LukeFRC

listening to your advice?

So your dilemma is between a £4000+ original 1960's jazz or the £300 Squier you currently have? I would suggest there's a heck of a lot between those price points that you could have a lot of fun trying.

I give it a week It could be required, it would just require a lot of postage Is this the end of the “Lozz jazz bass era”?

I think my stock Best preamp Answer is “John east”

wow - also great looking https://reverb.com/uk/item/38675072-basslab-soul-iv-complete-yellow-gebraucht

I came here expecting some kind of splatter with a kinked headstock - but that is just Beautiful!

The pedal/bass whatever.... The pedal/bass whatever with drums behind. That for me starts to give me enough idea of what it sounds like in a mix. What I don't want is The pedal/bass whatever with drums behind and a full band mix. Unless I'm super interested in the gear (ie about to buy) I'm mostly browsing on something with speaker that aren't great for bass. I can live with that... if the whole band is on there it just ends up telling me how good or not your electric playing is as that's all that comes out the speakers...

Bartolini pickups and the stock preamp are also a good mix (edit - original series Bart)

If you raise the saddle at the bridge to get rid of the buzz does it go up too much to make it nicely playable?

Alun Armstrong seems to make most things...

Both. global pandemic. Brexit. Everyone working From home and the rise in home delivery, production shutting down of new vans for a large part of last year, the dealerships shutting for a while and the uncertainty meaning there is pent up demand ...

Guessing you will want a white one and a 5th wheel that you want to have but are hardly going to use? Working in the automotive sector van prices are mental at the moment... not enough supply, crazy demand....

having googled that I am now off to pick a bass up and work out what iI do!

while it's a lovely bass this caught my eye - what did you change?

So it's an amp model block, not a patch.... and er - I don't know how to put this but "emulating complex harmonics provided by something like a tube preamp paired with a class AB power amp" - that is precisely what the Line6 stuff is designed to do.

You want a bottled Mesa M6 - There's a M9 amp model on the stomp....

why? is the M9 that different from the M6 tonally?

"bottled Mesa M6" - didn't you have that with the model on the HX stomp you have/had?

I think the presets are more like a PA cab's DSP settings - to make the amplifier and cab work together for a designed sound. (which tends to be dead flat as possible in a PA cab)

Thats ok. Part of being an encouraging place is also having space to listen to grumpy folk

that Roscoe beck looks nice - not seen one in that colour before

were you in front of a live mic when you said that?

that will be fun if he's moved the bridge!