Andytre

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!

The mojo mojo is a great pedal, got mine new for £35. my fav is still the joyo ultimate drive. I keep taking it off on favour in other more pricey drives but it always comes back into my signal chain!

no worries, i've found them now so if you want one for a repair in the future send me a message and i'll get one to ya

This happaned to mine after it fell in the back of the van. I opened it up and took the pot out ordered one of the same value and soldered in the new one. I struggled to find one that was notched so the new ones is a standard pot but does the same job. Whole job tool 10 mins with basic soldering iron. If you can wait till next week i bought a pack of 3 but left them at work (where i repaired it) so you can have one for the price of postage if you like.

I've use plastic cards, business cards, walnut veneer and cut down ice cream tub (basically whatever i could grab) all did a fine job. never heard the science of the acoustic resonance of ice cream tub though, maybe its the bets kept secret in shimming!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1510246445' post='3404993'] Their range isn't huge [/quote] this is true but they had everything i needed for a cheap P bass build! i quite like there Nitro paint as well (sea foam green)

I've used northwest for loads of parts i need quickly very good quality and good customer service

I've got black and silver versions of the 3rd link on a couple of bitsa builds (both precision) and they're well built, do the job and i haven't managed to chip or scratch any paint of the black one. the base plate is a little thicker than you might expect so the saddles are quiet low on mine, but that could be a neck height issue. they take a while to arrive but for under £5 from china you cant really go wrong

There what i used my on my MM for years till i also tried Dunlop super brights, now there my go to for it.

the power bass actually got me into precision basses id always had Yamaha's and a Musicman before, i then used one to try out some filter pedals on a whim in a guitar shop. It felt very well made and sounded like a P bass should. couldn't afford one at the time so ended up with a Squier of eBay but the power bass got me into them and now i only use Precision. I'd say there good basses but your probably best to go out and try and have a play on one!

Picked one up for £20 or so a couple of years ago, keep a behringer bd21 in one gig bag abd the sparrow in another. Prefer the sparrow as its smaller, seems built better and think the controls are a little better for subtle changes.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263052367549 Found these on ebay ordered one my self, could just take the saddles of the bridge

[quote name='CameronJ' timestamp='1498691049' post='3326439'] Your college?! What college is that? Sounds incredible. [/quote] NCN in nottingham. we have a whole room dedicated to synths with everything from ARP odyssey, to moog and loads of Roland gear all going into a midas mixing desk for recording. it was a pretty fun install!

my college has Moog lil Phatty, Moog Voyager, Moog Theremin and the whole set of moogerfoogers and we have no regret in buying any of them they get used daily for hours sometimes and sound fantastic and just keep on going (the voyager is around 15 years old) they truly are some fantastic gear. were eyeing up a minitaur and a sub phatty for next year!

Dont know if its useful to anyone but if you spend £20 on amazon you can add a veriaty 12 pack of jim dunlop picks for 59p as an 'add on item' just had teo packs arrive with my order, im always searching for a good pick and can never settle so this seemed a good bargain to me Its hidden in the offer section on the usual pick packs page https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0055VBYWC/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498311715&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=jim+dunlop+guitar+picks&dpPl=1&dpID=41InL9QInqL&ref=plSrch

Prodipe TT1 Lanen for me £40 and get a very good review from sound on sound comparing it to an Telefunken M80 (£250) and the Senn MD421 (£339) very well built been using mine for at least 4 years