to work hard to compensare for this phenomenon. Regarding cabs, I own a BB2, and I have not decided yet if it is my holy grail. It needs some babying sometimes because it points light on a useless tone like nothing else I have tried, but it can reward if you and your amo sound right for the band/venue. The fact that is light is pleasant, but the most important thing is the quality of reproduction. Dispersion is so good that I cannot use it onstage with a songwriter I work with. He is not used to hear bass clearly, he is not used to hear bass, and the BB2 cannot be silenced even at extreme offaxis. last gig I played behind the cab and I heard my bass wonderfully. The tone was appropriate up front too. If I thought that a cab that sounds good every day,venue or with any band ...I would not esitate to buy it, regardless of price. But that cab is chimeric, it does not exist. It's the nature of our instrument and role.