LukeFRC

I find Amazon baffeling - 50 variants of almost identical kettles from Chinese brands you’ve never heard of - no way of knowing if any of them are any good

I ordered a new coffee grinder from what said was a UK company... they posted it today and it's coming from Poland

Teal Green Metallic ooo yes please! That is a nice colour

If you think every church in America (or even the western world) will have at least one musicians rota, and above a certain size need some kind of PA or something so they ppl can hear them at the back... that's a lot of instruments and a lot of kit installs... and a big market.

So one bit of it is Fender branded - broadly the same as the other one!

even cooler jazz-ish bass at Bass direct - and £300 cheaper... https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/ACG_Retro_4.html

I kinda agree with what @peteb was getting at - sometimes you pay more and you get a better instrument. I picked up a Fodera at the Bass shop near henley that Molan used to be connected too (I forget the name), and without plugging it in I could tell that it was an amazing sounding resonating, even playing instrument and kinda understood why it had the price tag it had. On the flip side the guy from Vulfpeck did ok for himself with a Mexican fender. so if you've got a cheaper bass that sounds as good. great. Also as Pete says it's a bit about attitude. I'm quite happy to buy a bass, try it and if I don't get on with it sell it on and try something else. I've got a mate who's a guitarist and he's dropped a crazy crazy amount on essentially a custom bitsa - it's resale value is almost nothing - but he works professionally and it's a tool for the job and he knows the exact specs he requires. It's a bit like a trades person who needs a drill for a job, they go and buy the best Makita they can afford, beacause they like that brand, know it's reliable and know it will perform. They won't save £50 and try the deWalt that's on offer and has better specs on paper ... because on the job they don't have the level of confidence it will deliver.

I've done the thing a few times where a shop has been quiet and cool with me trying everything. (mainly looking at Fender style) - Having done that a few times and then sat and thought about what has been the basses I would actually buy I've always found the higher end Squier stuff to be pretty consistently good. Yamaha also manage to provide amazing bang for buck. Recent Fender stuff IMO I found wasn't as consistent and I've played a lot of "alright" basses where they sound fine but nothing special. I've always liked the AVRI line though and played some crackers. In terms of long term basses that the OP is talking about... I had a Warwick Streamer for years, and had a couple of identical looking Japanese Fender Precisions for years.... the precision went to fund my dream GAS bass (early Thumb) which in retrospect was a mistake. But the Thumb was traded for a Sadowsky metro, that I never intended to keep (The thinking was that Sadowsky are a lot simpler to sell than vintage Warwick) but I've played very little else since I got it... and pretty much sold everything else I had from before I had it.

And an airport!

40km closer!!

I think you quoted the wrong person but it’s all gravy - my first bass was a status (!) so I like them

Tell me how you feel about this Who would I want if I would wanna live I worked hard and sacrificed to get what I get Ladies, it ain't easy being independent...

if you're going to go to that length why wouldn't you do flake?!

http://www.guitarpaintguys.com/metalflakecolorchart.html of course there's lots of blues available...

there's an idea

Flake every time! sea foam green will look vintagish - so it depends if you are stripping the neck - vintage pastel with a non vintage looking black neck? Not for me. Sparkle or pearl or something more modern looking - yes please!!

are they Lace Alumatone pickups in the one on the left? Whats the red one - the PG is different to a normal P bass though it looks familiar. Which is your main player? Why am I asking so many questions?

Did I make a comment about VAT before Al Krow did? @Al Krow, u ok hun?

you are proper hiding in the shadows there... and then meantion a load of other lovely things ...

turn the gain right down. Channel volume doesn't effect tone so have that up and if it's the power amp sim adding distortion turn that down. I got it working with my old G&L L1000 which had a lot hotter pickups than most basses out there. Also if the signal is coming out the compressor you don't need to change the input pad from Inst to Line do you?

They built them to go louder - centre detention on the volume is 10

start with John willis' settings on the amps - for some reason a lot of them default to "too much gain"

only 7,606 miles to go!

Nah as someone of faith if I was writing a tag line for an event and wanted to attract the CCM crowd "believe in music" is the opposite of what I would go for. I think someone furloughed the decent copywriter. Or it's just an americanism. Music doesn't need belief, possibly the whole music industry does?

not normally what I would listen to but some very nice bass playing. and guitar. and Vox