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The thing is many bands won’t have any qualms about using it, which could give their bands an advantage in presentation against those which don’t approve and won’t use it.

I remember back to my early years of gigging in the late 80s with a 150 watt 1x15 Laney Linebacker combo, which though pushed at times was always enough. Is the introduction of higher wattage amps to do with Class D something to do with this, with the sound not being “big” enough with amps of 150/200 watts? I’m not that good on the technical side of things so this a question rather than having a pop at today’s amps.

Those Abertillery roads/hills are a challenge, especially for handbrakes & hill-starts.

I suppose it’s about money at the end of the day, if manufacturers only have practice amps at £150 then high powered gigging amps at £700 then there’s a big gap there. Anyone wanting an amp loud enough for stage use but with only being able to raise £400/£500 is then only able to go used, whereas have an in the middle amp price/power wise and said manufacturer may well get the dosh as many prefer to buy new.

Yes, very good basses, a few years back I had a US Stingray with a Sterling by Musicman Ray34 as backup. There was very little in them, the Ray34 being possibly a little sharper on the top end, but only a touch at most. In terms of playability & quality very close indeed.

If you want repairable then look at Ashdown. Being UK based it’s easy enough to either send the items there or even take them yourself. They purposely make gear that can be repaired at reasonable/little cost as opposed to to other brands which pretty much either can’t be fixed or cost too much to make it worthwhile.

A pairing of lightweight and planetary methinks.

Fender Rumble combo. The 800 watt 210 can be picked up around £600. It weighs 13kg, and it sounds good. Bizarrely the 800 is lighter than the 500 version.

As above, go Ashdown.

Yep, very interested to hear some real life opinions on these

I’d go for the Xtender, they’re easy to fit and just work, much easier than tuning down/up.

Looks like you need another week on that sick-note……

Well if we’re on stuff in the business world: Blue sky thinking Following our north star Have an honest conversation

Well given my OCD I’d be looking at the Fender Pure Vintage 74 Jazz pickups. Not only do they match OCD-wise they sound great, I had some in a Squier VM77 Jazz and they really made the bass shine.

I can understand this, if I have a bad day or am feeling down then looking at stuff I could potentially buy gives me a lift. I did find however that in the past when I did buy the items that actually receiving them didn’t boost my mood any further.

Same here

Yes that was the one

This is pretty much why I never get on with compression.

I see them from £1500 to £2000, the regular standard ones.

Wasn’t me, did keep looking at it tho

Ah, thanks, well fingers crossed whichever courier deals doesn`t take it straight to Sotheby`s.