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Saw them in Glasgow a few weeks ago - unbelievable - best thing was it was a TINY venue by mistake standards at the kelvingrove bandstand which meant unlike some of these monster new venues like the hydro, no matter where you were stood or sat you were right in front of them, loved it. Glasto looked amazing as a totally different atmosphere I only started playing bass at 28 on a whim and I soon realised all the music I already loved was either by him, produced by him or influenced by him, was a big deal for me to see him live!

Wow didn't know that!

Seeing chic in Glasgow this summer, can't wait, one of my absolute heroes

It's a USA standard I play and I had a mexican one before that - always found them very quiet, had equivalent p basses which were louder by comparison but otherwise it's been active basses like stingrays which are obviously gonna be louder - I reply only to say I agree with you, it's kind of annoying I feel like I'm pushing my amp more with this bass even though it's probably not the case!

yeah exactly lol

I know, if I reported this the police wouldn't even look at it, but its a low move for sure

no not on here, only sterling folk I've dealt with here, I'd put the ad on gumtree and it followed from there, shocking though that folk pull these stunts! I went to my paypal...obviously.. and no mention, first time ive had any bother buying or selling

was trying to sell someone a bass and got a reply from a guy abroad, I've sold to a guy in Norway before so no red flag from that but then I get an email saying the money's been sent, you'll have a confirmation from paypal but it may go to your spam (I never have real paypal stuff going to spam) and it's 'ive added £300 for shipping,you need to pay that first from your own pocket via western union then scan the receipt then paypal will activate the full amount to you' So all I need to do is pay £300 quid upfront then my money will be 'released' - nice one i'll get right on that. I don't even want to open the email in spam in case it does something

There are quite a few places with limiters around Glasgow/edinburgh where I play in a wedding band and some are more harsh than others - one last night was absolutely fine, barely bumped the yellow, and we were pretty loud, think they said it was set at 110db, had one in Edinburgh though which we tripped twice and like some folk have said, its not ideal for the gear to have power cut in that way.

Usually the 1980-84 models go for 700-900 range depending on the usual stuff - I think you've seen the reissue model on ebay which has been on for absolutely ages! About 2 years ago the reissue was also about 800 or so from one shop (forget which) so I've always looked at that one on ebay being crazily priced. I had a 1984 which I sold, I believe, to clarky who goes on here, should never have sold it I still regret it!!

Guy going under the username belgabass has some good vids ofold chic stuff and uses an old musicman sabre and some other basses, sounds decent - also does a wee slow down of the chucking technique

Nice one Phil thanks for the advice there 👍

Ah, great cheers barkin 👍

King Bollock - the perils of doing favours 😂

Without having looked at the back of a Markbass tube 500, perhaps the 600w rating is the watts it will use when plugged in, and not the amount of watts that it will deliver to the speakers? Ah cool, that's probably it! Appreciate the replies folks by the way, usually I'm just a 'watcher' on the forums but thought I should take advantage of some knowledgeable people 👍 I thought there might have been an issue with the head somehow cos the replacement cab did the exact same thing after about 2 gigs lol when the distributed took the first cab away they said they didn't note any fault, but the guys in the music shop heard it same as in did, id have thought when a speaker went, that's it, but this seemed more intermittent. I ran the head with mids and highs boosted a bit but bass at 12oclock or cut at times, or I got a rubbish boomy tone.

It didn't sound particularly loud, not as loud as the markbass 151 traveler or standard both 400w which was the odd thing, id expect serious volume from the 800w stuff even though I see from reading here that decibels and wattage aren't linked

Yeah it was all covered but was a bit of a rigmarole resulting in me now having the markbass gear, I know what you mean by the way about the dials not really affecting it like I'm thinking, just makes it trickier to know where I stand when judging how hard gear is being worked though i guess, bit of a minefield!