AlanG

There is probably very little in it between the two, tiny amps, light cabinet, sounds good. My regards to Aberdeen, I was last there in the late 70's as a Petty Officer on the frigate HMS Scylla (affiliated city going back to WW2). HMS Scylla was sunk as a diving site in 2004. Although I am a scuba diver, I have never dived it and now prefer the Red Sea or the Maldives to the English Channel! All this has absolutely nothing to do with bass amps, just an 'uncle Albert' dribbling into his pint glass......

Many thanks for the advice and info. No offence meant to the seller and I have bought and sold a fair bit of guitars/amp/pedals etc over the years (don't all musicians have GAS tendancies...?). Second hand is always a bit of a punt. I have sh stuff that I bought 15 years ago and still works perfectly, but then I bought a portable mixer for the church a while ago for 'off site gigs' that worked perfectly for a couple of months and is now very unreliable and too old to be serviceable. It's often a balance between the costs/risks/benefits/good luck of sh, or the comfort of a warranty on new stuff.

Thanks for that, I had already spotted this. Looks fairly scuffed, which suggests that it's not been looked after for something so small that could have easily been protected. It's probably perfectly ok. Also, no interest in faffing with the toneprint stuff, I could do that with the Spectradrive but have never bothered.

That's what I was thinking for just a few quid more. Do you have, or tried one?

I play either guitar or bass most weeks in my local church. We hire the local community centre hall so it's a weekly setup/tear down. For bass I go through a Spectradrive and DI straight into the PA. It probaby sounds ok out front, but my sound is, not unsurprisingly, rubbish in the small onstage monitor. I have an Ashdown MAG 250 but my back is shot (likely needs a fairly major spine fix) so looking for a light (make that very light) setup. It's essentially just a monitor for me and the group. Andertons have made a fairly derisory offer on a px, but I wasn't expecting very much. I'm looking at the TC Electronic BC208 cab at a back friendly 10kg and either the BAM200 or BQ250. The BAM200 is very simple and I have the compressor on the pedal if needed. The BQ250 is a little more versatile and there is only £30 between them. Any thoughts or experiences?

Hi, I'm Alan, played guitar as a school kid from the late 60's. Started with a crappy acoustic with an impossibly high action, rusted strings, a massive split down the side and tuned with a pair of pliers. The kit is a whoe lot better these days but the skill only marginally so. Gear: 1989 Gibson 335 PRS custom 22, 20th anniversary Martin D18 Manson custom 12 string Cornell valve amp But you don't want to know about all that six string stuff. Bass: Ibanez SR1825 5 string (very pretty) Ashdown MAG 250 combo Regular gig at my local Baptist church each week with most of the aforementioned kit at some point. Love blues, rock (usually the older the better, Pink Floyd, Gary Moore, etc) but the Sunday gig is more modern stuff and not surprisingly, a little more genteel and subtle.