pete.young

I know I have, and still have it :-) Thanks for posting this, it's an interesting journey and some of us who fell into music by accident or circumstance would do well to remember how hard some people work at it. I was hoping that Bigfoot would inspire you to take up double bass though. It is possible to play a ukelele clawhammer-style like a 5-string banjo, but my party invitations seem to have dried up since I started doing it . Good luck for the future and never say never.

£30 quid is a good price for this driver and gets you out of a hole. How long have you had the combo, is it out of warranty?

GAK have a good deal on Laney VC30-212 - I worked with a guitarist who had one of these and it was unbelievably loud for its size. https://www.gak.co.uk/en/laney-vc30-212/3821?gclid=Cj0KCQiAw9nUBRCTARIsAG11eidc2F1-BUa2V89bTSSybU6dT1KqnY9m3r621aWXk1zpnyoYvjmPHI4aAqTrEALw_wcB

Dunno how to break this to you Dad but the Bass Centre is no longer a shop - Brune St closed, what, 6 or 7 years ago? Bass Direct is also do-able from here, but is a moderate PITA since there are no trains and it takes about 2.5 hours to drive to Coventry. Peach Guitars in Colchester might be worth a look - the stock of basses is pretty lamentable but it's an amazing place worth seeing once in a lifetime.

The Register is reporting that the Bluetooth interface on the Fender Mustang GT 100 combo has no pairing controls, meaning that anyone within range can connect a Bluetooth device to it and stream music to the device. Ha ha. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/27/fender_smart_guitar_amp_dumb_security/

Apologies for the double post, no acknowledgement first time round. Can't find the 'delete' key either, not my day :-(

Well that looks nice. If you don't get on with it, you probably won't lose a lot if you decide to move it on. Having tried both, I'm firmly in the unlined camp - you need to use your ears anyway, and I think it looks better. Side dots on the fre positions help if you get disoriented.

Sorry, that's 3 Bass Collections - the SB465, a fretless SB320 and an SB310 that I should really move on. Plus the BB800 I've had since 1979 and a CIJ precision. Now you come to mention it, I guess I am a big fan of MIJ basses!

I've downsized my collection and am down to 3. 100-150 is about the going rate for the SB310 (the basic active model), unless prices have jumped up recently. The one at 100 seems OK, the ones at 250 I reckon are overpriced. The one at 170 is an SB100, I'm not sure about these but they may have been made after the original SCG Nanyo company went bust and production got moved to other locations. To be fair, all the SB100s I've seen have been good quality. Mick the Greek has had a few of these, and Happy Jack is the font of most of the knowledge - there's a thread called Obscure Musical Backwaters in the Bass Guitars forum which contains most of Jacks research (plus a load of photobucketed empty spaces!)

Bet you're glad it wasn't Two Tribes :-)

I still have it, but I don't take it out to many gigs - it's too nice, and I'm not doing a lot at the moment anyway. My go-to is an old Bass Collection 465 with Delanos and a Nordstrand pre-amp, that has a vast range of tones too and weights a little less than the BBNE2. Bolt-on neck though, so it wouldn't meet your requirements.

34".

Having owned both, I'd say it makes an even better P sound than the TRB5P . The combination of the stacked humbuckers and the pre-amp gives you any tone you want. Just because it looks like a Jazz, doesn't mean it is one.

As I said in my post on 2nd January in this very thread ... More like 20 years, I'm sure the one I had was early '90 s Yamaha haven't entirely stopped making neck throughs. You want to check out the BBNE2.

Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing the story. Isn't it fantastic to get a glimpse into another life. You did a great job, I think you might get the call again.

It's a great octaver, even if the synth bits don't do anything for you.

Probably best to avoid those people in future.

Barefaced are not the only game in town. I have an EBS 2x12. I can't imagine ever needing two.

An unexpected birthday present from my son - tickets to see Chic in the RAH for the Teenage Cancer Trust. What an awesome present!

Yes, you might expect that. The manual is one area where Zoom have kept the costs down. In general I've found that if you can identify what the pedal is supposed to be a clone of, you get more information from the original manual. The fishman is a good example of this - there's some info about adjusting Depth in conjunction with the Bass EQ on the pedal, but I wasn't paying enough attention to it to remember the detail!

I thought the Snark was barely acceptable for bass, and it is utterly blown into the weeds by the TC Electronic Polytune.

Apologies once more to Bigwan. I'd also say that, if people seriously want to understand what the Fishman clone in the MS-60B does, the right way to go about it is to go read the documentation for the Fishman preamp, which someone was considerate enough to post earlier in the thread. And which also explains how to get the best out of the low cut (or depth) control.

Yes it does, and so does the B1On and the B1XOn. Edit: Apologies Bigwan, I'm not sure what happened there, but it was meant to be a reply to an earlier posting of Al Krow's.

On the Zoom bass pedals, the AC BS Pre is a clone of the Fishman Platinum Pro. The 'Depth' control is a HPF at 12dB/oct - not as steep as the Thumpinator but might achieve some of the desired effect. Thanks Bigwan, great minds think alike :-)