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The deluxe is much better. Good choice!

Yup. It's like 90s metal guitars - all tubescreamer boosted Mesa Dual Recs. Couldn't get away from them. It's annoying because the DG stuff is actually very versatile when the drive knob isn't welded at full. The AO is actually a brilliant clean & warm preamp. I use it like that most of the time rather than teh brewtal.

But that's not a bad thing!

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£289 at Andertons.

"Was that hard to play? Because it was hard to listen to!"

The new BQ500 amp is up at £181! How noisy are TC fans?

I’m going to say it. Helix and a power amp.

Shared EQ though.

I would love a Euro XL4. When they build one under 8.5lb I’ll buy one.

The Jackson is reminding me of my youth when I wanted to be David Ellefson.

Big plate tuners models (Vintage / Mex 50s & 60s etc often have neck dive. Modern ones with lightweight tunes have it less, and quite often none.

I saw a few posts moaning that spellings will be European and measurements will be metric. Strewth. Only the US uses imperial. The rest of the world has moved on. Also - I saw one about some idiot demanding more "domestic" brands. Well "domestic" is now British. US brands are now the imported stuff. ha hahahahahaha!

Surprising that Ed Friedland is being a bit twatty about it - unless of course he's just got the sack. No appreciation of the brand? I rather imagine that the Future guys bought it because they liked the brand! "For me, Bass Player has always been about the voices within. The contributors and editors shaped a new dialect, a way of communicating about the bass. Over the years, a culture was born, nurtured, cultivated, matured, established, and to a degree, institutionalized. The current owners have no sense of what they have, no appreciation for the brand. I’m sure the Bass Guitar crew will do the best they can with the limited resources made available to them, but for the most part... you can expect something very different. Better? Always a matter of opinion."

I use the tone on the bass to control the treble rather than the amp. Drive level depends on the bass used. I turn it up until I can hear drive then knock it down again a smidge. The tone flip switches are important. the bass EQ isn’t always quite that high but never far off either- depends on the room. b3k model as said. into Barefaced One10 which is quite vintage sounding too. And last week I was playing Van Morrison’s Moondance with it. Nice walking line to play.

I like that! Full. On. Chubby. How much? Do we know yet?

And a Barefaced One10 cab (or a pair if I need it) I'll grab a photo of the amp settings when I get home.

@drlargepants Saw the comments about the M900 - do you want a photo of my settings? I'm using a passive PJ with it and I'm very happy with my big band sound. Chunky bottom, enough space in the mids for the trombones, and a little treble, and with a touch of wooliness provided by the B3K circuit. The VMT circuit should be the better choice for this... but it isn't. Far too much mids clashes with the other instruments. The B3K circuit does it far better and with less EQ mucking about.

Boss / Fender 63 Reverb. Old DOD Phasor is sort of brown / red Boss Octave

After a couple of weeks playing it with the factory set up - I like it a lot. I have had to adjust a little playing the G string due to the usual EBMM habit of only having a micron movement before falling off the fretboard but I'm getting the hang of it. It's not as clanky as my former metally self would have preferred but it does suit the big band stuff far better. The low B seems stronger too. I'm guessing that the string was being choked a bit even if I couldn't hear any buzz.

Excellent. The great thing about having a few sight reading books or example tests is that it forces you to read rather than remember. I've got a really good memory for bass parts - I can remember stuff I last played 5 years ago quite easily - so it's hard to tell sometimes if I'm reading a piece or just remembering it. So I try to use new stuff any time I can. Great thing about the bass guitar - you can pick from millions of piano scores and just play the bass clef part for practice. I just ignore the chord element and play whatever the lowest note shown is.

Probably be a small group who have played all the supposed top gear. I've never played a Ritter or Alembic or Carl Thompson, and only had 2 mins on a fretless Wal. I have played Sadowsky, Marleaux, Fodera, Status, Modulus. Of those - they were all lovely and very different. I thought the Marleaux was the best *for me* out of them. BUT if Status went back to their older neck profile that was more C shaped rather than the D they have now... that would probably change my mind.