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There's a white Hagstrom for £360 on the Facebook Bass Players Market page.

Looks great. Love the upper bouts. Great shape.

Daflewis posted this a few years back that looked great and is similar to the McNutt. https://www.thebassbar.co.uk/

I've tried a few preamps for DB and always seem to go back to the FDeck Clone. Has a great buffer and the useful HPF and phase switch. You can get them made in several forms and are pretty cheap.

I bought a MXR bass distortion pedal from Nord1. Very smooth transaction with great comms throughout. Quick delivery on this too. Great to deal with. Many thanks for the cool pedal.

Do those quotes refer to the acutal speaker itself or the speaker in an enclosure? I may be confused between speaker and driver.

Result. They do try to look after customers.

I've taken bass gig bags with broken zips to sewing/alteration shops for repair. It was £10 or less if memory serves. Maybe give that a try?

I'm going to try the Snugs as Custom IEM are currently not reshelling. I missed the boat there.

Loud and double bass don't usually mix unless you are running steel strings and a mag pickup. Are you using an amp onstage and if so, how close are you standing to it? You could try something like the FDeck preamp that has hpf to dial out lows and a phase switch.

What kind of DB are you using? I ask because when I tried Spiro weichs on my Duke, they didn't sound very bright at all. They were very rootsy sounding. Spiro mediums are reportedly brighter but even they didn't brighten up the bass...lol. The mediums are surprisingly less tension on the Duke compared to how they felt on my cheap hybird. As always, strings sound different on different basses.

Mixing sets is common. So you could run something like Innovation Honeys (Orchs or Jazz) or Silver slaps with a Spiro weich E or a bumped A. Bumping is moving the whole set down a string so your G becomes D, D becomes A etc...

Apologies if I missed mention of this in this thread, but InEarz is no longer re-shelling IEMs. I had a look on the CustomIEM site and noticed it and followed up with a call and was told they stopped in January with nobody else really offering the service. Kind of gutted as I wanted to get my UE900s done.

Just my 2p and not bashing but I'm going with the opposite. They may sound great but all that orange is really distracting. It takes away from whatever is happening on stage, IMO. Maybe if there was another way to incorporate the orange and make the speakers black.

Electric stuff is voodoo to me :). I just wanted to drop the gain by swapping the preamp valves. I thought they’d all be swappable but it’s just the one. I don’t know how it all works, nor do I really want to. I just wanted it to sound good which it did to a point.

I sent an email asking him about swapping the preamp valves as my basses were driving the front end too much for my tastes. The reply was that only the one valve could be changed for different gain, not all three. I guess I was expecting to be able to change them all. I did try swapping it but of the three or four valves I had, all but the original didn’t want to go in the socket without a fight. I would have thought that valve pins would be pretty standard sizes but apparently not. I ended up putting the original valve back in. The r400 amp sounded great when I could tame the input. I’d love to hear the all valve one through my F112.

I was told by the man himself that you can only change one of the preamp valves. Hi Tom, You can change the first tube on 12AT7 (ECC81). Change only the first, when You look on front panel - first from left. You must do it very carefully - when You pull the tube from socket, hold second tube by finger, not pull PCB board. ECC81 is ok. May be JJ - they are cheap and quite reliable Regards Leszek

Hi Mr Bassman, have you gigged this little wonder in a band setting yet?

Hi Jez, sorry to hear all the playing trouble. When we last spoke it sounded like you were on the mend. Is this afftecting the sax playing too? I hope you get it sorted. Couldn't imagine life without playing music.