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I would get this: Schecter Model T Session. I'm not sure it'll become a collectable classic or anything, so in terms of an investment it might not work out, but it's a superb bass. My Sandberg VM4 was supposed to be the 'upgrade' for this one (I just wanted a fat humbucker at the bridge), but as much as I love the VM4, the Schecter keeps coming back as a solid #2 (the Stingray is #1). It's just a really really good bass.

I don't know about Brexit, I bought a few things from them over the years, many came with european plugs/adaptors.

Back when I was about 10 I heard a song in an advert for some jeans, back home in Spain. Two years later or so I found it was "Satisfaction". Well, a version of it by a Spanish band, just for the ad. I went to the record store and bought the first Rolling Stones I could find with that song in it. It was "Still Life", live album from 1981. I thought the Stones' version was crap, put the album away and ignored it for another 4 years or so. Now it's one of my favourite albums. Despite their version of Satisfaction

You're a patient man. I lasted less than 10.

Agree. I bought my Stingray, used, in 2010. It's a 2002, natural/maple 2-band, it was immaculate, with its hardcase. I bought it for £700 which at the time it was fair for a Stingray in this condition. New ones were around £1200-1300, for the cheapest ones at the time.

Trolleys are great but what I found works pretty well is telling a couple of friends who are coming to the same festival "hey, I'll give you a lift if you like". Before they know it, they're your roadies for the weekend

In this case I have the whole set! I meant to put it on when I sold the car but I forgot. It'll look a lot better than the very ugly mat with floral pattern I'm using now

The first one I got was much like this one. It sort of worked but it didn't feel safe, and those wheels just felt one day they'd bend without a support bar between them... and you just know it'll happen at the most inconvenient time possible. I still have it and used it in town for when we busk over the summer festival to carry a battery operated amplifier which is only 10Kg and a bag of accessories, cables etc. You're probably right and there's a factory in China making those under various labels.

I should do that too, good idea about the car mats. I have a set in the garage that were for my old car and I never used...

This. Often my stage sound is rather bass-light because it helps everybody hearing everything more clearly, including myself. It depends on the size of the place. On the larger stages I can have a very full and lovely sound and still get everybody else too. There's rarely one answer that fits everywhere, otherwise we wouldn't need sound engineers. It's important that the sound engineer knows what the music is supposed to sound like, but sometimes you just have to go with what you can get and compromise.

They have a lot of nice stuff, thank you

I'm very satisfied with mine. Even used it across fields at festivals and it's holding pretty well. The only thing is I'd recommend a bit of carpet or similar to put at the bottom to avoid damaging the finish of your cabs. My BF Two10's tolex got a bit marked the first time I used it.

I use a foldable one by Wolfcraft. This one in particular, although it cost me nearly £100 3-4 years ago, cheaper now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolfcraft-5501000-Folding-Trolley-Capacity/dp/B00GN6EYVG/ref=sr_1_3?crid=24DAHXZGADRMY&dchild=1&keywords=wolfcraft+folding+trolley&qid=1617885557&sprefix=wolfcraft+fol%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-3 I don't use the bungee cords included, I have a couple of ratchet straps that do a better job. I carry a couple of 210 cabs with it plus pedalboard. It folds flat so it takes little space in the boot of the car. I had another of a similar design but was not sturdy at all. It said ok up to 70Kg but even with 30 it was dodgy. This one is solid.

These are pretty good alternatives, in my experience (google paint can opener, available at places like B&Q for £1.50 or so, sometimes free

(looks around... waits for a moment when nobody is listening, just in case... but then remembers he's not in Glasgow so it's probably safe ) Scots are both stereotypes at the same time. Especially if drinking Buckfast.

The thing with the British is that you have two polar opposite stereotypes which have their element of truth even if exaggerated (as stereotypes usually are). On the one hand you have the polite, responsible and thoroughly nice and helpful type, and on the other you've got the hooligan type. Every country have all sorts of people, of course, but I think this duality is very... British. That's my personal impression, as a non-Brit who's lived in various countries. Not that it means much, as it's a very broad generalisation.

Hogwash indeed. It was Bill Gates' microchips distributed in the vaccines finally being activated through 5G. I could tell you how I know but I closed the YouTube tab and I can't find it again. It's probably been taken down by our overlords.

This pseudo stream of consciousness is getting really hard to understand... over and out

Good choice. I like the Seymour Duncan SMB4A but it's not a faithful copy, it's definitely a more 'modern' take. The Nordstrand MM4.2 is as close as I ever hear a pickup get to an original MusicMan.

That's most likely because, as said earlier, the original master was made for vinyl and it wasn't processed as well as it could have been when transforming it to CD media. When CDs started to become popular there were a lot of albums reissued quickly on CD, and many were very poor by comparison. Then they'd be 'remasters' etc but it would be up to the people doing the remaster to make it sound one way or another. As @BigRedX was hinting, unless you know how the original source sounded, comparing a vinyl to a CD version doesn't really tell you much about how the different media compared.

The neodymium ones certainly, I'm not sure about the other (ceramic?) ones. I like the neodymium ones, but they're not the best match for 'vintagey' traditional Precision sounds.

whoa, those Kali L6 look fantastic, if they sound anywhere as nice... hmmm. I bought a set of Presonus E4.5BT not long ago. My needs are basic and I didn't want to spend too much. They were about £170-180 for the pair and I liked having the bluetooth built-in, although I have a couple of nice bluetooth receivers I could use with any monitor. My first impression was not fantastic. They're a bit shy on the low end, as I expected based on the specs, but it was still a bit of a shock. They had a lot more clarity than the cheap speakers I was using before, but I found them I bit tiring to listen to. They do the monitor job reasonably well, I can hear details I could not with my older 'pleasant' speakers, at least as well as you can expect for the price (whenever I hear monitors I like, their price tag is scary... I seem to have expensive taste and I just cannot justify that investment), so that's ok, but for normal listening I found that I needed to apply some EQ to boost the low end and tame some of the mids... and then all is good. I use a little EQ app with presets etc, and I just turn it off when I want to pay attention to a mix, otherwise it stays on.

I'd love to have as much time as you do

Thank you for all the very useful information Unfortunately changing the lighting is not practical at the moment.

I seem to have noise issues in my new place, which is annoying for recording. It's the kind of noise you often get when there are dimmers or fluorescent lighting, and I have both nearby in the house so that's likely what it is. I see 'power conditioners' that claim to help with this... Has anybody got any good results that way? Stuff like this (although I'd prefer something where you just plug the standard UK plug at the back): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-IEC-Power-Conditioner-Filter-Black/dp/B01N8U252T/ref=sr_1_4?adgrpid=54831262698&dchild=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3duCBhCAARIsAJeFyPVtKYzW8nUJ9DB-X_gPfwifNvoJPK87OTcn__BLUkzlQMr7u7Oe_3saAs35EALw_wcB&hvadid=259038328311&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9046891&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=12099201200206595915&hvtargid=kwd-11463301&hydadcr=28152_1724844&keywords=power+conditioner&qid=1616332497&sr=8-4 If something like that does the trick (the description suggests it does) it's not expensive, but I see others that cost 10x more, so... I'm not sure.