Skybone

I noticed when I was looking through the For Sale section earlier, that most of the instruments on the first two pages were mainly 5 or 6 strings. There seemed to be more 6's than 5's, very few 4 string basses though.

"Doing a Carlos"

My old Thunder 1A weighed a ton, but by god, it sounded ace.

Beautiful bass, congrats. Always really wanted one back in the day, like you say, good old Henry on Rock School. Enjoy, just make sure you have a padded strap to hand when you play it!

Nice to see another Faker join the ranks...

It was a really good documentary.

Oooh... Both look ace.

In the past, I had a few pedals which needed a 3.5mm jack to power them from a PSU (ProCo Rat, EHX Small Stone/Small Clone). I simply modified a few of the leads with a 3.5mm jack I bought from the local music shop, figured out the positive & negatives, then soldered the leads to the jacks. Lasted for years with no problems. Sold the pedals and included the leads.

Absolutely gutted to hear this. RIP Neil, thanks for the music.

Another competitor in the modelling market might liven things up a bit, especially if they can add something interesting. I suppose it's a bit early for a hardware upgrade, especially after releasing the HX Stomp last year. I suppose I better keep on saving up then!

Does this mean that there's an imminant upgrade due for the Helix hardware? If so, that'll mean that there will be a slew of current versions of Helix flooding onto the second hand market... 😉👍

Sweet

Bought some for one of my acoustic guitars years ago, never fitted them, as the Thomastik's that are on it still sound as bright as the day they were put on years ago.

What an ace story, and a superb bass, congrats.

So @jim_bass, what was the outcome of your experimentation?

I'm still thinking about getting a Helix LT, but the good old HD500x is still going strong and sounding great.

My Ashdown AMP300 210 combo (MAG Evo III). Not the lightest amp, but it sounds pretty good to me.

Yup, something like a Zoom B1four or something similar.

£25 well spent IMO.

You definitely need to have more than one in your case, 3 or 4 should be enough. Those alcohol based wipes are a good idea too. You can get the glasses/screen cleaning wipes from the likes of Aldi or Lidl for about a £1 a box of 50. Handy for carrying in your case too.

But the OP stated he already had a Line6 HD500X, all I'm saying is that they don't need to buy another multi-FX, just the HD Bass pack add on. Well happy with mine.

The 4 string Rockbass Star's are all medium scale from what I've seen.