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I had a Sterling ray 34ca (I should add that I’ve owned many real stingrays) and it was damn near the real thing, but with a jazz-width neck. Sadly though, the neck was really wavy and unstable, it reminded me of the Geddy Lee jazz I owned. I later owned the cheap sterling ‘sub’ ray and, once I’d fixed the over-hot preamp, it was a fantastic bass and one I’d own again in a shot.

Mine was a Kaman GTX 53. Not a bad place to start to be fair. I did also often play marlins, the odd old satellite, Kay etc. But this was pretty good. Sometime in the early 90’s I traded it to get my sonic blue Japanese jazz (still my main bass) in a shop called ‘humbucker music’ which burnt down a few days later. E809CDE5-E171-4C0E-8101-B66D2D64C4EF.webp

Welcome. I’m living in Cheltenham now, but grew up in Lutterworth, rehearsed in Melton and lived in Leicester until 15 years ago. 🙂

Yep. No problem at all. It’s not meant to replace a full old school bass rig. There is plenty of power available. But it is still limited by physics at the end of the day.

Yep. I’m fully expecting this dropped ball to fall further before my refund arrives.

I use mine with a zoom b9.1. Although ts312 not happening now. I took today off to take delivery and Andertons didn’t send it. So I’ve asked for a refund, no time to chase round after a rescheduled delivery.

Yeah, should just line out one into the other

I’m using the 112 and have just purchased a second hand alto ts312 which should be interesting to compare when it arrives.

Ive switched to a headrush too. Very pleased so far. Couple of loud rehearsals and a a gig and I’ve had no issues.

Wizard pickups used to make a custom called the GAFfer. Although they aren’t around anymore, hot-rod pickups, who took over the business, might still have the details kicking around. It was a split coil in a jazz casing that was just brilliant. Very responsive to tone control and extremely versatile. I have the prototypes in my bass and sound engineers’ jaws tend to drop when they hear it Maybe drop hot rod an email and see what they say.

I’m calling Encore

I have one and absolutely love it. It’s only slightly heavier than my fender and yes, In isolation the preamp is somewhat muffled. But in a band context it sits really well. It’s become my main bass!

This image haunts me. Supporting Sikth, decent venue, big solo. By the time the shutter had gone off on this pic, the bass had failed. I swapped to my backup jazz and carried on. But not until after restarting the amp and checking the pedals etc. The bass just cut out, I checked it at home after and it was fine. It never did it again either. But right there and then, a backup was essential.

Japanese, heavily modified, not the fastest or the best, but lovely to look at. (IMHO)

A thud

I’ve never played a fender P bass. I just don’t like the sound or hand position. That said, I did however build a p bass replica once. But still sold it after realising I just didn’t like p basses at all. I’d have this one again though, but only cause I built it .

For the last ten years, I was the guitarist in a three piece. Mostly playing a Fender Marauder, cheapo 335 copy and a squier Jag. All through a pair of bandits with a multi effects board. Worked well, but back to bass now.

I’ve owned a couple of Amps, a H||H VS-100 ex Meteors and an ex Tangerine Dream Yamaha combo. I’ve never got the whole provenance thing myself.

Joe Dart makes me want to pick it up, and then I realise how far away from him I am and I want to put it down again!

My big gig days were spent with a trace stack, running much quieter than it did at pub gigs. Nowadays I’d just use the monitors.

Bought a pedal and was all nice and easy. Good job

I really quite like their stuff to honest, just decent, fun pop songs for the most part

I usually take two, but there have been exceptions over the last nearly thirty years of gigging. When I was playing the really big places supporting touring acts, our set had need for six strings a few times. So I had bass, spare bass, sixer, spare sixer on those occasions. (and yes, I did break a string once and also once my bass just quit mid gig for no apparent reason.) Once an old band I played with did a reunion gig, 500 tickets sold out, nice big place, only a few miles across the city, so I took everything. About seven basses, mostly 4 figure plus, my entire trace stack and a dedicated kickback monitor combo, all in the keyboard player's car, because I couldn't drive then. Two songs in, he had a heart attack on stage right behind me and ended up being whisked away to hospital (he's fine now btw, this was over a decade ago). I ended up staring at the mountain of gear I was stranded with, and the only solution anyone had was, 'You'll just have to leave it in his (the stricken keyboard player) car overnight, or until someone from his family can come and drive it back to yours. (It wasn't an entirely savoury part of town, it would've lasted about five minutes!) Now I only take two! (And can drive!) (For those that are interested, the guy's dad came back from the hospital much later that night after the gig had finished (we had to play on without him) and drove me back to mine, even though his son was in hospital. - What a legend!!)