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I’m still in, even though I picked up a yamaha today. It’s Ella’s first bass! ”dad I want a bass, I want a yamaha, I have £120” Fun fact - I joined Basschat the day she was born.

She says the bb is too wide - the sabre is “too posh”. this RBX is clean, really tidy. And about 7.5/8lbs. Also…£75. Mental.

It is a bit like a AA meeting where the guys who have fallen of the program still go to the meeting- and show off their bottles of whisky or something

Well. I think that there isn't a bass dealer/seller/shop on the planet which hasn't at one time had a dissatisfied customer. Instead of a continuing excoriation of any particular dealer/seller/shop why don't we take our dissatisfaction to the dealer/seller/shop? It's not as though this hasn't been discussed before? Take it to the source of discontent. Thanks Colin

Should be in hand in the next two weeks or so, exciting times! I've said it before, but it's worth saying again... Alan at ACG is such an easy guy to deal with. Always responding within a day if not a few hours, always providing updates, very fairly priced within the custom bass market and the builds are just impeccable.

Nearly 2 years passed without buying a bass yet the last 7 weeks has saw me buy 3 😮 Dipped a toe in the multi scale pond with a RedSub 5'er , ticked the Epiphone Embassy off my list today 🙂 This brings me to this one , bit of a dilemma here. I've a thing for slab body P-basses and planned on building another 3 this year. One of those would steal the ESP Horizon single coil look 😃 I loathe doing binding so was pleasantly surprised to spot this , G4M LA Select Denim burst. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/LA-Select-Bass-Guitar-by-Gear4music-Denim-Burst/3L4K Note, whoever wrote the sales blurb needs a good hiding ; the world can do without their BS. Did a pre-order last week and after a few days shipment delay it was dropped off on Wednesday🙂 First impressions are it's nicely done and nicely set up 👍Strings need changed , not a fan of roundwounds. £160 well spent 😃 Lighter band is a reflection of the wall units 🙄

A great first bass. Sure beats the likes of Kay we all seemed to start with. 🙂👍

Ok so, if I receive a bass before end of January and adopt the Chinese New Year, am I back in? Should arrive next week. Alternatively I could adopt the fiscal year, so I’ve got till end of March. I think I’m getting the hang of this. 👍🏻🥳

When a bass made up to look like symbols of the British slave trade, or other atrocities committed in the past by the British Empire, I'm sure you will see similar commentary.

If any proof was needed that its not what you play, its how you play it ...... Embarrasingly, it's actually gives clumsy bassists like me hope that I should focus on my technique and stop spending/wasting so much money on new kit!

Good to know, thanks. It's more the physical resistance of the click, I don't think it's anything to worry about just different to other pedal switches I've used. Haven't had an awful lot of time to play with it but have got some good quack going on! Also some awful sounds so need to spend some time looking at how the "drive" and "q" knobs interact with each other. Complete pedal noob so don't have a reference point to compare it with. Got some bits coming on Monday to build my first board so I can see this is the start of the obsession ...

Placeholder. 1967 - I'm the one on the right.

SAP Concur is designed as an expense management system for internal company use, it's not a supplier order/invoice system. I think GK are misusing it by making the bands log in and create accounts. What would make sense, if the idea is to pay bands centrally and track cost, is that the PUB puts in an expenses claim to cover your bill.

In my book if a retailer has accepted an order at a certain price and that price has been paid by the customer then that customer should receive what he/she paid for forthwith. The customer is not liable for the retailers' mistake! I'd discuss the situation with the owner and demand satisfaction.

More of an assembly job than a build, but anyway... I have an old ESP 51-style Precision, single coil pickup with a slab top. I love the fat, farty sound out of it, but I need a forearm contour and I'm much happier with a J-sized neck. Last year, I ordered a 54-style ash body in trans-white (the Mary Kaye finish) from Warmoth which has been waiting for an accomplice. Today, the postie delivered the neck, ordered from Warmoth late last year - roasted maple, Jazz nut width, tele headstock, side-dots only with banjo frets. The smell of the roasted neck is utterly delicious 😂 Anyway, I'm thinking a humbucking old-style P pickup is the way forward, rather than a proper single-coil and, perhaps, a serial/parallel option via a push/pull volume knob could be very interesting. A Cabronita style scratchplate in mint could be very tasty, too. I'll go with something a little sturdier than the original early-50's style bridge and, of course, it won't be strung through the body anyway. I'm undecided whether to add a bridge cover or not. I think a pickup cover would just get in the way. I have some parts but need to get more before I can really start putting it all together, but this is the starting point.

