Dan Dare

I take it "Junior Bass Groovador" didn't pass the audition...

I take it they used lead-based paints back in the day.

Doesn't seem any point in being entirely cable free. Going wireless from your instrument to your rig, pedal board or even the PA if going direct has an obvious purpose, but how often would you need to cart your pedal/effect board around whilst playing?

I'd be very surprised if there was such a beast as a class A bass amp (apart from low power studio stuff). Class A amps are very inefficient and produce large amounts of heat. For live bass use, you'd probably need something the size of a coal bunker, with truck cooling fans. OK, maybe I'm exaggerating, but not that much.

I reckon a Quilter plus F112 would be pretty spectacular.

Split the difference and experiment with a slightly heavier pick than .73 (which is pretty light)? I'm mainly a finger player, but use a pick sometimes. I also play mandolin and guitar and found it worth experimenting with pick weights. Maybe try something in the .85 - 1mm range? Should still have much of the flexibility you like but produce a bit more poke in the sound. Another thought occurs. Pick material makes a difference. The difference between, say, a Dunlop Tortex and a nylon Herco is quite marked. The Tortex is harder and will be a bit stiffer for a given thickness.

Bands I've been in have done the same. It makes sense, in that the remaining members don't have to buy out anyone who leaves, or worse, sell the PA, split the proceeds and start again.

I do like the Quilter a lot. If I didn't have my AG700, I'd get one. I may still do so if one pops up used at a decent price.

Just put the mic' close to the PA speaker and turn the wick up 😁

It's a toilet for a dolls house.

AG700? Same power module and an effects loop.

Uh oh. Tonewood...

I'd love to try a decent pre' into a Powersoft or Lab Gruppen power amp. Just need to win the lottery.

I would assume "featherweight" to mean something the size of a TE Elf. Nothing like that puts out 500+ into 8 ohms to my knowledge. Sure, the ones you list will (if manufacturers' figures can be believed, of course), but they're not really featherweights. You also need to ask for how long and at which frequencies an amp will deliver its claimed power output. Something that delivers 500w for 20 milliseconds at 1khz into a 2 ohm resistive load in a test lab' won't do the same at all frequencies into a reactive load like a speaker, so it says little about how well it will work in the 'real world'.

I take it the commonly used module is from IcePower. It does seem to vary according to how it's used. As far as class D goes, Lab Gruppen amps aren't lacking, either. Just wish I could afford them.

If you ignore the ads, pop-ups, etc for long enough, they stop. Just make sure you don't click on or open anything. Perhaps the algorithm thinks you've died if there's no response after a certain length of time...

An effective heatsink might be large, which would put people off buying them. The packing density of components on class D modules is high, in order to keep them compact, so it would be difficult to add a good sized sink to them.

As I said, there are exceptions.

AG700. Not truly featherweight, but very light/easily carried. 700 into 4 or 2 ohms. I think a true featherweight that puts out 500w+ into 8 ohms may not exist.

I think it may have more to do with the fact that we tend to use lightweight, compact cabs with class D heads. Many of those (there are honourable exceptions - BF, et al) don't shift the air the way big, old skool cabs do at high volumes. I had an old Ashdown 1x15 - the enormous one. The driver blew, so I replaced it. Sounded huge with my AG700. I sold it because it was so large and I live in a first and second floor flat with narrow stairs, but it certainly had no lack of heft or oomph..

He probably got it when they first came out and paid over the odds. They were well over £1k here when first introduced and I think I'm right in saying that MB has recently changed importers to the UK. As you suggest, he's going to be lucky to get what he's asking.

Given that you only notice the noise when you use it as a DI for quiet or silent practice, why not use something designed/intended more for that purpose and keep the AG for live playing? I use a small mixer, a DI box and headphones for silent practice. If I wish to play along with something, I can route music through it and blend the bass with it. Works fine.

Seems to me that FX, pedals and the like are a bit like herbs, spices and seasoning. A chef who knows what to do with them will cook something wonderful using them. An idiot will ruin perfectly good food with them. The same applies to musicians and effects.

Exactly. A double bass (provided you have a decent pickup system) should benefit from the the clean and uncoloured sound of a good quality PA speaker. A bass guitar not so much, I feel. At home, I've played about with running my bass through my PA (Fohhn LX150 tops and XS22 subs - 1.5kw and like a big hi-fi. Wonderful for vocals and acoustic instruments), using a Lehle Basswitch preamp. So I'm certainly not cheaping out or using budget DJ gear. It sounds super clean, but also a little sterile. Maybe I'm just too used to the built in character/sound of bass amps, but I don't feel it would work that well in a band context.

It's wise, if you are offering something to be collected, to insist on cash and not accept PayPal payments, whichever site or medium you sell on. A common scam consists of paying on PP, collecting the item and then clawing back the payment on the grounds that it has not been received. As the seller has no proof it was collected (getting someone to sign a receipt won't necessarily protect you because the buyer can easily claim it's a forgery) and PayPal is well known for siding with buyers, you can end up empty-handed.