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How many strings do you want? And you might want to check the scale length if it's likely to affect you, I suspect that the Ibanez is 889mm/35" not 864.

Played a gig with this on Saturday. Pub gig, three-piece, guitar/vox, keys, bass. Used an Ikea laptop shelf to tilt the amp back (being a combo, I don't have to worry about Ann Boleyn syndrome). Clear sound, would have overwhelmed the PA if I'd turned it up to more than 2 on the output. Must have another play at home as I think the input is more sensitive than the Tecamp Puma that it replaces, and it might have been just moving into clipping. Mrs Zero approved, which is the key point.

I was considering FRFR. Most of my gigs are with the bass amp used for FOH and a vocal/keys/acoustic guitar PA. However, my back is deteriorating, and none of the FRFRs were anything like as light as I wanted, so I've now got a 9.5kg 500W combo (could go to 800W with an extension). One person's one-handed lift is another person's sack truck. Plus who's going to buy/store/transport the PA if it's only me that would need it upgraded from the current one? If other people want to use FRFRs and go through the PA, that's fine by me. However, it does not match my needs, so I won't be.

Somebody else suggested this a while ago: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/braeda-laptop-support-black-60150176/ Just found the original post: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/447365-markbass-mini-cmd121p-or-fender-rumble-500-help/?do=findComment&comment=4412701 I bought one, never got round to using it till last night with my nice new GR Bass AT Cube 800 combo. Despite being right on top of the combo, I could hear it well - better than when I'd been in a similar position using a BB2 and Puma 900 (the fact I hadn't sorted out anything to stop the head sliding off was the reason I never tried it out earlier). Note that I used this with a 9.5kg combo, and the original suggester was using it with a Markbass CMD121P (11.9kg), so I'm not sure how well it would cope with a Trace Elliot at ten times that weight.

Lots 301 and 302 (page 7) astounded me with the price they fetched. The same things are going for £10-£20 on That Ebay.

I wouldn't fancy playing that sitting down.

Is this British Imperialistic Running-dog inches, or American Capitalist Lackey inches? Please re-pose the question, using units which are in use in 98% of the countries in the United Nations.

Variax.

How many points do you get for reading one of Hellzero's "In praise of tonewoods" posts?

And burgers.

I made my feelings about Red Red F*cking Whine known very early on in my membership of the band. And Dreadlock Holiday.

You just have to remember to charge it up. Which I never do.

An old friend of mine does open mics, and his wedding reception involved a number of open mic participants plus us (who assembled from assorted open mics ourselves). We do "Purple Rain", and the keyboardist takes over for the "oooh oooh oooh" outro vocals. Except this time, when an open mic lady came excitedly up and said "I know this", then launched into what I can only describe as caterwauling - in fact, I've never heard anything for which the word "caterwaul" was so accurately fitted. At one pub venue, we got the macho man thing - someone built like a brick outhouse standing straight in front of the singer as close as he could and scowling at him. Now I'm 175cm tall (that's three inches short of a fathom for those of you that can't cope with the 20th century) and I make the rest of the band look like hobbits, so you can imagine that on a floor-level stage area, that was a bit intimidating for him. Macho man subsequently went over to the table that the percussionist's other half was at and leant on it, scowling at her. Fortunately he got bundled out by the bar staff, so nothing untoward eventuated. Pub got crossed off the list of pubs that we would ever play at again.

It hasn't (yet) affected any gigs for me, but yesterday rehearsal got cancelled as two members couldn't make it due to lack of petrol. Mrs Zero's car needed filling up and she was going to do it Saturday morning, but after seeing all the issues, I offered to fill it up in the middle of the night at our local 24 hour Asda. Got there just as a tanker was leaving, which I thought was a good sign. When I got in, there were about 20 cars queueing for the four pumps (out of 12) that were working. Cars continued to arrive as I filled up, so there were still about 20 in the queue at 1 in the morning. At least I've got some fuel in my car, half a tank in one of the bikes, and I don't commute any more.

Nice detail using tort for the battery box cover.

Argument. CD sounds better.

Or a Studiodeck, in which case they've trebled the price.

I think it's transparent, but I'm not sure how good my ears are. I didn't A/B it with the BB2 but my impression is that it is a little cleaner sounding. I chose the 800 over the 500 because, although at the moment my requirements mean I don't need the extra power, I have the option of putting an extension cab on should things change in the future.

Just done my soak test on https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193853851917 to see how well it holds up running a Stomp and the Raspberry Pi soft synth plus an Arduino-driven Stomp switch box and Line 6 G50 wireless for 2.5 hours. It all held up. However, I also ran a patch lead from wireless to Stomp so I could have a listen and make sure there's no nasty artefacts. There is a hum (not loud but definitely there) when using the PSU which disappears when I power everything else with the PSU and the Stomp with its own PSU. So this one, sadly, doesn't quite make the grade. I'm considering a 12V 5A or so power supply running to a number of these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192169107342 which I'm currently using successfully in a couple of Pi projects and a couple of Arduino projects.

Unfortunately I missed the courier on Friday, as otherwise I'd have gigged this on Saturday. A quick check out shows it's rather loud in the house. Some experimenting is called for as there are a wide range of tone control options (never a good idea with me). There's also facilities to use the array of 24 LEDs as a VU meter (4 modes) or a tuner. Initial impression of the sound is very clean, with plenty of depth. There's a Deep and a Bright switch for that smiley face sound, and the Antoniotsai (which has Barts and a Delano Sonar preamp, set flat) sounded great on that with the amp tone controls somewhere round flat. And a few hours later, the Big Baby 2 was gone - a good cab and very lightweight, but not as lightweight as the GR. One minor point - the GR has the amp tucked in the back, balancing the speaker at the front, so the handle is in the middle for correct balance. The BB2 obviously has a speaker on the front panel but nothing to balance that on the rear, so the handle is asymmetric, closer to the front of the cab than the back. I didn't measure the distance from the front for each, but I suspect the GR's handle is a tiny bit further away from the front than the BB2's.

I use a Hotone bass amp with a Barefaced One10 as a monitor at rehearsals. It's fine. If you want cheaper, you could go a bit bigger and build the BC Lockdown Build 1x10.