Kiwi

We appear to be under attack from accounts with IP addresses originating in India. Many thanks to those of you so far who have flagged the handful of spam accounts that managed to get through the automated Spam IP detection and blocking. New registrations are temporarily on manual approval so hopefully they'll get bored eventually and go find an easier target somewhere else. We will probably have to introduce tighter security measures for registration in future though. Keep calm and carry on groovin'

Consider also an active PA cab like the QSC K12.2, it's popular with some members on here and Kemper Profiler users like it too.

This would require customisation. Any customisations to the standard forum software become exponentially more nightmarish to manage when there are forum software updates pretty every month.

I couldn't agree more. I tried pedals a few years ago but found them frustrating - once I went rack I've never gone back.

So far we haven't needed a cookie permissions pop up because the site doesn't store anything other than the barest minimum of information. So we understand that gets us under the radar for a cookie permissions thing. For what it's worth, Google Chrome will no longer be storing third party cookies, that change is due to happen in about ten days.

@TheGreek This relates to your issues.

I'll put my hand up for that. I was doing something in cloudflare and it had unanticipated side effects. So things have been put back the way they were and everything should be back to normal. Sorry.

There is a report link in the top right corner of every post, where the three dots are. The three dots access a pull down menu.

Something similar has been happening on the Facebook marketplace recently too.

But...

For those of you brave enough to throw up some photos here, I'd like to share some of the more interesting ones on FB from this point on.

Yes the price field can't be edited so a new ad will be necessary.

Yes, they act like a filter in dampening certain frequencies and allowing others to go through with less dampening.

If your budget can stretch - Kemper Stage profile plus one or two QSC K12.2 active PA cabs. It will slay (nearly) everything else out there for cover band requirements - unless you need some extremely specific effects and then you can insert a Line 6 M5 or something to fill the gap. Failing that, if you have less specific requirements then a Zoom G3X into an active PA cab may be enough. But it can be noisy on the high gain patches and there's no external effects loop. I love the sound of Fender amps and have two at home. The Fender Deluxe Reverb is pretty much a benchmark for Fender flavoured amps and their current tone master version is getting great reviews. However I've played with guitarists using just a Blues Jr and getting fantastic and thick sounds alongside a drummer. So maybe consider pairing one with a preamp pedal like a Joyo JF14 if Fender is your thing. Plus whatever extra effects you might need, e.g. delay, compression, wah, modulation and reverb.

Unicorn in the sense of being the rarest and most exclusive bass I would like to own? Late 70's Alembic Series II 5 string graphite neck. I like the ergonomics of the standard point body and sound. The action can be ridiculously low because the necks are over engineered. Jimmy Johnson has one but it was converted to fretless. I know of only two but maybe there are more out there.

You are more than welcome to PM a mod about this. Send them a link to the post so they don't have to search.

I'm glad someone mentioned this - thanks H. @WonkyOne Posting on here about intentions is fraught with risk IMO if something should kick off.

A spanking? I wasn't so lucky, all I recieved was a jolly good sneering. A bit like walking on stage as a pantomine villain. It gave me a new found appreciation for the word. So I'm grateful for that.

I have two...too good to use with bass. 😁

These days the majority of signature guitars (and basses) for PRS, Fender or Gibson are a standard production instrument with maybe a couple of tweaks at best. The Japanese companies tend to do fully custom signature models but only after an artist has endorsed a mostly standard model for a period of time. Ernie Ball seem to do a bit of both although sometimes it's hard to tell whether they came up with a guitar and looked for an endorsee or looked for an endorsee and made them a guitar. I've owned sigs in the past and have even built a couple but I'd prefer to play something that doesn't set expectations of my playing. For example I'm not going to show up to a Led Zep covers gig wielding a Yamaha JP6 for example. But a BBNE2 might be perfectly OK.

I don't have a favourite bass amp. I tend to choose them to compliment the bass where the colouring of the amp doesn't filter out key frequencies in the bass needed to hear yourself on stage. Some nice matches in my experience are: Fender Jazz -> Markbass CMD103P Fender Precision -> Ampeg SVT Musicman Stingray -> Mesa Boogie Bass 400 Musicman Stingray -> Warwick Pro IV Spector/Smith -> GK RB400 or 700 (or Eden WT400) Status, Modulus or indeed pretty much anything with a graphite neck -> SWR SM400 and 4x10 Status, Modulus or indeed pretty much anything with a graphite neck -> H&K Basebass Status, Smith, Vigier or anything with scooped mids -> Genz Benz Shuttle (flat response power amp) Status/Jaydee -> Trace MkV AND 1048 4x10 Less than great combinations: Status -> Ampeg SVT (just too gritty) Smith -> Eden WT800 (no mids) Status -> GK (highs are too brittle and harsh) I do like Class D amps because they preserve the midrange more honestly to my ears than other designs. If i had to pin my colours to the mast over most satisfying amp, the Mesa would win, with the right bass.