Marvin

I'd go for the Rumble. I owned (and have always regretted selling) one of the larger ones, and they're nice combos. Great sound, good features at a good price.

It all looks well equipped. Coming from Thomann you get a 3 year warranty. However, as we leave the transition period and fully leave the EU as such on 1st Jan, I'd be a little concerned about how that effects us in the UK. I looked at the cabs, not sure on the porting. The equivalent Ashdown seems to have a bit more. Anyway, I won't be buying one 😎😁

I bought Patrick's Peavey Minimax from him. Great dealing with Patrick, I contacted him on Saturday, by Wednesday morning the Minimax arrived (..and Monday was a bank holiday). Fast, good comms, well packed. It's Basschat isn't it Many thanks.

I've bought an amp, so... I still don't expect gigs to be back to anything feasible for some time. I'll bide my time. It would be nice just to have a jam or murder a few songs in a practice room to be honest, it's been a while since I've played with others.

I suppose I started the thread saying I leant towards a flaccid pick and have steered towards something bigger and stiffer?

Listening to a lot of these guys. I was in a band a few years ago and the guitarist suggested I might like them. I couldn't get into them then, but I just happened to try again a few months ago and now I can't stop listening to their material. It's also got me back to playing a bit of bass again.

I've not played much for the last 2 years after my last band folded. Given the hiatus in all bands now I thought perhaps I'd try and improve my pick playing. I've always been awful at playing bass with a pick, I don't know what it is but I just don't seem to be able to co-ordinate it all properly. Along with a nice new stand for my Jazz bass I bought a packet of picks of various thickness. I always thought I should use as thin as pick as I could. HOWEVER, mucking about with this packet of picks I noticed I faired better with the thicker ones. So, I dug around in my old box of bass stuff and found one of those Jim Dunlop Big Stubby picks that was 2mm thick...and that was even better. I'm beginning to wonder what other preconceived notions I have about what's best for my playing that I need to ditch.

It used to be available on Freeview some time back. It'll be good to see it back.

The last band I was in the drummer was incredibly quiet, to the point the rest of us kept on asking him to up the volume a little. His response was, he didn't like to play louder because the volume annoyed him.

I've been toying with the idea of just getting together with some others, if for nothing else, just to play some tunes in a practice room. However, the last gig I played was over 2 years ago and I haven't mixed with the local musical fraternity since, so I'm a bit out of the loop. I'd have to get an amp first though

For bands doing pubs, clubs and the occasional party I'm not convinced backline amps will be disappearing all that soon where I'm from. It relies on someone in the band owning a PA that will take everything in the band, shared ownership is fraught with problems. In ears maybe ok for actual monitoring, but for out front in the venues I've mostly played the PA will only take vocal so you have to have your own amp. I don't know of any band around my way that has gone down the IEM route.

I'm always looking for different bands and artists to listen to. I wouldn't say it was new music as such. For example, at the moment I'm listening to Rival Sons A LOT! I'd not say they produce new music as such, it's very much blues/60's-70's inspired rock music. But it's new to me and they do what they do incredibly well. It's been a long time since I've heard a new artist or band and thought 'wow! that's different'. So in that sense, I don't listen to new music. There are good bands etc, but in the main most are incredibly bland and unexciting.

Aside the ponderous single speakon out (unless it's something to do with how their own cabinets and how they link up together) it looks like a well designed, well equipped and very decent looking amp.

If he's already got a cab I'd not bother thinking about a practice combo (tbh, I wouldn't anyway, they're more difficult to get rid of than dried in weetabix when you don't need them anymore) I haven't got a rig at all at the moment and have been looking at buying the TC Electronic Bq500. All the features for home use, but the power to gig with. From what I've learnt they're fairly clean sounding amps and ideal for putting a preamp in front of when you get to that stage. They're about £190. Currently if I want to play my bass I just use my Zoom B3 with headphones and if I'm playing to a track it's got an aux in.

1973 Fender Precision in Sunburst, Tort pguard, rosewood neck Same era Ampeg head and 810 cab. And a roadie.

Apparently it'll be available in Tobacco Sunburst as well. The neck looks great. I'd buy one...if I could justify it (I currently have no plans to return to bands etc)

Susan Tedeschi. She has a great voice...whoever the bass player is Patricia Lynn from The Wind and The Wave. A personal favourite. Really like her tone and phrasing...she also swears really well on songs.

Someone local to me has a one of these for sale, I just wondering if anyone had used one, owned one and what they thought of it. I haven't got an amp at the moment but would like to get one - for maybe in the future when, hopefully, bands and gigs may be a possibility. Failing that I can use it just to jam with my son who's learning guitar. Cheers

Fender Flatwounds. I can't remember if they're Light or Medium Light. Anyway, they do the job well.

It'll be quite a while before gigging returns for most I'd say. A few pubs that put on music in my area were in trouble before CV19. The post Christmas trade and footfall was becoming a real concern for them. May as well stay home, learn new songs, learn theory, to read music...???????

What band were you in Dave? I might have seen you play.

The last bass I bought from a shop was 11 years ago, when I got back into playing again. Since then I've bought online unseen. Some have come from Basschatters the others from online stores. The only concern when buying unseen is if there's something wrong with the bass you're buying. However, as I've bought from here and online shops that reduces the risk a lot IMO. Trying a bass in a shop tells me very little to be honest. You get to try it maybe for an hour or so. One bass I bought, for the first week I thought it was the best bass I'd ever played. After that initial week it all went downhill. I'd had the bass for a month and hated everything about it. My current squeezes are a Jazz bass from Thomman and a Precision bass, second hand, from RichTone Music. I love them both

This was taken a couple of years ago, but I don't change much