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I would go for the vertical 4x10 option, there's a guy selling some Traveller 102p cabs on the Bass Players' Market UK Facebook group, £275 each.

The Two10 is designed to be an retro sounding coloured cab isn't it? You may be looking an an entire new rig if you want a clean transparent sound. If you have a clean sounding preamp at your disposal then try that into the effects return of your Ampeg to see if the Barefaced will be able to deliver. If I was gigging a fretless in your situation I would just use my QSC K10.2 and Fishman preamp tbh. At home I use a TC BH250 into a Basslite equipped EA 110 cab, it's super clean and sounds great for fretless (also has the Corona Toneprint capability) so a micro head into a relatively clean sounding cab would be a good starting point. There's a Phil Jones D400 for sale on here:

I would never voluntarily listen to Footloose. I absolutely love playing Footloose live.

Yeah just having things like a configurable high pass filter and compression on inputs are things we benefit from (keys player and his wayward patches), not to mention 6 aux sends. Definitely the stuff of dreams compared to the stuff we used when I started gigging.

XR18 turned up a few days ago and used it at rehearsal tonight, finished setting up a few bits when I got in. Seems very capable and is touch friendly on a 12.5" tablet. Very happy with it so far and it doesn't seem like much of a step down from the Mackie stuff in terms of what it can do so thanks for the recommendation. We'll be using it with Alto TS215 tops and a TS215s sub until we can upgrade those so not a bad budget starter setup for in ears. Inbuilt router is absolutely terrible as mentioned!

Try and find a Guild Songbird used, you'll be looking at £800-£1100 but they're great little guitars.

Many years ago I bought a fret dress guard from him without knowing of his... erm... other items. Was the cheapest seller outside of China and delivery was fast.

Didn't even notice, tbf this is ridiculously cheap for him.

Cheap that, if you want a P/J you could do a lot worse and will always make your money back, Sometimes get a nice surprise with the free gigbags too, I picked up a £50 Westfield P a few years ago and it came with one of the nice old Ritter bags, sold it on for £30 and kept the bass!

Probably worth 50 notes, seller a little optimistic I think: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124929204556?hash=item1d165c614c:g:wxkAAOSwSxtd3vB6 Just about all of the bridge missing, pickups gone, headless hardware stripped out, truss rod shot to pieces. Also no knobs, cover plates or knee rest.

The thing is even if those tuners were the only option it could have been 100x better simply by plugging the old holes with wooden dowels.

Can't see any crack on the headstock. What's more likely is that one of the old tuners failed and they were replaced with those F style ones, new holes had to be drilled as the much larger baseplate would hang over the edge of the headstock - you can see the corners slightly protruding in the pic.

Gan get a 735A for around the same price as a Super Compact, a few places have the 745 for just over a grand. Not saying either option isn't valid, just a lot of the reasons given for dismissing alternatives to traditional amps aren't based in reality - the main one being that unless you have a dedicated bass amp you somehow can't provide bass out front without PA assistance and also that it would somehow be automatically inferior because it isn't a wooden box with a known bass brand on the front.

After a night out in Lagney maybe?

That bathwater is shared by the whole family as well remember. My uncle came to visit earlier this year, he told us some lovely tales of when him and my dad were kids and they used to race to have the first bath as both knew the other would wee in it.

Can't go wrong with a Cort as a first 5er, I still use an old Korean C5 as my backup bass.

Be careful if you're driving there, I heard the motorway is cobbled! I live close to Preston, in all seriousness I quite like it although it is lacking a decent chippy.

Yeah I knew it wasn't one of the crazy money MIJ ones, didn't even know they made them in the 90s tbh.

Dunno of this is legit or a bargain but thought these went for a fair bit more: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304171260289?hash=item46d2051981:g:X2QAAOSwl4dhWYfO The downside is that you have to go to Preston but some things are worth the hardship.

I don't think it's getting carried away at all, there's no magic sauce involved with bass amps and dedicated bass brands will be well behind the curve when it comes to integrating everything into one box. Is there a 1x15 bass combo that could outdo an RCF 745 for example? The last 1x15 I enjoyed using was a Markbass Jeff Berlin and I would take one of our old RCF 725a cabs over it every day of the week. As I said I love bass amps and still spend more time perving over them than any other bit of kit. There's no desire to use them live over anything else though, especially if I can cut down on load in and setup time.

A decent FRFR will easily do the whole room and then some, is one self contained box and a one hand carry. It will also be incredibly consistent not just with on stage sound but will be closer to FoH if you're going through the PA as well whereas your amp will probably sound quite different to what the audience hears. Towards the end of my amp using days I had tilt back cabs which I used in a wedge format on most gigs anyway, YMMV of course but for me it was a logical progression.

Even then you could just use an FRFR cab as conventional backline and it would obliterate pretty much every similarly sized bass amp on the market, then when provided with a PA just use it as a wedge monitor and have a full band mix through it. One box to fit every situation, if I was doing a wide variety of gigs that's what I'd do. Amps are cool and I still like looking at them and using them at rehearsal (albeit through cabs I don't like), they're just the 3rd option for live use now.

This entirely. I also made a small profit when I sold my bass rig even after buying an FRFR cab, IEM setup and also a cheap TC head for home use! I'm quite tall so the chances of finding a pub stage/playing area that was optimal for both the audience and myself was very slim and there was always going to be a huge compromise one way or the other. Moving to a wedge monitor and then IEMs sorted this straight away and also meant I could have a full band mix if I wanted with full control over it. Wouldn't go back, in fact after a recent band reshuffle I made the decision that if that style of monitoring was no longer an option I'd look for something else. Never been happier with my stage sound and it's never been cheaper or easier to achieve a great sound.

I don't think there was much of a market for these back when they were in production, £1k might be a little optimistic. A pal of mine had a GS guitar many moons ago, a small bodied thing with a single pickup. Played and sounded ok, he paid about £300 and it was worth that.

Always liked Eden rigs although my only relatively recent buying experience was ordering a small practice combo for the house and it turning up completely lifeless. Marshall are such a cheesy, legacy dependant brand now it's a wonder they even bother buying up companies like these, not like they are ever going to make serious inroads into bass amps so taking R&D shortcuts by acquiring tech is pointless really.