Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2024?

[MacDaddy]

4 hours ago, Mr_McBride said:

My best purchase was most definitely the SushBoxFX Neptunium (Noble DI clone in a small pedal). It's the pedal on the far left of the board.

The 12ax7 tube adds so much to the tone. The board is currently configured for a passive p-bass. The Neptunium combined with the 12ax7 tube-based Slampegg Bee Pre (Ampeg b15-based preamp) is bloody brilliant.

 

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

Best (so far) - Barcus 6-string fretless. very nice to play and a good sound, and I don't have to look at the singlecut while I'm playing it.

 

 

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I feel like a b**** for doing this but you did say...

 

1 hour ago, nilorius said:

Aguilar Octamizer

 

 

...of 2024?  😉

[Stub Mandrel]

28 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

 

 

 

...of 2024?  😉

 

Some of us have given up on 2025 as a bad job.

[nilorius]

31 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

 

 

 

...of 2024?  😉

Whats so strange ?

[SimonK]

Is there a 2025 thread?

[TrevorR]

11 hours ago, SimonK said:

Is there a 2025 thread?

It tends to pop up in December as there’re are still 3 months of temptation add good/bad decisions to go…

[Al Krow]

12 hours ago, SimonK said:

Is there a 2025 thread?

 

46 minutes ago, TrevorR said:

It tends to pop up in December as there’re are still 3 months of temptation add good/bad decisions to go…

 

Yes, indeedy! I'll get it set up for us towards the end of the year - typically Oct or early Nov from previous years. Just checked and it's been an annual BC thread now since 2017! Glad it's still a popular one.

Edited 6 hours ago by Al Krow

[LeftyJ]

1 hour ago, TrevorR said:

It tends to pop up in December as there’re are still 3 months of temptation add good/bad decisions to go…

Good, because so far I think I've only bought g**t*r gear in 2025, and...

 

*shudders*

 

...sold a bass!

 

I can change, I swear! 

It was a fretless acoustic that I haven't used since 2015, so to be fair it was about time. 

[Al Krow]

I was trying to figure out what swear word g**t*r was, and thinking what's wrong with greater gear? But then spotted you only had the same number of letters as strings!

[tauzero]

17 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

 

 

 

...of 2024?  😉

 

Good point. OK, TC BAM200.

[MacDaddy]

31 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Good point. OK, TC BAM200.

 

Best or worst?

(I played through a TC BQ500 at a rehearsal studio and it was pants!)

[neepheid]

Just now, MacDaddy said:

 

Best or worst?

(I played through a TC BQ500 at a rehearsal studio and it was pants!)

 

Duh, it was in a rehearsal studio?

[Cliff Edge]

2 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

 

I can change, I swear! 

It was a fretless acoustic that I haven't used since 2015, so to be fair it was about time. 

Yes they all say that. 

[Cliff Edge]

A pack of TI Jazz flats. But I might be mis remembering 2014. 

[tauzero]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

Good point. OK, TC BAM200.

 

54 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

Best or worst?

(I played through a TC BQ500 at a rehearsal studio and it was pants!)

 

Best - it's proved itself very capable for small gigs, it's handy as a back-up amp for my already small Tecamp, and it's low-powered enough to not blow up any of my cabs (with one possible exception). Sounds good.

 

Minor gripes - jack socket output instead of combi jack/speakon, no mute switch (although admittedly it would be hard to find somewhere for a mute switch - maybe someone will come up with a pull for mute volume pot one day for pocket amps). Plus the manual is misleading about the signal LED, it shows green to indicate a signal is present and red when it's clipping.

Edited 2 hours ago by tauzero

[Mr_McBride]

18 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

 

 

 

 

...of 2024?  😉

Yes, I purchased the Neptunuim in July 2024.