Jack

"Tone is in the fingers" is great until you try adjusting your fingers to get the sound of an overdriven tube amp, a DOD meatbox or a reverse delay.

Then your setup sounds ideal. My backup board is kind of similar and works great.

Probably. Sorry the reason most people are either being vague or just recommending what they use is that we don't really have the information we need to properly answer your question. What's the situation? Band? Type of music? Volume requirements? Will this be going in to a pa (yours or supplied?) or backline? Do you also need some way of hearing yourself? Etc etc etc. Really the only thing you actually need is a DI box or something with an XLR output, and even that isn't actually necessary. Nothing to stop you just taking a normal guitar cable and plugging the bass straight into the mixer.

It really depends on what you need to do, specifically, do you just need to get yourself into the pa system? If so then that's comparatively easy. Or are you also responsible for hearing (monitoring) yourself?

If you care enough to have a nice suit then you should care enough to wear a belt. If it has belt loops there should be a belt in them. Debretts says so.

I quite like some of the YouTube videos so I signed up for the year. £200 for about an hour. Shame really, I need the lessons.

I thought these were all sold, or was that the carbon fibre ones? How's the neck dive if its so light? ...asking for a friend...

Normally such a boomer thing to see online but I think this thread has been thankfully free of wife jokes.

Thundercat, Tal Wilkenfeld, etc

Small but perfectly formed, your average quality is way higher than most.

You've got almost a thousand posts here, you should know by now that nine is nothing to some of these nutters. 😁 Basses here. Although that page of the new site is even less complete than the other two so no judging please. I don't have anything too wild, but by and large they do different things. The last bass I sold was a Spector because I had two Spectors and whenever I wanted to play a Spector I always picked one of them and not the other. Didn't make sense to keep the other one. They have to be a little bit different to keep it interesting, or at least that's what I'll tell myself when the OP's red Stingray goes for sale. 🫣 What are your three?

We have a tiny little country cottage but I make room. Priorities indeed. I've currently got 9 basses, which for example is 9 more basses than kids.

Welcome! I don't think there are any shape differences between the tribute and the USA models.

My favourite ever rig was a pair of FR800s which were essentially powered big babies. I think you'd be very happy with the two smaller cabs.

I got my (trans red, maple, beaten up, 4h) Ray for £450. Mental innit? Told you you should keep it, now you know.

Poor Fender. Hated for being stale, hated for doing something unique.

Well the same to you. The translucent red is a great colour for the Ray, although as you'll know I'm biased 😁. I still think you should keep it but I certainly wouldn't mind looking after that for you. 😍

For the record, I think you should keep it. I'm not a nostalgia inclined person and I'm not overly sentimental but if any inanimate objects have a 'soul' (no I don't know what that means, I'm not religious and I don't think I have a soul) then it's musical instruments and cars. If something has been with you whilst you've made good memories then I think that's important. What's it worth? I've always wanted a birth year bass and Stingrays are amongst my favourite basses. If you decide it's going then I'd be tempted to buy it, and you can buy it back for the same price whenever you want. Stingray porn, although you'll need to upload your face these days...

We're playing on Saturday, you'll love it.

Spectors have a lot of their own personality, not surprised it sounded right despite the (slightly) different amp.

Don't blame us, we don't have a lot going on in our lives outside of Basschat. Pleased it went well.

I have a big, unwieldy, noisy, hits-off-your-knees-when-you-carry-it, 45cm fan. It works but I sort of hate it. I once worked with a drummer who had a tiny plastic one but he could put it right behind the stool and pointing up his shirt. I called it a fan bidet, but in fairness he was the coolest on sweaty gigs.

Pleased I could help. If I had a pound for every time I plugged the feed to the pa into the expression pedal socket on the hx stomp, or for every time I had to move the singer's wiring between sub and top from 'full range' to 'high pass' then I could have afforded dummy plugs sooner.

Annoying that all pa and effects gear has the IO on the back, but not bass amps.

Thanks for that, I now know what I'm calling my autobiography: A Semitone Louder Use dummy plugs in seldom-used sockets. Saved me more times than I'll ever know.