Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2025?

[Len_derby]

1 hour ago, casapete said:

I’ve acquired one of these too this year, mine is in black though.

Nice little basses. 

I hope you bought it at a car park meet-up, Pete, as I did mine.

We’re both specialists at that. 😆

[Al Krow]

I've had a lot band related purchases and very little purely bass focussed, this year. 

 

Tops for me goes to the RCF 932A PA speakers which were an upgrade from our previous RCF 912A and 732A sets of speakers (which me and one of singers respectively had). The 912As - excellent on bass, 732As - excellent mids for guitar and vox. The 932As provide the best of both worlds.

 

Managed to pick them as B-stock for less than the cost of my bass backline and we put the whole band through them, none of us using backline, without needing a sub-woofer even for the smaller outdoor gigs we were doing earlier in the year.

 

Worst - none so far, fingers crossed. (I did buy a Fuzzrocious Lil Fella which I've not really used due to finding some great drive and fuzz tones on my Boss Multifx, and which I'll probably put up for sale at some point but not because it's been a disappointment). 

 

 

@Acebassmusic - my Elrick Expat in action (through the 932A). Lovely bass! 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Al Krow

[Acebassmusic]

25 minutes ago, Al Krow said:

 

OMG I love that Elrich! I've had mine (the "cheaper" Expat Czech made one) for 4 years and totally love - fabulous bass and my mainstay for gigs.

Hearing you on some of your videos helped me decide to give it a chance and I bought it untried. Thanks.

[Al Krow]

5 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

Hearing you on some of your videos helped me decide to give it a chance and I bought it untried. Thanks.

 

Is it living up to expectations? I know you've had same fantastic basses over the years!

[casapete]

41 minutes ago, Len_derby said:

I hope you bought it at a car park meet-up, Pete, as I did mine.

We’re both specialists at that. 😆

Actually no! A friend gifted me the Jaguar, which was very gratefully accepted.

[Bleat]

3 hours ago, casapete said:

Nice looking bass. How is it regarding not feeding back, any good?

 

As it is pretty much brand new, I haven't really had the chance to test it at high volume as of yet. I am playing it into my audio interface wearing headphones so no feedback issues! It does have a notch filter in the preamp which is a nice addition. I will give it a test run through my big bass rig to see what happens! I am downsizing that to a mini rig so may have another best (or worst) purchase to follow. 😎   

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Worst was a brand new Gibson NR Thunderbird. Stunning to look at, and probably the best sounding 'bird I've ever played, but that neck shape... nope. Felt totally wrong. 

Back to the shop it went.

 

Best is this, because it's absolutely amazing.

 

 

[Jackroadkill]

I think the only things I've bought this year have been a pair of 15" speakers for my old Sunn cab.  They sound cool and shift some serious air, so I guess they're my winner.

[chris_b]

8 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Overdone the spend there, Chris……

Too right. No cutting corners. They were both Duracell!!