Jaybeevee

And yours is a Japan market bass with 'broadbass BB2000' logo. The export basses had a Yamaha Logo. Here's mine..

Mine is a shade over 4kg, I use a luggage scale. I have to throw some praise here too.. I have whittled my collection down to 7 basses now, and I can see I have 5 basses i can never sell. The quality of these, the playability, the tone ahh.. This is my 'PJ' of choice, and is my desert island bass for sure and the only bass tone complement i ever got..GLWS

https://peavey.com/manuals/80301425.pdf

16 hours ago, Pow_22 said:

So, weighing with luggage scales im getting pretty much bang on 10lb.  Obviously not the most accurate way of doing in but in lieu of bathroom scales its as good as i can do

I'm really surprised. My first ever 'proper' bass which i still have is feather light? It's in a lock up at the mo' so cant weigh it. If i recollect they are made with some exotic woods? but i could be mistaken

8 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

Why?

As a luthier who is showing that different woods for the body produce different sounding basses, he has an interest in actually making the basses sound different. For all we know most of the time his basses sound pretty much the same and that these 3 are hand picked as the most extreme sounding examples.

In short for a scientific PoV it shows nothing other than three different basses sound different. But we knew that already didn't we?

Why? integrity perhaps

I should imagine the guy making them is exposed to the required sample size of all variations. I would take a pro luthier at his word. He is showing the difference tonewoods make to his basses. If there were so much variation between the other factors, i'm sure he wouldn't bother..

I'm no Luthier, so no idea if other factors are at stake, but Sander DeGier did a great tonewood comparison here. There is definitely a difference in tone between these three Soulmates...

I have a Dave Hall VT1 and my local store has Blackstar U250 ACT active cabinet. I wonder if that would be an interesting como?

Anyone have any experience with active or powered cabs?

12 hours ago, CookPassBabtridge said:

I second this; the PJB Big Heads are amazing. Fits in your pocket, super clean and can be used with headphones and/or used as a preamp. I pretty much use mine exclusively when practicing at home these days.

Cool, i have one of these for considerate practice, and find it great also, but have never paired with a pre amp.. i just plug straight in. If i can get away with it though, i do prefer playing headphone free

16 hours ago, Skybone said:

Mild curve ball here, but what about something like the Hotone Thunder Bass?

It's a 5w mini amp (ideal for home use) that's supposed to give an SVT-like sound, in albeit a much smaller package. Match it up to a decent cab (or headphones), ideal home rig. There are a few people on here that really like theirs.

Relatively inexpensive too.

NAD - HoTone Nano Legacy Thunder Bass - Amps and Cabs - Basschat

 

Learning of so much new stuff in this tread...

Great feed back. Here is a really nice comparison between some of the gear mentioned in the thread. Those Phil Jones sounds amazing, but my god, that AER...

The amptweaker is an awesome fuzz.. needs to be snapped up at this price.. It's thunderous with that low end roll in..

Hi Folks,

Some opinions please on good home practice, or home noodling amp set ups with a great tone..

This set up will be purely for the enjoyment and maybe home recording if i finally get round to it.

I guess it's vintage leanings where i play P basses with a bit of tone roll off usually, jazz bass, a bunch of vintage basses including a stingray..

Low power, great tone and tubes is what i'm thinking

Can't see me going vintage B15 or Trinity trip top.. £££££££

I am looking at the Ashdown CTM 30 with a 15" or maybe an Ampeg PF20t with the matching cab..

Anyone have experience with either these or another suggestion?

Cheers

Jay

FWIW, it turns out to have been my pedal looper.. Loop No 11 seems to drop the DBs of whatever is plugged into it.. In a different loop it's fine..

Thanks for the input

Haha, good to know, and no, no phase Reversal on the looper? 
Any idea if it is symptomatic to phasers, or just the MXR 90?

its unusable as is which is a pain, i use it a fair bit..

Hi

just wondered if anyone has experience with my small issue..

i recently built a sizable pedal board with two power bricks and a Buzz electronics 12 ch looper. I ordered the looper with 4 loops after the pre amp allowing me to run my modulations effects (including the MXR) through the effects loop of the amp.. happy days

Since i did this, the MXR phase 90 has lost quite a bit of volume (was always great, if anything giving a little boost before).. Any one have any insight here as to why?

Cheers

jay

peavey basses are great and always reasonably priced… this is a steel.

GLWTS

On ‎30‎/‎08‎/‎2020 at 23:43, maidens97 said:

Should note that I've previously owned a Diamond Compressor and a Seymour Duncan Studio Bass.

Not impressed with the Diamond or SDSB then? In the market for a new compressor too, so just curious.

Having never heard of one before, i have to ask the daft question...

.... any good on Bass? 

Omg, i had the 2 pickup version in that same finish. It is truly mesmerizing. The most beautiful finish I’ve ever seen, and the neck joint is pure art. GLWTS. These are Basses of the highest quality 

I can hear the Meters in your bass line. Lovely full thumpy tone there. Good luck with the sale man 👍

These have the quality feel of a hand made bass designed with the input of pro bass players…. which is exactly what it is. Not suprised they cost double the price of a P bass back in the day..

11 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

Remortgaging the house to buy a brand new Mesa MPulse 600, only to sell it six months later for about 1/3 of what I paid.

Oh man, this one is hard for me to admit to myself, but i spent a heap of cash on a new Mesa Strategy eight 88 and a 4X12 Powerhouse because i considered it the best i could buy, and considering I live in Norway where import costs are colossal… It's heavy but it sounds great. I now realise there are plenty of great amps at a fraction of the cost and weight...

2 years after i got it it blew up... smoke.. drama.. the whole deal. Mesa in California could not have cared less. Their support for customers out side of the US is appauling. I had to deal with (via the shop that sold it to me) a Finnish distributor who also couldn't care less. I returned the amp for repair.. It took 6 months!!.. got it back and blew up again after 40 mins.. more smoke and more drama. Lots more couldn't care lessness later i got it back. It was by this time 12 months after the original failure. The fix involved replacing pre amp tubes and other components that resulted in a loss of power… God i could cry..

But the upside is, i still have it.. it does sound bloody amazing.. and it's so ridiculously powerfull that the reduction in power is meaningless. For a valve head, it doesn't break up nicely though...

i've been a fool

Is this as do-able as it sounds? I assume nut adjustment but will regular 4 string take the tension ok?

What is the colour? It beautiful