Kev

Not just visual though; given the extra scale length of the E, that split coil is insanely far up the scale, tonally doesn't make much sense to me, should be angled the other way.

Yes, but if you get all your drive and tone from the head, what then?

Body shape is lovely but everything going on on top of it is not good, so hopefully this will change

Yeah, I can't look past that p pickup position, makes me a little sick looking at it!

Yes yes yes. I need this to happen, Strandbergs look so sexy I'v been tempted to buy one before, and I can't play guitar. The proto looked a bit odd, so hopefully the design has been overhauled

This is all on the basis that your pre and sound is entirely based upon exactly what you say, the sound 2 foot from a cab. I certainly don't set up my preamps this way and I'd expect any half learned bassist wouldn't! It entirely depends on how you wish to adjust your pre for the backline on-stage. Most of my gigs the backline is provided and I don't have a soundcheck long enough to tailor my EQ to get the best out of the cab; I don't need to, as again I am only using it for monitoring purposes. If I heavily shaped the pre to fit the cab, I see where some of you are coming from. Otherwise, I don't whatsoever.

I found it manually, agree search isn't finding it but I understand there is work being done on the search functionality, to be restored next week?

This?

I'm confused by some comments here too. Last gig I did a month or so back was with my Darkglass M900 head, with the drive circuit engaged as a key part of my sound. If I went pre-eq to FoH, FoH would have been getting a clean bass signal with no distortion. Why would I want to do that? Same would apply for any head with a real valve pre as well, being driven to give a distorted sound, if you go pre-eq none of this gets heard? If you are heavily shaping your EQ to get the best out of a Cabinet, absolutely understand the need to go pre, but I very VERY rarely feel the need to do that, as ultimately the sound on-stage at the kind of gigs we do is just for me, punters only hear FoH PA. Presume the Pre guys must be playing very clean? On the other end of the spectrum, I also have the option (although restrict its use to recording at the moment) to send to FoH a cab simulated signal to mimic my cab being mic'd. I have done this a couple of times live and certainly had no complaints. I work hard to get my tone right, I wouldn't want a soundguy to change that to what he thinks is best as he is 9 times out of 10 not going to have a clue how I want to sit in the mix.

Signature instruments are such a turn off, literally puts me off buying, have someone's signature on the headstock that isn't mine. Iv owned two brilliant signature instruments in the past few years (Dingwall NG-2 and Fender Flea - incidentally two artists 'deserving' of a signature bass IMO) and I know I would have loved them that bit more if they didn't have another artist's name plastered on them.

What I did there, you saw it.

Really it's how it compares to this that I'm interested in: https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/bass-guitar-amp-head/ashdown-abm-600-evo-iv-bass-amp-head?gclid=Cj0KCQiAmITRBRCSARIsAEOZmr7vF0xnTgDyYlkwRUEk0A3TPK98pUaX-FicPGPNnUJAyEZrRxtpvwEaAsanEALw_wcB

I mean, it just looks BRUTAL. But does it do much different to justify the cost, and having some geezer's name all of it?

So much want. Thing is, I have seen a few places say this is 600w, as opposed to the advertised and oh so awesome 666w, tell me its not true??!

Lovely indeed. Warwickhunt knows more than me on these models as I think he had one, but this I think is an LTD streamer from 1990. Nice bass and a really decent price too. The crack doesn't really concern me, particularly if the owner is being truthful and its been there all these years.

.... And now I have one on order!

It's funny, before it was pointed out to me I loved the look of this, but now I'm really put off by the silver cloth; it doesn't really work. Basschat may have saved me some money for once!