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So I did the deed and traded my little tiny 12" BF cab for the 1X15 I was after. I am sad to see the little thing go it was truly a box of wonder - but who knows what the future holds? Maybe we'll reunite one day. For now I had to trade as funds are exhausted. This is what my A rig now looks like:

Problem I face is shelling out the 100 plus before they'll even quote me the 250. If I knew the price I could either swallow it or throw the flipping thing into the nearest skip.

I suppose if I really tried to find something to moan about it would be the times people don't leave feedback after a positive experience. Seems only polite to do so, but then people have busy lives, so I get it.

Yep agree with the OP, all too easy to imagine everyone wants to scam you in this world. Basschat dispels this myth. In fact the only faulty thing I ever bought here I 100% believe the seller had no idea was broken. I didn't even mention it to him, life's too short, just fixed the problem.

Yeah, the only genuinely funny bit was most likely a mistake

I find the Trace Elliott / Barefaced combination to be a winner. My TE head sits perfectly atop a BF 110 too. Plenty loud.

I use a TCE 250 for these type gigs and it's perfect. Marries very nicely with the BF 110 too. MarkBass? My only experience has been a sad one. When the amp broke down I have been quoted over a hundred quid just to have the fault diagnosed. Repair cost? Whatever they want to charge. Compare with the £30 repair and service to revive my TE head by an amp tech of my choice! MB only licence one company to repair their gear, no one else can get the bits. This may be common practice with modern class D amp manufacturers I don't know. But it's meant I now have an expensive box I can't use without shelling out an unknown amount of money. Only my personal experience, you'll find plenty others say TE and MB never break down, I might have been unlucky.

I've been in more than one band where we didn't bother getting a singer, just let the guy who wrote the songs do it to save us the hassle of dealing with the ego. Even if they weren't particularly gifted singers it was still more fun. Then I found my current singer. No discernible ego, none. Regards her voice as an instrument, looks after it, has learned how it works by paying for coaching, rehearses hard every day, carries the gear, owns her own gear, books gigs, in fact works her backside off getting gigs, runs the social media, sets up and packs down, soundchecks the band, drives herself and others to gigs, doesn't see herself as any more important than anyone else in the band, learns her parts, never blows out a rehearsal, first time I met her was in the car park outside the rehearsal room and she carried my bass from the car for me. Oh and she is literally the best singer I've ever worked with, magical voice. I've said it before, no you can't, hands off, she's a keeper.

It's a public performance so I would say yes.

Looks like a fair bit of space both East and West of the P U cover. I shall play hunt the masking tape when I can see in the shed tomorrow and update.

They're here, thanks to @Lozz196 Just placed them, no holes yet...

This exceptional Basschatter sent me some pick up and bridge covers when he spotted that the ones I had were not right for my bass. Unsolicited, asked for no money, just put them in the post. What a great guy, deal with utmost confidence.

As above, please

Please tell me you just did that on Photoshop

Keys guy in one of my bands may have all the above faults he may not. If he ever turned up to a bloody rehearsal we could find out 😒 However, fantastic player just joined another band, offered to chip in to studio costs for a session we'd booked before he joined, never interferes with my frequencies, transformed a good band into a great one overnight. I'm thinking of not lifting any of his patio slabs then....

I made a similar return last year. My bank balance has collapsed. Be warned.

Hello from another west country bass player. We particularly love those who come over from the dark side.* *Guitar not Chepstow

Btw thanks for the thread revival I missed this first time and it's been hugely entertaining, but more importantly it's pointed out some of the stinky poo that has come out of my mouth over the years. Hopefully I can learn from it.

Band leader: we should all have cool nicknames for when the singer introduces us, like Rocky Montana Me: Me: Me: go home Rocky, you're drunk

I'm wondering whether an elongated thumb rest running from the bridge right through to the farthest point of the body might be an even more unsightly solution. 😉

I started playing the wrong song once. Mental block centred around associating the titles to the tracks. That was a car crash. I somehow mangled the intro of the Guns and Roses one into the Bon Jovi one (can't bring the titles to mind even now). This is a genuine problem only really highlighted when I have to start the song. I get around this by using ireal pro as my set list. That way the chords are there on my tablet as a reference which works on my brain in a way that song titles don't seem to. Of course as it's a mental problem, now I can at a click bring up the chords I never actually need to. In the old days I used a magic marker to write the first bass note next to the song title on my set list; lower case for higher octave, capital letter if the first note is in the lower octave. My rationale was whatever happened I'd come in on the right note and at the right part of the fretboard. Hopefully everything else would then click into place. Just a comfort blanket but it worked

I have no experience of the Ampeg cabs. Well, I've heard others playing through them and they sound awesome but not tried them or the Ashdown myself. I used to play through an 810 all the time, it was an Eden and it sounded just fine to me. However now I've used Barefaced I doubt I'll ever go back to heavy cabs.