LukeFRC

I don’t think it’s a facsimile- I think it’s a real tube in the preamp!

So I’ve helped out by designing logo and labels for the kit, fair to say Ive been Stevie back and forth a fair bit... what he isn’t letting on is how much time and energy he’s putting into designing the kit, crossover and working with CNC companies... and trying to work our every detail of parts and grills etc to try and make it as simple as possible for folk. Stevie - it really is appreciated!

He used flatwounds and tended towards quite a thumpy sound... if you are using roundwounds then the lack of punch would be the result of old strings. Two years is a fair time for roundwounds, some folk on here change theirs every month!

How old are your strings @David Cook?

There's reasons for that though. To patent a shape of a body etc in the USA (and I think we're actually talking about trademarking) you have to demonstrate that it is unique to your design and that you have made efforts to protect the IP for whatever you want to patent. So by the time Fender (CBS or whoever owned them then) tried to trademark the shape of their guitars it was determined that they hadn't tried to protect them previously and that they had become 'generic'. The headstock they could trademark... Conversely Rickenbacker were able to show they had made steps to protect the shape of the body and headstock of their instruments.- so they could protect them. One of the consequence is that to keep them protected they have to show that they are continuously making steps to stop people using their trademarks fraudulently.... hence why they have to threaten small bass forums in the UK......

You would have liked I think

Did you try @owens Felix at the bass bash?

Nope - blocked as unsafe

My phone flags up a warning for that link

I got my UE 900s what only 2 years back, and got a good deal with them at about £100 or so... it's crazy to see how much the initial cost barrier to entry has dropped and something half good costs less than a set of decent strings now.

Happened to me... pet hate is that "what's your best price" question... almost as if I didn't put an advert up with what my best price is. I flat out refuse to negotiate on price if asked that question. Had a guy buy a bass off me... spent ages trying to talk me down, got it and it was on eBay within a couple of days.

Plus people don't take into account that that 20% of the new cost was VAT anyway...

Not comment on any noise of otherwise, badly worded question wondering why you use that model with its tone off.

So I’ve played with the Avalon with tone off on my B3n and after a while couldn’t work out what it was doing to the signal compared to not having it on

This is the least basschat thread ever... ”you know the thousands you spent on your pedal board” ”yep, I replaced it with a big multi fx board - it’s amazing” ”I m thinking of getting the small stomp box version of your big multi fx board as I hear it’s amazing” ”oh it is amazing, it sounds great” ”that what you use?” ”nah, check out this £60 Zoom pedal, tbh I don’t need anything else”

The what? I’ve only ever known 7

I'm 5 years older than my wife. When we first started going out I she went to live in Berlin for a year (not because she had just met me) - I started telling her excitedly about one of my first memories ever of watching the Berlin Wall come down on Newsround on the TV and how exciting I found it even though I had no idea what was going on.... "can you remember?" "do you remember?" I asked.... ... "er I wasn't born then" was the reply

yeah but the 80's way almost three decades ago now.

It’s odd how so many of the “treasures of the future” are essentially either from the 80s, designed in the 80s or builders who started in the 80s

Conversely your job as a bass player isn’t to f up to he mix by fiddling with your feed to the FOH - that would be amateur

Obviously the suggestion to clean the jack sockets was a separate one to opening it up, not some ceremony to be performed before you open the amp up!

Sometimes switched jacks can get corroded and not register correctly leaving an open. Not promising it will work in this case, probably won’t if hitting it reconnects the signal but another thing to rule out as the cause....

plug and unplug jacks into the effect loop input and output many times... then open it up and check nothing has shaken loose. If that's no good and it's going in the bin I'll have it!

+1 (Though some of the tiny 15w bass amps can be a wee bit depressing to play through)