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Just a quick one.. Single coil Telecaster - cable- amp-410 (8ohms) Ashdown. Volume at the amp is LOW... I think this 500watts are real! Recorded with a Samsung S10, its microphone does not capture the bass in the room... Best listened to with headphones! DB500H

Let's just think about the guys WITH roadies. At least in the rock genre... how many of the "big guys" switched to a 2kg head? How many of them play 15kg cabs? And why not? 😉

Of course we talk about "gusto" but you can't seriously listen to some yellow italian bass brand and call it good sounding.... light, yes... but that's it. And you can't compare a light 1x12 to a 4x10... 1x12.... if one is not able to lift a 1x12 cab with non neo speakers...... come on...it is bass, not nintendo!

I think 500 watts are ok with the right cab. But yes, the marked goes 1000 watts... (maybe the light cabs sound crap..? 😉 )The cabs...well it is a shame... but not the cabs but the buyers. Everything goes light instead of good sounding. So I think 32 kg for a great sounding cab is very ok. The head..7kg...come on...who thinks 7 kg is too much... ? ANY bass player with a band and a car (not even a bus) can handle any top up to 20kg with no issues. We are bass players. It takes a bass and a good cab and a good head to have a good sound. It will end in playing a bass over an interface and in ears... not my future. I am using the DB500H for some weeks now and I am still amazed by the sound. My Telecasters never sounded better. A rock amp. Very nice. I just was wondering, why the amps are unseen. No youtube clips (private) , nothing.

How come that Laney does not get more credit even in the UK? I don't read anything about the new Digbeth line anywhere...

BB PH in Germany.. Yamaha BBPH

I ordered my third PB50 and there seems to be a new third line of basses on the marked now. - I do own a PB50 of the old series (Wilkinson) and one of the (untill now) new series (Roswell), ordered new scratchplates from that guy for both on ebay and they all fitted 100%! My new PB50 (Sept. 2021) now has again different screw positions! Just in case someone can give this information to the guy who does the scratchplates. Edit: Contacted him over ebay.

Well, the 300 is a superb bass. A hard decision. The wood is definitely different from the newer basses. And the wood sounds good...

Thinking on selling my BB300. Too bad Brexit makes everything senseless expensive...

Some more fiddling. Just a Telecaster bass, cable and di out. Fingerstlyle. A littel bit of drive 😄 Laney Digbeth di signal

So...as i wrote before... this is just a very quick recording out of the headphone out after unpacking the thing. I will do some better riffs in better quality on the weekend. First bass: Harley Benton PB50 Telecaster out of the box, fresh strings (the originals) , second bass: Yamaha BB1000ma (a:P/J, b: only P mode) No good riff, no good timing ! Just fiddling for the first time with the amp 😄 Finger style, no external effects, well the SDrum of course. Listen with headphones.. Digbeth DB500H - headphone out

I like it ! 🙂 But I think, it is not the amp for everyone. I tend to say it is a rock amp. Not for hifi-slap enthusiasts and not a metal amp. The drive section is nothing like a Darkglass ... I did record some very quick sounds but only from the headphone out cause I did not have a xlr cable when I unpacked it. I could do a quick rough mix ..

The new 500 head arrived today..... 😁

Did it come broken?

Off tpoic- I know!

So the full list of BBs over the time is 3x300, 4x414,3x424, 2x424x,2x614, 5x1000ma, 2x1600, 2x3000, 2x3000ma. Still in da house are only 3x1000ma and 1x300. I was about to buy a 734 and a 434m several times but I do love the 1000ma's so much that I don't want to mess arround with other BBs seriously any more 😛 Calling them my "corona handcrafting project" I bought three Harley Benton Telcasters basses in in the last 1,5 years and pimped them to beauties. (The last one arrived yesterday, so it will have to be done on that bass) The first two I bought even used for a few bucks and I can tell you they do that vintage P sound unbelivable good.

Well THIS list of mine would buy you a nice car. A new one 😛

Interesting idea a list like this. Mine would be (with several multiple items of one numer) 300, 414,414x,424,424x,614,1000ma,1024x,3000,3000ma. What a waste of money 🙈

And because it is fun to listen to this forgotten tracks...here is another song with Mitzky featuring my black BB1000MA 🤣 Mitzky - Duke Nukem Theme [Remonstered]

LOL.... imagining Andy waiting for the delivery guy... I recall a fun song that a friend of mine and I did some years ago...it is a song all about waiting for the "DHL" delivery guy every day 😄 You got to know that my friend is one of the biggest gear heads I know !!! He buys only used stuff and there might be not a single day on what not at least another pedal is on its way to him 😛 That's how he came to the idea to write this song. Last time we counted his pedal board consistet of 99 pedals... He is so deep into the pedal stuff that he buys the same effect from different years to learn how they differ in sound... Vocals are easy (even 'though it's German) "I want the DHL guy (man) to appear, DHL guy get here now" , "I could live my live but I'm sitting here waiting for the DHL guy" and so on. Recorded in the living room, bass (BB1000MA - what else) via an old Hartke VXL Attack into the computer. DEHALEL (DHL)

There was a time when I had 3200 reasons and those were good times. Cool move Andy :-)

I think the players that N E E D (!!) a 2 kg 500/800/1000 watts bass amp,- because of transport - make 5-10 % of all players. Everything else is only "nice to have" or because it is "the thing" right now. Good to know that they always seem to find a 500/800/1000 watts cab somewhere that they don't have worry about.. And there are enough of this tiny matchboxes out there, because 95% of all lightweight amps are built small. The 750g pedal thing actually is the even more efficient solution for backpackers because if you don't need to worry about a cab... leave the power amp at home too. If the 30kg cab is provided, an amp of 2 kg should be an even smaller problem. But thank god that's up to us all the way we like it and this is just my opinion 🙂 I like it big and with some weight so the amp won't fall of the cab. Just some live experience 😄

Concerning the weight... 7kg is not too heavy. As long as you are not one of the bass players that is cursed to carry your amp in the metro... who cares about the weight of an amp??? (under 15kg) Cabs is another thing. But in my very own opinion less weight only can go ahead with compromises in sound. The question is, how big the compromise is you are willing to except. There are few guys of real BIG bands who go light.... (I don't think of me, just to be clear here 😛 )

I ordered a 500 head today. It should arrive by thursday. I like the concept and was looking for a new head.. so...we will see.

In fact, the "new" BBs are built different from the older ones. Even my cheap 300 is featuring different wood and the neck is not even close to the 414 (and younger) basses. I would not dare to say the new range is cheaper, cause the 414 (and younger) basses are following new attributes like lighter bodies and more modern necks. Soundwise all BBs are (in my opinion) high class. Not a Precision clone because they all sound very BB-ish 😄 Love the Precision or BBs.