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I did indeed have that Audiophile head and it is a belter - it's since gone back to my native N.Ireland (to a new owner) and for the money you'd be hard pushed to find a more solid reliable amp - I believe the model went on to become the Ta501 in the MB line up

Bass Direct have some clips on YT and they do sound great. Classic P tone and a pretty useful sounding tone circuit. It's the low weight and tone that really appeal to me. The fret system looks interesting. A gear cull could be in order ........

I have to say these are a very fetching bass guitar! Somehthing timeless yet modern about them. What's ppl's thoughts who've had the pleasure to try one? More importantly do you live close enough to Edinburgh that I could come have a look/play on it

The boost is a universal boost and could be used to give you more output when swithchnig to the URB - the BS IQ also has an input impedance selector which will give the piezo more heft (not necessarily more volume) - See The Ed Friedland Bass Whisperer vids on youtue - he does some really useful demo's with the IQ between active/passive and on an upright. The Basswitch is a very useful tool to have! Our fiddle player is currently using mine to great effect!

Paul congrats - having tried to dip the toe into 5'er land a few times when it finally clicked for me was when I stopped trying to throw in the lower notes and basically started to play all my normal parts using the b string notes as my root notes i.e. using the G on the B string in l pace of the E string sort of thing and basically taking all my originals band stuff and moving it 'along and down' where possible to again us the B string. Once I switched my mindset as Visog said I feel that the 5 has actually opened up the fretboard. I'd bought the 5 primarily for my originals band but actually use it exclusively now. My one other snippet of advice is play the 5 exclusively for a good month or so, don't go back the 4 string no matter how tempting - persevere with it and you'll not look back

The dual J looks like the old scheff model could yield some nice tones with the pick up placement

I've previously had the DB 924 and its a great pre amp - the Aguilar guys were making the Sadowsky pre's before doing their own thing. The obp3 is basically the tone hammer pedal so depending if you want an internal pre or external look at those two as options. The DB924 isn't foot switchable though but I'm guessing someone could put a obp 1 into a pedal - Tom at COG Effects would be the man to contact for such a job.

Thanks for all the input guys. I'll look at a mini synth -tha Asturias ones are tickling my fancy but I'll keep an open mind and see what's out there!

urgh maybe I should hunt down an Aturia sooner rather than later Thanks guys

One of these is available locally and I'm tempted to take a punt for a new project (Aturia mini synth could be on the cards in the new yr) I'd likely be playing it via my pedal based preamp fx loop which has a wet/dry mix

Yup no doubt about it being a quality cab - its all wood construction and solid but a doable one man lift etc just asking questions, shooting the breeze The Faital is a great sounding driver in this cab and between my TTE50 and my basswitch It can really punch and growl. I was thinking if I added a second cab would I keep a similar driver or try something different more so than replace what I have - I didn't make that clear in the original post...oops.

So anyone using a single 15 for all their gigging requirements? Which drivers have you tried out and which would you recommend? My cab is currently fitted with a Faital pro which is doing the job but interested to hear opinions. Cheers

Looks like a trip to the tech then 😀

Jazz not mass!

Hey Nancy J! I've see a Lull TB up close and they're huge the guy playing it was abt 6'4" so it looked in proportion but still! If you're happy with your rig what about pick ups? Some Lollars or TV Jones? That might keep things 'interesting' without spending huge! I'm thinking of doing this with my mass bass for fun but the one set of pick ups I'm after don't come in a 5 string set!

Here's a pic with the speakon to give context. I can remove the connector to show the innards if that'll help.