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Well, after a bit of a moan & cancellation Bass Direct managed to get one. Currently "Out for delivery" Should be here before lunch so I might get to play with it for half an hour as I'm working at home. Fingers crossed and all that.

No fan! Now I'm interested. I look forward to trying one when stock arrives in the UK in 2025.

Who makes good gig bags for shorties? Any ideas?

New Moon will do that too. Allianz are a very good company. I've made claims from them for work related things and it's been well handled. New Moon are agents and the cover is actually provided by Ecclesiastical Insurance - another very big player with a good reputation.

I'm quite tempted - if you still have it at the weekend (I've got something happening for something else) then I may get in contact. Could it do a nice Duck Dunn sound?

I think this would give me an anxiety attack! I like to get comfortable with any new kit before gigging it. Ideally a proper rehearsal!

I’ve been experimenting with this lately. My sound for my big band is now horrible when played alone. It’s narrow, farty, inarticulate foulness. Genuinely unpleasant. And it’s the best I’ve ever had when everybody else is playing. The drummer actually noticed!

I use a variety of adhesive foam strip and plastic lolly sticks. I avoid needing a square by sliding a craft knife along the string while cutting the slot. Ive also experimented with cutting the foam into a point rather than square so more or less damping buy pushing it on a bit further or easing it off.

Needless to say the horn players didn't notice, but I got a thumbs up from the drummer in the first tune of the day! That will do

I used them at big band rehearsal this morning. Went for a Duck Dunn thing and turned the treble down on the amp to about 2. Small boost to the mids. Bass just a smidge above noon. Quite a narrow frequency sound but that let me be louder and not get in the way of the other instruments including a couple of bari saxes and the piano. Sounded bloody awful on it's own and ace in the mix.

The Super Twin tops out at about 4Khz. The rando cab you used with a tweeter probably goes to 10Khz at least - maybe as high as 20Khz there's not a lot of fundamental anything up there but it does allow more harmonic content to get through. So it depends on what element of the sound you are looking for. If it is more top end then maybe a Barefaced Big Twin 2 as that has a tweeter in it. But also the Super Twin is a quite neutral speaker so to make it sound like other cabs you'll need very different EQ setting. Definitely adjust with your ears and not your eyes!

My favourite traditional one is the Aguilar 60s wind. The AG 4P-60 And I’ve got a Dimarzio Relentless that has just been fitted. Very different!

It's dead easy - I've done it on mine. Takes 5 mins. I hate them too!

I like that a great deal.

Far easier option. Undo it and slide the black plastic part out of the housing. You'll see a little screw. Undo that. Then slide the Red plastic thing out of the way. That will show you a spring underneath it. Remove the spring. Then put the red bit back, put the screw back and stick it back together. Ta-DA! Now it's just a regular jack socket without any locking nonsense.

I'm using an RM800 Evo2 at the moment and it's very good, but before that I mainly used Mark Bass and I really like them. I suppose I could buy from Thomann and have the 3 year warranty.

Could well be. I don't blame them or actually the shop for the shortages, that would be silly in the current component shortage situation, but I've sent several emails to the shop and the first was "we'll send it out next week" and the ones after that were "I'll check that for you" And then never actually getting back to me. I've sent an email now cancelling my order. I might just buy another Ashdown and have done with it.

U Does seem to be like that. I think I'm going to cancel and then look at something else. I've never had a MB amp go wrong but I would imagine the supply chain for spares / repairs would be equally bad and that doesn not give me any confidence really.

I agree for large companies. But that doesn't scale to small outfits. BF only have 6 employees. I run a little company. There's only 2 of us. There is no way I can avoid price increases if I want to stay open. Paper has doubled. Energy has doubled. My prices have gone up but my income hasn't.

I never think to have a look on Reverb! I'd be surprised if that went at £2500 unless they really are rare and someone really wants one. That's not the original case either. The lower sum seems far more accurate to me.

I cannot find any past ebay sales and the most recent one on here seems to be over 10 years ago. I never play it anymore as it's just too heavy for me these days. I think it's 9 or 9,5lb It's the slightly sparkly blue colour. The scratchplate has yellowed with age a bit. I've had it for at least 10 years and it's a fantastic sounding bass and very versatile with the JPJ pickup system. Any ideas on value? It's gathering dust now and I could do with some funds to start buying the things that the eldest spawn will need for university in September. ta

I needed to order a load of paper for work - just A4 printer / copier paper. I usually just buy the cheapest 80g stuff I can find, and yesterday even that had doubled in price! Astonishing increase. I'm slightly insulated as it's a business expense to set off and I can get the vat back but even so that's just mental. How long do printer cartridges last for? I'm thinking about stocking up before those go even more silly than they are already.

Bizarrely I was on the receiving end when I was playing my old Marleaux. A "do you think you'll ever get a Fender?" type thing. I said "Well I suppose I could sell this and buy 4 of them, but why?" Cheaper instruments have never been better, and some expensive ones are only expensive because of an artist name. I don't have my silly money Zon or Marleaux anymore and now my most expensive is a Sandberg Superlight (don't know the value of my Fender Urge 2) but I'm just as happy to gig my £200 Ibanez Mezzo. Probably less chance of it getting nicked too.

@ikay This is what I've got so far I'll do more as I go through the box of things. I've taken the scratchplate off my Ibanez and the screws and replaced the knobs and just those small changes have knocked off 127g. If I make it passive and lose the battery, clip, preamp, and 2 pots and 2 knobs I reckong losing another 99g would be quite simple. That would be half a pound off for very minor changes. I did notice that the Aguilar P pickup is very light for it's type too. Instead of a bitsa I'm now wondering about modifying my Mezzo instead. I wonder how much paint weighs...?