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Can someone remove that unnecessary apostrophe before I have to blind myself with a soldering iron?

https://www.thomann.de/gb/boss_bgk_30_serial_gk_cable.htm?shp=eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiZ2IiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6NCwibGFuZ3VhZ2UiOjJ9&reload=1 £60 Will any TRS work?

2 different giggable heads (Mark Bass and Ashdown), a Roland Combo that I've had for maybe 20 years, and a 5W mini head. The Mark Bass is my favourite. The Ashdown is really a backup and / or lazy option as it has a compressor and some drive built in. Combo in a bedroom. 5W mini amp because it sounds just like a raging SVT but at TV volume. But if I'm recording then it's all Helix.

That's great news. I hope you enjoy the new job.

I do this a lot in my band. I don't use different EQ settings on the amp or a pedal but if I'm playing a 2 pickup bass I often change the pickup balance which is kind of the same thing. On a P bass I might tweak the tone pot on the bass to allow more treble when slapping. I use a Boss BC-1X compressor. I have been really impressed with it. I've had the Origin Cali76, the Empress, DG Supersymmetry and other high end compressors and I like the Boss the best. It just works better and it's a lot easier to dial in. There's some magic going on inside to prevent the dip and rise volume that some compressors do and it is really quiet in operation. Only downside is battery life. Current draw is very low for a digital pedal but 9V batteries are expensive so that needs to be backup only really. Power supply all the way!

The loudest fan I ever had was in the Mesa Prodigy 4:88. The fact that an all valve amp was built in a way to need a fan was really stupid. Even then the fan itself was a really cheap piece of crap in a £2500 amplifier. It looked no different to any other PC case fan. An extra £20 and it could have had a BeQuiet or a Noctua fan with hardly any noise at all. Nobbers.

Specs are very similar to the Aguilar 60s version and the Aguilar is quite a bit cheaper.

Secursus They don't cover ebay / reverb stuff, but for forums and other private non"marketplace" things they do.

And this time there is a bass version of the GK-5 pickup too! https://www.andertons.co.uk/boss-gk-5b-electric-bass-guitar-divided-pickup £690 for the unit + about £250 for the pickup is a fair chunk though.

Could also email Barefaced and see if you can visit - they are in Brighton.

The Gallery or Bass Direct probably have the biggest selection.

All as good or bad as each other. Buy a separate stand-alone insurance policy to go with it.

I doubt it. It hasn't been out long. Thomann do this sort of thing every now and again. You have to be ready though as the blow out stuff sells really fast.

Just a quick heads up - Cory Wong has a bunch of transcriptions available on his website and for 2 of his albums there are full bass transcriptions and tabs available and they are currently on sale. The Striped Album Cory and the Wongnotes They come with pdf and Guitar Pro files too. https://www.corywongmusic.com/charts-and-tabs Some great playing by Sonny T on those albums. For the brass and reed players on here - there's a full set of horn charts for the amazing "Paisley Park Sessions" album. No bass for that one yet, but fingers crossed!

If it was just dirty but a good player I'd give them a crap review but I wouldn't send it back.

I prefer a different way. Each member owns a specific bit. 1 person owns the desk, the next the speakers etc. Split as best as possible to keen values similar. Each person responsible for repair, insurance etc of their bit.

Bottesini only needed 3!

The Ibanez Mezzo 5 is 32 inch medium scale. They are very good if a 32 would do the job. If not then I think it would need to be a custom order or at least a parts build.

The double bass began as a 3 string so 4 and above are pointless…. Seriously though, I love a good 5. Easy for use with brass and Reed friendly keys and lots of fingering options. I don’t have a use for a 6. I don’t need the range at that end.

I've bought from Ishibashi before and from a Japanese ebay from another shop that I can't remember. Was great service both times.

Mono Sleeve for the bass (or the Sandberg bag that is nice too) I use a Gator 1815 Mixer bag for my amp head, cables, transcriptions, spares etc.

I would. There's plenty of music I like to play but wouldn't go an see live, for all manner of reasons. I don't listen to disco unless it just comes up on a random shuffle play and wouldn't go and see a show but playing in band doing Jackson 5 / Chic / Sly etc etc would be great fun. Same for punk / pop-punk too. I don't listen to it, but I bet the energy of performing it is great.

I used to do a 4 way blend using a POD Pro XT Bass, an Ampeg SVP-BSP into a Yamaha P5000S power amp and a pair of cabs. There were additional compressors and octaves and stuff as well. After a lot of tweaking I found the secret was multiple compression stages, but with the most important being on the cleanest tones, set to match the note decay times of the distorted ones so it sounded like 1 complex layered tone rather than 4 separate basses. It took a lot of work to get the natural decay of all 4 tones to fade away at the same time. It was amazing, but the rack was so damn heavy. Never again - unless I can have roadies.