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Sold a Squier Vintage Modified PJ bass to Mircea. Very friendly & helpful and paid up quickly - thanks!

Simon bought a pickup set from me and paid up quickly - thanks!

Oli bought some pickups from me and paid up right away. Thanks!

Bought a Hooker's Green Bass Machine 4K pedal from Bas - arrived quickly, well packed & as described. Thanks!

Bought a Hooker's Green Bass Machine pedal from Dan - arrived quickly, well packed & as described. Thanks!

So, anybody know about the meaning of those barcode/number stickers?

Ha! Mine has the 'Cancer and Reproductive Harm' warning, whatever the heck that is all about.

Just picked up a lovely 2021 black Mexican Player P. I'm not sure I've ever had a bass come with a Fender Inspection Tag, maybe once but a long time ago. I'm just curious what all the numbers mean. I've already done the Fender serial number lookup from the number shown on the headstock. It brings up the model number: 0149802506. This model number matches one of the barcode/number stickers on the red side of the card. Then there are 2 other barcode/number stickers alongside it: one starts MN followed by 7 numbers, the other starts MO followed by 7 numbers. So my questions are: what do those MN/MO stickers mean, and is there a reason why the serial number itself doesn't appear anywhere on the card? The white side of the card has signatures in all 4 boxes (prep, assembly, tune/test, inspector) but the Part Number & Serial Number spaces are left blank. Is that normal or did someone just forget to do their job? Thanks. Edit: I guess the P/N to the left of the signatures is the part number? Still, I'm surprised the serial number was left blank

Sorry to hear that you've had enough. I'm sure we've all felt like that at times for whatever reason/s. It's not always easy to do this, but I try my best to let any nonsense go over my head and just play and do my bit. Other than practicing at home, which I don't do a lot of because it's boring without a band around, church is the only place I play. I'd like to play elsewhere too, but since 2 friends moved away who I used to jam with a bit, I don't play anywhere outside of church. I work shifts, which makes it virtually impossible to commit to anything regularly on any given night. So when annoyances come along within the worship band, I just kind of grin and bear it, knowing that if I walk out I'll end up not playing anywhere and would miss it. I guess you don't want to go into it all in detail, but I'm curious what on earth happened to make you walk out mid rehearsal? Our frustrations often overlap somewhat here, maybe what you have experienced is something that someone here can help give advice on resolving? Thanks to those who responsed to my overdrive / compression questions. May try a compressor sometime. I feel overdrive is a rabbit hole that I could go into and never come out of, so I bought one more pedal and think will leave it for now. I got a Boss BB-1X Bass Driver, and whilst I haven't fully explored it or used it during a service yet, it seems like more what I've been wanting than others I've tried. I passed on a Darkglass Vintage Microtubes (VMT) recently as whatever settings I tried, I just didn't dig it, just sounded too baked-in / coloured and dark for my liking. Yet some rave about that pedal. I just don't get it. One Control Hookers Green Bass Machine is a fun little mini drive pedal, but again was just a bit too coloured for me. Still not sold on the EHX Bass Soul Food. I hate the loud EHX footswitch click and in-ear pop when stomping on it. It's a bit too middy for my liking. The Boss BB-1X seems more of a natural, organic breakup kind of overdrive without too much flavour, if that makes sense, and of course the bulletproof Boss enclosure and hinged footswitch is a bonus. I can't see myself using much drive in church anyway, but I like to have some drive on tap at home for playing along to stuff and just noodling about, so I'll just keep it on the board anyway. I've seen on Talkbass that some use things like the TC Spark (full pedal) either as a boost or just an always on bit of grit. I'll have to figure out if want to use the BB-1X as something to stomp on as needed, or to use as an always on lower gain thing. I can always get a bit more drive by playing with my VTDI settings (namely Blend, Character & Drive knobs) if I want to, but it's a fine balance getting a nice tone with some slight drive, without getting too much grind / clank / string noise - keeping the Bite switch off and Character down certainly helps with that!

Bought a Boss overdrive pedal from Patrick - arrived quickly, well packed & as described - and sounds great. Thanks!

Luke bought a Darkglass pedal from me, paid up quickly, deal with confidence

Andy bought an overdrive pedal from me. Paid up right away, a top fella, thanks

@Matt P @TrevorR Cool to see the EHX Bass Soul Food on your boards. I need to give this pedal some more time. I had one before, only played around at home, and can’t recall why I never actually tried it on a Sunday. I bought another a while back as wanted to give it another try, this time during a service. Guess what, I still haven’t done! I’m not really an effects guy, but I am on a bit of a wild goose chase to find an overdrive I like, for that bit of extra grit / mild breakup / crunch, thats not too nasty / fizzy / ‘wasp in a tin can’ like. Something fairly transparent and not too dark / coloured / baked-in (Darkglass style). Interested in suggestions, and I’ll have another fiddle with my Bass Soul Food, it seems that blend & drive fairly cranked & some taken off the treble are popular for getting the most out of this. It’s a real Marmite pedal on Talkbass, but its popularity there seems to have risen since it’s early days. I’ve had a go with the Darkglass VMT, which I know some love, but I can’t seem to get past that ‘baked-in’ sound it has. Also playing around with a One Control Hookers Green Bass Machine, nice micro pedal with some good driven tones especially when digging in with a pick, but still not totally sold on it. Does anyone use a drive as an always / often on thing, or something you stomp on for a certain song / bridge, etc?