NickA

PJB big head? Fits in your pocket. Has an aux input and a bass input with aux and bass volume controls plus a bit of EQ and a headphone (or line) output. You can use it as a PC sound card (Analogue to USB going inwards and USB to sound coming out) and even as the pre-amp into a powered speaker (or the HiFi). It's a swiss army knife of (quiet) bass playing. But lacks an actual speaker itself ... and some might find the sound a bit "polite". Use mine late at night and in hotels for playing along to iReal Pro - admittedly it will never replace the joy of a good loud TWANG through a proper amplifier.

So did it still work when you got home? Or did the genset kill it dead :¬( Speaking as an electrical engineer (day job) I'd be surprised if a Class-D was more sensitive to low voltages than a class anything else, it just depends on what electronics are in there. I'm guessing more modern kit with more built in protection rather than anything fundamentally more damageable. And the "D" does mean digital btw (it has power devices that are ON or OFF = digits; whereas A, B, C, H use transistors that are "partly" on = analogue. Class H is a Class C with a variable power supply rail voltage - the QSC 3200PLX I use at work is one of those, always a bit of a glitch as it switches from one power level to another - fantastic amp tho). It's just handy that D came after C.

which is what whoever buys that 4x10" + 1x15" trace rig will need

That 4x10 GP12SMX jobbie is the one I really wanted .. before I got old and my back started to hurt! Think they also did a 2x10 plus tweeter, but it was hard to find (pre internet) but the 1x15 GP12 I compromised on weighs 36kg alone. Loud and bombproof but needs a soundproof bunker if you're to turn it up. What a beast ... and what a price for all that amp and cab real estate.

Well a fully functional Custom 4-string (aka Mk1) will be at least £3000 (£4500 to £5000 according to Bass direct - who appear to have sold both of theirs) .. so £1620 (and rising, with 4 hours to go) plus repairs is still a good price ... I guess, and this one is quite a rarity.. unique in fact. Though there is plenty else out there that might prove better value as an actual thing to play.

So it's a bass player's forum and people are complaining about too much bass playing! Come on guys, that's the egotistical lead guitarists job! And I didn't see Nile complaining ;¬). Personally I enjoyed the whole set including the bass playing. Hearing a good bass player let rip and slap a bit these days is like having a stiff whisky during prohibition.

Just don't (ever) touch that "sub" knob. Horrid.

Rare as rocking horse poop .. apparently: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wal-MkII-Custom-Series-5-String-Bass/121844263050?_trksid=p5713.c100284.m3505&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D12%26asc%3D20140905073823%26meid%3D0e714e73ed0b4e9db70d146b0b250968%26pid%3D100284%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D121844263050 Yet oddly, here's another for less: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wal-MK-II-1991-Bass/272695447201?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D43781%26meid%3Dc7b661589c7d4a48bba8d77d98a50dd6%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D121844263050 both rather lovely it has to be said ... but also quite expensive.

Nuts!

What you going to do with the old body? Looks pretty good to me .. and will be made from that unobtainium brazillian mahogany too! I reckon you could save up for a new neck and pickups to go with it!

Well. no bids. Seems I was wrong about it being good value! Back listed again, but at the same starting price. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Warwick-Dolphin-Pro-I-5-String-Bass-Guitar-1991-No-16-Great-condition-/152561591166?"]http://www.ebay.co.u...-/152561591166?[/url] .. and listed AGAIN. Now £1500 but still no decent photos. Still think it's a bargain, but still daren't go visit as not going to buy it. Just wondering if these are merely out of fashion and will soon soar in value (as per the Wal I bought in 1999). Pension fund? As for Wals being expensive because they are rare: there are Wals coming up every week on facebook (and sometimes here) but only one 4-string pro 1 dolphin (mine) and one 5-string pro 1 (this one) I've seen in the last 12 months (lots of bolt ons - but it's not the same).

Good price ... if you WANT a left hander. Strange that there are no left handed double basses, violins etc .. tho I suppose that, being symetrical, there is nothing to stop you playing a violin left handed .. just never seen anyone do it.

Bargain with them. Everything they sell has a rather large markup and there is a certain "flexibility" in the labelled price, within which they can still make a tidy profit ;¬). Helps (maybe) if you have something to trade, then they can pretend they are giving you more for your bass rather than dropping their prices.

Phil Jones Flightcase here (BG150). Sounds fantastic with an acoustic bass guitar, sounds very good (as in transparent) with a double bass ... IF you have a nice pickup and get it in the right place on the bridge. It is NOT terribly loud. I was playing it with three sax players, a drummer, a grand piano, two guitarists and a tenor horn the other month and wasn't always sure it was turned on. But everyone else said they could hear me, so "louder than it sounds" apparently. I may still supplement it with the powered cab (PB300). But if you're playing in a jazz trio it would be fine alone. There are better amps for electric bass I think (lacks "heft"), but it's still pretty good for that too.

Oh yes. Proper music with a proper bass line content. Love it ... heading for the download thingy.

Following years of interest in big deep instruments a love of Rush, and a secret and slightly embarrassing (for a confirmed prog rocker) of Hot Chocolate's Tony Wilson's bass lines. Bought a Joni Mitchel album, Hejira, in 1981, quite at random, to see what she sounded like ... first track "coyote" Jaco Pastorious' soaring bass lines replete with weird chords and harmonics. Then a friend said he'd "discovered" this great band Weather Report with a "different kind of bass playing". That was it .. off down the second hand bass shop for a sunburst jazz bass copy followed by an afternoon of ripping the frets out ...and a decade of Morrisey Mullen with Dill Katz or Joe Hubbard, Shakatack and level 42, Mick Kahn and Stan Clarke to Kai Ekhardt, Etienne M'bappe, Tony Grey, Lorrie Cottle.. (and lots of great double bass players) ... precisions, flat wounds and four chord rock bands still leave me cold. but each to his own.

Place of manufacture aside ... are they much different to the "real" ones? .. and presumably THIS one (same price at present) [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/G-LL2000-Bass-Guitar-Fabulous-Condition/122504347569?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D44293%26meid%3D90ab7770db644cae95766c803af2bbb4%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D282486684839"]http://www.ebay.co.u...%3D282486684839[/url]is the real thing? actually there are a bunch of them out there some Tribute some not. It's a minefield!

The Roland Micro-Cube is surprisingly good for the size and cost (lots of knobs to twiddle too!) The PJB bass-cub & (same but bigger) flight case very good indeed .. but a tad pricey and really just make your bass louder without adding or taking much away (which is a good thing IMHO) - also modular in that you can add a powered cab for performing. Tried a load of tiny amps out in my search and found most of them (Laney, Orange, Ashdown, to name three) feeble and boxy.

£6800 ???!! you could buy a decent double bass for that!

Re price: £3000 quid cheaper than this one: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wal-MkII-Custom-Series-5-String-Bass-/121844263050?hash=item1c5e7be88a:g:tk4AAOSw0vBUka2f"]http://www.ebay.co.u...k4AAOSw0vBUka2f[/url] This Wal bubble must surely burst. Yes they are lovely .. but not SO much more lovely than the best of the Warwicks ... and increasingly less rare