Paul S

I would agree. I bought a Quilter BB800 when they came out and it has been fairly consistently my go-to after using big 'ol Trace Elliots. Recently changed from BF Supercompact to a Two10 - only had it for a short while but I'd say my tone has never been better. For what I am looking for etc. I had the One10 for home practice/smaller gigs and liked the 'colour' with both the Quilter (and also like the sound of it paired with a Tecamp Puma). The Two10 sounds similar but bigger.

You are not alone in that view

Tone is a very subjective thing as we all have different versions of the perfect P bass tone in our heads. What I did while back was use one of my bitsa Precisions as a kind of test bed for different pickups to see which I preferred. I got a Ki0gon solderless loom and then it was easy to keep switching pups. You can usually get them at reasonable cost in the classifieds here and move on again for very little loss.

I like them, too, and for the money they are the best value I have bought. They offer a decent amount of protection and after several years of light use show no signs of wear. One of them has a handle that had the padded bit sewn into the wrong place but that doesn't bother me. I only use gig bags to transport in my car to and from rehearsals or as a dust cover indoors so am reluctant to spend big dollar on anything fancy.

That's the thing, though. This is a discussion forum, not an 'only posts that agree with the OP' forum. And, tbf, if SC wasn't a gold digging tart who blanked the real talent on her push for stardom, the comments wouldn't have been made.

You tease... do tell!

Aria Pro II Cardinal series CSB came in various configurations. Double cutaway 32" scale, passive, mostly 1 pup, some had 2. I have one of the top end of the range 'Black n Gold' models and it is a corker. My second, actually - I was stupid enough to sell the first and lucky enough to find a second.

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Not a very elegant solution, though, is it. Nor does it do much to cure the slight GAS build up... Maybe get a cheap Bronco and attack it with a saw! 😃

Doing some reading... calling @alyctes you still have both an Alien and a Duke? If you have the time, sir, how would you say they stacked up against each other?

Thanks for this. Looks like the Hohner is a non-starter but I will look more closely at the Alien/Duke basses. Gotta love Basschat!

Marvellous, thank you.

Never played - or even seen in the flesh - a Hondo Alien. Are they any good?

Someone please shoot me down quickly. I quite fancy the idea of a short scale headless bodiless bass a la Hohner B2A. I can see it might be easy to 'just' saw off the neck at approx. the first two frets and put the end thingamebob back on. But what about the truss rod? That I imagine makes it a no go - but does it?

Works for me now, pc with Chrome. Well done, if anyone did anything.

🤣 never heard that before. Excellent 🤣

This aligns very much with my circumstances. I'm 62 but the figures are more or less the same. Getting music back into my life after a 25-ish year hiatus felt like that bit of me that had been missing all those years was back in place. And I'm not married to Silvie of course.

Thank you! Where was that? Didn't know Joe was tarting himself around this week?

That's my exact winning combination, too - Jake 5, Delano pickup, TI flats. I have TI flats on all my basses.

I like my basses to be passive, solid black, if a scratchplate then B/W/B, maple neck and fretboard, split P type Humbucker. Either Fender shaped or double cutaway However the bass I play the most is my Gibson Les Paul Jnr DC which ticks only some of those boxes.

A lean year, just 14 gigs with three bands. One is brand new so just picking up, one band folded half-way through the year and one is never busy. Hoping for more next year.

My blues rock trio are playing at The Shamrock Inn this coming Sunday 5th Jan. Kick-off will be around 6pm. As endorsed by BBC Suffolk's Stephen 'Foz' Foster https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10221184317019862&id=1303526139&sfnsn=scwspmo&extid=qGDpiiDwGUMyWUoe

I'm enjoying one, too. I bought the 300 for home practice/small gigs but traded up to the 500 - my intention being to also use it as back up for my main gig amp, a Quilter BB800. But in reality I find myself reaching for this one at the moment.

This seems to be the case 'ereabouts, too. It was one of the deciding factors when my 'classic rock covers band' decided to morph into a Bon Jovi tribute. At least Bon Jovi don't play Mr F^cking Brightside.