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Better go for a higher powered one then, as I use only one 8ohm cab. I normally don't need superloud, but i'd hate to run out of puff in a venue with dodgy acoustics...

Some time ago I bought a PJB briefcase off The Greek, largely for use with stagg EUB. I loved it, both with the EUB and with my normal basses. I am now considering selling my TC RH450, and get a PJB amp head, but i am concerned that it will not play well with my barefaced compact. Does anyone have any experience of pairing a PJB head such as a M-300, M-500 or D-600 with a speaker cabinet other than a PJB one?

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1433792454' post='2794047'] You're unlikely to find one in a shop, they were discontinued years ago. If you can try a USA Stingray (with a 2 band eq, not 3 band...) you will get a good idea of what a USA SUB will sound like and the size of the neck. The only difference is a SUB has a painted neck, slab body and textured finish. The hardware and electrics are the same. And it's built like a tank (great for rowdy bar gigs ☺). The best way to get one is from this site and flip it if you don't get on with it. They pop up for between £350/450 reasonably frequently and you'll sell it for the same all day long if its in half decent nick and its not tinkered with. And if you're down near the sunny South East you're welcome to have a play on mine....... [/quote] I know they stopped making them years ago, that why I wasn't going to find any in a shop The shape of the body and neck were much more to my taste on the cheaper ray4 SUB than on any other variant, including american stingrays. In any case, I am not a big enough fan that I need to have the real thing I got my SUB because I returned a yamaha 5 string I didn't get on with, and the SUB was the only bass I had any interest in getting in an exchange...

[quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1433772807' post='2793801'] The thing with doing that is you've spent pretty much the same as it would have cost to get a USA SUB in the first place...... [/quote] There aren't any USA SUB for sale in the shops (I like to try before I buy), and I liked the neck and body shape of the sterling SUB much better than the other variants available in the shop (sterling ray34 and stingray).

I bought a walnut Sterling SUB ray4, like most people I found the preamp and pickups a little too hot and harsh, so I modded mine with a GFS pickup and a retrovibe stinger preamp. For less than £100 my bass now sounds vastly better than it used to.

6/15, didn't know the alto and tenor clef, and takes me forever to recognise the notes (only learn music reading at school, and that was loooong time ago)

I really enjoy my briefcase, and I can imagine that a 200W version would make it usable for more occasions than the 100W version. I'm using mine mainly with the stagg EUB for band practice when we do our swing/jazzy set. Stick it in a corner of the room, and it holds its own very well with drum, keys, guitar (clean), and loud vocals. I don't really use it for the full funk/pop/rock set, perhaps a 200W version would work for small, not too loud gigs. It's all down to what the speakers and cab can do with the watts I have gigged in a medium sized pub with a 100W HH head into a 4x10 cab...

I recorded some swing versions of pop songs with my band, using the stagg EUB with innovation strings, artec piezos, through a TC rh450 and a hartke 4x10 cab. The playing is quite dodgy, as i'm not very good yet, and we haven't been doing this very long as a band, but here it is anyway https://soundcloud.com/marco-razeto/heatwave-swing (trite old song, but hey!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di63Loly3No

PJB seems to be able to get nice tone from very small speakers in small enclosures. I guess it's all down to materials and bracing. Alternatively, I found some joy with the roland microcube. It doesn't sound as nice as the PJB combo, but it will do in a pinch. You are welcome to try mine, since we're both in edinburgh.

Smoke and mirrors, my friend. And burnt hair. A lot of it.

The T40 is big, heavy, and mighty! Sounds like nothing else out there, cuts through any mix you want, and has a fairly flat and comfortable neck. I'm thinking of getting a second one

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Got my eyebrows singed by an electrical discharge from a wireless microphone I was setting up. You know, the old aluminium cylinders ones you see in 80's tv shows. Badly earthed system, inexperienced people, but it was 1990, so all is forgiven. Playing with the smell of burnt chicken feathers for the whole gig is quite distracting

By the way I've put up my old HH VS Bassamp up for sale, in case anyone wants a taste of the original http://basschat.co.uk/topic/259591-hh-vs-bassamp-all-original-from-the-70s-green-lights-still-work/#entry2741907

I've used two fender rumbles 112 for a few years, before replacing them with a single bigger cab. They are pretty good, very portable and light. If you are playing at any volume you really need two to get good bottom end, as their natural sound is more in the mids. You'll need to spend a lot more money to get something substantially better.