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Popped up in my Facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1p5NDaS7DRYZtJU9/?mibextid=WC7FNe 🚨 Missing bass!! Please share this post!🚨 Hi all. My bass was taken between Sunday and Tuesday from the Guildhall School of Music. Please keep an eye out for it. Please check your local pawn shops, music shops etc and contact me directly if you see it. It’s a unique custom made 5-string bass with through-neck construction. There’s only one of these in the world so it’s pretty distinctive! It was in a tweed Ibanez powerpad padded gig back (pictured). Thanks

+1 for powered speaker (with pre-amp). I’ve got a 600w Behringer that weighs about 14kgs and cost just over £150 (so under $200?) I also have a 500w TC Electronic mini head (bought new for the warranty; about £250) and a 500w Ibanez cab (16kg, £150 used, can be carried in one hand).

I’ve just had a MIJ 51 p bass delivered from Fenderfever today. I had some trepidation because £1k is a lot of money for me, and this thread was the only store review I could find. Two days after I paid, I had a duplicate deduction appear on my credit card app. It disappeared next day, so I think it’s just a Mastercard thing. But all doubts have now dissipated - fast delivery and bass is exactly as described. I’m very happy I shopped there!

Alex is - quite simply - a very pleasant chap! He just bought an Hpf pedal from me. When I found he lived nearby, and I had a rehearsal in Stevenage that week, he was more than happy to meet up, even though it inconvenienced him a lot more than me.

I treated myself to a new bass - that is far better than my playing deserves - in December: it’s taking a bit of getting used to, but the more I play, the more I find I get on with it. It went to luthier to have an active/passive switch fitted, and I found I was pining after it every day. Now it’s back, I play every day. I find it very satisfying. (And I feel like I’m justifying the expense - can’t wait for this year’s first gig next month!)

I swapped out the pickup on my Sandberg Electra VS4. I found the original sounded like JJ in The Stranglers. Great, but not what I needed: I wanted a more vintage sound for gigs with a dad rock band and a soul band. I put in a (not expensive) Kent Armstrong pickup which just sounded more suitable. I’m not sure I could have tamed the mids/highs enough using eq without losing a lot of the original note?