Andytre

if you can wear a old school 'safari' hat and not look ridiculous you make one of these look good,  personally i'm not a fan! 

i picked up a diamond Jazz bass for £200 probably the best jazz I've ever played, hipshot hardware (or very good copies) EMG pups and a great preamp. finish and build quality was amazing. but unfortunately i don't really like jazzes so i got rid. really want to try a diamond P bass or Model T. the new model T basses look amazing in my opinion.   

On 2/10/2018 at 23:46, Phil-osopher10 said:

I have the 2x10 and found that it was a much clearer cab than the Aguilar gs112 that I used to use. aguilar sold! now if I could find 2x 1x12 that would be ideal!

i want another 2 1x12s so i can use both channels on my Shuttlemax 12.2 at 4ohm! not that i'd ever need that much power but i can dream haha! 

I have 2 1x12 focus cabs and i love them, light enough to carry 1 handed and i think they sound great, prefer them over all other cabs I've used (which include trace, TC, Orange, barefaced, ampeg) and they only cost me £100 each! 

my college bought a left handed HB Jazz that was one of the first i knew of with the Rosewell PUPS, they seem pretty comparable to the Wilksinson i have in the bridge of  a PJ bass. also looking forward to seeing the red version its been teasing on the Thomann website for sometime now! along with a LH PB50.   

I've got a Peavey Microbass 20 and i love that tiny thing!

£116! Now that is a bargain!

i like that! how much did it cost if you don't mind me asking?

I've been using a Korg Pitchclip for ages now, small profile does 4 string fine (not tried on 5) its been dropped, bashed about and even sat on and still working fine. 

https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Korg-Pitchclip-Clip-on-Tuner/FYN?origin=product-ads&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PLA Shop - Korg&utm_term=4584207573605927&utm_content=All Products - Korg

i remember Thomann selling these for an absolute steal a couple of years back, it think the black one was going for about £159 or something. one of the students at my college bought one, felt nice to play but wasn't sold on the tone (but that could of just been how his was dialed in) 

Not sure if already shared but Blackstar are releasing some bass combos!

https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk/ranges/unity

most of my bitsas have cheap as possible fender style heads from ebay, they are smaller than the ones i took off a neck and needed the holes re drilling. pretty sure they are smaller than Wilkinson ones. there pretty good for the money, never had a problem with tuning stability and they've taken couple of whacks and still work fine and didn't disintegrate! but do take a while to come through.   

i have a Dr J Sparrow on my board as my backup amp, great bit of kit and really well built, only cost me £25

38 minutes ago, Pea Turgh said:

I'm also now thinking of ways to make the power cables neater. Maybe cable ties.

little plastic P clips could work well, jusy screw into the underneath, would look quite neat

5 hours ago, radiophonic said:

That’s just foolish. You can already get a Rat clone for the same money as a decent Guitar lead. Even a ProCo one isn’t expensive. A solution to a problem that didn’t exist and no use at all if you run any pedals before your drive.

but now you can run a RAT cable between all your pedals! surely that's useful??... right?...

25 minutes ago, Sibob said:

So a few years after serving a cease and desist to Fuzzrocious for using the ‘Rat Tail’ name for their modded Rat clone....they use the Rat Tail name themselves?

didn't actually pickup on that till you mentioned it!

http://www.musicradar.com/news/namm-2018-the-rat-tail-gives-you-vintage-rat-distortion-tones-in-a-guitar-cable

just found this, I've always found having effects pedals was just too complicated!?   

i always tell my bass playing students if they want a good cheap cab to get one of these and they all ignore me as its a Laney! i'll have to show them this thread! 

i used one for band practices at our local rehearsal rooms and thought it was a great cab with my genz 12.2. the owner has since moved it into his studio rooms for bass tracking.  

i was given a Ashdown Blueline combo for free, one of the UK made ones. and i do like it! its not powerful enough for big gigs but smaller ones or home practice its ace! good tone, nice and simple and best of all free! i ended up cutting it in half so its a separate head and cab, popped a 300watt celestion speaker i had lying around in it because why not! 

ooohhff i like that!

I'm a big fan of those Artec Preamps. have them in 2 precision's and got another on route for a MM precision build. they're simple cheap and sound good to me! i haven't actually hooked up the ground in one of mine but it doesn't hum so a lucky accident!

also i now have iceman GAS thanks for that!! 

I have a bitsa with a ply body, it sounds fine, its got a cheap pickup and a cheap artec preamp in it but it sounds like a P bass should. I havent painted it it came with a great black finish on it. If i hadn't of put in the active pre and routed out for the battery i probably wouldn't even know its ply

i have the 12.2 best amp i've ever had. went to bass direct tried everything left with one of the last 12.2s available! the 6.2 will be a great little amp 

Depending on thickness i use a standard paper holepunch to put holes in mine, ive also used a 8mm drill bit on thicker ones. Does a good job 

Looks good! My diy pedal board was just12mm ply cut to shape and then just painted black! Did the job but wasn't pretty!