Jack

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.

Bought a Stomp as a backup, then realised I only ever used the Stomp as it was enough so I sold the full fat Helix, then realised the Stomp wasn't enough so swapped the Stomp for a Quad Cortex. As ever much time and money was spent for little, if any, gain.

At one point I had two matching 4u Gator racks. One had my bass rig in (a wireless and Helix). I needed this rack for every gig we played. The other housed my mixer and bluetooth music player. I only needed this rack when we were providing our own sound. Guess who showed up to a festival an hour away from my house with the one, wrong rack? I've long since moved on from the Helix but the mixer rack is still in use and still has several large '2' stickers on it just so I can tell it apart from the long gone '1' rack with the Helix in. Hey, at least I learned my lesson to label things clearly.

Oooooh I like this game. The good: Sansamp. I wanted a more old school sound and the internet peer pressured me into buying a sansamp. I went for the paradriver, fearing the mid scoop of the bddi, and I absolutely love it. It's the only thing I've profiled on my QC. Countryman Type 85. In the early days TB told me I'd need a di box. They also told me that the countryman was the best. They were kind of right. It's been 20 years and it's the longest serving piece of gear I own. The bad: B string. Fives have extended range, they're more versatile, everything you can do on a four you can do on a five. Humbug. My first Stingray, a realisation of my dream bass, my crowning achievement as a bassist, custom made for me by ebmm, all wasted by ticking the five string box on the form. If that bass had been a four I'd still have it for sure. Quad cortex. I like modellers, that's the best modeller. Right? Still not convinced it's as good as my helix was.

Don't you guys know that "each of the worm-holes in fact acted as a sort of resonating chamber resulting in a lightweight instrument laced with unparalleled acoustic properties and overtones"? Luddites.

Yeah but pity the poor sod who paid £5k yesterday. Or those PRS with the casual £2500 off, that probably stings if you got one last week.

I just got an advert for a sale at Andertons in my browser's discover section. There's not too much bass stuff there but in fairness what there is does look pretty reduced. If you happen to be shipping for mostly Warwick and Sire you'd be paying used prices for new gear. Not for me, just passing it along.

You guys think you have it bad? My dad's a ... lead guitarist. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Nice guy though. Shared the stage with him before.

Done plenty of gigs with 3x guitar wireless and 3x wireless IEMs. No problems as long as you plan properly.

I get that it's awkward and slow but is it actually unhealthy?