260 its P only and doesn’t have those odd little box tuners. quite an upgradeable little thing… Plays great with new d’addario and a tweak - absolutely jealous 😂

Please let me know how this goes, I do want to do it!

Me too. Not the forum for this kind of discussion guys, so time to put this to bed.

I love it when they unwittingly out themselves like this!

This is ludicrous. I'm out and I am using the luxury of the ignore button.

Whataboutism. The confederates wanted slaves and seceeded to keep it that way. It doesn’t matter how many flag wavers don’t want slavery to come back; the symbolism perpetuates the shameful history. No amount of ‘heritage’ can cover this up. There is plenty of cultural difference and variety in The South to stop needing to fly this flag (or near-facsimiles). It’s also perfectly possible to combat modern slavery and dislike reminders of slavery in the past. This is the same lame argument about caring for homeless ex-soldiers before letting refugees in; rich nations can do both.

I’ve never supplied cables for PA but it’s worth putting together a small bag with some spare cables (guitar and amp cables) a spare strap (just a cheap get out of jail one) an old beer bar towel or hand towel for wiping down your strings after and a set of spare strings, these can be an old set you’ve taken off previously. Personally I’ve never broken a string playing but never say never, remember some wire cutters, but you can get by without) A small multi gang extension 2/4/6 what are your requirements. probably not needed where your going to gig but you don’t know what some venues are like for power outlets. Spare batteries for your pedal/active bass (change them anyway before a gig but carry a spare) A small torch (head torch is best) messing with the back of your amp/cab setup is a pain in a tight spot on a dark stage when you have no light. There are more items you could take but for now a small bag with the basics is fine. Remember your a band and it could be the guitarist forgets his strap or leads or something breaks. It’s a team effort to make it work so be prepared. oh and get some earplugs, the small foam ones are fine. On a cramped stage where you can’t move things can get loud.

Get the tuning pedal absolutely, a good tuning pedal will also mute your sound while you tune up too. When I started gigging this was the only pedal I had, keep it simple but keep it professional and sounding good. Nothing worse than having to try and tune to the guitar player during a set if you should knock the headstock on a small stage (a Cymbal or piece of furniture.) As regards other pedals, unless you’ve had time to get to know them inside out and are fully versed in what they do why complicate things worrying about setting changes in different kinds of rooms.

Me at today's skiing, Le Chattrix...

Having just read the thread back again - respectfully, wtf are you on about? No one has mentioned country musicians, or even “all southerners” - the whole thread has been about the morality of putting the flag of a bunch secessionist states (that crucially liked keeping humans as property, that started a war over it) on a bass - especially when that flag in the U.K. and US has increasingly become a rallying point for a certain type of right wing racism … plus someone pointed out the stars were wonky.

If you liked the sound of the Peavey their MiniMax 500w amp is under £400. I like similar sounds as Ampeg SVTs and I use Ashdown amps, given the brief I’d recommend the Ashdown RM500 EVO2. It has good flexible eq, drive, compression, is loud and sounds great. Of all the Class D amps that I’ve had (a good few) it’s the one that has the “weightiest” sound.

Cabs are the one part of the rig that I don’t have backups for. I’d stick with the NYs til they actually give up, unless a change of sound is desired, they’re great little cabs.

My wife doesn't sleep well at all; we have taken to putting this on at about 10.30pm...the opening passages seem to slow your heart rate. She's said that even if she does wake at 4.30am it's just there, lulling her back to sleep.

Yeah @Sibobwrote the rules and I've summarised them several times. Which, of course, means everyone else has to follow them while we two go off and party.

