Dan Dare

[quote name='Toasted' timestamp='1494431150' post='3295936'] I think you'll find it's actually hugely offensive. [/quote] Oh dear. How sad.

You can only earn what people are prepared to pay. It's a buyer's market in most areas.

No such thing as a standard rate anywhere, really. Depends on so many variables.

Doesn't bother me. I'm a basstard.

The EBS tone is quite distinctive - tending towards the bright/punchy end of the spectrum. Reidmar probably the best lightweight option if you like the sound. Mesa Subway head worth a listen for that style of sound, too, but expensive.

Watford Valves have some of the old high impedance Celestions that Trace used originally. Ask their advice.

Jack's Instrument services in Manchester. Excellent and quick. Not cheap, but good value for the quality. Google will find him.

Don't do it, captain. She cannae take it. Remember that, even if it worked for the fingerboard (and it's a very big 'if'), the rest of the instrument would be likely to be adversely affected by the damp/humidity.

As Rhys says, I very much doubt you'll find mandolin strings long enough and most, apart from some very light sets used by classical players, are roundwound, anyway. I'd look at jazz guitar strings.

My bass was in tune when I bought it . That does me.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1494122496' post='3293445'] Yep, one of my fave sounding cabs, just a shame they weigh the same as a small/medium sized planet. [/quote] The Peavey 8x10s are something else, too. The rehearsal rooms I use has a couple and the sound is spectacular. You couldn't really carry them around though.

Agree with Bill. If you find something you like, but want more of it, buy more of it. To make an informed decision, you really need to try some different options with your head and instrument. As you've found via your experience with BF, what suits others won't necessarily be your cup of tea, so treat our suggestions with caution. A visit to a well stocked shop or two looks to be the order of the day. I'd add Epifani to your list, but that's just my preference. Also, if you use a MB head, you ought to try their cabs.

In case you or he are tempted to open it up and take a look, don't. Valve amps often run on very high internal voltages (4-500v not uncommon) and worse, they're DC, so if you touch the wrong thing, you're likely to meet the man in the sky with the big white beard.

Made a mess of entering my previous post (my comment ended up in the quoted bit). Pedals won't handle speaker level signals. They are intended for instrument level signals, which are usually measured in millivolts. The best way to balance two unequal speaker cabs is with an add-on power amp, plus active crossover or graphic/parametric eq with which you can control/adjust the feed to the power amp. Can get a bit pricey and involve several extra boxes.

[quote name='Frank Grimace' timestamp='1494112162' post='3293411'] correct me if Im wrong but are you thinking of putting the eq pedals between the amps speaker outs and the cabs inputs? Maybe Im misreading your post , but if so you will burn out the eq pedals. yes this exactly what i was thinking of doing, but i had wondered if as you say it would burn something out Golf isn't very popular on here then?[/quote] You will indeed burn out pedals if you feed a speaker level feed to them. They are intended to run on instrument level inut (millivolts)

[quote name='radiophonic' timestamp='1493883128' post='3291447'] As implied in Conan's post, you get significant phase cancellation when both pickups are wide open. That's one of the 'Jazz sounds'. The front pickup is way louder than both of them combined. [/quote] If you back off the bridge pickup a smidge (experiment to find how much is best), you get the combined sound, but with more oomph.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1493978576' post='3292281'] I remember not being able to eat for months after buying the 2x12 I have now!! They're great but bloody expensive. I don't think I'd get it passed the management. I'd also like a complete backup (which I don't have at the moment) [/quote] I would have seconded DBerriff's suggestion, but if that's a bit too spendy, suggest getting a less expensive smaller cab. Appreciate your wish for something complete, but buyinng a combo will mean you are spending money on duplicating your amplification, which will use up budget needlessly. A nice used 1x12 neo isn't going to weigh a lot or take up a lot of space and your Genz is hardly heavy.

Got sacked recently from a function band. Were all older (50+), experienced players, with the exception of the guitard, a new Yorker who thought the fact that he was a septic meant he knew it all. He didn't, of course. No sense of time or pitch (I kid you not). Even had to be reminded to tune his instrument before we started playing. Trouble was, he was/is married to the keyboard player, who covered his tracks for him, cued him for breaks (otherwise he came in at random), took over a break/doubled him if he was screwing up, etc, etc. One night, after he played the entire first number with his instrument hopelessly out of tune, I asked his missus to tell him to tune it (he wouldn't take it from anyone apart from her). During the interval, he confronted me in the dressing room and I told him his fortune in words of one syllable/four letters. That was that.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1493907467' post='3291738'] As said chromes are a bit stiff. Great for getting a super low action though. I thought they also dulled a bit too quickly. Some may like that however. [/quote] They do lose the initial zing quite quickly, but then settle down nicely and don't get to being really dull for a long while. As regards stiffness, I find them softer than La Bellas for a given gauge. I use LBs on my P bass and Chromes on my Jazz.

If you want to spend on a powered sub, the Fohhn XS30 is just 29kg and includes a 1500w stereo power amp and digital signal processing. Hell of a piece of kit. Drives an additional passive sub and two tops. Love mine.

[quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1493823359' post='3290991'] In response to the OP, the legal position is a little complicated. Assuming it's now treated as unsolicited or abandoned goods, the bass still belongs to the seller. You do not have to go out of your way to return it, and you should not incur any costs, but the fact that they haven't arranged for its collection does not mean that it now becomes yours. This only happens after a period of six years and your options for that period are pretty limited. However, you are not expected to be a storage facility for six years so you can sell it, but really only if you no longer want to store it for them. You must write to them telling them what you are going to do and giving a reasonable period for them to arrange collection (minimum of 14 days) if they don't want it to be sold. Having done this you now have a sum of money that belongs to the original seller - it does not become yours for the balance of the six years and if they ask you for the money then you have to hand it over. And before you think of a clever ploy to flog it to a mate for a penny, the seller might reasonably take you to court if you sell it for well below it's market value....that said, a nice, honest listing on a well known auction site highlighting the bass' deficiencies might generate a sale at a reasonable price to somebody you have tipped off. Assuming you don't sell it, you can't do anything to change the condition of the bass - you can't fix it and play it as the seller can ask you for it back in its original condition at any point for the next six years. The stories you hear about telling companies that you're going to leave the mis-delivered items out on the street if the seller/courier doesn't collect it don't hold much legal weight. Puts you in a difficult position. But only really a risk if the seller is going to ask for it back in the next six years. The best outcome is if they tell you that they don't want it, but getting that out of them now seems to be a problem. Good luck [/quote] That's interesting and useful to know. What would be the position were one to (having notified the person first and given them time to arrange collection, of course) dispose of the item, i.e. throw it away?

Just looked at the site. Sounds a pretentious twerp. Give yer hard earned to someone who deserves it.

You really have to try cabs before committing yourself. Don't buy on our say so.

I had the old 2x15 Bassman cab many moons ago, which sounded fab. I'd be surprised if you need more than 4x10 unless you're playing very big stages. You really need to try some options. Our views of limited value if they don't suit your needs.

For the money a decent quality powered cab' would cost you, you're probably better off with a separate class D head and cab. Won't weigh much, if anything, more, you can use it as just a power amp (use the FX in) and cab if need be, but it will do the full standalone job should you need it. I picked up a mint, hardly used Bugera 1001 head for a coupla hundred, which I use as a power amp to drive additional cabs and which doubles as a spare head if mine goes down.