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Well, the Peavey Microbass I bought arrived broken so I'm sending that back. If anyone on here has a small amp they don't need anymore, feel free to get in touch!

I quite like the tone BUT it's ubiquitous on YouTube. I like the less intense variants such as the 'Vintage' range. That said, it looks like the Anagram can do it all, and not just distortions.

Mick had two Mk1's: One was tulip, seems he really favored that one. The other one was cherry. Both very rare woods, but a few cherry ones were made, as IIRC the cherry tree came from one blown down in a storm.

Lucky You !!!

Yeah on his J Basses, the even volumes no matter which pickup is favored makes such a difference. Also no hum either makes it a great studio tool. Makes it easier to get that mid forward bridge tone without needing to engage an EQ to get the lows back.

I think this actually does add some more information: 1. It states that Ofcom MUST (my emphasis) consider the size and risk level, which I don't recall before. It doesn't say "should" or anything that is a get-out. 2. This leads onto "higher-risk services" must take more stringent measure compared to low-risk. This confirms the multi-tier approach and where Ofcom will be more focussed. Why would Ofcom be focussed on low-risk providers? 3. It also confirms that "additional duties will not apply to smaller services in the scope of the art". Letters like this from senior politicians are written by civil servants and will be reviewed by other senior civil servants. Its entirely possible 4-5 civil servants have edited this and produced this as a template. Words like "must" are very carefully checked and whilst mistakes are made, I'd be very surprised if this letter was thrown together quickly. I am not a civil servant but my better half was and used to write letters like this for ministers and for briefing packs. If Peter Kyle's team has put this together, it will be be accurate and carefully worded. Ministers absolutely hate having to go back and correct something, thats actually an understatement TBH. If they don;t have to commit to something they will, this is a surprisingly good letter in my opinion. This reinforces my view that Bass isn't big enough to be important in this context. Thats not a slur on the excellent job the mods do and the many people who contribute it this, but the target of the act is Facebook (Meta), WhatsApp (Meta) Google (Alphabet), YouTube (Alphabet) TikTok, Instagram (Meta), X, BlueSky, SnapChat, WeChat, Reddit, SnapChat. Meta and X will have problems IMHO. My worry here is Ofcom, they are the regulators and they could choose to be complete arseholes and decide that Meta is too big for them, so they'll go for easier targets and build up case law and then go after the big ones. Its easier to go toe-to-toe with Meta having won a few smaller cases in the courts and got precedent on your side. The mods need to take some precautions and do a risk assessment. I haven't seen the Digital Support Service pack yet, but will have a look at it later this week. This might help. It may be worth the mods pulling together a working group of IT professional and legal people with govt experience to help and assist them. Doing nothing is 100% the wrong option, I would suggest: 1. A working group is pulled together to look at this. Otherwise all the work falls on one or two people. Having other people provide input means that multiple people look at the info and try and parse what is probably dry civil servant legalese. 2. Identify what Basschat MUST do based on what is known. 3. Identify what Basschat MIGHT need to do as it's a bit unsure. 4. Pull a plan together to get to the goal, which is to submit what is needed to Ofcom but that puts Basschat in the low risk area. There's more to it than the four steps above but it's a start. Rob

my '73 is 8.8 pounds

I wondered about that. Extended fingerboard then

They are great preamps

7.5 lbs would be a tad under the weight of my 63 Precision. Even when I was younger I would definitely have struggled with your mate’s 1977/ 14 pound Jazz. I honestly didn’t know they could be that heavy!

I’ve been using these for a few years. Love them, though occasionally some pedals have power sockets in places which fall awkwardly within the tracks.

I have a Mono gig bag I don't need anymore that I can send for £150 Its this one, no rips or tears. Send me a DM if you're interested dude

Met up with Bernie today to hand over my Fender Jazz Bass Elite he bought,lovely trustworthy guy.Thanks.