200W is 5 amps into 8 ohms or 7 amps into 4 ohms. The average signal jack is rated at between 0.5 and 2 amps because they are designed as signal connectors. Neutrik, Cliff and Switchcraft and a very few others do design jacks for higher current but the current rating depends on both the jack and plug. As most plugs are for signals again they are rated at 0.5A. So there is a good chance that you are overloading one of the 4 connectors ona jack lead. A good manufacturer will know that and install high current jacks, however offshore production does add a variable into the mix. Did someone "improve" the design by substituting a locally produced jack? I know a lot of people will come back saying that they have put 400W or more through a jack connection for 2 zillion years. I like to look at it like car tyres. Each has a speed rating and exceeding that rating may or may not cause a blow out. However if you consistantly go outside the specs, something disastrous could happen. As for the issue of grounding a class D output. It may or may not be disastrous. Some will, like AB amps, be ground referenced and normally these will be the higher powered amps. Smaller amps will usually be made with chips that require bridging to achieve the power output. If an amp is bridged, then connecting any speaker terminal to ground, earth, 0V or whatever you want to call it may, at best, test the protection circuit but could destroy the chip. That is when you find out that magic smoke is not really magic at all. Neutrik did not invent the SpeakOn connector to p155 us off. It was because jack(and other types) speaker connectors were the cause of the destruction of many amplifiers.

Hall of the Mountain Grill - Hawkwind

Pah! Amateur! I write out my setlists using coloured oxygen-free gold-plated tone ink mixed with pixy dust ... people often come up to me at gigs and tell me how good my setlist sounds. Then I start playing and ruin it all. 😉

Nothing is free here…. Especially passes! 😂 If that was the case I’d still be in as my dogs love it when I play through an envelope filter so I bought one for them and not me 😂

You open a case for breach of contract at the local Court. You’ve paid, a contract is made. If they’d just promised, or if you hadn’t yet paid it would be different

Rule #1: Have fun Rule #2: Write your set list in black ink on white paper - no colored ink! Rule #3: If you mess up just keep playing Rule #4: See rule #1

We probably don’t need to continue posting ridiculous confederacy paraphernalia. I can’t see it on the Gallery socials anymore (although still on the website) so if we’re done, will close it out as a dead topic. Si

Fair enough. No doubt the higher price USA ones have better finishes, hardware, etc. However. Is the cheapest Ray4 bass good enough? Yes, it is…even unmodded…

Looks good, I have bench-envy! My previous house had a bench in the garage when I moved in, about 700mm deep by 3m long, which meant I had space for a pillar drill at one end and vice at the other. It was also massively over-engineered and had carpet glued to the top which seemed wierd. I later found out the previous owner used to race classic cars, the bench was built to take the weight of a big engine and the carpet to provide protection and ensure it didn't slip. I now have a diddy bench in the corner of the garage at my house, and sold the drill. 😥

Your probably the luckiest guy on here, the thrill of the first gig and the feeling of wanting to play the 2nd then the thought of more is something you only experience once!!! Enjoy

Look what's coming tomorrow 🥰

I wondered why he was on the radio a lot today. I was never a massive fan of his music but will happily enjoy listening to it. Watched a documentary a couple of years ago and he was very down to earth and humble, especially with his fans after shows. No rockstar pretensions, even though he absolutely was a rockstar. RIP ... actually sod that, make some bloody noise wherever you might be Mr. Loaf.

So I swapped out the Ampeg PF800 for a Mark Bass Little Marcus 1000. I don't know why I bother moving away from anything other than Mark Bass heads as I always gravitate back towards them.

Warranty is non transferable and as I picked it up it ended when I handed it over… Not my rules 🤣😂

I chose yes, but at the same time, I wouldn't be so daft to tell people not to use the "60 year old technology"... or to suggest that multi scale instruments are anything new ;o)

Doing a fair amount of pit work I had tired of lumping my surprisingly large footprint Aggie db112s into very cramped pits. So for shows and rehearsals I jumped at an end of line db elbee cab. I was running it with a little mark tube. About the same time our singer moved house and kindly converted the garage into a rehearsal studio. He was tired of the ritual having to set everything back up again after gigs, so ordered another elbee. What he hadn’t realised was you need an amp, so after telling him I’d sort it he ignored me, I turned up to rehearsal and there was a veyron. So, my beater Sire bass, two bargain cabs and amp which keep up with a 5 piece horn section and percussionist as well as standard rhythm section. Probably costs less than a grand all in and sounds ace.

Yeah but you aren't allowed to sell them on here.