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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:

I've not found the QSC to be mid shy at all, however I am using it with the Bass Amp preset so maybe that has something to do with it. Also maybe the Sire preamp has a baked in sound itself as I'm doing pretty much all tone-shaping from that and very little on the Fishman. Last gig I had to cut mids (assuming around 400-450hz) and boost a good amount of bass to get the sound I wanted, the previous one I ran it with centred mids and a small bass boost. On both I rolled the brilliance knob back a bit on the Fishman to get the highs under control.

Oh don't get me wrong, it's plenty low enough, I would have sold it already if it wasn't! It puts out a lot of nice low end and doesn't sound lacking at all, one thing I have noticed is that it's much more responsive to eq than my old Markbass rig and I'm still getting my head around what a flat eq actually sounds like rather than the bass heavy/rolled off treble "flat" I've been used to on bass amps for two decades. Only done 3 gigs with it so far, first one it coped well despite being on a crap sounding stage and the next to it performed admirably. The downside is nobody has bought my old MarkBass rig yet!

Well, a true frfr is a top end speaker - just one designed to reproduce what is being fed into it with as little colour as possible. In fact the current trend for a lot of high end cab designers is to get an approximation of a flat response, it's used as a selling point in a lot of cases. The examples you use are all very different but have similar design goals, the QSC doesn't go down as low so is probably not true full range (to 56hz?) but it still reproduces a true, clear signal for monitoring purposes which is the point of getting one in the first place. The PA (if it's a decent one) will reproduce what you put into it in a very similar way only a lot louder and pointing in a different direction. It's just a much more consistent way of achieving a specific sound. For a very long time I just wanted to reproduce the sound coming out of our PA in a condensed format for personal monitoring as I really like the sound of my bass straight into the desk, using an amp actually got in the way of that.

It would be presenting a load lower than 4ohms though, presumably the amp would have some sort of safety feature that shut the amp down before damage occurred. Ashdown's track record with Class D micro heads isn't great though so who knows.

Ashdown were fixing (or offering to fix) Superflys recently on here so they should sort this out, that's at best a plain-as-day manufacturing oversight and at worst a sneaky way to get rid of the 4ohm speakers in their inventory. Imagine if you didn't know about impedance and plugged it in anyway? They're designed to work with each other right? Offer to send that dodgy 4ohm driver back and happily accept the correct 8ohm version in the post courtesy of Ashdown, their customer service is great apparently. Maybe they have some nice covers for it knocking around they can send you to apologise for this patronising cr@p:

Haha, that's the first thing I thought when I saw it. Would be an impressive explosion of balsa wood and white emulsion!

Why can't Fender release anything that looks this cool?