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The only makes I have any experience of from those are Squier and Vintage. I have a VM77 Jazz and it’s a very good bass, and as per Hookys comments Vintage are def worth a look, I have one of their Precisions and it really is a great quality instrument. Neither are good for the money, they’re just good in their own rights, imo both could be double their actual prices and they’d still be worth it.

I used to like listening to both Liza Tarbuck and Craig Charles on the long journeys home from gigs, when every now & then they’d be covering for others. I also liked Ana Matronic and Huey Morgan’s shows. Something quite relaxing and reassuring about Radio 2 after a long nights full on punk/Oi action.

Interesting to see the way his bass is strung. Suppose it makes sense if starting out on a borrowed right handed (assuming that’s what he did of course).

I’d say Hanoi Rocks were very under-rated.

Good prices indeed, when I got mine (the first time round) I paid those prices for them 2nd hand.

Yeah essentially it was our producer who showed me that, get 100% of the sound you want from your bass & amp, then, with all controls on the BDDI at midday aside from blend, switch it on, then adjust the blend to suit. I’d tried over the years to get the sound solely from the pedal itself, with amp set flat and couldn’t get there, using it this way worked a treat.

Same for me, was really looking forward to it, I hope the proposed September date will go ahead but of course that’s a bit far off at moment to speculate.

Regrettably the CWU Reps, the union that represents Royal Mail do get paid when there’s a strike. The rep stands next to his comrades on the picket line knowing that said comrades have lost a days pay but said rep gets their days lost pay made up by the union. Or at least that’s how it works for the CWU in my workplace, and how it did work when we were owned by Royal Mail Group.

I’ve always found TE cabs to have a sort of spike/accented upper mids. Add that to the eq curve of that TE amp and there’s a lot boosted in areas that Markbass eq can’t do, combined with the top-end roll-off on their cabs.

They’re nice cabs, the RM series, congrats.

Well I’ve been umming and aahing over the Spectradrive, I liked the Tubetone and Spectracomp on my old TC Classic 450 so figure I should like them on a pedal, but unless after specifics such as those I reckon the Harley Benton would work fine - I may well do some research on it as it v seems their gear punches well above its weight.

I’ve been very - no make that incredibly - impressed with the Player Precisions. Easily within budget, great playing, great sounding basses, and light too, I think mine must be less than 8.5lbs. Def worth checking out imo, and that’s from someone for whom the US versions are king.

I think so, the Ultra is the current model , as per Lewis’s comments above, which replaced this one and thats18v.

And me, works in a gig environment where there’s loads going on, even to the point of being able to tune up with recorded music blasting out of the PA before you go on. I’d tried a good few before the TC, none were any good, ambient noise affected the use, in a live situation virtually impossible to get anywhere with the E string, whereas the TC has no issues at all.

Same here, quality bloke (and it’s law to never turn up to see him without biscuits)

Or protesting too much, I suspect a spare room occupied by life size Ramone mannequins, all this is just smoke screening to put us off the trail.

Not sure I’d want to live in a Royal Mail van........

Then best to order it next Monday.....

Not a bad idea, adding in the extra cab will really make a difference to the size of the sound, and the eq of the little marcus is probably more usable so the two combined should really shine.

Leaves more for me 😁