lemmywinks

I get home, have a little bit of rum and watch telly for half an hour while browsing eBay ending soonest listings.

Depends on your budget and volume needs, I'd look for something that can be wedged back personally as unless it's on some sort of stand those little combos are going to be firing at your ankles. If your budget is lower then have a look for a used Hartke Kickback or one of the A series combos. I've used a Kickback 15 and an A70 for smaller gigs and they were great little things. Not the lightest (especially the KB) but sounded solid, Behringer did a decent copy of it if you need to get down to a budget. If your budget is higher than a decent powered wedge monitor with a preamp pedal would be my go to option, or if you already have a small amp then just get a nice 1x10 or 1x12 cab.

I got no response after I had problems with my Superfly, similar situation to yours. Fortunately mine was still within warranty so the shop covered repair twice and I ended up getting enough use out of the amp to make it worth £199. Seems like everyone who had that amp got ignored, I think it's a part of their history they seem very eager to forget. It put me off buying Ashdown again (and I spent a fortune on rigs over the next few years), a stance which was strengthened when I used one of their higher end combos that sounded like diarrhea in the bath.

Sounds like you need some of that famous Ashdown customer service that everybody else seems to get! Hopefully their rep here can chime in and mail the correct driver to you, a bit silly letting it leave the factory like that and good you spotted it before anything nasty occurred.

Or if you do want a new amp just buy whatever you like and when it turns up just hit her with "it looked smaller in the pictures".

Let her grumble?

That's a steal.

EBS Multicomp is hard to beat for price to performance ratio, just sold mine for £70 which seems to be the going rate.

Two options I can think of are whether they can be powered from a standard 9v Boss style adapter (some compressors need 12v) and also if the are dual band or not.

Keep an eye on local collect only stuff on eBay, me and the drummer use a little 10" JBL Eon for vocal/keys monitoring, wasn't expecting much from a little plastic thing but it kicks out a lot of sound for what it is. Cost us £100.

Try a powered monitor with a cheap mixer?

Packs of 10 on AliExpress for about £1, different colours too.

I thought the same really, would have bought it already if it was blank!

Had a quick look on AliExpress (after a bridge upgrade myself) and this looks suitable: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5-String-IB-Electric-Bass-Transbody-Bridge-Chrome-Behind-the-strings-Bridge/32834794882.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.219.3ee0777bXrr8m5&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10152_10065_10151_10344_10068_10130_10324_10342_10547_10325_10343_10340_10341_10548_10696_10192_10190_10084_10083_10618_10307_10301_10303_5711215_10313_10059_10184_10534_100031_10103_10627_10626_10624_10623_10622_5711315_10621_10620_5722415,searchweb201603_25,ppcSwitch_4&algo_expid=98320dcb-bdd8-4e4f-ad32-ce4cf1089ef2-34&algo_pvid=98320dcb-bdd8-4e4f-ad32-ce4cf1089ef2&priceBeautifyAB=0 You'll need to drill new mounting holes but it has 18mm spacing and the part the strings run over looks much less chunky than the Fender style one so the break angle shouldn't be as sharp. The difficult part with finding a replacement bridge for the Sire is that it has 6 mounting screws all along the back so your options for drilling new holes there is limited.

The bridge on the non-vintage 5 string is fine, might be worth messaging Sire and seeing if they'll send you one seeing as that's a design flaw. I remember the 4 string V7 having this problem at launch, weird that they would go back to making the same mistake with the Vintage versions.

£299 each or 4 for £1200, that's an extra £4!

Schecter Hellcat

Is that Behringer a clone of the Art Pre? I used to have one of those and foolishly sold it, lovely sounding little mic pre for not much money.

Performer series I think.

It looks like a child's drawing of a guitar.

An ex demo Protec Contego for £69 delivered here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Protec-CTG233-Electric-Bass-Guitar-Gig-Bag-Padded-Shock-Frame-Black/273082121499?hash=item3f94f67d1b:g:OG0AAOSwATxakEQg Worth spending the extra money IMO.

I didn't look into the 12" cabs as they weren't on my radar when shopping but from opinions across forums (pinch of salt etc.) the consensus was that the K10.2 was quite a bit better than the original K10, seemed to be the same for the 8" version too. Dunno what's in them (or the 12s for that matter), just thought it was worth mentioning. A lot of the new features may not be of use to bassists but the bass amp preset and instrument level input are really handy for me for home use. There was also a GK Plex preamp pedal on one of the Facebook bass pages the other day for £200 if anyone is interested, no affiliation. Seemed like a decent deal for a really well featured all in one pedal.

Worth noting the QSC K12 are the original versions which are quite a bit different, the power distribution between the LF and compression drivers makes more sense in the new versions. Also you don't get the fancy screen and I assume the handy factory presets/eq. Anybody had both to compare?

If it was a Gibson it would break at the headstock as soon as a child hit it.

Sterling Ball has the lawyers on amber alert: