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I don’t find a solution to this in Tenerife, the local music shops to where I was didn’t do hire. Next time, I’m probably going to buy one of these and take it. If I take it apart, it should fit in my carry on. https://www.thomann.co.uk/flight_mini_jb_bass_sb.htm

I’ve heard of it done. But it’s a bit too pricey for a week’s holiday. If it was a gig…

Still too much for carry on, unfortunately. It’s Ryanair, lol

Carry on luggage only. Not enough space.

I’ll have a shot with them.

I appreciate the thoughts from everyone. Not to be unkind, but I don’t wish time off from bass…work already inserts that in for me. I’ll perhaps see if there’s a music store on the island I can rent from.

It’s a solid idea, and I have plenty of materials I could take. But I’m trying for an instrument here.

Just for a week - but I hate missing practice when I’m on holiday.

Howdy all I’m travelling to Tenerife on Sunday and don’t have the luggage space to take a bass to practice on. By any chance are there any Basschatters I could borrow or rent a bass from who live in Tenerife? I won’t have a car but can hoof it about by taxi as needed. I’ll be in Playa de las Americas. Thanks all for your consideration. Pete

Fair enough. But all of us are united on the headstock being fugly…lol. Well, I know some people love it…but I have a feeling the market has spoken here…

I have had 2 problems that have stopped me wanting to own or play a G&L bass. 1. The headstock, apart from the CLF version, is awful. 2. Nut width on most of their 4 strings is P bass, not J bass. And I have no need to buy a G&L Jazz bass when I already have a Jazz. And the headstock if I bought a G&L Jazz would still be fugly. I rehabbed an old L2000 with a CLF headstock that sounded great. Nut width was too wide for me to be comfortable though, so I sold it. Lots of folks want a Jazz Bass nut width.

I was very tempted for the Monza the first time I played it as well @Chienmortbb. I was loathe to upgrade my amp power though, and my Silverstone was plenty good enough for me. And I’m tight with money, lol. But the Goodwood is wonderful.

Ok, sorry for delays, I've had the chance to put the Goodwood through it's paces more now, and I like it. This cab is mighty loud. I'm not actually that surprised by that, it's a 10" driver in a box that many standard 12" drivers would fit into. I feel like many bass cab makers make their boxes smaller than they ought to, which reduces low end sensitivity for the sake of easier carry. I get it though, a properly sized driver in a properly sized cab ends up a lot bigger. I've had no problem keeping up with a loud guitarist and loud drummer in a jazz-funk setting, even with me using octavers and whatnot. That was great. No problem carrying the room with a a mic'd up ceilidh band (fiddle, mic'd drummer, mic'd accordion, and me) at the weekend. A church hall with about 100 folks, so not a massive gig, but plenty enough to carry the room without PA support. What was great was that my drummer, about 70 degrees off axis to the cab, had no problems hearing me either. I do love the horn on Stevie's cabs. It's pretty good outdoors, although I want it on the ground near a wall to get max volume out of it when busking. But then I'm unusual in that I'm busking with a drummer on a proper portable kit. Every bass sounds honest through it, same as for the Silverstone. There's no hiding, what's in the signal chain is what you get. The B-Amp is a very good match for the cab, as I can sculpt the tone out for the room with high and low pass filters and then use EQ for other areas as desired. It also matches the B-Amp power rating well. (When I tried the Monza, I felt like that might want a slightly more powerful amp than my B-Amp to get the most out of it.) The Goodwood is very slightly leaner in the low end than my Silverstone (around 100Hz), but in real rooms when it's placed on the floor, I need no bass boost. I'll try and see if I can do a video review of it. It's a great cab. It's way more capable than any other 10" box I've owned, which has included a Barefaced One10 and the venerable Acme 1x10, and beats some 12" cabs I've had. This is the most compact FRFR solution apart from an LFSys Monza, and it's a fair bit lighter and a bit cheaper. I finally might sell my Silverstone. I try to be a one-cab guy...but I've had that for so long I can't quite part with it...hmm.

Ok, I’ve played on these a couple of weeks. They’ve settled in. I’ve played an hour or more on these most days. They have a great feel. Not hard to fret, very flexible. I like DRs for this a lot, the round core is a great feel. A lot of the high end has worn off for me. I didn’t expect them to mellow quite this fast. The tone is acceptable but they have a strange sort of dulled tone - it kind of sounds like they are wrapped in something. Which, I guess, the core wrap wire is. I’m not sure I’m convinced of these over other DR steels. They feel better than Elixirs - lower tension - but for my chemistry, they don’t seem to stay brighter any longer. I probably prefer Fat Beams overall. I’ve been doing a lot of string dating on other basses. Rotosound Ultramags 40-100s are wonderful sounding but very tense feeling on my left hand, much like Elixirs. I had to take them off, they were noticeably hard to fret. But they sound a bit like Swing bass strings, very crunchy and good low end. Bizarre how different they feel to Roto steels of the same gauge and reported tension. Rotosound SM66s (40-100 Swing Bass set) feel amazing in terms of tension and sound utterly amazing when they go on, but I seem to kill them off after a couple of weeks. They are acceptably mellow now but have kind of lost the magic of the beginning days. I guess I’d use these if I was going to change strings frequently and had more time and money. I literally have never heard my maple neck P bass sound as good as when these went on. Great sound. I’m either going to try DR Pure Blues 40-100 or TI Superalloys next. I think the Pure Blues ‘Quantum Nickel’ is probably type 52 Alloy, like the Ultramags and the Superalloys. It seems hard to get the magic triad of ‘sounds like steel, feels like nickel’, acceptable string tension, and tone durability. Ah well.

I have a Goodwood right now. I’m taking it out on a gig tomorrow, then a ceilidh gig in the weekends after that. My testing at home is positive. It’s very similar to my Silverstone in sound, which is exactly what I want. (The Silverstone has a little bit more low end than the Monza or Monaco, which I like.) It’s louder than the 8” prototype Stevie kindly let me put through its paces. Tomorrow is with drummer and loud guitar outside. So it should push it reasonably hard. I’ll report back after tomorrow.