Beedster

Yep, I know, that’s not what I’m hearing, definitely some PP on there. No problem, sounds great, but I don’t buy the pure P-Bass tone thing here

Yep, I was expecting a PJB-esque horizon defining piece of tech, not, well, whatever the flip this is (I’m still not sure to be honest, despite their having emailed me telling me how good it is).

Can't help feeling a strong sense of disappointment that their first venture away from cabs is this? Guess they have their reasons

I suddenly feel like I've come to the wrong forum

Is it easier to get a tube amp?

So it’s a fuzz box with 10 controls an three switches?

If you mean mic output level on the DI, it will be too low

Plug your bass straight in mate

Lovely tone, playing and track, might be wrong but on my device it sounds to me like there’s a bit of something other than pure bass signal in there?

There is nothing worse than the guitarist who has no spare strings, the drummer who only has one set of sticks with him and breaks one of them showing off during soundcheck, of the singer who's got a dodgy mic. And I had them all in the same band on the same night in Kingston (Upon Thames, not Jamaica)! But that's not professional gear, that's professional attitude. No amount of expensive gear makes up for that.

Miss my Rics

Ha ha, I’ll have that cab for sure Greg, stupidly sold my last 1516 as the result of it having broken my car. Let’s make it a date in 2021. Beedster girls are all doing great thanks, Ella wants to be a vet, Katie wants to be a scientist

Still have happy memories of the Harbourmaster in Aberaeron Greg, and the stress of driving up the 1:4 hill to our house with a boot full of Peavy and Ampeg. Would love to do it again one day (the Harbourmaster that is). Hope you're all well. C

Yep, agreed, but as I said earlier, there is a world of difference between acoustic and electric instruments, and ‘get away with’ is to my mind more about a cheap and feedback resistant DB actually being a better pro choice for the bluegrass job than one that, for jazz or orchestral is more resonant, sustains for longer but on both bases feeds back more. £15k is bottom end for orchestral, at least once you factor a bow in as well

Hi mate, great question. First thing, are the routs on a body standard Fender size, especially the neck pocket and PUPs, I've found a few that weren't Second, price, it's tempting to pay £300 for a lovely neck but the bass is eventually going to cost more than a complete bass you could buy new. Unless it's really special, I try to stay under £150 each for both bodies and neck (my black relic body broke this rule, as did 'The Russian' and the Musikraft neck) Third, always buy used, many of the new parts that sell below £100 on eBay are simply not very good, for example a body I bought a while back had a pocket that put it about 5 degrees out of line with the neck. NEVER get into an auction with a seller of bespoke items, there's a guy at present on ebay who has a photo of a nicely reliced body on the item page, but this is not the item you'll get, he's going to make that once the auction closes. And let's face it, the quality of the body you get is going to be a function of your winning bid, the guy is not going to spend weeks perfecting your body and relic finish if the winning bid was £90! Re parts, Warmoth and Allparts make consistently great parts, Mighty Mite slightly less so. Fender and Squier parts are generally good. I would stay clear of nay body or neck that has been deliberately reliced, some of the stuff that people do to wood is shocking, but can look OK in the photos on eBay Fourth do not but from the US, the part will cost you at least twice as much by the time it gets to your door I'm sure others will add much more

Morrison? Doors?

Anyway, back to Morrissey

I don't have sympathy, they're a public broadcaster, perhaps one of the most prestigious in the World, they have a responsibility to defend their core principles, as do other news agencies worldwide on a daily basis, and against far stronger forces that Boris and his gang. It's either weak leadership or strategic, slowly moving towards being just another form of meta social media. If it was another broadcaster it would be much less of a problem, the issue for me is that for many in the UK and elsewhere, the idea that 'If the BBC says it, it must be true' still holds, so when I see them allowing air time to fringe views on news programmes as if those fringe views are a form of news, not simply a reaction to the news, it worries me. Too many of the people on the BBC News are representatives of interest groups who can never be expected to speak in unbiased terms, but are often presented as if they are. I get the 'two sides to every story' thing, but that's where good journalism comes in, weigh the evidence and report the consensus, don't just simply present both sides and let the already biased views of most of the audience become more entrenched as the result. We need a return to the idea of trusted journalists and strong and transparent editorial policy, not simply "Hey, this'll get some clicks, even more if we get this person in as well"

Wasn't this one was it...?