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Did an outdoor gig with my markbass traveller 102p, 151hf and lmk2 on Sat. Fairly large stage with the amp set well back on a very wobbly wooden stage. Playing away i realised that i was really loud ( i turned down!) even from that distance with the sound full, clean and clear from deep bass notes on the detuned E right up to my chords and harmonics. Heres the thing........ When i took it down i realised id not properly plugged in the 151hf, id done the whole gig just on the 102p!?!?!?!?!?! Unreal! makes me gutted i carted that Trace rig around so long! The LMK was only up to about 9 oclock! and that was into 8 ohms cooool

i know!

Thats why im umming, i cant stand em, but i reckon one modded up to f*** would be ace!

Recently picked up an as new squier VMJ fretless jazz on here, to which i promptly added a tortoisehell scratchplate to 'de-jacofi' it a bit. However i think i bought it cause i used to play all fretless years ago and thought i missed it, turns out i dont!, so im sorta thinking of swapping it for the squier vmj p bass if i can find an interested party, BUT, and this is where you guys come in, should i? As it goes i already have six stunning fretted basses, so would a simple squier P be worth it?, ive never owned a P but i fancy the idea of slowly modding a white one. But surely its more sense to keep a fretless handy 'just incase'!? As i can get a pretty convincing fretless sound from my other basses, but then i can also get a convincing P sound? thoughts?

heh heh, its the new 'alternators' version of smokescreen who turns into a wrc subaru impreza, coool!

thanks, liking it much more than my old ss1 and my previous LX too well chuffed

thanks dude, which one?, im lovin the new LX snagged a bargain there.

thanks guys, the jazz used to be a 91 mij 60s reissue now only the body and three of the tuners are original, the neck is a status graphite, with fretfx leds, it has an east j retro, emgs, badass 2, hipshot, etc etc and is my main bass and a real head turner!, the markbass rig is superb and soooo loud!, compared to the trace its a bit brighter and less low mid punchy its harder to eq to as the low eq is a tad too low also the low on the vpf is a litttle too low, BUT its awesome and im sooo glad i made the switch!

thanks dude, i have the same problem i also changed the pics for better ones

Knowing Leicester as i do id say your on to a winner!, especially if you can offer storage, and /or resi rooms with provision for member of multiple bands to pitch in i.e im in three bands can i use one room for three bands kinda thing. To illustrate the fact Doublecross used to drive to Birmingham everyweek to rehearse at madhouse rather than stay in Leicester, RPM is good as you know but does peak quite early in terms of quality for more experienced bands, and Quad is excellent but expensive and in my experience after spending some long hours there doing session work it can have reliability issues in more ways than one!, ive wanted to open a rehearsal room, cum band hang out, social epicentre in Leicester for years, go for it and reclaim leicester music scene while your at it!, (you know what i mean!)

no pics of the recently scratchplated squire VMS fretless jazz at the mo though

funnily enough i did used to own a prototype from that Laney line it was awesome and very heavy, laney got very excited when i phoned them about it.

sorry dude just missed out im sorted but thanks anyway though

looks like one of the old laneys that were very similar like the db150 etc

thanks all, looks like im sorted with a peavey off a fellow bchatter