mr4stringz

Thanks all for your views. Went for the Vintage in the end, one having come up on here, having been just about to pull the trigger on one of the HBs. Looking forward to getting back to it now!

Some great stuff there to keep me investigating. Big thanks to those who have offered responses and guys... keep them coming. Lost in a world of GAS with time to kill!!!

After many years of not playing fretless I’m considering dipping my toe back in the water, and so I’m after suggestions for a good, solid and decent fretless. Lower end of the cost spectrum would be good as not convinced I’ll stick at it but want to give it another go. I’m mostly a Fender player and have had a brief look at (but yet to try) the Squier VM fretless P, and the Vintage Jaco tribute thing. Any opinions on these out there guys? Any others worthy of consideration in a similar budget? Lined would be ideal (hahaha) but not essential. Cheers.

Crikey, that’s beautiful!

Yes, absolutely my experience through owning a TB500 is as per dannybuoy’s advice. It’s a cracking rig with the 2x12s but the flat position on the amp makes no sense, which incidentally I find rather wonderful! I’m not one for too much treble in my tone and love a big, beefy bass heavy tone but anything past 9 o’clock on the bass dial on the TB is excessively bassy.

Couldn’t find an open thread so thought best I open a new one... Bought an Epiphone Rumblekat off Steve. great price, great condition. Agreed a meet part way between our locations. Taking into account the festive period and as we did the deal in New Year’s Day Steve was a pleasure to interact with. Great comms, nice and easy, good bloke. Buy with confidence, BCers.

Just received pedal. Communication great. Transaction completed Monday night and here I am on the Wednesday having received it. Great stuff and pedal as described. A1.

Thanks v much for this Richard and Tontee. TBH I’m not sure on the speakers at this point as the guitarist has them in storage. So far as I know they are passive. And thanks, yes, a mixer and an amp is needed. I shall return once I have the info suggested above! Bass gear I’m fine with this stuff though, over my head! thanks again guys ??

Hey all. been a good long while since I’ve been in a band that needed a lockup, but my current band is now looking at going down this route. Things have moved in a lot since the big old Peavey brick I had years ago...so...Any suggestions or recommendations for a decent quality mixing desk? Budget sub-£300 if at all possible. Got decent speakers so it’s just the board we need. Analogue preferably. We don’t plan on mic’ing gear up so it’ll only be needed for 3 vocal mics and needs enough oomph to hold its power with a reasonably loud one guitar, bass and drums set up. Thanks in advance.

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More good stuff there dudes. Close to pulling the trigger on one of 3 or 4. Going to go with a cheaper option first I think. The Marshall looks interesting. On the subject of (very) cheap and cheerful, anyone got any thoughts on the Belcat trem?

Having owned a (modern) Ricky for a while I wouldn’t go B-D on one personally as tonally I don’t find they have enough resonance or beef at the low end. Just my opinion though but Ricky’s are all about the bite, mids and highs for me. I string both my Precisions B-D though. Wouldn’t have it any other way and find it works beautifully for heavy rock, stoner and doom.

The awesomeness of Ashdown customer service right there. [quote name='Ashdown Engineering' timestamp='1506981639' post='3382575'] We did have a batch of fans that were noisier than we would have liked it was caught quickly but there are a few out there, if it's troublesome we would be happy to swap the fan out for a quieter one for you. You are free to pop in and we can sort whilst you wait or if you want to pop it in the post we can sort and ship back to you. Just let me know. Cheers. [/quote]

Helpful input indeed, dudes. Much appreciated. Pedal pondering has become something of an enjoyable distraction of late!

Cheers for that. Very helpful start there!

Hey all. Currently in the throes of building my first pedalboard having decided to dip my toes in after 25 years of playing with very few effects. Anyway, I could do with some recommendations for a decent Trem pedal. Not particularly got a budget as such but Unsure how much I'll use it, so if there's a decent budget option, that could work in the first instance! Cheers