Al Krow

Now you've got me totally intrigued as to exactly what Miss RB calls it? 😁

So I've read every post on this thread and it's not clear to me what exactly is the point you're trying to make? GAS for bass gear is no more a "sickness" than buying a season ticket to watch football or taking a fancy foreign holiday every year. Folk are perfectly entitled to spend their money how they like. And if bass gear gives them pleasure, because bass is their passion then that's totally cool. If it becomes an addiction that you can't control and it's causing you financial problems, we'll that's an entirely different matter. Equally it's unquestionably true that improving our bass playing comes mostly from hard work practising and not from more fancy gear: great bass players will make basic gear sound awesome and a beginner is going to be a beginner even on the most high end kit. None of this is new or rocket science.

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Cheers John - ordered! So that was just under £6 for those feet covers...and another £94 just spent on a HB Iso12 Power Supply to put under my Metro 24 board (and gawd knows what the final tally will come to if I end up getting more pedals). BC is definitely not a cheap place to hang out lol!

Awww...you lot. ALL lack killer instinct. You'd make really shit Premier League footballers 😂😂

@HazBeen might himself, or one of his contacts, be able to pick it up for you - and he's over in the UK pretty regularly. We could do a bass relay! Just a thought.

Brilliant result - congrats!! You can finally get that white BB1024 itch, scratched. I'm looking forward to finding out how it stacks up against the rest of your not too shabby herd!

I'm not suggesting anything as fancy as a SM + BB2 Just a single BB2 instead of two SMs. The cost should be less, but you won't get quite as big a sound from just one speaker as you will from two 12" speakers. It will, however, be very convenient!

Alex describes a SM as a mini BB2. Another alternative to two SMs might be a single BB2.

Yup agreed! @jrixn1 - dumb Q, but the £5.84 "Buy 1" = a pack of 4 i.e. you're not just getting one, I assume?

It's super annoying that you can't easily remove the bolts to raise the height of the feet on the PT boards, by inserting washers or taller rubber / plastic feet, to give you clearance for anything but the shallowest PSUs - so this looks like a superb hack John! I've just measured the existing plastic feet on my Metro 24 and they're 24.5mm at their widest at the base. I'm guessing that's the same as on the Nano? If so, then the same 22mm caps with a bit of stretch to hold them securely would also be the right ones to get for me. And the drop of glue suggestion a sensible additional fix. I think you've just extended the shelf life of my Metro 24 and I won't need to be putting it up for sale just yet - cheers!

It's certainly been different! Fewer gigs but FINALLY realising the bleeding obvious - what gear you have matters far far less than what you actually do with it. It really is all in the fingers! 😉

Got me thinking that as we're seeing end-of-line prices for these RH750 amps, which came out pretty much exactly 10 years ago, and with the exceptional value for money BG 250 series also recently stopped being produced, what's next for TC amps? A mini Plethora X5 preamp with multifx toneprint capability bolted onto a 750W power amp, with presets, and a wireless footswitch?

If it's mint, I'd agree with Andy, worth going up to £500, given it's your first choice colour.

@Reggaebass - did you mention a while back that you were on the look out for a white BB1024?

Actually, being able to see the fretboard on a darkened stage and not starting Bon Jovi in the wrong key is probably a good idea...although the look on the guitarist's face was priceless 😁

If only they didn't flash out EVERY wrong and occasional right note you ever play during the course of a 2 hour, I'd be reaching for my wallet 😁 Feature set does otherwise look great, particularly being able to store several of your favourite EQ settings.

We're clearly struggling with aging memories...for the life of me, I can't remember you ever commenting about me mentioning that before.

Looking forward to the 235, coming up shortly on a BC thread near you. Can't be doing without that low B thumb-rest string 😁

For me the difference is mainly down to choice of flats vs rounds Both sound really good.

A few basses do seem to plummet in value from their new price, but the flip side is that... I only wish used Spectors didn't hold their value so well!

Not sure - the tolex and CF layer have been a little damaged too and you'll see that the top edge is very slightly bent. The other top corner was similarly damaged (slightly less) and one other corner plastic cracked. The CEO has been very very supportive indeed - and it's always hugely impressive when the CEO takes a personal interest. He's offered to replace the cab under warranty and to provide the newer more robust protective strips and corners. I actually only emailed them to ask if they would be interested in my feedback on the cab and my concerns around construction rather than looking for a replacement under warranty, as I'd already agreed with Mark at BD that I'd be returning the cab for a refund.

It was as if the damaged top edge had been slammed underneath some other kit in transit. But having seen the courier (DX) load the cab back into the van for the return journey, must admit I wasn't massively impressed with the care they were taking.

The BB2 doesn't have a tweeter control per se. You may be thinking of the crossover knob which I take (maybe mistakenly?) to be the equivalent of a Markbass VLE from the way Alex describes its operation, which is as follows: "At the twist of a knob the complex crossover takes you from old school bass cab smoothness to uncompromising studio monitor accuracy" I had this set at 8/10 throughout which is I how I prefer it, i.e. pretty much at the studio monitor accuracy end. Dialling this back would have given a more "old school" / less bright sound, which would have resulted in an even more relatively mellow tone i.e. exacerbated the differences further that we were already hearing. In terms of wooden boxes, I think BF are still top of the pile in terms of power / weight ratio. And frankly you're not going to ever go too far wrong with any of the BF 112s and if you can handle the additional weight a VK 410 LNT (at 52 lbs) would be awesome!